skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This essay was in part triggered by a bizarre opinion I saw re-tweeted on Bluesky

Okay, serious question, is "tweet" trademarked? Can we start putting tweet/retweet on Bluesky/Mastodon already?

It's an interesting perspective but it's sad that the author seems obsessed with terrible opinions they found on the Internet. I make this mistake, too, sometimes. I think the best alternative is not to share it, however much we want to rant about it, but focus our energies on sharing good things. It's very hard to me to do this, though.

As I grew with interactive media, video-games, I never thought about the static-ness of pre-vidya media.

I do have my bias toward the era I grew up with, though. I'll never be able to understand people's focus on realistic graphics, when games peaked with cartoonish Dreamcast graphics.

I can't imagine what the generation after me will be biased toward compared to the one that will come next. Imagine if VR ever becomes a thing? "Back in my day we used smartphones instead of spending all day in the metaverse!"

I suppose the problem is whether you can respect someone's viewpoint without agreeing with it. As people say these days, it's "valid" to write the story however you want, just as it's valid for me not to enjoy it. It's a good idea to avoid making assumptions of the authors' character based on their works, but I suppose it's not hard to find someone who does that, specially in the world wide web.
When Social Media Felt Real
Yes and risk management dictates diversification to mitigate this kind of risk as well.
Apple is a US Based Company. Isn't Nvidia based in the UK ? Plus with the AI push, many US companies will be against forcing a change to Nvidia's status.

edit: OK, maybe I got arm and Nvidia mixed up :)
Can we convert from DC to AC, manipulate voltage, then convert back to DC?
People move all the time. People also often have multiple accounts, which they could use to determine which accounts are located where.
Well, I'm guessing I have two podcasts in there, one of which is completely inactive and the other of which I haven't published anything new to for well over a year. There are a lot of podcasts out there that are pretty inactive and some were only intended as being limited series in the first place. So, yeah, if the universe of discoverable podcasts is 4 million it wouldn't surprise me at all if an order of magnitude fewer are creating new content. (Though older content, e.g. for The Big Dig limited series can still be historically noteworthy.)
> Interviewer: “Ok but your family wasn’t really great to the people of Peru”

> Habsburg: “We were learning.”

I don't know what they did to the people of Peru, but if it follows the general pattern of crimes committed against colonized peoples, that is one hell of a euphemism.

And it seems intentionally morally vague, since it's not clear from that statement what it is that they learned.
WireGuard is an instantiation of Noise, which slightly disfavors AES-GCM (see: the spec). I don't think it's a huge big deal, but at the time WireGuard was being designed it was pretty normal to tack away from GCM.

I agree in advance, Noise already uses counter-based nonces, the extended nonce wouldn't matter to vanilla Noise.
Yeah yeah, humans are silly broken machines, the universe is indifferent, you're very edgy and smart.
Is this dangerous in terms of hearing damage due to the perceived low sound level alongside inaudible louder ultrasound?
> Intel's lack of drive to innovate

Intel is behind yes, but they're not unwilling to innovate.

Fab delays at one point held up a lot of newer designs and they had to backport it and/or use TSMC.
I don't know if it has become worse but it has some UI quirks that confuse me from time to time.
> Those 40mm PSU fans, and the PSU, are what they are replacing with a DC bus bar.

DC (power) in the DC (building) isn't anything new: the telco space has used -48V (nominal) power for decades. Do a search for (say) "NEBS DC power" and you'll get a bunch of stuff on the topic.

Lot's of chassis-based system centralized the AC-DC power supplies.
If you don't get to the end of the article you'll miss this gem:

> If they don’t acknowledge their errors in my lifetime, I guess I’ll just get someone to pretend I’m still alive until that changes.
Heavily tax speculation and heavily reduce taxes on productive activities.
Making an iOS App Simply by Prompting
seems this just encourage researchers to sell zero-day exploits to organize crime and/or alphabet letter agencies. No wonder we have no digital security at all! Big tech don't really care about security or privacy. Why are we even using their stuff?
Is this a reference to American Psycho?
Are you so sure about that? How much energy went into training the self-assembling chemical model that is the human brain? I would venture to say literally astronomical amounts.

