skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When discussing the teen who likes to live as in the 1940s on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38687171 I mentioned I like technology from the 1990s and before (ex: terminals, perl, CGI, sixels)

Someone suggested it was because the 1990s were the "peak of technology", but a great counterpoint was provided with this link.

Personally, I think technological progress offers us more optionality: you can now use CDs like in the 1990s but you can also stream. You can use terminals but you can also use GUIs.

No one is forced to adopt technology they don't like. We may be unfamiliar with some old technology, but any technology can be very nice and useful if we can take the time to weight the pros and the cons.

You can then mix and match: I like sixels in the terminal, but I prefer Wayland for GUIs. I discover music on streaming sites, but I prefer to buy CDs for the tactile sensation or download FLACs from supraphonline.cz because I don't have to worry I will lose access to some of my past purchases.
Damn, I wish I had known about this earlier.
People don’t remember cassette tapes, much less robber barons and monopoly breakups of the 20th century.
Surprisingly, yes actually. Wrist-based pulse oximeters are almost a decade and a half old and pulse oximeters are a century old maybe at this point.
Copyright claim against Tolkien estate backfires on LOTR fanfiction author
How exactly are “neofascists using technology to further and further tighten their grip on power and undermine our democratic institutions”?!
US lawmakers warn Biden to probe EU targeting of tech firms
Unfortunately if you have VCs on your capitalization table you can pretty much never issue dividends as a private company
PostgREST is a phenomenal project, and you get A LOT for it's design. How many thousands of applications are simply wrappers around CRUD databases? PostgREST gives a great REST API implementation for exactly this use case. PostgREST probably has a more robust API interface than 70% of basic CRUD apps, with RLS built in.

Am I using PostgREST for a project with lots of complex backend logic, long running tasks, etc? Absolutely not. But that's not what it was built for.
I agree but for a slightly different reason.

UX is going to get a shake up from AI. We're already seeing a bit of the new paradigm of on-demand UI/UX with Gemini (and the various me-too demos). Both Figma and Adobe are now vulnerable to disruption in this space. Adobe can use the time to ape Figma while flexing their rather good AI expertise.
If you are wondering how we got into this mass-murderous mess, it was thanks to members of the office of the president circumventing the intelligence agencies which are usually seen as evil. In this case, they were the good guys, but it mattered not. There were special plans:

> In an interview with the Scottish Sunday Herald, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer Larry C. Johnson said the Office of Special Plans (OSP) was "dangerous for US national security and a threat to world peace. [The OSP] lied and manipulated intelligence to further its agenda of removing Saddam. It's a group of ideologues with pre-determined notions of truth and reality. They take bits of intelligence to support their agenda and ignore anything contrary. They should be eliminated."

> Seymour Hersh writes that, according to an unnamed Pentagon adviser, "[OSP] was created in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, wanted to be true—that Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even nuclear weapons (WMD) that threatened the region and, potentially, the United States. 'The agency [CIA] was out to disprove linkage between Iraq and terrorism,' the Pentagon adviser told me. 'That's what drove them. If you've ever worked with intelligence data, you can see the ingrained views at C.I.A. that color the way it sees data.' The goal of Special Plans, he said, was 'to put the data under the microscope to reveal what the intelligence community can't see.'"

> These allegations are supported by an annex to the first part of Senate Intelligence Committee's Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq published in July 2004. The review, which was highly critical of the CIA's Iraq intelligence generally but found its judgments were right on the lack of an Iraq-al Qaeda relationship, suggests that the OSP, if connected to an "Iraqi intelligence cell" also headed by Douglas Feith which is described in the annex, sought to discredit and cast doubt on CIA analysis in an effort to establish a connection between Saddam Hussein and terrorism. In one instance, in response to a cautious CIA report, Iraq and al-Qa'eda: A Murky Relationship, the annex relates that "one of the individuals working for the [intelligence cell led by Feith] stated that the June [2002] report, '...should be read for content only – and CIA's interpretation ought to be ignored.'"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans
Let me Google that for you.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy

That was hard.
The way I use the term, a company which engages in patent trolling is a patent troll. That seems natural to me, but I apologise if that’s unorthodox use.
You can start at any time
In theory, sure. Hydrogen fuel cells will spit out water as a waste product, that's probably the easiest way. You could directly burn the captured hydrogen or hydrox gas and power a conventional steam turbine. You'd then have to condense the exhaust gas, which is mainly steam, but that's not terribly complicated.

