skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another issue to go with my previous comment on this thread: when people (I’m not saying you) claim climate change is primarily a “political problem,” they’re often assuming a different political /system/ would solve it, including that socialism would solve the problem and (say) nationalizing the oil industry would help. I just don’t see this being the case. We HAVE examples where the oil industry is nationalized by a socialist government. Think Venezuela or the Soviet Union. In Venezuela, for instance, gasoline was/is DEEPLY subsidized for the consumer as a sort of social support. Nationalized industries end up wanting to stick around and in some ways are more prevented from disappearing than they would be with cutthroat capitalism. If abolishing capitalism has any strong effect on climate action, empirically the only way it has helped historically is by impoverishing people. I don’t think this is what people are going for when they say we have to abolish capitalism in order to solve climate change!

Or from a more positive perspective: There are good reasons to hold back excesses of capitalism and establish more social support, but to the degree it allows more people to live richer lives, that might actually make climate change WORSE.

What we need is the technology to make climate action politically feasible, ie without making people materially poorer.

We need climate change to be solved the same way ozone depletion was: ultimately by just swapping out something harmful for something with much less harm, but with the same overall capabilities.
Like playing with LEGO: building following instructions vs building your own thing. Is it wrong following instructions?
I don't know where POSIX stands on this, but I think the real WTF of JavaScript's months starting at 0 is that the days start at 1. Pick one!
So will you still be a "ethical vegetarian" if you eat lab-grown meat?
Ok. So the first problem is that people would end up optimizing for entirely the wrong thing. Rather than optimize for the machines and networks that are actually in use, you'd optimize for high CPU Linux servers with no GPU connected over high bandwidth and low latency networking. Not low CPU mobile phones over LTE or dodgy WiFi.

Second, you wouldn't complain that it's an unfair advantage to pages in the Google AMP cache, due to a better network location? An unfair advantage to pages hosted on GCP? An unfair disadvantage to iOS due to there being no iOS server hardware that could be used for testing?
The USD is a reserve currency, not a reserve store of value.

It is held by other countries to pay their international debts, or to manipulate the exchange rate of their local currency.
The codified counter-notice approach in the DMCA is different from YouTube's approach in a very significant way. The difference is clearly felt by creators.
Very many ideas of Pascal, Modula, and Oberon live on in the lean (to me, excessively lean) language named Go, which got pretty popular during last decade.
That’s not how cattle are raised. Yes, most cattle are finished on grain packed in a small area, but they’re born and raised mostly to maturity grazing on grass or (eating hay where climate dictates).
I am a hot sauce tragic with more than a dozen bottles of various concoctions at my disposal. But confess to putting Sriracha on at least half of the things I think need some pep. All hail Sriracha!

(My second place is Blair's Ultra Death which is amazing. I dole it out in pea-sized portion. I bought that bottle in .. oh my God ... 2014!!! Don't tell my mom.)
Take a look at https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6.html
Well, it's possible with the API if you use:

http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bar&restrictSearch...
For those unfamiliar with the cryptocurrency space in general, Binance is the world's largest exchange because they are a global platform. They don't need to cater to western regulations. These regulations aren't cutting Binance out of western markets, they're cutting western citizens out of the largest cryptocurrency market, forcing them to use VPNs and other technologies to bypass the geo blocking.

There are plenty of localized exchanges, like Coinbase, who play well with the regulators in certain geographies. This is not the market that Binance cares to cater to, and that's fine IMO. I'll never use Binance because as a US citizen, I don't feel like my deposits are safe there, mostly because US financial authorities love seizing bank accounts from companies they don't like. This is why the only crypto to USD bridge that I'll use is Coinbase.

I feel like this stance is incredibly detrimental to the future of the economy of the country that I live in, but here we are. Hopefully US regulators (and Canada and UK etc) will realize the long term damage that they're doing before it's too late.
That shit made my anxiety skyrocket.

Nice demonstration of the "Never do this shit" philosophy.
It was a match that burned twice. First, you could play with the cardboard computer then you could use it as a prototype to make a software version. In my case it was a gateway into 370 compatible assembler on an rca/univac.
I think the apple/z-wave is the counter trend with a privacy focus. The pressure from wifi IoT has forced the prices down though.
Or politicians who seek advise and counsel from engineers. And then balance out the cost-benefit analysis.
They don’t share it directly with each other, it’s through data brokers. Oracle being the biggest (here in the states) along with Experian, equifax, etc. I’m not talking about platform specific data. I’m talking about browser history, cookies, transactional, and the like. I know for a fact that one FAANG uses your browsers history to run adtech against it to show you relevant ads related to a previous search. Just because you couldn’t access it, doesn’t mean someone else wasn’t.
Windows is available on Raspberry PI.
Cookie laws have destroyed my web browsing experience much more than amp ever has.
When quantum comes, we will have talked about quantum-resistant networks anyway. Crypto is not just kids' play anymore. Monero community has genius people.
Bring back BCD hardware (hmm. Does x86 hardware have built-in BCD arithmetic?)
Native software
If it were the DMCA, yes. YouTube created a custom system that isn't the DMCA which means you can't punish fraudulent claimants and also don't have the protections of the counter-notice system.
Reverse engineering digital Covid-19 certificates
It is when the store experience is much improved and the performance is better because all the old !64bit cruft is removed.
I don’t recall any denials on my part, and for a fact I know my first post was a question.
Quark's trip to the past seems to have had unintended consequences.
Applying the NixOS config requires root -- that's not what it's about.

