skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's my bad (I thought it looked weird when I typed it). Still the same syntax works with CON and any other reserved DOS devices

echo "hey DOS" > \\?\C:\temp\CON

del \\?\C:\temp\CON

While it can be "trivially" done, it's a hit or miss if any application actually supports it. You effectively need to deal with the NT path prefix \\?\ when dealing with the Win32 APIs to be able to open a handle to the file. The prefix essentially tells Win32 to back off and get the handle directly from the NT object manager.
One the most important self care things you can do right now is to take some time for yourself. That is true if you have kids or not.

For many of us, HN is one of those things. It is orthogonal to having enough time - it is more about coping.
I’ll care when we legislate against obesity, which causes far more deaths every single year. Until then, it’s just fear mongering.
In addition to the links provided by heavyset_go, the go-to popular source on authoritarian followers is[0], or the updated TLDR[1].

[0] https://theauthoritarians.org/Downloads/TheAuthoritarians.pd...

[1] https://www.theauthoritarians.org/
Really Remote Learning: Students Climb Trees and Travel Miles for a Cell Signal
"War on Terror" is newspeak, it's well known that Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 nor had they WMD as claimed to invade them.
Isn't this true of any atomic operation in the event of a crash? You'll either see the old data or the new data when the system comes back up.
You pick one element of that context (no hard mask wearing rules) and conclude that it must be because of that when it's much more likely that other elements (or their combination) would explain the result. For all we know, if Sweden had a more stringent mask wearing rule they might have had even fewer cases and deaths.
Just chiming from the Android Side. I enjoy Castbox (castbox.fm). Although , the one scummy thing they did recently, is they look for silence gaps then insert their own ads. I still use it, because I haven't found a good alternative on the Android side of the world
Uncovering the truth behind Lua and Redis data consistency
I have an Oscar Peterson CD with audible vocalizations
That's exactly the argument I have made, but perhaps it was under a different branch. I get a bit confused by the flow of conversation on HN.
Relevant: https://www.tnhh.net/posts/google-maps-insane-backward-compa...
Compatibility isn't an issue either. The analogy fails: I've got Kindle books that have a back page directing me to the publisher's website to buy more.

Apple's rules would prohibit it.

Apple's restrictions on any content that suggests the consumer may access services by any means other than making an in-app purchase are not "par for the course", they are an unusual abuse of market power that directly misleads the consumer.

I've also just re-read the App Store rules and noticed that for multi-platform services, it even contains a covenant outside of the walled garden: "your general communications about other purchasing methods must not discourage use of in-app purchase."
Telsa, Gates Foundation, etc. Ugh. Please stop 'helping' us.

My general guess is that anything actually worthwhile will have little to no private funding behind it.

Global heating. Racism. Soil extinction. Fascism. Disenfranchisement. Inequality. Female disempowerment. etc.

I guess there is government cheese for global heating. Not sure how much useful work would be done outside of government-run and/or -funded laboratories.

And anything that could potentially start out as being at least notionally-well-intentioned will come around to being not that.

My general thinking at this point is I have to find or help to create a small, well-organized group of people who start a not-funded social movement that will oppose almost everything most philanthropists and investors and do-gooders actually care about.
It could partly trace back to how we've segmented off our population. I barely interacted with children my entire young adult and adult life until I had my own.

Unfamiliarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes.
This way of looking at it doesn't justify _apple_ having a cause of action against epic for seeking to do business with you, consensually, without apple's intervention.
Looks dead, and the code looks.... yeah[1]. Bonus[2]

1. https://github.com/opencats/OpenCATS/blob/develop/lib/Candid...

2.
https://github.com/opencats/OpenCATS/blob/77c1f2bcf1bc92f4ca...
Modern technology means that 2% of the citizens of a developed country can feed the rest. That's why nobody wants/needs the average J. to farm.

Modern technology means that only a small percentage of citizens are enough to defend the rest. That's why nobody wants/needs the average J. to fight.

If all of a sudden, say, 50% of the people having children now, in developed countries, would decide to not have children, we'd probably have societal collapse. That's what happened in societies where the population went down by huge percentages in a short time span. Housing markets would collapse, education systems would collapse, healthcare systems would collapse, demand for a million types of things needed by babies and children would collapse (and taking with it many, many professions), etc.

Even if you don't want to have kids, remember:

1. You were once a kid.

2. Your lifestyle is made possible by people that choose to have kids. Especially women, who sacrifice a lot for kids. At least be respectful to them.
Isn't that a bit like asking what if the parent is given 10 weeks off and then has another kid. Do they get another 10 weeks off or is it unfair that they get 20 while the person having a single kid gets 10?