You have to compare apples to apples. It took literally the sum total of billions of years of sunlight energy to create humans.

Exploring solution spaces to find intelligence is expensive, no matter how you do it.
You can't tell me you weren't convinced by the link to a wikipedia page. Not even to an argument on the wikipedia page, but just to the whole-ass wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn
I think Python is overused, but this is exactly what Python is great for. Python3 is already installed or trivial to install on almost everything, it has an enormous library of built-ins for nearly everything you'll need to do in a script like this, and for all of its faults it has a syntax that's usually pretty hard to subtly screw up in ways that will only bite you a month or two down the road.

My general rule of thumb is that bash is fine when the equivalent Python would mostly be a whole bunch of `subprocess.run` commands. But as soon as you're trying to do a bunch of logic and you're reaching for functions and conditionals and cases... just break out Python.
Ben Eater: RS232 Flow Control
Then you're perfect for a technique called 'noting', which accelerates results.
Sodium-ion sounds pretty nice also. You don't have the restrictions of a standard passenger vehicle (you have more space).

I imagine in the future they'll look back on when we drove cars that were so combustible (ICE or lithium-ion) like how we look back at when everyone had lead-based house paint or asbestos ceilings.
From the excerpted section I totally see why that's the question, and yet that's not quite how I parsed it in the essay.

The author makes the point that readers are more likely to reject the author's imposed world/structure/facts. The hypothesis is that we (readers) think reading is interactive, but I wonder if it's more postmodern ("inviting the reader to participate") than that.

I love Bret's work, but I sort of imagine this is the kind of analysis that a modern author might find frustrating: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/10/collections-the-siege-of-gondo...

In my opinion, there's crappy "gotcha" analysis like cinema sins which is mostly cheap entertainment. It doesn't really encourage one to engage deeply with the original work like Bret's posts do.

Regardless, I thought the author was discussing this type of readership/fandom
> Majority of the fentanyl was backpacked in

No. This should be plainly obvious for anyone who understands the scale and economies of logistics. If fentanyl were mostly backpacked in, it wouldn’t be a national problem.
It is interesting to me and others.

There's a person living in Vila do Corvo. I didn't know that was a place. What are they interested in? What do the technical people of Vila do Corvo post about?

(In this case, not much, but it was fun to find out.)
> the general pattern was that people in that block would start passing away starting from the lowest floors

For your theory to believably explain this, wouldn't everybody have to be the same age to start off with on all the floors? Which seems improbable?
> It's a funny cultural thing that it wouldn't have even occurred to me that someone in Europe wouldn't realize city names can conflict

The irony is that a lot of our city names came from Europe.
Obligatory reference to Carp[1], the lisp that uses borrow checking; the "rust" of lisps.

1: https://github.com/carp-lang/Carp
I'm not sure how you solve discoverability other than personal recommendation from someone with similar interests. As noted, there are a ton of podcasts out there and many won't overlap with your interests, others are largely or wholly inactive, others are poorly produced, etc. The fix, such as it is, is probably to have a podcast reviewer who isn't in it for payola, who overlaps with your interests and sensibilities who makes recommendations on a blog.
Yeah, maybe something like LORAN? Or maybe quantum gyroscopes will shrink in cost and size to allow totally offline navigation without references beyond a known starting point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gyroscope
:-)

I shall start sharing the whole domain to answer anything. With a bit of luck, something will address the discussed concern.
To discover new podcasts, I often search on https://www.listennotes.com/ for episodes about people or topics I find interesting.
> [...] readers [...] are inclined to reject the immutability of a described reality that contradicts their own preferences.

I think it is almost the opposite. People (readers or the people making the stories) are increasingly unwilling to accept ambiguity and uncertainty in fictional universes.

