skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I always wondered why I hated Hershey's. It's not just the taste, but also the horrible mouthfeel.

I recently bought a couple 5lb bags of Ghirardelli(lower lead+cadmium, maybe) chips as a cheaper way of satisfying my chocolate cravings(also handy because I realized I eat over a lb/month). I noticed the mouthfeel is just lacking vs other Ghirardelli products. I've tried retempering them and adding more cocoa butter, but they just seem... a little less smooth. I don't know, maybe they weren't conched as much?

My favorite is the Trader Joe's Fair Trade Organic 72 % Cacao Belgian Dark Chocolate Bar which, for a cheap, readily available in the US, relatively dark chocolate is amazingly smooth with a wonderful taste and mouthfeel.
it is an interesting strategy here, does misdirection apply well outside if magic? does this work in actual conversation?
> Nintendo Switch at launch (added later)

The Nintendo Switch actually had a browser either at launch or close to it, then removed it in an update, and didn't add it back until about 3 years later.

It's really hilarious that a device that touted its portability from the beginning was literally incompatible with most public Wi-Fi for years.
https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/issues/1353

Bought in 2020. Stopped working in 2020. Not the latest, but in-production, advertised ROCm-capable, and what I could find during the Great GPU Shortage of 2020.
I don't feel like writing a long text so I won't really give an appropriate reply, but for me my point is that all this talk about American history and American sci-fi authors is not actually relevant at all to the common themes of sci-fi that the author talks about and these these billionaires are interested in. Space colonization, life extension, artificial intelligence and virtual reality are not ideas that are products of american culture or any other culture or time period. The world history would have been completely different and sci-gi authors would come up with the same ideas. They are products of a certain technological level and a certain economic situation. Just because in our world they were first entertained by a culture with a colonialist history and with conservative themes doesn't mean that is fundamental to these ideas. I see this as relevant to the article because the author sees it critically that the billionaires have these ideas, which he associates with this colonialist and conservative history. But this is not at all fundamental to these ideas. Space colonization has none of the problematic baggage of historical colonization, by default. Artificial intelligence and life extension does not have the baggage of eugenics and race theory. Virtual reality does not have the baggage of control and suppression. They are all fundamental economic ideas independent of our world and it is our decision to associate them with the stories of certain sci-fi authors or not.
Today is Western Christmas, January 7th is the actual feastday, we call it Nativity.

You can have the festal greeting anyway: Christ is born!
I only use Windows because it lets me run x86 binaries. If that's not the case any more why would I use Windows?
Why didn't she need to escalate it?

I can imagine the hospitality industry would not want the WiFi sporadically going down for their guests; that's not a very hospitable experience.
Those rules are completely hypothetical and borderline reductio ad absurdum, since they have never been in place anywhere in the world, and you could make the same argument about anything the government does.

You seem to pretend that people in countries with universal healthcare don't have any agency, but of course they do. Public healthcare doesn't preclude private healthcare. We see this in Western countries that have high-quality universal healthcare, which have successfully managed to strike a balance.

There will of course always be gaps not adequately covered by the public option — new, unproven modalities that aren't offered, or unacceptably long wait lists, or a certain drug being denied that might help improve quality of life over a more conservative drug. In those situations you always have the option to seek alternative private healthcare at higher cost, and you always have the option to get private insurance. So many commenters on HN (presumably American) paint universal healthcare as some kind of draconian Big Brother regime where it's either all or nothing, and the public option will "take away my rights," when nobody has ever proposed such a thing.

In the US, you are under the thumb of private insurance companies whose profit motive is, indisputably, not aligned with patients' healthcare needs. Sure, you can shop around for insurance plans, but realistically, when faced with a health crisis, that's not an option. Which means you have to deal with a system that doesn't care about your health and tries to wriggle itself out of paying anything more than the minimum they're obligated to cover, and that minimum isn't known until the bill arrives. To my mind, having lived under both types of systems, the American scheme is much more restrictive.