The problem is that the amount of energy you get back would be fairly small in comparison to the input energy. It might not be economically practical. The amount of energy you can reasonably store per unit of input energy might not ever surpass the cost of the equipment to extract the energy and put it back into the grid.

There's a minimum energy cost in separating water from salt. Salt dissociated into water has a lower energy state than separate salt and water molecules. You have to put that much energy back into the salt ions to pull them out of solution, and they will keep that energy until dissociated again.

So you have to pay the cost of entropy, then pay for all the energy loss in the combustion, capture, and conversion stages. I'm not sure if you'd get enough energy out to ever be worth the trouble.
Did you now?? I'll have you know that I wrote the full word2vec paper on a roll of shabby two-ply tissue paper during my time in a Taco Bell stall. Sadly, it was then used to mop up my dietary regrets and was subsequently lost to foul wretches of the sewage system. Left with nothing but the memories of my groundbreaking thoughts and the lingering aroma of liquid feces, I texted Mikolov an idea I had about using neural nets to map sequences of text tokens from one language to another only for him to reply "lol thx" and ghost me. I was quite negatively surprised when he decided to take this to the public courts of Facebook and failed to mention the "brainest boi alive™" who gave him this idea in the first place.
I don't like spotify's UX much either, but I don't blame my hammer for the lopsided chairs I built. Plenty of crappy UIs were designed in Adobe Photoshop before Sketch came around and introduced tooling better suited for UX mockups. It's not the tool it's poor product and experience development you're complaining about.
Well FB has lost $20bn and counting on Horizon Worlds and other "new internet" projects. Before building anew, it's important to consider how many people want to leave the current one.
It’s so wild that a patent owner is allowed to refuse to sell a license to use the patented technology.
Haven't seen that, but how do you work with carry for numbers that are 256^8 < x < 58^11 ?
I might buy an iphone when that is possible but never before.
Lessons from a never-ending personal project
Chiral Chemically-Powered Micropropellers for Cargo Transport and Manipulation
> I suspect that a lot of people from today dropped into the 90s would find a great deal incredibly frustrating.

What I find the most shocking is the difference in cultural values.

This summer I was watching some reruns of a popular 1990s show. I forgot the name (could be friend or seinfeld?) but it boiled down to body shaming then gay shaming a man who's short and suffers from hair loss. Gross.

It may have been ok to broadcast that back then, but I found that not comical at all and very painful to watch.
I'm sure it can do that too.
Those ads are also filled with trickery to show a false idea of what something is really like. Things like photoshopped models, auto-tuning, filters, painting food to look a certain way, sound fx being added. The list is nearly endless.
The US pulled out of the ICJ after committing crimes in Nicaragua: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
As more and more countries progress, the US will lash out with even more vigor to keep it's global supremacy. Unfortunately the provocation and involvement in Ukraine war will be regarded as the death knell for the USD and thereby relevancy of US on the global stage.

It was foolish as is, to get into proxy war with Russia. Then came the aggression towards China. And now pissing off the entire middle east with arming Israel. Top it off a cold war with India.

There is absolutely no sane scenario where all these ends in favor of the US. Elect a dementia expect a circus.
Why is this comment greyed out? Seems like a reasonable comment
The thing is you might not be adding the sidecars yourself.

Kubernetes has a resource called MutatingAdmissionWebhook that allows mutations of the Pod object before creation.

I think the most common use case is for service meshes. Your Deployment might not have any sidecars, but the service mesh controller will automatically add a network proxy container to your pod via the admission webhook.