What I mean is that services can set other services' options, without you (the admin) having to to write such overrides manually.
Sure here are some image samples: https://flickr.com/photos/biv4b/albums/576553 and a paper: https://dahart.com/research.html
>PC gamers are a fringe crowd.

Sure, if 1.5 Billion people are a "fringe crowd"

https://www.extremetech.com/gaming/314009-3-billion-people-w...
Safari reskinned to look like Firefox is still safari in my opinion.

Apple gets complete control over what a webpage can do, and chooses the features it supports to ensure the web cannot compete with the app store
A slight aside, but are you aware of openbenches.org ?

It is a user generated database of memorial benches. It doesn't seem to include the bench you're after. If you happened to take a photo of the inscription you could add it yourself.
Neovim 0.5 Release Stream
Suffering is a part of life. I helped bring one child into the world, and one is enough. We’ll help them towards autonomy and emotional maturity (a far better indicator of adulthood than advertisers of luxuries would have us believe).

I’d like to make more space for other life on earth for a more robust, resilient ecosystem. I’m not hung up on my genetics carrying on forever, but I do like the idea of human life carrying on awhile, passing down stories over the next several millennia.

What might it feel like to communicate with and learn from dolphins, whales, elephants, ravens, … fungi, trees? We may not need any technology for that; a culture shift might be enough.
* message passing in Smalltalk is implemented as method invocation (the same is in Java, C#, C++, ...)
* encapsulation in Smalltalk: all fields are private/hidden (but: all methods are public)
Yeah, I thought it sounded like flanging.
>> There is nothing inherently wrong with middlemen asserting themselves into a transaction.

Some middle men serve a function to buyer and seller. Specifically they are motivated to put those two in touch with each other and in some cases act as a sort of mediator for a transaction. The ones who insert themselves between parties that are already in touch and ready to deal offer no value.

Example. When the Wright brothers wanted to sell an airplane to the US army, after much effort they got the army to solicit bids on a flying machine that basically matched the capabilities they had (even that was a big deal because nobody though it could be done and the army didn't want to fund "research"). Strangely they got 3 bids. The Wrights IIRC was $25,000. One of the other two dropped out because the reality was they had no product. The third intended to bid lower than the Wrights - enough that he could buy a plane from them and sell it at a markup to the army. The Wrights told him they would not sell an airplane to him (fuck off dude) and he dropped out. That other guy was what I'd call "trying to insert himself as a middleman" where one was not needed in any way, strictly to enrich himself while adding no value.

Back to scalpers - they do offer one particular thing that might be of value. Some can get their hands on premium seats, and by selling those at very high prices they allow rich people to pay extra for special privilege. What you think about that varies from person to person ;-) It's still something the venue could have done a better job of.
If it was merely corporate "profit motive" then we wouldn't see all the attempts at censorship and control of the internet by governments around the world, including even ones we might think of as "freedom" loving.
In the leaked Windows 11 build the setup flow got slightly less "dark pattern"-y. There is a small video of it here (linked to timestamp):

https://youtu.be/odZSCdNTFPw?t=305
Ok, so for you, stay with windows 10. I don't see what the problem is. It's supported until 2025 at least.
I don't know why you wouldn't expect that.

People (consumers) see the Mac prices and balk because they're comparing to the Acer Aspire they can buy at BestBuy on discount for $300.

Businesses see the Mac prices (and, barring upgrades): they see that they're cost competitive with the contemporaries.

Dell XPS, HP Elitebook, Lenovo Thinkpad Txx (or Carbon X1) are all in spitting distance and in some cases even more expensive than Macbooks.

That's before you even talk support contracts or yearly licenses (the OEM license on the unit is rarely the one you'll use, usually you have a volume license and a KMS server which also costs a lot of money).
Exactly, but the engineering is already done. We already have nuclear power, we already have adequate meat substitutes, we have high efficiency wind mills, we have high efficiency solar panels. We have high capacity batteries and high efficiency motors for our cars.

There literally is no essential challenge left in engineering. Frankly, just nuclear power could have been enough to dodge this whole fiasco 50 years ago if it wasn't so much more expensive than oil.

