skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been stuck at 2000 for 40 yrs, but I did have a career and a life. I've picked it up again, and have as a goal, 2200 and a stretch goal of 2400. I'd like to think I could get to 2200 as I have focus now that I am retired. But, I really do not know and I think after a year of serious study, I need to evaluate my opportunity costs as there are other things I like to do.

That said, the on-line puzzles from chess.com or lichess.com are great. Puzzle books are great, better than sudoku, and you have an easy metric to see how well you perform.

Be careful not to play speed chess (its fun) but probably not the best for development.

I recently found: http://www.billwallchess.com/. what is nice, he has a lot of chess books in PGN notation, so you can get the book, then follow thru the whole book on a chess viewer, it saves a lot of time setting up pieces. So, books on endgames, etc are much easier to study.

At the early steps, I'd suggest not to waste time in studying openings and work on combinations, endgames. You just need enough opening to muddle thru and then you can win in later stages.

I am putting together a small binder of the openings I will play. If it is not in the binder, I will not play it. I've been far too whimsical playing things like Kings Gambit, but I need to focus on more specific openings, at least playing them more often.
you can run your pods in vms, with something like kata containers.
Kubernetes is more a scheduler than a isolation layer. Of course it uses the cri-o runtime for containers by default and relies heavily on groups, but that is just the default
Speaking Ill of the Dead (2006)
That guy is crazy good. Super creepy!
I wonder if LLM chatbots still have political bias hardcored in.
That seems to literally just be restating what I said? Being one of the couple most accepted implies that there are other theories, and if it'd been found, it wouldn't be a theory, but simply part of the historical record.
Because red guard destroyed them and hung the bourgeois trying to keep them safe.

All the art in Beijing summer palace is fake. It got destroyed by these folk's. Same story all over China.
Would have been funny if it told you: "You wouldn't download a car?"
I have a working theory that many backrooms videos are made by people learning blender and stuff for school. It’s a great genre to do a demo reel on. You can make your set as complex as you want and show off some weird new thing you came up with.
Baseline before COVID, or baseline factoring in the (global) post COVID inflation spike?
> severing that connection would still absolutely destroy our economy and quality of life

Probably, who knows. I'm just making an observation. Maybe after being useful to help win the Cold War they are now considered by the powers that be more of an annoyance or a competitive threat? Your guess as to why this is the policy is as good as mine.
> "blocked access to baways.com because it’s in our database of phishing and malicious domains"

Which amusingly (but not for you, since you can't see it) is one of the main topics in the article, that the security breach used that domain to exfiltrate the data to. And I'd guess that's why the company chose to buy up the domain to host this blog/ad on...
In the late nineties I had a laptop that supported SuperDisk¹ floppies that could store up to 120 MB. The disks were pretty expensive and the same laptop even had a CD-RW drive so I never got around to try it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDisk
:D Actually, Roombas do need a bit of oil sometimes, when their side brushes start to squeal. Regular bicycle oil will do.
Thanks for pointing that out. I think this clearly shows the difference between 'allowing use' and 'supporting a use case' when it comes to bio-tech. Vaccinating a soldier is allowing use, creating a biological weapon is supporting a use case. I wouldn't want to work for a bio weapons manufacturer but working for a vaccine maker would be just fine with me even if my efforts were used by the military.
Writing and video skills. I’m pretty sure plenty of people scored their first job with some demo reel they made in blender.
Not to mention the ugly/unusable rendering of mathematical formulate in ebooks on my Kindle, which is gatherig dust.

Layouting is an art and a craft, and the fact that it's automated by people who
lack the specialized knowledge, or for whom it is not a priority (quarter century old bug reports, really?) suggests that in 2025, you should still avoid ebooks if you care about quality and aesthetics.

This is a shame because e-ink is just becoming usable. Anyhow, long live the paper book!
Anybody that starts an argument with 'according to tradition' has already lost any scientific credibility.

> So, in the end "the Q source" isn't any written source it is just what they both remembered from their conversations with Peter and Paul (or, in Matthew's case, even with the Jesus himself).

What a amazing memories they had, decades later, without sharing a written source by just talking to the same people they literally produced the same text word for word, with common phrasing, literally style and everything. Yeah totally, that is incredibly likely.

Or you can actually read 'The case against Q' that shows there evidence of literally dependence.

At some point its pretty easy to identify who is serious about studying this topic and how just wants to take 'tradition' as an article of faith.
https://fireworks.ai/blog/cursor
Fireworks AI has a blog about it.
> I think a lot of things are dynamically linked and they include their own /usr/lib tree with the entire transitive dependency chain for that particular app, even if other things you have installed have some overlap with that dependency chain. I prefer the approach of statically linking everything and only including what you need.

Wherever there's such overlap, those dependencies are already shared. Static linking in such a situation means more disk usage, not less.