Another use case would be OpenTelemetry or some other observability service sidecar injection for auto-instrumentation.
Here is a link to the study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44220-023-00135-8

One of those studies that seems obvious in retrospect, but it's interesting that it appears to be independent of your night time light exposure and sleep quality.
> We know in order to make JIT more useful we need to move some of the Gems from C to Ruby.

Just curious, how well do we know this, e.g., theory, experiments, it's being done, or ?

It'd be fun if RiiR[uby] were a small part of the overall memory saftey glacier (e.g., https://www.cisa.gov/case-memory-safe-roadmaps)
>A big reason people go to libraries like the British Library is for collections of rare books an manuscripts

I love rare books and have donated to my library specifically to restore rare books in need. The vast majority of patrons would never notice them missing or care if they did.

>Wouldn't help...You might as well say...

So, a huge collection of books available for free won't help library patrons, and the main reason why because I can't also use it to view Chekhov's handwritten notebooks or the Leningrad codex? Ok.
And how are you gonna do that? Not even the very inventors of technology can predict how it’s gonna be used (especially for bad) and by whom. Are you gonna have a committee of bureaucrats who never invented anything in their life come in and promise they will protect you from any possible downside? And are you gonna believe them?
After all this time I think Facebook still you gives the option to send you PGP encrypted emails, which is pretty wild.
Nikola founder Trevor Milton sentenced to prison for fraud
The problem with food stamps is program abuse: about 25% is spent on junk food. And then there's outright fraud, which as a percentage is small but still a lot of money. Who knows how much is spent on uber eats/doordash.

I'm fine with tax spending to feed the poor, but I don't agree with spending on luxury foods and luxury food services that I wouldn't even spend on myself.
When US goes to war its always ONE person that did it. As if it was a dictatorship. It was George Bush's fault. It was Kissinger's fault. It was trump's fault. But when other countries do it, we have to sanction the entire country and then bomb it to rubble.
I posted it on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38689459#38689872 along with a summary of this discussion to provide context
Conversing with an Alaskan Humpback Whale
I swear, we've reached the point where the budget models, which lack almost all of that crap, are the best models you can buy.
I just did a skim, and it looks like you're essentially seeing the limits of IEE 754 resolution at that scale (10 ^ -130). Theoretically they can store +/- 308 base-10 exponential range, but only about 17 decimal digits of precision.

Floats were designed to be mostly-reliable within a mostly-reasonable range of numbers for the kinds of systems we deal with in our scale of the universe. The scale probed here is far far beyond Plank-scale if dealing with metric measurements. We have the converse issue (even with 64bit) at large scales. I could make a geometric vector in space from here to a rock on a planet 15 billion light years away, and another vector to an adjacent rock. I bet those would have a nondeterministic cosine issue too.

I guess a solution is FP 128, or beyond.
As I understand it, other digital libraries buy (license) n digital copies of a book and then never lend to more than n people at once. IA would permit an unlimited number of people to borrow at once.
Why not a PWA? Does your app need more permissions to mess with people's system that a PWA would allow?
Maybe We Don't Need UUIDv7 After All
Curious: what do you find missing in the affinity stuff? I see a bunch of people referring to it generally lacking 'stuff' but I'm curious about the sort of stuff it lacks. Maybe my use case won't be impacted much.

I'm grandfathered in with the introductory CC pricing but there aren't too many threads left in the rope anchoring me to that. I rarely do print design anymore so InDesign isn't the huge sell it used to be, and photoshop is just annoying me more each day. If it weren't for illustrator, I'd probably be gone already, and inkscape just doesn't cut the mustard for that stuff... the type tools alone in illustrator keep me there. Audition suits me way better than audacity but I don't do anything remotely intensive enough with sound to warrant a hundreds-of-dollars a year subscription.
The most important piece of legal advice I ever received was "don't take legal advice from people down the pub".

It's rock solid advice.
Reason why clearing homeless harder in CA
you linked to a patent held by apple?

is that the patent that was violated??
The cybertruck looks weird too.

I enjoyed the munroe video talking with the tesla engineers:

https://youtu.be/J5zDNaY1fvI
I don’t see how the two are related.

Different situations, different ethical considerations and expectations.
1. Even better as part of Easy2boot.

