skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not foresee there being individuals who really hunger for acquisition of materials in that same way anymore as in the old days.

Why not? Putin has clearly expressed a desire to restore Russian empire, and is doing it.

> everyone is demanding the same type of lives and opportunities and freedoms that the free people of the West have, especially in the United States...so some places became less stable than others and needed to drum up nationalistic fervor

That's happening all over the world: Russia, US, UK, India, Hungary, Poland, Italy, Israel, China, etc etc etc. It doesn't seem tied to a desire for US lifestyle.

> the Internet and Democracy and the American Constitution have succeeded

Have the latter two been under more threat in decades? And under threat arguably from the first one?
Up here in BC it is 0.0975CAD/kWh for the first 1350kWh/2 months and then 0.1408CAD/kWh after - and BC Hydro is publicly owned and almost exclusively hydroelectric.
The fact is that most people aren't enthusiasts for every thing they participate in. And things like big super hero movies aren't targeting the cinemaphiles to begin with.

It's always unfortunate hearing commentors thinking "people are tired of Marvel" when seeing low sales for The Marvel's, when the reality is much more boring external factors like Disney+ cannabalizing sales and cinemas still not truly recovering from the pandemic.
Just wanted to say thank you, this is interesting to hear. Is there really no downside to unionizing? It seems too good to be true, or that it must come with some kind of catch. But enough people here have said nope, no catch, that I’m starting to reconsider whether it’s possible.
They literally had a Virgin company go bankrupt trying to do that as a business:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Orbit
You'll have to be way more convincing than this if you want anyone to believe that about Yann haha.
So...who isn't lacking the creativity? In fact, I would say techies are unreasonably gloomy because they grew up obsessing over sci-fi.
Planet Money did an episode about this, The Spiderman Problem: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1076531156/the-spider-man-pro...

Short story is that Marvel licensed Spiderman for cheap with a clause that Sony could keep the license so long as they produced a movie every N years.
I haven’t read anything “shit out” by any LLM that even nearly approaches the level of quality by the authors you named — would very much like to see something like that - do you have any evidence for your claims?

AFAICT current text generation is something approaching bad mimicry at best and downright abysmal in general.
I think you still need a very skilled author and meaty brain with a story to tell to make use of an LLM for storytelling.
Sure it’s a useful tool that will make authors more effective but we are far from the point where you tell the LLM “write a story set in Pratchetts Discworld” and something acceptable or even entertaining will be spit out - if such a thing can even be achieved.
> Most of my problems ended up being with the cheap soic clip I had bought. After buying a nicer one it flashed first try. If anyone wants a recommendation, the nicer clip was from pomona electronics.

I can +1 for that clip. Had similar issues pulling data off a flash chip. If `flashrom` could see it at all, each read would come back with a different `sha1` hash.

Spent _way_ too long fighting that before I had the "wonder if this cheap clip is the issue..." thought. The pomona clip is so much better made and holds on to the chip well.
Since my comments here some days ago I've now had time to follow your links in more detail and it's not only the info on Victorian Glass Fire Grenades that I've found interesting on YouTube's Our Own Devices but also the channel hosts a plethora of excellently produced videos that are both fascinating and diverse in topic.

I'd never come across Our Own Devices previously so I'm very pleased you posted the links as I reckon the channel ought to be more widely known to HN's audience. What's truly impressive about the channel is the sheer diversity of its subject matter and the depth in which each subject is covered.

From my limited search I find Our Own Devices is authored by a Canadian, a former mechanical engineer turned author by the name of Gilles Messier. What's stunning about Messier is that he has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the subject matter that he covers in his videos. Whilst that's not surprising of itself—as many YouTube-ers have a vast knowledge of their subject—what's amazing about Messier is the sheer diversity and range of his knowledge which spreads over many fields.

This became obvious to me when viewing Rotary Phones: the Call of History when Messier made
almost throwaway mention of a couple of obscure rather minor historical technical facts that would not be common knowledge to today's experts in telephony due to that they have been superseded and irrelevant for decades.

The only reason I know about them is because of my electronics background and that I'm considerably older than he is, thus I've accumulated historical knowledge that would be unfamiliar to younger viewers. Even then, the only reason that I'm aware of these facts is that I recall a decades-old conversation I had with a professional in telephony who mention them. (I won't bore you with the details except to say I wouldn't have expected Messier to be so very fluent and accurare in historical detail.)

Messier either has a photographic memory or he scrupulously researchs his topics, or both (he says he doesn't use a teleprompter when talking to camera so his memory must be excellent).

