skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I love about his autobiography is that he talks with the same sense of wonder about the people he wanted to be growing up, and reflects on meeting his heroes. In one of my favorite passages in the book, he talks about growing up on on Joe Weider's bodybuilding magazines:

> “Other pictures in the magazine showed scientists and technicians in white lab coats developing nutritional supplements in the Weider Research Clinic. “Weider Research Clinic,” I would say to myself, “this is unbelievable!” And there were pictures of airplanes with “Weider” painted on the side in big letters. I’d imagined an outfit the size of General Motors, with a fleet of planes flying around the globe delivering Weider equipment and food supplements. The writing in the magazine sounded fabulous too when my friends translated it for me. The stories talked about “blasting the muscles” and building “deltoids like cannonballs” and “a chest like a fortress.”

> And now here I was, six years later, on Venice Beach! Just like Dave Draper, only now it was me with the dune buggy and the surfboard and the adoring girls. Of course, by this time I was aware enough to see that Weider was creating a whole fantasy world, with a foundation in reality but skyscrapers of hype. Yes, there were surfboards, but the bodybuilders didn’t really surf. Yes, there were pretty girls, but they were models who got paid for the photo session. (Actually, one of the girls was Joe’s wife, Betty, a beautiful model whom he didn’t have to pay.) Yes, there were Weider supplements and, yes, some research took place, but there was no big building in Los Angeles called the Weider Research Clinic. Yes, Weider products were distributed around the world, but there were no Weider planes. Discovering the hype didn’t bother me, though. Enough of it was true.”
This is somewhat inefficient but zero indexed strings can easily be simulated in lua:

local array = function(backing)
local res = { len = function() return #backing end }
setmetatable(res, {
__index = function(_, k) return backing[k + 1] end,
__newindex = function(_, k, v) backing[k + 1] = v end
})
return res
end
local x = array { 1, 2, 3 }
print(x[0]) -- 1
x[1] = 5
x[x.len()] = 6
for i = 0, x.len() - 1 do print(x[i]) end -- 1\n5\n3\n6
Not expensive? Is that a joke?

At the moment the average transaction fee is almost $4, but cases of more than $10 or $20 are not uncommon. It has been as high as $50 as well.

It's just too expensive and/or too slow to work for day to day payments.
>Disallow comments in languages they cannot moderate.

I promise you if they tried that people would complain even harder.
Can you explain, you're being extremely cryptic and no one can falsify or tell what they hell you're saying
Kudos to everyone in the original thread on this article who immediately pointed out how confused and wrong this article was. It heartens me to that Wired recognized this and retracted the article.
I mean our sun is 4 billion years old, it took that long for us to show up and even contemplate the possibility of a Von Neumann probe, we may or may not build one someday. How do you build an autonomous system which is rated to last and self-replicate for, say, 250 million years, until you've done a few trial runs which lasted about that long? The universe is only 14 billion years old to begin with and the Milky Way has hundreds of billions of stars to explore... the math is admittedly above my pay grade, but if you assume ultra-advanced technological civilization is rare and interstellar travel is only possible at a small fraction of C, it seems plausible enough to me that simply no one has managed to send Von Neumanns into our neck of the woods yet. The hypothesis handwaves the question of whether such an invention is even possible.
It’s not really supposed to be a forum to discuss current events.

Reddit is probably a better forum.

Ukraine/Russia usually doesn’t gather much traction.
Can they not just build a bridge or rail crossroads or something?
Hacker News Item Id 1 (2006)
I'd agree that it's somewhat pathetic that Russia needs NK production, but I think we have every reason to believe that NK could actually give very large % of supply and production, and for NK to actually work reasonably well as partner. NK has consistently shown that it understands that it is its long-range nuclear capabilities that best guarantees the continuation of the government. Trading stockpiles of old shells for know-how (or maybe even material) to boost their missile capabilities seems like a reasonable trade. I'm sure the Russians aren't dummies either and will structure agreements to get the best behavior possible out of NK.