Packages in Nixpkgs have large closure sizes for entirely other reasons, like not splitting packages as aggressively as they could be split, or enabling/including most optional dependencies by default. Distros like Alpine typically lean the other way for their defaults.

It's true that if you're willing to manually mangle them, static binaries are nice because you can very easily strip all docs and examples or even executables that you don't need, and still know your executable will have the libs it's linked against. In one place at work I actually do this with Nixpkgs— there's a pkgsStatic that includes only statically compiled packages. I pull just the tiny parts of some package I need out and copy them onto a blank OCI image because it was the path of least resistance.

But Nix also has some really nice tools for inspecting dependency graphs to figure out why large packages are getting pulled in. nix-tree is my favorite, but there's also the older nix-du that gives the same info via graphviz instead of the terminal, and the built-in `nix why-depends`.

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Edited to add: wait, are you saying you used some other base distro to create Docker images where some things were supplied by Nix and others came from the base distro? If so, yeah, Nix is going to bring all the dependencies along, all the way down to libc or whatever. That's required for the kind of hermeticity that is its goal.

Mixed images like that are always going to be larger. But you also don't need a base distro at all with Nix. You can use one of the existing Nix libraries for Docker/OCI stuff to generate a complete image from scratch, or just copy your Nix packages' dependency closure onto an empty image with a FROM SCRATCH Dockerfile.

If you can't do that, you can do various things to try to slim things down but it's best to just Nixify whatever other packages you're using so you don't need a base distro. (And if you're trying to save space, Nix itself doesn't need to be in your Docker images either, which can also cut out some deps.)
Wouldn't it be more like $0.07/GB for BDXL? If one got particularly lucky with HDD failure rates perhaps they'd survive running that long in RAID but one would expect some replacements over such a long period.

Some other things to consider are at high capacities all HDDs use helium now, which slowly leaks (WD/HGST have a SMART stat about the level*) and the cost of running drives/associated computers/maintenance over a long span vs the up front cost of passive writable media (edit: for some reason I assumed this was what was meant but they could be left cold which would likely increase survival odds and be cheaper).

* And there isn't much long term data about it that I could find, though some have reported between 1-5 years the SMART stat either remaining at max or dropping a few digits. Even Backblaze outside of their first article a year into using them hasn't seemingly continued reporting on the stat that I've noticed. I get the sense though that other types of failures are expected sooner than leaks.
I wouldn't consider if (bool) or x = !bool to be concise coding. That's just regular code.
> hipster language

Funny, I always considered Go a hipster language for Google fanboys.
No
We don't allow porn, nor copyrighted content, our terms of service clearly state that
French here, working/living in France, and not aware of any state-backed “shorter work week” test.
According to my research, only SME applied it so far (with 2 exceptions of 1000 and 11k-employees).
And no particular consensus on the results (many companies stayed on their 4d agenda after the initial phases, but again, we’re talking SME here).
Sorry but the arguments here seem poor quality and unconvincing. I suggest never beginning an introduction with "this is the best talk I've ever given".

The points about functional programming are bog standard, the characterize of "modernism" is extremely thin ("trying to master the world"?) and the connections between the two topic thinner still, if that's imaginable.
I’ve got an HP50g that I love. I wish I could get my kids a SwissMicros calculator when they go to school but $300 is a little steep for a kid’s calculator.

(Heck, considering what TI charges for their crapulators, maybe it’s not such an outrageous price…)
From the provided link:

> Nix requires a broad set of changes to your system, from creating new users to installing and running a daemon to creating a root volume and beyond
This is a very easy problem to solve - don’t sell to Wall Street investors.

If you are selling your home and the highest offer is a Wall Street firm, turn it down and go with a lower bid.

If you’re selling your home and it’s been listed for almost a year and the only offer is from a Wall Street firm, turn it down and wait.

Who is with me?
> First, it’s a huge revenue loss for Taiwan.

and whose capacity will be sacrificed to fulfill this lost revenue potential?
VC-Influenced-News just doesn't have the same ring to it.
> I know exactly what each function does

Isn't this basically the same argument that C people have been using since, what, 40 years?
This is the only diagramming language I end up actually using. And even then I usually end up redoing everything in OmniGraffle after I’ve roughed out a draft.
No, because comparison of the Greek in the earliest manuscripts shows evidence of textual copying. Same way teachers recognize plagiarism or students copying from one another.
Python 3 was announced way ahead and came with migration tools that worked pretty well. Besides character handling most of the stuff was pretty similar at the beginning and I never understood why apparently nobody or only a few projects made the switch early on.

That lead to a chicken and egg situation: if you depended on those libraries that did not migrate to python3 you where stuck at python 2 as well.