There is also not a need to immediately jump to 10 weeks over in comparison for mental issues. Improvements can be much more minor, such as not frowning on people using sick days. Not even granting any more time off, just less judgment for using what is already granted.
You are getting hung up on arbitrary numbers in a fictitious example
Obesity isn't a communicable disease. And has nothing to do with our current situation. Obesity isn't the reason I can't walk into a store without a mask. It's not the reason I haven't met my friends and family in months. Stop being obtuse.

The only reason we're in the mess we are is the utter and complete mismanagement of our response. And our collective heads-in-the-sand attitude to the whole thing.
Cannot agree more. If WFH, was really that effective, then most of the jobs would have been outsourced by now. Like it or not, there is location bias in workplace. Pre-pandemic, I have frequently seen remote folks working hard to be seen and "sell" their work as opposed to folks working @ office.

I'm guessing once the vaccine is out, we'll eventually regress back to office.
Apparently they are apartment complexes..

https://twitter.com/_tchiek/status/1299386623390617601?s=20

Love how easily propaganda and misinformation spreads.
I want to start by saying that I saw this comment this morning, and have been thinking about it all day. Thank you for commenting this, and sticking around to defend your point.

I do have a couple of comments.

First, a system like you are describing is going to be highly efficient. However, this is not always a good thing. As you increase efficiency, in almost any system you will decrease robustness [0]. While this may be fine in a startup or some software project, for a society, this seems extremely dangerous.

Second, I disagree with the concept of everyone having their own reality. Everyone has their own perception of reality, and may or may not be able to perceive/conceive the reality of someone else's perception, but there is still only one authoritative, physical truth (Well, at least on a scale macro enough for this conversation).

Third, even if you control all of the media (via government for example), you still will not be able to control everyone's perception of reality. See for example China or North Korea, which I believe are the two systems closest to control of the media in the manner you are describing. In China. Despite their total control of the media, there are still citizens who think differently and have a different perception of reality. The only reason that these citizens follow along with the common goal, is because of the threat of force against them or their families if they don't.

For the fourth, I'm going to borrow your war example. If half the country believes in the war in Eurasia and carries it out, and half the country believes in the war in Eastasia and carries it out, are not both sides partially correct? In that case, would they not be better served by seeing the entire truth of the situation, instead of being limited to news sources that serve only one of the stories?

Of course, I do believe that the news should consist of facts, and possibly the interpretation thereof. However, this cannot be trusted to enforcement by government. In addition, since there is no way to stop news organizations from interpreting the facts, would we not be better served by having multiple organizations each provide individual interpretations? That way, we can see multiple possible "realities/perceptions" and chose which we think is the most accurate.

[0] https://taylorpearson.me/interestingtimes/robustness-efficie...
I genuinely enjoyed your story about your nephew, but it's bit like telling an anecdote about an incompetent engineer and then saying there isn't a large number of engineers that are good at solving problems.
Wow, the new Xbox is almost here? I haven't even opened up the XBox One I bought several years ago. Probably too late to sell it for a good price too.
”Log files. Append-only mode, enforced. Can't seek back and overwrite. On a crash, the file recovers to some recent good write, with a correct end of file position. It does not tail off into junk.“

As wahern says, append-only is available in some OSes. I am not aware of any that guarantees the “recovers to some recent good write” part, though. UNIX-like OSes won’t support it, as they don’t have a way to write more than one byte atomically (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write_(system_call): The write function returns the number of bytes successfully written into the array, which may at times be less than the specified nbytes)
So how does this one work? Live adeno’s?
https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit

This is the one that most catches my attention.

Currently actively maintained plus it has something analagous to a document object model https://github.com/cronvel/terminal-kit/blob/master/doc/docu...

Also Ink is incredibly interesting as it enables ReactJS for creating TUI apps - mind bending!

https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink

I can imagine the things above being combined with a sandbox plus Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS https://bellard.org/quickjs/ into a new type of application ..... the "pure text mode browser".

A "pure text mode browser" would not be designed to render ordinary HTML web pages, but would instead be a minimal browser designed only for text mode.
Jeez, it's just an expression. They're just saying that it would be way easier to not have to worry about kids at home right now. You're reading way to far into it. They are not saying that they would literally want to trade places, which should be obvious from the statement "I wouldn't give up my kids for anything"
Idk man I’ve gone on trips this year and I have kids-! So you are limiting yourself too much. Seriously you don’t understand how much you can still do, ditch those self limiting beliefs and go do something different. Bike, boat, board, camp etc. Once you have kids it’s so much harder
Is that why the market was down today?
Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less worthy
Essentially yes. Here's how you get a graphical session on a remote machine: export your local /dev/draw, /dev/mouse, etc. via 9P to the remote machine, then run the GUI on that remote machine. It'll write to /dev/draw, read from /dev/mouse, and so on with no idea that all those file operations are actually traversing the network.
This is a bad take.