NK conventional artillery remains a significant threat to SK population and economic centers, but the 'crown jewel' (bombarding Seoul directly) is only reachable with their largest weapons systems (170mm shells and 240mm rockets) - while what Russia will probably be looking for is 122/152mm shells. Even if NK traded away all of their 122/152mm shells, they would still retain significant deterrence in conventional arms (not even considering potential nuclear arsenal).
Start by building a prototype proof of concept on a breadboard or prototyping board!
We do use some WASM yes and intend to use more in the future, but the majority of the engine is still TypeScript compiled to Javascript.

The pricing model is not yet announced, but it'll be a rev share between the creator of the game and us. More info here: https://developers.dotbigbang.com/
Sadly io_uring has its share of vulnerabilities as well
Anki is pretty good, but you have to find the good decks, and more importantly constantly update them for your purposes
I've used a small bash function. example : to search grep's manual for "lines", I type gm grep "lines"

gm ()
{
man $1 | col -b | grep --color=always "$2"
}

I also have something similar for grepping a command's help

gh ()
{
$1 --help | grep --color=always $2
}

I usually try gh(grep help) and if I don't get what I'm looking for, I run gm(grep man).

It appears that I can also use tldr
Shouldn't be a dead comment; this is exactly what happened.
Oh, wow.

In other words, this number actually means, "We do almost no non-automated detection of hate speech."

Smart spin, huh...
He's a (successful) politician. I wouldn't expect him to say that of course he's self-made and his listeners (whose votes he may or may not need) are a bunch of not-self-made losers. That sentence doesn't give me a lot of information about what he actually thinks.
Users are the ones who flag things. If they decide something is far-enough off topic, then it will get flagged. It doesn't necessarily follow any deterministic pattern.
you're not aware that government and universities provide half the funding of basic research in the united states?
I'm doing analysis with git-filter-repo --analyze

I've found 1gb files in our repository (thankfully a work in progress so we're able to remove it before it goes to main).

It lists everything by size.
Same. I also enjoyed the wonderfully-narrated audiobook. Just listening to it makes me want to get out into the world and do something.
More info about that F-16 EPU:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21373197

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/23417/why-is-hy...

It's basically a small gas turbine powered by catalytic decomposition of hydrazine (the same highly energetic reaction used in hydrazine monopropellant rockets, but applied differently).

(This is one of the oldest ideas in turbine history. The turbopump in the original Nazi V-2 rocket was powered by the catalytic decomposition of hydrogen peroxide. That's not to be confused with the rocket propellants, which were ethanol + liquid oxygen. It's the small-but-powerful pump that pressurizes the propellants flowing into the combustion chamber).

edit: (Basically, these are same things as jet engines, except there's only propellant instead of two (fuel + oxidizer). It's simpler).
The Slow Burn Threatening Our Democracy
Picasso was the son of an accomplished painter and art professor, who tutored him from a young age. That's not the sort of opportunity that's all around average people.
Surely you aren’t asserting the Soviet Union committed no atrocities and was an angelic society of benevolent leaders blessing the harmonious proletariat?

In any society composed of humans, the shitburgers will find a way to shit on the largest groups of people they can using whatever instrument of power is available. In the US it’s dollars, in the USSR, its influence and power.
What do you consider useful?
I have a small business in USA. For federal business taxes I need 6-7 documents. Then that process creates other documents I need for personal taxes, which also requires 6-8 more documents. So, I'm roughly 20 important documents per year for federal taxes. Nexus in 3 states, adds more. And save them all for 7 years.

The other end of the spectrum in USA is filling with the 1040-EZ which is like a 3-4 document process.
Or we could require that anyone who wants to sell things for human consumption undergo strict regulation.

