skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that’s pretty big.

Obviously full sized games couldn’t fit in the built in 64k of normal RAM, so they had to be put somewhere.

I only got to use Sega Channel once. I knew about it from reading magazines, but when we went to a family Thanksgiving gathering it turned out my cousins had it! I don’t know if they were a test market or not, I don’t remember what year it was so I don’t know if it had been deployed nationally yet.

I don’t know if I realized how it worked. I think cable modems may have started to exist by that point so at the time I probably assumed it was actually two way communication.

I would’ve killed to have it at home. Sega Channel is the first place I ever played Sonic 3-D Blast, the two have always been linked in my memory because of that.
Curious if you could have recorded say, 5 minutes of the channel and they played it back when you wanted to load a game. Assuming new games every month, you could fit a years worth of games in a VHS?
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What an annoying style of article. I can’t be arsed to wade through that bullshit. Call me when you actually want to say something not “wait for it… wait, wait”
Good work that news organisation and that fellow who stood up to the DEA.

Sad that both of the above needed to happen, but damn glad to see the Fourth Estate still holding the government to account (to some extent).
This read in my mind as "it's not spam if I do it" every single one of recruiters and start ups seeking funds could appear in my inbox, unwanted, and be filed by me as spam.

If I want these mails, I subscribe. This article is about cold mails. I don't think it's cold mail, if I subscribe is it?

The advice is good, but I'm not sensing a strong rebuttal here.
It’s interesting as a technical hack more as the way they figured out to get it over cable before DOCIS and 2-way communication.

Makes a lot of sense. A TV channel is just a stream of data, so just stream all the data you might need over and over and over.
These are my two favorite on the page, and seem somehow emblematic of the "hacker spirit".
It really is an excellent article, that concisely and clearly covers the current state of play in this topic (at least as it intersects with US legislative processes and the rising public interest stateside), and is abundantly referenced with links to all kinds of data and information you can pursue to know more.

I believe MS designed it to be such a type of "literature review" (of sorts) because of the significance of this watershed moment of US officialdom going: "it's real, we take it seriously, we don't know what it is and we want to open it up to know more." Finally.
That seems unwise. The comparison point for me would be 1920s Europe - in hindsight it seems likely they'd have had a lot of telegraphing in advance that things were about to go really badly wrong - disasters of the magnitude that engulfed them aren't easily missed. The average person wouldn't have been aware of it because the lack of an internet would have resulted in an insanely biased view of the data being presented that probably obscured just how bad things were getting. Today we have a much better level of information access available.

The answer in the 1920s if you can see the 1930s and 1940s coming wasn't go local, it was some combination of fortify, fearmonger and/or flee. People needed to be alerted that the situation was really bad and immediate action was required at all levels to avert disaster - but action wasn't taken and we saw an economic crisis unfold, followed by a military one.
Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/CpeKQ>
Had this back in the 90s for a month or two. It was amazing. A bit finicky. Our neighbors split out cable outside and it stopped working. Apparently needed a dedicated line.
Not really a productivity tool but just today I was like "It would be really nice to have an LLM analyze dependency changes for supply chain attacks." You could even expand it to tell you what are the main changes in each of your dependencies including breaking changes you may want to be aware of.
OpenAI wants to vacuum all the valuable tokens into its system
Not to say there aren't some frauds out there. But the well known "honey stall dude" in my area happens to be my friend's father and I've been lucky enough to be able to go around with him to see the many many beehives he has stashed around the local countryside. For most of these people, it's a passion, and their honey is legit.
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But did they play chess?
No, population increases don't automatically increase consumption or demand, because those require money. Babies have no money. Economic consumption can occur only if someone gives you money, in most cases either an employer or a relative (such as a parent or spouse).

However, an expanded workforce is more productive and thus can allow for more overall consumption (as long as money is distributed somehow to consumers), which is why the addition of women to the workforce is not a negative. And there's actually no limit to an individual person's consumption, as long as they keep acquiring the money for it. Thus, a working parent may end up spending more money than a nonworking parent, which increases economic demand.

Of course, the compensation for specific jobs can vary dramatically, depending on localized supply and demand. In some cases there's an oversupply of labor, but in other cases there's an undersupply. Filling an undersupply of labor can certainly be a net positive. The devil is in the details. Theoretically, roughly speaking, more labor is always good overall, but needless to say, the distribution of income is not even close to equal, which can create localized situations where more labor available in a specific area is not beneficial to the existing labor in that area.

I'm ignoring the negative environmental consequences of increases population, which I normally wouldn't do. I just think it's very odd to argue that the addition of parents to the workforce is a negative while the addition of their children to the workforce is a positive.
I have an opposite experience in one of my last gigs where hired management batted 50% mishire rate where people just didn’t do anything at all or worse shipped something that needn't to even exist of quality so bad that the project had to be scrapped. This was allowed to drag on for years.