1. I have servers in the basement with a KVM switch and Idrac. I always keep a usb stick with Easy2boot and Ventoy on it plugged into my servers, and often my desktops, so I can fix stuff offline, or even totally wipe the OS. Plop a live CD (Sergei Strelec) on there, and you can copy isos on there from the network. It's awesome.
This used to be something one could sketch up in a couple hours on the web, with registerContentHandler.

Removed in 2018. I don't totally disagree with the reasoning, but when the web kills amazing flexibility points for lack of heavy adoption it makes me sad. There's so many good ideas that should be left in, even though society isn't actually so bloody awesome as it should be. https://groups.google.com/g/mozilla.dev.platform/c/jeTDLz38_...

Also, scoffing at 0.2% of users of a web browser is multiple orders of magnitude away from where the line should be; these people are a fucking joke & shame the fuck on them, losers. Jonathan Kingston, what the heck dude? What the frelling heck?

Also no other browsers implemented it! Adoption needed help! Not to be murdered.

Tl;Dr, adding new content types used to be easy & simple & you could register a site as a content handler but they always kept the feature locked down then killed it without ever letting people go for it at all. Gatekept.
> "Roughly three-quarters of intercity bus riders have annual incomes of less than $40,000."

Wow. The US really has a much higher cost of living.

Here in Barcelona if you make that much you're actually making pretty good middle-class money. Most of my friends make around 25k and some even own their flat.

The idea that you're a "poor bus-rider" with "only" 40k salary... Wow.
Then what does the MDC thing have to do with any of this?
It's more like a polyfill for a proposed/nonstandard version of HTML.
If the author of the article sees this, this link in the table of contents doesn't work:

https://ashvardanian.com/posts/python-c-assembly-comparison/...
I wonder about the UX created by AI when we start delegating browsing to AI. The major search engines already are looking to lean on AI and we complain about ads enough that it's clear we see browsing as a chore. It's only a matter of time before the web is written in a new bytecode that is meant for AI only. Turtles all the way down...
Huh? That doesn't apply here at all.

> To avoid a complete ban on sales, Apple had two months to cut a deal with Masimo to license its technology, or it could appeal to the Biden administration to reverse the ruling. But Joe Kiani, the chief executive of Masimo, said in an interview that Apple had not engaged in licensing negotiations
And that's a good place to stop :)
maybe or at least add 'potential'; i think it is a click-baity-title; update a windows font and the reboot from that will cause the wifi connection to drop lol

you are one one of feature releases mentioned i presume?
Thank you, I will try again today. It would unblock deploying my usecase on Fly.
Discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22441865
That's so encouraging to hear, I would've loved uni maths with some high quality videos like his to watch, even if just for after class to reinforce the topics.
> No one is forced to adopt technology they don't like.

No.

* None of the privately-owned car parks I know of take cash.

* The UK government is moving to compulsory electronic filing for small businesses.

* The managing agent used by my landlord has decided that paper contracts are no longer acceptable.

I can walk everywhere. I can close my business. I can live under a hedge. But realistically, I am forced to use technology which was not designed with my interests in mind.
I miss pxe. Feels like all of our tools got more complicated for managing servers but for very little gain. Pxe is one of those good simple tools that we need to get back to.
So following the numpy example the author gives one using scipy. This should be the same if not faster than a pure numpy implementation
Stock market's "fear gauge" is at its lowest level since the pandemic
I have come to read things like "it looks cleaner" or "it's minimalistic" as being a big red flag that the UI is awful.
Don't you think if hospitals are carved out as an exception that the incentive structure basically gurantees hackers only really target hospitals tho?

