skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is a gem to help extract data from vBulletin Forums, specifically those which you have no control over.

https://github.com/lloydpick/vbulletin

This is a very old tool, it’s hard to say if it will work; then again, seems very relevant too so worst case it could provide an inspiration.
This is really not accurate in any way that matters I don't think. It's a mainframe in as much as you buy a rack and spec it out. It's not a mainframe in that the performance is typical server performance rather than the mainframe profile which is very different and requires different considerations, the compute model is typical server compute rather than the mainframe compute model which (aside from compatibility layers) is a radically different environment to build software for.
Only the Borg desire 1:1 human:x.
> why on earth choose a non-OO language for a boardgame

Lua has usually been a very popular choice for game developers. One reason is that it gives you an easy way to embed a scripting language in your game.

You can do OOP without classes [0].

> Can you please please please integrate with Python on the server?

You expect the developer to port and maintain their entire project to Python because you can't be bothered to learn a new programming language?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#Obj...
I remember back when these guys were doing AI writing before AI writing was a thing. Interesting to see them here now.
I would expect that platform risk would be even more significant than fees and time. I haven't looked into any of the popular prediction market platforms, but by default I would be more concerned about the risk of them resolving markets in ways I fundamentally disagree with or simply ceasing to exist.
I haven’t touched JVM in ages, but there are two things off putting about it.

First it’s viscerally slow. They have a state of the art GC, amazing benchmarks, tons of work going into performance, but it still feels slow and laggy when you develop on it. None of the other ecosystems you mentioned have that problem (including Python).

Second, they have a bad sense of design. The class library comes from a culture of needing three classes to open a file, and that culture permeated through the entire ecosystem. Almost all the software in it feels bloated and over engineered. The modal JVM experience is spending 95% of your time dealing with “enterprise-y” boilerplate that turns out to have nothing to do with the enterprise and everything to do with bad design decisions and the culture downstream from those. C++ has its own flavor of this problem, but certainly not Python or Go.
forum in a forum
What is the cost to improve the system so that it is an exceedingly rare occurrence?

It could be cheaper to pay the fines.
What is it in particular about truck driving that is so bad for your back? I hear this so often.

Please don't reply "sitting down all day". I have been doing that for more than 20 years in a comfortable office (mostly Hermann Miller Aeron), and my back is fine.

My guess: The vibrations of the truck are awful for your bones.
Because they run JS on main thread while react native tries to minimise it at all costs (only keeping rendering and animations, but not layouts for example).
16-bit CPU for Excel, and related files
Alzheimer's as a (transmittable) prion disease is the stuff of nightmares (prion disease == incurable)
Eligibility for this implant:

>Have quadriplegia (limited function in all 4
limbs) due to spinal cord injury or amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis (ALS) and are at least 1-year
post-injury (without improvement)

Even if all the problems you are talking about happen, I would venture a guess that the vast majority of quadriplegics would jump at the opportunity to use their arms and legs again, even if it meant an overall shorter lifespan or other complications.
Once you start doing 50+ mile rides all that tactility starts catching up to you. The benefit of carbon (if it’s good quality) is dampening vibration _without_ sapping power.
This is a forum in a forum, there is rules
`1. no being crazy
2. no swearing
3. dont do dumb sh*t
We've got to stop crafting a special world for children that is disconnected from the adult world. We should be moving in the opposite direction, lowering the voting age for example, allowing toplessness in appropriate places and allowing children in non-sexual adult spaces when with a guardian (like bars). How have we not yet learned that repressing kids is counterproductive?
This is a very weird thing to say when expo is literally one line installation and it does not require you anything to be installed (even XCode) on machine for most projects. It is literally 10x times easier than just writing in Swift.
Wow! Who do they think they are to ask for such ridiculous prices, Splunk?
My experience (n=1) is that current LLMs are just not good at prompting either themselves or other LLMs, and that if you have enough information to make a meaningful meta-prompt, you also have enough information to make a regular ol' prompt. I just don't think it's something that designers of current LLMs are prioritizing, so it's not very good at it.
> I like "What do you think?"

