skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alpine Linux is a very minimal base built around busybox and musl libc.

Void is another minimalist distro offering a choice of glibc or musl, and using runit as an init.

If you want more choices of init and a bleeding edge rolling release, Artix is a derivative of Arch with multiple init options in the core distribution.

Arch and Gentoo are the classics of do-it-yourself minimalism.
Ask HN: What old video games did you love that haven't left a large footprint?
Once in a while I think back to games I used to play as a kid/teen, and while some are considered classics, many seem to have been forgotten by time. Curious which games in your opinion should be more talked about?

A few that come to mind for me:

1. Centurion: Defender of Rome - a turn-based strategy game that came out a year before Civilization. Had some really interesting real-time battle mechanics and as a history nerd I loved taking over the various Roman era countries and kingdoms.

2. No One Lives Forever (and sequel) - a 3D shooter set in an Austin Powers / Archer like universe. So different from other shooters of the time with a great blend of a coherent story, interesting character (named Cate Archer, funny enough), and non-stop hilarity. Gadgets included lipstick camera, coins you can throw as a distraction, and a proximity bomb that looks like a kitten.

3. Acrophobia - a 90s online multiplayer game where you had to turn random acronyms into phrases that had to fit a particular topic. Winner was determined by voting. An amazingly fun time-waster.
The very reason you say something like foo is to avoid using any specific example that might actually mean something and confuse the listener into thinking it matters and focussing on some irrelevant detail instead of the actual concept being illustrated.

You detest that someone says "thing" instead of "house" or something?

"...so you take a thing-"

"what thing?"

"It doesn't matter. It might be anything. So you-"

"A car?"

Come on man.
X/Twitter going bankrupt would be a choice by Musk. He presently shows no indication of having lost love for it.
I don’t know. I find quanta articles very high noise. It’s always hyping something
Tangentially, I feel that the technical pursuit of hyper realism and novelty in various media over methods that require active participation of your imagination and intellect are a part of why many of us feel so disappointed and underwhelmed today.

I look at today’s sci-fi blockbuster or television show where unbelievable sums of money and effort were spent on highly detailed, elaborate CGI sequences and, more often than not, I’m not very moved and forget about it almost instantly. However, I watch an old Star Trek episode that has hilariously bad effects thrown together as cheaply as possible and I can _feel_ parts of my curiosity, imagination, and so on shift into motion. In order to make that embarrassing sound stage with a guy in a rubber suit work, I actually have to participate in it, provided the crew was skilled enough to provide a fertile playing field and a compelling scenario. It’s no different for games.

Being shoved through bigger, louder, and more audacious carnival rides where you just kinda walk from point A to point B becomes disappointing after a while. The disparity between the scope and ambition of the presentation and your actual engagement greatly amplifies any sensations of being underwhelmed and disappointed.
> someone will be willing to dedicate their life to becoming a Finco Bank Guru and running the forum for free. Usually they have a rather "Boomer" energy, so I get the feeling it's retired people who think the parish council/HOA doesn't meet often enough.

I started a support forum for a video game once. I wasn't a boomer or retired. I just liked the game, had the ability to help, and the time. I guess some people just like being helpful. Certainly the company who made the game profited off of my free labor but I wasn't looking for money (to their credit they did offer to send me to E3 one year at a time when tickets weren't being offered to the public).
>who refuse to interact with

Zero-tolerance ostracization is mean. If you're not doing that, and simply setting your boundaries - "I don't like the technology, let's talk about something else" - that's one thing. That's not what you were encouraging people to do in GP. I think we should be concise in our rhetoric, because it does have the potential to create needless conflict.

"But you just said-"

I did. People keep saying that AI is an existential threat requiring the most extreme action to stop. So... do people really believe that? Or are they just saying it? The treehuggers have a whole file on their actions[1]; where are the luddites? Is there really conviction, or just people letting off steam at convenient targets.[2]

[1]: https://www.dhs.gov/archive/science-and-technology/publicati...

