skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some much larger fines have been levied recently.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-fines-three-pirate-radio-op...

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-35-million-fines-m...

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-40000-fine-pirate-...
Retrowin32: Minesweeper and the Four Month Bug
Possible that they are unable to distinguish between bullshit and reality? It would somewhat excuse their own bullshit: they may not know they are bullshitting.
Down 34% YTD though.

And Twitter has been written down over 70% since the acquisition. My point is just that the layoffs arguably did nothing to help, and may have hurt their ability to execute and thus cost them some big opportunities. "They didn't completely implode" isn't "success," any more than becoming blind and paraplegic by choice is "success" because you're still alive.
> “Believing it’s possible is the most important thing...”

I haven't been in the Old Country for a few decades now, so maybe there's an even more American phrase to utter, but I can't think of one.
Aren’t you forgetting that Russia / China can just play this game too - at least to the extent of putting some nukes in orbit that can just drop on their target in minutes and wouldn’t be intercept-able?
This is the approach I used for my prototype (thanks to Carl!) and it does function.

However, since the area is quite "edge case" (rarely developed in public), there remain challenges in balancing the electrical and control requirements with physical requirements, electromagnetic density, part selection, manufacturing process and cost.
Agree. I used tweaked BlackBerry ROMs for a couple years before getting my first Android device, an HTC One M7 with Android 4.4 KitKat. Spent loads of time getting all the tools working to modify ROMs, bootloaders, recovery/TWRP, and squeeze every drop of performance out of that phone. Then went "backwards" to an iPhone 4S and have been rocking stock iPhones ever since.
Yeah I've got to say I'm not sold on OP's whole "let's embrace chaos!" approach.
Thanks for the correction. That appears to be right, but Windows allows it.
It's not a replacement for the cost of operating existing gas and coal plants; building up new solar capacity enables you to burn less gas or coal at the times when the sun is shining and thus cut its fuel costs, but it does not enable you to shut down the plant and cut any its other operating costs, because you still need the same capacity for e.g. winter evenings when at peak daily consumption there is zero sunlight.
> Not everyone can drop $2k on a laptop

That's what most laptops used to cost back in the 1990s or so (after adjusting for inflation). If you look further back in time, hardware was even more expensive - and it couldn't even do 10% of what a modern MacBook does. Modern hardware is ridiculously cheap.
It was amusing that this story and the key fob story were on the front page at the same time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39701931
Eating raw mushrooms parents risks.
Finder is the same crap software it's always been. Windows Explorer has always been better. Nobody except the nerdiest of nerds would want to use the terminal for "moving files around".

>Safari is snappy and the least memory-hungry of all. What is it about?

MacOS is a memory hog in itself. Safari is the laughingstock of browsers, so behind the times and purposely crippled by Apple.
Thank you for catching this! Indeed its not a bug.
I think an alternative approach would be to have some sort of woven fabric loop that can have raised braille dots stitched into it from the right side and then the loop is pulled to the left. So it would read like one of those scrolling LED banners except it would be a fabric belt with raised dots.

Maybe the simplest approach mechanically would be to have Nitinol wires running vertically, parallel to the 'weft' thread. To print a single letter in Braille would require stamping two Nitinol wires to render the raised dots in the correct positions, and then feeding the fabric belt to the left. On the return side, hidden underneath the display, the Nitinol wires could be returned to their original state.

Alternatively, any technique that could raise a knot in the fabric which could then be easily released would be worth pursuing. That could be as simple as something that pushes a loop up (for a braille dot) through the fabric belt and then pulls it back out on the return trip.
There are new generations of cash poor tinkerers though, including the 3rd world.
I've wondered from time to time why I never could find it within myself to become a street preacher.
And you can drop it and lose the $2k in one single second. You can insure against that but it costs another small fortune.

TCOs are great calculations for companies but don't work for individuals.
Livecodes.io: open-source, client-side code playground for 80+ languages
Discussed yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39718230
In the United States, I think that permitting, interconnection queue backlogs [1], and political efforts to protect legacy coal against cheaper competition [2] are the biggest obstacles.

