skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fascinating discovery, but I do want to spare a moment's thought for the lab animals in the study. Asphyxiation is a deeply unpleasant way to die, which is what happened to all of the control group, all of the group without intestinal abrasion, and 25% of the mice who were given the full treatment.

That latter is just one animal; the groups were very small. But that sounds especially horrible, getting almost enough oxygen to live. Every single animal underwent "agonal respiration", which is merely medical Latin for "gasping for breath", but nonetheless suggests that these mice were suffering substantially.

I'm glad that the groups were small. I'm well aware that animal models are necessary for medicine, and that these deaths may well one day save many human lives; presumably the Institutional Review Board decided it was worth it on balance. I hope that future experiments can continue to be done with an eye to minimizing the suffering that goes into them.
For the most part, Linux has "fixed" that. Really, the hardest part of using Linux is the onboarding process, which is being addressed with companies like System76 and Lenovo offering to ship laptops with Linux preinstalled.
Of those apps I can only say that VS Code is well written and that Spotify is junk.

Is 600mb too much for VS Code? I guess it depends on what you are doing with it and which extensions you have installed etc., if you are running a pretty bare-bones installation and seeing 1GB+ memory usages in VS Code please open an issue in their issue tracker and tag me (same username as in HN).

> Slack is much better than it was.

And that didn't happen by switching to the website approach, I think you'll be disappointed if any of these apps end up switching to Tauri or Wails without significantly improving their code too. Which is why I'd predict no major player will jump ship.
I'd guess most macos systems (laptops) have encrypted hard drives.
This is one of a few recent histories of alchemy. If you are interested in the technical aspect, I strongly recommend "The Secrets of Alchemy" by Lawrence M. Principe. He is a chemist as well as historian, and has gained insight through replicating ancient techniques.
It's not like that.

The value is that the kind of person who like, buys a new car, is someone who buys shit generally, a proverbial whale consumer. They could just sell the purchaser lists directly, and it would already get you 80% of the way there (20% is the intent, although is there really intent if you look at a billboard?)
> I don’t have problems using other peoples computers occasionally.

I know what you mean ;=)

But I really really want tab dance functionality, switched esc-caps and a few other things. And this things being configured in you keyboard instead of the OS make it just a lot less annoying.
Five distinct disciplines compose the ESS, encompassing a wide range of emergency response functions and roles:

* Law Enforcement

* Fire and Rescue Services

* Emergency Medical Services

* Emergency Management

* Public Works

Emergency Medical Services ≠ Hospital
Because I have a need for Internet Explorer 6-8!
The political “we”. No, YOU must fix San Francisco. “We” had nothing to do with the mess you created. Some of us even tried to warn but were shot down and chased out. You made your bed, now lay in it.
While the article is just another trash piece, there's a short story by ‘Henry Kuttner’ describing pretty much the future into which we're heading with electronics all over the place and everything connected to the web, in conjunction with the ad industry. It's basically the definitive text on the topic for me. The story is called ‘Year Day’, and it should be in the public domain unless renewed somehow—however a quick search for the text turns up nothing. It was first published in the collection ‘Ahead of Time’.

(‘Henry Kuttner’ is pretty much another pseudonym of Henry Kuttner and his wife and co-author C.L. Moore.)
So far I have been blaming Shopify for my shitty user experience. Is this article suggesting that Shopify intentionally let their customer fuck it up?
I’m curious about this and will ask my mother who picked it up from hers, and she from hers and so on. I’ve even used it myself as a kind of victorian throwback pleasantry. It’s a meme rather than a mimic I’m sure. Just being polite when served by those close, together with a whole lot of other cultural context. A descendant on her side had a fruit and veges shop in old Brighton when the royal pavillion attracted aristocrats and so on. Later in deptford, bombed during WWII and surrounded by relative poverty. Stiff upper lip and lower class manners mixed with stoicism. I’d look in the east end and Kent for English context.
> I'm sorry, but no Linux DE I've ever used beats macOS in terms of stability. The file explorers are also a joke and frequently changing.