Under a universal healthcare scheme, there's no profit motive to cloud the quality of care. There's a cost reduction motive that can affect quality of care, but as the other commenter points out, the democratic model helps balance that. The world over, in places like Scandinavia and the UK, funding of healthcare is a big concern that gathers a lot of public debate and figures heavily in election campaigns; it's not swept under the rug. It's not perfect, but it feels much more of a "we are all in the same boat" kind of environment than the American one where every day we have newspaper articles about huge hospital bills, health bankruptcies, drug epidemics caused by greedy pharma companies, and widening wealth inequality.
Her The Adventures of Prince Ahmed [1] is amazing — and one of the 1001 Films to See Before You Die:

[1] https://youtu.be/VnwrOBvZ4po
I've been a daily lurker since I was 18. And I do 100% mean daily since the time I started. I've never frequented any other URL so consistently.

I have thousands and thousands of screenshots of highlight posts and comments (highlight to me of course), that I dream about organizing with tags for future access, whether I use any of the information or tools, refresh myself on something, or just want to walk down memory lane... A lane that just keeps getting longer and longer. A lane I'm happy to have at least left a bread crumb trail on to retrace in the dark if I feel like it.

In hindsight, screenshotting them has been more of a personal act I do for myself, knowing very well I may never meaningfully do anything with the majority of them. Every screenshot taken was something important or impactful to me in the moment though. The process of screenshotting is just a part of the ritual it seems .

I thank the individuals, and community as a whole, who have been responsible for making my life better, enabling growth I'd have never anticipated or foreseen , enabling countless echoing feelings of comradery and connection that have been hard to find in meat space consistently.

This place was like discovering a magic land when I was 18 given my rather humble background. I still had a lot of learning and growing to do. Hacker News has been invaluable.

Not to get too gushy... But I do love this site, and I love the fact there are people willing to take time out of your days to participate in it. People of all creeds and credentials being civil, yet unafraid to agree to disagree. Willing to have some fun. Willing to be candid. Willing to dive into the deep end depending on the post...

Merry Christmas everyone:)

Always wish I could wave a magic wand, and somehow reciprocate back all the good I feel like I've just freely consumed and co opted from others over the years ... The giants whose shoulders I stand on.

I'll never forget or downplay the people and exposures that are integral to who I am.

Were I born and raised on some far removed island... Id have been grown off of whatever arbitrary cultural and informational scraps that I could gets my mits on from my local hierarchy, and that's about it. I don't like the sounds of that.

Modern life has its downsides and contraindications for sure, but Hacker News is not one of them. Hacker News is one of modern day phenomon that I am thrilled to have been alive for.

Hope you all have a solid day!
Yes, I tend to agree, it sounds fishy, but I don't speak Germany but from the google translate of the TUV site and then some accounts of people here, it sounds like they do fail for normal surface rust. One or two people mentioned anecdotes that the inspectors have told them to go drive around and brake heavily before coming back.
Perhaps someone can train a generative AI on the old issues, and use it to create new issues based on YouTube tech channels and online forums.
TFA is about milk chocolate; but British dark chocolate is also distinctive. I think there's probably just a lot more sugar in it than in Belgian or Swiss brands.

It's been decades since I tasted US chocolate; so, no comment on that.
> Musk ran

Seems a very honest interpretation of events to purport that Musk has had no influence over transport in California.

> America isn’t built for it.

That rhetoric is used the world over as an excuse to bolster against progressive innovation of all kinds. It's been debunked countless times. "Dissolving" communities to make way for rail is of course also nonsense.
But what I'm saying is why do they need to install updates? If the only open port is your software, who cares if curl or ssh or whatever is out of date. Worst case, you shut it down if it ever does get compromised, and there was nothing anyone could do with that machine because it was underpowered and firewalled to only allow incoming connections on your game port and no outgoing connections. Unless there's an exploitable vulnerability in the Linux networking stack or their server application, everything else doesn't matter. If they run it in fargate, Amazon will take care of Linux patches, so it's only their application server that matters. Games usually use custom UDP protocols, right? So there's no off-the-shelf library for them to patch in their application.