That said, the US had its best-ever year for solar deployment in 2023, and this year is projected to be even better: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61424

[1] https://www.utilitydive.com/news/grid-interconnection-queue-...

[2] https://montanafreepress.org/2023/06/03/the-battle-for-clean...
Yes. Everyone knows that. But that doesn't uninstall the application. It just deletes the top files. It doesn't remove any caching or configurations or other files in other parts of the system like a Windows uninstaller does. To do that on macOS, there are third-party apps that provide this functionality.
High schoolers win $1.8M for research on AI, cancer, and math optimization
Well that's exciting :)
What is your preferred hardware and flavor of Linux for this? I'm trying to do the same
That would be an interesting experiment!

I'd also be curious how text rendering performance changes if the tokenizer could be made aware of quoted strings and instead tokenizes the contents as characters instead. Surely someone has tried this, (right?) but I haven't seen it in the literature.
Whether you want to kickstart a fresh journal, streamline your grocery list, stay on top of new habits, or keep tabs on household tasks, our user-friendly tools are designed for everyone, regardless of technical expertise.
This is the main motivation behind learned "steering" query optimizers: even if a DBA finds the right hint for a query, it is difficult to track that hint through data changes, future DB versions, and even query changes (e.g., if you add another condition to the WHERE clause, should you keep the hints or drop them?). Turns out, with a little bit of systems work, ML models can do a reasonably good job of selecting a good hint for a particular query plan.
What are you even talking about? Copying folders on Winfows just works. Please explain.
In the 90s most people didn't have a laptop for that very reason. They just owned desktops which were way cheaper.

I studied computer science then and I knew 1 student out of 50 that had an actual laptop. Even at the uni we had to use their computer rooms full of desktops and X terminals.
I’m one of the rare people who doesn’t have an issue with wearing vr headsets for great lengths, but I suspect that’s because I strengthen my neck for jiujitsu and that bleeds over into endurance with headsets.

Too much to ask for the average user, but the problem can be mitigated by the individual.
> for a fixed tiny price similar to the price of a coffee.

Do your coffees cost $197? You might be drinking liquid gold.
I was being exceedingly conservative to strengthen my point.
I started my developer career on Hackintoshes many years ago.

No matter how much time I invested into building my desktop, it never "just worked". There were always inevitable problems with software updates, which often meant you had to re-image the system from scratch to install a new OS version. Which happened quite often, when you needed it to run the latest Xcode.

Then there were a lot of minor annoyances over the years, like crashes and graphical glitches with certain apps, like Photos or Preview, problems with monitor resolutions and refresh rates, and many, many others.

Ultimately, they were a useful tool for a time, but they suffered from death by a thousand cuts in terms of practical usability. So, I bought a basic Mac Mini as soon as I was able to, and never looked back.
I really don't understand where the nostalgia for XP comes from. Well, actually I think I do because a lot of home users probably didn't use NT4 and 2k and went straight from 98/ME to XP. But I remember all the ridicule that XP got for being such a terrible bubblegum OS X imitation, with required activation, and a bunch of stability and driver issues that were eventually ironed out. XP after Service Pack 2 was also rock solid, and probably still the best choice for a retro gaming PC because it's got decent hardware and software support and the activation has been worked around.

But yeah, I used every Windows version since 3.11 full-time, and 2k was perfection - literally can't think of any downside to it.
My experience is that English speakers are terrible at knowing how many syllables there are in a word. I think it has a lot to do with how our vowels are. Some vowels like /i/ tend to get their own syllable in places where most languages would blend it into an adjacent vowel and maybe make it into /j/. Other times what we think of as a single vowel is actually 2-3 vowels.
> Incidentally it's the exact same journey with my cars. 35 years ago I was fixing something on my car most weekends. Now I just want to turn the key and go somewhere.