It used to be that every time you told a story like a fairy tale, it could be slightly different. Maybe cinderella was told slightly differently at my home than at yours. But that is fine, as long as the basic points of the story are there. This concept is totally alien to many people. Stories are no longer rough archetypes, but the exact media (film or book) with all it's details. People can't tolerate contradictions, and clamor for canon. And that leads to the urge to explain and connect everything, and stuff like Midichlorian, the virus that makes Klingons look human, or the convoluted Zelda timeline.

A couple years ago J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) suggested to reboot the original Star Trek. Not as a prequel, or an alternative universe, but just a new show with new actors, unconnected to the original, telling new and modern stories. He said, let's treat Star Trek like a Shakespeare play. If multiple actors can play Hamlet, why can't there be multiple interpretations of Kirk?
I find this thinking difficult to reconcile. When I setup up my workstation it does usually take me half a day to sort out an encrypted rootfs mirrored volume with zfsbootmenu + linux, but after that its all set for the next decade. A small price for the peace of mind it affords.
Every time o put directions to my local market town of Newport in Shropshire, google insists on thinking I want to travel two hours to Wales.

I guess it could be worse and I’d end up in the Isle of Wight.

Reused names isn’t just an American thing.
We would also need an optical atomic clock at each receiver in order to have enough time resolution to correlate the signals correctly. A few optical clocks exist but they are still highly experimental.
Well done! I have one suggestion. Given how geographically sparse HN users are, you could consider listing nearby users too. For example:

2 hackers in Ankh-Morpork:

- Lord Vetinari

- Igor

3 hackers within 10 mi (16 km):

- Susan (Sto Helit)

- Princess Keli (Sto Lat)

- Lord Rodley (Quirm)

(It can be a bit tricky, though.)
>The gradual shift from imperative to declarative interfaces

prolog, sql, chatgpt comes to mind
> since they all use the same ASML EUV technology to produce the wafers

If only that's all there is to it. This is sort of the media's simplified view for the general public. And well what some people want to talk about.

There are lots of vendors involved with a lot of unique technologies in the mix. If it was so simple everyone would just buy these machines and copy it.

> The machines and process is just about effectively the same

It's clearly different. Apple experienced it first hand many times. Same as Qualcomm. Try ask TSMC and Samsung to manufacture the same design over roughly the same generation and there have been vastly different results.
The restriction against allowing @gmail accounts to sign up is kind of insane.
Key reason the Simpsons live there - it could be anywhere.
> Visiting the same number of nodes, but because the nodes are referenced from an array, when you load `a1` you're [probably] also going to load `a2` into the cache.

Yep, the problem with a linked list is that you don't know the address of the next pointer, it could be allocated anywhere. However, if you have a continuous array, when you read the first item, you're also fetching the next items in the cache line.
Some of my hard requirements for a media device are that it must not share any of my personal information with any third party and it must fully cache the full-resolution and complete media content prior to beginning playback. If it's going to be connected to the Internet it must receive regular security updates for anything that's not written in a memory- and type-safe language like Go or Rust.

While Go and Rust aren't necessarily magic pixie-dust that can account for all types of security vulnerabilities, if I'm going to be faced with the possibility of some project being abandoned at some point for the next new shiny thing that everyone would rather work on, I'd at least like to give it a fighting chance of remaining secure for some time after abandonment without any updates. Ideally it would be a Rust userspace media management package running on Debian Stable getting unattended upgrades every night.

Since nothing like that exists I've recently decided to give CoreELEC/Kodi a try on an ODROID-N2+, albeit disconnected from any network. I was surprised at how seamless and integrated everything was.

The remote control for my television "just worked" with it out of the box thanks to HDMI CEC support. Arrow buttons, play/pause, back, etc. all did just what I expected them to do. It's a marked improvement from the last time I built a custom media box, which I had running MythTV on Gentoo, when I needed to jump through hoops to set up an IR blaster. And you can't argue with a 12v/2a power supply.

