skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those in favor of censoring the internet, here's a notion that helped me:

Probably all of us would be against censoring the verbal communications between individuals in our society. Such communication is full of untruths and agenda-driven lies. Right now parents and teachers the world over are propagating untruths to children. Workplace discussions are happening around watercoolers where unscientific nonsense is spreading. We just accept that this space of human interaction is the noise floor of our civilization, and maybe even appreciate the agency that this gives us.

With the spread of the internet, that same communication is happening online. It being online is literally the only difference. Let the noise flow, I say, and from it can both objective and social truths arise. To do anything else doesn't give us truth anymore than did restricting interpersonal speech in certain unpleasant regimes throughout history.
Yeah, well, it’s also excruciatingly hot down here. 98 degrees and 100% humidity makes you want to do nothing but sit on your ass with a tall glass o’ iced tea (that’s sweet tea for y’all in the north).
This looks very very fragile. If all of this works, great job though.
Doesn't it also infect pets, e.g., dogs? Anyway, something we're always mindful of here in the southwest US.
Passing a string as a file name in C++ with macOS or with Linux in
my experience was simple. The permitted length of using ASCII characters
is about 4 times as long (may god have mercy on your soul).

Macs are simple enough too if you ignore the quirks. HFS (which was never seen on a modern MacOS) usually stores no information about what encoding was used for filenames. It's entirely dependent upon how the OS was configured when the file was named (although some code I've seen suggests that something in System 7 would save encoding info in the finderinfo blobs). So non-latin stuff gets mangled pretty easily if you're not careful. Filenames are pretty short (32 bytes) minus the one byte because (except for the volume name) they're Pascal strings with the length at the front.

HFS+ (which is what you'll find on OSX volumes) uses UTF-16 but then mandates its own quirky normalization and either Unicode 2.1 or 3.2 decomposition depending… which can create headaches because most HFS+ volumes are case-insensitive. It's been so long since I've touched anything Cocoa, but I assume the file APIs will do the UTF-16 dance for you and the POSIX stuff is obviously OK with ASCII.

And, of course, let's not forget the heavily leveraged resource forks. Of course NTFS has forks but nobody seems to use them.

APFS standardized on Unicode 9 w/ UTF-8.

CDs? Microsoft's long filenames (Joliet) use big endian UTF-16 (via ISO escape sequences that theoretically could be used to offer UTF-8 support). Which sounds crazy until you realize their relative simplicity (a duplicate directory structure) compared to the alternative Rockridge extensions which store LFNs in the file's metadata with no defined or enforced encoding. UDF? Yeah that's more or less UTF-16 as well.

I think we're perhaps forgetting just how young UTF-8 is.
I agree on the business case, but it’s still orthogonal to “how any of the web works”.

It’s how Google’s business works, maybe, but that wasn’t the argument.
In addition to maxpath (which can be ignored in most regular apps), I remember short filenames used to have some severe performance implications.
For instance, with Picasa we tried never to stat a file over Samba that didn't exist, because it would make Windows enumerate all the other files in the folder (presumably to see if they were a SFN match). That was a while ago (XP), but I just strace'd and it still seems to do it.
Ask HN: Why are HN comments so cynical?
I've been on HN a long time and the comments have always been my favorite part, but recently it seems like the comments have skewed far more cynical or negative.

Yesterday's post where the indie hacker was making 45k a month is a good example. So many comments deriding his businesses, his revenue, or suggesting he was lying (???).

Have things changed or do I remember the past with rosy glasses?
Probably because most of what you posted is, in your words, "less factual versions of reality"
E.g., Unexpected Keyboard has modifier keys and I can use it to enter Ctrl+Z on Android.

And a lot of other shortcuts, too (cut, copy, paste, select all, home/end, etc).
Behind any philosophical notions of statehood, a country is still just whatever territory your army can protect from other armies.
The way death row inmates are treated is arguably a reason to be against death row. There was also a case where a person on death row couldn’t present exculpatory evidence to prove his innocence because his last appeals lawyer didn’t do it. The Supreme Court literally decided you can prove you have evidence that proves your innocence, that you were done dirty by an incompetent lawyer, it doesn’t matter, you should still be killed.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinn_v._Ramirez
Also, that very phone was once a daily driver that people excited to upgrade to! Phones have gotten incrementally better since then but haven't seen a revolutionary jump in a while. The only sacrifice you might have to live with is slightly worse pictures.
> Its amazing that as a senior developer he was making 1700 a month USD, which is about 20k a year

I mostly agree with you, but let me make it less amazing.

Outside of the US, you will likely have no student debt, low cost and high quality healthcare, lower rent, and lower cost of living. 20-year olds living in SF, NY, or Seattle, probably have student loans, rent that costs 2-3,000 per month in rent, a routine doctors bill costs $250, a lunch sandwich costs $13.

