skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The link in this paragraph goes to a post on gwern website. This post contains various links, both internal and external. But I still failed to find one that supports claims about Newton's views on "progress".

Could you explain further what part of https://gwern.net/newton you thought didn't support my description of Newton's view?

I thought the large second blockquote in https://gwern.net/newton#excerpts , which very prominently links to https://www.newtonproject.ox.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/THE... , fully justified my claims, which are taken directly from Newton's statements to his son-in-law, and also closely parallel other historical statements, like Lucretius, which I also present with clear references and specific blockquotes.

I'm a little mystified that you could describe any of this as not supporting it at all, and I'm wondering if you are looking at the wrong page or something?
For those missing context: "Towns OS" was an operating system made by Fujitsu in 1989 (with the last release in 1995) for their "FM Towns" line of PCs. This is a Free clone of Towns OS, so that one can run Towns OS applications without infringing on Fujitsu's copyright, akin to ReactOS or DOSBox.
They source from a combination of Samsung, LG, and BOE (Chinese display manufacturer). The way the arrangement typically works is that manufacturers will send Apple preproduction samples and Apple will decide which are worth using for upcoming SKUs. The manufacturer will build out production facilities to meet that demand and whatever specs Apple wants. Apple may also help with investment or R&D to develop products to meet feature roadmap targets and increase supplier competition. It's a very dangerous game for the manufacturers.
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I mean, the punch line of this post is that the "firehose" of even a successful social network is trivial to handle. Even Twitter at its pinnacle of popularity barely breached ~10000 posts/second intraday peaks. If you only want to observe and transiently store such traffic you barely even need a computer.
The best podcast of 2024 ran from 2007 to 2012

https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/200...

I listened to all 179 episodes of the History of Rome podcast.

From a simpler time before advertising.

179- The End
The history of The History of Rome...Why the Western Empire Fell when it did...Some thoughts on the future...Thank you, goodnight.

178- Not With A Bang But A Whimper
In the last few years of the Western Empire a series of Emperors came and went. The cycle finally ended in 476 with the exile of Romulus Augustulus.

177- The Burning Ships
In 468 the two halves of the Empire combined forces to dislodge the Vandals from North Africa.They failed spectacularly.
Wow, seeing this made me surprisingly emotional as I realized that downloading the pre-release leaked source code for some testing levels of HL2 (which included an early version of what would become Steam, as well)

- and then debugging / figuring out how to hack together a version that would compile in Visual Studio (back when you had to have a license… in theory…) as a preteen -

had a way bigger impact on me than I gave it credit for at the time. I think seeing the sheer scope of that codebase and realizing how much I didn’t understand and still had to learn is part of what put me in my path into both the game industry and software startups. I found both Valve’s and Gabe’s stories that much more compelling after gaining an appreciation for how much there was under the hood.

Cheers to everyone who has worked on this engine, this project, and this company over the years. I suspect your influence runs deeper than you know.
If I'm reading this right, they just added up the remaining amortized capital cost of the plants, doubled that to give the investors a return, and divided by the amount of CO2 emissions that would be avoided.

They don't mention cost of replacements, or the costs of climate damage.
More recently than never, unfortunately.
I'm saying if problems such as the one mentioned in this article was the priority of the governments, they would allocate funds differently.

As to which one is more costly, I don't think if either of them is "really cheap therefore negligible"
> there were fees of $X

What kind of fees?
Go with polars, you can always convert a polars data frame back when needed.
Insulin is already very cheap, the markup in the US is not due to manufacturing costs.
I don't doubt that you find HN to be left of your political position.

A lot of folks I know find all kinds of things "left wing". A lot of my liberal friends think they are leftists, though most of my leftist friends would disagree. My conservative friends don't really draw that distinction between liberals and leftists, and at the same time my liberal friends often think my anarchist friends to be about on par with literal Nazis, horeshoe-theory wise.

I suspect a lot of the Dem establishment neo-liberals (who are rapidly becoming neocons ala Rumsfield/Cheney) who make up a lot of this site see themselves as slightly left. Rationally left, but not part of the "revolutionary" left.

Which, from my position, puts them fairly close to the Reagan conservatives, if you overlook some issues about gay folks and are took the 80s conservatives at their word rather than their deeds when it comes to race issues.
However, I don't find this place to be a meeting of the minds.

I find that HN is a place where I can observe what the sociopaths who have real capital and thus material political power think about the world, or at least what the their sycophantic mandarins work for those folks might think.

I listen to what folks say here because I am genuinely curious about what their alien-to-me understandings of technology and political ethics will do in the larger world.

I listen to folks here for the same reason I listen to left-wing folks digest nazi propaganda, read a lot of history, and try to hear what conversations are happening at the red neck bars and at gun shops I hang around.

