skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I stand corrected. The export from Word 2000 was anything but basic. And it did, as far as possible, seem to try to serialize most aspects of the document. Which, of course, is not really what you want from a 1999/2000 web page that most people would view over dial-up.

I suspect their target market with this was enterprise intranets where everybody would be forced to use IE, and therefore all the ActiveX garbage would render just fine... and given LAN bandwidth most people probably wouldn't notice the ridiculously large payload sizes (for the era) of these pages.

I didn't know about the HTML filter though because I only experimented with the export once or twice, during the evenings after lectures, which was enough to convince me I was heading down a dead-end path.
All great points as well, thanks for sharing :)
When you look at the actual history of science, this path of “tangible progress” you rely on is shown mostly to be a constructed narrative.
Apple supports it too and uses it for Siri https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/urlsess...
Can you inform me about the hardest think for this, i am using a function only and its solves my request but i want to learn your experience.
what does the Patriot Act have to do with global warming?
There goes the dashcam industry…
That would have been fun, but the SD card slot is in the same place as on the original Wii (behind the front flap), which also makes sense.
GM's Futuristic '80s Digital Displays – This Man Fights to Keep Them Alive
On the other hand, if deepfaking becomes common enough that everyone stops trusting everything they read / see on the internet, it would be a net good against the spread of disinformation compared to today.
The CPU in that thing gets a 1,197 passmark rating.

Aliexpress has Intel N100 barebones fanless units with 4x2.5G ports for $117

Passmark rating on the N100 is 5,556.

So ... 4-5 times faster, for 20% more.
> I am quite... what's the English word for someone who gets way too excited from the thrill of gambling and forgoes the caution? "Hasardeux" is French for it, but I don't think "hazardous" has that sense in English?

Does the word have to denote (literally mean) that the person is emotionally excited and engaged at the same time? If so, then perhaps "a daredevil", "hotheaded", "impetuous", "impulsive" or "rash".

There are a lot of close words like "reckless" or "irresponsible" which are often used when the person is excited, but technically they don't require it. Someone can be quite reckless while also half-asleep doing something they don't personally care about.
Boom, mirrored: https://archive.org/details/deltacity95-v0.75

I even included my archive of the linked page itself.
> It's usually unwise to mix managed and unmanaged memory

Broadly stated, you can achieve this by marking a managed object as a GC root whenever it's to be referenced by unmanaged code (so that it won't be freed or moved in that case) and adding finalizers whenever managed objects own or hold refcounted references over unmanaged memory (so that the unmanaged code can reason about these objects being freed). But yes, it's a bit fiddly.
I use timeanddate.com probably every day, on average, for work. It's so handy, for both the calendars and the date calculators.
"Meta ai" sounds like "fuck here" in Portuguese.
Linus Torvalds on security, AI, open source and trust
Haha yes and the world is black and white
I remember ages ago when I was about 12, I got a copy of Turbo C++ for Windows 3.1 for my birthday. (I had only written in Basic before, and wanted to learn a "real" programming language. My dad was a Fortran programming physicist, and had heard that C++ was what everyone was using then-a-days.) I mostly wrote simple console programs, and it came with the Borland ObjectWindows library with a fun GUI builder, but there was a section in the manual talking about how to write directly using the Windows API.

I didn't really understand any of what I was reading, but I typed in the whole basic sample complete with HWNDs and all that nonsense. I can't remember if I could even get it to compile, but the idea of an event-loop was beyond my comprehension as a 12yo. I'm sure if I went back it would make a lot more sense to me, but back in 1994 it seemed like dark magic, especially compared to the much simpler and more understandable OWL components.
Why should internal software departments be viable? Isn't it a massive waste to have engineers write software to be used by a single company?
> I imagine all of the people you listed would be suffering from mental health issues without the need for a conspiracy theory.

Maybe, but I wouldn't dismiss hypochondria or mild hysteria that quickly. If you keep hearing people talk about skin infections, you'll notice yourself itching more...
I agree!

Another approach I really like are interactive “notebook” style language tutorials. Swift Playgrounds is an excellent implementation of this.
Fresh fruits have only a low content of sugar.

The recommendations that I have seen are that up to around 50 g of sugar per day (25 g of fructose) should be fine.

Most fresh fruits have about 10% of sugar, so you need to eat more than a pound or a half of kg to reach levels of sugar intake that could be unhealthy.

Only a few fruits have more sugar, above 15%, e.g. grapes, fresh figs or fresh dates. Even with those you must eat an amount over what would satiate most people, in order to get too much sugar.

On the other hand, if you eat one chocolate (many of which contain 60% or more sugar) or a few candies you are likely to have already exceeded an acceptable daily intake.
I don't know, I came to the internet (IRC/News) ~1990 and the WWW ~1993, when I wrote my first "homepage". I lived through the dotcom boom ~2000 with my own startup.

