skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, same here. I fire up my 386DX-40 and Pentium-133 occasionally.

Civilization 1 and 2 are still beyond awesome. Very playable and loveable games.
I play Doom II now more than I did when I was a kid.
Mortal Kombat 3 is the best.
Windows 95 and 98 are likely the best Window GUI ever for me.
Microsoft Office 4.0 is pretty fast on a 386 with 4 MB of RAM running Windows 3.1.
At the age of 41 I've bought my first non-pirated version of Magic Carpet and now understand how to play this game. This game is freaking awesome.
I can now afford to buy Sound Blaster AWE32 without asking my parents!
IRC is still awesome. mIRC and EFNet still work!

My life rocks now! (Except web browsing.)
Imagine all the corn that gets subsidized in the United States.
It's unfortunate that "AI" is still framed and discussed as some type of highly autonomous system that's separate from us.

Bad acting humans with AI systems are the threat, not the AI systems themselves. The discussion is still SO focused on the AI systems, not the actors and how we as societies align on what AI uses are okay and which ones aren't.
Whatever.

I have an intact superego. The third to last time I saw a therapist I was misdiagnosed as "adjustment disorder with conduct concerns" in the first session but the therapist took that back when he got to know me and realized I do have a reasonable moral sense (it is one thing to cut in line, it is another to steal money, do property damage, deceive people, etc.)

Now the second to last time I saw a therapist we got along well but she got kicked out by betterhelp.

The last therapist I saw unfortunately did meet my evil twin who was out at the time and I would say my behavior was over the line at that time but it was part of an extraordinary situation that didn't last very long and I can't imagine being repeated because I discovered what my secret was within a year of that crisis breaking. She fired me.

I haven't gotten a real diagnosis for my schizotypy because it is so bad in 2023, my primary care doc gave me 10 referrals, none were taking new patients, I emailed people who'd written review articles and books on schizotypy for referrals, they said they'd get back to me but they didn't, etc.
I would really love to work for the USDS; ever since their big publicity outreach during the obama admin, too bad the salaries are abysmal comparably to most tech companies. 184k top band in san francisco; 150k in DC. I could join a mid tier firm in SF for 250k base; not even bonus for a senior level. I wish they could create a special schedule.
Off topic, but Earth's atmospheric history is a lot more complicated.

We didn't even get oxygen until 2.4 billion years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event
Current USDSer here posting personally. I hear this and you aren't alone. It's not a decision specifically about USDS, more about the entire White House staff and federal law.
The biggest players in AI haven’t been VC-funded for decades. Unless you mean their customers are VC-funded, but even then startups are a much smaller portion of their revenue than Fortune 500.
There's presumably a reason they've spent the past 20 years adding additional instructions to CPUs, yeah :) And a large part of the Python ecosystem just ignores all of them. (NumPy has a bunch of SIMD with function-level dispatch, and they add more over time.)
Monoliths are like heavy trucks.

Microservices are like motorcycles.

Surely you can delivery 15 metric tons of wood with either of them. You will just need a lot of motorcycles to match capacity.

Somehow a big part of industry became convinced that of course that approach is better, since motorcycles are cheaper*, easier to scale*, and solve some managerial problems*.

* They don't, IMHO.

>its components become increasingly coupled over time

>The codebase becomes complex enough that nobody fully understands every part of it

>if a change introduces a bug - like a memory leak - the entire service can potentially be affected by it.

I believe the only real solution to those challenges is Competency, or Programmer Professionalism. Uncle Bob had some great points on this topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSaAMQVq01E
Bankman-Fried on the Witness Stand
Where is the data that supports your claim that CO2 is a greenhouse gas?
How do you know what the Earth would be like without it?
The only good thing that will come out of Threads
You're right. To my credit, I haven't in years. It's an example of the "splitting" at the root of "schizo" which helps me be able to be a member of two contradictory groups at the same time until the contradictions build up and I get expelled from both. It is not so much about being deceptive but about sincerely seeing the humanity in everyone and trying to play both roles, though there is a way you get drawn into increasing levels of duplicity if you go down that route.

It's also a demonstration of how the "false self" comes out of having the experience of having to hide a vulnerability from people. (I really was prone to paranoid ideation, but the way I was treated in elementary school "proved" they really were out to get me. Boy was I furious at a friend of mine who showed contempt for the private school he went to because my parents were able to get me into private school for just one year and I was treated like... a human being and actually made some friends.) Schizotypes can oddly be very cagey sometimes yet they struggle to avoid random offputting statements that get them in trouble.

