skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a teenager in the 80s. I can remember going outside in the dark before school to get the paper so I could read C&H during breakfast. I didn’t know at the time that they would someday be reprinted in books, so I would cut each one out and tape it into a notebook.

The other main comic strip I enjoyed at that time was The Far Side. Recently I reread both Calvin and Hobbes and the Far Side. Calvin and Hobbes is still just as good as a 50s year old adult (though I find I now identify a lot more with the parents). But, I didn’t find the same thing to be true of The Far Side. Some of the Far Side strips are wonderful - like The School of the Gifted - but most just fell flat for me.
Your question is deliberately constructed to deflect any possible answer (s.a. to protect the OS you've installed).

Let me illustrate this by example: let's say you don't even power up your laptop -- it's hard to imagine that you are locked into something in this scenario. The lock-in will be ultimately contingent on what you do with the system, not on what you don't.
I see it more simplistically. If there's two guys love neutrinos, neutrinos is they passion, one happens to be born in Russia, one in US (neither one chose to be born there), and they want to work together to understand life, the universe, everything, then so what? What matters more, life, the universe, everything, or some years-long dramatic squabble, years long on the scale of a 5 billion year old planet and millions year old species and perhaps tens of thousands of years old civilization.

The "ideal" of science is that there should be this purity, this honesty, etc. Deviations do occur, politics are common in science itself, data falsification, etc, but we must not let that deny the purity ideal. In the same way, I believe the idea here is to acknowledge that purity over political differences as something transcendent to politics. But yes, such collaborations do have political value in terms of being a "relationship". And yes of course I don't want to poo-poo politics. Whereas it's true that politics is as inescapable to the human condition as say language, perhaps we shouldn't let political constraints guide and dictate scientific work just as we shouldn't let linguistic barriers limit science, both part of the human condition, both miniscule in the face of the work being done.
Individualized Spaced Repetition in Hierarchical Knowledge Structures
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Ask HN: Do dead YC companies sell their brands/IP?
When YC companies - any funded companies for that matter - exhaust their runways and call it quits do they sell the IP portfolios (business name, domains, trademarks, patents when they exist, social media profiles)? If so, where? Marketplaces? Leverage the YC network in private deals, if so who are the buyers?

YC companies generally have quality brandable names. In the old days when I took the time to apply to YC .com TLDs were emphasized by PG himself for applicant startups.

Good business names and domains are always in demand, being able to acquire those together with trademarks is even more attractive as a business investment. If branded social media accounts are included, now you have a startup package that many established businesses don’t have.

Of course every IP portfolio would have its own valuation, but acquiring a dead YC company IP portfolio/brand would likely carry a premium from due diligence to the story/narrative.

Any insights, thoughts or stories?
Yeah, the rest of the world has laws that demand minimum product quality.
Oh how much this would simplify torch.DataLoader (and its equivalents)…

Really excited about this.
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If there’s any checking of types before program runs then it’s static typing. Gradual typing is a form of static typing that allows you to apply static types to only part of the code.

I’m not sure what you mean by variables not changing types during execution in statically typed languages. In many statically typed languages variables don’t exist at runtime, they get mapped to registers or stack operations. Variables only exist at runtime in languages that have interpreters.

Aside from that, many statically typed languages have a way to declare dynamically typed variables, e.g. the dynamic keyword in C#. Or they have a way to declare a variable of a top type e.g. Object and then downcast.
Exactly. And that was nearly 10 years ago. As with all Custom ARM CPU design, it always ends up the same fate, arm 's ARM Cortex Design will catch up and always prove to provide better performance per dollar than owning its own design team. Oryon is great had it been launched in 2020 or 2021 but it will be competing against Cortex X5 soon.

Not that I dont want Nvidia to have their own CPU design again. But judging from current trend and trajectory and very likely their perspective it doesn't make any sense. The future isn't in CPU but GPU or HSA.
Is it just me or is that website completely unusable on mobile without Reader view?
Not about your point to develop a new project, but is the population aging? I know in certain areas, yes, they are, but a quick look at one of those population pyramids shows places like the US, with a more even population age group, meaning the population as a whole isn't generally getting older.

Please enlighten me though, I know almost nothing of this field.
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> Many scholars have found themselves ‘baffled and confused by the enormous proportion of forged, remade, confected, and otherwise mutilated documents’ that form the premodern historical record.

I'm sure they do. Nonetheless, they make the best of it. This article tries to say, without saying it, "hey, my made-up story is as good as your carefully researched one."

Similar to intelligent designers saying, "hey, if you throw a bunch of car parts on the floor, they'll never assemble themselves into a car! So it had to be a Designer."

