skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A visualisation I particularly like, is that the first flight on record they made would fit inside the length of a Jumbo Jet. It really brought home how "one small step, one giant leap" can work out.
I listen to a frightening amount of video game music and the Katamari and Etrian Odyssey series are the ones with the most consistently stellar music out there. Katamari is especially good because of how, like you mentioned, eclectic it is. The sequels endlessly remix the original songs and add new ones and you end up with a collection of music that ranges from jazz, to rock, to house, to latin music, pop and everything in between. It astounds me how good it is. I have all of it on my dropbox and come back to year after year after year.

You really can’t go with a bad recommendation (OP’s is excellent) but my one (at least today) would be: Katamari On The Funk
https://youtu.be/9EQnzIT5STM?si=Okj0Wub6JVUNafWi
So do a lot of other things. And beyond a certain point, I'm not balling myself up in bubble wrap and living a dull, boring life just so I can eke out another few months on this Earth. I'll take decent care of myself and not do blatantly stupid things. But I'll also enjoy things, and then when it's my time, it's my time. Life is there to be lived.

I may not take quite as an extreme view as Hunter S. Thompson, but he was onto something when he wrote:

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming 'Wow! What a Ride!'"
Agreed. It's like the time the Trump regime asked China to "promise" to buy some huge amount of grain from US farmers. Trump got the photo op, but I don't think we even ever pressured the Chinese to sign any kind of actual deal. They just had to talk about some vague future promise.
Check out IBM's mainframe Count key data (CKD) format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_key_data

There were no sectors, just data fields. Also each data field had a text key field. I think IBM only gave this up (really virtualized it) when commodity hardware became better than their own.

So I'm wondering if CKD was ever a thing on floppies?
I imagine GP is not only using 'support' to mean 'condone'; GP is using 'support' in its more literal sense, i.e. the users of the platform provide the means for the behaviour to continue by funding the company.
Isn't that because non-alcoholic beer is a much smaller market and moves way less volume?

Same reason why buying aluminum extrusions and matching fasteners costs the same as buying an entire 3D printer and dismantling it to recover the same parts
It is a temporary boost of their cognitive capacity. People who are non-verbal have often slid a long way down towards dementia, and bringing it back by evoking deeper well seated childhood memory unlocks the last vestiges of capacity to talk, to sing, to dance. (it happens with music from their childhood too)

I think it relates more strongly to this thread than you, but perhaps I am wrong?
The HN UI is terrible
I thought I'd take the opposite side of this thread and see what happens:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36180051

I've been thinking about how there are sites, like HN and Craig's List, that seem to completely ignore everything out there about good UI/UX design. Mantras like "mobile first" don't seem to be applied at all here. For example, when I read HN on my phone I have to zoom to be able to reliably click a link.

Not being critical, BTW, just puzzled because most YC companies are web/mobile product companies that absolutely live by these rules, yet HN visibly ignores them.

There are other things I would do differently. For example, I would not have the thread title go to the article/site being linked, I would have it go straight to the discussion. Or, at least provide this as an option?

Why?

I always, always, always, browse through the discussion before deciding to check out the link being discussed. If the discussion seems to indicate it isn't worth my while, I pass. Being able to go to the discussion first by default would be very convenient, particularly on a phone, where the discussion link is microscopic.

It would also be a very simple matter to, at the very least, increase the font size based on screen resolution. It's 2023. We have the technology. Again, having to hit a 1 mm tall link on mobile isn't ideal. Having to zoom every time you want to accurately interact with a link isn't supposed to be good UI/UX.

Yes, sure, alternative interfaces exist from third parties. I am not talking about someone else having a bad UI/UX, I am talking about the company that founds thousands of web/mobile startups per year seemingly not being able to lead by example, not caring at all or communicating that this isn't really important. Not sure which.

OK, well, let's see where this goes.

