skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around May 2011

April 2011, not found: https://web.archive.org/web/20110204131427/http://www.google...

May 2011, similar text to the current one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110507142249/http://www.google...

Discussion at that time:

May 2011 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2522220 - 57 comments

Discussion 8 years ago:

April 2016 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11498672 - 89 comments
The stimulus checks were too small to move the needle any appreciable way. It was basically a larger than usual tax return. Having like $2500 extra isn’t why goods went up so much in price. That was from supply chain disruption.
So this is "lorum ipsum" for headshots?
Why does a book need a hero's arc?

I've read the "Second Foundation trilogy" written by other renowned sci-fi authors, as well as the later Foundation books written by Asimov. They had typical main characters with hero's arcs driving the story. I much preferred the originals.

Especially the first book. It's refreshing to read a story where events occur because of unstoppable historical forces instead of the superhuman actions of a hero.

If I wanted a story about a hero, I could read...well...just about any other book ever written.
EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft
Stock price hasn’t done well. It feels like cronyismc and should be investigated.

Meanwhile, while I fly into the Atl, their headquarters, the workers at the airport tell me how they are on food stamps! Come on, America. Wake up.
Windows development on eBPF is slower than Linux development on eBPF, so it will never be supported. A source code user licensee could develop it faster, but who licenses Windows source and already has great eBPF experience?
What I was thinking was that whenever the U.S. enters into any form of weapons reduction agreement there has to be an enormous amount of internal reluctance to actually make those reductions.

Reagan's so-called "trust, but verify" policy.

I find it difficult to accept that any party to those agreements would actually reduce anything without having equivalent plans B, C, and D.

I am not a weapons expert so thank you for your insight.
Well it's not just[1] redditors from what I can gather:

Now Alderon Games reports that Raptor Lake crashes impact Intel's 13th and 14th-Gen processors in laptops as well.

"Yes we have several laptops that have failed with the same crashes. It's just slightly more rare then the desktop CPU faults," the dev posted.

These are the guys who publicly claimed[2] Intel sold defective chips based on the desktop chips crashing.

[1]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/dev-reports-...

[2]: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/game-publish...
Roblox's Pedophile Problem
You are. We can see this earlier in the thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026902
Emoji color spaces: a strategy for improving coverage of heart emojis [pdf]
I gotta admit, it's pretty LoTek of him to strap a partially dismantled Lenovo laptop to the back of this thing, but... couldn't he have just used a mini PC that's designed to be mounted to the VESA mounts present on many flat-panel TVs?
That doesn't strike me as a problem. Definitions are often highly abstract and counterintuitive, with much study required to understand at an intuitive level what motivates them. Rigour and intuition are often competing concerns, and I think definitions should favour the former. The definition of compactness in topology, or indeed just the definition of a topological space, are examples of this - at face value, they're bizarre. You have to muck around a fair bit to understand why they cut so brilliantly to the heart of the thing.
Read something more cheerful, like from Peter Watts.
I was recently looking at building and buying a couple systems. I've always liked Intel. I went AMD this time.

It seemed like the base frequencies vs boost frequencies were much farther apart on Intel than with most of the AMDs. This was especially true on the laptops were cooling is a larger concern. So I suspect they were pushing limits.

Also, the performance core vs efficiency core stuff seemed kind of gimmicky with so few performance cores and so many efficiency cores. Like look at this 20 core processor! Oh wait, it's really an 8 core when it comes to performance. Hard to compare that to a 12 core 3D cached Ryzen with even higher clock...

