skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't you still delete it or edit in the explanation that it's not actually your answer anymore?
It's clearly for fun and giggles, after few years you will forget about it, and maybe get and appointment for MRI. :)
Wow, that really is shit.

Hey Microsoft PMs, here's a feature for you: "Want to save to disk? Add the 'Save to Disk'-subscription, just $2/month!".
> The human eye can see about 60

I cannot brag with sharp eyesight, but I can definitely tell difference between 4k@27" at 60cm = 73PPD and 5k@27" at 60cm = 97PPD. Text is much crisper on the latter.

I've also compared Dell 8k to 6k. There is a still a difference, but it is not that big.
Given that the original article is criticizing the unequal wealth in the USA, a GDP PPP (which is an average) but higher concentration of wealth would imply that most people in the USA are much worse off.
Given your family history they should have been done young. However they are not completely risk free and so for most of us the standard guideline of 50 is good enough.

There are less invasive tests that can be done instead as well. They are not as likely to find cancer (which is why you should have done the more invasive colonoscopy), and if they do find anything you have to do a colonoscopy anyway, so for those with less family history who have unexplained bleeding while young they are a good option. Ask your doctor about the pros and cons of them if this comes up. (I suspect once you reach 50 a colonoscopy every 10 years is the right answer)
> How many of us are just chronically tired?

That is a tough question. Activity, it seems, has a habit of begetting activity. Such that the answer may not be, "you need better sleeping habits," but it could be more that, "you need better activity habits."

Noticing things is also a dangerous place to be in. A lot of what your body does while asleep is based on expectations as much as it is anything else. Learned expectations, to be specific. Most people know the "you wake up before the alarm goes off" idea. That is strong enough that it will work for changes in the alarm time.

What does that mean? It may be that your body learned a cue to start something for your sleep. So, for you, you now need to turn on your blue light filter; even if that may, in fact, not be actively doing anything.
That's exactly what we don't know yet.
Early last year, I lost my phone and I intentionally delayed replacing in some kind of smart phone detox.
I have never had better sleep than in those two weeks.
> Windows are […] expensive […]

I think it's the opposite: glass is really cheap, which makes up most of the window. Less expensive than rebar and concrete and the labour for the form work and such. Certainly the frame can be pricey, but most of the surface area is glass.

So glass is a popular facade because it saves the builder money: CapEx. But of course glass sucks an insulation the other side of the equation is heating/cooling: OpEx, which the builder may not care about.)
Nvidia's Jensen Huang is 'dead wrong' about quantum computers, D-Wave CEO says
It scales to 0. Scaling to 0 and not having to write few lines Docker file is the only tangible benefits.
Well, sway is not a desktop environment...
my newsletter goes to company website
It has a ddos-y kinda fee to me. I guess we'll know eventually.
Better antibodies by engineering targets, not engineering antibodies
The first reconstructed F-15 Strike Eagle II executable is playable
This is nice! Completely unrealistic without ads, though.

Wouldn't it be cool to create "complete internet" by also adding relevant links from one site to another?
could be seo spam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Boy_Printer
It is too bad plan9 did not take off, from what I read that system was designed for a serverless environment. You can use resources like memory, disk, cpu cycles from many other plan9 systems at the sametime.

Of course I think that would be a DRM nightmare for big-corps. One could stream items another person's system owns for "free" without dealing with companies.
I’ve been looking for a job and found a few that were clearly fictiocus
I think we can probably do better than METAFONT with the benefit of hindsight. Unit tests would help with comprehensibility. Including example outputs, too, like Darius Bacon's "halp", or R-Markdown, Jupyter, doctest, and org-mode can do. Higher-level languages than Pascal would probably be an improvement. Maybe building up the program as a series of versions, like Kartik Agaram's idea of "layers"; I did something similar but less complete in my literate-programming system "handaxeweb". We can do decent typography on a computer monitor now, so in the worst case, we can attempt to leverage interactivity, as so-called "explorable explanations" do.

Both programs and journal papers are mostly written the way they are because of tradition, not because it's the best way we've found to write them. Two examples:

Nobody would intentionally design a programming language to make it impossible to include the kind of diagrams that illustrate this article, but most programming languages are in fact designed in such a way.

Buckminster-Fuller-style "ventilated prose" turns out to be more readable than traditional paragraph formatting in psychology experiments, which is why we use it universally in our programs. But you can't publish a paper formatted that way unless you call it a poem.
Gayfemboy 0-Day Router Attacks Ongoing–What You Need to Know
It's a good point about changes in tax laws for software devs. Makes me glad I work for a non-profit (a rare non-pathological non-profit no less!)

