skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. It takes an act of God to prosecute anybody for perjury, and these wouldn't even be easy cases to win.

What NASA and anybody else harmed by this stuff (such as say Google) needs to do is to lobby for parity.

The statutory damages for pirating a single pop song in the US are $250,000, and any copyright holder can file a suit to get that amount, under a civil "preponderance of the evidence" standard, without having to involve the criminal justice system at all.

Therefore, the damages for knowingly or negligently filing a false DMCA notice should also be $250,000. Either the wrongly accused person or any service provider inconvenienced by the notice should be able to sue for that amount, under the same standard of evidence. If the preponderance of the evidence shows you didn't take proper care to verify a notice, that'll be $250k. For each notice.
I was willing to give them my hard-earned $$ when they were running The Expanse. But, yeah, Rings of Power is complete dreck. Nice looking dreck, but dreck.

Just cancelled Prime.
Humans are not automatically strategic (2010)
Weather at the launch site was probably quite different. I don't know the exact distance, but I assume the landing barges are a good distance downrange.
WebXR + Croquet PoC: https://github.com/Squareys/wonderland-engine-croquet & https://x.com/squareys/status/1669238573219086336
There’s also an interesting note about when the specified answers in the question would have been right, the point of view of the centre circle.
If you read the link it’s actually two cpu cores on a single cpu die each returning a string. Then 3 of those cpus send the resulting string to the microprocessors which then weigh those together to choose what to do. So it’s 6 times redundant in actuality.
The newer boosters with auto-leveling legs would've been able to survive, and even this booster was still chained down wherever octograbber failed to secure.

So it seems like they expected the risk of loss of the booster to be low, it just so happened that this time things went wrong.

They have previously delayed launches due to poor weather at the barge. So if that was the case this time, they would've just postponed, unless I guess they weren't really worried about losing a life leader booster that was apparently too old to be worth retrofitting with autoleveling legs.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.11112

The link is referenced in the article.
I was just thinking about how well a wolf would do against a bison. Maybe these ranchers should consider making the switch from cattle to bison. Harder to wrangle, sure, but much more evenly matched against natural predators I imagine.
Feels like a corporate clean up crew comes by these posts. I had a lot of upvotes, but now this has been downvoted below zero.
Oh, the data is good, I just think there has to be a better color scheme for the residential areas (it needs to be green to fit the SimCity aesthetic, but there must be something else you can do).
Two-way gateways to and from other instances, and existing web pages and web apps ... Croquet environments can contain multiple live web views, and Croquet code can also fetch data from external sources and render it live within the virtual environment.

Hopefully "decentralized" (+ centralized reflector) Croquet in Javascript can co-exist with JS libraries that work with existing servers.
- Cold fusion achieved

- [XYZ] this close to taking everyone's job

- Year of the Linux desktop

Same as every year.
oh who knows ... I stopped working on that stuff in I think 2006. The big push then was over to CAN and something called AFDX which worked over ethernet. I was dealing with octal and bcd daily, mid 2000s.

I have no idea if people still use ARINC-429 or IRIG-B. Embedded RTOS was all proprietary back then for instance, like with VXWORKS. I'm sure it's not any more. I hated vxworks.
I don't play many mobile games but I tested The Battle of Polytopia when it was in beta and I still play it today. So it's not a complete loss. Android has solid emulation scene though.
> why you have stuck with Vim over NeoVim?

Wow that's a very personal question! I'll try to answer the best I can!

I like retrocomputing and hacking, especially for Christmas: I want to write things I can share, that'll mix old stuff and new stuff, and that will make people smile - call it the spirit of Christmas or whatever. My 2022 Christmas project was to write a web server in perl, exposing the whole C:\ drive, just for fun.

perl, vim, bash (etc) are old, so they are stable and available everywhere: other things equal, I think doing the same with neovim might have had less impact.