I will say, it seems intel might still have some advantages. It seems AMD had an issue supporting ECC with the current chipsets. I almost went Intel because of it. I ended up deciding that DDR5 built in error correction was enough for me. The performance graphs also seem to indicate a smoother throughput suggesting more efficient or elegant execution (less blocking?). But on the average the AMDs seem to be putting out similar end results even if the graph is a bit more "spikey".
You can fire an SLBM from the Pacific or the Sea of Japan without traversing Russia or China.
> America is in shambles in terms of order, governance, rule of law

Or we could try another perspective: America is, beyond peradventure, the most successful continent-wide, multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-faith society in the history of the world. Lots of problems, but we're working on them.
As long as you get the job done within the estimates and make the client happy you're meeting your employment or job obligations. There is a lot of high paying salaries where people still parse csv jobs, and perform manual reporting with excel files.
I'm wondering, isn't Information Theory as much part of physics as Thermodynamics is?
Even supposing that "Other" is just pornhub and nothing else, that's less than one order of magnitude more than Netflix.
> I think your reasoning is a bit motivated - this is a pretty good social science experiment that was very careful to preregister their analysis.

I’ll cop to that, but there are a lot of people commenting here who seem to be latching on to the relatively small decrease in working hours as a primary takeaway, and I’ve seen enough motivated reasoning around this topic elsewhere to have a theory on why they’re doing so.

And, for what it’s worth, I’m not trying to critique the study itself or the conditions it was performed under.
Increased demand for privacy, which has already led competing browsers to kill 3P cookies.

Note that Google wasn't willing to kill 3P cookies without providing Privacy Sandbox an an alternative, less privacy-invasive, way for publishers to target ads. Without Privacy Sandbox, the reduction in revenue is even more severe:

> we observed that removing third-party cookies without enabling Privacy Sandbox led to -34% programmatic revenue for publishers on Google Ad Manager and -21% programmatic revenue for publishers on Google AdSense. [https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/15189422]

Also note that the revenue being talked about is for publishers using Google Ad Manager and Google AdSense. Google gets a cut of that, but it's not as significant as the revenue from contextual ads they show on search results.
>Advertising and lobbying warps our perception of these drugs.

More like, our own preference and enjoyment of the drugs compared to their detriments constructs our perception of these drugs.

Coffee, alcohol, pain killers, etc. These are all drugs that give the user enjoyment with very little down sides. This means that society has reserved a place for them.
That doesn’t make any sense. Just drop it by a conventional non ICBM method
Which of the post-2009 Hugo winners do you consider unworthy? (Let's confine the discussion to novels for the moment).
> So when you’re reading 7-bit ASCII, if it starts with 00, it’s a non-printing character. Otherwise it’s a printing character.

> The first printing character is space; it’s an invisible character, but it’s still one that has meaning to humans, so it’s not a control character (this sounds obvious today, but it was actually the source of some semantic argument when the ASCII standard was first being discussed).

Hmm.. Interesting that space is considered a printing character while horizontal tab and newline are control characters. They're all invisible and move the cursor, but I guess it makes sense. Space is uniquely very specific in how the cursor is moved one character space, so it's like an invisible character. Newline can either imply movement straight down, or down and to the left, depending on a configuration or platform (e.g. DOS vs UNIX line endings). Horizontal tab can also move you a configurable amount rightwards, and perhaps it might've been thought a bit differently, given there's also a vertical tab, which I've got no idea on how it was used. Maybe it's the newline-equivalent for tables, e.g. "id\tcolor\v1\tred\v2\tblue\v" or something like that.

Interesting also that BS is a control char while DEL is a printing(?) char. I guess that's because BS implies just movement leftwards over the text, while DEL is all ones like running a black sharpie through text. Guess that's what makes it printing. Wonder if there were DEL keys on typewriters that just stamped a black square, and on keypunchers that just punched 7 holes, so people would press "backspace" to go back then "delete" to overwrite.

I've used ASCII a lot, but even after so many years, I'm getting moments where it's like "oh this piece isn't just here, it needs to be here for a deep reason". It's like a jigsaw puzzle.
Rasterize Quake
All you have is a choice between an A or a B that was put in front of you by the party establishment. It’s no real choice.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/mickens/files/theslowwinte...

"Unfortunately for John, the branches made a pact with Satan
and quantum mechanics [...] In exchange for their last remaining
bits of entropy, the branches cast evil spells on future genera-
tions of processors. Those evil spells had names like “scaling-
induced voltage leaks” and “increasing levels of waste heat”
[...] the branches,
those vanquished foes from long ago, would have the last laugh."