Last I heard he eventually got rid of most of them when the company fell on hard times and had to do a bunch of layoffs. By that point the damage was already done and most good people have left or quite quit.

Imo it’s a common misconception that management doesn’t know who low performers are. In most cases they know even if the team is large, they just choose to ignore it for whatever political reasons
I knew it was going to happen and said it anyway. This place doesn't like truth when that truth is they or someone they know should be unemployed. What's the point of getting upvoted if you don't spend those points getting downvoted where it matters?

Side note, one thing that is good about this place is the downvoting is never that crazy, maybe -5 worst case most of the time. Reddit is far more expensive to say true things that are uncomfortable and that's a big problem.
How does this compare to Langchain? https://github.com/langchain-ai
I’ve left Go behind for some years now. I wish them all the best, but I do not approve.
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In some climates if there's been a bad year, or an inexperienced beekeeper harvested too much honey, it is sometimes necessary and normal to feed bees with sugar in autumn/winter to prevent starvation. This shouldn't make it into the honey harvested on spring and summer.

https://www.honeybeesuite.com/winter-feed-q-a-liquid-vs-soli...
how does it compare to brave search? I switched over to that a few years ago because I often got better results but I tsill end up back on google a few times a month.
I believe the reason is that batteries to make up the 200 mile range people expect are just very heavy. I think older electric vehicles with ~70mi range would have been substantially lighter. I would wager the car you want was actually the 2017-2019 E-Golf.

Modern highway safety standards also tend to increase the hight of windows which tend to also make cars taller to not kill visibility. Look at the 2019 Mazda 3 AWD redesign, especially the hatchback. It looks squished compared to the previous years because they didn't raise the vehicle height, but all the windows start higher in the car body. That trend is true of ICE vehicles as well though.
"If you don't stick to the exercise, your type2 symptoms will come back" and "in reviewing studies, most people don't stick to the exercise beyond a year"

I know several people keeping type 2 at bay with exercise, lifestyle changes (diet) and probably some drugs, but I don't know anyone recruited into an academic study.

Partly I want to say "..yet" because I think a better long term, 5+ year inteverention/support study sounds interesting and I wonder if the lack of funding towards long term study means they only get to re-survey people who had a short term intervention and support. The people know get lots and lots of ongoing positive reinforcement over diet and exercise.

Lots.

I'd suspect the same with bone density and muscle mass for osteopenia, ageing. The people I know who continue are using health funds which provide continuous access to support, physio, year round. Ten, fifteen years of ongoing supervision. Even anti smoking and drinking campaigns show you need ongoing support. A one and done interventions model is never going to work.

Why do they think people stop exercising?
(this also goes for questions easily answered by studying interview questions by the way

I agree, but it’s easier said than done.
Weird that there's no mention of Rayleigh–Bénard convection, or the very similar phenomena at giant's causeway.
it's a chrome application not an html5 one. It only works on one browser (and its forks) because it uses proprietary, nonstandard apis.
One of my favorites too and immediately came to mind when I saw OP. I recommend the book highly if the subject matter of this thread interests you.
To get your phd? That I don't know, but to get your passport, yes.
The issue there is that the listens from people who listen to less music would be worth more than the listens from people who listen to more music.
What's the difference in risk between the S&P and BTC? I'm all in on S&P and it feels as if BTC is an even bigger gamble.
The fact that advertising works, despite many claiming they're not susceptible to it, is good evidence that media manipulation works amazingly well - even to people who think they understand and would not be manipulated.
The morality and practicality of tit for tat
And to read the source code.
I agree but I also think it is also a google problem specifically because their other products (most notable maps) started giving me worse and worse routing over the last several years and it is very bad now, like they are purposely sending me out of my way to pass some store they think I will impulse stop and shop in or something. I ended up switching to organic maps, which is missing a ton of stuff like store/business locatiosn in my area but if the thing is in there i almost always get better routing that google maps.
or for photos, only film evidence can be admitted. Digital content (or even digitized content, unless there's a film backup), is inadmissable.
>Sure it’s a shell game, but reducing benefits when workers now make the new minimum wage is just as much a shell game.

It's not a shell game when it's doing what it says on the tin. Considering the fact that minimum wage predates welfare programs such as food stamps, it'd be difficult to argue that the reduction in benefits was some sneaky loophole. It was always the intended effect.

>Reducing benefits sounds like government savings not a Tax, but at the end of the day money is money.