When I hear "I was bullied as a kid", I can't help but think of

https://www.amazon.com/Loners-Life-Path-Unusual-Children/dp/...

and the interpretation of that book in

https://www.amazon.com/Schizotypy-Schizophrenia-View-Experim...

and wonder if Asperger's is just a fad diagnosis for this.
No reason to stop there. Unless you believe in some form of metaphysical soul, our entire existence, even our personal inner thoughts, is just vibrations in quantum fields acting according to their intrinsic mathematical nature. I couldn't type this message if the universe wasn't capable of performing self-reflection inside small bubbles of itself, based entirely on its physical nature.
After all, there are 6000 particles in total. Their positions are updated depending on the speed at every frame. Also the speed of each particle changes because of the gravity. Only the oldest about 30 particles, which have already fallen down, are shot away again from the position (50,0), whereby the position and the velocity vary slightly. Yes, randomf returns a value between 0 and 1.
>fire from the bushes

Great spin here, almost didn't catch that. Academic papers from teams of scientists cannot be dismissed for simply not debating face to face.
That's the userspace drive for NTFS rather than the kernel one, right? I'm a bit of a novice when it comes to filesystems, but my understanding is that the tradeoff is lower performance.
They renamed the Oculus VR to Meta. Oculus still a better brand name than the generic meta.
You think Threads is going to overtake Twitter?
No problems outdoors but my worry there is that being inside can easily more than double CO2. Even with a window cracked slightly. So we're ok if we have really good ventilation. A fan makes us safe. At <300PPM we would have had far less to worry about here.

As CO2 reaches over 500PPM (this is not that far away) that doubling of CO2 levels from being indoors puts us in the cognitive impairment range. Not good.
> and I think every single of them failed at some point.

I understand that you probably are alluding to the fact that you never scientifically measured this experiment and that this is anecdotal. But this is pretty loose verbiage when we're talking about a product that is guaranteed to fail at some point or another. These are a wear item.
I disagree, this article shows how it compares to their own benchmarks.

In particular, you can add a 7840U laptop to the comparisons to see how the 23W Qualcomm part compares to the current low power AMD CPU with a comparable wattage.
Lots of folks commenting about salary but that's not even the biggest drawback here. Org instability is.

The presidential innovation fellows are 1-year stints, and after the next election, there might not be a next role. Maybe a campaign? Maybe a consulting firm? Unclear.

Even if the parties don't flip - senior leaders churn through fast.

I love this attempt, but I can't imagine trying to be a mid-senior tech leader in an organization where, in 18 months, the next guy might be trying to actively tear down your work.
> unless people want to argue that this script was in use hundreds of years before we thought it was.

Is that script attested in hundreds of other (dated) works, such that this really is absurd... or is it attested by two or three other works which might have been misdated themselves? I ask because I genuinely do not know. With one sort of answer, it seems like it could be as absurd as you suggest, but with the other sort of answer it seems like there could be the possibility of it being that old.
This is a normal way for companies to shut down competition. No cleverness required.
Which brand was more sticky: Meta Quest or Oculus Quest?
In my experience, most CEOs actually like someone who will treat them like an equal and who will give them an honest opinion. It can become hard to come by once you have a position of authority.
You can go back 30 years and read passages from textbooks about how dangerous an underspecified AI could be, but those were problems for the future. I'm sure there's some degree of x-risk promotion in the industry serving the purpose of hyping up businesses, but it's naive to act like this is a new or fictitious concern. We're just hearing more of it because capabilities are rapidly increasing.
Puberty blockers have a long use in children. Unlike a lot of paediatric medications puberty blockers are licensed for use in children, and are used for their licensed use (blocking puberty), albeit for a different population (gender incongruent children with strong trans indicators, instead of children with precocious puberty).

This - being licensed in children, and being used mostly in line with the license - is better than many paediatric meds.

We have a lot of research about use in precocious puberty - they meds are mostly harmless. We don't have a huge amount of research in trans children, but that's for exactly the same reason we don't have research in a bunch of different meds for children.
Even outside the US, concrete houses are not very common outside specific architectural styles like brutalism. What is very common are reinforced-concrete structural elements, but the walls themselves are made of bricks and mortar, or even concrete blocks, but rarely cast concrete.
Ever so slightly, but still a long ways off from proper mac or rbac support.
> I do think an overhaul of the civilian service is worth exploring.

There are decades of reports and proposals about this. Unfortunately, we keep learning the same lessons over and over.
I wouldn't say _technical_ but some of the recent ones have Empress and Skidrow feuding and there's some dialog about the peripherals of how the cracks are made (in between the slurs and personal attacks). For example https://i.redd.it/p3s5d14i7hib1.jpg
Patents, like war, will always go to the strongest.
The major media outlets have clearly missed the chance to just call it x-twitter!
Okay, he wasn't the president, but he was the 7th provost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Koonin
Editors & style guides don't tend to give you that choice.
Cynical indeed given your quoted phrase doesn't appear in the article. Even the word Underground doesn't AFAICS.
That Matt Risinger video is exactly the one I watched that educated me that this process has gotten beyond the prototype stage. Great videos, but I usually watch on 2x speed because the information density is kind of low otherwise.
> I remember Microsoft having a clash with ASDA over the name of underwear "microsoft"

Though that's clear case of different industries.

