skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I often find myself revisiting old posts and stories. As with any human artifacts, most things aren't worth revisiting or are only meaningful in the moment. If they're gone, few people miss them.

I'm a link hoarder myself (over 13k links on Pinboard: https://pinboard.in/u:pmigdal/). While I don't revisit most of them, some have proven invaluable for re-reading and sharing. I'm not sure about the typical half-life of internet content, but a lot disappears—whether because people stop paying for domains, official websites get reorganized (or their content removed), or other reasons.

This is where the Internet Archive steps in, doing the essential work of a digital librarian. I often share links from its Wayback Machine, which has been a link-saver more times than I can count.
To directly address point #2, this may be music played by real musicians, but it is produced in a way that systemically forces it to be slop. Consider these quotes from the Liz Pelly investigation cited where a musician who created some of this music described how the process went:

> As he described it, making new PFC starts with studying old PFC: it’s a feedback loop of playlist fodder imitated over and over again. A typical session starts with a production company sending along links to target playlists as reference points. His task is to then chart out new songs that could stream well on these playlists. “Honestly, for most of this stuff, I just write out charts while lying on my back on the couch,” he explained. “And then once we have a critical mass, they organize a session and we play them. And it’s usually just like, one take, one take, one take, one take. You knock out like fifteen in an hour or two.” With the jazz musician’s particular group, the session typically includes a pianist, a bassist, and a drummer. An engineer from the studio will be there, and usually someone from the PFC partner company will come along, too—acting as a producer, giving light feedback, at times inching the musicians in a more playlist-friendly direction. The most common feedback: play simpler. “That’s definitely the thing: nothing that could be even remotely challenging or offensive, really,” the musician told me. “The goal, for sure, is to be as milquetoast as possible.”
Does it have any battery impact? I've never tried these always-on location tracking things partly due to (unfounded?) concerns about battery use.
Unforgeable Quantum Tokens Delivered over Fiber Network
The archaeological mystery of Stonehenge's long-lost megaliths
>Why are the moral panics always about the media diets of children? Let’s talk about old people for a minute.

This same reasoning is highly applicable to how various "so terrible, they're a threat to X!" are constantly vilified, yet the Normies (who cause most of the problems) get a free pass.

Rigged popularity contests are a terrible way to run a world, yet we insist on it.
Now, yes. But before 1978 in the us there were some extra steps (I think just attaching a copyright notice & publishing it, but I'm not 100% sure)
Whether you're using hardware RAID or not you still need a hardware storage controller of some type which accepts the new disks you can buy and works with the NAS. What they are saying is eventually that'll be more $ and time than just migrating off the system would be. From ENIAC to now could fit in one lifespan, would you still be maintaining a home floppy drive backup system in the 2040s or just save the time and effort with a migration?
NASA and ISRO Confirm Launch Timeline for Their Joint Earth-Observation Mission
This isnt true. Cloud definitely completely changed the market for sysadmin and network engineers. Some folks managed to retrain but many were left out post dotcom bubble.
Ask HN: Should central banks regulate AI?
If it's ultimately a deflationary force?
One benefit to commitment is that it's hard.

It takes work, for both people to compromise, to critically self-evaluate and improve.

When it's easy to just "shop around", you never really have to look hard in the mirror. It's easier to just internally assign blame to the other person: "they're not meeting my needs", and go off seeking someone else who will.

There's value in resilience, in building up your character so that you can endure turmoil.

All relationships have stormy times.

A key facet of emotional maturity is to be able to distinguish climate from weather.
I'm going through my file cabinets right now. I'll keep a few things that catch my eye but I'll likely throw out most of it. The odd 25 year old computer magazine is probably interesting but not all of them collectively for the most part. And I'm certainly not going to index them in a way that they'd be useful to me.
There is a huge problem looking at issues as if our entire lens can only go back 150-200 years. Go back a few more hundred years and the lines between rich and poor man’s intent start to blur—especially in Ireland. If all things were equal in delivery to people you would still see some people live in squalor and some learn towards some more refined practices. It doesn't matter.

