skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was an ICQ user but I haven't logged in since the early 2000s I would guess? I have a faint recollection of maybe using Trillium during its heyday with ICQ maybe in the 2003-2004 time period?
Goodbye from 7478741
... and also a previously kernel implementation called Helios to provide a lot of the lowest level code. Not trying to knock down the accomplishment, but DD is pretty open about the fact that a lot of the speed of this project was dependent on having done Helios first (and reusing code from it).
The metabolite of ethyl alcohol, acetaldehyde, is a well documented and potent carcinogen
A stepping stone to fulldive VR would being able to stimulate my skin to think it is 10 degrees warmer than it actually is. You probably could achive that with limited and targeted application. I'd implant that system and have an artificial sun in my office.
The old internet was such a frontier.

While we've undoubtedly gained so much, we did lose something very special.
That's really where "it depends" is important though. First the decisions need to be what matters and what to prioritize. With that context its much easier to decide on the best technical implementation for your needs.

The problem is conversations often end up being "we're starting this shiny new project, what tech stack should we use?"

What is really needed is a shortlist of priorities, from scaling concerns to types of users and how frequently content/data may change. Without that its just a grab bag of tools people are familiar with and the latest hype trend.
Rampant alcohol abuse is arguably the worst thing you could do to your body so it probably played a part - not talking a few beers a night; I mean a "fifth" of vodka a day like he said he drank. I used to be a heavy drinker, but at my worst, I probably drank half of that a few days a week for two years or so - I maybe drank a fifth in a day a few times - but it got to the point where I couldn't function, gout, weight gain, just generally feeling like dogshit. I don't understand how people can do that for decades and live let alone be successful.
And just think, a small percentage of liquor store customers, comprise the majority of their revenues. That's why when the COVID lockdowns happened, liquor stores and carry out restaurants got special provisions to keep this customer base still drinking.

You just can't stop drinking alcohol; it can kill you.
The core is very good, the OOP aspects can be really quite poor.

Let me write a function without 50 tokens of boilerplate!
A slightly more fun way to disable Windows Defender (through the WSC API)
That's too bad. Seemed like a creative, troubled, self-motivated guy with good intentions. A hustler in the good sense of the word.

I did not know him, but was in meetings with him as part of a project. I found him nicer than he had to be to a random software dope. He was polite, perceptive, and open to input. Condolences to his family.
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Bill Withers hated working with the record labels so much he walked away from Columbia and quit touring, though he had about a dozen years from when he won his first Grammy to walking away. He attributed his ability to walk away to being older than most (early 30s) when his first hit was released.
So Super Size Me is somewhat well-done; the vast majority of the info is talking with experts like a normal documentary, the “experiment” is mostly just communicated as a framing device for unrelated discussion. (This is not 100% true because one convo with an expert is with his sexual partner, describing how the “saturated fats have gotten to his penis” and how she “always has to be on top now” due to his diet.)

However I do think it's clear in how it's framed that we're meant to categorize his McDonald's experience as informative, holding out that this experiment has some connection to the consequences we might experience from eating McDonald’s, and the problem is that he doesn't conduct the experiment in a realistic way. He was to be frank intentionally trying to generate the biggest possible weight gain in 30 days that he could. If you look carefully when he lays out his food in front of you, you'll see both a full-calorie soda AND a shake or ice cream at each meal, in addition to the super-size fries and the sandwich. The folks in the movie who saw his food log say he was consuming 5000 kcal/day, which I think is being sold as “oh my gosh I had no idea it was this easy to overeat at McDonald's.” That sentiment is not correct given the context—qnd the numbers are likely an underestimate because like folks have said, he took it seriously that he was meant to only “eat McDonald's” but gave himself latitude to drink non-McDonalds.

For these reasons and more, people since the wild success of the movie have struggled to replicate his results. See e.g. https://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/2022/03/supersize-me-failed-rep... for some quick excerpts from some of these different folks.
You can civilly correct someone. No need to be rude.
Thanks for the memory, South Korea tells nation's chip makers – build processors
Goodbye world! So long!
It was a memorable one... Since 20+ year! It'll live on in my memories!
Signing off for the one last time!
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Absolutely yes. Damn, these times were something else.
lol, still remember my icq number by heart: 5479339
Number of 401(k) Millionaires Hits New Record
Code is here: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/bunnix/tree/master

GPLv3 license.
Oh no, since like 1998 I had been using this, though not really for the past 10 years heh. Good bye friend!
Oxygen doesn’t belong on that list, I think - the earth’s oxygen was made by the first living things.
Drones are going to be a large part of agriculture, but the problem isn't the technology. Imo the technology is already at a point where it's useful enough for me to invest in. If i wanted to today i could buy what i need for scouting and spraying a ~1000h farm from aliexpress.