[2]: I am not encouraging nor do I condone illegal or destructive acts, I'm analogizing a similar movement and its tactics.
Fidelity is an investor in X.

And they posted this in their annual report as they are required to by law.
> ...I had never seen anything else like them in elsewhere in the world.

The indigenous people of the Mariana Islands built somewhat similar dwellings atop a foundation of large stone structures called latte[1]. The latte today is a distinct symbol of Chamorro[2] identity (e.g. prominently represented in the flag of the CNMI[3] and surrounded by a mwarmwar, a symbol of Refaluwasch[4] identity).

P.S. Not Belauan, but sis-in-law is. Almost certainly just dox'd myself as well. I suspect the aggregate of us are truly ultra minorities in these tech backwaters.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamorro_people

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Northern_Mariana_I...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinian_people
Corn-based electrical insulators proved problematic in cars due to rodents eating the tasty insulators. Something to check in testing this material.
Mycelium based construction materials may be more beneficial due to fire resistance, insulation and excellent R values and relative unpalatability. Ecovative is a good place to learn about this (no personal affiliations, just a fan.)
isaak.net/mandarinmethods
Weird that the photo of the eBayed disk is a Maxell CF2 - a 3in disk! These were standard on the Amstrad 8-bits (CPC/PCW) and the Sinclair Spectrum +3, after Amstrad bought the rights to the Spectrum, but I’d never seen them on a C64.
WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader (Proof of Concept)
Oh, I agree. I just don't think believing in the work requires it to be extraordinary or ground breaking. For example, you can believe that growing potatoes is beneficial work.

Of course, as stated, "believe in the work" is an imprecise sentiment. Believe what exactly? They probably don't believe it is bad tho, haha
Skill #12: How to Turn Off the Fear Response and Create a Sense of Safety (2021)
I'd love to see this stat but I don't have access - mind posting the gist of it?
> probably for drama's sake

I've changed the title above to be that of the documentary whose release has prompted the article. We use the same trick with book reviews—i.e. since book review titles are often sensationalized, we usually change the HN title to that of the book.

p.s. Thanks for your comment! We don't get this kind of perspective often.
It's bleeding users. Bleeding users = no revenue . He can't sustain it forever from his pocket and lost user means the platform is as worthless as a random mastodon instance that no one knows about.
> There’s no need to theorize about small communities or humans developing AI in reaction to something.

Actually there is. You are looking at the proximal cause, I am more interested in the ultimate, to borrow from the evolutionary biologists.
That’s the whole point here, it’s not personalized. It comes from a donor so it’s somewhat standardized.
Can you please elaborate on why this is 'certainly false'? What is missing?

To me, it looks like you have some experience with the topic and believe that it is very hard to build something like the device in question, but which properties of the solution make you so certain?
Don't dialogue-heavy movies (with limited dynamic range) tend to have really loud sound because hearing the dialogue is especially important?
HN meta: an actual research paper vs product posing as science. Nice.
Why would women in particular object to "fu" and not "foo"?
I was a solo latchkey kid from age... 5 or 6 maybe? I developed a love of reading and spent basically all my waking hours that weren't forcibly in the company of others doing that, by myself: summertime in San Diego, teenage me read 2-4 books a day. I grew up to be incredibly introverted (ironic that I work as a product manager, which strongly favors extroverts) and I wonder how differently I might have turned out if a digital companion had urged me to be more social (something my parents never did), or just interacted with me on a regular basis.
I also value my time more than my averaged hourly rate, but there are some things that to me are ideologically worth more to me than the monetary value on my time. There’s a reason people volunteer, or make art, or are involved in politics. Some of us even give money to be involved in those things.
https://web.archive.org/web/20241005124635/https://www.theti...
Youth Sports Were Already Intense–Now AI Tools Are Supercharging the Competition
No zot? I don't remember where I picked them up. But it was always fubar and zot.
This is pretty sweet.