Dolphin on KDE hasn’t changed in 10 years and is far more functional than Finder. Frankly I think Finder is an appalling file manager so I’m surprised to hear anyone advocate it.

> MacBooks are solid laptops. Every other laptop I've owned hasn't stood the test of time as well as my Mac.

5 years ago I would have agreed with you but MBPs these days are really built more like expensive consumer devices rather than workstations that expect to see heavy usage.

Ultimately I think the real reason people use Macs is just personal preference and there isn’t any tangible, provable benefits of one over the other. Despite our engineering minds thinking every decision can be distilled down to fact and reason.
I'm amazed that it can be profitable to still develop an OS for those machines!
> "countercurrent heat exchangers"

Very interesting! The concept makes a lot of sense, and I was able to find some companies online that produce such a thing, often under the phrase "counterflow heat exchanger".

Frustratingly there's little details online for actual pricing, but you can find the bare exchange units on ebay for $200-300.
His point is that Rust is not user-friendly with a unnecessary cognitive load for user facing applications.
I don't know why this comment section derails into the language properties and technical merits, giving its pretty simple to recognize that.
The HN crowd might be above average and might tend to think that Rust is an easy enough language, but the reality for most people is that languages with the amount of complexity of the likes of Rust, C++ and Scala are not easy for the "average programmer" and we are not even talking about the people that just don't want to deal with unnecessary complexity.

Really, almost any GC'ed language out there is a better pick for this sort of task (except the ones that are poorly designed for this, like Go).
Could you make whole webpages just through urls? Such as they will completely portable? Portable being taken with a grain of sand ofc.
I agree that full mesh network is bad for scaling, but IRC's directed graph—manually configured even—is bad for availability. There is some talk about making the routing better, but I guess it's not in near future..

In Matrix it could be a problem, but practically it's not a problem even in the largest room #matrix:matrix.org with probably thousands of servers. But it makes joining that room quite slow and resource intensive.

Of course there is no IRC network with thousands of servers, because accepted hosts are well curated by the rules of the IRC network whereas any Matrix server can join the global federation. Granted, you don't need to join a chat network with an IRC server, but then neither does a Matrix server.
> I'm sorry, but no Linux DE I've ever used beats macOS in terms of stability.

Been running Xfce since 2004 with no stability issues whatsoever.

> Macbooks are solid laptops. Every other laptop I've owned hasn't stood the test of time as well as my Mac.

Oof, I guess you never got a Mac during 2016-2020 or so. They've been gradually declining in build quality. I owned Mac laptops continually from 2005 until 2019, and they've been going downhill pretty much the entire way, especially since 2012 or so.

> More [actually good] software supports macOS. It's just a fact.

That's pretty much the definition of an opinion, not a fact.

> Finding compatible hardware for Linux can be frustrating and not as complete as is claimed.

It really isn't. The problem is that everyone already has a laptop when they decide they want to switch, and then get frustrated when their existing laptop doesn't work well with Linux. These days there are quite a few laptops that work perfectly or near-perfectly with Linux, and they're not hard to find.

> All the customization doesn't offset the trouble that desktop Linux can bring.

That's a fair opinion, but I've found my experience to be the opposite. Every time I go back to macOS, I get frustrated with the inflexibility of it all. I get that it's a pain to feel like you have to customize everything to get something usable for you, but macOS goes too far in the opposite direction for me: Apple just does not give me enough knobs to turn to make me feel comfortable in their environment.
The article seems to be talking about two potentially unrelated effects - up-regulation of gluconeogenesis in the liver and BCAT1. The gluconeogenesis makes sense in the presence of glucose-hungry cells, the body would start making its own to stabilize blood sugar. I wonder what the signal mechanism is for the BCAT1 up-regulation?
Oh, I see. Apologies for misunderstanding, then.
I'm enjoying the irony in the fact that the "Iron Ring" can be made of either iron or stainless steel. The symbolism and principles represented matter more than technically correct naming conventions.