The problem is the regulatory environment on two fronts. First ( in Canada) the pesticides I'd like to use are not registered for drone application, even if they are registered for application from helicopter or plane.

Second, I don't have priority airspace rights. Which means I have to have a person watching both the drone and surrounding airspace for crop dusters or personal low flying aircraft. Even if I file a flight plan weeks ahead of time and a NOTAM [notice to all airmen] i am required to ground my drone if an aircraft with a person is nearby. Even if they have failed to file NOTAMs, which in the case of my local spray dudes is 100% of the time. This makes completing a scouting or spraying job more labour intensive than using a tractor because I often require a spotter at the far end of a field.

Until the regulatory issues are sorted out, and drones can be operated with Beyond Visual Line of Sight rules, you won't see massa adoption of this tech.

My drone fleet is sitting and collecting dust at the moment, which is a shame because they do provide valuable information.
I wonder what "demons" he had in his life.
Wondering then if you've tried the Snapshot API in wikimedia enterprise?
If the overly optimistic upside is a quicker, more knowledgeable, higher-performance-information-digesting personal assistant at lower cost than ever before, it would still be out-of-reach for almost as many ordinary people as the top professional human personal assistants are now.

Unless they never manage to reign in the costs, then it will be more out-of-reach than a real human, disregarding the potential game-changing element of real human empathy.

I would expect those that have funds to spare already have both, regardless of the limitations of each.

If you can come up with a possible downside, that would be something to compare it against.

Everyone might not have to be cynical for their opinions of the potential outcome to be either positive or negative.
OpenAI backpedals on scandalous tactic to silence former employees
haha... this sounds so familiar ;)
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Wait, ICQ has been working?! BTW I still remember my ICQ number although I haven't used this messenger in many years.
> It seems obvious that the answer to that rather depends on how well you actually understand the problem space you're trying to solve.

An advocate for TDD (as in “red > green > refactor”) might say that writing the spec upfront is an excellent way to understand the problem space, or at least to help achieve that understanding.

At least when I’ve been fortunate enough to work on projects where such a TDD approach is possible, I’ve found that to be the case. I’ve also often found it harder to gain that understanding when testing lags development.
Unless of course the US is talking about another countries with nukes themselves. But you are making a good case for why it is in each country best interest to acquire nuclear weapons. North Korea appears, in your argument, one of the wisest regimes in the world.

I'm pretty sure that when US is vetoing Russia, it does not mean "we will drop nukes on you if you try this, so don't". Because Russian response will be of the sort "Great, try this and enjoy the fireworks over your population centers, we will hate to see the UN gone with the whole of New York".
What is the market for these low-cost EEG devices? I've come across way more companies offering this than I'd expect. I assume all labs at R1 or R2 Universities use equipment from bigger manufacturers, which I think run over $10k for a full EEG setup (no cage).
> moreover, we're all missing another subtle point I omitted. herbicides are even cheaper than people, robots, or any combination of them.

Is this because herbicides are not made by people?
40ms? Clojure Hello World startup time is like 600ms and up. Yes sometimes you run npm and kubectl for hours but most of my usage is just running individual commands that take less than a second.
RIP

2412581 - I don't think I'll ever forget my UIN

Proud to be part of this generation of "instant messengers". Long, long before texting, me and my peers were living the future life!
I really like it how they were still using exactly this uh-oh sound at least in some McDonald's restaurants in my area :)
They also note that the government has been and will continue to be in charge of decontaminating the affected areas of St. Louis.

This would entail the destruction of physical evidence of what happened.
I’m not sure that’s the case.

It seems more like politics than anything else.

Countries want to help.

But they don’t want to help too much, where they then get pulled into the war (or have Russia target them).
My favorite CS story in a long time. Up there with the 500-mile email.
Also had this issue. I even tried a bunch of different reformulations/reinterpretation of the provided formula and nothing helped :(
> It’s disingenuous to claim without citation that the US does not anticipate using artillery as one (of many) primary weapons in a land conflict against a near-peer adversary.

It's not disingenuous at all. It's pretty apparent if you even take a cursory look at modern American military doctrine/spending. The plan is always to park a carrier close by (maybe two), conduct an air campaign, then send in the troops. Artillery wars just chew up people which the the American public has not had an appetite for since Vietnam.

>The fact that thr US hasn’t had such a conflict since at least Vietnam (and arguably Korea) not withstanding.

It think that is a caveat as big as the Pacific. Vietnam was literally 60 years ago. You don't think top brass have rethought how wars are fought since then? For context, that's 10 Presidencies since LBJ (36th).

> Artillery has proved decisive in every conflict with static lines in the last 100 years.

Again, modern American doctrine has focused on the layering of power projection and troop mobility specifically to NOT fight in static positions.