That this happened for something that shouldn't even be commonplace except for emergency use - bottled water - is especially unacceptable.
It’s fine. If you don’t want to like Schwarzenegger, you don’t have to. But I would still recommend reading the interview. I found it thoughtful.
Not quite, there are 128GiB AMD instinct parts, though the prices are very...enterprise: https://www.amd.com/en/products/server-accelerators/instinct...
> We have like endless space to colonise

I'll trade you a hundred acres of land on Pluto for your house. Sounds like a good trade?

Let's solve the crisis. Move all the Palestinians to Venus and all the Israelis to Mars. So much land available. Problem solved!

Location, location, location.
On the bright side, at least he didn't get his arm twisted by the PRC in the long-run. A lot of tech companies (cough Apple, Tesla cough) are going to have to pay the piper soon. It's gonna get ugly before it gets better.
> Facebook hired 20,000+ content moderators at great expense who they still employ to monitor for stuff like this

Part II of this series addresses this stat. During the peak genocidal years it seems there were only a handful of mods assigned to Myanmar, and none of them lived in Myanmar. To this day it sounds like there still may not be more than a hundred people moderating Myanmar content. Which is inline with the 20K number: 195 countries * 100 moderators per country = 19.5K mods total

I guess my main idea here is that when I look at the back-of-envelope numbers it's easy to see how even 100 moderators would have trouble keeping up with the content that millions of people produce. So you really do need those automated moderation tools to be effective.

Can someone please continue the thought experiment by estimating how much content each mod can review in a day, then extrapolating up to a week or month, and comparing to an estimate of how much content was actually posted on Facebook in the similar timeframe? I believe Part I or II provides an estimate like that.
>
To be clear, in my example, polyamorous people are only a problem for society because that society has decided that polyamorous people are a problem

Any problem for the society is like that. You can say robberies are a problem only because society decided it is. That's how society works - there's no some external source where it could be checked, so the implication that it's arbitrary baseless decision because it is social is wrong - all rules of thd society are such, so if you want to have any rules at all, those would be the ones you'd have. It's impossible to have a society where everyone derives their morals from the physical laws anew all the time.
I want someone to make the ugly shirt.
Show HN: Bookmark In Public – Create shareable folders of links
Hi HN, i am posting it again because last time i did it got flagged for no reason

I have been building LinkCollect for 5 months, because i needed something to help me create shareable collections of links in an easy and simple way. plus i wanted to create a discovery hub for public collections

Features
- Save all open tabs using right click (or command ALT / Option A)

- Save any link ( ALT + C )

- Discover collections that are public on the explore page

- Share whole profile link

- Access everything (search + all bookmarks + collections) from extension itself so no need to visit the website for these things :)
Good. I was immediately skeptical[0] of such a huge claim. A lot of you were not, and I hope you use this opportunity to adjust your BS metres.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37740425
Being useful is another way to express moving through life in a way that doesn’t cause more effort from those surrounding you.

I see that as a path to success.
They’re saying that the tax rate is not like the US where you pay x% on the first $y dollars and so on… but rather you pay x% on your entire income for the year. So if at $100k the tax goes from 15% to 20%, and I get a raise from $99k to $100k, I actually net less after the increased taxes than if I just stayed at $99k.
Leibniz was the first thing I thought - IIRC he and Newton basically "invented the calculus" simultaneously and independent of each other. But my stars, Newton's contributions to astronomy, optics, oobleck and fig-based treats put him a cut above :)

Da Vinci is somehow underrated here. The Codex Leicester with bike planes &c, probably in Gates' bathroom, and also he was somehow involved in the invention of double-entry accounting. What didn't Leo touch?

Benjamin Franklin, boy, that guy. The US, electricity. Bifocals. Franklin stove. Discovered the gulf stream. You can still go to where Ben puked in the Haymarket and occasionally rewrote TJ's little declaration of something or another.