Again, not being critical. Just wondering if we should all be doing this with our sites. Forget things like mobile first and biometrics-based button sizing and layout. I am wondering if YC would be happy if all of their startups produced sites that took this approach.
Sadly, I cannot stand the taste of beer. Daddy was an avid beer drinker in his youth -- before my time -- and drank so much beer he could tell you by the taste of it if it came in a green or brown bottle.

He lived into his late eighties.

About 70% of the immune system is located in the gut.

I think that's inaccurate. I think about 70 to 80 percent of your immune cells (not system) -- white blood cells, etc. -- are found in the gut.
to address the points in order:

1. a specific optimisation pass won't do this, but the combination of several passes written with other intentions can

2 & 3. the C runtime a compiler links with is known to the compiler/linker, and it _does_ usually treat intrinsics like malloc specially

A quick google reveals https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52930, LLVM recognising uninitialised memory as 'undef', and needing to treat it as poisoned (IIRC propogation of undef can cause things like separate uses of the variable to not even unify to a single value)

EDIT: duplicated link
The bigger 8" floppies were remarkably robust. The boot floppy for an 11/780 fitted into an LSI-11 mounted on the front door, with a vertical disk drive slot so you opened up the cab, ignored all the CPU cards, put it into a slot, closed it up and booted.

The operator I knew frequently had this folded up in his pocket: You just had to smooth it out a bit, make sure it rotated inside its kevlar sleeve, and off you went.

(DECTAPE was famously robust, everything was written out about 5 times in the tape, it was designed for light industrial deployments. It was wide like old school 16 track audio tape, not like classic 1/2" 800/1200/9600 bpi computer tapes, before DAT/DLT cartridges and the like. But that said, the old tapes were pretty robust too)
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I believe you had a bad experience, but i would suggest the blame lays on your package maintainer - in debian (and ubuntu), ksplashqml should be part of the plasma-workspace package, which you can't avoid. What distro were you using?
(thanks to the sibling comments for explaining...)
One can also use Ballan wrasse and lumpfish to control salmon lice. Don't know if that is possible in freshwater Scottish lochs, but both species feed on salmon lice. It's not easy, but it's possible.

https://hakaimagazine.com/news/parasite-eating-lumpfish-are-...
> I would not argue that these meta-narratives are "ahistorical", though

That seems to be what you were claiming though in your original comment:

> as there is no shortage of fictional narratives anywhere — look no further than US state-approved high-school history textbooks.
I wish someone would keep track of this, I hate when an internal policy change affects what data you can actually retrieve.

It's why I don't delete some of my accounts when I think I might be able to get more data in the future from some company
I probably just choose my projects wrong. I get attracted to charity cases and disasters for some reason. I've tried to stop but there's obviously something complicated going on
The art of trade. As long as someone produces stuff that meets your standard, and you can get it without been punished (i.e. through legal trading), then you have too little reason to care about their real-life struggles.

Plus, at this stage, Mexico's problem is too big to be fixed all by themselves. Trading with the world maybe the only few chances that they still got if they wanted to change the status quo for the better.
you can create a free account with OpenAI and generate an APi key for yourself

you will get a free usage credit of $18 with new account

this should allow you to use the APIs for light usage for a few days

they will require you to setup a payment method or load prepaid credits to get access to some models like GPT-4 or go beyond the $18 credit or API limits imposed on free accounts

note that this payment method and charges are just for APi usage (a few fractions of a cent per 1000 tokens) ... and is different from the ChatGPT Plus subscription that costs flat $20 per month
Oh for sure. For those use cases, more features make sense. My use case here is “swap file for disorganized thoughts”, and I don’t need them to be replicated, archived, or searchable—and the mental overhead of those features is a detriment.