I believe being nice to the community and supporting python 2 for a long time was a mistake. They should have made a hard break and enforce the migration...
> while the company spends $8B profit in buybacks with minimal impact on share price

Well, there must have been an impact of $8B, so it depends what the counterfactual was. It could've been going down at the time.

> Large funds

Generally speaking large funds are passive index funds, so that doesn't mean someone actually owns a lot of them - they're just in average people's retirement accounts. But it gets reported as if BlackRock (iShares) or Vanguard own the company, which leads to conspiracy theories.
>blog/ad

Blad?
The WYSIWYG tools were part of the problem. The entire process of publishing was too complicated.

Think of it when compared to a web browser for consuming content. The user doesn't need to know anything about DNS, HTTP, HTML, or any of the underlying technologies. They type an address (which is already a hurdle for many people, and one we mostly managed to collectively overcome) or click on a link, and content appears on their screen. It all just happens behind the scenes.

In contrast, even with web builders of the 90s, they needed to know how to setup an FTP client, what "uploading" was, how all this maps to web "pages" and URLs, etc. If they wanted to make their websites interactive, they needed to at least be familiar with this new fangled JavaScript, CGI, ActiveX, or whatever the tech du jour was. Eventually they needed to be familiar with databases and storage. Today this is a complicated mess reserved for web developers. Modern website builders do a drastically better job at simplifying all this, but they're 3rd parties you give full control to over your content and data. If you wanted to avoid this and self-publish, then the barrier to entry is significantly higher.

The core of the problem is that the publishing equivalent of the web browser simply doesn't exist. The web would've never taken off if the web browser was this complicated. Some early adopters managed to make publishing work, but most of them were tech geeks who later became web developers. This process was never approachable to the tech illiterate.

The reason I think this was the primary misstep that got us to where we are today is because of the companies that stepped in to fill the publishing void. At first they were early "giants" like GeoCities and Lycos, but later they became the MySpaces, Facebooks and Twitters. The entire industry of social media simply wouldn't exist if people were enabled to self-publish their content instead of entrusting this to a 3rd party. It's possible that the idea of web search and discovery would've been a built-in feature of this distributed web, so giants like AltaVista, Yahoo and Google would've been less powerful or unnecessary. Without this industry forming, advertisers would have a smaller entrypoint and we might have missed the early annoyance of banner ads and popups, and the current evolution of it with user tracking, targeting, data brokering, privacy violations, propaganda machinery, and all the related evils of adtech.

The WWW would've been a wildly different experience, and possibly closer to what TBL originally envisioned. It's a damn shame we never got that. Now it's too late not just for the web, but for any related technology to achieve similar adoption. This is why the solution needs to place the UX first, and be vastly easier to use and more powerful than the current web, if it ever wants to attract users beyond just tech geeks. I haven't seen a solution that does this yet. Opera's Unite was probably the closest we ever got.
>(2) people whose net worth is primarily derived from their house (read: poor people)

If these people were smart, they'd realize that rising house values don't help them, because 1) they can't make money on a house they're still living in, they have to sell it first, and then where are they going to move to? and 2) rising house values means rising tax assessments which means their mortgage bill will increase to pay the higher property taxes.
Without taking away from the reality of housing costs, the long-term chart [1, chart is a year old but looking for trends] suggests other explanations. In particular, the average of first-time buyers was 35, up from 30 as recently as 2010. That's a bad trend.

The overall average appears to be driven by people who have bought homes before. Anecdotally, the Boomers I know bought houses well into retirement where their parents typically made their last home purchase in their 30s. I am less concerned about housing turnover among older people.

1 - https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/american-housing-market-old...
Hash tables on GPUs are cool. You can use them for meshless radiance caches, that automatically (for better or for worse) adapt to the surrounding geometry.
I live in Germany and I see glass bottles that have been obviously re-used--e.g., beer from one brewery in glass embossed with the slightly-raised lettering of another brewery.

I couldn't tell you whether it's economically efficient or energy-efficient to do things that way, when you consider all the direct and indirect inputs; any more than I could tell you how to make a pencil. But I can tell you that Germany does it.
This is also my personal experience. I am finding that building out our own high-performance cluster of (second-hand) servers is orders of magnitude cheaper than having the same on GCP, even though we have to maintain/configure everything ourselves.
> when people consume carbohydrates as the bulk of their diet for length of time the gut microflora changes to species that prefer those

This is fairly well supported by studies, it even affects oral health. Although the idea of "good" vs "bad" bacteria is more to do with displacing bacteria that processes food into undesirable compounds with something more inert, e.g in the mouth the bacteria that causes tooth decay processes sugar into acid, but in some people this is naturally displaced by another bacteria that when dominant will produce a compound that kills the acid producing bacteria while producing no acid or enamel eroding compounds itself - maybe the natural dominance of that bacteria is affected by absence of excessive sugar intake over ones lifetime, or maybe it's just luck, or a bit of both... but much like gut bacteria, to actively change the dominant bacteria seems to either require a persistent and gradual change in diet, or a shorter and much harsher measure to eliminate the existing population.
>The whole world ran on 1.44mb as a hard limit on how large files could be.

pkzip spanning disks was a normal thing back then. I'm totally not showing my age by knowing that (and having used it a lot).
I haven't left the house for 2 years because we are at war. The hardest time was when there was no electricity, now (for now) there is. The internet is sagging because most people are sitting at home, people don't go out.