In the same way, the job title shouldn't matter as much as the principles of ethical professionals. Should we really be using job titles to indicate the expectations around ethical conduct?
curl ai

Worked as well.
I just declare a tab bankruptcy every once in a while. Close everything, forget I opened those tabs. If it is important enough, it's already stashed away in a format that lends itself to offline reading. If it's not yet stashed, it will bubble up eventually from among other things.

If I don't have time to stash it away, whom am I kidding? I'm not going to come back to it in a near future anyway. I already have a couple of things that remind me of how guilty I am by not coming back to them, why add more?
It was just a contrived example. Imagine instead you have a partnership with Amazon and then Walmart wants to buy you. Both companies have made it clear they will never work with each other.

Either way, every deal, every partnership, every contract, complicates an acquisition. The fewer you have the more likely a deal is. By establishing a relationship, one company can discourage others from wanting to put in the effort of acquiring you.
That's just their store template I assume; all of the PCs they sell have a lot more than just one option.
Absolutely.

Now...can your more or less thinly financed startup litigate against, say, Apple to enforce your rights? Because there's no magical moment where you say "But NDA!" and the other side says "Aw, you got us...here's your bags of money".

That'd be Nope.
> deep state

Your comment is reasonable, but as an FYI this term makes me picture a tinfoil hat on your head.
I think that doing household chores and errands for supplies SHOULD count a work time if you are working from home.

If you are WFH, then you are not only doing your main job, but you are also working in the facilities department. If you go to the office, there are people who clean the office, take out the garbage, maintain equipment, clean the bathroom, etc.

At home you have to do all of that.
My point is exactly this: this has been puffed to sound nefarious. It is a zero.

Fuzzy thinking around it was and is being used to excuse extraordinary abuse of the law and legal system.

To be illegal, information sharing has to violate some law. This does not. It is simply not illegal to share information with Russia citizens, the Russian government, or anyone affiliated with Russia.

Not even "secret" information, unless that information is governed under very specific laws. All this media puffery is absolute manipulation, and your distributing it shows that you either don't understand the law or don't wish to.
SF and its politics did this to itself so no, we don't need to do anything.
We Are at War
I think, importantly, that there is no difference. Once the information is out there, it's out there. You can attempt to have a "right to be forgotten" but that's just relying on people to voluntarily comply. If I have a jpeg no force in the world can make me delete it if I want to preserve it.

Public "but only available if you go to city hall" is at least a little more restrictive until Zillow sends out people to start scanning public documents so they can build up their data.

Not public is really the best way to go; and here it sounds like the town has decided that part of the punishment for minor civil infractions is to be put in stocks in the town square, which might once have been enough to shame people into not stealing horses, but now carries a stigma that could last for your entire life.
Not sure that's correct. I remember going to a talk around 2013 with Odersky and got the impression that dotty would be the future scala.
Evolution and survival of the fittest. On a long enough time scale, all the companies which don't behave psychopathically are outcompeted and replaced by the ones which do.
The Clintons and Trump (and the Bidens and the Kushners) are corrupt. Saying one is more corrupt as a defense of another is just playing into the idea that you have to support one of them. You don't.

Edit: going around flagging my comments with your main account doesnt make you right.
lol neat project, this would get bonus points from me if it made them look like Amazon product URLs :)
It's honestly been fascinating to watch the conspiracy world twist themselves into logical pretzels to fit their narrative to both reality and the political landscape. At some point, Alex Jones - who unfortunately is a weather vane for all the crap circulating in the conspiracy world - claimed the following within the span of a month:

* The virus is lethal and the government is hiding it

* The virus is just the common cold and tests are a conspiracy to make Trump look bad

* The virus is lethal and a conspiracy by dark forces to kill people

* The virus doesn't exist and people wearing masks are idiots

* The virus is lethal (again!) and a conspiracy by the Chinese to destroy the world's economy

It's no surprise that people who are marginally sucked into the conspiracy world have their brains completely fried by the constant narrative shift.
I stand corrected.
I still think Windows is worth keeping around , but I love to see alternatives
Ok, it's perhaps a true Scotsman argument but saying that Java as a syntax for ADT is like saying JS (pre 2015) has classes because it can be simulated by function + prototype or that Java (pre 8) has lambdas because it can be simulated by anonymous classes.