Threads is a much more compelling case.
Yeah, biological brains could be remarkably more powerful than digital neural networks if the have primitive functions that we haven't accounted for. For example, some networks seem to encode information in the firing rate, rather than just the presence of a signal. If neurons could, e.g. do frequency-based calculations (and not just threshold-based, like spiking neural nets), they could be orders of magnitude more powerful and efficient. I am thinking particularly about neurons involved in, e.g. audio processing.
No I am not. "worst of the worst" was intentionally vague. We are dealing with probabilities. There is a small chance We could hit a tipping point tomorrow and things could spiral out of control. Or a dampening effect could emerge that we did not account for that could delay things for a while. It is hard to overstate just how uncertain things are. Predicting the future is hard. But drastic sea level rise is almost certainly a few decades away, most models predict it won't get really bad till the end of the century. And things like heat stress or hurricane frequency are all likely to increase, but it will be a few decades before they make certain areas uninhabitable.

And for the record, I don't think we are taking this issue seriously enough. Even if the most likely outcome is a slow "boiling the frog" type of scenario, if there is even a 1% chance that a series of tipping points could result in cataclysmic climate catastrophe (which I believe to be the case), then we should absolutely be prioritizing this issue.
Ask HN: Why is OpenAI still called OpenAI?
It's clear their mission and approach has changed. Why keep "open" in the name?
How do they know CO2 levels 500 years back? And what happened in 1600 for them to drop?
> the biggest is that you need skilled people in the government who can review bids and oversee work

It's also very isolating to be the "one person" who knows the subject area. Having teams of folks is much more sustainable.
Building Stuart, a blazingly-fast static site generator
Spoiler but it's for the same reason people arent all rushing to refute flat earthers.
Apparently YouTube content creators get paid when YouTube Premium users watch their content[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38062375
Sam Bankman-Fried is being cross-examined today in the FBX fraud trial. It's not going well for him.

This is the worst possible case for a bullshitter - on trial for a criminal offense, on the witness stand, and being questioned about all their on-the-record bullshit.
BTRFS is not as bad as it was. People often forget all the edge conditions ZFS has also. (Of which I got caught by many in my day.)

That said, BTRFS is also not the rampant layering violation that ZFS is, for the good and the bad of that statement in so many ways. The way ARC and L2ARC is handled... is just crazy from a modern prospective. They may have cleaned it up since I last looked, but I tend to doubt it. It was pretty baked in.

BTRFS / ZFS really share 0 with bittorrent other than checksumming for integrity. That's it. Otherwise they are so different they might as well come from different planets.

ceph has a ways to go. It'll get there, but distributed filesystems are hard.

As a wise man said to me: Normal file systems take ~10-15 years to mature. Distributed ones take even longer. So ceph... may be getting usable, but I'm not sure I'd bet the farm on cephfs. (Their S3 stuff maybe. But that's much simpler.)

minio is a great example of a product not trying to be everything to everyone... and succeeding. Kudos to them and their team.
> the information on these slides may not apply anymore.

The slides provide evidence for places auction rigging can happen, and that’s exactly what Google did recently with Jedi Blue

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

> The value-proposition for Chrome may have changed since then, especially with Chromebooks being in the mix.

Pretty sure that argument is irrelevant given that Google pays over $25B per year to be the search default

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934961/google-antitrus...
This is a late-night talk show recap, not an actual news article.

John Oliver might state some true facts, but his show is really about creating a weird mixture of outrage and humorous quips for entertainment. He wouldn't be doing is job if truth and accuracy weren't sacrificed for that goal.
> Yeah and now that person who you paid to register it in your name rats you out to the police.

But they don't know who you are, because you're a scammer who is lying to everyone including them.

> Also, there are a lot of laws you can end up breaking with severe penalties in the course of trying to hide your identity for company registration purposes (it enters the world of anti-money laundering).

So is credit card fraud or CFAA violations, which is the thing this is ostensibly to prevent. Criminals don't follow laws.

> It's harder than it sounds, which is why malware authors prefer to steal keys than set up fake companies. Hence the new hardware requirements.

It's not actually that hard, it's just that stealing keys is really easy. And it's not obvious that the new hardware requirements are going to do any good, because that type of consumer hardware has been consistently riddled with vulnerabilities -- Intel essentially gave up on SGX because they couldn't make it work.
>How can I accurately assess where I currently stand in relation to the market level?

If you want to apply to big companies, you don't really need to. You can apply to senior positions, talk to recruiters, explain your situation, and get 'leveled' in the interview.