For now I'm keeping it off my home network and am "sneaker-netting" content on a USB drive between my trusted devices and the ODROID. When I get tired of doing that I might add some firewall rules to my router to only allow it to talk to a locked-down VM doing nothing but hosting a read-only file share. But some day I hope to look forward to building a similar form-factor box that has all the media gadgets and gizmos with a Rust userspace that respects my privacy and auto-updated Debian Stable so I can actually connect it to the Internet.
You might also need performance. Or efficiency.
Yesterday morning I learned that someone I was acquainted with had just passed away and the funeral is scheduled for next week.

They recently had a stroke at home just days after spending over a month in the hospital.

Then I remembered that they were originally supposed to be getting an important surgery, but it was delayed because of the CrowdStrike outage. It took weeks for the stars to align again and the surgery to happen.

It makes me wonder what the outcome would have been if they had gotten the surgery done that day, and not spent those extra weeks in the hospital with their condition and stressing about their future?
> Heavily tax speculation

Like startups?
https://archive.ph/NJql8

But let me save you a click (you won't be too shocked, I suspect): they innovate very quick, they work cheap, and their cars sell cheap also.
Apple Suddenly Drops NSO Group Spyware Lawsuit
You can see it in the URL too.
Fully agree that it’s a step in the right direction. The thing that gives me pause is essentially ‘if they want to be a co-op, why aren’t they just a co-op’?

I appreciate that in a full co-op dilution is a concern if they need external investors (e.g., Curiosity Stream) but you could have a structure with 50% co-op ownership and 50% capital ownership, so dilution as the platform expands would only affect the other co-operative owners.
As long as you recognize that a Chinese tariff would be a massively inflationary and regressive tax on American consumers.

A Chinese tariff is perhaps the right long term move, but in the short term it will cause a lot of pain to Americans who are struggling with a cost of living crisis as it is.
5/5 then. Maybe we need an "Atticism", parodying foundationalism in similar ways to Roderick Spode's Saviours of Britain?
I think there is data that says the opposite (particularly in the context of Piketty), there is a reduction of efficiency when too much is controlled by overly concentrated capital structures.
This source got me started with Rust back in 2021, and I'm very grateful that this exists.
> …lawyers picked apart Wright’s claims that some of his computer documents had been typed before 2008, using evidence from font designers. The witnesses testified that some fonts “hadn’t even been created until years after the alleged date of the document”…

https://craigwright.net/

Fascinating.
Nitecoin.
(NIche TEch COnsulting INitiative)
Can we just push LLMs aside for a minute and look at the whole AI models from outside the box? The feeling I'm getting is that the obsession with LLMs has outpaced its usefulness.
I appreciate your comment and I find your stories interesting. I'm saying this because I'm going to clarify my point in a way that might otherwise come across as dismissive. I know people pay for porn. I was specifically talking about what differentiates OnlyFans from other paid porn sites, and that's the parasocial aspect. It's not just an unhealthy thing that some people do; it's a huge part of how they distinguish themselves from the decades-established online porn industry.
I had a similar issue when I was doing more help desk work as a college student. I worked in a hospital and older women would always complain that I wasn't friendly enough. I had a miserable fucking life - I was grinding myself into dust in every aspect and was doing this work purely to get to the next stage of my career. I was never unfriendly, I just was on a mission to get the work done and get out. Instead, these older women who were complaining really wanted a free therapy session. They didn't do meaningful work - they weren't cardiologists or anything of that (anyone with a "real" job would be so much more focused on resolving the issue and getting back to work - and, more importantly, learning how to self resolve the issue so they never had to talk to us again). Merely some paper pushers. I'd see my colleagues get hung up for 30 minutes listing to some of these older women talk to them about their life and then they'd come back with a haggard face.

Ironically, I ended up getting reprimanded again for having unprofessional tone because I made my response emails "too friendly". I was glad to leave that job and never return to help desk type work again.
> tens of thousands of illegal immigrants are just sneak in without any checking

One TEU can weigh up to 67,500 lbs [1]. Humans can’t carry more than 20 to 30% of their body weight for meaningful distances. To rival the capacity of a single container, assuming only really fit men, you’d need 1,350 backpackers (assuming 200 lb men carrying 50 lbs each, which is ridiculous).