What does matter is this insufferably march “forward” into a world where we can’t allow such individual will for any number of reasons, effectively neutering any real cultural development.

I’ll paraphrase David Bowie—we should all be happy just picking nuts but here we are.

There is nobody qualified to take on “all” human beings and decide what is right on such a scale. No matter how many honours one adorns oneself with.

Case in point: the kingdom and culture of England doing what it did in the 13th to 20th centuries through the Isles and beyond. It needed to modernize and “bring prosperity” through the poor, rural, gaelic regions who just couldn’t “get with the times”. One should wonder if those “poor” rural folks were ever hard up or unhappy until armies trounced through burning their homes and spoiling their land in the name of modernity.

The questions we need to ask ourselves take the form of silly platitudes:

What would we really do and care about if we had it all and had no more labour and toil before us?

Culture, love, beauty. Things that dont really cost anything and nobody is really inhibited from enjoying as long as they are creative.

And if we are not creative, then none of the vices or devices in the world will ever save us from continually seeking to “fix” it all.

Keep looking for dividing lines in the external and you’ll always find them. But the problem is in the human heart.

(Ironically, trying to convince wealthy tech bros of that is like diving into an acid pit. I can definitely agree that I don’t want my future in their hands. The poets may be crafty but at least they seek truth)
Kelly Betting with Discrete Stakes
Users in low wage countries with minimal profit per customer doesn’t preclude US / Canadian tech support where they get 20+x the revenue per user.

They are making 10+$/month per user for a few hundred million, and have a large profit margin that easily pays for basic tech support.
Curve smoothing. Chaikin's algorithm and Jarek's tweak etc. Very clever and nice way of making angular geometry curvy. Constructive geometry stuff.

There were like a dozen algs. I kept links to nice papers with diagrams. Then they started disappearing. Now I'd be pressed to find 2.

This is really useful info that is apparently disappearing. So yes, it happens, and maybe you should save that stuff.
My preference. I don't really go anywhere so around the world is not required for me. It also means that when either my self hosted solution or the commercial solution gets popped there is nothing to leak. My emails are not exposed to the internet 99.99% of the time.
A friend of mine worked on https://github.com/libriscv/godot-sandbox

Which uses libriscv as the sandboxed compute target.

IIRC They tried for years to get a wasm backend to work and eventually abandoned it citing, among other reasons, something about how it was difficult to wrangle a stack machine with a register machine.

I don’t really see what benefits wasm runtimes have over something like libriscv which is very fast and maps more closely to hardware.
It is not hypothetical, the fact is that killing drones are used in practice, and it just doesn't make sense to oppose lesser measures that are being used without judgement when killing is allowed.
They do, Airtag hardware need to be signed to add to your iCloud account. But the actual location beacon messages are not linked to your iCloud account and can’t be associated with the sending airtag.
I'm shocked! But don't worry, I'm sure the nytimes, wsj, ap, etc will run hit pieces on this outrageous behavior by israel.
Okay, but the person wasn't asking this of the family of a dying loved one, they were asking it in this space where ideas are discussed and examined. Yes, it would be disturbingly unempathetic to ask that question in such a circumstance, but asking it in this circumstance is neither cold, inappropriate, or a demonstration that the asker lacks empathy.
Please no.

While what you describe may be better than YouTube/TV, there is no replacement for development through human interaction and contact.

Let’s not give parents another excuse to have devices babysit/raise their children.

EDIT: and if your post is being upvoted -- and it seems to be -- I hope it's by people that don't have children, and will later realize how bad of an idea this is once they do have children.
https://linear.app/ has a clean design
Excellent. If these compiled data structures were the web standard instead of HTML, www would be ridiculously fast.
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42466676
The main goal is to enable nice UI without the requirement of a whole web browser in order to get CSS. The fact that it can be used to layout web pages is just showing off to get the attention of the billion web devs out there.
im less interested in having a pedantic argument online regarding exact meaning of useful and exactly for what. the bottom line with this example is that its a useful model for some things and therefore still is taught in science classes today as a “correct” description just like NM, both of which which are not, fundamentally.