I like it too!

And I can't help but think getting into the habit of saying it -- it would help us get along much better with other people in our lives.
> we don't see spouses getting PD or AD often

Actually it may seem so [1], though still there is not any conclusive evidence to support a transmission hypothesis really as all this could be due to increased stress and such factors. Also, brain surgeons' increased risk of AD and more reports of associated risks with regard to contamination from brain operations [2] (similar to the article's ones) provide more indications that such a hypothesis is not completely implausible. Though also far from strongly supporting it or anything, as there is no proper experiment design with control groups etc to make better conclusions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2945313/
[2] https://www.medicaldesignandoutsourcing.com/report-suggests-...
My reading is that m-i-l is using "clickbaity" to mean "doesn't prevent all possible wrong conclusions one could draw from the headline". (In this case, the wrong conclusion would be thinking that because there exists cases of alzheimer being transmitted through some mechanism that Alzheimer was contagious.)

While it's certainly understandable that we are all tired of clickbait that purposefully misleads the reader, imo we should not overcorrect by demanding that headlines cannot be misinterpreted by arbitrarily ignorant readers.
Is Zero Even or Odd?
4% of adult US males from a study I read.

So ignore the ones that don't workout at all. Now probably ignore the ones just going through the motions at the gym and clearly aren't trying to achieve real muscle growth.

It stands to reason that if you see someone fit and with decent muscles, they're part of the group that might have taken them.

If it's 4% of all males, makes me think it's close to 25% of males with good amounts of muscles. Of course it's skewed by basically 90% of people with massive amounts of muscles taking them. But massive muscles alone doesn't make up 4% of the population.
Religion… it makes certain people think the world is full of bad people. While there are bad people, the vast majority of people are good people. Our policy here is to protect the children from X. Whatever X is at the time. Right now it’s wokeism.
Wow, if true, that is harsh. If you made a mistake at 18 or 19 years old, then you are condemned for life to never hold a CDL (commercial driving license). That doesn't see fair.
He said fit males. And he likely means, "visibly fit males".
Watch this video, it has more fleshed out details of the probable cause of the miscommunication: https://youtu.be/XhRYqvCAX_k
Because the CEO of the company is someone who says things publicly that aren't true?
> But even then, you bet 93 cents to win 7 and then pay 5% on cashout so it wasn’t exactly making people rich.

Don't forget the risk of the whole prediction market ceasing to exist or doing something blatantly fraudulent.
Until then maybe sell a few to schools to provision for student access?

A future of developers and CTOs who grew up with Oxide!
> People seem to be perfectly happy to trade future years of their life for present benefits.

Most humans will trade almost anything for reproductive fitness. It's what they're selected for.
> UI development is constantly pushing towards

Somehow it still ends with pop-ups and dark patterns.
Resouces, maybe. But they'll experience a refugee crisis in their lifetimes unlike any seen before, as well as potential food insecurity.
Video: People jumping a ten meter tower [video]
Caddy Embedded File System
The bill is pretty broad, with oddly specific carve-outs. I did not think that I would need to pay for a VPN service to avoid weird legislation in my state, but here we are.

The sad thing is that, with the exception of the occasional comment on Slashdot / HN and my LinkedIn profile, I'm barely active on social media anymore. Still, I'm not giving PII to sites that this bill considers "social media" sites, just to prove that I'm over 16. That's absurd.
Have an upvote, but I didn't mean what old chips you can get off the shelf right now. I meant what you could build with a budget and a chip factory. There are so many Verilog and FPGA implementations of Amigas to start from. (Related note: the Draco "Amiga compatible" ran AmigaOS and "well behaved" programs, even though it didn't have the custom Amiga chips, just the m68k processor.)