Also I think it's better and more satisfying to make existing tools work the way you want (ex: I want images in my terminal without moving to another terminal!), instead of moving to other tools when your existing tools can't do something you want. I believe it's the true spirit of hacking.

> i have done the same. I made a couple of attempts to switch to nvim the last of which was abandon just over a month ago.

TBH I never really tried neovim, maybe because I like the start screen of vim? The idea of doing something for orphans may be cheezy, but I really like the message!

Also why did you attempt to switch to neovim? I don't feel any limitation in vim. I'd be curious to know why you tried.

I felt them in tmux (lack of sixel support) or bash (incomplete history file), but instead of doing the sensible thing such as using zsh within kitty like everyone else, I spent some time to have tmux intercept and transcode sixel sequences into "ascii art" (https://github.com/csdvrx/sixel-tmux/) have bash save commands start and stop time in a sqlite database (https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite)

> I have a very hard time articulating what I like more about Vim other than simply it just suits me better (which isn't an interesting answer).

I see what you mean. I didn't like zsh when I tried it last time I tried to move to Linux on the desktop. I liked hyprland - it sealed the whole linux-on-the-desktop deal. It "suits me better", but it's new so I think (or I hope?) it's not just by weird interest in retrocomputing that makes me prefer bash+vim to zsh+neovim :)
gradle is just a makefile with bells on and you’ll never convince me otherwise
Same inventor indeed. However the games were mostly just one per device, and basically all used simple "sprites" that toggled on/off.

I think the Game & Watch gameplay feels a lot closer to an electronic toy from the early 80s than what people would consider console gaming.

Not to detract from its merit. It's just that the Game Boy wasich closer to a NES-like experience.
The reality is that yes there is a long tail of searches people might search for, but for popular searches like “laundry detergent” you can check them manually. You get a lot of coverage just by fixing bugs from the top N queries.
This is a render-unto-Caesar problem. It all depends on the audience. Here's what works for me.

1. Email is good for sharable things like interview or meeting notes. It's searchable and you can dump it to Google Docs/Notion from the draft if that's appropriate. Using Gmail keeps you from trying to format it too much while writing.

2. My lab book is for me. Writing with pen/paper forces one to sort out ideas up front--not a lot but just enough for them to make sense and be readable later.

It seems as if everyone will have a different take on this.
It's a pity the digital car tools are so bad.. I blame manufacturers.

In one of my previous workplaces, I've worked on startup that was modifying the industrial equipment, and we had everything on CAN bus, with some in-house development tools.

The experience was great: wiring is trivial (those 4-pins Deutsch connectors everywhere), and the debug-ability is much better. Connect a laptop and you can record the traffic and trivially observe the wire connection which gets loose only after machine has been running for a while. Try that with analog parts!

So don't knock the new digital way.. it is only bad if someone else designed it for you and you don't have access to all the details.
It's more complicated than that, in the link, they described it better:

>> The microcontrollers, running on PowerPC processors, received three commands from the three flight strings. They act as a judge to choose the correct course of actions. If all three strings are in agreement the microcontroller executes the command, but if 1 of the 3 is bad, it will go with the strings that have previously been correct.

This is a variation of Byzantine Tolerant Concensus, with a tie-braker to guarantee progress in case of absent voter.
The Baby Boom: Causes, consequences and implications
They are making enough to pay their drivers $20/hour, but they are unwilling to do so as it will cut into their profits.
I'm surprised that only 3 people reported the error.

While problem is not trivial, my initial reaction was "it can't be 3, it's too obvious". And it seems that a lot of people in the comments here do get to the right answer on their own.

So, why not hundreds of reports?
Courses teaching music theory through visual depictions, take note!
I wonder if it can do well at crypto mining... :D
> the invader losing very quickly and the patient never noticing.

That's called preventing Covid. Covid is the disease, not simply an infection.

The problem is that the vast majority of people who got the vaccine did in fact notice very well they've had Covid.

> That's what they got against Covid/Wuhan and the world actually did achieve herd immunity--against Covid/Wuhan. (The Wuhan strain has been extinct for some time.)