"John was terrified by the collapse of the parallelism bubble,
and he quickly discarded his plans for a 743-core processor
that was dubbed The Hydra of Destiny and whose abstract
Platonic ideal was briefly the third-best chess player in Gary,
Indiana. Clutching a bottle of whiskey in one hand and a shot-
gun in the other, John scoured the research literature for ideas
that might save his dreams of infinite scaling. He discovered
several papers that described software-assisted hardware
recovery. The basic idea was simple: if hardware suffers more
transient failures as it gets smaller, why not allow software to
detect erroneous computations and re-execute them? This idea
seemed promising until John realized THAT IT WAS THE
WORST IDEA EVER. Modern software barely works when the
hardware is correct, so relying on software to correct hardware
errors is like asking Godzilla to prevent Mega-Godzilla from
terrorizing Japan. THIS DOES NOT LEAD TO RISING PROP-
ERTY VALUES IN TOKYO. It’s better to stop scaling your
transistors and avoid playing with monsters in the first place,
instead of devising an elaborate series of monster checks-
and-balances and then hoping that the monsters don’t do what
monsters are always going to do because if they didn’t do those
things, they’d be called dandelions or puppy hugs."
I can only hope this was a joke/light hearted but anyway

> That just your own bad taste.

Please be civil

[link to hn guidelines here]
https://wiki.ai03.com/ is what a lot of people use. Though it's probably easier nowadays to use an RP2040-based ProMicro form factor daughterboard so you only need to handle key placement.

Firmware... QMK: https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/ || https://docs.qmk.fm/porting_your_keyboard_to_qmk

Disclaimer: I'm a QMK Maintainer.
Important caveat — from the abstract: "For both weather and climate, our approach offers orders of magnitude computational savings over conventional GCMs, although our model does not extrapolate to substantially different future climates."
I want to throw intuition into this insight. A gamble based on a 'deliberate' shortage of knowledge increases the intensity of non-gamble-domain-specific awareness of scraps of experiences that, if accumulated, fit the pattern one gambles on (process and outcome). Risk aversion can be an instant accumulation of intuitions about factors that lead to the success or failure of the gamble. An "I should have know but did it anyway" kind of thing or "if only I had thrown a little more cpu and time into this consideration". So whether it's rational or not is the result of 'mindfulness' in that specific domain, which leaves risk aversion itself as a kind of no-brainer for most people most of the times when they (don't) act on it. Excluding coin flips. What do coin flips have to do with the human kind of risk anyway? And the hunter in the story is emotional (love or desire to dominate) which already excludes rationality and his shortage of knowledge extends to the domain of long term partnership between humans with personality, responsibilities and expectations of him, the prospective partner and those of the tribe.
Which is a lot more fallible than just having a huge number
That's insightful because it means it may be strictly an accounting issue versus an actual reduction in the number of warheads i.e. the number of warheads counted == the number mounted, not the total number possessed.
Totally agree with this. I grew up in the 70s & 80s; myself, along with every other kid I knew, learned to exist without any supervision starting around 3rd grade. I think that might be difficult to believe for younger people today, but it's true. During the summer, all the kids in the neighborhood would get on our bikes in the morning and ride all day long, not returning home until dinner time. No parents. No cell phones. We had injuries all the time (one kid got shot in the leg by a hunter, another kid broke both his legs jumping into a shallow creek), but we all somehow survived. People weren't so protective of children back then. The attitude was basically, "They're kids. They're tough. They can take it."