In other words, the cost of living is so high that the quality of life in a different country doing the same role will likely be higher.
Just imagine next years talk though, “I PWNed half of HackerNews in one day”
Deconstructing the Xbox Security System [video]
I don't know about IPhone but on Android its simply impossible to Paste text between two words. You can't paste text into cursor position you can only replace selected text with Pasted text.

Thats my main biggest issue.

Also, why the fuck there no Copy/Paste buttons on mobile keyboard??
I've used bus pirates years back and always under Linux or macOS. Not sure what you are referring to.
TIL Kleiner's pet headcrab in HL2 is named after an inventor. I don't much care for the "great man" (great woman in this case) view of history, but this is a good story.
Is there a way I can download and run the demo on my own phone? It looks interesting but there seems to be no download links
It’s really going to depend on your tolerance for risk and if you need some immediate money. Also might depend on your current tax situation. If you really believe in the company then you could probably let it ride at least another round.
Some people make that monotone work. I have avidly listened to one smooth monotone speaker talk for 45 minutes, while falling asleep in minutes for a different speaker at the same time of day (different day) who seamingly was much more energetic.

I have no idea what the difference was, but i've observed it.
I fail to understand how is that different than let say...

"I read an article which I didn't understand".

Is it really that different than:

"I read an article about English grammar, which article I didn't understand"
?
A judge can and should seek confirmation from additional experts, and if some then reasonably cast doubt on the certainty of others' testimony, that ought to be considered.
I did some research in to this this year in the context of maybe trying to start a business to solve this - and this was the conclusion I came to. There’s lots of threads here on HN about it too. It’s a structural, market-wide issue where the primary service Ticketmaster provide is reputation laundering, and in return, large agents and promoters agree to continue to use Ticketmaster despite their reputation.

I don’t know what the solution is.
Seems to me they're trying to refute it by asking OP their views for clarity.
I really don't get the WebAssembly design. It is not Assembly, it doesn't offer any of the benefits of Assembly. The only thing that makes it assembly-like is that it is completely unreadable and mostly unwritable to humans. For those who don't know, WebAssembly implements a stack machine VM, the only appreciable effect of this design decision is that all code becomes spaghetti code.

We could have made a simple AOT-compileable Basic/C/Java-like language, called it a web standard and let people decide for themselves how many layers of compilers they would like to stick in front. But no, that would make everything too easy to debug. We gotta have an incomprehensible binary file, because that looks fast the same way a red car does.
>A desktop computer emits 778 kgs of CO2e annually.

It's patently false; a desktop computer emits barely any emissions at all; maybe a tiny amount of off gassing as it heats up.

The power to run the device may emit CO2 during generation, but that's a separate question and isn't from the device itself.

The gist is still correct, reduce and reuse are very important overall.

What I haven't really worked out (and the math would be involved and difficult) is whether all things considered running old enterprise hardware is better than buying new power-efficient hardware for the same use case. A quick cost-benefit analysis says buying new is 'better' because the energy use of the old pays for it, but that doesn't correctly account for all the cost of manufacture and if you're in a climate that mainly heats the house, you get "free heat" from the use of the older equipment.
It's not that "suddenly everybody wants it" - there literally haven't been any changes to Croatia (or Serbia) policy regarding the border.

However, they are implicitly reasserting that no, Liberland did not establish a country there, that Croatia doesn't consider this as a state, that there is no such thing as Liberland.

And perhaps they are intentionally making a point of it to demonstrate that yes, they can and will push it out if you make unwarranted claims of sovereignty without their consent - for example, prosecuting individuals for using fictitious passports, as according to Croatia Liberland and its passports are fictitious.

The key part of setting up a new state is an agreement with your neighbours that they acknowledge your sovereignty over certain borders (i.e. "play along with their political games"), which certainly is possible as there have been multiple new states set up during 21st century, but until that is achieved, you don't really have a state.
Step back. Text /input/ on mobile isn't okay. It's a copy (for the most part) of desktop editors as well. There have been a few changes, such as dragging your finger around. A few keyboards have tried (and largely failed) to introduce new, mobile-first keyboards. It doesn't stick.

I have used a number of non-qwerty/typewriter style mobile keyboards. I have landed on MessagEase, but really loved a few others. Thankfully MessagEase still works, most died somewhere in the mid 10s.
Discussion tends to be more civil when participants can’t be anonymous.