"government savings" is cold comfort to all the people earning near minimum wage, who are at the greatest risk of getting laid off (or their hours cut) from such a change, and stand to gain nothing from such a law. At least with the minimum wage you could say the risk of losing their job is justified by higher wages.
Somebody downvoted your comment, they should be embarrassed for (I guess?) missing the reference.
A more favorable interpretation would be that the church consists of more than just its worldly parts; its place and use are also part of its identity. Even if you'd completely rebuild the church building, the other parts of its identity would persist. Therefore, the "ship of Theuses" argument doesn't apply, as, in this case, we would never replace all parts of [the identity of] this church.
The world of tomorrow
I also thought it was funny, because it is if you have enough self confidence.

I had an agenda with 2-3 weeks worth of planning to stay with friends and aquaintances. I would never stay at the same place for more than 1 night. The friends would tollerate it for 2 weeks or 2 months but if i limit the visit to 1 day per week, 2 weeks or a month their patience would never run out. The deal was this: you pay for shopping i clean the kitchen entirely, i Cook an elaborate meal, clean the kitchen again, sleep and leave at 8 am.

The funniest were the ones who chose to abuse the deal and turned their kitchen into a giant mess. They pretty much didnt do anything for 14 days. I vaguely knew them, we didnt get along so well but i was excited to see the mess. This looks very welcomming! I joked. Some also ordered elaborate fancy 3 course meals that took some doing. They would enjoy the elaborate candle light dinner together after a day of hard work while i slaved away in their kitchen. Fucking hilarious.
Wasn't surprised when I noticed Brendan Keefe is the journalist/investigator on this story. He's got solid track record and credentials.
I remember the TV commercial, but until now I had completely forgotten about it....
I really hope the VR plans are true. VR is so amazing for storytelling and gaming. But the Deckard has been rumoured for so long that I have my doubts now.
Apologies, didn't mean to criticise you, I just wanted to gush over the show.

Acc to reddit, the show's characters are proxies for famous scientists of the era, like Kepler, Copernicus etc. Not their lives, but they seemed to be mapping their theories to characters in that way.
Passing parameters kinda sucks, someone else made a comparison in another thread about named parameters and how easy it is to pass and define them in Just. Love taskfile otherwise
That is why we invented God.
Yes, but they were sleeping at the wheel and making the wrong sort of plans that they always make without accounting for foreign interference.
These hackers and scammers take so much risk for little $. The crypto doubling scam on youtube and twitter earns far more and no arrests. One stream made 1 million of BTC in a week with it...deepfake elon video or something like that. AFIK these crypto scams never lead to arrest or investigation. The mistake these hackers make is breaking into corporations. That always leads to an investigation. Crypto streamers target users, not the actual corporation.
I wouldn't say that there's unambiguously healthy conflict, but there's definitely such a thing as unhealthy conflict avoidance.

One generalized example I've seen. Jimmy proposes to make a change that assumes all Foos in production have been replaced with Bars, and will cause an outage if that's not so. Reviewer A says "hey, this seems risky - are you sure the Foos are gone?" "Yes, I'm sure, there's no way that there could be any Foos left". When it turns out that he didn't really check and there were some Foos left, your options are:

* Frank and conflict-laden conversation with Jimmy. By all means say it nicely, but the bottom line is that you can't maintain a collaborative culture if reviewers can't trust the things Jimmy certifies to be true. The underlying unhealthiness might be that it's too hard to verify production state, or that Jimmy isn't competent enough to do it, or that Jimmy is just lazy. You'll have to engage in some conflict to find out.

* Put Jimmy in a penalty box, where everyone knows they can't give him the normal level of trust and need to double check his work. (Won't Jimmy notice, and won't you then have to give him the same conflict-laden conversation? Probably.)

* Let Jimmy run around wrecking things until his relationship with the team is so compromised he's forced to transfer or quit.

Having seen managers pick all three options, the first seems clearly best to me.
> I'm saying that NFA-registered post samples acquired through dodgy (or not) law letters have never been used in a crime.

Yea like maybe twice ever in the last 80 years, it's effectively never
This isn't even radical.

Armed robbery is the flattest, least hyperbolic, actually nicest way to label it, because a normal armed robber doesn't get to do it in broad daylight in front of witnesses behind a badge. The victims can at least hope to maybe call the police on a normal armed robber.

Being the police while doing it really deserves some whole extra order of magnitude of consequences.
We share 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees, doesn’t make us chimpanzees.
> As for the empty array of dependencies to emulate the previous componentDidMount method, this was indeed the original message in 2019. I am almost certain — though I can't find this online now — that Dan Abramov subsequently tweeted to not rely on the empty dependencies array as a guarantee that the useEffect only fires once per component's lifetime.

This is one of the big reasons why I personally dislike React and the community around it. They seem to envision at the start certain ways to do things, and push them to the point of being "this is how you do X". Then, after not very long at all, the old way is discovered to be bad and inefficient and buggy and hard to reason about or whatever, now do it this other way. Repeat three or four times until a new API is created or something.