Cause that's who has no problem fucking with my world, and fuck with my world they have indeed.

HN is not a place where I think any of my actual politics will find an audience.

Though I am (likely unwisely) communicating now, I mostly just shut up when I am here, unless someone has something worthwhile to say about music.
People read text on the OLED screen of the iPad Pro all the time.
Is it not also my freedom to not have to listen to certain speech? I ought to be able to filter it out

What sets Bluesky apart for me is that their ATProto and their default app allow for user choice in moderation. No longer do we have a platform deciding the one-size fits all for their users. We can have competition without switching costs with ATProto
We can have freedom, or we can have safety, but we cannot have both. I value freedom over safety, and so a nanny state that would investigate the telling of lies seems tyrannical to me, yes.

"That government is best which governs least." --Henry David Thoreau, 1849
Majorities can be tyrannical, ignorant, easily motivated by fear, etc. One election doesn't prove that most people don't care about such things. After all Obama was elected twice and he brought things significantly closer to single payer healthcare. And in 2024 some very red states made the right to abortion constitutional and dropped prohibitions on same-gender marriage.
I'm not looking for your sympathy. I'm looking for my tax dollars to be spent more wisely.

The fact you think there can be enough for "everything" shows how far from reality you are. I hope that mentality dies and you start to understand there always priorities.
I do, every day.
> Digg very specifically fucked up their site, badly,

And Twitter didn't? They use the "nazis at a bar" metaphor for a reason. UX is not the only way to screw up a site. Ashley Madison didn't torpedo because of a bad UI redesign.

Even on a product level, the change to not hide tweets from blocked accounts may as well have been a Digg v4 for high profile people. There was no profit to be had here and no one to gain with this update. Purely ideaologically driven.

> it still functions much better than the alternatives.

in which ways? Genuinely curious. All these social media feeds, by design, all just blended into the Instagram/tiktok mush of infinite scrolling and predictive "you might like this!" sorts of algorithms to meximize engagement. None feel much easier/harder.
I attempted both the emoji character and punycode.

Emojis are tricky, most domain registrars can’t get them right, most browsers can’t get at least some right (usually the ones with ZWJ characters.

So by no means a knock on Bluesky, but I was waiting for an invite code for so long just to be able to use an emoji as my identity.

Not directed at you, but not sure why my initial comment was downvoted, it’s pretty damn hard for new social media platforms to get users from other platforms - and as domain identity/usernames is a main competitive feature and I was super excited then didn’t end up using it, sharing my experience might be worth more than downvoting
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Oh I'm all for people having confidence in themselves. That's what religion is all about (except for the population control aspect).

If someone uses religion (or manifesting) to go down the path of "god helps those that help themselves", all the power to them! (as long as they don't make me believe in it)

I really am talking about people like that one radio moderator I was thinking of when making the comment: was "manifesting" all day yesterday so that someone would win the x-thousand dollars in the contest on their show this morning. Was "manifesting" getting tickets for Taylor Swif as well recently. Stuff like that. Like you said, all just manifesting "lottery ticket" type stuff. Magical thinking basically. Just "sit around and manifest and it'll happen". That's the :facepalm: stuff.
> We first enabled hardened libc++ in our tests over a year ago. This allowed us to identify and fix hundreds of previously undetected bugs in our code and tests.

That's something
>it feels far left of my own world view.

Strange, because I've noticed over the past few years that HN has been sliding further to the right. Or at the very least it's susceptible to brigading. To be clear, it's not "right winger equals brigade[0]", it's "oh gee someone posted a story about EU external immigration and now the comments are full of people angry about asylum seekers who think the correct solution[1] is to shut down international law and start retroactively deporting citizens".

For the sake of full transparency: I'm an open borders maniac, which makes me left wing by American standards and basically persona non grata in Europe.

[0] I live with right-wingers, so I kinda have to be tolerant of them

[1] If this had been anticipated and dealt with ahead of time, the correct solution would have been to invest in integration and have generous family visas. That's why the US doesn't have a migrant integration crisis like the EU does - we know how to welcome and inculturate people. The EU doesn't really do integration, it assumes everyone is a self-motivated tech worker who will do all the integration work themselves.
There's something to be said for a dictatorship that at the very least thinks climate change is real.
I think the reason it’s not used anymore is because it was used maliciously to share CSAM on other boards and 4chan banned uploading anything that looks like a concatenated zip
Nice explanation with the ink. Here are some other sites to checkout:

https://tls13.xargs.org/

https://curves.xargs.org/

https://fangpenlin.com/posts/2019/10/07/elliptic-curve-crypt...
Is there any structural reason that will prevent Bluesky becoming like Twitter in the future?
The bio of this account is lorem Ipsum text and this comment is a copy paste of the first 2 sentences of the paper abstract. Feels like this could be spam.
Just adding that Mudk has shown that he is willing to completely ignore ethics and many times (almost?) cross the line of legality too.