The Amiga is in a such a sweet spot, because you can do all "modern" things like web browsing, developing with an IDE, play movies and music etc etc, while still being very simple and easy to understand.

IBM PC clones win on the "easy to understand" front but they are clearly from a previous era. Amigas are somewhere in between...
I don't think it's worth cherry picking what they said.

They also said that it ends up there once the airline has exhausted all avenues for contacting them. Once an airline does that and a large period of time has passed, what else can they do?

Surely, there is a shared level of responsibility for the owner of the lost bags to at the very least to try retrieve them. It's not hard for anyone to contact an airline or an airport to query lost bags.

Now if someone has been contacting the airline and the bags cannot be found and the airline continues to sell those bags whilst the customer has been attempting to retrieve them then that's a problem.
I wonder if we will ever find methods of flushing the brain out or doing anything within the human brain that will allow us to defend against things like this.

I know our brains are very protected in our bodies and for good reason but I still wonder how far we will be able to go if we can ever safely and humanely bypass that.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/us-senator-blasts-m...
> [Fennel] also lacks Common Lisp's debuggability, given that it sits entirely within Lua's runtime.

I'm not sure exactly what feature the OP was referring to. It sounds like they don't think you can get a REPL for an executing Fennel process? You can. If you are only using it for AOT Fennel->Lua you can't, you have to include its runtime.
When Should You Sell? Twelve Rules Show the Way
16 seems too young. Why not tie it to drinking age. There are way too many people who have gotten better at online manipulation in the past few decades.
> The main reason WARC looks like it does is to be as recoverable as possible if the crawler hard-crashes.

I disagree on the recovery part. SQLite being ACID compliant, arguably offers better recovery than the WARC format.
Radioastronomy forums maybe. There are few active around and from my casual browsing I'd say a topic of this kind fits there. Those also seem like having userbase capable of answering such question with bigger depth than SWE/CS focused HN.

Other than that, physics/astronomy stackexchange also seems like a good place.
I agree with OP/OP/OP. Thanks for the initial point, breakdown and the entertainment :p

Can't wait for us to start seeing authentic 3d silicon tho. Gimme that 3mm^3 cube of magic. And beyond that, computronium.
Well, the chip in my head did most of the work, so I'm not sure I can take credit.
Even Windows was and is used substantially in embedded systems.
Drink tea
My Company Has Earned Its First Paycheck – Ludicity
There is a very rational argument for the population being expanded: we need the population pressure to push us to invest in launch cost reduction, space mining and colonization so it becomes feasible to move heavy industry and eventually the population into space to leave earth to recover. I would rather see earth become a pristine zoo than a tomb and reducing population only cuts a small subset of the risks of becoming a tomb and exacerbates others.
fwiw, I have a brother laser printers with chipped cartridges.

It's a 20 second job to remove the chip from the original and insert into the new cartridge. Completely agree it's not something that you should need to do, but at least it's an issue you can work around with a bread knife
There are mods, something which takes a Raspberry Pi and uses it as a video converter and makes an Amiga 500 have HDMI output. But I think the FPGA Amigas are also very cool.

https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI/wiki

There's also a mod where you put a raspberry pi on top of the CPU, replacing the 68000 7 MHz CPU with an emulated 68060 at something like gigahertz speed.
"The processor on Ingenuity is 100 times more powerful than everything JPL has sent into deep space, combined."

I think that's a bit exaggerated. The RAD750, which has been used for all sorts of devices, runs from 110 to 200 MHz, typically. A Snapdragon 801 is a quad core 32 bit CPU that can run up to 2.36 GHz. Even if the Snapdragon's IPC is twice that of the PowerPC, even if the Snapdragon is run at its full clock speed (which it certainly is not), and even if the comparison was with the slowest 110 MHz clock of the RAD750, that'd be a factor of 172 times faster.