COVID is an exceptional and temporary situation.

Everyone has highs and lows (great successes, terrible personal problems/tragedies/etc...) throughout their careers. The only difference between this circumstance and any other is that it's impacting many people at once.

If, for example, you got COVID and were put on a ventilator for a month, how would you react to finding out that you had lost your job? Would you want to take it on the chin and down-size, or would you be upset that your employer didn't show the basic decency to (at a bare minimum) re-hire you once you were recovered?
Is Eric a sort of Emacs for Python? To my knowledge, Emacs started as a Lisp editor written in Lisp(eLisp). To write a Python editor in Python seems the same general idea. Is it fully scriptable in Python as well?
I know of two parents who have been let go during covid. All of the people on their team who had been let go were parents of young children.
He won’t get it until/unless it happens to him. I was the same way once
pets are required? i think most people who have kids agree that once you have kids you care a lot less about your pets than you did before
They are apartment complexes.

https://twitter.com/_tchiek/status/1299386623390617601?s=20

Sorry for not getting caught in this anti-China craziness that has gotten Americans into a frenzy very very recently.
It’s basically over in America. We’ve reached herd immunity. No need for a vaccine
Some are easier to make, some are more stable, some require special handling, some are more effective... it may mean different one are used according to fit.
It could still be an immune system misfire. A vaccine is trying to create an large immune system response enough that the real infection is thwarted.

With that, a misfire can happen with any vaccine attempt, because an immune response is what's required.
Humanity is likely to decide continue having kids regardless of what I feel about it, and since I care about humans, I feel the obligation to protect those kids and their descendants. And similarly for other species.
For those of us not familiar with the term (as was I before a few seconds ago): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack
It means if he ran into the Zoltar machine he’d definitely give it a couple of whacks
> Having developed Haskell skills, what can one then do with them? Who in the world wants to have any Haskell code written badly enough to offer to pay to have it done?

Are there any languages you can immediately answer these questions for? Are there any popular languages you can't answer these questions for?

I have some ideas, but I want to nail things down a bit more before attempting an answer if you don't mind.
The price the customer pays is clearly for the package of hardware, operating system and (some) services.
The 30% cut developers pay is for a monetized access to Apples iOS APIs. The 99$ fee is for access to developer tools, review processing, "free" access to the platform and more.

Different sides, different business concepts.
Google Drive outages reported across the US
It’s perhaps better to rebrand this as an unbiased or third party political news site or something like that. That’s the cool part of this, as others have pointed out it’s going to devolve rapidly into a political flame war cesspool.

Love the aggregation part of it though, nice job!
I started using a copy paste with history (alfred on mac). Could never go back. It's such a massive workflow optimizer I can't believe the idea isn't more common. Function fixedness?
Yes. But traditionally Unix filesystems provided stronger consistency guarantees than required by POSIX, and applications have come to rely on them. Actually, in the event of a crash I think POSIX specifies implementation-defined behavior even for fsync.
Teletext (also TRS-80) 2x3 mosaics got into Unicode 13. I hope Kaypro's 2x4 mosaics get into version 14.
Why is that the most ethical thing to do?

As a motivating example, I wrote some stuff on my MySpace page as a teenager that I'm very glad is no longer available. They were published as "freely accessible" and indeed, I wanted people to see it. But when I read it back 15 years later, I was more than a little embarrassed about it, and I deleted it - despite it also having comments from my friends at the time, or being referenced in their pages.

No great value was contained in those works.
Exactly. It's designed from the perspective of protecting people's rights, and by protecting those rights promotes the common good.
I couldn't find any information on the set up of PhilosopherAI. It doesn't appear to pass prompts through verbatim, because it rejects some; I assume the user-submitted prompt is prepended by another one, which sets it up to expect a "topic".
Do you have family or close friends that could look after them for a few days?
> I see it more as hostility to the HR policies in place at some of the companies. A new parent at facebook gets 4 months leave after the birth and then can take another 10 weeks of family leave.

It's not like facebook employees typically have 10 kids. The benefits you mention happen once, twice and rarely three or more times in a lifetime.

This policy also means that younger employees will be able to enjoy the same policy if they become parents in the next 20 years.
The lack of noncontextual hidden variables is the main implication of the Kochen-Specker theorem from which the inability to condition follows. It's not "backward" from the conclusion of no noncontextual hidden state, it's just another consequence there of.

So the Kochen-Specker theorem says there was no pre-existent noncontextual state for the particle. However that doesn't in any way imply the particle was both UP and DOWN or that the device measured both UP and DOWN. Especially for the device as the Kochen-Specker theorem is proved in a context where observable outcomes are assumed to be single-valued.