Java misses the syntactic sugar to define ADT in one place like in Standard ML, OCaml or F#.

The closest you get is to declare records inside a sealed interface, but once you add generics in the mix, it starts to get messy.

I was not able to define a classical list with cons and nil in Java.

sealed interface List<T> {
record Cons<T>(T car, List<T> cdr) implements List<T> {}
record Nil() implements List {}
}

The compiler give you warnings, Cons<T> or Nil are not a top level type and you can create several instances of Nil.
Yes, here's the timeline to clarify:

Kickstart 1.0 - 3.1: By Commodore. Actually 3.0 was "officially" last but 3.1 was ongoing work that got wrapped up well enough. I don't really remember if Commodore officially released 3.1 or if it was picked up from their corpse by someone.

HAAGE & PARTNER BRANCH:

AmigaOS 3.5-3.9: First post-3.1 versions from 1999-2000 (for Motorola 68020 and up rather than 68000 and up) by Haage & Partner. Main features a TCP/IP stack and a new GUI, a new GUI toolkit called ReAction, MPEG movie player, MP3 player, >4 GB disk partitioning support.

HYPERION POWER PC BRANCH:

AmigaOS 4.0-4.1: First PowerPC-only version. Main features memory virtualization, new GUI, integrated third-party graphics driver support, etc.

HYPERION "CLASSIC" BRANCH:

Now they returned to 3.1 BUT with 3.9 source code still on their hands. Trying to advance Kickstart from a new angle that allows support for all Amigas, even the 68000 (Amiga 500). This is NOT for PowerPC. AmigaOS 4 is for those systems but since that's basically a dead end in 2021, this is a more pragmatic move. I also find less "careless" and more conservative than 3.5+, focusing on kernel improvements rather than bolting on big third party tools and libraries. Basically more how I'd expect actual Commodore releases would look like.

AmigaOS 3.1.4: Backporting numerous features and lessons learnt from 3.9 and now available for all Amigas, that is including the MC68000. An important update for classic Amigas since it brings in particular support that makes interacting with modern hardware easier with larger hard drives, and I think it added MC68060 support too for accelerators and whatnot.

AmigaOS 3.2: A continuation of the 3.1.4 branch and now probably surpassing 3.9 in many areas.

AmigaOS 3.x...?
Great question, that I don't know the answer to. The answer to that question is part of the uncertainty that attenuates the signal I described as "weak". I think the reason I like the approach I'm describing is that you can model uncertainty at every level of knowledge: you don't need to become an epidemiologist to reason about the facts (with correspondingly higher error bars than a domain expert would have), _and_ you don't need to blindly trust that experts in every domain are somehow magically optimal when it comes to reasoning under uncertainty.

To put it another way, that's the kind of information I would spend the time digging into once knowing the answer would push my model across a decision threshold. I look forward to seeing the follow-up research, which is usually the quickest way to fill in gaps in the "primitives".
Naysaying != bad.

Before i take a real look at a flat earth model it has to at least predict solar eclipses and explain seasons. Before i take a look at 'EV Breakthrough' it has to address everything on this list.

Alternatively, a title less
grand then 'EV Breakthrough' is also fine.
There is a huge market. Like myself, I'm definitely buying this for my Amigas. Also for supporting the team.
Yes. Its an important distinction because they are fundamentally different motives. If the motive is money, various strategies can drive up the cost until the behavior is no longer profitable and the bad actors stop. Religion and ideology are completely different beasts and most strategies that work on profiteers only entrench the others.
You could start to look at the spread of Diskcoder.C across several attacks and the shared code with ExPetr and NotPetya... This forms the basis for the DOJ indictment against 6 officers of GRU Unit 74455.