Every video I've watched on Our Own Devices I've found fascinating and informative, I always learn something new even with topics with which I am familiar. As a technology nerd I find this channel and Messier's presentation addictive.
I’m perplexed by this article’s argument, which seems to be that Graeber is somehow betraying “anarchism” by theorizing the state as ill-defined or non-monolithic, or questioning the concept of “inequality”. All of these arguments seem totally compatible with anarchism, especially the type of modernism-questioning anarchism that would stem from anthropology. To me it feels like the author is coming from an overly rigid or subcultural definition of the term that takes any straying outside its bounds as indication of closet liberal behavior or a radical shift in thought. While it’s possible that his late works were cryptically hinting at a new angle, the inconsistencies in his writing and behavior are also adequately explained by Graeber being merely human and not the ideal paragon of anarchist ideology.
People were running high power severs and databases on pentium 2s. Most cloud servers and programming frameworks) don’t exceed their performance.
GP says in comment to a post about regulations and paying a minimum wage to workers which I interpret they mean certain workers don’t have the right to worker protections because they work/want to work a sought-after job.
I think Bun is written in Zig. Is Zig stable as in 1.0.0, LTS?
Suddenly my exponential time algorithms don’t seem so bad anymore.
Hero woman saves baby after watching 3 others fatally electrocuted in attempt
@dang Was this post hidden? I can only find it through my history anymore
The animation in Castlevania is in fact very good.
The Soviets were military expansionists, aggressively threatening and preparing for conflict with NATO. They were moving nuclear weapons into Cuba.

NATO, as I pointed out, was trying to make Russia a trade partner even after they invaded Georgia and Ukraine, and to this day most countries can hardly fund their militaries (even though many individually have economies larger than Russia's and could fund larger militaries by themselves). NATO didn't conduct exercises, was very careful about putting forces near Russia's border - even on NATO territor, had no facilities in Ukraine (which has never been a member), and certainly didn't move nuclear weapons anywhere near Russia.
The arrow of causation — if there is any — likely goes in the direction of aged skin causing greater microbiome diversity, than microbiome diversity causing age related skin changes.
> While the vast majority of people in the Bitcoin space wanted to follow through with raising the limit,

[citation needed]

And even if it were true, there's very good reasons for not doing it that have been argued about at length. It's also curious the article has a section on "conflicts of interest" while the author is themselves a proponent of the big-block Bcash fork. The larger ecosystem has largely abandoned it since it compromises on the values of decentralization, defeating the theoretical purpose of using blockchains in the first place.
That's an insane level of bravery right there. To watch 3 people die trying to do the thing that she then decides to do. It's also insane how the same fate befell all 3 people who rushed to help: they slipped, and somehow contacted with the current. Tragic. But what a hero!
Probably not going to pan out well https://arxiv.org/html/2401.10020v1
Honestly if the bike lane is full of debris, or has a line of parked cars too close such that their doors swing open into it, just ride fully in the next lane over. A bike lane is a lane that can be used by bikes, not a lane that must be used by bikes. And in general the vast majority of the complaints about cyclists swerving too much can and should be addressed by riding further out aka taking the lane.
Every time I'm in Schaumburg I remind myself that it's ok to be bored. Just go the mall. Shop at Ikea. Shopping is simple, it's easy, mostly doesn't end poorly.

I might be tempted to perform elaborate stunts, but at what cost?

We should remember that we're human during these strange economic times.
>>> There have been many bad templating languages, but I think JSX is ok.

A bad templating language would be worlds better than JSX.... "JSX may remind you of a template language, but it comes with the full power of JavaScript".

JSX is javascript.

This is the very sin that PHP spent its early years getting thrown under the bus for.

IF you build a rich react app, and then figure out later that you need a bunch of static, partial static late hydration pages your going to be running node/bun in production to generate those because its not like you can hand JSX to another, performant, language.

And yes im aware of things like packed. The problem is JSX templates, to a large degree, are not compatible.

Code in templates was bad when PHP did it, when Perl did it, it's bad now.
You're just making statements, with no argument behind them other than a strawperson or two (it's 'bad'). Anyway, the arguments seem to have all been said.
Labor theory of value is quite controversial, many economists call it tautological or even metaphysical. I also don't really see what LTV has to say about AI art, if anything, except that the economic value generated by AI art should be distributed to everybody and not just funneled to a few capitalists at the top. I would agree with that. It's true that more jobs get created even as jobs are destroyed, but it's also true that just as our ancestors fought for a 40 hour work week and a social safety net, we should be able to ask for more as computers become ever so productive.
Flatnotes: Self-hosted note taking web app that uses Markdown files
I bet a lot of people are thinking "Why don't they do their own animes" but this neglects the reality that all distribution pipelines for any kind of media have been totally monopolized. The anime creator has zero bargaining power over the media monopolist.
Interesting. Using the RPi 5 as a benchmark, what if I was willing to spend $200? I guess what I'm wondering is how much you have to spend to get to that point.
I was told by the armchair generals on the internet that the infamous tank battle scene in the movie 'Fury' was totally unrealistic specifically because the opposing tanks fight at such close range.