So many of these boring old categories have been abandoned by builders. But they’re very much still needed.
> Agrarian societies weren’t fun.

I suppose you've lived in one? Or are you just fearmongering? Because agrarian societies certainly weren't always worrying about food and disease. What about the Amish? They certainly manage decently without too much technology.
Yeah, looks like they failed to apply the manifesto to the manifesto's website...
How does this hold on assets that trend today wards the whole market if we assume that governments will not let markets crash too long before printing money?

What I mean is that if we can assume that the wiggle for VTI or SPY on the long term is positive because of outside factors, does that make options on those larger market assets become a game of who has a large enough reserve
>Genocide is the crime of erasing a culture.

Wrong.
Here is the definition: https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition
On ff mobile, where Mozilla in their endless wisdom disabled about:config, the same can be reached via url chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml .
Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
I develop an internet forum [0] that uses express-session with a Redis datastore for standard username and password website login. Separately, it also has a JSON API that uses OAuth 2 auth code flow with PKCE [1].

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles

[1] https://www.commentcastles.org/api#api-user-authentication
I created an ASO toolkit so you don't have to
It isn't a dichotomy. But making a dichotomy is thing technophiles do a lot and I'm not sure why. It's clear that we can go back to smaller communities and keep some of the newer ways. I think technophiles irrationally put everything that isn't "advanced tech society" into the box of hunter-gatherer because they can't psychologically cope with the idea that there is an alternative to the unsustainable technological world that they have become emotionally attached to.
I wish they actually engaged with this issue instead of writing a fluff piece. There are plenty of problems with multiple imputation.

Not the least of which is that it's far too easy to do the equivalent of p hacking and get your data to be significant by playing games with how you do the imputation. Garbage in, garbage out.

I think all of these methods should be abolished from the curriculum entirely. When I review papers in the ML/AI I automatically reject any paper or dataset that uses imputation.

This is all a consequence of the terrible statics used in most fields. Bayesian methods don't need to do this.
Two clicks from the landing page.

1. Choose the book you want to read (they call them sub-projects)

2. "Download" or "Read online"

Of course, they could reverse the nav order and provide first a "read online"/"download" and then let you pick which of the books you want to read, yielding ... two clicks to get to the one you want to read.
I wonder what an equivalent "BSD from scratch" is like?
Linux was assembled from a collection of parts while BSD is (reputably) a lot more 'designed from the ground up'
Even a modern system like Fuchsia - what's that like to build from the ground up?

Or is it "You fool! Building your own kitbashed Gundam of an OS is the point."
If the DSL was easier to work with, more familiar; and if there was some good IDE support with autocomplete and documentation, I think it would be amazing.
It would make more sense for theaters to have headphones to give an extra boost to people who need it. Some theaters have a system called Hearing Loop which will send the movie audio right to the person's hearing aids, without having to deal with other background noise that might be in the theater.

> Hearing Loop is an induction loop system which magnetically transmits the auditorium sound to compatible hearing aids. Our guests who have hearing aids with T-Coils can link directly into the theatre sound system at the touch of a button on their hearing aid. This delivers our guests a crisp and clear sound free from background noise and no headset is required. Hearing Loop is available at Landmark Theatres in Chicago and Aquarius Theatre, San Francisco Peninsula.

https://www.landmarktheatres.com/httpswwwlandmarktheatrescom...

I don't think movie volume goes down for everyone else, because these things exist. It just gives these people extra help, when they still have trouble, as loud as it is.
Reddit ? that's a forum for content generation

Mastodon ? No one knows you unless you have other socials

Instagram ? it blocks pc traffic , no retweet

Threads ? maybe the only one viable but it's meta

Facebook ? Um good luck

Tiktok ? It's just videos , it's far from soical media .
This, and its no-longer-maintained cousin, Cross Linux from Scratch[1], were instrumental in learning how to bootstrap a custom Linux distro for embedded devices (especially the CLFS Embedded variant[2]) at a previous job.