A notes .txt represents my current unit of work, and moving it into the archive folder is equivalent to deleting it in that I will likely never need or use it again. Documentation goes into the repo or Notion or whatnot, grocery lists are shared with my wife, etc., and I see the value in additional features there.
I see nothing about your explanation that says we should give the one entity that has the power to take away our liberties with violence more power then necessary.
But a half a standard drink a day makes you live longer.
We've now added a 'Report Abuse' form on the site.
On the other hand, if they have actively tried to get loyalties from the Amen Break then barely no one would have tried sampling it, and wouldn’t have the kind of influence it has today.
You can disguise the taste a bit by making a shandy (50/50 beer and 7up or British lemonade) or any fruit juice or squash you like. My dad always said beer is an acquired taste.
Didn't read the article.

That said, on the general topic hinted at by the title: Yes, they do.

I followed Gordon Ramsay's many videos for a couple of years. I went from being able to a repertoire of eggs, rice and barbecue to cooking as close to world-class meals as I can imagine. This, to the point that we stopped going to expensive restaurants because, in most cases, the food is inferior to what I am able to cook at home. When you come out of a restaurant with your family, having dropped the equivalent of a car payment for the meal and your kids tell you "Dad, what you cook is massively better than that", well, you know you learned something.

I also helped me learn and understand about such things as sauces, spices, proper preparation and generally giving me a sense of the things I can experiment with, have fun cooking and have more variety at my fingertips than just three dishes.

So, yeah, for me, absolutely. Of course, what you get out of it is a function of the time and effort you put into it.
Q. A couple of people have already asked me about how you wound up with 20,000 lines of code in the original. I expect there was a fair bit of manual mucking about?

A. Actually I made a mistake with that 20,000 lines of code statement – that was just off the top of my head. I need to correct that if I can figure out how, but it also depends a bit on what lines of code you count. The original 30-year-old C program is 325 lines, and the “patch” file for the synthesizer was 298 more lines. I guess it just felt like 20,000 lines when I did it.

Given that it was written and debugged in 4 days, I can’t claim the programming chops to make 20,000 lines of working code that quickly. But, to synthesize it in real time, in 1983, took 2 years to design and build a 19” rack full of digital hardware and 200,000 lines of system code to run the synthesizer. All that was already done, so I was building on a large foundation of audio processing horsepower, both hardware and software. Consequently, a mere 325 lines of C code and 298 lines of audio patching setup for the 30 voices was enough to invoke the audio horsepower to make the piece.

https://cdm.link/2015/04/thx-deep-note-creator-remade-iconic...
ChromeOS flex not having support for Android apps (even on capable hardware).
What do you think about Norway's public salary record?
Pretendo: A free and open source server replacement for the 3DS and Wii U
You're both sharing the same point.

Sex sells, and is an important part of boosting attention to a product. Yet the game and series makers spend 99% of their time on the rest. Games with sex and tv series with boobs abound, the reason Fate SN or GoT succeeded isn't "because porn", even if it was part of the original recipe.
Polyend's hardware tracker, called Tracker, is on sale right now.

Milky Tracker, Renoise, and Sun Vox are great software to get started with trackers on your PC
Lived in Austin 8 years. Music scene is great over on east 6th.
KDE is too much Windowsy for my taste. Aesthetics are not that great either. In Gnome land, there are no extensions that I cannot live without. Sure, they'll be in a broken state for a while after a new release. And also, I'm totally hooked with Gnome workflow. There is a keyboard shortcut for almost any action.
> Tell me one instance in RU whereLEO just shoot unarmed civilian for minor road traffic stop.

Hard to compare without reading russian news, and even then, I feel it would be more normalized there.
> I read HN on my phone I have to zoom to be able to reliably click a link.

Overall I like the HN UI and wouldn't want it changed, but I do largely agree with this particular criticism; a lot of the click targets are too small IMO. (In particular, the upvote/downvote buttons' 13x13px targets stand out as way too tiny on mobile.)

However, saying that the click targets are too small means the whole UI is terrible seems a bit on the hyperbolic side. You could maintain pretty much the exact same UI with slightly larger click targets and it would fix your issue.
ATS is great, I’ve used ATS1 and ATS2 quite a bit and it worked well. Unfortunately it suffers a bit from the “rewrite every few years” as research directions change.
My point is they're tilting at windmills talking about "transformative" healthcare as if Jimmy's death was some indictment of the US healthcare system that could be used for whatever partisan ends that poster wants.