This also means that going from project to project can feel very whiplash-inducing. The code you find is not even dependant on the version of React that's installed, but on how the community was feeling about the "best practices" around the time that particular project was started.

I remember when render props were a thing. Then I remember when they stopped being considered a thing and now the new thing to do was HOCs.

Things like React Router also being wildly different between versions, or at least v3 -> v4. I remember needing to find out how to achieve certain behaviour with v3, only to then try to find that the docs only existed for v4 (which was the newest at the time), and addons that helped me with my original problem also only existed for v4. (Then React Router was no longer the Best Thing, so let's all switch to Reach Router... then back to React Router when it was again considered the new hotness. I may have forgotten one or two others in there, I just stopped paying attention around that point.)

Another example is CSS scoping, which is a complete non-issue with vanilla Vue and Svelte. But in React land you have styled-components, emotion, styled-jsx, and who knows what else in which you don't write CSS, but JS that looks like CSS but not quite, enough to throw me off every single time.

The whole periodic shifting of opinions about useEffect from "this is your componentDidUpdate replacement" to "use a linter to warn you about the footguns that we can no longer fix, also use one of these hooks instead" is just one more thing that adds to the frustration of having to work with a React-based project.

I'm actually starting to wonder if Facebook isn't so much "writing" React, but "discovering" it. Much like how we didn't quite invent fire, and we had to figure out how to use it properly over many, many thousands of years.
Is anyone here using YugabyteDB for high-availability Postgres?

It seems like a compelling option:

* Much closer to Postgres compatibility than CockroachDB.

* A more permissive license.

* Built-in connection manager [1], which should simplify deployment.

* Supports both high availability and geo-distribution, which is useful if scaling globally becomes necessary later.

That said, I don't see it mentioned around here often. I wonder if anyone here has tried it and can comment on it.

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1: https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/explore/going-beyond-sql/c...
>“I am directing that the DEA suspend conducting consensual encounters,”

They weren't consensual.

Also, you're gonna return the cash, right?

Also, you're gonna fire the people responsible for the program, right?

Also, you're gonna criminally charge them for civil rights violations, right?

>The directive was an immediate response to a report from the Justice Department Inspector General that was set in motion by Atlanta News First Investigates. The award-winning investigation, In Plane Sight, has been viewed millions of times on YouTube.

...that youtube video was released nearly a full year ago. Immediate response, my ass. she could have paused the program immediately, pending the outcome of the investigation, after seeing the video and verifying a few bits of information.

> The Justice Department Inspector General reopened a decades-long investigation of the Operation Jetway program

Why did it take decades, and why was it closed?

> “When we began our investigation and asked for the paperwork, that’s when, months later, they started creating paperwork trying to lay out why they did what they did,” Horowitz added.

So they were charged with falsifying records / evidence, obstruction, and lying to investigators, right?

"We have investigated ourselves and done the bare minimum to give people the impression we did something."
Hell, look at politicians. They are all one-note fear-pushers. At least the past politicians had some goddamned emotional range in their performance.
The supermarkets around here sell local honey. Same product as at the farmers' market, but more convenient.
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Absolutely. Avoid any blends outside the U.S.
I knew of no one that had Sega Channel and I only knew of its existence because I had a subscription to Sega Power around the time of its launch which was covered in the magazine.

The article claims 250,000 subscribers at its peak but it might as well have been zero on my little world. It's interesting how a service could have a quarter million subscribers and you could have basically no proof that anyone used it at all. That would be unheard of today. If Sega Channel launched today. Those 250k subscribers would be posting on social media, creating dedicated subreddits, uploading review videos to YouTube and live streaming on twitch. Anyone with even a passing interest in it would encounter the content of its users. The internet has really made the world smaller.
Nobody: Let's write all of our scripts in YAML

Me: !
The title is ambiguous. It might sound like it is about

> "GrapheneOS on Pixels" getting "extended Android support"

But it is really about

> GrapheneOS (commenting) on "Pixels getting extended Android support"
I would speculate that science and math communities are formed much more around university education than tech is. University education has elective classes and the exposure to others is much greater than if you learnt your trade from blog posts on the internet.
same for me now.
The gut was evolved through millions of years of evolution. It’s optimized for a different life style but this doesn’t necessarily mean it’s always wrong.

Don’t always obey your gut. But listen to it and make your own judgement. Sometimes it tells a hard truth.
To be fair, Biden is currently President and this happened under his watch. The buck rests in the Oval Office.
The thing is, it’s not AI, it’s just price fixing. We are going to see a lot of stuff in the near future where people are doing something illegal and they’re going to say “the AI made me do it!”