skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to add another one: I don't need a separate NodeJS (or whatever engine) service to build my service dashboard. Before NodeJS got popular, backend engineers like me simply put web assets into a folder in my web app, so my service will have an admin page or a dashboard for per-node administrations. For some reason, such practice has become a taboo. My engineers have been insisting that they set up a separate NodeJS service just to build even a simple admin page. But I fail to see why. The reasons I got are usually these three: 1) a NodeJS service gives us optimized performance, though techniques like server-side rendering; 2) a separate service is easier to scale; 3) a separate service offers separation of concerns. However, 1) and 2) are premature optimization to me. All I need is standardized per-node admin page for my service. The QPS is probably one per day by a human. Why would I care about SSR or scalability at all? And 3) is quite hand-wavy. On the other hand, the overhead of managing a separate service as well as the dependencies brought by NodeJS' ecosystem seems high.

So, what's wrong with the old way of having embedded web assets in a service for building simple admin pages?
A great analogy indeed - ai, as moon life, turned out to be false alarms.
XP wasn't really dumbed down, just more colorful. You could turn off the colorful theming if you wanted to.

Meanwhile, Windows 2000 predates consumer Wifi, so there's no UI in the operating system for connecting to networks.
DirectDraw did accelerate blits, but only simple cases, and even then only if the hardware and drivers supported it. Hazy memory is that accelerated blit support was sketchy for pre-3D GPUs, especially stretchblts. It also had significant overhead for drawing small sprites. DirectDraw was critical for video players at the time due to being much faster than GDI and even sometimes Direct3D.
Re-reading, my tone in the first sentence sounds rather hostile. I apologise for that. I have no ill intent, the joke was likely funnier in my head.

FrameOS is also targeting 60+FPS LCD and other screens, which will be hard for ESP to run. Thus it's for the raspberry. I'd love to scale it down though, and deliberately chose Nim so that it would at least be theoretically possible.

I also need to get doom running on it...
Some people may act on Ben Shapiro's ideas, and that would put other people in danger.
It will probably increase the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere, which will lead to further warming as water vapor absorbs the heat radiated by Earth.
Show HN: ClubCompy returns with the Saturday Morning Code-toon show [video]
Greetings HN,

I demoed ClubCompy.com here way back in 2011, well ... I’m pleased to say it’s back, I hope you and your kids love it. https://clubcompy.com

I want to promote it over the next year with a Saturday Morning Cartoon and Coding show, and my first episode is going to get going in about 10 minutes. (Yes, I know it’s Sunday and probably no longer morning.)

Please watch and enjoy, we’re hacking a madlibs program in the new and improved Comfy Computer Language.

I’ll try to check comments here during downtime, but I might not be able to respond until afterwards.

Here’s the YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt7AqBOy_Ls
To me the word 'defective' in this context implies a manufacturing defect, or some kind of degradation in performance beyond that which would typically be expected through normal use. My point is just that the batteries were not defective in that sense.
I see you missed the big skip button in the bottom right
> I never claimed that what he did with Twitter is problematic (though it's very problematic)

oh yeah, when you said his behavior around X raises the visibility of him it was ambiguous as to whether or not you were claiming it was problematic.... oh wait, no it wasn't, here's the quote

> What we gained, though, is better visibility on one of the most toxic, wretched humans currently on our besieged Earth.

No reasonable person reads that and thinks to themselves "man, I wonder if this person has an opinion on Elon Musk and whether it's positive or not!".

As I've said already, my point is that anyone who was aware of his pedophile comments but drew the line at twitter has their priorities wrong and anyone who is not aware of his pedophile comments but is aware of twitter also has a perspective problem.

You yourself are in entirely too deep, I suspect this is like porn for a certain personality, hence the amount of time you seem to be spending on Elon.