Jimmy had functionally unlimited resources at his disposal. He just ran into the inconvenient fact that eventually, we all still die. That should be humbling for all of us, not an excuse to go on a rant about US healthcare. He was lucky enough to be a person who would have had access to the best care money could buy . . . but it turned out money still can't buy immortality. Again, that should be humbling, not an excuse to "fight the man." At least he wasn't stupid enough to pull a Steve Jobs and try to fight cancer with fruit juice.

I got introduced to his music when I went on a High Adventure trip with the Boy Scouts to the Florida Keys with my dad in the 90s. I won't claim his catalog is Beethoven, but it was a fun bond to have with my Mom and Dad. And when now and then he dropped the cheeseball "island" act, he wrote some very heartfelt ballads. I'm sad he's gone, because he brought some joy to my family over the years. But when it's someone's time, it's their time, and I'll take more time to be glad he had the musical career he did than I will to hijack his death for a policy rant.
Intentionally limiting or ignoring the mobile design by making it inconvenient to use can be feature, not a bug. It's a natural filter against drive-by comments and passive participation.
I’d read it! That sounds really interesting.
The smart investors will invest in solar farms. The greedy investors will invest in newer less effective tech. On the whole, I think it’s okay that not every investor picks one way to harness solar power.
Can Camille Paglia save porn?
I didnt even know VSCode had this feature. I wonder how many people are affected by this
Well, you're 100% wrong: https://godbolt.org/z/en31xx9Yx

clang optimizes this function to a single ret, optimizing away not just the memory access, but the call to malloc() as well. I does this (and is allowed to do this) because it recognizes that sparse[40] accesses uninitialized memory, which is UB, and therefore anything goes – including replacing the entire function with a no-op.
It's perfectly reliable people are just projecting
I've really been liking my Glove80.

I had an Ergodox before and I like finally having function rows back, and the thumb cluster on this is at a nicer angle than both the Ergodox and Moonlander.

The wells are pretty easy to get used to and in general I think it’s just a really well made product.
At least the do not disturb modes have reasonable options and actually work. My last few months of using Windows at work I just stopped trying to disable crap because every time I would wake up to a forced update it would just reset anyway.
c code:

#include <stdlib.h>

int foo(int x) {
int* p = malloc(1024);
x = p[x];
free (p);
return x;
}

assembly:

foo: # @foo
ret

https://godbolt.org/z/jfvKon5v7
That's a fair point, but it also wasn't my point.
Haha. It's a niche and I respect it. All software is bad but it's worth supporting software that's useful.
Have you used Twitter lately? About 25% of the time I open it, random content fails to load and I have to refresh the page.

I assume the lack of remaining software engineers probably has something to do with it.
I'm sure your bubble is a wonderful place for you to exist. I can't speak for anyone who has to interact with you, but inside of it, I'm sure it's great.
There are several different groups which speak the Romani language(s). As the Romani spread throughout Europe, they began to diverge into different groups, with separate identities, dialects, traditions, etc. These groups have various names, including Rom, Sinti, Kale, Vlax, among others. The term Rom/Roma is ambiguous, because some authors use it to refer to the Romani-speaking groups collectively, others use the term to refer to particular subgroup(s) known by that name, as opposed to other subgroups such as the Sinti. So the above commenter had learned the “synonym for Romani collectively” definition, but is now exposed to the “specific Romani subgroup” definition, and is being introduced to that by people who view the first definition as incorrect. (I’m not much of a linguistic prescriptivist, so not sure if I agree it is “incorrect” per se, but certainly if one dislikes unintended controversy it is better avoided.)
I setup K3s recently. Is there a whole lot of difference playing with that vs. K8s? From a user/app dev perspective (not devops/k8s core dev of course) I ask as it seemed to work really well.. wondering if there is a catch/limitation I'm not seeing.
Alcohol in general is one of those things that is obvious detrimental to health. People posit the benefits and then eventually are disproven time and time again. It’s like anything harmful, take it in moderation or not at all for a healthy long life. Or take it a lot and hope you don’t feel the full effects, but don’t make up stuff to say it’s healthy.
Sublime is my go-to for this. It can be customised to be much more comfortable to use, and projects let you have a set of files accessible with Cmd+P. I have different projects for each of my static sites. It's fantastic.
This line is a low-effort, cliché dismissal that does not engage the statement in a meaningful way.
NYT is the biggest trashiest rag out there. Why is anyone linking that paid subscription to see their nonsense of a site.
nothing has changed https://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
Wage theft and fraud are crimes that state attorneys general do prosecute.