The Wuhan strain wasn't that relevant even before the vaccines were widely available.

> Unfortunately, it turned out to mutate quite rapidly (like the flu) and soon the battles weren't always a rout.

Which was predicted and expected all along.

> It still reduces severity, though, and thus is still used.

Only if you take really awful studies seriously.

Nobody bothered to test this hypothesis in a proper trial.
They definitely do sometimes delay launches due to bad weather in the landing zone. This could have been a miscalculation, bad forecast, a mistake securing the booster, or just bad luck.

Isn't it crazy that almost all of their competitors dump the whole first stage in the ocean every launch?
Maybe my comment is out of date, but the patterns around Prime caused the FTC to sue Amazon just last summer:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-uses-six-dark-pattern-...

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/amazon-rosca-pu...
Ask HN: What did you learn this year?
This is a myth, endlessly repeated without a source. Not only have the original patents expired, but there's a competing tech called Display Electronic Slurry (DES, or the cofferdam tech).

The real reason e-ink hasn't seen much innovation is that it's a tiny niche market, because e-ink is useful for e-readers and not much else. In contrast, LCDs are produced at a rate of billions per quarter, which gives room for lots of companies to compete furiously.
Bodhana Sivanandan, eight, sets new records with victory in Zagreb
Royal Institution Christmas Lecture: The Truth about AI
Ah, I got to the bottom and the "Archetypes to avoid" section before realizing they weren't all cautionary tales, which makes more sense; while I grant that the absolute extremes should be viewed with some caution, I was trying to work out why ex. commitment to standards or going all-in on a microkernel would be bad.
> this probably isn't one of the most major attempts

Perhaps one of the most major failed attempts. Also do we have to think about what groups might be most able to go undetected while infiltrating the IRS?
More on this there is a recent trend of tv shows being cancelled from streaming services and being removed completely. Quite a few Disney+ tv shows from the last 5 years can no longer be watched anywhere.
Sure, you get papers for reasons, obviously because regulations want you to have papers.
There’s a reason it was the DMG. Dot Matrix Game(?).

It was the first really successful portable system with interchangeable games and a dot matrix screen as opposed to custom LCDs per game like G&W.

The Milton Bradley MicroVision came first around 1980. Nintendo referenced it as a precursor. But the screen was 16x16 pixels so ‘graphics’ is kind of misnomer.

I think I remember seeing something once where the screen was included with the game, because it was a static LCD sort of like a Game and Watch game.

The GB was in the right place, at the right time, from the right company, with the right hardware and software, at the right price point. Instant success.
No, but mountain lions aren't pack hunters that can really threaten commercial livestock. They usually only predate solitary animals on smaller farms and even though it's far more traumatic for us than a rancher losing one head of cattle out of hundreds, we don't want to kill them. The state doesn't have to bribe us. They're basically sacred in this state and some like P22 even become mini celebrities.

(The term depredation comes from military attacks on helpless villages so the term is very fitting, both in terms of the mountain lion attacking livestock and humans hunting mountain lions)
Weird question maybe, but does anyone keep track of quantitative or qualitative data that measures the discrepancy between consumer (commercial) and government computer technology?

TBH, it's kind of amazing that a custom computer from 50 years ago has the specs of a common IC/SoC today, but those specs scale with time.
Oh, but it is!

It makes women not so scared of sex, thus making them more likely to end up in the infernal regions. Never mind it if it took them longer to reach their final resting place.
Yeah it’s kind of shameful to be honest.
Back in 1982 our school’s entire SAT prep was: “bring only #2 pencils. Sharpen them before you come. Fill the bubble completely and don’t leave any other marks. If you can eliminate one answer, it’s worth picking one randomly, else skip the question.” I don’t remember that there was any SAT prep culture like there is these days. Nobody had heard of ACT — perhaps it didn’t exist yet.