I think that the person saying this is comparing the floating point throughput of the RAD750 and other CPUs sent in to space with the floating point throughput of the Adreno GPU built in to the Snapdragon 801. That's both misleading and not how things work. But I suppose it makes for catchy headlines, even if it's not factually correct.
If I didn't get paramount+ for free with my internet provider I would have no streaming. DVDs checked out from the library + Kanopy meets all of my requirements without some stranger watching everything I do over my shoulder.
Why? How is market competition or the public served by forcing a company to go out of business instead of being acquired? The end result is the same (no competitor), but overall productivity is hurt. Why is that better for the public?
See for example the 1979 story Newton's Gift, where a man is troubled by the thought that the scientific greats from hundreds of years ago had to waste months or years of their lives doing manual calculations.

So he invents a time travel machine, and goes back in time to give Isaac Newton a modern electronic calculator.

https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/262571/isaac-newto...
I agree it seems like a horror story from where we’re sitting, but at the same time, I could see how our conception of integrating brains with computers could become an outdated way of thinking. In the future uploading your mind to a computer might be a casual thing you do to play a video game.

Mind uploading has the same philosophical problem as....teleportation. That is why some people think Star Trek teleporters are actually death machine.

That's not the issue that the OP is concerned. He's concerned that the device will cause irreversible damage to the information substrate that is the brain.

The best analogy would be showing someone from the 17th century a modern prosthetic device. There is a realistic chance that they would hang you for witchcraft.

The problem with using analogies is that the logic might not apply. We can conceive or think certain things will be different in the future doesn't mean it will be.

For example, it is unlikely that we can travel beyond the speed of light, because the speed of light is the speed of cause and effect. You would need to show that cause and effect still hold when we travel faster than light or that our most fundamental assumption about reality is wrong.

The imagination of the 21st century and 20th century has explored the vast conceptual space of technology. It is unlikely that new technology 23rd or 24th century will likely get you hanged for witchcraft in the 21st century.
What is Asmodees business model and what does it have tondo with BGA?
My friends are all setting up Plex servers that we are sharing with each other.

It's like having constant access to your friends' media collections. Because it is.
Emphasis on paid. I do appreciate the business genius of identifying and capturing a market consisting of customers so inept that they can't get off Solaris even if you give them half a century to do it.
iRobot is getting left behind, technologically.

I'll omit the competitor that I use now. I'll just say that it has a base that empties the robot dust bin, refills the clean tank, empties the dirty water tank, washes and dries the mop. And the mop actually looks like something that resembles a mop (and rotates), it's far better than the 'swiffer' kind of thing that the Braava has, or that the J9 has. I don't see the same wet dirt issue because the navigation takes care of that.

It does have a camera and the parent company is indeed Chinese.

Neato is even worse and their robots aren't much better than they were 5 years ago. They started out really strong but any improvements were marginal.
Any writeups or video about that model? It's interesting about the concept of a breathalyzer locked door. I wonder if his model includes a public intoxication rest area accessible to such members, where they can safely recover and get service/advice.
Reminds me of a story about an allied sabateur working in occupied France during WWII. They were trying to convince someone that they were indeed the "real deal" and nothing was working until they agreed on a coded phrase to be played on the BBC radio. Only after hearing the message on the radio the next night was their identity trusted.
I’ll take one for my van.
Plus, it would be a violation of the Benthic Treaty with the Deep Ones.
Revzilla and Partzilla also had a long legal conflict over the *zilla name.
As a visual aid for readers, car who's doors open like \|/, not like [|]

https://youtu.be/0oV4IVy8tvE?t=66
'Dirt people'... I love the way that physicists sneer at other sciences. To quote Rutherford: 'All Science Is Either Physics or Stamp Collecting'.
Yep!

Most of my email? Junk and spam that I didn't sign up for.

Most of my physical mail? Junk and spam that I didn't sign up for.

Most of my cell phone calls? Junk and spam that I didn't sign up for.

Many of my SMS messages? Junk and spam that I didn't sign up for.