Personally, I found his claim that remote work was immoral to be more problematic than anything he did at twitter. twitter was bog standard buy company, institute cost saving measures, move on. But some people were so enraged at him re-instating Trump's account that here we are now, with someone spending an unfathomably large amount of time worrying about someone who has no real effect on their life.
Which like, seems entirely rational? You're a sales team pursuing a deal with an 8-9 figure outcome, of course you would buy a billboard on on the decision maker's commute, it's a rounding error expense.
> This just happened to me a few days ago: Apparently the Web 3 crypto-bros get huffy when

Or the crypto-bros know it's a scam, but want to be the scammer, and you're the heckler who is scaring away the new marks.

Which is potentially different than a mark who is in denial.

Though I'd guess a lot of people are arguably in both Venn diagram bubbles: they're consciously trying to be a scammer, but they're also useful idiots for the much bigger scammers (and quite possibly also fleeced on the way out).
> %0.002 of the world's population magical thinking,

Phew, thought you were going somewhere else with this. Close call.
Page limits force you to focus. As a researcher, you are often expected to communicate your ideas in 1 page, 3 pages, 10 pages, or 30 pages, for various purposes. If a journal asks for a 10-page paper, you write a 10-page paper. If a conference asks for a 1-page abstract, you write a 1-page abstract. Most people reading a paper are not interested in going through all the details, and those details should usually not be in the main paper.

It's also easier to find reviewers for short papers than for long ones.

Some the issues you mention are specific to CS conferences. Because there is only time for 1-2 rounds of reviews, the reviews focus more on accepting/rejecting the paper and less on clearing any misunderstandings before judging it. Conferences are are also more likely to have one-size-fits-all page limits, while journals often have several catagories of papers with different expectations of length.
Well it's my religious belief that being buried on the moon is the highest honour you could get.

What now?
> installing Windows from scratch is still pretty slick

Non-technical folks might be able to click their way through the installation but in the process every anti-privacy setting you can think of will be turned on by default because you have to really go out of your way and click dark-pattern-enabled links to opt into a few settings that help protect your limited privacy when using Windows.

In some cases you have to either disconnect your internet or purposely fail logging into a MS cloud account multiple times before you're allowed to login to your personal computer with a local account.
I feel like you have it backwards? I'm not offended by the words. It's the people who are reusing the words and ignoring where they got them from that have given them power. I'm saying we should choose the social norm of not giving Trump and his way of thinking and acting power, by, among other things, not emulating it.

It doesn't feel analogous to what you're saying about slurs, to me.
Sure, but we should still be able to have nice things, even if the one in a million weirdo exists.
>> Since someone incapable of writing such a paper is probably unsuited for a PhD

> I very much disagree with this.

Your disagreement is justified. I phrased that poorly. I meant it as a shorthand for "incapable of being trained to write such a paper". Showing that you already have the skill is proof, everything else just points to the possibility with varying degrees of accuracy.

I in turn disagree that "the purpose of schooling is to train people", at least if "schooling" refers to PhD programs. I think it's more that there aren't enough applicants who are able to perform without extensive training, so in practical terms PhD programs need to be willing to provide training. But at the same time, it's perfectly understandable that they would prefer to take applicants who have demonstrated ability to perform over those with statistical potential.

I'd prefer something like "The purpose of PhD programs is to advance the field". I'm personally in the odd category that I've co-authored several computer science research papers despite having dropped out to become a programmer prior to my BA. I've demonstrated my ability to perform much of the role of a PhD while simultaneously demonstrating that I perhaps shouldn't be relied upon to finish!
I am as pro-solar as can be, and am thrilled by the decreased costs and increased installation.

I think every building where possible should have solar on it. Carports, agrivoltaics, etc. It's a no-brainer in addressing climate change, reducing energy costs, and more self-sufficiency.

But not all the world has such solar profiles and there are also (addressable) issues with solar (storage, grid integration). This isn't a "pick one" problem. It's about feeding an energy hungry planet without cooking it, and every non carbon source should be embraced.
I’m making two distinct but related points:

1. Windows 2000 was visually like the 9x series. XP introduced a whole new and very memorable look, subjective opinions aside. Even if you used Windows 2000 in your workplace, it was visually non-distinct from the Windows 98 you’d have at home.