BUT - the sleeper here is Thales of Miletus. The first true pre-Socratic philosopher, got into theories about electricity among other things as part of spurning mythology in lieu of science, credited with "know thyself", math that led to the school of Pythagoras (via Anaximander), and I think he invented venture capital by investing in other's olive presses for a tribute.
As someone with almost no knowledge of Servo, and personally not having a good opinion of the Mozilla foundation, your comment tells me all I need to know why they stopped support of Servo development.

Only social initiatives get feel good money to waste on nice to haves. This "Servo" thing does not sound like it.
This is something I've dreamed about doing in one form or another since I was a teenager almost 30 years ago.

But the best thing about this story is the video "Without the Xylophone" - a terrifying robotic bed of nails.
The white paper assumes that you don't have a malicious device. If someone can modify the code running your device, they don't need to double spend, they can just directly steal your cryptocurrency.
Did you flag those stories as off topic when they were posted? Volunteer based moderation is never going to be perfectly consistent or reliable - but that fact that it wasn't perfect before doesn't change the posting guidelines.

There was an interesting article from Cloudflare posted earlier - but that has a technical angle rather than just being general current affairs.
Given that there is a team of suits behind this thing I wouldn't be surprised if this thing is riddled with sponsored content in 6 months.

Just look at bloatware apps like Glance in India, or current crop of Redmi/Vivo phones to see the future of this.

It's pretty simple. No one is going to pay for this when Chrome is free. Only people who will pay for a browser are tech enthusiasts and this is doing a terrible job of targetting them. They gotta make money somehow in the end.
This is such a remarkably good take on what this actually is.
I think there's also a case for neglecting the quality of organics, while investing highly in the quality of ad targeting. So it's not quite as twirling-mustachio villain feeling, it has roughly the same effect.
> I really can’t understand what the end game is here for Canada

This is the liberal party of
Canada. They are, ironically, not very liberal on most projects of law and do like to regulate and control many things. For whatever reason they rushed through these bills.
You need more than time for the emergence of life. You need intelligence.
I saw him having lunch at a rooftop restaurant in Beverly Hills a few years ago. He seemed pretty chill and not working at the time.
“cast bodies might be more difficult to fix in the event of major damage, such as a crash.”

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a car NOT be written off after “major damage”. The industry already doesn’t bother to fix cars, they just get scrapped, so I don’t see what the actual difference is.
My wealth and focus are entirely wrapped up in business ventures.

You're lying to yourself when you say you don't trust government.

Your wealth and business ventures are secured by the rule of law --- aka government.

It's a right wing mind virus that entices people to express distrust in government --- as they trust government with everything they do --- and vote for those actively trying to destroy the same trust.
It's part of the mainstream discourse the approximately same way as “fuck” is part of the mainstream discourse.
Why the average lifespan of a smartphone is only three years
> that technological civilisations remain unchanged over geologic time spans

Actually I think the opposite assumption, that civilization radically changes over time, is an argument for it. Future humanity is not people on (sublight) space boats touring the stars like Star Trek, its seemingly some kind of unfathomable transcendent intelligence. Maybe its not even recognized as "civilization" by our standards.

And why would such an intelligence not explore its environment? What's the likelihood, if there are many such intelligences, that essentially all of these intelligences choose to remain static, stagnant and stealthy instead of making their presence known within their light horizon?
Thought and conversation ending quips like this basically ruin HN.
Unfortunately par for the course these days. At least they did remove the article. Citing "editorial standards" is weak sauce though, the point of having editorial standards is so they can be applied by the editor before publication...
Sounds good to me. But you need to have ownership documents for it and means for transport. I’ll trade anytime.
Safety regulations won't keep you warm at night.

Ghost Ship was an absolute tragedy, and a close dear friend was on her way there that night. It made national news. But it's funny, the homeless encampment fires that keep happening in West Oakland just five miles away, that keep killing people don't get the same kind of national coverage. There was one just this past April.

To be able to be used for commercial occupancy, the buildings have an up-to-code sprinkler system. Keeping those systems up to code requires yearly inspections and walkthroughs and testing. So just keep doing those while we let people live in them?