Sure internet was great back then, but I find it great today too. I create my own content on the internet just like 10 or 20 years ago on my website. I talk to people who send me an email about content on my website. I meet great people on LinkedIn.

I'm not on Facebook and practically left Twitter.

I assume like in other contexts people imagine a past that never existe
That's an odd perspective - around that time didn't you have to deal with the shitshow of browser incompatabilitw, and user-agent detection?
Huh? Light has zero lifetime, along with all massless particles. When you travel at c your clock doesn’t tick. From the viewpoint of a photon it is emitted and absorbed at the same instant. You cannot decay if you don’t experience time. I’m not sure exactly how index of refraction works with this.
Wouldn't work, because it's chasing after the dollar that has ultimately destroyed the internet.

Because the internet means income for so many people, doing whatever it takes to get your website to the top of search results matters a lot. That means that the hobbyist making a website cannot compete with the businesses who's lifeblood depend on edging those hobbyist pages off the search results.

What made the old internet so great was your search in lycos or yahoo could pull up a result from hobbyists across the internet with a good chance of being just an honest info dump by a fan. That became an issue when the ad money started entering the mix. All the sudden we got things like ask jeeves and expert sex change edging out good content for their garbage "Hey, we also searched those keywords" landing pages. Google's initial value ad was the fact that it gave you good results that avoided these tactics.

I'm afraid the old internet is simply gone forever. There will always be someone willing to break the system to get on top so they can make the money.
I think it could work well (is my case actually).

A lot of SaaS is just a simpler/different take on a big one. For example, mine is way less powerful than Freshbooks/amazon. I still live from it for the last 20 years with less than 100 customers (and a lot of time just less than 50).

Having a niche or just being available to your customers on the phone and solving the issue in the next minutes/hours is enough to keep customers and run your business.

Now, the big issue is that you are growing without the capacity to grow, and then you get a big competitor in your nose and you try to catch it. That is death.

Do not try to catch the bunny. Be the turtle and forget about the race, at all.
Yes. a cargo cult is devoid of questioning and critical thinking.

It probably works for someone who came up with a practice that they don't want questioned or being held up to reason. Other than that, it's always bad.
Wittgenstein himself states that the Tractatus is nonsense in its closing pages.

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands
me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out
through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw
away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.)

I think you may agree with the Wittgenstein of the Tractatus more than you realize. My understanding is that his main goal at that time was to show that many of the classic problems of metaphysics which plagued philosophers for centuries or more are literally just nonsense. He didn't write the Tractatus to convince regular people though, but to convince academic philosophers of his time. He earned his fame by being somewhat successful. Rather than making a logical argument for his point, I understand his aim as stimulating his audience to think things out for themselves by offering them carefully crafted nonsense that gave a fresh perspective.

I think you just have no use for the Tractatus because you're not preoccupied with metaphysical questions.
> We just have to obey that same rules in China that Chinese companies have to obey there. The same applies in the US--foreign companies can operated here but have to obey the same rules here that US companies have to obey.

No. China and US are not the same.

from https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-approach-to-chin...

> Like many other well-known organizations, we face cyber attacks of varying degrees on a regular basis. In mid-December, we detected a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google. However, it soon became clear that what at first appeared to be solely a security incident--albeit a significant one--was something quite different.

> First, this attack was not just on Google. As part of our investigation we have discovered that at least twenty other large companies from a wide range of businesses--including the Internet, finance, technology, media and chemical sectors--have been similarly targeted. We are currently in the process of notifying those companies, and we are also working with the relevant U.S. authorities.

Is US government hacking Chinese companies operating in US?
The 8-bit sonic games were originally made with the Game Gear in mind. Because the Game Gear and Master System have nearly identical hardware (except for a different screen size and palette), Master System ports were made as well.
They are, if I'm understanding correctly, referring to what may be considered the 'traditional' OOP style (Animal, which has various properties and behaviours, is extended by Dog, which has its own properties and behaviours, maybe overriding those of Animal) vs a style where inheritance is use primarily to define and implement interfaces (i.e., an expected set of behaviours with no implementation included in the base class). In other words, the different ways a language supporting OOP may be used rather than what the language supports in and of itself.
It’s interesting watching GenAI from a distance.

The various iterations on GPT style architecture make me think that this is it for now, until some other breakthroughs there will only be optimisations but in its current form GenAI is not the sentient Singularity that some are praising.
The models, even with optimisation are very GPU/ power hungry so it is inevitable to compare to blockchain and how it basically got us nowhere - a solution looking for a problem.
That one doesn’t quite work for me. A thermostat has a purpose: keep a temperature. An ocean doesn’t really have a purpose.
Shockingly those are not great instructions. The contact time is critical and it isn't really mentioned in the way it should be.
Related. Others?