There were apparently about 50 of us in my year at MIT who had 800/800, and apparently that was pretty standard. I don’t think I was the only one in my HS class of 39.
If you are going to make such hyperbolic statements as saying the current rate of killing is faster than the nazis, you might want to do a quick google search first:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau7292

And again think of what you are stating as fact, you are parroting a very single sided view of history, that Israel is a colonial state, but even if you were right, what is your solution? There are effectively two states with millions of natives, and they both vehemently do not want to live together in a single state.
For anyone old enough for this to make sense but who hasn’t seen a Game and Watch game: they worked just like the cheap Tiger Electronics LCD games you could get.

Just like a simple digital watch, everything that could be on the screen was designed upfront and then the individual bits could just be shown or hidden.

Nintendo eventually made three collections of the Game and Watch games for the GB. Each collection was a ton of fun with each game available in classic (faithful) or updated (graphics replaced with sprites, same gameplay) modes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_&_Watch
This is a fantastic piece. If you find yourself thinking “okay, so the brain is different — now what? What should I actually do to learn better?” I wrote about this last year. Pardon the clickbaity title, HackerNoon changed it up on me. https://hackernoon.com/the-four-rs-how-to-become-a-good-prog...
I don't understand this. If two or more computers fail in the same way simultaneously, isn't it much more likely that there is a systemic design problem/bug rather than some random error? But if there is a design problem, how does having more systems voting help?
It'd be more amusing if you could follow links on the website, but not push buttons.
I still want to see postgres or sqlite running straight on a storage controller some day. They probably don’t have enough memory to do it well though.
Nuclear energy in France is heavily subsidized with tax money.
I hear you and am willing to meet you on this, but you simply can't post things to HN like "you are just an ageist tribal presumptive jerk" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38769241) without getting penalized and/or banned. I understand that the other person was being provocative, but a lot of this is about how we handle provocation—i.e. it's about learning to get hit by provocation (whether intentional or unintentional), absorbing the shock in oneself, and then not responding in kind.

You're just as welcome on HN as anyone else is, and if you build up a track record of using the site as intended for a while, we can definitely take a look and hopefully take the rate limit off your account.
This is almost Hello World:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2246748/assembly-linking... ~:

cat hello.asm
# section .text
# jmp [rax]
nasm -f elf64 hello.asm
objdump -Sr hello.o

/? nasm helloworld:
https://www.google.com/search?q=nasm+helloworld :

- https://www.devdungeon.com/content/hello-world-nasm-assemble... : succinct Hello World program; 32bit ; - [ ] port this to 64bit

- "NASM Tutorial"
https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/nasmtutorial/ ; a good "blog tutorial explaining Assembly code" per OT

"What is better "int 0x80" or "syscall" [or "sysenter" or VDSO] in 32-bit code on Linux?"
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12806584/what-is-better-... links to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12776340/system-calls-im... which links to the vDSO Wikipedia article, which explains that vDSO supports ASLR and is more portable than `int 80` (which is the old 32bit way to syscall)

vDSO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSO

"Linux Assembly HOWTO"
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Assembly-HOWTO/
as I said, domestic injunctions are much less common.
Analog computers have to be rebuilt if it turns out the program is wrong though, don’t they?
It’s possible. You have to have a lot of US citizen operatives to be able to pull off an infiltration and though places like China have the resources to pull it off (and probably do), it’s not all that easy.
The Bay Area's 'Huge Underground' Wild Mushroom Market
The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic each, which have been held at the Royal Institution in London each year since 1825, missing 1939–1942 because of the Second World War.

The lectures present scientific subjects to a general audience, including young people, in an informative and entertaining manner.

Michael Faraday initiated the Christmas Lecture series in 1825, at a time when organised education for young people was scarce. Faraday presented nineteen series of lectures in all.