However in real practice we can condition on the states of our devices following measurement, hence they don't seem to be susceptible to a Kochen-Specker result when viewed as the system for some "super"-observational device. Which they would be if they simply entered an entangled state. Thus the assumption of measurement as simple entanglement does not match actual observed reality. This is a point made in many texts such as those of Schlosshauer, Omnès, Peres and at a very rigorous level in the theory of C* algebras and Category theory by Fröhlich and Landsman respectively.
When a new law office was setup it would be sent books and lawyer-related equipment, along with a bill for payment

Not just law offices. EVERY office I ever worked in pre-internet had to deal with this. Almost always it was toner for the copier.

Some of the more clever scammers would call an office and say, "I'm Bill from the copier company. Can you tell me what model of copier we have over there? Oh, and what was your name again?" And when the office drone replied, the scammer would send out hundreds of dollars worth of toner and other supplies, plus an invoice for thousands of dollars, and say that it was authorized, by name, by the person who answered the phone.
The moon is rusty, and it's likely Earth's fault
Hellish AutoPlay Videos... a plague.
Err, what do you mean? Mask usage in the US is extremely dependent on what municipality you live in, both legally and culturally. I'd say assuming people are idiots would have been very welcome at the start of this. It's a major reason why we are the worst-hit country in the world.
Why RudderStack Used Postgres over Apache Kafka for Streaming Engine
Protests are a political call to action. A political rally is more a celebration of a specific political personality. Those two also do not have the same level of urgency. I am currently against holding any large political rally regardless of the candidate. I am open to protests from the right if they are willing to conduct them in a manner similar to how the recent protests from the left have been conducted.
I'm no constitutional scholar but I don't think the IRS is constitutionally prohibited from sending me a filled out tax form and asking me if it's correct.
Acorn's "ADFS", as used in RISC OS, uses "." as the directory separator. Fully qualified paths look like this:

fs::drive_id.$.directory.directory.filename

Where "$" means "root directory". (On network filesystems, you can also use "&" which means "home directory".)

The top level identifier is the filesystem type, usually "adfs", which is a slightly unusual way of doing it.

Bringing in files from other systems, which invariably have filename extensions, involves converting the . to a /, so you end up with filenames like "readme/txt". ADFS stores the file type not as a filename extension, but as a three-character hex ID in the filesystem instead. (Text, for example, is FFF.)
- I always had trouble with the Autofill API and LastPass. I wonder if it was a LastPass specific issue, but I'm not too willing to change password managers at the moment.

- Nearby Share looks great! Looks like its only Android -> Android or Android -> Chromebook right now. Hopefully we get Windows/MacOS/iOS support.

- What is the workflow for sharing a Wi-Fi password as a QR code? I looked in to this a while ago, and Android doesn't even let you access saved Wi-Fi passwords without root, and the stock camera app didn't have a QR reader built in.

- Tasker was pretty powerful, but the polish and user experience was lacking. Haven't kept up with Tasker's development, but I hope they take some inspiration from Shortcuts/Workflows and streamline their interface for general cases. There was a lot of additional features that were separated out into separate apps, which also made it more difficult to manage.

Thanks!
The single guys are doing fine. We have video games and internet dating. Living with another person, regardless of my relationship with them, is absolutely terrifying to me.

We all choose the life we want because of our own individual preferences.
This is one reason I created Trim [0]. I didn’t want to have to load 4-7 MB of stuff to read a stupid article. It often reduces an article page weight by 99% and uses no JavaScript.

[0]: https://beta.trimread.com
This is a good read. I believe that Steve Bourne (of Bourne Shell fame) implemented the file system in UNIX at Bell Labs but I may be mis-remembering that. He was also a big Multics fan.

What is unsaid in this article is that nearly all file systems that are in widespread use today, started when "disk space" was a constrained resource. It is a very reasonable thing to ask, "now that stable storage space is much more plentiful, how might we design systems that are better than the current ones?"

The ability to scavenge blocks to re-create state is a good example of that.

One of the cool things about WAFL (the Write Anywhere File Layout) system that NetApp used (uses?) was that it's very design made snapshots 'trivial' since every write to disk was to un-allocated blocks. What that meant in practice was that the file system on disk was always sane. This was what let you pull the power from the box at any time, and assuming its non-volatile RAM was still available, it could always recover. Something that you could do with Intel Cross Point memory and a bunch of disks.

Microsoft research built a number of interesting file systems, some more successful than others, which incorporated many of the ideas from Multics and other OSes.

All in all, its a fun place to experiment.
>So how does this one work? Live adeno’s?

Yes. It uses a live (weakened) chimpanzee adenovirus to insert the spike protein.

https://www.drugs.com/history/azd1222.html