Announcing Quill 1.0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12437345 - Sept 2016 (82 comments)

Quill – A cross browser rich text editor with an API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10446865 - Oct 2015 (47 comments)

Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716376 - May 2014 (60 comments)
Yeah, I just checked my Samsung tablet (also Android), and it required enabling it somewhere in settings. I wish they'd enable it by default. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be that way.
For sure. But there will always be good times and bad. Main streets in towns were likewise vital communities until interest rate hikes and massive deregulation in the 80s.

If you want to keep quaint Norwegian looking towns pristine even through harder times you need fairly heavy regulation.
They can be useful. My feed is filled with startup advice as well as Chinese lessons. I think a big part of my Chinese vocab comes from watching reels teaching me chinese.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075788
War on the Young
Enhancing Low-Light Images Locally and Privately in the Browser
People didn't start dying once they started getting diagnosed with a cancer, they were dying just the same undiagnosed. That sort of logic doesn't work as well on something as fuzzy as mental health or "are you happy?".
Faith can stop you asking the question of why God exists rather than nothing, but it can't actually answer that question.
I've heard about MPTCP back in 2013.

It made so much sense back then, when mobile apps were not that robust to networks changing, I assumed it's going to get adopted in no time due to how much of a ux improvement it would have been back in the day.

It's incredibly depressing that this gained barely any traction in the last 10 years, and kernel options are appearing just recently, after everyone has wrapped they http calls in multiple retry handlers, and mobile operating systems have abstracted network connectivity to the point where it feels more like you are using zeromq rather than tcp.
We can only hope they omit the parser when they plug in the LLMs. Tell us more about the white text flagger.
Is 34+ years recently?
No, I did not. Shame on me, and thanks for the heads up!
> It nails that mixture of whimsy, cleverness, and sweetness that has made The Secret of Monkey Island arguably the most beloved point-and-click adventure game of all time.

> During the latter 1990s, when most computers games were still made by and for a fairly homogeneous cohort of young men, too much ludic humor tried to get by on transgression rather than wit; this was a time of in-groups punching — usually punching down — on out-groups. I’m happy to say that The Curse of Monkey Island‘s humor is nothing like that.

Well said. Game has aged beautifully.
Had a lot of feedback about the copy so I've made a bunch of changes. Keeping in mind "you" and "developers" etc has really helped me better understand the goals of the copy so thank you!
I totally missed that, shame on me. Thanks for the correction!
Let me carefully copy paste my personal stringutils.hpp file of string handling routines and I'll be right up to it!
OSI isn't the software industry. It's sponsored by Google, amazon then ms via github in order of sponsor donations. It's financed by the hyperscalars. https://opensource.org/sponsors
what is it with Australians and having the cheesiest names for everything? pokies. electricians are sparkies. bikkie. spewie. budgie. brekky.

it's like a bunch of babytalk only it's said by literally everyone.
> its not a fallacy, its a tradeoff. If you want to have 100nodes doing batch work in a datacentre, you need to buy, install, commission and monitor hardware, storage and networking.

The fallacy is that it costs zero staff. But in reality it doesn't, it reduces the amount of staff you need, but only to an extend, because you still need plenty of people to run and monitor your cloud infra.

> Yes, but we are talking about an HPC cluster that is >100k nodes.

It is also much higher requirements than anything AWS is used to run, so you either have the know-how in house or don't have it at all.

> Second tier cloud providers are rarely able to provide 10k GPUs on the spot,

If you need 10k GPUs on the spot, then you have a serious planning issue… I know that many companies have incompetent management, but that's not the kind of thing you're supposed to brag about in an internet discussion. And using AWS to cope with management and planning deficiency is only going to get you this far, at some point you'll need to address them eventually.
Many of the work I do involves things I have done before in some form. But all that knowledge is spread out over multiple languages and libraries and the details are often hazy.

LLM's are excellent at stuff that has been done before and they are also fantastic for transposing code from one language to the other.

Looking up code in old projects takes time and brain RAM. Spelling out the steps in pseudo code and then prompt guiding an LLM through figuring out the required code often works great for smaller tasks.

I've also learned many new tricks by just asking it why it made certain choices.
Yeah, I think this link and title would be a better entry point into the topic.
Yeah that's a big thing that's missing. Working on getting the docs live ASAP once they're all finished up. Thank you
iirc in one of his videos (maybe that one) he also spends a lot of time discussing how because of their elytra they can have flight, without the downside of always-vulnerable wings like most (all?) other flying animals. I was surprised the article didn't go into more detail on that point.
Is it really secret though? It's the first thing you learn when you google "how to take bp". Like I'm not a medical person but when I was pregnant, I was asked to check BP and I asked the doctor "should I like average 3 readings or something?" and she said "just take one, don't stress it".