Take it or leave it :-)
Google's Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
because children are undergoing a critical phase in their development that has no analogy for older populations? I'm not saying isolation among the elderly is not concerning, nor widespread phone/tech addiction among adults. But I think there’s ample reason to have particular concern for the effects on children.
Perl+OpenMP Saved Christmas
"I mean, check any major labels artist. Each and every single hit song they release has countless writers and producers claiming a stake, not to mention the fact that some major labels artists don't even try to hide the fact they buy all their content from third-parties to slap their name over it."

Do you think this is a bad thing?
Cramming Scrapscript into Msgpack
Stuff online is absolutely worth saving. It is a window into the past - what people concerned themselves with, what they loved and hated.

Scholars will write papers on this era, speculating what it was like and how it fit into what came after.

The web documents the massive societal changes underway which do not relate to the internet directly. Things like changes in transportation technology, medicine, sexuality and gender, and how your average people felt about all of it. Scholars will data mine those opinions to understand who felt what ways and why, with the benefit of hindsight. New knowledge will come of it.

So yeah! It is all worth saving.
Well measured and empathetic arguments.
> Yeah, OP is comparing this to Google/Amazon/Apple/etc devices

Thanks; it seems I actually needed to spell that out in my post.
Cross platform (something that works well outside of Apple apps/devices)
Leisure time hasn’t increased in the last 100 years except for the lower income class which doesn’t have steady employment. But yes, I see your point that the homeless person who might have had a home if he had a (now automated) factory job should surely feel good about having a phone that only the ultra rich had 40 years ago.
The answer is because the UK moved away from their most abundant and cheapest energy source. It's not rocket science.
What is making you think criminals are scared of pseudonyms, or that pseudonyms don’t provide all the real and practical benefits of anonymity most of the time? It’s not a myth that a lot of crime involves BTC right now, it’s a fact, regardless of the theoretical underpinnings or hypothetical weaknesses.

Cash comes with serial numbers, and occasionally gets traced. It’s about as effective as tracing pseudonyms, most of the time.
The GP post is about how much better these AIs will be than humans once they reach a given skill level. So, yes, we are very much pitted against AI unless there are major socioeconomic changes. I don't think we are as close to a AGI as a lot of people are hyping, but at some point it would be a direct challenge to human employment. And we should think about it before that happens.
Check my launch on Product Hunt

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/vailo-io-all-in-one-projec...
I think the pandemic had nothing to do with that except maybe that it served as a trigger for you or others. Plenty of people got hooked on programming in normal and peaceful times, with plenty of addictive distractions around - be it chess, reading, popular sports, Pokemon, movies, etc. Not everyone is interested in, or has the patience for, programming. You see its potential and what you could do with it, they see it as a chore better left to people who like that kind of stuff.
Java doesn’t call any of its List implementations “array”. There’s ArrayList, which just means a list implemented on top of an array (actually multiple arrays in the general case, since it has to switch between arrays when increasing capacity). It doesn’t mean that it is an array, any more than a stack implemented on top of an array is an array (it isn’t).
> Bavaria has forests, but not the Black Forest. The Black Forest is in Baden Württemberg.

Brain fart moment, I guess you're right. But Bavaria still has plentiful forests for the argument to be valid.

> This is just a factually wrong statement. Solar does make sense ans the business case is just getting stronger with the falling panel and storage costs.

The business case is getting stronger because of a self-inflicted wound. You guys have ballooning energy costs in Germany by sole virtue of your own policies, even though you had the panacea to those issues earlier. It's like handling a toothache with clove oil and herbs when you should be getting a root canal, even though you're rich enough to afford that.