Yet here we have a video from an actual war showing something very similar.
Or maybe synchronous should be the default.
I’m in a similar boat with the Pi 5 being the first I haven’t bought. I do have one of the VisionFive 2 boards, but I’m more interested in the Milk-V Oasis board that’s supposedly coming near the end of the year.

Software support for RISC-V isn’t as good yet either. I don’t know of any hardware that supports the hypervisor extension, there is no IOMMU spec today, many distributions don’t give it the same support as ARM64, etc. It is definitely improving rapidly, but I don’t think there have been any really compelling RISC-V SoCs just yet.
These are just opinions, there is no reason to imagine the phenomenology of qualia is so tightly coupled with creative work and/or making good conjectures. There is a lot of smoke…
Omitting dev dependencies in Go binaries
Ha. There’s already a large cohort of people that are not being paid fairly and/or working a job they don’t enjoy and/or don’t have a job.
"Search operators" as a term seems well established.
That isn't remotely the type of breakdown of any business I've never seen. Not even close.

I understand the point you're trying to make, but you'd be better off using real numbers to do it. I've never come across a business owner taking 45% of total income. Competition ensures those kinds of profit levels generally don't exist.
Really hard to dissuade people from passion.

From a different perspective: teachers. From most absolute criteria, teaching is a horrible profession. Significant credential requirements, lousy pay, hard hours, dealing with occasional rotten child/parent. Yet millions agree to do it because they want to impact the next generation.
I suspect you actually found good factual critiques, but decided to label them "quibbles".

The Fed issues the modern world's most important debt instrument, and has a structure and purpose that Graeber gets fundamentally wrong. The reason critics focus on this is that, if he's lazy and wrong about the modern world's most important debt instrument... in a book about "debt"... it's probably a good sign you can't trust the rest of the book.
If I insinuated that GraphQL is dead, that wasn't my intention. It definitely has fallen out of the spotlight, however. I'd point to e.g. looking at statistically how many APIs ran by major internet companies are available over GraphQL versus more traditional REST or RPC. Github is the only one that springs to mind, and its available in addition to a REST API.

Even Meta has a "Graph API" that is not GraphQL (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview) (they may have an odd GraphQL API here and there; I am not deeply familiar with the entirety of their offering, and I don't want to insinuate such; just that they don't seem to rave about it front and center if they do, and instead invented a second, separate thing).

I interact with a GraphQL API among much smaller integration partners maybe once or twice a year; versus dozens of REST APIs. They're definitely around, people definitely still use it (my company has one!), but arguing that its the standard way frontend APIs are written feels very detached from reality; and maybe you really are special.
> the arrest was lawful

He was arrested for political speech, which is ipso facto an unjust violation of his fundamental human rights and of natural law. Putin's Russia also has "laws" that justify the arrest of dissidents, doesn't make it OK. (And many of the other people on Lira's list were simply summarily executed, without any trial or other legal process)
This is super confusing considering the text in the article.
When I said "the intranet started to creep in" what I meant was that I noticed that content information (and later apps) that used to go into a Lotus Notes application was instead created by someone as HTML files, and put on a server somewhere on the intranet (often their local machine).

Writing a Notes app and getting manager approval could be a lot of hassle, so it was often far simpler to open a text editor, write some HTML, and share the local network path with fellow workers. In those days Windows machine on an intranet could have a dedicated URL, using a system called "WINS" I think

I think that writing static HTML websites then acted as the "gateway drug" to dynamic webapps further down the line.
Hahah! Well, I am already on the JS train. Deep on it^0 but I was thinking of switching. Seems you think that would be ill advised! Hahaha! :)

0: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox and https://github.com/00000o1
חחחחחחח is the only Hebrew one I've seen; I've never seen לול used in chats.
This is so cool! Is it too late to change the import name? I immediately thought of jquery when seeing "$".
Looks good, will consider it next time I need to create a complex shell script.
For creating cross-platform scripts in package.json I've settled on shx [1].

[1] https://www.npmjs.com/package/shx
One could reasonably define fair in terms of a nations minimum wage while discarding any nonsensical carve outs designed to appease particular industries, you could define it in turns of what it costs to live a reasonable life in the nation in question, and you could define it in turns of ratio of gross profit to income of average employee.

There are so many ways to define fair we could write essays on which method was most accurate and useful.

Free markets only exist in economics textbooks. Real markets unconstrained are always hopelessly broken. Bereft of rules most of the work would end up owned by a tiny number of companies who would agree what wages should be and agree not to hire each others workers. They would make access to all the most desirable work they control contingent on rules designed to strangle up and coming competitors in the cradle and gradually increase price to the absolute most the market would bear. Impoverishing the people who actually do the work would poison the pool of workers gradually destroying quality of content while companies increased prices to make up for lost profit and blamed piracy.