Ghost Ship is good to bring up. In the wake of it neighboring San Francisco shut down several warehomes, forcing people out onto the streets in one of the most expensive housing markets in the world. There was no real help from the city or fire marshals to bring things up to code, just a bunch of red tape. Critically, no money was made available from the government to do any renovations to bring things up to code and stop people from dying in fires. Just evictions.

> In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
I love seeing more Angular projects in the wild like this.

Angular is an under-appreciated, solid, no-gimmicks framework. Been using it for years rather than React and it seems the the pendulum is swinging back toward "this side" now.
I'm not sure what point you're making. Is it just that I didn't say "currently visible portion of the page, the part you see without deliberate scrolling"?

Or, I guess "below the fold"
Gotta love the word “just” in that first paragraph.

The majority of the research money behind most (if not all) drugs, is spent well after academia’s contribution. Clinical trials are very costly, they usually fail, and yet they’re quite important!
The Ukraine/Russia war was OK[1] to post, so it seems weird that Israel/Palestinian wouldn't be.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336
If you can't tell how big something is at all, the program is broken and will probably fail randomly.
> legal status

Between countries, the primary rule is “might makes right”. (Disrupted in relatively recent history with fears of mutually assured destruction.) If some number of countries’ leadership agree closely enough about what’s “right”, they don’t generally resort to “might” against each other.
If they mean it's forced off the screen, not the page, that makes sense.
With laser precise specificity, what - exactly - are you inferring she did?
> That's 24 well-paid developers, or double that from lower-income countries.

That's a stretch even if we don't count the additional overhead.
Couldn't they take the Google money, invest it, and pay developers purely from the interest? Like a university endowment?

How many years of Google money would it take to support ~500 staff purely for making Firefox in perpetuity? That's maybe ~$50 million/year?

This[1] says endowments target ~7.5% annualized returns. So a very conservative 5% return could pay for ~500 staff with ~$1 billion in Google bucks.

[1] https://www.nacubo.org/Press-Releases/2023/Higher-Education-...
I think this is pretty slick, and I give HP credit for coming up with something original.

My main computer is a small form factor PC with a big monitor, but the combination isn't easy to move around owing to the cables, and sometimes I'd like to work in the dining or living room. Something like this would be perfect: just unplug it from the mains, no interruptions. Clever!
It is designed to be a server application, so it'd be very difficult to offer a desktop-like app experience, that's easier to install.
Yes, there are other ways of stealing besides double spends. We're in agreement there.

And I think we can both further agree that someone that isn't us modifies the code of the Bitcoin node we run on our devices. Unless you're still running Bitcoin 0.1, but then you're actually not on the "Bitcoin" network as we know it today. There are pressures outside of your control that make it so that you have to update your node, and you have to run new code you probably haven't reviewed or approved yourself.

The only way to make Bitcoin work as defined by Satoshi is to have the code be 100% perfect and then not touch it, and that ship sailed a long time ago.
William Baumol, whose famous economic theory explains the modern world (2017)
> I would imagine that the decades long Israeli/Palestinian conflict would violate all three.

So would the Russian/Ukrainian conflict, and yet[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30450336
Why should I provide your means of transport? Did the person you bought your home from provide you transport as well? You're getting so much extra land! You figure out how to make it useful.

Sure seems like you don't actually want it if you need me to subsidize you by billions of dollars to use it. Maybe it's not a great deal?

Maybe there's a reason why the Israelis and Palestinians are fighting over that land instead of just flying off to another planet. Not that I agree with the violence, but suggesting they just go colonize another planet instead isn't really a good answer.
One of those days, I need to make a "Tell HN" thread that requests adding a new submission rule to allow only direct links to published research, and never any of this journalistic regurgitation nonsense. The most infuriating thing is that often those garbage articles don't even link to the research, so it takes time to find it!