I for one would love to see German heavy industry run on solar power. Even the cost justification won't make sense and you know that.
An auction is a great idea. If a foreign worker is valuable enough then companies should be willing to pay up for them. Then the American People can benefit in multiple ways, we get the revenue paid into the auction, and we get the economic benefits of high skill foreign workers. Let the market decide.

Currently the lottery gets spammed by IT outsourcing firms:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-staffing-firms-game-...

The American People built this country into the economic powerhouse it is today; we should reap the benefits of all this economic activity not random outsourcing firms.
Spotify seems to have special deals with these music producers that probably gives them less money per stream.
my issue with wikipedia is that its only a reflection of controlled mainstream information, and notably corporate news like CNN. every corporate news outlet like CNN has incredible bias to the point of blatant dishonesty, but because of how wikipedia works, sites like CNN are the word of god and everything they write is treated like fact. therefore wikipedia is effectively an extension of the propaganda getting pushed out by the billionaire owners of news companies.

disclaimer: its not just CNN, I'm not right-wing, yes also right wing sites are bias and dishonest, maybe even more so
When I worked at defence it was an important part of getting funding that your project had a catchy acronym. Bonus points for combining multiple TLAs
An aside about ad spam from companies that I occasionally buy from:

Often as spam comes from the same mailbox as order receipts and includes words like “order” while messages with receipts never include the word “receipt”. When inundated with daily or sometimes multiple times a day ad spam from the same company it becomes very difficult to filter for only not receipts, to clean a neglected inbox.

After I’m gone, I fully expect my family just to delete it all because the signal to noise is so low.
Cross-platform. There are 3 major desktop operating systems (Windows, Linux, and Mac) and 2 major mobile operating systems (iPhone and Android). Every single OS has a huge marketshare worldwide (including Linux, if you count servers).

A truly x-platform app is one that works well on all 5 of these platforms, e.g. Signal. A moderately x-platform app is one that works well on the two mobile operating systems and on web as an alternative to desktop, e.g. WhatsApp. A single-platform app, like Apple FindMy, only works properly on e.g. Mac + iPhone. Apple tends to be the only major industry player that produces these sorts of apps, e.g. iMessage, FaceTime, Final Cut Pro, Keynote. Although with Keynote you can often get by with the iCloud web version, which has a useful 80%-or-so of the desktop app's features. Even apps like Meet, Zoom, and Teams -- run by rival companies -- are more x-platform than major Apple apps.
> "But isn't this a false correlation?". What a deeply and unsettlingly cold question that lacks any potential for empathy.

That's an absurd mental picture you've imagined. Using that to undermine the discussion of the reality that people use drugs to temporarily escape from desperate conditions is unsettling and lacks empathy and judgment.
A two-ton pile of ad fliers? Sounds like Ted Nelson's Junk Mail collection, https://archive.org/details/tednelsonjunkmail .
Francois'(the creator of ARC-AGI benchmark) whole point was that while they look the same, they're not. Coding is solving a familiar pattern in the same way (and fails when it' s NOT doing that, it just looks like it doesn't happen because it's seen SO MANY patterns in code). But the point of Arc AGI is to make each problem have to generalize in some new ay.
Even within Apple's platforms, there's pretty limited support for automation -- you can say "Siri find my keys" but there's no App Intents / Shortcuts support for automating anything within Find My (AFAIK), which is a bit disappointing.
> A fast food job might be $17/hr, but the cost of gas is >2x what it was when that same job paid $8/hr

This is probably the worst example. In 2008 gas cost as much as it does now and fast food did only pay $8/hr. https://www.creditdonkey.com/gas-price-history.html

> Millennials are, if anything, brutally realistic

No, your entire post is an example of the dramatic doomerism waxing on the anxieties of normal life. Complaining about anxiety is one of the hallmarks of a millennial.
I think it’s widely accepted that many animals, including dogs, go nuts leading up to an earthquake. They can detect it, so something must be measurable.
LOL at “mainlining cable news and AM talk radio”.
Sometimes there is no choice when both parents must work so better raise the child by AI rather than TV.
Maybe, though that would surprise me a bit. My first personal webpage was probably around 1996 or 1997--and I assume that was fairly early for that sort of thing. As I said, I had been using BBSs for a while and also accessed usenet and FTP sites somewhat later. (I would have only had access from work to the Internet for quite a while.)