[1]: https://clfs.org/

[2]: https://clfs.org/view/clfs-embedded/arm/
Qix an arcade game.

Star Raiders, an Atari Computer game.
Never heard of zot, but baz
It's not tiny, it's not any size.

If you have your browser configured to use a tiny font by default, that is entirely on you genius.
Crossing my fingers that something like this pops up eventually for modern Signals-based JS frameworks like Vue, Svelte or Solid.

There is no way for me going back to React.
As someone who strives for simplicity, some things from this resonate with me, but there are many others that are just bad advice or wishful thinking.

> Solve problems instead of creating them

Whenever you write code, you inherently create problems. For every line of code you write to solve any problem, you create bugs, technical debt and maintenance problems for someone in the future. The only way to not create problems is to not write code, and therein lies the challenge.

> Do everything yourself

Yeah... no. A modern developer relies on _mountains_ of code just to use an editor. Will you write your own editor, networking stack, kernel, firmware and OS as well? If the answer is "no", take the same approach with the software you write. Don't liberally import any dependency you find, and certainly try to reduce the amount of 3rd party code that you use, but also be pragmatic and don't reinvent the wheel if there's a perfectly good one someone else built for you. The best you can do is take a glance at how it was built, and try to follow and understand updates when they happen, but this DIY/NIH obsession is ludicrous.

> Code that we didn't write we do not understand.

Have you tried reading it?

> Avoid all ornaments. We eschew all visual gimmicks, animations and eye-candy.

Awful advice. Good UIs are accessible and enjoyable to use. Just because you prefer your UIs to be spartan, doesn't mean your users will as well. You are building software for other people, right? If anything, make your software configurable so that your users have the option of configuring it to their needs and preferences.

> Do not listen to others. We never take a software methodology, school of programming or some random internet dude's "manifesto" at face value.

I will gladly disregard this "manifesto" as well then. :)

Also, the least you could do is use a spellchecker for such an enlightening document, or maybe write your own?

- "we often evade our responsibilty"

- "True mastery transcendends"

- "Forcing others do upgrade"
I imagine if later they try to renege on that public grant, CloudFlare is still shielded.
Is it not clear what “f” and “u” is short for?
Ironically, that's when you create an Arch container in LXC.
I do think there has to be some responsibility taken, rather than being "nice" all the time. And I was speaking of a business sense. If someone uses AI in their own work, I fully support not supporting them. That's not social ostracization, that's just good business sense in not supporting a technology that I don't believe in.

So yeah, let me be clear: I absolutely support boycotting people who use AI when it comes to business decisions, and I absolutely support an economic war of attrition against them.

You know what's mean? Creating a technology that takes other people's jobs en masse like AI. But refusing to do business with those who use AI? I think that's fair play, and if it is at all mean, then it's just karma.
That is a class of device that has been around for decades and produced by countless companies. AirPods are one product from one company, and the hearing aid feature isn't even universal to all AirPods at this time.
Of course it is. What's not clear is what that has to do with women.
Shorting Demand and Predictability of Returns (2009)
'F--- you'
I develop a HN/Reddit/Lobste.rs like internet forum [0]. It's Node/Postgres with a vanilla SSR front-end. It's not serverless.

[0] https://github.com/ferg1e/comment-castles
In the 60's the belief was that they could not tolerate profanity. Or maybe it was that they'd tattle on the rest of us.
Leftists can be proud of making, building, and growing things too.
I think calling Brutalism a crime against humanity would not be an exaggeration.
I may be feeding the trolls, but not only is there a sync mechanism, at least with Firefox you can self-host[1] such a thing, thereby doubly ensuring the data isn't used for something you disagree with

If you're going to say that Firefox doesn't care about having users, point out its just stunningly stupid memory usage, blatantly stale developer tools (that one hurts me the worst because the Chrome dev-tooling is actually open source, so there's nothing stopping them from actually having Best In Class dev tooling other than no-fucks-given), or the har-de-har-har that comes up periodically of bugs that have been open longer than a lot of developers have been alive