If every one of the nation’s 2mm illegal crossers were a fit man carrying their maximum load on a backpack, it would total to the tonnage of 1,500 containers. The Port of LA processed over 500x that in June [2]. The throughput at a signal American port is 3+ orders of magnitude more than could possibly be carried by every illegal border crosser by backpack.

It’s wild for anyone with a basic sense of numeracy to believe that humans carrying backpacks are bringing a material amount of anything into this country, let alone a product for mass consumption.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-foot_equivalent_unit

[2] https://www.portoflosangeles.org/references/2024-news-releas...
Nice job !
It is possible that some of our now extinct sibling species also weren’t fazed that much by a dead fellow. It depends on default settings of a character and may be orthogonal to subj. The same stands for humans, some cultures celebrate the death.
No, they're not. The script they're critiquing uses #!/bin/bash, so they have to have been saying that #!/usr/bin/env bash is better.
I've seen a few sites train LLMs / use RAG on their online docs. When I used it, it was very useful in terms of search and synthesis. imo it'd be nice if projects release a current model trained on their documentation and code.
The last time I read about this there were a ton of comments along the lines of “author needs to come to <my tiny African nation> both my grandmas are over 100 years old and it’s normal here” - proves the point!
I've lived in the US and UK and noticed what I think is a tiny cultural difference -- that signs giving instructions in the US tend to be brief and contain the instruction only; whereas in the UK I thought I saw more that add some text for a brief explanation or reason, if it wasn't obvious.
> “Think like a librarian,”

I feel like "thinking" is something that we've to a large degree lost with the Internet, social media, and now LLMs and the like. My 12 year old son -- a good boy who does well in school but not exceptionally studious by any means -- is I think rather typical of his generation, and a common reply I get from him when I mention anything that requires deeper thought or effort: "that's too much work, just ask __ (chatbot of choice)". Maybe I'm just an "old boomer" as he (affectionately) calls me (I'm gen-X but "boomer" seems to be gen-Z slang for anyone over 40, besides the fact that NO ONE SEEMS TO REMEMBER THAT THERE A WHOLE F*ING GENERATION BETWEEN BOOMERS AND MILLENNIALS (but I digress), but I do worry that something very important is being lost - and I'm not quite sure how to prevent that other than living off the grid or something (which would quite literally kill my children -- as we were driving through the countryside the other day the same 12 year old exclaimed in only half-joking horror -- how can people live out here? do they even have internet?
PHP Docs are pretty good as already mentioned.

I personally love the Documentation for Kirby CMS:

https://getkirby.com/docs/guide

https://getkirby.com/docs/reference

https://getkirby.com/docs/cookbook
Yes, actually all animals know to hide their pain.
Why ? Because they have to.

When a predator sees a group of possible preys, the first thing he does is to observe them to detect the weakest one. Hence the weakest animal has to hide his pain/sickness and pretend to be ok.

In this context, when female mammals give birth, they automatically eat their placenta and lick the blood on the floor: to leave almost no traces that would give clues to predators that birth has taken place (to protect their offspring, in other words)
If he's not Satoshi and doesn't have Satoshi's keys the what is the point of saying he is Satoshi? Seems like a long way to go for some notoriety and no financial gain.
I’m targeting any input fields. So like, standard input boxes like HN, but also weird input fields like a google doc or notion page.
I've been trying to get back into listening to podcasts over the past few years and something I've found is that the means of delivery is split. You can't rely on being available to subscribe to 'textbook definition' RSS based podcasts, it could also be on apple, spotify, youtube, an embedded player on their website, or any combination of those.
https://archive.ph/IYNzx
I like this.

I know this might sound petty, but the thing preventing me from signing up is your comfort level dispersing information through x.com. You said "meet.hn has a twitter page", but sadly, twitter is dead and has been replaced by something sinister. I can't support them, even tangentially.
Task-relevant representational formats in multi-layered memory traces