For most people, it probably wasn't until MySpace and the like and the popularization of blogging in maybe the early 2000s that an "online presence" was really a thing although people increasingly had access to email etc.

(My dates may be a bit off but not by a lot.)
Interesting.

Counter-intuitively, I think slop might have it's place in cultural development. There is always genre-death by exploitative cash-in slop and vomiting it out by machine might be an accelerant.

When you start getting that visceral deja-vu dilution ick from slop or just a scene getting derivative and samey, that's what prompts head-snapping invention of brand new sounds that seek clear-blue water between themselves and the slop.
i just find the tension and contradictions of piracy kinda fascinating. "i hate this so much but i have to get it cause i apparently need it so badly". something being deserving to be obtained, yet not deserving to be paid for. and most of all, somebody feeling so entitled to it that they just can't actually refuse it completely.
I assume you don’t have kids because as the parent of a toddler this is a terrible idea. The last thing a toddler needs is AI hallucinations “teaching” them
If only we had search algorithms...
It's just boring IMO. Run down the court, Chuck up threes, the game just isn't what it was years ago.
> any dollar they don't spend, they get to KEEP

I'd love a source on that.
You've deeply misunderstood my comment.
A Persian folk method of figuring interest
Personally, I have a different problem: Too many stars are hurt during the playoffs (and the season as well, but not as important). Which means that it's just sad and I have less reason to watch because in the end it mostly comes down to which teams are healthiest the most. (e.g. look at which teams Boston played last playoffs and what happened to the stars of their opponents...)

Also, crypto and gambling ads annoy as well.
What a patently absurd POV! A phone doesn’t compensate for the inability to solve for basic needs - housing, healthy food, healthcare. Or being unable to invest in skill development for themselves or their offspring, save for retirement.
So when both people think they have legally purchased it, they go back and forth stealing it?
Just goes to show you how far behind the SEO scammers Google is. Despite being bigger and wealthier Google simply can’t catch the more nimble SEO scammers
Reversibility is great for consumers who are sending money in exchange for products and services. It can be a nightmare for people who receive the money and are providing the products and services.

And it isn't just businesses who carry this risk. If a business was depending on a large inflow to make payroll, and that inflow gets reversed, the people who are expecting payment for their labor also are subject to a payment reversal.

There's definitely a lot of benefits to reversibility, but it has very real costs and tradeoffs.
Elon tweeted a while back they could do positioning, but it’s just not a high priority right now
Does Spotify actually bill itself as a "neutral discovery platform"?
Every statistic I've seen indicated much better accident rates for self-driving cars than human drivers. I've taken Waymo rides in SF and felt perfectly safe. I've taken Lyft and Uber and especially taxi rides where I felt much less safe. So I definitely would take the self-driving car. Just because I don't understand am accident doesn't make it more likely to happen.

The one minor risk I see is the cat being too polite and getting effectively stuck in dense traffic. That's a nuisance though.

Is there something about NYC traffic I'm missing?
Yes, although I recently discovered Hammerspoon which is a clever little bit of open source macOS desktop automation technology:

https://www.hammerspoon.org/
He wouldn't believe it anyway
Time to admit it: Unreal Engine 5 has been kind of rubbish in most games so far
How long does it take to get approved? I guess renal failure isn't exactly a thing that sneaks up on you, but I do wonder what happens if there's some catastrophic incident that results in an ongoing medical issue; can you just keep showing up to the ER for treatment while enrollment goes through?