Not really sure what Im trying to say here [blush]
> The interwebs have taught me that Oi can often be followed with "you what, mate?!*

Only in Britan. In Australia it's usually "oi, dickhead" or - in a call and response format "oi", "what, dickhead?".
Nope. Deprecated just a couple of weeks ago.
Grindavik [video]
Unit test it with TXR:

$ pwd
/home/kaz/ustreamer
$ gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -shared src/libs/base64.c -o base64.o
$ valgrind txr --free-all
==8785== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==8785== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==8785== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==8785== Command: txr --free-all
==8785==
This is the TXR Lisp interactive listener of TXR 292.
Quit with :quit or Ctrl-D on an empty line. Ctrl-X ? for cheatsheet.
Psst! The complimentary Allen key that comes with TXR is inpired by IKEA.
1> (with-dyn-lib "./base64.o"
(deffi us-base64-encode "us_base64_encode"
void (buf size-t (ptr (array 1 str-d)) (ptr (array 1 size-t)))))
us-base64-encode
2> (let ((out (vec nil))
(sz (vec 0)))
(us-base64-encode #b'00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF' 16 out sz)
(list out sz))
(#("ABEiM0RVZneImaq7zN3u/w==") #(25))
3> (let ((out (vec "abcde"))
(sz (vec 5)))
(us-base64-encode #b'00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF' 16 out sz)
(list out sz))
(#("ABEiM0RVZneImaq7zN3u/w==") #(25))
4> (let ((out (vec "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"))
(sz (vec 25)))
(us-base64-encode #b'00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF' 16 out sz)
(list out sz))
(#("ABEiM0RVZneImaq7zN3u/w==") #(25))
5> (let ((out (vec "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"))
(sz (vec 27)))
(us-base64-encode #b'00112233445566778899AABBCCDDEEFF' 16 out sz)
(list out sz))
(#("ABEiM0RVZneImaq7zN3u/w==") #(27))
6>
==8785==
==8785== HEAP SUMMARY:
==8785== in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==8785== total heap usage: 24,782 allocs, 24,782 frees, 4,806,317 bytes allocated
==8785==
==8785== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==8785==
==8785== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==8785== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

We covered the cases when the the destination buffer is already allocated, and smaller, equal to or in excess of the space being required. Thus testing the cases when realloc is or isn't necessary. No memory errors or leaks.

We can see in the last case that when the buffer is larger, the function leaves the size alone, returning our original 27.
Military leverage. Deaths-per-dollar is functionally converted to zelenskys.
> “If they don’t want to use our chip, I’ll work with them to make their product good,” Mr. Kiani said. “Once it’s good enough, I’m happy to give them a license.”

Doesn’t this quite plainly mean that they aren’t willing to just license the patent?
Africare's Experience with VitaCow and VitaGoat Food Processing Systems [pdf]
I wish I'd known about Forth in my first job in the late 80s. We were writing 8-bit assembler on small slow machines, and I've always suspected that Forth could have been a good productivity solution for those circumstances.

Fast forward to the 21st century and I still think Forth is cool, but I don't have any actual urge to use it.
As someone who worked for a large company from the mid-80s to the late 90s, there was a lot of casual behavior that was, perhaps not admired, but considered just part of how things were at the time. A lot of stuff happened that people wouldn't do today unless they felt they were invulnerable from being reported to HR.
I do find internationals usually do miss the second "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie". It really confuses crowds when international sports commentators come over and don't understand the call and response ordering!
> Early 90s, basically no internet.

Plenty of small-i internet, if you knew where* to be. Trailblazers came out in 1985. IMPs had been around since 1969, and I think ARPANET itself had been decommissioned by 1990.

* you couldn't just download whole-book scans either (HN frontpage at 45K would've taken nearly a minute to xfer on a home line), so there were already plenty of dead-tree reasons to be associated with these institutions anyway...
I wouldn't even say that the exterior was all that goofy relative to modern crossovers. Many of them are more refined but still plenty goofy.

Incidentally, one of the excuses I hear about accepting the panel gaps on Tesla cars is "who cares, it's on the outside of the car and I don't have to look at it". One can make a similar argument here -- who cares if its odd looking on the outside if it's actually an ingenious car to use and operate.
Yes, I'm on 23H2 with KB5033375 installed and my AX211 card works fine.
I work at Heroku and see a lot of different apps.
If Go is a "system language" then OCaml certainly is. It's suitable for writing system tools in, and people do. TBH the whole concept is pretty meaningless though.