My sister has kids, and she's a total helicopter parent. I've asked her why, considering how we were raised. She simply said, "That's just how it is now. That's how everyone parents." So yeah, there is certainly a cultural element to this. But I wonder if that cultural change has been created or amplified by cost. In other words, the dumb-ass kid that jumped off a bridge into a shallow creek (it was on a bet, naturally), would his parents have to file for bankruptcy these days because of the high medical costs?
Of course he isn’t involved in it, trump doesn’t come up with any policy. Doesn’t mean it isn’t the position of his party.
What an odd situation, where we can applaud "the transparency" (and I do, honestly) while the US is also simultaneously cheerfully delivering a public reminder that "we have more than enough to absolutely annihilate anyone and everyone... so don't fuck with us."
Recently in Seattle one airline couldn’t locate the copilot! I couldn’t believe it.
When people think “welfare state” I don’t think they are imagining jobs in civil service…
Luckily Nix is also an excellent build system, and does provide escape hatches here and there when you really need them (e.g nix-ld).
> If I recall correctly [...] as much energy released as an atomic bomb.

That can't be true, but perhaps you saw something about temperatures which resembled those from a nuclear-bomb instead? (The key being that much much less mass is getting heated, and stays that way for a much shorter time.)

____________

One quick set of reasoning is this: Energy cannot be created or destroyed, and there's no reason to think the popping-bubble is causing seawater to undergo nuclear fusion, so the limit is whatever it takes for someone to repeatably set up the situation. (So basically the energy to dropping ballast-and-bubble to the bottom of the sea, popping the bubble, and then pulling the ballast back up.) Tedious, but hardly nuclear-bomb territory.

A second approach is to imagine the collapse as a giant column of water falling like weight into the gap. Imagine a magic-glass box 1x1x1 meter holding a vacuum, sunk 10km below the surface. That's 10,000 m^3 of water and roughly ~10,000kg of mass poised to fall 1m. Gravitational potential energy: ~98 kilojoules.

For comparison, that's the energy of ~3 liters of gasoline, although getting it to explode in a similarly-simultaneous way would be tricky. (Power = Energy / Time.) In contrast, the Hiroshima explosion was ~63 terajoules.
The main problem with traditional liquid fuelled rockets is keeping the propellant cold. It’s not feasible to keep a rocket with liquid oxygen fuelled for long periods. The Titan missiles use hypergolic fuel which is more storable, but also extremely toxic and volatile. More than 50 people have been killed in accidents involving this rocket.
How about we ban advertising so that getting rid of the cookies doesn't have that problem?
Maybe he works for a proprietary-software company that wants to just take the code and never give back. Or maybe he is dissatisfied with lots of OSS licenses being mutually incompatible.

But it is weird that just MIT seems to be acceptable to him, I would think some BSD licenses variant would be OK as well. But maybe even an acknowledgement of the hard work of others is too much to ask for...
Why are people still complaining about this? It doesn't try to pass as OSS when it is not, it makes an effort at transparency when they didn't need to, seems bootstrap with an entrepreneurial spirit. That should celebrate, kudos!
So you think this guy went to a clown show because his friend thought it would be good therapy?
This is a frequent topic of discussion in various forums and I am sure by Very Serious People in Charge [TM].

Extrapolating from the general sad state of the weapon systems in use by Russians where they are at this point unpacking tanks made in 1950, the quality of maintenance on their vehicles, and is difficult to plausibly claim that all the ancient rusty USSR stuff across the strategic rocket barrier is in any sort of usable shape.

Now, if an order to launch is given, some rockets may launch, some of those may actually fly, some of those flying actually get somewhere, and perhaps some of THOSE may actually detonate should they reach the target, and maybe if you're lucky at the designed yield. The percentages in that funnel that aren't known. And nobody [perhaps except some crazies] wants to find them out because even one in the middle of big city is enough.
I don't think Graham has much of an operating role in YC; he's been retired (from YC) for some time now. I think he holds a board seat? I disagree with a lot of what he has to say about politics, but this seems pretty cooly observed. To me --- one of the advocates Graham is referring to --- it seems like an odd thing to get worked up about.
After doing a lot of productive journaling with a lot of productive tools. I keep coming back to something that is just simple plain text files in apps that have barely any formatting (except MD because that's just there these days) and the apps that are snapping fast and robustly stable. It was NV (-> nvAlt) for a long time and then Simplenote (well, with hiccups and finally had to let go of it) and now I am giving Bear/FS Notes that chance (will settle on one; my tilt is towards the FOSS+non-subscription). These stick - the kinda "plainish note taking apps". Nothing else does. Definitely not the Zoplins and the Obsidians.