This resonates with me as well. As a teenager with my first car I spent a lot of time tweaking its appearance, sound, performance, etc., buying what little I could from local auto parts stores. I couldn't wait to get older to have more money so I could do more mods and really make the vehicle how I wanted it.

In the back of my head I wondered why older folks didn't do this though. They have these nice vehicles but they're bone stock! Why not new wheels, tint, a tasteful lower, etc.?

Then I myself got older and found it just isn't as important as it used to be. I still have a slightly modified car, but I'm not rooting around inside the dash with a soldering iron like I once did, haha.
It does include those rules, just towards the end of the page. I do think it would have been clearer to mention that Renju is based on Gomoku upfront.
I assume this video: https://youtu.be/MO0r930Sn_8

Even from within the first few seconds you can tell Feynman is already annoyed with the interviewer. It's possible that there is some history here: there may have already been a long run of questions and he's now become tired of it.
Oh my word. As a kid I frequently would get home from school to hear "Hall of the mountain king" in 8-bit glory and find my mother on the zx-spectrum belonging to me and my brother playing manic miner.
Ah yes, great automation comes by defining more manual rules.
ya, if they're fresh, good oil oxidize fast, sadly
Exactly when has he fed Ukrainian positions and plans to Russia? The only headlines that show up on searching are about document leaks where the only thing that Musk had to do with them was that he tweeted in response to the news.
Amazing book !
When you're young you have all the time, all the energy, but none of the money.

When you're an adult you have all the energy, all the money, but none of the time.

When you're a retiree you have all of the money, all of the time, but none of the energy.

A generalisation of course, but quite apt!
I would be very surprised if the vast majority, as in 80-100%, of DAWs and VSTs don't use OpenGL.
Yes, time is limited, and these days I have new hobbies. For cars, and computers, it's a bit of been-there-done-that.
Thoughts on the UX of news dot Y Combinator
I wanted to know what the general consensus was about the ask.ycombinator user experience being neglected or bare bones when compared to the main website..

I understand that both websites have different target audiences, but I'm sure we could all appreciate a better UI.

What design changes would you like to see on this website (if any) or how do you generally feel about it's current state? Thank you to anyone who takes the time to answer
Is there "open hardware" in this space? Someone was selling laser-cut frames and sofas that you assemble, which made me wonder if anyone has gone whole-hog and created reasonable open designs for laser-cut, diy sofas.
It's really hard to say why this is happening without EXPLAIN ANALYZE (and even then it may not be obvious), but it very much seems like the problem with correlated columns we often have with LIMIT queries.

The optimizer simply assumes the matching rows are "uniformly" distributed, because limit is costed as linear approximation of the startup/total cost of the input node. For example, consider this made up query plan

Limit (cost=0.0..100.0 rows=10)
-> Index scan (cost=0.0...10000000.0 rows=1000000)
Filter: dept_id=10

The table may have many more rows - say, 100x more. But the optimizer assumes the rows with (dept_id=10) are distributed in the index, so it can scan the first 1/100000 if the index to get the 10 rows the limits needs. So it assumes the cost is 10*(0+10000000)/1000000.

But chances are the dept_id=10 rows happen to be at the very end of the index, so the planner actually needs to scan almost the whole index, making the cost wildly incorrect.

You can verify this by looking how far the dept_id rows are in "order by created_id" results. If there are many other rows before the 10 rows you need, it's likely this.