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

The 2023 RICL series is currently airing on BBC Four: Three lectures, each 1 hour in length, aimed at smart high school students.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pmbqq/episodes/guide

Episode 1: How to Build an Intelligent Machine

Episode 2: My AI Life

Episode 3: The Future of AI: Dream or a Nightmare?
See also Dave Touretzky's homepage at CMU for a great take ("wacky") about Scientologists, and them appearing on the Carnegie Mellon campus.

Oh, there's talk of DMCA, aviation, and Lisp on that page, too.
I tried Tubi about a year ago and kind of love it. I don't like the ads (it's very similar to TV). But how great it is to have a streaming service with movies I actually want to watch! I've been catching up on all kinds of movies, big and small, having a great time, and it's 'free'. It still suffers from the "they had this movie last month and now it's gone" problem (my watch lists on Hulu and Netflix are useless because 100% of the movies are no longer available). But for now Tubi has not abandoned old movies in favor of "Tubi Originals" like Netflix and Hulu have done.

As an aside, the ad format (forced ~2 minutes of ads every ~20 minutes) is way more tolerable than something like YouTube (Skip button roulette every ~5 minutes). I can mute the TV, use the bathroom, make a snack, just like the good old days.
Makes me think how everything including storage is virtualised on AWS, sorta like todays Plan9 :)
Watching alt.religion.scientology in 1993 was very much like ogling a road accident. It was so weird how the adherents would attack the people that were leaking their church secrets - they literally had a playbook to follow - I guess there just modern public relations now.
I would also argue that this is another example of software eating the world. The role of the electrical engineer is diminished day by day.
What if you were denied opportunities because of your race or gender or something else? Wouldn't you want to know that there barrier is now gone?

(Ignore the Saudi case, since this is almost certainly a cynical gesture to foreigners so we can be more accepting of MBS as being actually a really great guy after all considering what he's doing for women)
One article says their rate is $55 CPM[0][1] & the ad supported subscription costs $6.99 vs $15.49 so $8.50 difference.

So if a viewer watches 155 ads (impressions) in a month they have earned Netflix more money with their eyeballs than they saved in subscription cost.

Netflix says people should expect “about 4 minutes of ads per hour” which is notably not directly equivalent to impressions. If each ad is 30 seconds it takes about 39 hours to reach 155 ad impressions. That’s close to 80 minutes per day each month.

Another way of looking at it is that you get paid $6.58 per hour to watch ads, up until you’ve watched 77.5 minutes of ads. After that you are paid $0 to watch ads.

[0] https://digiday.com/media-buying/netflixs-cpm-still-under-bu...

[1] They also say it was reduced from $65 (131 impressions) and plus this is a sales game so the rates will be up and down all the time based on KPIs and competitions to win steak knives and more comprehensive media buy deals.
I once had someone correct me and say cable also has ads. I had to look it up and sure enough, it apparently does now.

I have not carried cable since Cox wouldn't allow me to watch the sci-fi channel without renting hardware per month (the refused to let me purchase the box outright).

I stopped pirating when netflix started streaming, but now I'm back to pirating because fuck these greedy bastards.

Piracy is a market force.
Dancing Links is very marvelous form of optimization.

Thanks to a intent to optimize this problem relating to combinatorial-exploration, Knuth's "Dancing Links" operates upon a hyper-focused system where "malloc" and "free" of these linked lists are incredibly optimized.

In fact, "malloc" is like 2 or 3 assembly instructions (akin to bump-allocation), while "free" is IIRC a no-op. This is because every linked-node can only point to the immediate cell to the right, or a cell later down the line. (So a malloc is basically &curNode+1).

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Its incredible that Knuth continues to work on this problem. I do think that these combinatorial problems he's gotten "stuck" on, here on Volume4, really constitute the most elegant of the entirety of the Comp. Sci field.

I would like to see more chapters of Volume4 to come out though!

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I'll have to look at this "dancing cells" lecture of his, any improvements in this concept will definitely intrigue me.
Yes, but that intuition doesn't seem to work for the case where small disk is rolling around the inside of large one, not outside. What's the intuition for why we then subtract one rotation rather than adding one ?!