There is much more if you care to go down that rabbit hole.
Perhaps everyone should publish a mugshot portrait of themselves so that no one knows which are real and which aren't.
That too, hahaha! There must be a small, tightly knit but rich/supportive community still there.
Portland, Oregon is having a lot of problems too.

https://www.koin.com/is-portland-over/from-wonderful-to-war-...

As someone who goes through Portland only occasionally it is pretty sad seeing the immense amount of trash visible while driving along.
This.

It's incredibly useful basic functionality that both Finder and explorer inexplicably lack. This alone makes Linux desktops far more friendly even for novice users who want to do something beyond sharing gifs on web forums.
For me personally Windows/Linux falls under the same umbrella: I'm going to largely use it as it comes from my favorite distro (or microsoft) with slight tweaks that rarely break anything. These tweaks are usually accessible via settings panels (or regedit)

For MacOS: Instead of tweaking things internally I have to reach out to third party application developers to fix things the OS lacks. Some examples: bettersnaptool to give me modern window snapping like Windows/Linux, or the Android File Transfer so I can actually access my phone.

Either way I'm having to make changes to get cozy, MacOS just means I'm going to be handing money to a few thirdparty devs by the end of it in order to get it to behave like I'm used to OS's behaving. Maybe that's my fault from growing up mostly in a Windows/Linux environment besides the few years I spent in OS8/9 in college.

I'm comfortable in all the major operating systems. It just cost more for me to get comfortable in MacOS. Not that it's a bad thing, dev's need money too.
I’m curious — where do you live?
I just learned about IPFS this week, it sounded really cool and was planning on learning more about it. But as my time is limited I'd wanna know if it's worth the time investment. Which parts of IPFS didn't work for you? Was it to slow? Missing features? No integrations? Or plain broken ridden with bugs?
It's a pretty special machine. It can display a lot of colors and has PCM (sampled) sound, but is still simple enough that you can understand everything that's going on. The SNES is comparable but hard to program. The DOS PC is comparable but less standardized.

(I am not an Amiga user, but I'd love to get one in the future when I have more space, time, and money.)
Agreed, I really like that the new logo is clearly recognizable and looks basically the same, while being cleaner at the same time.

I'm not fully convinced by the wordmark (might be a tad too playful) and the "blurple" (feels a bit weird on a dark background), but overall the changes make sense and don't remove/deny any positive attributes of the brand.
While your opinion will probably remain the same overall, speed isn't the only benefit. Memory usage is a lot lower too. We've seen folks save a lot of money because their CPU and memory requirements go down dramatically. Of course, everything is tradeoffs.
Austin, TX as well. We just voted to ban camping though.
Pull Requests for Infrastructure Access
And in time it will be discovered that an FB employee 'accidentally' committed code to enable this data flow.

FB will 'apologise' and promise a 'full investigation'.

This is a well-worn track pioneered by Google, a track that leads to a trove of data and no fines, no penalties.
This is moronic. CapsLock is where the "left control" key should be.
>Servers were seized (country not named)

>gave the US an opportunity to show how effective it could be

unless you know something we don't, that's quite a conclusion to jump to
"we can take is to not put so much blind faith in cops."

Unfortunately, we can't just tell everyone "stop trusting arrest reports" because that just isn't how the world works.

The problem is companies will compare 2 equal candidates, but one with an arrest record. The one without the arrest will get the job.

Do you have any other ideas?
() is a unit type, it has a single possible value. ! has no possible values.
Perfect timing with Elastic reneging on the open-source license, and C++ is always preferable to Java.
Particularly a human with a pocket full of stones.
I most of this from my GPS Nav or CarPlay/AndroidAuto interface already. A/Gmaps could do better on telling you what's passing by.

This patent would just put billboard content (mainly directions/contact) into such an interface.
Well in general there are 3 strike laws... I mean it seems reasonable that people that break rules 3 times need to be separated off from the people not doing that.
Debunking the Myth of Cloud Repatriation
Hopefully these other cities follow its lead.