Or homeopaths saying, "There's so much conventional medicine cannot explain. So my herbal cure and natural diet is as good as their chemotherapy!"
However he sold it; they apparently, to this day have rights to his likeness. I would hope that would give him some power to call them out if they are making a lesser product in his name, all the while passing it off as his 'original recipe'
Even if there were a genetic switch for IQ (by our narrow definition), a eugenic program that selected for that trait would still yield inferior results to the number of outliers produced by randomness at scale.

Using r/K theory as an analogy, K-selection (few, high effort offspring) works for organisms without a lot of intra-species competition, and few of those species tribalize or murder each other at any scale. r-Selection (many, low effort offspring) lack sophistication, but dominate by sheer numbers. If you started breeding modified high-IQ humans, the rest would just end up organizing to hunt them to extinction. There are others who say this has already happened.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40952330 [131 comments, 8 hours ago]
Canadian Federal employment bloat costing taxpayers at least $10B annually
HTTPSnippet: HTTP Request snippet generator for many languages and tools
What's the "best" you are talking about when it comes to the Windows world?

Also, while I cannot really speak to how Windows contributes to the experience, I know for certain that the integration comes with a tall bill to pay. You don't get to manage your computer with Linux, which is, ultimately, what it was built for: to empower the computer owners to take ownership of their hardware. And you don't get that when running in a VM. You are totally missing the point if you do that.
I doubt the protocol itself makes a big difference. I bet you can get 30ms with VNC. The difference with BitWHIP.

* Can play WebRTC in browser. That makes things easier to use.

* simpler/hackable software. BitWHIP is simple and uses nvenc etc… if you use nvenc with VNC I bet you can get the same experience
… I mean, that’s how pretty much all representative democracies work. In presidential systems, the head of the executive is directly elected, but there are no true presidential system states in the EU (France and some of the Eastern European states are hybrids), so it’d be a little odd if the EU worked that way. And even in presidential systems, it’s only the _head_ of the executive who’s elected; I’m not aware of anywhere which directly elects ministers (you could, and I actually would, make an argument that presidential systems are _less_ democratic than parliamentary systems in this regard, in that, once the president is installed, they typically have almost complete control over ministerial appointment, whereas in a parliamentary system it tends to involve an element of compromise between elected representatives).

The EU system has problems (in particular, it’s rather complex, and people don’t understand it well enough or take it seriously enough - in many countries turnout for European elections is miserably low), and IMO it would be good to transfer more power from the Commission to the parliament (the Lisbon Treaty did this to some extent, but further efforts _really_ annoy the eurosceptics, and are unlikely to happen in the short term), but the idea that it’s especially undemocratic is pretty weird.
One thing I dislike about AA/AAA batteries is eWaste. I have a bunch of rechargeables around but don't think everyone uses them when there's cheap packs of 20 AAAs available. Using rechargeables have an up-front cost not everyone wants to pay.
That's the kind of thing I stumble across all the time. Indexing all the symbols in a codebase:

results = Counter()
for file in here.glob('*.py'):
symbols = parse(file)
results.update(symbols)

Scanning image metadata:

for image in here.glob('*.png'):
headers = png.Reader(image)
...

Now that I think about it, most of my use cases involve doing expensive things to all the files in a directory, but in ways where it'd be really sweet if I could do it all in the same process space instead of using a multiprocessing pool (which is otherwise an excellent way to skin that cat).

I've never let that stop me from getting the job done. There's always a way, and if we can't use tool A, then we'll make tool B work. It'll still be nice if it pans out that decent threading is at least an option.
The other day I found this: https://www.vantage.sh/
I haven't had the chance to try it, but it seems to cover all your feature needs and the pricing looks reasonable, perhaps check it out.
> D. the main problem with ads is that they stimulate more unnecessary consumption

Yes! If our culture(s) weren't so damned full of pure consumerism, forgetting the first 'R' in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, we'd potentially be living in a healthier ecosystem.

And honestly, having gone from living with a hoarder to living with a tad more than essentials where I can see the damned floor in my house, it's such a f-ing relief.
I was hoping that intel would get back on track with Pat Gelsinger at the helm, but so far things have turned out to be pretty lacklustre. i9 stability issues are the last thing it needs right now.
Let me blur the identity politics a bit.

>historical fascism was always a right-wing and conservative political program

Like when the right conquered the left in the civil war and freed the slaves? I suppose that could still be fascism, but you'll have to abandon the idea that fascism is wrong if you want to die on that hill. The real point is that to identify it as wrong or right, you need simply bend the meaning of the term.

The left has been silencing scientists that disagree with their agenda. That seems pretty authoritarian.

Isn't the left working towards censorship through cancel culture? That seems pretty conservative. (Fascist even?)