Food costs are very modest, less than $200 a month (for three people).
Rent is up to $100 (we have our own boiler, we don't depend on state heating, and it often fails), we save electricity, media is not connected, the internet is the cheapest.

Clothes - we haven't bought any for almost 3 years. No money.

Hobbies, reading help keep us from going crazy. No work.

I really hope this fucked up thing will end soon
Would it be best practice for filter list maintainers to purge on expiration, though? Bad actors would be able to take advantage of that. Until there's a standard around this, maybe blacklisted domains should just remain unused.
Crazy how the conclusion that is most convenient to conservative Christians is the one being relentlessly pushed in all christian associated universities. I can't imagine why this would be the case.
huh, dev-fluencers, I worked briefly with one and I never knew there was a name for what he did, gish-galloped. Amazing.
This argument justifies any unethical behavior. "Some bogeyman on the other side of the world is (letting computers decide to kill people | manufacturing and using bioweapons | torturing their captives for information), are you really going to let your 'ethics' get in the way of our safety?"

Maybe you don't think there is any line we shouldn't cross, but I'm guessing you do. The fact that other people draw that ethical line in a different place shouldn't be all that surprising. The people you're addressing likely believe that the US can achieve its defense goals without turning over matters of life and death to LLMs or image recognition systems.
> ethnically, linguistically and culturally Chinese

Again I ask - where is this impression coming from? And for what definition of "Chinese?" Can you please write the specific term you're thinking of in Mandarin to be more clear? In English "Chinese" means too many things, especially with the CPC changing the definition over the last 50 years or so. To be fair, the same thing is happening in Mandarin, so it would help if you could clarify.

Regardless, for most of the definitions of "Chinese," the theory doesn't seem to match reality, nor is the framing correct.

First of all, regarding an ethnological and linguistic concept of "Chinese" (translated many ways), we should reject efforts by the CPC to claim to speak for people that have this identity - which is exactly what they're trying to do. Reject CPC cultural imperialism. Such a claim to Taiwan (and Singapore, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia, etc places containing many "Chinese" people) should be rejected out of hand.

Second of all, Taiwan is not ethnically or culturally "Chinese" for basically all definitions of "Chinese." It so happens that Mandarin is the language written on government documents, true, though... that's not really "Chinese," is it? It's the language of the Empires of Beijing. There are many other languages that existed in the history of Chinese empires. And throughout that whole time, Empires would choose, based on their convenience, who is "Chinese" and who isn't. Sometimes a lot of languages would get amalgamated into that convenient descriptor to serve imperial purposes. The CPC are the latest to do this, this time in the name of "global Chinese communism."

Regarding culturally, Taiwan really isn't culturally "Chinese," in fact over the last few decades Taiwan has engaged in that process by which a culture develops itself in opposition to another one. See masculine and feminine cultures over the years, the Greeks and the Turks, the Brits and the French, etc. Much of Taiwanese culturally identity specifically forms around rejecting whatever the CPC claims, or riffing on whatever cultural heritage was imported by the Qing or KMT. Sure, some of the same holidays are celebrated, but are all cultures that celebrate Christmas, British? (or, white?) (or..... arabian? considering the origin of christianity) Not to mention the history of Taiwan as a colonized place has injected a wide diversity of cultures. Portuguese, Japanese, etc. There's also indigenous culture which is actively uplifted and many Taiwanese celebrate these holidays, eat indigenous food, etc. Indigenous art emblazons basically every single retaining wall in the country.

Ethnically, there isn't necessarily a "Chinese" ethnicity, again a term invented to describe all the people ruled by a given empire. Of course there's "Han" but that is "Han," not "Han Chinese," a new word used to engage in ethnonationalism. And, it really doesn't describe Taiwan all that well, since again, it is a wildly colonized and immigrated place.

The CPC is attempting to soft-power claim Taiwan through Han ethnonationalism and so I'm quite prickly about this subject.
Those drives were nice. Windows 98 could fit on a ls-120, but not a zip-100. And, they were really good at reading regular floppy disks too. Handy as media seemed to be getting worse and worse towards the end.
The comment I replied to at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42039995 was only about following orders, with zero mention of fighting any sort of battle.

My response was meant to be interpreted as doing something other than appeasement, which includes "fighting the battles you can win."
The Logic of Quantum Mechanics (1936) [pdf]