Why won't he answer his phone? Or respond to an email email or a letter? Because the government has completely failed at maintaining a trusted and not overrrun by spam communication channel of any kind in our society.
It's slightly vague over whether these are still traditional passbook accounts. Or if the passbook is now a symbolic token to make people comfortable.
Someone posted it earlier on HN, but I couldn’t find it.
Gen Z Never Learned to Read Cursive
I don't think it should be allowed for companies to provide financial products such as credit. That's bank domain, heavily regulated and with good protections for both parties.
Zero accidents in your career.
Poops and car break-ins. Either data science people are really bored, or SF provides some interesting data points.
This wasn’t just some DEI/ESG score based thing…

There were people who had the answers fed to them! I don’t care why it was done, doing this seems to be the real moment the entire diversity effort seems to have become a farce. It’s unacceptable manipulation of a candidate selection system that would obviously lead to some kind of repercussions.

This is classic “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” stuff. Everyone is trying to do the right thing, wanting to improve the situation where the FAA was the least diverse federal agency seems like a laudable goal, they didn’t just rush it, they took years to develop new processes… it just so happened that some people got too keen, forgot their own responsibilities and began to advocate to help diversify candidates using methods that go beyond what is acceptable OF ANY CANDIDATE. No one should be fed answers like that, I don’t care if your Black, White, Martian, or Italian, it’s cheating, it’s just cheating the damn selection process and it’s obvious a problem…

Separating this from the diversity issue is quite difficult given the history, but fundamentally it’s necessary to have a proper discussion about it. It’s not DEI as a concept that lead to this, it’s people who made decisions and conducted themselves in a way that had broader consequences than just helping make the FAA a more diverse workplace.
> the rest tried every trick in the book to get me to the dealership before they'd give me a price

would you be able to list those tricks? I'm currently car shopping myself.
how did you get them to give you a price without showing up?
I'm in agreement with you. I'm amazed at how many people that do I do can look at this myopic, sanctimonious rage bait and immediately start figuring out how to implement it with an encrypted token exchange.

This is still awful no matter how much crypto you throw at it. The end result of solving this little puzzle of a problem is that everything is worse shortly afterwards. Congratulations to them, I guess.
There's an interesting discussion to be had about informed consent in a medical context, and what really counts.

I think taking a maximalist view of "this person actually knows what they're signing up for" would lead to almost no one being capable of consenting to almost any treatment. Do you actually know the pharmacology of acetaminophen? Are you aware of all the possible complications of an appendectomy? Can you truly grasp the difference between a one in a thousand occurrence and a one in a million occurrence?

The minimalist view of "this person said yes and so the treatment is ethical" is of course, also fraught.

I'm reminded of the potential for COVID vaccine challenge trials. Tens of thousands of people signed up to be deliberately infected with COVID so that we could complete the vaccine trials more quickly, and in the process save far more lives. Medical ethicists ultimately prevailed in not allowing such trials for the vaccines, arguing that no one involved could truly consent given the unknown effects of COVID.

But what about all the people that didn't consent to getting COVID the old-fashioned way, who wouldn't have had they had a vacccine?

Should we let paternalism prevail over heroics?
> To be fair I have no idea how large an American penny is - it's not a very precise indication of size for anyone who's not American.

It is reasonably precise, at least "good enough for government work"—the size is federally specified https://www.usmint.gov/learn/coin-and-medal-programs/coin-sp... —just not familiar.
> They made the charging base out of some plastic that's impassible for the robot.

The _exact_ same problem Braava has. Whenever the wheels collect a small amount of dust, they slip too much and the robot can't climb. I actually added sandpaper to the base to help with the grip. Seems like such an easy fix; it's mind boggling that the same issue is present across models, for years!

> I bought a broom and mop. They're much less work.

Yeah, although, if you have pets, even a not so reliable robot will massively cut the amount of cleaning you have to manually do.
Yes the girl at 3:08 wants to go first but he has to anyway.

What a sexist world. She should have just pushed him while laughing. It would have been better for everyone involved