2. Windows 2000 was for business use. Windows XP unified the segments.
So it’s the NSLTSC now… the not-so-long-term servicing channel…
New antibiotic has in the battle against deadly, drug-resistant superbugs
This one is my favorite. Just a series of switches. Run it after a large update. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Only this time with big data. And much harder to save your own recording of your favorites for when they inevitably get yoinked from one streaming service and you have to wade through a hundred others to find them.
Also mind that even when paying the additional $3/month, it's not completely ad-free, as Freevee content will still show ads.
There is a very interesting project on this exact problem called Maia, which trains an engine based on millions of human games played on Lichess, specifically targeting varying levels of skill from 1300 to 1900 Elo. I haven't played it myself, by my understanding is that it does a much better job imitating the mistakes of human players. https://maiachess.com
There are no invariants because biology has an (effectively) infinite number of feedback loops that cross temporal and spatial scales.

As a computational biologist working on human health, I've started referring to my various approaches as "causal enrichment", because I don't expect to find causality in a clean way. Tweaking some feedback loops are more likely to result in a desired outcome than others, but only probabilistically.
> [...] most of the really great discoveries which had ultimately proved to be beneficial to mankind had been made by men and women who were driven not by the desire to be useful but merely the desire to satisfy their curiosity.

> "Curiosity?" asked Mr. Eastman.
"Yes," I replied, "curiosity, which mayor may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the outstanding characteristic of modern thinking. It is not new. It goes back to Galileo, Bacon, and to Sir Isaac Newton, and it must be absolutely unhampered.

"Curiosity" goes back to a few centuries ago, and in Europe? Short-sighted and eurocentric.
Amazon was already being scummy by locking some movies behind their ad service, even if you have Prime (and mixing them in with your normal selection).
It is also building more coal plants than anyone else.

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
Tremendous, thanks for sharing this fact.
That’s only a big deal if nuclear was going to play a major role in the future, but the world seems to have decided on PV in a big way. The world is adding the equivalent of more than 100 nuclear reactors worth of PV solar per year even adjusting for differences in capacity factors. (~30% vs ~70-90%)

China gets roughly 5% of it’s annual electricity from nuclear, 5% from solar and increasing rapidly, 10% from wind, and 15% from hydro. It’s a token investment in nuclear that only seems huge because they produce ~30% of the worlds electricity.

PS: Also, don’t forget about the defense industry. We’re maintaining nuclear expertise even if the civilian industry fails.
Popular science has failed
Please don't start flamewars. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38899916.
> Colleges can say they're not penalizing White or Asian students just giving Black and Latino students a boost.

They cannot do this (legally) in the wake of the SFFA decision by SCOTUS.
Apple I believe says this in their contracts but in California (idk if this worker was in CA) it’s illegal to prevent employees from working on projects on personal time using personal resources, aside from maybe carve outs for competing things. It actually really sucks that apple acts like workers can’t moonlight, I’ve had some friends who didn’t do it out of fear of retribution despite it being enshrined in CA law.
"Folks often try on these arguments: it'll cost too much (to save all our lives). Or 'it got terribly hot before so somehow it's natural and ok'."

This is a straw man argument. I didn't say it costs too much, I was stating options for how and where money may be better spent.

And if you haven't observed yet that the free market - save for regulatory capture - is far more efficient than government at most efficiently distributing resources where needed, then "you" aren't paying enough attention.
Not the case for fusion https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Germany-plans-massiv...
What if you don't like comic book movies?
I wish UI designers understood this simple rule: only animate/add a transition if I would have been waiting for a different reason anyway.