All these sum up to ambiguity and that's the same point we're both making. The subjectivity of the terminology is exactly why it's used so rampantly. You can paint anyone to be anything you want so long as you are using words that have no definition.

That's why you said this:

>Both sides call each other fascist, usually by misapplying the term.

Misapplying is subjective. Both sides can call each other whatever they need to in order to win the ability to collect lobbying dollars from the corporations whose interests they represent.

If one of them has succeeded in making you believe that they are the more agreeable, it can only mean that you find their marketing to be particularly effective.

Or, if you like, the opposite can be true and we can say that "Islamofascism" is a real term that applies in certain cases. We can take our pick. Both are true depending on the scope of the discussion. And you'll feel justified arguing one way or the other so long as the marketing has created a solid identity and sense of righteousness with which you can carry your argument.

Here are a couple more blurry points you can spend time on:

1. Republican Justice Kennedy wrote the ruling that made gay sex legal. [1]

2. A Republican majority congressional vote has been responsible for nearly every Civil Rights Act in the history of the US. [2]

Are these examples of conservative fascist religious idealism? As I just explained... sure they are! If you need them to be. But then so must be the Democratic party when they claim to champion civil rights and poverty solutions while enjoying the majority lobbying from Google, Meta, and Netflix.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Kennedy

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
But when has KFC ever served pork or bacon?

They're a chicken restaurant.

Best I can guess is maybe they had a fried chicken sandwich that had strips of bacon too? But not really a huge loss -- bacon is definitely not any kind of classic topping for fried chicken, the way it is for burgers. I mean, I love bacon but I don't want it with fried chicken. Bacon adds crunch and chewiness to a burger; fried chicken is already crunchy and chewy.
It is the rare instructor or mentor that takes pains to NOT show off their expertise, and model the expected behavior, tools, and techniques of the learner where they are at. It is the classic problem of telling someone the goal, but not how to get there. A common error-mode is repeating "the magic" over and over again, expecting it to sink in; it takes extra effort to decompose the magic into teachable, practicable parts. This teaching effort requires meta-cognition and empathy orthogonal to the effort required to become an expert, which is why expert teachers are a rare and precious gift.
Do you have links to any of these talks you could recommend?
I for one, liked you joke.-
Injection molds start at 6 figures and you need a different mold for every part.
I see the benefits of in-person collaboration, but they're not a panacea and sometimes slow down productivity. I'm a big fan of the quarterly offsite schedule where once a quarter, your team/org/whatever gets together somewhere and hunkers down for a week of intense collaboration. Then you go back home, keep working remote, and have stronger bonds with teammates and realignment in the direction you're going.
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C: the main problem with ads is they serve as one of the most prevalent infection vectors for malware.

The tracking and seizure of attention are of lesser concern to me personally.
Do you happen to have a link to that PR?

This was the closest one I could find https://github.com/LadybirdBrowser/ladybird/pull/366
Just add a new official extension. There's a problem, so it needs fixing.
Right but the world is bigger than corporate and yet I don't see anyone choosing anything else for their pet project large or small either. If Git was such a pain to use, wouldn't a lot of open source projects use something else? I know OpenBSD uses CSV, SQLite uses Fossil.. I can't honestly think of anything else non-Git right now that I use (I'm sure I'm missing some).

Years ago when private repositories were still a paid feature on GitHub, you could use Bitbucket, which had them for free, and offered Git and Mercurial. A few years later Bitbucket announced they were removing Mercurial support because "Mercurial usage on Bitbucket is steadily declining, and the percentage of new Bitbucket users choosing Mercurial has fallen to less than 1%".

https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-b...
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Harder to jam?
"Free speech is for the speech you hate, not for the speech you like"
“It’s a solution in search of a problem and also has hundreds of issues from users” is kind of a funny juxtaposition, in the same sense that “nobody goes there, it’s too crowded” is.
I'm looking for an 80/20 answer here.

The 20% long(er)-term plays are going to require wisdom to sniff out.
Ruin the ecosystem even more.
This is true for most cases. However in my family we have special circumstances: because my grandfather is a veteran, my father is paid to take care of him. It is an absolutely phenomenal experience for our family and has brought us all together. If we could enable this again for everyone that would be good for everyone in terms of mental health.
My internal definition of guilt is screwed up because I have OCD. This is why I am so keen on defining guilt carefully.

What I am describing above is just discomfort. Unless the parent poster deliberately sought to underpay the person, they should have no guilt merely from that scenario. Discomfort is real enough.

Guilt might attach if they do not or choose not to act on that discomfort, or if the person is materially disadvantaged by not doing the ongoing work, or if a promise of better pay/longer employment was attached to asking for that work to be done at a low pay.
> It seems like a lot of RTO proponents can't comprehend, or maybe don't care, that there are people who don't need to be surrounded by other people all the time, and who work better, and are happier if they are alone.