To me it seems all this "productivity" and "workflow magic and shit" talk is just for that - "the talk". And then there's a fancy "folder naming system". Right. I did try to understand the why of it. Didn't happen. But then I guess I am not even close to the power note takers these apps are supposed to be aimed at.

This has worked for me (anything more (complicated) and it just becomes friction and within few days):

- Open the app

- Write a new note or add to/edit an existing one

- That's it; at least the mere mortal version of it
Show HN: Collaborative Story-Telling Social Experiment
Hi HN,

Inspired by other eccentric projects such as One Million Checkboxes[1] and r/Place[2], I created a platform where anybody on the Internet can write a story, one letter at a time, and a new page is turned every day.

The site may ultimately be a pointless side project, but I think it could answer some interesting questions about human behavior and cooperation. Individually, you can create almost nothing. But collectively, a story can be formed.

Links:
[1]
https://www.reddit.com/r/place/
[2]
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/style/one-million-checkbo...
Its shit if you don't routinely speak or write English. On those grounds, I'll decry it as not only shit but purposely shit.

OK a bit over the top ... the designers of EBCSDIC had a rather tight set of constraints to deal with, none of which included: "be inclusive". Again, if I really had to be charitable (I looked after a System/36, back in the day), the hardware was rather shit too, sorry ... constrained. Yes constrained. Why should six inch fans fire up reliably after a few years of use and not need a poke after an IPL? No real dust snags and I carefully sprayed some WD40 on the one that I could get at. I have modern Dells and HPs in horrid environments that do better with shitty plastic fans.

EBCDIC is not elegant at all unless excluding non English characters in an encoding system is your idea of elegant.

According to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC it expended loads of effort with dealing with control eg: "SM/SW" instead of language.

ASCII and EBCDIC and that basically say: fuck you foreigners!

We now have hardware that is apparently capable of messianic feats. Let's do the entirety of humanity some justice and really do something elegant. It won't involve EBCDIC.
Ask HN: What Is Microsoft's Highest Quality Product?
Microsoft has never been known for quality products, from OneDrive to Teams to (new) Outlook to all of Azure, nobody actually love their products.
And recent years it has been quantity over quality (for example, see Dynamics 365, it's just a bunch of acquisitions slapped together).

So what is Microsoft's most loved, most stable and highest quality product?
Picking strawberries is different than managing a farm. Imagine your 4 year old being a shot caller at the farm and how that might go. Would you have strawberries next season to even pick? Does your 4yo know how to sell thousands of pounds of strawberries?
> That's a more gradual phase-out, but it still is an effective marginal tax rate of 50%+ – a level that wealthy earners would complain about to no end.

Yeah, my wording could have been better. The suggestion that I've seen for UBI is $12k/year (which is clearly not enough to live on in today's economy), with the $2:$1 reduction being only for the UBI, and then standard taxes starting after that.

This system was actually proposed a looong time ago (like 1970s, I think). Just by giving everyone a massive tax credit to start with.
My brain can't make low-keycount boards work, personally.

Ended up designing a 64-key one with displays: https://github.com/tzarc/keyboards/tree/main/Djinn -- can't see myself going any fewer than that.
It takes a lot of practice and training to learn how to pace yourself in order to do that strategy. Some rando off the field isn't going to be able to do that. Hell, I think even experienced runners may have trouble doing that for distances that they don't run regularly (e.g. a 100m specialist doing a 800m or a marathoner doing a 100m or 400m).
> So Netflix expects open source community to pick up the maintenance tab ?

In fairness, the very nature of open source is that the community is only going to pick up the maintenance tab if the value they're getting out of it is worth it.
You're looking for M&A lawyers, presumably pedigreed (from a large firm with a well regarded M&A practice, for instance). Your normal contracts counsel should have good thoughts about referrals.