If there's a genuine delay before you can complete showing me something, then sure, animate away. If you can render what I want to see instantly, don't make me suffer through an animation for it.
I was going through some of my old projects and saw one that used this webrtc library. I remember at least at the time (3-4 years ago) if you wanted a webrtc communication channel outside of the browser there were really only two options. One was from Google [1], which is used in both chrome and firefox, and the other one was this c library.

I recall it took me a week to figure out how to properly compile Google's implementation (which uses the bazel build system) as a static or dynamic library to link to. Even then, I think I couldn't get it below something like 50MB. I don't remember the exact binary size but it was so large that I either had to give up using it or give up calling my app "lightweight".

Later I learned that there was also another great implementation written in Go [2] but obviously not feasible if the rest of your project is not in Go.

[1] https://webrtc.googlesource.com/src

[2] https://github.com/pion/webrtc
Look i use FreeBSD as my mainsystem (for Desktop, Laptop and Servers) and you are totally right, Wifi (max 2.5 mb/s) and not being able to regulate the fans on a GPU are it's biggest faults. I mean i can even play Elden Ring on FreeBSD (Wine) with a ps4 controller...for 4 minutes until my AMD-Card overheats...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00332747.1952.11...
This is the way I ended up going and it worked great.
I agree it's pseudoscience. But trying to psychologically profile your mark before talking to someone is still weird and creepy. This is far more than seeing if a chick is receptive to being picked up at a bar on a Friday night. It's seeing her at a happy hour a week earlier and then planning for the rest of the week all the strategies to get her to go home with you on Friday, including stalking her social media, following her around to determine her grocery times, etc.
Like the personal issues Linux fanboys have with Microsoft, Apple and Google?

Threads are written not spoken, if you don't want to read them press PgDn.
And yet not enough people are aware of.

For readers of this site, I think it should serve as a reminder, that when designing systems, that people's name as it appears on official government documents may not be their name, and we should take care to have the systems we build recognize that.
I'm not sure that the Earth as-a-sphere/as-a-projection is the best practical example. It is not isomorphic, which is a pretty strong requirement for representations that are not local mappings. For this reason, useful representations of the Earth that are not spheres tend to be homeomorphisms, like projections onto a cube, or embeddings.

The fact that projections are both popular and not isomorphic is a source of continuous pain when dealing with Earth-scale geospatial data models.
"Was" the whole point, of course.
Better article here:

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Chinese-HTR-PM-D...

> "The HTR-PM features two small reactors (each of 250 MWt) that drive a single 210 MWe steam turbine. It uses helium as coolant and graphite as the moderator. Each reactor is loaded with more than 400,000 spherical fuel elements (‘pebbles’), each 60 mm in diameter and containing 7 g of fuel enriched to 8.5%. Each pebble has an outer layer of graphite and contains some 12,000 four-layer ceramic-coated fuel particles dispersed in a graphite matrix."

Note that Chernobyl was graphite-moderated and water-cooled, but hot graphite and steam is a bad combination, tending towards the generation of (explosive) hydrogen and carbon monooxide gases during loss-of-coolant type accidents. The helium coolant avoids this process, and can sustain higher operating temperatures so has industrial uses, somewhat ironically in the petrochemical sector:

> "The major purpose of HTR-PM is to co-generate high temperature steam up to 500℃ and electricity. It is cost effective currently in the Chinese market to supply steam and electricity for the petrochemical industry to substitute the burning of natural gas and coal."

It seems like a pretty safe design with some unique capabilities, although it'd be interesting to see the total cost-per-pellet inputs (each 6 cm pellet generates as much power as 1.5 tons of coal prior to its retirement, but manufacturing each pellet is probably not that cheap).
I keep a supply of those. Both the "Hot" and the "insane" (I think they call it 4X hot) variants. They are great. I also found that they sell the sauce in bottles.

It works to mix one packet of those with 100% of the sauce with some other unspicy or plain ramyun to tone it down a little an avoid wasting any of the precious sauce packets.
Yeah though that was also the period before wide spread internet use, and when operating systems cost significant money to upgrade to . 2000 was $319, or over $500 today. That’s more than the cost of a full console or even some PCs.