1: https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs#running-v...
It's worse than ever . Did you even read news related to twitter ? The X branding ? Mass layoff that's killing the development, Crypto spams ? , Blue check confusion , Link penalty ?
Yes. I got a little bit out of it, certainly, but it really is mostly an exercise of compiling packages. I was a little disappointed but in the end LFS inspired me to take on a rewrite of the Unix Coreutils in Golang. I learned far more about Unix systems from doing this than anything else. It also improved my skills a lot, I look back on some of this code and cringe a little bit.

[1] https://github.com/sweetbbak/go-moreutils
I dunno, hard to say, if our experiences don’t match maybe we’re just in different environments. No particular reason to assume mine is the ground truth of course.

One possible skew could be: often it is professors who complain about this stuff, but the type of person who goes on to be a professor tends to be pretty clever and surround themselves with clever friends. So if you are a professor or a highly skilled programmer or something, keep in mind that you probably have a rosy picture of the average competence of the past.
Some of them could potentially be a little confusing as well, such as "delta" in game development, "echo" in some networking contexts, or "uniform" in OpenGL shaders.

I don't tend to use single-letter variable names outside of the standard `for(;;)` syntax, but if I did, I don't think I'd replace them in this way.
Solving the duck-rabbit puzzle in Animal Well gave me such chills. In the beginning of the game the player comes across a room with a duck that quacks at you when you walk by. In a distant corner of the world there's a picture of a duck-rabbit with a passcode. When you enter the passcode in front of the duck, it transforms into a rabbit and warps away through a portal that appears for a brief moment while a spooky sound effect plays.
MCR Memory Can More Than Double HPC and AI Performance
There are plenty of legit. articles that discuss/survey imputation in ML/AI:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=de&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22m...
This is a mix of amazing and really bad advice. And the problem with it is that it is a series of advices / philosophy instead of explanation.

Reading the original Rise of Worse is better article ( https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html ) gave me a huge appreciation of programming implementariin simplicity, and improved my pace of coding a lot. It shows a real example of why C won over Lisp (a much cleaner interface) 50 years ago.

The funny part is that right now I'm programming in something that may be closer to Lisp (Python), but happy to rewrite parts of it in C in the future when it gets practical.

The amount of features I can add in a small time just because I always pick the smaller implementation surface (while still moving forward) is amazing.

Regarding dependencies: I may want to move to lower level libraries in the future when my project is in a more advanced state, but again they are great as training wheels (lower level would help with customization, but I'm waiting until I _need_ it).
They are serving a raw text file from the endpoint of an http server. In case you don't know what http stands for: Hypertext Transfer Protocol.

This is very much a _them_ problem. They want the ease of use of the www with the simplicity of the early internet.

You can't have both.

Back in the day you'd use an ftp server for textfiles. Of course in this day and age I doubt even 20% of the people on here can fire up an ftp client, connect to an ftp server, download a text file, open it in a text editor, read it and not get lost somewhere along the way.
Indeed—the people who get by far the most benefit out of them are those who can afford to pay for everything without taking money out of the HSA, then claim those expenses much later in retirement (when you can also just start taking money out). To them, it’s another tax-advantaged retirement account, significantly raising their max annual contribution limits.
This is a thing not because it adds strength or sustainability. We produce way too much corn and they are looking for ways to use them up.
NASA is working on a plan to replace its space station, but time is running out
Thanks! I'll fix this.
All Pathology, All the Time
Meh, maybe. Containers make everything more difficult for local development, though. That would be my last resort in this case.
Now I wonder if there is a way to make a webpage look like very nicely laid out HTML.
If you're going to miss the point this substantially, you should be a little more humble about it.
It blows me away that "The Jargon File" is not required canon. Well, it can be anachronistic and old-school-nerd-bro coded, but there's some primal stuff in there

http://catb.org/jargon/html/