> Artillery has proved decisive in every conflict with static lines in the last 100 years. Sure, hopefully air supremacy would overwhelm your opponent and prevent a static conflict, but no air force has ever established supremacy in a conflict with saturated strategic air defenses. Perhaps the US air forces could, but this capability is untested. Sadam and Yugoslavia were limited to tactical air defenses in relatively small numbers compared with modern day Russia or China.

Again caveats. Also a war with China will be fought exactly opposite to Ukraine (with missiles not artillery, and with dynamic naval fronts, not trench warfare).
Really? My impression was 2 decades ago it was pretty popular, at least lots of my high school mates used it.

I never, and eventually picked YM instead few years later.
And yet, it’ll still be around after Discord shuts down.
yes you're right. but that one instance of doing so, but not the only way. I dislike it too since they put an emphasis solely on the app and not on the data.

what I had in my was just idle thoughts about providing disentangled primitives that could be used to build other things on.

for example
the primary key for accessing a file/object could be (computer_id?, storage_id or partition_id , object_id/inode)
+ ways to define different kind of indexes based on you use cases.

instead of just making apps into silos you can have the things builts on top of these primitives be typed structured data objects + API/interface.
have an Object explorer and programs can declare they they are able to display or manipulate custom data Type X.
you can then have GUI be composable the same way the pipe operator work in the cli.

you can define a regular filesystem on top of these primitives, a relational database, a tag system, or something new all together.
if you don't want folders you would ca to deal with them.

the work on fushia OS seem to explore something along these lines (BlobFs + MinFs + Components). (https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/components/v2/intro...)
Pharo/SmallTalk seem to also explore the ideas akin to this. (https://pharo.org/)

to be fair the current state of affairs is similar enough with file extensions + mime info if you squint hard enough and pretend that app and systems folders files don't exist but it's held with pinky promises.
Kind of like WhatsApp vs iMessage, ICQ was more international than alternatives like AIM or MSN
I sell my plasma for money. It's not the worst gig I've ever had
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> lead from the fuel

Better late than never, I guess, but the FAA has approved unleaded 100 octane. https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2022/september/...
I’m not enough of an expert to cut through your confusion. if I recall correctly the cryptographic signature size has always been tied with the size of the key which determines the strength. The larger the key, the larger the signature and “more cryptographic strength”. What’s new here aside from the signatures being an order of magnitude larger than before and having different growth factors with increasing key size?
This is very sad. I was inspired by his films to think about society in unique ways, and enjoyed some of what he produced. It is a terrible loss to creativity.
I wish this was open-sourced! I wish!
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Serious question - why do so many people remember our ICQ numbers? I don’t remember what user-facing function it served. Was that actually the identifier we shared with people to connect?

I suppose it also came at a time for a lot of us where things seemed to wedge into our brains more easily.
In South Africa they banned alcohol during Covid - it is major driver of emergency hospital admissions and gender based violence and it dropped during Covid and we could treat Covid patients.

But the black market price of liquor and cigarette's went up by 300% and somebody delivered by drone.
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How the hell I keep remembering it?!? I haven't used ICQ for more than 15 years?
Not from Russia, but pretty close in all senses of the word. It was heavily used in my circles up to about 2010-2011, then started losing market share to other messengers (one¹ of the popular messengers was from the same company that now owns ICQ), and then Telegram came and buried it completely in no time at all.

1: https://agent.mail.ru
The simple fact is that no amount of alcohol is good for you. Same goes for smoking anything, marijuana included. Also, processed meats are definitely carcinogens.

Yeah, cancer can "just happen" to anyone, but there are undeniable factors that can significantly increase your chances of getting it, such as poor diet or being overweight.

You might not like it, but those are the facts.

That said, I'll also put out there that I think a a lot of people are overly dismissive of "Supersize Me" by pointing to Spurlock's alcoholism, completely ignoring how bad fast food is, on every level.
Same for me but the day I will really cry a little will be when mIRC dies. It was my introduction to instant effortless free worldwide communication. Of course I haven't used it for decades but it calms me that it is still very alive.
402777 here!
The attacker would also have to bypass the WAF while posting the trigger string, so perhaps it’s not trivial. Still, the whole design of these heuristic WAFs feel quite weak.
The other system, as described in 19th-century textbooks, says this:

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[What if the digit in the subtrahend is bigger than the one in the minuend?]

Imagine adding 10 to both numbers. Obviously, the difference between them will not be changed.

But adding 10 to the digit in the subtrahend is the same as adding 1 to the digit immediately to its left.

So, add 10 to the [current] digit in the minuend, add 1 to the [next] digit in the subtrahend, and then perform the subtraction.
There are e-ink monitors, e.g. [1]. I’ve never used one so I can’t speak to how well they work.