So you’d REALLY have to be into the OS scene to look it up, or care enough to buy it.
You don’t, but why ship broken features at all?

If I can install something from the OS it shouldn’t come broken and insecure.

It just feels like such a strange platform to build a server on to me.
They have a lovely map, with huge, print quality images available: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5073

I get to stay home to see this one.
Why Probabilistic Linkage Is More Accurate Than Fuzzy Matching for Data Deduping
A concrete example of what goes wrong with Apple's docs
Seems like this relates to many other areas of human interaction, politics comes to mind for one ...
They're probably just angry because there's no obvious path with BYD for them to provide kickbacks and become a board member after their 'public service' stint.
Local heating.
Did you happen to try Arch?

I only ask because I too had audio issues with Ubuntu LTS and Debian (both stable and unstable in hopes to get newer packages) in the past. I never got past the problems I had so I reverted back to Windows but if I go down that rabbit hole again I'd likely try Arch just to see what happens.
The laptop is a Gateway MX8711. I tried the Exe-Gnu 64bit live-USB and it refused to boot, so I shrugged and booted it into the 32bit flavor. Inherent or model-specific (or offended at only having 2G DRAM to play in), it wasn't worth my time to chase down why, not for an ancilliary machine.
Here you go

https://archive.ph/Cfzgy
Personally, I use neovim and markdown for everything.
Sales Analysis of GVP Hardware for Amiga Computers
> If you look at the amount and cost of content over the last decade it was clear it was unsustainable. The amount we all were paying vs. the amount of content was/is staggering. We were in a content golden age.

Nonsense.

You know what actually had a staggering amount of content? Disc-based Netflix.

They had and made available damned near everything.

I’d happily go back to slower (legal) access to damned near everything rather than stay with the status quo of heavily fragmented fiefdoms, each ever more enshittified and with comparatively narrow selections of stale low-value crap available on-demand.
There's another strong possibility: that a court rules that its fair use if the output is not sold (directly). That would be a positive outcome.
1. Being on the front lines of the Cold War, in the event of a hot war, most nuclear weapons would be used in West Germany. (Yes, weapons aren’t power plants, but they can be hard to separate in popular discourse.)

2. Plans to build a nuclear power plant at Wyhl were opposed by locals, who occupied the site, and were forcefully removed by police. This was broadcast on television and helped galvanize the anti-nuclear movement.

3. The Chernobyl accident led to fallout being deposited on German soil, which furthered opposition, and in my view, was the killing blow.
After watching the above which gives one an idea of the Erlang System's capabilities, watch this presentation by Bryan Hunter where the design and architecture of a complete distributed and fault-tolerant Erlang/Elixir system is shown; You get to really see the mind-blowing power of the Erlang System in this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4
how many addressing modes are there? in my mind, CISC vs RISC is more about the vast array of addressing modes on CISC vs load/store on RISC, rather than the actual size of the ISA

probably worth comparing to early MIPS or SPARC instead of modern ARM with extensions?
GOOD spell and grammar checking for emacs. What's builtin is not very good.
I learn to use the tool at hand.

I don't complain that it's hard to give myself a manicure with a chainsaw either.
You’re describing Unix philosophy basically, right? While I like it I think it doesn’t scale past certain point - think about cases like companies finding they have trouble maintaining a system made up of tons of bash scripts (most config driven systems e.g. CIs fall into this).

Same applies to SaaS IMO.

> ultimately never find their place

Here’s a few counter examples:
- Clickup
- Notion
- Datadog
- Amplitude

I feel like they have found their place quite well.

In fact there’s an industry trend in 2020s of SaaS consolidation over to “vertical SaaS” that just does everything in one tool.

Happy to be proven wrong and hear some counter examples btw, this is just my theory based on what I’ve observed in b2b saas world over past 10ish years