Capitalism is a toddler left on a rug with a cocked gun. The kid always finds the gun.
Link should be:

https://gitlab.com/fwojcik/smhasher3/-/blob/main/results/REA...

for results.

I'm surprised at this, but happy. There's obviously much faster 64-bit hashes, and I reckon with a bit of work they could be made into 128-bit hashes and blow away mine, but still, it feels pretty good. To see rainbow at No. 11 in the worldwide hash speed / quality rankings (especially when there's a few spots in the top 10 that are taken by the same hash at both 64- and 32-bit varieties), is truly an awesome feeling. I put a lot of work into developing it so it's great to see this recognition.

It wouldn't have been possible without Frank Wojcik (maintainer of SMHasher3) he helped a lot with my C/C++ code. He's really a genius and what he has done with SMHasher is phenomenal in terms of improvements and taking it into the future!!! :)
I would find it pointless to make music playlist on Youtube. Stuff gets taken down too easily, skits are prevalent, and theres so many accounts that just rip off music from other people. If it can't be on Spotify, I'm better off finding it on Soundcloud.
I’ve set a reminder for this date in 2049 to make sure ROI was achieved
The number I spend on music before Spotify was well below 120 per year. I would even attribute increased spending on festivals/concerts/merch on Spotify
Yes, building anything non-trivial in CL will show the discerning programmer that there is nothing new under the sun.
Food compagny buy from agriculture industry. They're the one getting the biggest cut.
This math is completely wrong with even a trivial napkin check.

They announced 2 million users with fewer than 4k sats in orbit (presumably even fewer serving).

Let’s assume 2 mil by 4k for simple math, which yields 500 users per sat.

However, the vast majority of the sats are not where the bulk of their customer base is (US and Europe) at any given moment. That means that the 5% of sats over user dense areas at any given point in time are capable of carrying 100% of the current load.

Stated differently, they have sats capable of serving the US user density sitting over every other country in the latitude bands of those orbits just waiting for licensing. I.e. User count could 10x on the current constellation if the growth is outside of the existing markets.
That’s just like, you’re opinion, man
>This is a giveaway you don't speak Japanese.

I can, but believe what you want. I don't have a need to prove it to others.

>Honorifics are not actually important or meaning-bearing.

This is plain wrong as there are scenes where honorifics are significant. Who uses (or doesn't use) which honorific with which people is important. Characters change the honorific they use with each other. Characters talk about what honorifics people are using.

>something that supposedly never happens.

Says who?

>if audiences expect this it means translators have to start translating some honorifics

Personally, I don't think they need to translate them. The actual meaning of it is usually not important and if it is it could be left up to the viewer or put in a TL note. An exception to this is certain usages of 殿, but this is usually handled by changing the phrasing of the rest of the sentence.

>You probably know さん but not 氏 or ちゃま

I do know them.
You skipped over the first clause of the sentence: "If you can't pay a living wage"
I can attest to the fact that anarchists are probably the most discriminated group in existence. Even a faint whiff of anarchism or the idea of reducing or decentralizing state or corporate power is a very bad career move.
> You will not find a single sucess story

certainly depends on the definition of success..
It's like UFOs right now: people want one clear, authentic photo showing flux locking or some other unambiguous evidence of RTSC, and that has not been provided.
A few more unique laughs I recall, in Russian:

Бгг: more of a guffaw, or a "heh"

Ржунимагу: "Laughing, I can't [stop]", close to LMAO or ROFL
What’s your logic here?
“BIOS Setup” is an actual boot menu entry.

Someone clearly thought that was a good idea, and I wouldn't be surprised if they thought the same of the bloated monstrosity that is UEFI. "Let's make the setup an EFI application" sounds like a reasonable argument, but they don't realise that it's a very important application, one which should be accessible under all circumstances short of having the BIOS erased.[1]

We're approaching 10 years since this happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5139055

And almost 8 years since this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11008449 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10999335

[1] Most if not all BIOSes on EEPROM (late 90s onwards) before UEFI had "boot block recovery" which would automatically detect if they were corrupt and attempt to recover by flashing from a specially formatted floppy disk.
It's table salt, rust, sand, and ceramic. It's not toxic in the least. Corrosive, yes. Breathing in silica is not good long term. But it's about as toxic as beach sand.
Genetic line =/= role to play in society.

Those are different things.
I swear, every ADHD post on hacker news, someone comes in here with this uninformed nonsense.

For those of you afflicted with this curse, lookup Dr Russell Barkley’s videos on YouTube. He’s retired now, but was a great ADHD researcher. Really helped me understand what was going on.
it's not funny, it's not obvious and it's wasting a lot of people's time. ha. ha. ha.
At full size it's super obvious - I made a side-by-side:

https://i.imgur.com/I6EQ05g.png
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