Sadly, the optimizer is not smart enough to realize there's this risk. I agree it's an annoying robustness issue, but I don't have a good idea how to mitigate it ... I wonder what the other databases do.
The sole purpose of these types of questions is to allow the questioner or others to push their products.
That's the problem with some of the best sales people: They are technically not lying because they _actually believe the bs they're telling you_.
The page does cover forbidden moves, and in a later tutorial mentions the starting position

"""
What you learned so far actually is not quite renju yet. The basic 5 in a row game is called gomoku. All the beginners start with learning gomoku at first, and after some time, they move on to renju. Renju is a bit more complex game, and there are more rules. While gomoku is just an easy family game, renju is a serious sport and there are even world championships in that game. Renju game was developed from from gomoku game by Japanese masters about 100 years ago. The reason why gomoku was not satisfying for players any more was the fact that the skillful first player (black) could always win the game. Additional rules had to be made to balance the game and give the white player more chance for resistance. The game with those balance rules is called RENJU.
So, here are the three rules that make renju different from gomoku:

Black player is not allowed to make the 3x3 fork.
Black player is not allowed to make the 4x4 fork.
Black player is not allowed to make an overline (6 or more stones in a row).
"""

"""
With the years of serious games and analyses by strong masters, it became evident that the forbidden moves alone are not sufficient enough to provide the balance in the game, black was still having the advantage. In order to give the best balance, there were developed some opening procedures that both players need to follow. Below is the list of those procedures.

The first player sets the opening pattern, consisting of two blacks and one white stone.
The second player choose either black or white side.
The player with white stones plays the 4th move.
The player with black stone puts two choices of the 5th move on the board.
The player with white stones removes one of the 5th moves, and plays the white stone - the 6th move
"""
I have an 2013 MacBook Pro with an Intel chip and it’s still chugging along. My wife’s basic Lenovo from 2017 has long since given up on life. It’s not an apples to apples comparison, but the longevity of my Mac has really won me over.
> if this is about not-illegal-but-objectionable content, I'm actually glad that as an infrastructure company, they're choosing to not get into the business of content moderation.

Agreed. There's one other subset you didn't mention: "Clearly illegal but not yet handled in the court of law". Cloudflare again has a pretty hardline stance that "the courts need to come to us and force us to take it down"
It would “only” cost $126 million to put the ISS in orbit at that price. At $300/kg, I could see a space hotel for the ultra rich (given the market for trips to the titanic). How much would a rich person pay to go stay at a space hotel for a week? Is $1 million out of the question? How many people paying that would you need to make it economically worth while? After 126 of them you’d pay for the cost to lift it to orbit, another 126 of them could pay for a lot of creating it and staffing, so we need 500 UHNW individuals to commit to taking a trip to space to have a space hotel be viable? I’m skipping some numbers here, but I’m sure there’s a pitch deck being circled around for that already.

Edit: oh someone’s already way ahead of me. They’re charging
$5million for a the day trip.

https://www.businessinsider.com/voyager-station-first-ever-s....
> The waves are tied to brain activity slowing down, can’t have one without the other.

But why? Is this knowledge onservation based (“that is how it is in the organisms we studied”) or is it a theoretical limit?

Dolphins for example seems to get by without fully going unconscious. (I’m talking about the literal marine mamals, not a chronotype or anything like that here.)
Cheaper for sure but not "way cheaper", at least nowhere near as cheap as desktop hardware is today.
Which would be fine if you could tell if you could actually reliably find high quality products. But I'm increasingly finding it difficult to distinguish between paying more for quality and paying more for overpriced junk.
Psychoanalysis might be useful, it is my understanding that it can deal with complex issues where simpler forms of therapy fails
Thank you, that explained it way better than the original link.
Silicon Folklore: a gentle refutation of the myths you may see in the wild
I take herb pills, and I get crazy dreams if I don't drink enough water with them. Try chugging more water before bed or when you take the pills.
Rancher Desktop used Lima + QEMU behind the scenes: https://lima-vm.io/
For me it's just that macOS isn't a desirable OS anymore. Over the years Apple kept changing things that I preferred the way they were. So I'm done with it. I use KDE now.
When I was building my PC the choice between RAM that can randomly flip critically important bits, and one that guarantees correctness, was rather obvious. Idk why people build machines without ECC.