To demand even more from engineering is madness. To implement all of these things at the scale needed is politics, nothing else.
A Nobel prize is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement. I'd be furious if all my work is credited to my lab head just because his/her name is first on the paper.
Oracle has been a great steward. I just wish the community would move forward past version 8 sometime soon.
Dunno then, ask your motherboard vendor why it's not supported.
Why would non-technical users want computing under their control? Isn't the market going the other way, more and more towards walled gardens? Seems like a Chromebook or iPad would have far fewer headaches for the typical user who just wants Facebook and email.

The web as an open platform is a dev manifesto; for everyone else it's just a glorified entertainment and information hub, and making it safer and easier for them is what the market wants. Not more openness, but less of it, because less openness means less cognitive mode. They don't want to think about 100 ways to do the same thing, each with a different license and complex venn diagram of incompatibilities. They just want to get on with their day.

"If something goes horribly wrong"... even in that case, the vendors are less likely to fuck up than most users. Google/Apple/Microsoft clouds are much better at keeping data safe against device failures and ransomware than local Windows installs managed by average users ever were or could be.

If anything the future is really dumb computing, where the internet is just another appliance not too different from your radio or the television. Apps with corporate content hubs, not open platforms.

Computing as an open platform was due to the industry by and large being created by engineers. Now with mass adoption, we're seeing a switch to producer vs consumers, with different paradigms/devices/needs for each, like the differences between magazine publishers and readers. Readers don't care what software was used to create a magazine, they just want to pick it off a newsstand and read it. Same with digital entertainment; the underlying stack shouldn't be their concern if their intended usage is simply content consumption. Windows adds only unnecessary complexity to their usage. Stallman is not an average user, and it would be a massive disservice to humanity to design for the average user as though they were Stallman.

Not all freedom is beneficial. Sometimes it's just yet another useless decision to have to make in a world already overflowing with excess information. The human brain did not evolve to make careful cost-benefit analyses for every trivial thing in a post-internet world.

Even devs are moving towards serverless. Content creation might eventually move to "OS"-less, where content creation is moderated by walled hubs like Adobe apps on the iPad and developer experiences happen in virtualized clouds with web-based IDEs. Bare metal appeals to engineers, but for everyday users and developers, again, it's just excess cognitive load. Please don't make people think about useless crap. There are already infinite upcoming crises -- of the global sort -- for anyone born in the last few generations. Computing trivia is just... trivia, no more inherently interesting than the proper type of lubricant to use on the machines in the factory that makes their toaster. Don't make them think without good reason.
It's true that most of the food consumed by livestock isn't edible by humans - [0] says 86% - but livestock are so inefficient at converting food to edible nutrition that they still generally consume more than 1 human-edible Calorie per Calorie of meat produced. For cattle, Diet for a Small Planet [1] cites 16 Calories per edible Calorie of meat and 8 grams of protein per edible gram of protein produced, other sources seem to be in the same ballpark - both higher than the ~7:1 ratio that's implied by that 86% figure. The ratios for chickens are better, but they also generally get a much lower share of their feed from human-inedible sources.

Also, even that 86% isn't "free" - it's not all pasturing, and it takes a lot of effort, energy, and equipment to get hay, inedible by-products of human-edible crops, etc. from the field to animals' mouths.

[0] https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/fao-sets-the-record-s...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Small-Planet-20th-Anniversary/dp...
Quite literally by pedigree. Robert Griesemer was a student of Wirth.
You're a more skilled driver than me.

Ooor it's just my old 00' Corolla, which never switched properly. I bought my first smartphone in 2014 and stopped driving manual in 2015, so any overlap which could allow for such tricks was fairly short.
Types and Programming Languages by Pierce is an amazing book. I'm still far from finishing it, but if anyone is looking for a good introduction to the field, this is it. I consider it to be kind of like the SICP of PL. :)

Edit: Ah, and the Software Foundations books are amazing. I did a little course on formal verification during 2020 and learned a ton. Now every time I work with some kind of type system, I feel frustrated that I can't express everything that I want to in my type system.
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From what I observe in NL (EU) is: Mass market is moving away from home PC's to handheld devices, either iOS or Android (about 50/50) (for example my dad uses an iPhone and iPad, mom uses an Android phone and iPad) Lot's of students, devs/ start-ups are using or switching to a macbook.
Imagine [...] if Uber waited for better laws, etc. It would have never happened.

Ah… thanks for this second of imagination, that was some quality time.
Good point. Never mind that at this point it's "yesterday's news" (and then some!).
Tiny issue, CSS on 'Sign in with Azure' button, I don't have Segoe installed, so it shows in Times New Roman

https://imgur.com/a/k3mbnV0
> I don't know that I agree... per-say... hobbiest... accomplish this feet

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies...
> animals are extremely efficient at converting inedible food to edible nutrition.