Paying people to vote for Trump

Manipulating the stock market

Manipulated the crypto market multiple times

Tried to force Tesla employees to go to work during Covid
Ask HNs: Is Tyson vs. Paul Crashing Netflix?
I thought Netflix paid their engineers well. Their service is absolutely not doing well under this kind of load.
A great book about how animals survive super cold winters is "Winter World" by Bernd Heinrich.

Bernd is a super fascinating biologist who really dives deep in to things. At one point in the book I think he was talking about chipmunks surviving winter, and it goes really fun on the first principles. Something like: "chipmunks have a surface area of X m^2, and need to maintain an internal temperature of Y˚C. If the outside temperature is -40˚C they therefore they need to consume Z calories per hour just to maintain body temperature. Their favorite food are pine nuts from the white pine tree. The pine nuts each have B calories, so the chipmunk will need to eat D of them per hour. How many nuts can a chipmunk fit in its mouth? Well I found a dead one and shoved pine nuts in to its mouth until I couldn't fit anymore, and managed to get 17 in there. That means..."
Really? Could you please arguably name something that you'd subjectively consider to be "actual engineering" and that you'd want to do on macOS or windows rather than on Linux?

(the comment you replied to was clearly arguing quality rather than quantity, so that's what I'm asking too)
I don't think the link is a great resource. However this is the best elliptic curve cryptography resource that I've found to date. Would love to see something similar for ZKs.

https://curves.xargs.org/
No and, currently, no, though Asahi has the accelerated graphics and an x86 compatibility layer sort of working now, so I imagine that will come soon enough.

The usuals are there, like Libreoffice, though I use browser-based MS Office too. Firefox and all my plugins Just Work.

I do a ton of photo work with Darktable, which I have come to appreciate after years of fighting it. Writing tools. Software development tools. It's arguably overpowered for my needs, but that also translates into 16-hour battery life (less than macos, but plenty), dead quiet, and a machine that does everything I ask without complaint.

For the kiddo, it's mainly about configuring and locking down the machine ... and getting it back up and running quickly if he breaks something. I've been using off-lease, years-old Thinkpads for him. No games to speak of, but he's more of an xbox kid anyway. I should probably do parental controls, but I have that largely handled at the DNS level anyway.
> but does someone visiting your house know that?

The butter in my fridge right now doesn't have labels on it. Because I take it out of the box it comes in and put an individual stick in that little covered shelf at the top of the door. My understanding is that that's what that shelf is for, so I suspect that this is a fairly common thing to do.
How about the Microsoft Surface Pro 9 being x86 while the Surface Pro 9 with 5g being ARM. My conspiracy theory is they did it on purpose to submarine ARM into enterprise environments
It's not the back and forth, it's the original content that gets posted that you find objectionable, and in which the comments / reposts become quite toxic thereafter with people disagreeing

There is most definitely original content that is hateful, racist, and/or extreme on X that goes beyond the difference of policy or ethical opinions
New, on a web platform?

The "ideal" of Mastodon was the first thing I regarded as new. This idea to properly own your communities and conversations and move them around and connect/remove others as you would an email address was novel.

In reality, it's nowhere near that ideal. But I still want to see if anyone over the years could make it work.

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Much less realistically (somehow), I'm still waiting for that moment where we run a full on AAA game in the native browser. I think the tech is now at the point where it exists and is possible. Just not the incentives. But IDK if that's the "new" you were talking about.
Nope they are still libraries with their own feature set that need remembering.
Tell them to leave a message.

The problem runs the other direction as well. Friends in the US tell me that the local hospital no longer permits direct calls to rooms, on account of both robocalls and spams. It's now necessary to call through the operator.

This is a (slight) inconvenience to friends and family, and a considerable workload and staffing burden for the hospital.

I've been predicting the death of telephony, as in a universal direct-contact, single-directory (as in: everyone has an identifier which can be reached by any other party regardless of provider) for about a decade now. It's a death-by-a-thousand-cuts phenomenon, but increasingly it's difficult or impossible to reach specific individuals or organisations by phone. The issue isn't just landlines (used by a minority of households in many states, though some such as New York are apparently still above 50%, contrast < 20% throughout much of the central US), but all public switch telephone networks.

Expect a fragmentation to various online services (FB, WhatsApp, Google, Skype, Zoom), home-rolled networks, and those who just opt out fully.
I'm with you.

I've evaded all sorts of scanning tools by base64 encoding data (i.e. binary data) to and copy pasting the text from insecure to highly secured environments.