Then an entire class of trolling stops becoming scalable.
Whenever people bang on about debunking this or that artifact of social science research (artifact of the academy to be more precise), I recall that personality can’t really be established empirically by modern psychological science. People are less willing to go around debunking personality, or say debunking free will. Some people do, especially in the “rationalist community” but generally fewer. Trusting the science is easier when it doesn’t conflict with reality, but there are a minority of people who have no trouble even when it does. In psychology especially, we should heed the adage, “Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” It’s difficult measuring the behavior of the human mind.
What Is the Essence of Iridescence? Ask a Hummingbird
I am going to second all of the complaints about the use of “learning styles.” That has a very specific meaning in education. And there is a word for what the article is talking about: metacognition. Pretending that he has debunked a myth just feels clickbaity.
Ever tried editing the URL in the URL bar in iOS Safari? It's even worse than just editing as it involves horizontal scrolling in a tiny box. Why don't they expand the URL address bar to be a large text box when selected is beyond me.
Hedy's Folly, by Richard Rhodes. It's a very good book about Hedy Lamar's life and her fame, and work on that patent.
It's interesting that the book is not mentioned.
The author is the same one that wrote the Making of the Atomic Bomb, which I believe the movie Oppenheimer, was based on. All of his books are very interesting, revealing many of the intricacies, that took place in recent history, making the world we live in today.
Something I do quite often with FlorisBoard on Android is holding down shift and dragging the space bar to create a selection, just like I would with shift and the arrow keys on a desktop
I've never advocated for a total lack of moderation though
The credit card industry existed for decades before this.
Always push your chair back under the table when you’re done with a meeting
Also there was an actual linux distribution in it, Maemo. You could do things with it.
The solution isn’t to censor. How does one decide what should be censored and what should be allowed? We are refining what we know and altogether dropping wrong ideas for new ones. What is the goal of censorship? There was a time when those who suggested the Earth revolved around the sun were censored and attacked.
The big five are verifiable and accepted
Well, you’ve put zero effort into refuting my version of reality, simply saying that I’m wrong with no supporting detail.

When refuted this article I at least gave you examples to work with.
> Whenever people bang on about debunking this or that artifact of social science research (artifact of the academy to be more precise), I recall that personality can’t really be established empirically by modern psychological science.

Do you mean aside from this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits
I used an iPod touch and a flip phone (acting at a hotspot for the touch) for a few years.

I really wish they had an iPhone in the iPod touch form factor. Even this 13 mini that I use now feels too big.
You get a weird situation where very old software runs fine on the latest OS - and of course very new software works fine, but somewhere in the middle you get things that were removed (often software works fine, but the installer won't run because it's WIN16).
Well his username is bad_user :)
Altering Intel x86 instruction set at runtime
While all the same issues highlighted in this post still apply the WYSIWYG editor I'm using in my project, this has been my side project take on rapidly iterating on blog posts from my mobile phone:

https://youtu.be/Y36rUWeVnMM?si=yqwrOAanvSJ0fOEt

It lets you combine speech to text and markdown editing.

Partly for fun and practice and partly because it helps me to quickly commence new posts and either iterate on the go or return to the open PR when I'm back at my laptop.
You’re not stupid, and your constraints are reasonable and fine. However; if you want to succeed based on the strength of your product then your product has to be amazing. You only get consistent word of mouth marketing if your product blows people away by how good it is.

You don’t have to play stupid marketing games, but you do need to have a website where you explain what your product does and you need at least a little traffic. That means you have to create some kind of marketing content that is actually valuable to people because it helps them better understand the problem your software solves.

To be clear, doing almost zero marketing is clearly suboptimal if you want to grow fast, but presumably you know this. Just don’t believe people who tell you that you have to spam and create clickbait content in order to survive.
Valley Fever was the least pleasant sickness I've had yet, would definitely recommend avoiding if you can. The fever and cough were both _very_ unpleasant, and it hurt to walk for weeks.
Although "we do linear regression ... in this transformed space" is correct, it also isn't an attempt to understand what exponential growth in processing power implies. That is an attempt (really, a success) at providing a definition of what exponential growth is [0].

Implications involves things like https://ourworldindata.org/brief-history-of-ai +
little extrapolation. Interestingly, as I look at that article, it appears AI is actually solving college level math now - https://blog.research.google/2022/06/minerva-solving-quantit.... I wish I'd had that when I was at University.

[0] Ironically, ChatGPT doesn't usually make that mistake, because it always tries to be calm and helpful it consistently makes a better-than-human attempt at reading comprehension whenever I've interacted with it.
Yeah, I don't believe a true anarcho-capitalist society is possible at this point in time. (It's a neat concept, though!)

Minarchism, also a part of libertarianism, is definitely more realistic though.
Maybe also, the task of describing effectively is quite difficult.
It's not really a judge's role to go out and find witnesses. Defendants can, but as the article describes, "shaken baby syndrome" was official guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics at the time.
You have confused the equilibrium state of perfect competition and knowledge in frictionless markets with how dynamic markets work. In a properly working market in real life there will sometimes be large profit opportunities. Then someone will notice them and exploit them and eventually someone else will enter the same market niche and compete, eventually reducing economic profits to something approaching the rate of interest. This is very far from profits should be zero and everyone earns the same. In a market with no market imperfections, completely interchangeable goods and no market power from either buyers or sellers there will be no economic profits. Even in this toy market participants will earn more or less depending on how much capital they have.