For all the discussion about a soft job market for devs, the fact that the last Trump administration made a tax change that puts a target on our backs comes up rarely but it is part of the explanation.
Spouse works at salesforce as a PM - they are in several team structuring/hiring calls and it's all contractors. So SF is hiring - just not FTE.
For me, the light doesn't seem to have much effect - but what I do on the computer matters. For example, as much as I liked to watch something in the evening, I now find that if I watch an interesting movie or TV show too late, my mind is still wound up in it when I lie down, and I find it much harder to fall asleep.
I don't think he intended Twitter to be a good financial investment. It seems like he bought it for its power in the public discourse. Whether or not that investment paid off is an exercise for the reader.
This is incredible. I've also struggled to comprehend the scale of distance and time in space due to the sheer magnitudes involved, but this really puts it into perspective.

Some suggestions:

- Better documentation/help menu. (What is ∆t relative to? Some internal clock tick? Also, you should link the source code in the menu.)

- Arbitrary time adjustments so I could click on the date and set a custom date to view any point in the past or future

- The ability to see more than just the solar system
It's worth remembering, we're talking about the most expensive member of a pretty full product line. I have had a few "every room" applications (streaming music with some pretty inefficient software) for these things, and I found the original Zero to be a little underpowered, but the 1GB RPi 4 that my local Microcenter sells for $30 would work fine.

(I think I'm actually more irked than most people about RPi going public, but their product pricing still seems okay to me)
I’ve had one for ~7 years now and fly multiple times a year. I’ve never had it set off the metal detector, or more modern scanners at any security checkpoint in the US, or Mexico.
Yes, all three quotes in this subthread are :).
Intractable sleep conditions exist. I have narcolepsy which is incurable.
I'm on sodium oxybate which is basically just GHB. It's a "scary" drug to be taking every night, but it's very effective and usually very safe in controlled dosage.
Perhaps it seems odd, but could experiencing nightmares actually aid in the cleansing process?
Reminds me of the Ex Machina end credits [1] (and the Android live wallpaper I made as a homage to it [2].)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRJ-fPAO3Go
[2] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.figmentano...
>there are good people of means out there trying to make humanity better.

They are certainly good, but naive(In some sense I'm happy that they are naive).

The quality of our lives settles down to the lowest common denominator. Good, smart people do make a difference but generally these are blips of good times compared to vast stretches of bad times.
I just think about how often professionals need placeholder images or doodles in their documents, but cliparts are generally terrible and actually making a nice looking drawing for those purposes is out of scope for business users and immensely time consuming... so this fills a nice gap.

I'm obviously biased as a former "business user" writing a document authoring software!
> PC gaming is a very small market... and PC game pass

I think you're very much wrong. The game pass market is said to have ~30 million users. Having them be able to play on PC is probably quite important as not everyone can afford an extra Xbox if they already have a computer.
So P/L incrementally, ignoring capex and salary?
If this was true salesforce is in more trouble than any engineer.

Why? Because if AI is really all that then entire companies like sales force go away. All the customers who use sales force would need to do is hire one of these laid off engineers to ask AI concrete them a free sales force.
sorry, I didn’t mean to give the impression that I was suggesting that this kind of comment is akin to a “safety briefing” - in so far as it makes you safer.

What I’m trying to tell you is that it’s very easy for mundane information to be lost and so it bears repetition.

I don’t believe I’m offering a safety briefing, I believe the author is making the point that if you’re looking for something to host a service, you will be better served with something more suitable to the task. And not something that is designed for something completely different; constraining the supply and making things more expensive and difficult than they need to be
I mean, I suppose that's fine. idk, I've always kind of thought that hacker news was meant to be a technology adjacent news site, and I always felt that the wikipedia links seemed out of place to me.
I learned this after being diagnosed with epilepsy. It became clear quickly that we know very little about how the brain works. Almost all of the medical advice and prediction was based on observed behaviors in the population, nothing specifically about my brain.
And even then it is not strictly necessary. Cloud Run comes to mind as offering the ability to scale to zero, yet allows (maybe even requires?) maintaining the server in the application. The real benefit of "serverless" is that you no longer have to worry about the server, it being removed. Granted, that is not a big worry much these days with all the great server frameworks available.
Trump being elected again arguably is a sign the system is working, that people when unhappy with the status quo were able to change their government to someone they feel will represent their interests more. Now, I have no love to lose for Trump, I think he's a asshole, braggart and charlatan - but his election is a sign we can enact change - I dont think Trump will bring much real change, but its a sign the system works.

The only reason that this doesn't happen more often is the electorate is mostly disengaged from the races that do matter, and tied down by partisanship.
Depends. AIDS (this is treatable these days, but I'm using it as an example) would imply a history of something he would want to keep secret from his conservative church. Of course I have no idea what his religion is, nor what he died of. If it is cancer - while rare at his age it happens and isn't something I'd be embarrassed of but maybe he was.