Same deal with people talking about windows requiring new hardware really: for most people the answer should be "good, it'll stop rebooting to update now". Almost everyone is behind a firewall that doesn't allow incoming connections (it can't by default because of NAT). The only point of entry is the browser, and if you stay off the seedier parts of the web and have an adblocker, that's not really an issue either. Your bank or Spotify presumably aren't going to be dropping malware on your machine via old browser exploits.

You can't do that kind of thing if you're under some auditing regime, but they're not, right?
the ride is so numb. i am convinced it is on purpose frankly
They sold about 1/8 the cars Toyota did in 2022 but they also made about 8x the profit per car. And Toyota has a huge debt load whereas Tesla had money in the bank + was growing + FSD will Soon™ be here (and if/when it does, Tesla's profits will explode) + there's the energy business + there will probably be something like AWS for AI in a year or three.
Desalination Can Beat Out Batteries for Excess Energy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38685239
I’ve worked at more than one place where you SSH into a Linux host (often just for that datacenter) using certificate-based authentication, only to be printed a JIT (just in time) password for TACACS-based usage in that datacenter, and which is only valid for a few minutes.

Workarounds are many for network devices it seems!
Thats like saying shoes give you a false sense of security, perhaps, but its still your responsibility that you werent watching for a nail sticking up, its not nikes fault for making a good feeling shoe. User error.
Back when my company was a tiny startup the old nyc building door had an intercom buzzer and physical keys. To make it easier to get in I wired a raspberry pi w/relay into the intercom and built a web UI. The pi setup wasn’t solidly reliable for weeks at a time, but fortunately it was plugged into an outlet with a light switch so everyone knew to turn it off and back on again. But since it was by the door, no matter the labeling from time to time we’d come in to find it turned permanently off.
Merry Christmas, thank you all for being a wonderful taste of the old Internet. Let's all turn our engineer brains off and enjoy family and friends.
For other readers, Lenovo x13s has Snapdragon chip inside. How is the software compatibility?
The best part is still:

I have succumbed to the temptation you offered in your preface: I do
write you off as envious malcontents and romantic keepers of memories. The systems you remember so fondly (TOPS-20, ITS, Multics,
Lisp Machine, Cedar/Mesa, the Dorado) are not just out to pasture,
they are fertilizing it from below.

Your judgments are not keen, they are intoxicated by metaphor. In
the Preface you suffer first from heat, lice, and malnourishment, then
become prisoners in a Gulag. In Chapter 1 you are in turn infected by
a virus, racked by drug addiction, and addled by puffiness of the
genome.
Yet your prison without coherent design continues to imprison you.
How can this be, if it has no strong places? The rational prisoner
exploits the weak places, creates order from chaos: instead, collectives like the FSF vindicate their jailers by building cells almost compatible with the existing ones, albeit with more features. The
journalist with three undergraduate degrees from MIT, the researcher
at Microsoft, and the senior scientist at Apple might volunteer a few
words about the regulations of the prisons to which they have been
transferred.

Your sense of the possible is in no sense pure: sometimes you want
the same thing you have, but wish you had done it yourselves; other
times you want something different, but can't seem to get people to
use it; sometimes one wonders why you just don't shut up and tell
people to buy a PC with Windows or a Mac. No Gulag or lice, just a
future whose intellectual tone and interaction style is set by Sonic the
Hedgehog. You claim to seek progress, but you succeed mainly in
whining.

Here is my metaphor: your book is a pudding stuffed with apposite
observations, many well-conceived. Like excrement, it contains
enough undigested nuggets of nutrition to sustain life for some. But
it is not a tasty pie: it reeks too much of contempt and of envy.
Bon appetit!
VSCode for personal projects.

Jetbrain editors for work.

Caffeine for MacOS.