[1] https://shop.dasung.com/products/dasung-25-3-curved-e-ink-mo...
Their SSDs have suffered from prominent firmware bugs.
Looks cool! Do you have a roadmap for additional languages?
Finally. It's been an FSB spying frontend for years anyway.
But would IRC be what a post-Discord exodus actually goes back to? Lacking basic modern amenities like seamless scrollback and push notifications is going to be a hard sell for the generation that grew up with Discord. As a sibling mentioned, Matrix is closer to the mark.
I believe that graph was criticized as inaccurate, though I can't find a source now. Somewhat different from these figures in https://arg.org/news/drinking-norms-in-the-us/ which seem more plausible to me.
Quite cool, by making use of Hare instead.
You are the one thinking of evil uses, not them
What I (submitter) had noted about the piece was that the time and place have changed, the topics, tactics, motives, and consequences rather less so.

Noting that classic works and Biblical passages also tend to cross tripwires is another constant.
People are still testing. They just had to make this more affordable and fix the firmware. They were selling their reader for $200, and it didn't even have a normal-capacity battery!
Thanks for linking. I suppose my base argument would be why not let each individual decide for themselves - whether HN is a "low trust" or "high trust" source to them? Over enough time with enough data, certain macro patterns may emerge also that otherwise aren't easily observed by any individual - no matter how present they are, as I'm sure you've probably said countless times you're unable to see every link or thread posted to moderate, as there's just far too much activity.

I would also suggest such conversation would need to be corralled into some sort of secondary HN forum branch, discussion on observations, insights, etc. In general it could be useful for people to also learn about observing patterns for their own sites they own or manage.

I do understand it can facilitate a bit of a "weapons" race, in that if there are bad actors seeking to have many human looking bot accounts (or a single person orchestrating many accounts), then they now too would see how their fingerprints look compared to others as well.

Ultimately I think Elon Musk is right though that to help dissuade spam and organizations-ideologues from shaping narratives and controlling what's allowed to be seen and discussed, that an actual $ cost is required.

Perhaps HN could implement a $5/month (or even higher tiers)? For most on HN, if they are in the tech field, even $50/month for arguably a higher curated-"more moderated" forum, isn't much for the individual - and if a filter to only show posts and/or comments by those paying AND/OR better yet, filtering based on including only votes by those at different tiers - then that is affordable compared to say someone who maybe somehow is running 1,000 users; although unfortunately $50,000/month isn't much for organizations or nations with an agenda, if that's all it takes to keep certain truths suppressed as much and as quickly as possible.
Both of those states fought with the goal of expanding their borders to a pre-partition status - the USSR aimed to reclaim territories lost in Brest-Litovsk, Poland to something resembling the pre-partition commonwealth.

This is actually gets a bit closer to a fair reading of the basic cause of the war. But it also glaringly contradicts what you just said previously ("Poland attacked the USSR in 1920, and that's it"¹). If you knew this was a gross (and misleading) oversimplification -- then why did you open with it? And in what year did the USSR come into being, again?

Anyway, we're far removed from the topic of the original thread. If the two of you want to hash this out amongst yourselves, perhaps one of you can start a new top-level post on the topic, and see if you can get people to join you there.

¹ In the sense of «Вкусно – и точка»
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My only real question when I have interviewed anyone for a senior level role or similar is to find out whether they'll start with "it depends" or similar.

I'll lay out what sounds like a pretty clear algorithm or infrastructure scenario but skip some key assumptions that are needed. What I want to see is follow-up questions related to users, scaling, data retention, etc. Its a big red flag for me if a candidate jumps right into a solution.
High-quality problems being touted as catastrophic.
Back when I was a teacher's assistant in college, the professor for an introductory "learn to program" course was teaching students this is the right way to define an array of chars:

{'h,', 'e,', 'l,', 'l,', 'o'};

He also gave them sample code where the assignment was to fill in the body of one of the functions, but in an unrelated part of the code he had a typo that resulted in infinite recursion in an object constructor.
That’s the end then. 2455876 signing off ;)
I even remember my password.
Or certain head neck and stomach cancers. Or pancreatic cancer. A lot of cancers.
Also note that during the experiment one of Spurlock’s medical professionals comments on his diet as averaging 5000 kcal/day given his food logs. At another point a different professional states that these results seem impossible without heavy drinking of alcohol, implying that he wasn't disclosing the alcohol in his food logs to them either.
The tractors I’m more familiar with are 500hp and when in use they run 18+ hour days a very long way from infrastructure. It would be nice to replace those with diesel-electric for maintenance reasons but I highly doubt there is a viable fully electric solution. We would be more likely to find alternatives to plowing and other more efficient farming practices.
I just didn't think there was anything else on the page when scrolling didn't scroll.
You just need to put them in a static class to act as a name space. What is the big deal?