To some extent too, you don't get to chose this, those who write your obituary do. Perhaps his wife (I have no idea if he was marred) and him have a disagreement on what is embarrassing and so even though he would have shared this she wanted it secret.
The brain truly is a system with terrible service availability. On average, after running for just 16 hours, it must be offlined for 8 hours to run maintenance tasks such as "scrub", "garbage collect", "trim", and "fsck".
As much as I applaud the biohacking curiosity, we've known for a while that sleep does lots of things to rest and repair the whole body. "Cleaning" the brain is only one of them. Finding an easy button to hack around the need for sleep is probably as unlikely as finding an immortality pill.
No, I do. It was an informal usage; they were requesting access to an internal web service and universities don't give that out to every student who asks.
No real reason to assume that.
>It's not just optimistic - its qualitatively unjustified to think that neuroscience (in its current form, at least) is inevitably capable of cracking consciousness.

The fact that you had to add the parenthetical here to hedge your bet demonstrates that you don't even entirely believe your own claims.
> There's _some_ tension with insulation there, though really at this point it's largely surmountable with triple-glazing etc.

A typical triple-glazed window can maybe hit R-8 (U 0.125). A typical wall can be R-20 (or greater).

There is no surmounting, relative to other assemblies, the suckiness of glass as an insulator.

But few people want to live/work in an bunker with no windows if they had a choice, so we accept the compromise. But make no mistake it is a compromise when it comes to energy efficiency.
Almost full circle from discrete processing element board to diagram, the next step is: circuit design to board diagram to factoring.
> I suspect long term fire insurance due to wildfire will not be covered by home insurance policies. As it’s not a “random” event, and instead a risk of certain areas.

Insurance companies cover known risks all the time. The greater the risk, the higher the premiums.

As long as insurance companies are permitted to accurately and fully price the risk into premiums, anything is insurable — at least in concept.
Sure you can. That is every choice in life.
Great counterpoint, re: vultures.

But, life on earth evolved with predators in the mix. I’d be curious to know what life would look like without the presence of predators during evolution. Or, which set of life would be more evolutionarily successful: creatures from evolution w/ predators vs. creatures evolution w/o predators. Sounds like a great topic for Primer [0].

Last, to push back, I don’t think the parent comment was using the brutality of nature as an excuse for their actions. They said it helped them understand/come to terms with their hunting behavior, of which is totally natural.

[0] https://youtube.com/@primerblobs?si=-bsFlBllNDvEfY-g
The Kubernetes Pendulum?
Your source debunked itself a few hours later.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/08/wildfire-threatens-...

This whole subthread should be printed out, preserved, exhibited in museums about the spread of misinformation among gullible Silicon Valley commenters, but also deleted from this site. It's an embarrassment.
> That's cool that you heard from one.

It was. (If you ever see this, thank you again, Mr Buchanan.)

> What I really wanted from a developer was the i960.

Interesting choice!

Given that Intel has a number of distinctive architectures in its historical portfolio, and is in trouble these days due to the competition from Arm and perhaps even RISC-V, I would love to see it do either experimental revivals of some of its architectures, or open up the specs for other ones.

(Someone there must bitterly regret selling off its Arm architecture license cheaply to Marvell; now, Marvell is worth more than Intel itself.)

How about modern die-shrinks of i860 and i960, or even just FPGA versions?

After the DEC/Compaq/HP implosion, Intel also ended owning the Alpha. I would not be at all averse to a resurrected Alpha chip, even if a very low-end chip on some old cheaper process tech.
> Andreas did not change his mind about SerenityOS

He did, how much do you want to bet that if he were to do it all over again he would go straight to the browser work and skip the OS project?

That's why he doesn't even talk about it anymore, he even removed it as a target in Ladybird.

It's clear that he got burned by his own decisions.

I don't care what you think about me or not, I don't hate SerenityOS and I wish that project well, but I think they should reconsider their stance on third party libraries.
Thats where the custom software comes in - you can program a robot to move in a pattern through setting it or through sending coordinates to it (I have done that as part of a job).

You could have software that converts the instructions for the PCB into instructions for the robot to do pick and place.
At the bottom of every page here, there is a link to the HN guidelines. The first guideline is on "What to Submit." It does not give me the impression that the articles you're referring to are out of place here.
Nuclear go brrr.
> […] but since I turned 30 to my surprise I find myself wearing more grey stuff.

Perhaps in a few years you will go from Wink the Grey to Wink the White (just hope you don't need an encounter with a Balrog to accomplish it).
We use it for corporate mail ... but we all still have google accounts to access google cloud, do oauth to other services, and to manage our calendars.