Wechat for taking screenshots.
Tesla had the first mover advantage on offering EVs. I don't think they will be able to charge the premium going forwards compared to say Mercedes and still have the low quality interior and general mechanical quality at Dacia level.
That happened in 2014. So recent-ish, but people started being really loud about it in 2021 as part of the same non-data-backed outrage.
In my eyes, it's more about looking at power then looking at people. What these people do and decide could change your life.
Indeed, it was just the first one that came up in the search to illustrate the massive difference.

It's about twice the house you'd get for Manchester money. Maybe there's other factors to consider, but the idea that Romanian housing is the same price as the UK's doesn't make much sense to me, and I can't find evidence of it being true.
Playboy is fundamentally different because of the buyer's shame that doesn't exist on the internet where buyers feel more comfortable making a naughty purchase.

(Of course in reality, more people are watching you on the internet.)
Nice to see the name Jim Kurose here. Many years ago, I learned networking and C programming in his computer networks course at UMass. Such a great teacher and a real breakthrough class for me in understanding not just networks, but low level systems programming, computer architecture, and other things tangentially related to networks, I'm not surprised to hear his book is good.
Is there market for a Neocities or alternatives? I feel people who still believe in websites want to build them themselves and host them in a CDN. It is not (unfortauntely) the 90s or 2000s anymore, when people and teens wanted to have their own website. Now they want to have their own TikTok, Instagram and YouTube channel.
We call that vim
I don't know if a slight performance increase is going to sell anyone on ruby but I'm glad they're making incremental improvements on things. Being overly concerned about performance is almost always premature optimization, and ruby is more than fast enough for everything I've ever asked of it (including the binding glue between our redis DNS record storage and PowerDNS, where the entire stack serves half a billion queries a month across 14 tiny VPSes without even a blip on htop). I probably could have just used ruby instead of PowerDNS but it's generally not great to roll-your-own on public facing encryption, HTTP, DNS, etc. It wasn't really a performance consideration for me.

The recent irony of the web is anyone that implemented a web app with "slow" ruby and backend rendering now has the fastest page loads compared to bloated front-end web apps backed by actually slow eventually consistent databases that take seconds to load even the tiniest bits of information. I see the spinner GIF far too often while doing menial things on the "modern" web.
ProxyJump is to connect to one SSH server by another SSH, right? It doesn't work against GFW. GFW throttles SSH traffic across borders to ensure that SSH can only be used for running commands rather than tunneling data.
Microsoft failed at the portable music player, the smartphone (multiple times), arm systems and their current flagship console is selling fewer units than the Meta Quest line.

If you’re going by things that Microsoft walked away from, you’d have a long list of products that have been extremely successful for other companies.

Implementation and longevity matter.
When I was reading Beautiful Racket [0] I was still working as a data engineer, writing complex SQL queries all day. I actually sort of fell in love with SQL, and decided to write a web development framework in SQL.

INSERT requests would create forms, SELECT would create a table.

The idea was that you could create something simple like an BBS with only a few lines of code:

CREATE TABLE posts (title TEXT, content TEXT)

INSERT INTO posts (title, content) VALUES (request.title, request.content)

SELECT title, content FROM posts

It actually works! Here's the code on GH: https://github.com/seisvelas/Sea-Quill

Sadly, I stopped working on it after only 1 or 2 weekends because I switched professions to cybersecurity and had too much to learn - every weekend thereafter was CTFs or bug bounties.

Oh well! Someday I'd like to write a more intuitive, "conventional" style language for Urbit, maybe called HoonScript or something. So my affection for Racket's language oriented programming will (maybe, one day) not be in vain!
This, too, shall pass. Finding a calming peace and disconnect from material things in a low period of my life has stuck with me even as things have gotten much better. Not to say I know what you need, but I bet the positives will shine through all of this in the long term. Find a way to smile today - Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!
How the James Webb Telescope is 'set to find strange and bizarre worlds'
There are already private servers. There are whole communities built up around role playing in bootleg GTA 5 servers.
That’s not accurate. I mean yeah you qualified this by saying it could be unfair but generally speaking this is not right. Bailiffs won’t be seizing your property unless there’s some sort of specific consideration (like a specific unique item that is owed), damages owed (determined by a court), or a belief that the consideration for the payment is already there, which is pretty clearly false for a fine.
x86 is one of the few architectures that has more than one official syntax.