If you want to apply to smaller companies, well, then it's a bit more of a crapshoot, but if they only have one position open then you might as well apply to whatever they have open if it seems reasonable.
It's fair to say that not all Pi users are decoding video, but with the number of projects doing some sort of video-related workloads, with Pi's processing camera footage and doing CV work and people using Pi's as low power workstations as just two examples, it's reasonable that folks that had historically used Raspberry Pi compute units for video are disappointed to hear that they're now pushing a lot of CPU power to perform video decode and encode.
In schools, I'm not convinced it's always the autistic kids that have the behavioural issues. More often than not it's the teachers that don't know how to treat kids (with respect, as equals).
They were joking, nobody was sick but they were laughing at my up and down movements (the camera is still, it was just me bouncing up and down).

They are also joking about the fact that as soon as I start to think hard about something or make tough decisions I start to walk around and disappear from the camera. I do this without realizing and I told them I have to install these baby protections fences around my desk. Up to some time ago I had a wired headset so I was naturally sitting or close. Now with wireless i can walk around the living room freely :)
> You can't expect to waltz in to that arena, zero plan and expect your "Meta" backing to carry you

Are you still talking about the name choice, or the business in general? Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back it certainly does help.
A circle is a pillar for a 3 dimensional universe in a 2 dimensional universe. So I guess every dimensional jump has one and the binary one is the origin constant?
FWIW both DC and SF top out at 183,500 now.
>As each team dictates its own release schedule and has complete control over its codebase, less cross-team communication is required, and therefore decisions can be taken in less time.

In my experience, it's the opposite. When a feature spans several microservices (and most of them do), there's much more communication to coordinate the effort between several isolated teams.
Double check those bone density results, because new research shows they're present before treatment with puberty blockers starts. Some theories are that some children have reduced access to sporting activity.
Elon should have cut his losses and ditched Twitter.

There’s more to life than trying to do whatever he’s trying to do there.

Presumably he’s trying to create value. What’s the point when he’s $30,000,000,000 down?
I'm closer to retirement than probably most people here, and I have considered it, though I haven't specifically looked at any countries. One risk for me is the the potential for culture shock, as I haven't ever lived outside the US (and indeed have not been outside of US in over 20 years, and when I did it was to the UK, so not exactly a big difference from US).

I also have to take care of my aging parents here, by the time I don't have to do that anymore, I could be near 60 and really not in much condition to manage a big move like that. My own retirement might be...rather short at that point; there is no one to take care of me.

My brother really wants us to try for Irish citizenship (we have distant relatives so its possible while one of my parents is still alive), but its highly unlikely we'd get approved and Ireland is not cheap nowadays. I've looked at Canada but there is a lot of red tape for US citizens to move there, especially ones who are already partially retired.
"Uranium waste" scares her because "Nuclear Regulatory Commission" said that "Uranium waste" is very dangerous.

You know, sometimes shit is just dangerous.
house plants?
They might be able to find a lawyer to take this on contingency. Meta has very deep pockets and will pay plenty of money just to save the embarrassment .
FWIW, I found this book to be an extremely disappointing introduction to Neal Stephenson and an extremely disappointing exploration of Sulfur-based geoengineering. The actual geoengineering is just a vehicle for a semi-political thriller IMO.
No Chinese on-chip malware in the N100. Theoretically, N100 could have some extra surveillance bits added by Intel, but Intel is ultimately an American company, you can be at their HQ within 20 minutes of landing at SJC, and in America, we don't arrest people like Jimmy Lai and harvest kidneys. (DJI, a proven vendor to the religious concentration camps in China, can also go fuck themselves.) Enjoy your RockChip until a stray signal from a weather balloon or rouge UDP packet makes your day Bad.
Yeah a big downside of concrete construction seems to be that a significant proportion of builders/architects just say "fuck it, we'll leave the bare concrete exposed" and you end up with monstrosities like that.
Lol I can't imagine Meta investing much more into Threads at this point.

https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-meta-app-decrease-da...
I think it's a bit of both IME. It helps a lot with deployment across teams.
They have certainly built an amazing architecture.

I'll say that I stated it rather too miserly, a bit out of annoyance from the extreme hyperbole surrounding the M-series processors ("its better than an i9 + 3080 system! Next year it'll beat an i9 + 4090!!").

Funnily enough I plan to switch to an M-series Macbook as soon as Asahi Linux is completely out of beta.
Please provide a link to the original emails if you can, so we can see what was said.
Every time a bell rings, another programmer has written an editor.
> Copying a very popular product is not a bad idea, and having a lot of capital to back is certainly does help.

Copying a very popular product.... that doesn't depend on a social aspect. Copying social products is way different to copying Excel, etc.
doesn't matter, it would be funny:

FacebookMeta's Threads get rebranded as twitter, while Musk(paypal)'s keeps using "x" as its name...