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-f...
It went from top of page 1 to page 3 by the time I came back to read the comments (less than an hour later). It's definitely someone playing games.
Paywall

edit Awesome downvotes
It’s honestly better for hiking than many hiking apps I have. (Comparing free for free)
See also https://stackoverflow.com/a/43825157 for possible workarounds. If you care about the standard comformance `calloc` seems the best approach.
I'm really curious if there's a name for this phenomenon - being unimpressed by something that was a transformative work at the time because of how much it transformed the genre or medium in its image. I often think of The Matrix being a good example of this, both in how it defined the sort of "the world is a computer" trope, but also just action movies for a while. It's still good, but some of the impressiveness of it is lost in how much, if you grew up in the culture after it, it just seems normal now. To keep in the Cyberpunk zone, both Neuromancer and Snowcrash are books I almost have a hard time re-reading without reminding myself that everything that feels like trashy cliche now was invented in them.

There's something of a sweet spot for some of this as well. Too old and it's well appreciated as a progenitor of a trope - Checkov, Shakespeare, Beowulf. There's a chunk of things in the last century that haven't quite reached canonical status in that way, but almost definitely will in the next 50-100 years, so people don't quite realize how influential they are yet.
Same with climate change stories.
Reasonably serious (although not major tournament playing bridge player here if anyone has questions. (Not, like, true expert, but probably 99th percentile of active US players)
> and therefore anything goes – including replacing the entire function with a no-op.

Well, I think the compiler is just thinking that the control flow of a correct program cannot cause UB, so the path causing UB is infeasible path and is optimized away. E.g. https://godbolt.org/z/h69GnfYbd where the path causing UB is optimized away and it just returns 42 (and a call to rand).
Addition isn't a problem, any nonzero integer plus a nonzero integer is a nonzero integer.

For subtraction it becomes fallible. You get back an option, 5 - 4 = Some(1), 4 - 5 = None. (These are probably methods rather than infix operators, your language may vary.)

See for example the methods documented here: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/num/struct.NonZeroUsize...

As for it's utility, it enables certain optimizations and it can be a useful constraint. Eg for ensuring that you don't divide or multiply by zero.
> Gold also works as a hedge against currency hyperinflation

currency hyperinflation is often caused by (very) bad monetary policy (or other decisions) from the gov't, or an apocalyptic event of some sort - which, even if you try to hedge, will not save you from the fallout from such an event.

You'd be better off moving away to a more stable country, or if there's no where to move, you'd be needing guns and ammo. Either way, investment returns would be the last thing on your mind.
Yeah, but we aren't supposed to say that. We are supposed to agree that it's the end of the world and run around screaming and flailing our arms like Kermit the frog.
FWIW, amongst bridge players ND is noticeably higher than genpop.
Basic the creator has just create a lego version of a lathe?
Did you just drop a report on study, which only mentions where the study was published and couldn't even bother quoting the title nor link to the actual study nor go into any details ?

This is probably the source btw, with a better summary and link to the actual Lancet article : https://www.who.int/europe/news/item/04-01-2023-no-level-of-...
> it would kill 116,000 people in the United States (the equivalent of about 232,000 today)

How is that measured? By population size?