Surprised that no Apple products have ECC. Anyone got any insight into why? Their RAM is not ECC, their APFS is not self healing afaik. Wrt file systems, I think at some point they said their SSDs are stable enough that they don’t care as much.
Many physicists have dismissed BLP’s theories as incompatible with established principles of physics. The concept of hydrinos, for example, contradicts the known laws of quantum mechanics, which are well-supported by experimental evidence. Critics argue that BLP’s approach contains mathematical errors and unjustified assumptions. There have also been allegations of portions of Mills’ work being copied from other texts without proper attribution. Despite BLP’s claims of breakthroughs and imminent commercialization, the company has faced significant challenges in gaining acceptance from the scientific community and in securing patents. The theory has not been independently verified, and there is widespread doubt about the viability of the technology proposed by BLP
The Steam Deck sort of occupies this space today. I'm not in the scene myself but I've read about users modding them, running unsupported OSs, liquid cooling them, etc. Seems like any sufficiently broad technology will garner a community of hackers and modders around it.
Apple's whole strategy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25476266
It appears to be discontinued
As I said in my post, the next generation will find something new to tinker on.

The idea of a hackintosh is obsolete because there are new worlds to conquer, the time of hackintoshes has come and gone. The new generation will find their own challenges, not re-hash challenges of the past.
wait, are you mad cloudflare decided not to be an active participant in a doxxing campaign? Swatting is awful but I'm inclined to side with cloudflare here.
As a teen in the mid-oughties. I played heavily with the OSx86 project/Hackintosh. I learnt about writing kexts and kernel patche and I fondly remember getting a Linksys USB-to-ethernet adapter working on an HP workstation, running Tiger.

My financial circumstances have improved somewhat in the intervening years. Today, I own quite a bit of Apple hardware, most recently Vision purchase overton-shifted my definition of “disposable” into very unfamiliar territory. Even still, about once a year I ensure I can still triple-boot” - just now I do it with ProxMox and Virtual Passthrough. The first iMessage sent from my virtualized “iMac pro” at 2AM and was almost as gratifying as the first Apple Bootscreen on a a Sony Vaio.

May we never lose whatever that is.
And hilarious that the article about BS is behind a BS, illegal in the EU, cookie banner.
MH370 Flight Path Analaysis – 31st August 2023 [pdf]
I also wholeheartedly agree: Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of the Windows NT line before Microsoft merged the consumer line (3.1/95/98/Me) with the professional line (NT) beginning with Windows XP, which unfortunately added all sorts of annoyances to Windows. The underpinnings of Windows are fine and are quite a formidable alternative to Unix. WSL has also been a major game changer, allowing me to have a Unix workflow without loading up a separate VM. It’s just a shame the upper layers get in the way, though the Pro and Education versions of Windows are less in-your-face with these annoyances than the home versions. I’d love to have a Windows 2000 UI (with a search bar, introduced in Vista) on top of Windows 11.
But the only real connection between 'Germanic tribes' and the modern state of Germany is that people from the latter believe the former to be their forefathers. They are not genetically closer to them than other Europeans, nor do they speak the same language or call themselves the same word or have the same lifestyle or inhabit the same places.

During the Yugoslav period, there was a minority group of Bulgarian migrants in one region of Yugoslavia. Like most linguistic groups they adopted the national language and believed themselves to be Yugoslav. However their group was sometimes referred to as 'Macedonian' because the corner of Yugoslavia near Bulgaria is also near Macedonia in Greece. They now have their own country (and language - whose only differences from Serbo-Croat are those which were intentionally introduced), and many believe themselves to be the descendants and cultural and spiritual heirs of Alexander the Great (even though Alexander reigned over and left an influence over a region bigger than Europe).

All countries have things like this in their history. It's just that generally they are a few hundred years further away.
Why are Apple and Tesla losing ground in China?
Build a Hackintosh out of a rugged laptop case, problem solved.
from my research on morels a few years back when i found some growing in my back yard unexpectedly... all sources seemed to say you need to cook them to neutralize or lower the toxin that may be present in them to safe levels. never ate them thou because the ground wasn’t one i’d consider pristine enough to eat from.