At the end of the day, these malware databases rely on hashing and detecting for known bad hashes and there are lots of command line tools to help get over that sort of thing like zip/tar etc.
Super cool

My grandfather was a submariner in the Pacific during the war, they were even inside Tokyo bay during wartime. He had many stories, one of them was that the batteries always got the priority in regards to water. Especially on patrol and missions, they would often go days between wiping themselves down with hand towels from a basin of shared water, all to preserve the fresh water for the batteries.

He was on the Saury
Or water… or anything else with a freezing point that the ambient temperature crosses at night
Nah, your food waste recycler is already picking up from your facilities weekly+ and all they're going to do with your pallet of butter is tip it into the depackager and wait.
The central directory allows zip archives to be split across multiple files on separate media without needing to read them all in for selective extraction. Not particularly useful today but invaluable in the sneakernet era with floppies.
My only problem with ActivityPub or atproto is that they were not static hostable.

For readonly nodes they should be. Otherwise we could see tons of adoptions by bloggers, with some simple Github/Cloudflare Pages setup.
> Also approximately 100 percent of professional cooks know that butter is made from milk.

I am now curious about that "approximately".
> When some activist movement makes up a new word

cisgender is not a new word and predates the current culture wars

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/cisgender-meaning
There's almost zero chance they backtrack on this. Amazon is looking to reduce costs, this is fairly cheap since people will quit. Anyone who is irreplaceable will be exempted.
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You ever go through the Reddit blackout of 2015 or the API scandal of 2022? It's a common phenomenon. You move to sites and the people who are the most engaged will be talking about the reason they moved and their dissatisfaction.

It'll calm down in a month. Maybe. The current atmosphere isn't going away in a month like the API protests.
That’s a bad assumption though. Based on our inability to bring brains back to life it seems very likely the better comparison is volatile memory like RAM.
The geophysics behind, say, the Santos Barrossa gas project appears pretty tight; the C02 emmissions estimates are directly tied to the economic feasibility estimate process .. if one is wrong then so is the other, if so it must be a bad investment and a foolish project?

When the project’s offshore and gas processing emissions are factored in, the LNG produced from the Barossa field would have a total emissions intensity of 1.4 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of LNG produced.

This makes the Barossa development the most emissions intensive LNG projects in Australia and the world

~ https://ieefa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Santos-2022-Cli...

At this point in time there's a clear understanding of the consequences of the current 11 billion tonne of CO2 equivilant emmissions released annually .. an increase in trapped solar heat energy that directly leads to increased storm intensity, climbing global mean tempretures, and edging closer to positive feedback thresholds which are significantly hard to reverse when crossed.
Shameless plug for a similar but totally different system that I've used to pretty good effect lately: https://github.com/gaffo/jorb meant for just trying to run batches of items with many steps in a simple way.

A major benefit of my tool is that it ends up being pretty easy to re-wire the flows of tasks through the state tree. I tried for a ipynb type workflow as much as possible where I'm storing state on every state change, this lets me kill and restart the processing easily and often only losing the work that was in process on the in flight state changes. I find myself wiring up the first few steps of the state diagram and making the ones I haven't figured out yet temporariliy terminal. Then my computer is crunching away on pre-work and I let one item through at a time in the debugger, figure out that state, and move to the next state, and restart the flow. New items now start processing through the newly non-terminal state. I set breakpoints at all of the exceptional states and let it run working on the next step in the flow. I handle the exceptions and then open the flood gates with parallelism on the state, while also coding up the new state transitions. This lets my computer do a lot of work against things that have concurrency limits or rate limits while working, lowering the totally wall clock time of the large batch job.

What do I use it for for reals? I've been using it to check out and modify large swaths of code bases and build them against a build fleet where I'm rate limited on the build submissions and the ability to pull the code down and modify it. Or where I need to do walking of a large number of expensive apis over time to do complex calculations on small (1-5k sets of data).

I've always thought of building a dag renderer for the graph but I'm changing the graph during execution a lot, what I actually want is to render the state changes of a given task
Elon wants her gone:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851985438933668337
Autocad doesn’t even have a Linux version.
Musk is just one donor among dozens.

One of the biggest donor yes, but not enough to move the needle.

Also, the presidency is not enough to move the needle - you need down ballot support from both houses of Congress as well, which is a relationship Musk did not build unlike other donors.
> I'm in favor of self-controlled filters that let each of us decide what we want to consume

This is why Bluesky, with ATProto, appeals to me. They have made the four core components (data hosting, app view, algo feed, moderation) a pluggable system with user level choices, for what they use for each component and which they combine
People don't like reading and pretty much all social media responded to that. At least Twitter was like that from the start.
Not really, microblogging is great to get quick news or life updates from people you follow. Yes, if you're trying to engage in discussion then it's not that useful but that is not its only use case.
Then you are unique
Damn great parenting!