This is a variation on the classic mismatch between introverts and extroverts, social expectations, and behaviors. It's just concentrated in the RTO vs remote debate.

> Let people who want to work in an office work in an office, and let people who want to work from home work from home.

This, 100%, if you can control for bias. The issue with the true optionality is that remote workers may get passed up for promotion or other opportunities because they're less physically present—even if they're the best fit for the opportunity. That's what makes it difficult to straddle both worlds. I guess one solution would be to have managers, paradoxically, never in the office more than 1-2 days a week to force more explicit interaction via remote conferencing, but that's a weird forcing function.
This is going to be bad. I’ve done enough hardware diagnostics to have an intuition about this sort of thing. It’s going to be massive.
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Having control over google results, youtube suggestions, tiktok, facebook, instagram, news stories, making up crisis, overblown stories and outrages... Seems much more effective ways to manipulate wide groups of people, and easier to control

The world is going to end 2000, and every couple of years since... the economic crisis is coming every other year, stop the war, Koni 2012, we all Charlie hebdo, terroists everywhere, QAnon, pandemics everyone is going to die, planes suddenly are not good, stop the invasion, stop the genocide, alien invasions anytime now, stop the illegal aliens, are you Republican or a Democrat?

People are so busy and impressionable, that their state of being is easily manipulated, there is no need for a 5G CRT
I like Obsidian, but plain text continues to reign supreme. I prefer nvAlt or my programmers editor, or if on a team, whatever the company provides (e.g. Jira). The embarrassment of options is actually a key problem in itself, since if you do not commit to one, you find your notes spread across various files, tools, and services, totally disjoint in a way that is impossible to work with and difficult to undo.

The ideal tool, which I don't think exists, would combine the immediacy and locality of nvAlt and bidirectionally map to something like Jira for sharing, distributed as a browser plugin and/or a simple server component with local write access.
This is at the intersection of some of my most nostalgic childhood memories which includes guitars, gaming, and finding "ways" to circumvent obstacles to those activities. I've also been extremely interested in recent-years Chinese history and everything in this story appears to check out. I have you say though, if these guys really did this, they are absolutely legendary. I don't think this could happen today.
When I switched to daily driving Linux I created a VFIO Windows VM that gets passed through my GPU and USB controller (and thus audio, inputs) which gives me pretty near native performance. It takes maybe 10 seconds to boot into it, and I can easily access my files from the Linux host running underneath. I recently added a VirtioFS mount so I can store my games on the Linux filesystem instead of inside the VM disk image. I've started a few games and benchmarks on it to confirm it runs great.

VM running using libvirt and virt-manager, using QEMU underneath, with custom hook script that makes passing through the hardware a bit more seamless.

Although with how awesome Wine/Proton and ecosystem are these days I have so far played almost all my games on Linux. I created the VM setup because I thought I'd need it, but turns out I didn't really. Think I've played through 20-30 games or something like that now with minimal issues on Linux, including big budget AAA games within a few days of their release, smaller indie games, all kinds of different ones. Most tinkering required was for older games that'd need similar tweaks on modern Windows as well.
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You dont leave it flat, like every other battery device.
I've often thought that a large fraction of what LDAP does could be replaced by a /etc/passwd.d/ directory, with individual files for user accounts. Then the accounts could be synced without issue or race conditions. And it'd be much simpler to work with than that bloated protocol.
When I am 100% in office, my stress goes up, and my productivity goes down. When I'm 100% remote, the same thing eventually happens, but for different reasons. Having the flexibility to come into the office when I want/need to, or stay home when i need to is a really great middle ground where I thrive.
I was talking about the GDPR, not EU regulations in general.
It sounds like this:

> When it cancelled the SR model, Tesla also stated that the batteries in those models were actually bigger than advertised, and that it planned to offer software unlocks that would add 40-60 miles of range, depending on your battery cells, for $1,500-$2,000, as soon as it had regulatory approval to do so.

> And now it looks like those upgrades are ready to go, as certain Model Y owners have started seeing an “Energy Boost” upgrade available in their Tesla app.

It only sucks that the folks without the unlock are merely carrying around the extra mass of the larger battery.
Free trials are dying in SaaS
Brain size riddle solved as humans exceed evolution trend
Slightly interesting article:

"There are three groups of animals that showed the most pronounced rapid change in brain size: primates, rodents, and carnivores. In these three groups, there is a tendency for relative brain size to increase in time (the "Marsh-Lartet rule"). This is not a trend universal across all mammals, as previously believed."
I'll get on it . Thanks for the feedback
Background script permission and universal url access permission, I doubt you can pass web store validation with these two.