I disagree. Average caloric and protein efficiency is 7%–8%. For beef specifically, it is only 3%. I don't know how efficiently a cultured meat factory could convert grass into beef, but I bet it could do a better.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
It won't be accepted. If anything it probably will be treated like veganism, which is mostly moral grandstanding. People who consume boutique products to show their virtue. A lot of us simply don't lose sleep over the suffering of factory animals, in the same way we didn't lose sleep over the starving kids in china our mothers used to berate us about when we didn't finish our vegetables. That doesn't mean we constantly try to make things like a hellscape, but you can try and treat everyone morally and not get in a tizzy over "someone is being oppressed somewhere! See! Our moral guardians of the media are showing us!" The idea of telescopic philanthropy and being a Mrs Jellyby needs to be remembered.

If it got to the point where it was mandated, we'd probably be in some form of dystopia where everything was in the pursuit of either survival (animals no longer exist or are possible to eat) or sort of a planned world where our governing or elite classes mandate their virtue on everyone, and it would lead to a lot more lifestyle changing that not eating meat. I think the latter is fairly likely, China for example seems to be doing pretty well at a basic form of that.
This is true; a lot of the questions are about automatic type conversions.
Google does not have that kind of superior legal negotiating position. Copyright owners use ContentID and revenue sharing in lieu of suing Google for knowingly participating in copyright infringement. If Google locks out a copyright owner from their alternative to legal disputes, the next step is the copyright owner sending large quantities of mail to Google's legal department to get handled manually. Complete non-starter, Google needs to have a highly automated system with copyright owner participation, and as I understand it copyright owners are forced to opt-in if it is provided.
What about safety features like automatic braking?
It's much more a of an oligarchy than the social media company's being controlled by the US. The Irony of Democracy is a book that goes into detail on this.
I wish unit prices were always per the same unit, too. Sometimes I'll see a single pack of something with the price per ounce, and a triple pack with the price per pound (or something).

I thought this was already mandated by US law, but ...
win32 is "pandering" to enterprise customers? What would pandering to non-enterprise customers look like? Their non-win32 APIs (XAML/UWP/winrt) have all failed to gain market share.
The population has grown 4 times everywhere but in Europe and US since 1950 and it keeps growing.

The problems with the land and resource use would be much smaller if the population had stayed more or less constant everywhere.

I am also certain that people would have been better of everywhere when the resources of the families would not have been put into bettering the well being of the households instead of maintaining the army of children.

This problem is political and is governed by religious powers and cultural inertia.
Pretty cool, but it's a problem with the law and needs to be fixed in law.
The consensus here on this kind of issues these days seems to be that it’s not Google’s fault. However if their rights model would make a correct and consistent distinction between works and performance, they would know that there is no right holder to the work (melody) they’ve identified. It’s not impossible that there are copyright trolls spamming their database with performances of public domain works and claiming both type of rights, but than they should have a system to flag those as inconsistent with known public domain material. They have the money to clean up their data, it’s just not as fun as iterating on their audio to performance and audio to work ML systems, which seem to work fine
1) Do not limit the length of the password to some arbitrarily small number.

I got bit by this recently.

I decided to update my Bank of America password, and so generated a 30-character password.

Bank of America's password change page accepted the 30 character password. But then I couldn't log in because Bank of America's login page won't allow passwords longer than 20 characters.

I ended up having to call Bank of America on the phone and the rude web site tech guy said that he's been there 10 years, and 20 characters has always been the limit.

1 - If that's true, then don't let me change my password to 30 characters.

2 - Why would a bank insist on a password scheme that is clearly LESS secure than a reasonable alternative.
Look it up yourself, I averaged numbers from various sources, which all agree that this is the ball park.
I feel like there's a misunderstanding here. Hate speech isn't Anakin going "I hate you!!" or even "from my perspective the Jedi are evil." Hate speech is the Chancellor giving a speech in front of the senate that the Jedi are the greatest threat to the republic leading to widespread violence and discrimination against them across the galaxy.
It doesn't "reign supreme" in consumer computing outside the US either. Rather, it's hilariously down - Apple has a mere ~2% market share in India (the largest smartphone market in the world after China).
Some were saying the same about pencil.
For data, blame the stock holders and investors. Engineers are beholden to them for their jobs. Venture capitalists and shareholders want to leverage data analytics to turn a profit.

You could almost make an argument for AI. The same people push engineers to turn out code and products in short time spans. This is why Uncle Bob says it is okay for engineers to lie to improve the final product. A story he tells is of telling the General he is doing one thing when really he was refactoring. However, how much of this is done in industry, I don't know. But companies are known for pushing engineers to meet deadlines which means tests get skipped and bugs don't get fleshed out.