This is well known re thyroid medication as well. Also re weight, progesterone, a bunch of things.
Related:

Launch HN: Charge Robotics (YC S21) - Robots that build solar farms - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30780455 - March 2022 (81 comments)
you may be surprised, but oldschool hosting is not dead yet
I remember my mate's dad bought a 233MHz Pentium II system with 32MB of RAM some time in 1997, and our minds were all absolutely blown by the incomprehensible power of this system.

I want to say before that, back in 94, he'd had some sort of 486 variant (might have been a 486SX 33 or something along those lines - fairly run of the mill for mid-'94) with 4MB of RAM back in '94, and I want to say it got upgraded to 8MB, that we played a lot of DOOM and DOOM II on, and I think there'd maybe been a stop at a Pentium system somewhere in the middle because I remember we played Quake round at his place, and I'm sure that was earlier than '97. I'm not sure the 486 lasted that long - maybe only a year or 18 months - before it was replaced with a Pentium I system, but my memory is hazy.

I do remember the Pentium II though because, for the time, it was such a beast of a system. I do remember it seeming completely ridiculous and like you'd never need that much computing power. Oh sweet summer child, etc.
I don't know, pretty hard to argue with Nietzsche's pairing with assembly. Unless you wanted to play the HDL card.
I'll tell you why the internet became shit: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

No, seriously. There's no one big thing or even a bunch of big things. Instead it is a ton of little things that accumulate over decades. While this video is about voting[0], it is better we recognize that voting is actually about social choice. The crazy thing is that we can continually attempt to maximize our own objectives and because we live in a many player system this strategy can lead to a worse setting than where we began.

I want that to sink in. Because, we like to paint people to be evil (there's definitely clear cases) but most of the time there's no conspiracy and it is just the nature of a chaotic system and our strategies. Our world is complex enough that we can no longer employ strategies where we only consider the optimization objectives of us and our immediate allies. To optimize our objectives we need to actually consider those far from (i.e. people we disagree with) us and actually work with them in some capacity.

The article brings up Reddit, so I'll use it as an example (and goes for HN too). Lots of people even try to be helpful and will write comments (maybe this is for themselves too), but you'll often see a long chain of nearly identical comments/replies that aren't done in a joke. They're simply done because people didn't read the other replies before replying themselves (sometimes there are collisions), and the more this happens the more likely people are not going to read all the replies. Momentum is one hell of a force.

You'll also see naive and wrong comments float to the top while detailed correct comments are lost in the sea (I'm not saying my conjecture is correct, but you can see this phenomena on any subreddit in your domain expertise unless it is very niche). Just because people are trying to be helpful, might stroke their own ego because they presume correctness, and others reading can validate because it sounds reasonable. I mean how often do we hear for calls of debate? Debate isn't a means to get to objective truths, though it can be useful in matters that have no objective truths (e.g. this meta discussion itself). Truth has a lower bound in complexity, but we don't like complexity and we don't like chaos. We like conspiracies because we fear the chaos so much, because it is better to have evil men in charge than no one at the wheel. But I'm claiming a significant part of enshitification is due to the latter. That we can reduce it if we coordinate better by not just looking for our own/local gains.

Yeah, you could say that I'm even doing it as I'm writing here. Hard to tell. But I'll also welcome disagreement to my comments and we can discuss. I think things will always be noisy but it's working through and with that noise that gets us further. There are no global optimas in large solution spaces like these, so there'll always be critiques and trade-offs. Which we could say is damning, or we can see as a blessing as it gives more spice to life and allow us to adapt to the dynamic state of things where the importance of those differences is ever changing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQ4ii-zBMw
And those should be avoided as much as possible because they're always problematic and break randomly. How could they not break, when the package manager doesn't even know they exist or what they depend on?
Mouse jiggle, for keeping my computer from going to sleep.
> This is just a fancy way of saying "blur out everything else" in the screenshot? Personally I prefer to crop the unnecessary content out of the screenshot.

Other threads have pointed out that it might be useful for a screenshot to be able to show somebody where to navigate in complicated UI, without cropping out the rest of the UI (and so removing the navigational cues) but without making the screenshot as hard to navigate as the UI itself.
Note that it's subscription/service games that often have the most contentious relation with their modding scenes, as they tend to see the mods more as competition. On the other hand, people are generally more willing to develop mods for software sold with perpetual licenses, as the chances of no longer having access to the thing you are supporting is much lower than with e.g. $XXXXX/month cloud services.
yt-dlp sometimes I need to get a video or audio from various platforms