The UI is clunky and extremely slow. A sidecar app is required to use a local mail client (which is actually quite neat, as it runs a local proxy over a secure tunnel) but it is a hurdle nonetheless

I would not use it for corporate purposes or anything other than a situation where you value 'privacy' over all else.
I think you picked wrong only in narrowing yourself so much. Nobody cares about your deep language knowledge unfortunately, unless that translates into more velocity. It's not pretty but it's what it is. For someone to care about your deep knowledge it needs to be at the level of writing books and being involved in the specs, with commit rights to core, and even then...
A Game Engine in Rust [video]
Fortunately this does not work in Safari where the rendering is done natively.
I enjoy them but they rarely get enough upvotes to get large audience. I think some users use a browser toolbar where sharing a link is just the click of a button.
>admits only two parties cannot be called a democracy

'Democracy' itself is a charade to pacify the masses.
Nice.

For when Factorio has turned into a Job. And the engineer inside cant' help but optimize.
Nothing certain about that.
A few gigs?

It is (or was) cheaper to signup for 365 than by the same storage in dropbox. It is cheaper to get that package than get Zoom.
> manpower necessary to perform 100+ years of backlogged forest maintenance spanning the entire west coast

Curious what is involved with this. If indigenous people could do it, why couldn't a larger population with superior tech do it? Sounds like a worthwhile venture. Even if it costs a fortune it might be better than rebuilding LA every 30-50 years.
Not just web browsers, Acrobat (and probably other PDF readers) have supported executing Javascript in PDFs for decades.
Some context here:

Up until very recently, California had laws that prevented insurers from factoring in climate change, reinsurance costs (most home insurers get insurance themselves), and modeled results.

This is great for consumers in the sense that it keeps insurance costs low. It's bad in the sense that it underprices the risk in fire-prone areas by a lot. Historical losses don't work well for a tail-driven risk like wildfire or hurricane, where losses are infrequent but massive. California already allows modeled results for earthquake for similar reasons.

Accurately pricing tail risk is difficult for people to understand, because it looks overpriced for 10 years and then has all of the profits for the decade wiped out because of a single fire.

Now, are insurance companies saints? Of course not. They're trying to get as much money as possible from you. But it's a pretty competitive market, so if nobody wants to give you a policy, that says something.
I think many in cryptography would see cracking a key as a precondition to "actually exploiting it" ... because you've only gotten a cryptographic secret, not "actual data".

But I think many others, and many in law enforcement, will see cracking a key as "actually exploiting it". You've exploited the cracking vulnerability to target a particular key, is how they'll see it. Law enforcement also have a natural incentive to want possession of harm-adjacent paraphernalia to carry substantial liability.

I think they have a point; that key is private data, and there's a reason people lock keys up in KMSs and HSMs; they can have a large blast radius, and be hard for companies to revoke and rotate. Importantly, a compromise of a key will often trigger notification requirements and so now it is a breach or an incident, in a way that a good faith security vulnerability report is not.

To make an extreme example; if you were to crack an important key for a government agency, good luck with that is all I'll say. I sure wouldn't.
As a neuroscientist, yes. But this is true of most science & medicine news written for a general audience. I have to tell my parents to stop reading "Chocolate is a superfood / Chocolate causes cancer" articles every year.

Uncertainty isn't good for engagement, even if it's correct.
> You really need at minimum a stable driver ecosystem with stable driver ABIs but Linus refuses to have that. I understand his reasoning and the benefits but one must ask, has it succeeded in producing a viable operating system that is robust and that works and can support various devices including proper graphics? Is this really the best strategy?

No, it clearly doesn't need a stable driver ABI. Yes, it works very well. Even nvidia works these days.

> Taking a hobbyist weekend project and turning it into a PRODUCT means spending long boring nights fixing those sharp edges and fixing bugs and looking for issues etc. This is work that very few people do in the open source world (due to lack of skills or motivation or whatever), but without this grind the product isn't a product yet but just an alpha demo.

You... understand that Linux hasn't been a "hobbyist weekend project" for like 30 years, right? It's mostly developed by big companies and has been for a long time.
So... because the problem of untangling how the brain works is complicated and unfinished, it might be powered by woo?

Sure, and maybe Cthulu is about to awaken the sunken city of R'lyeh. You can't prove me wrong either.
I have seen the name pop up before, but I have never actually visited slashdot before. I think it was popular a bit before my time. This link made me heavily reconsider how much "worse" I thought internet discourse had gotten in the past 10 years. It looks like way back in 2004, it was still a bunch of people who didn't read the article before commenting arguing past each other to shout into the void the loudest. I guess that's a bit comforting and a bit sad.
IMHO you are absolutely in the right here but yearly ban might do you good. This level of engagement with a single corporate site is not healthy for anybody. I know it's unjust (all life is), hurtful and evokes all negative emotions but sometimes you need to be hurting a bit to get out of local minimum in your life that sucks your time and resources by just being not terrible enough to leave.

Besides SO viewership drops like a stone since LLMs became a thing. Soon it'll be an open-air museum rather than a staple.