The Intel syntax, common in the PC world since the MS-DOS days, used across Windows and OS/2 as well.

In macro Assemblers, inline Assembly in high level languages, and naturally Intel and other x86 manufacturers CPU manuals.

It uses the format,

op dest, source

Then you have the AT&T syntax, for whatever reason when support was added to UNIX for x86, they chose the format used by other architectures.

It is only found on GNU/Linux and BSDs, and follows

op source, dest

Where op is written with the data size prefix, and addressing modes are somehow more complex.

Intel:

lea eax, [eax + eax * 4]

AT&T:

lea (%eax, %eax, 4), %eax
I liked Stephen Smith's "Programming with 64-Bit ARM Assembly Language". https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53671067-programming-wit...
I’ve always been told that ssh is not supposed to work non-interactively. Which is the whole reason for sshpass, to work non-interactively. Ie. Broken by design.
A more compelling argument might propose that the paid or expensive apps are simply not appealing enough to those whose primary factor when selecting a phone is price.
If you mean copper pipes, I don't think that heat pumps save anything. In addition nowadays there are plastic pipes that may actually be superior to copper (no corrosion and they are cheaper).

My point is that if electricity is effectively free then there is no incentive to invest in energy saving. The same goes for any resources. In any case, I don't think it is a realistic prospect to expect electricity to become effectively free at least in the medium term.
You don’t need to buy ebook and audiobook at the same time.

The icon appears when looking at the audiobook’s product page (both on Amazon and Audible). Unfortunately the ebook page doesn’t appear to have something similar.
If the criminals get a reputation for dumping data after you pay, no one will pay anymore. It’s not honor, its customer service.
I like reason and rescript and I'm looking at them for inspiration but I'm not a fan of their async support. Still, I'm planning to write a lot more code in them just to understand them better.
Well, first step is to create bindings to the same libraries Python uses.
How do you upload the documents? Via the API or do you have to upload them beforehand through the UI?
As some other comments have already said. This looks like an edgy story.

I don’t think there was a star in Bethelem at all, most of the Bible is metaphorical, and a story of the of a culture, society, and religion.

The Bible cannot be interpreted as a historical book, but a faith one.
Careful now, you wouldn't want to "dehumanize" doctors, would you?
x86 assembly has two main forms, Intel’s own syntax that is also used by Microsoft’s MASM and other DOS / Windows assemblers, and an AT&T syntax that is traditionally used by Unix type operating systems, that is similar to PDP-11 assembly. Notably, source and destination are generally flipped amongst other differences.

Generally AT&T syntax is seen as a bit weird in the x86 realm, and there are some Unix assemblers like NASM that use Intel syntax.
Probably because no desktop OS I know of randomizes MAC addresses by default. How many people are gonna enable that manually? At least android (and I think iOS) default to random addresses
If by, "more efficient ... ICE engines", you mean, HEVs and PHEVs, I agree. They're not cheaper though.

Until EVs have matured more and become less expensive than ICEVs, PHEVs are the best option and HEVs are the second best option.

Also, the term, "ICE engines", is redundant.
It’s fun how a sorta absurd term like “reset the internet” now has an obvious meaning, usually resetting whatever access point type device is nearest the person resetting it.
Linked in the article, Somewhere in Dreamland [1] has been a staple "Christmas movie" in our family since my daughters were very young. Besides admiring the amazing animation tricks in the piece I like the song and the way it reminds me of my own childhood (wishing for those things I knew my mother could not afford). Very sweet.

[1] https://youtu.be/hSXo5EMY-vA
Iserlohn, Soest, Bruggen?