Zero economic profit holds only in equilibrium and there are no markets where equilibrium ever holds for long because the global and local economy is constantly in flux and entrepreneurs are constantly trying to find new ways to solve old problems cheaper or new markets or ways to solve a problem when one of the inputs suddenly dectupled in price.

The system is working well if 90% of revenue is profit at pip squeak levels, yes. If Microsoft could manage 90% profit margins on billions of dollars of working capital that would be concerning. Individuals or small companies finding tiny market imperfections and becoming wildly rich exploiting them is the system working, incentivising people to produce value.

Schumpeter: Entrepreneurs make new things and that’s great. Outside capitalism those people turn that energy into taking more of the pie, as warlords or tax farmers. Capitalism is better.

McCloskey: Capitalism is good because it inculcates patience, diligence and tolerance in people.
This is the kind of stuff you read on 4chan as memes about orange site.
While going through all that you decided to create a website of all things and update it by hand editing html.
Normal people, and I hate saying that, would create a facebook/WhatsApp group or something like that.
I'm not making fun of you or anything, not everyone has the same lives, I'm just amazed by the hn crowd.
I haven't seen anyone in this thread calling for 0 moderation on HN, that feels like a straw man
Most houses in Italy are only getting 3 kW, +10% of tolerance for a few hours, and if people can increase the maximum power they can draw, it is still very uncommon.

25 HP would be enough to power a small apartment building.
> Types like NTSTATUS have a significant amount of documentation attached to it.

I don't think Rust developers would have problems with converting NtStatus to NTSTATUS for the sake of searching documentation.
Subscribe to YouTube channels in a podcast app
That is 180 billion parameters not 180 bytes, for anyone else confused.
> SSH into the host whenever you need to see how things are performing

These SSH people is how EC2 instances get hacked. Please stop and use telemetry.

There's also the SSM agent for people that feel the need to touch their instance.
Running arbitrary Powershell scripts from disk during OS autostart is one of the (if not the) loudest things attacker could do. The point of this blog post is stealth. Nobody claims it's a vulnerability in VS code (or vulnerability in anything at all), just a convenient method of persistence.
I mean look at what companies have been doing in the past to organise and incentivise research, and see what worked.

Look at what processes worked (and didn't work!). Not at what specific inventions worked.
Hahaha you spoiled every Agatha Christie book for some people.
They should have picked disputed territory where all existing states that could reasonably claim it insist that it is not theirs.

E.g., Bir Tawil [1], which is 2000 km^2 (800 mi^2) of disputed territory on the border between Egypt and Sudan. Egypt says it belongs to Sudan, and Sudan says it belongs to Egypt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
Countries have to be strict on things that are detrimental to their existence. First and foremost they have to be stringent on taxes, but also on money laundering, gambling and sometimes ideology.

A lot of countries maintain small areas where they are more relaxed about these things than in the rest of the territory they de facto control. Sometimes these areas are states in a federal system (Delaware), other times they take the form of special economic zones (Cayman Islands) but in a few cases they form de jure sovereign nations.

I think the (more or less) hidden agenda of Liberland is to become the de jure sovereign, de facto tolerated, "special economic zone" of Croatia.

When they will have built a hotel, the casino is probably not far and like the other tax haven, money laundering, gambling areas of this world it will be tolerated because it is of mutual benefit to them and their host country.

If it pans out: new (de jure) sovereign nation, without a (significant) army.
I’m with you my friend. I’d rather go back to be employed and post helpful stuff to my blog, than try to promote my products using click bait tactics on social media.

It’s funny, but when you post an obvious click bait to Reddit/hn everybody is like “this is clickbait, the author is trying to sell you his coaching”, etc.

But then, when you say you don’t want to participate in algorithm hunger games, everyone is like “no, you won’t succeed. You need to shove your products down the throat if your readers”. :puke:
We have run benchmarks on our environment (CNPG, Openshift and CEPH in Dutch gov) and compared to Azure Postgres and (CNPG on) Azure AKS.
Pgbench and pg_tps_optimizer.
CEPH indeed is a 'high bandwidth / high latency' storage solution,
and as such we could get to comparable TPS but required more clients.
With 2 vCPU the max TPS was about 17k/18k with AKS and also with OpenShift.
But with AKS we required 34 parallel clients and with OpenShift/CEPH we required 233 clients. More clients <=> more in parallel <=> more TPS on CEPH...
If you are interested I can share some graphs.