skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I first encountered a VAX in the late 80's/early 90's on a project to port an ICL 2903 George assembler system onto the VAX into C (yes horrible idea and been better to redevelop, though somebody in marketing dropped the ball so).

I'd not done much C programming, but the environment on the VAX and the profiler was and felt so far ahead of anything I'd used before. This was the days when Borland C (think was turbo C back then) was a thing.

Fond memories and since then having touched many different systems, for me, was the one that stood out a the biggest wow, how brilliant is this moment.

This was in the days before GUI's saturated development environments and for me, even today, multiple shells and vi, still my comfort zone.

Sad that VAX never prevailed further, fond memories, as with many systems/environments that have come and gone, but when you start out programming with punched cards, much time passes and much has changed and those wow moments - well, been a while since I had one of those epiphany moments, though finding these forums I would rank up there as one of those.
Alamo Drafthouse does this kind of thing constantly. Not just showings of old movies (where "old" can mean anything from 80 to 5 years), but themed movie parties with props and costumes and special food and drinks. They'll do a theme for the month and curate a set of movies around it, showing a trailer for the collection before regular movies. They'll have the original directors or stars come in for screenings and they'll do Q&A afterward.

Combined with the overall experience (which is hands and feet above that of Cinemark or AMC), Alamo feels like the only theater company that still gets it.
> Hanoi is at the top of my list of places where tourists are treated as walking dollar signs.

Some parts of thailand are pretty much like that too. Being screwed by Taxis if you are a tourist is the norm.
> In fact, there were fewer deaths among children due to the virus than initially suspected. Among the 61 child deaths linked to a positive Covid-19 test in England, 25 were actually caused by the illness, the study found.

That's some pretty significant overcounting! I wonder what the cause was and to what extent it also holds in other age groups.
Kvas(1), a fermented bread drink from Russia and Ukraine, might fit the bill with its alcohol content of 0.5-1% (it’s considered a non-alcoholic drink, but I’ve had Kvas that was _strong_).

There’s nothing better than cold kvas on a hot day - shame we can’t just buy it in the supermarket here in America.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass
I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing the use of false equivalence.
The sadness of losing a language is distinct from the question of whether it would be better if everyone spoke the same language.
GPL does not prevent someone from using it as part of something else, so long as that other thing abides to the terms too. In particular, GPL and many open-source licenses require attribution. The fact that Copilot spits out code from other places without attribution clashes with that limitation.

Whether you're allowed to upload GPL code to GitHub or not depends on whatever their Service is at the moment, since the terms say you grant them all the rights "necessary to provide the Service".
There are a fair amount of what you'll see described as 5px wide fonts, but are actually 4px wide. Just that every character has a blank column on the far right so that you can simplistically put chars one after the other.

So you sometimes have to actually look at, for example, the H or W glyph to see if they really mean "5px wide" or not.

This image, for example, is the "5x8 Spleen" font. If you zoom in, though, you can see it's really a 4px wide font: https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b2fa71fde615bd5510b5e9cb9...
There are plenty that do this. Some do this exclusively, like the New Beverly Cinema. I suppose you're suggesting that the national brands should offer this rather than specialty houses. That could be pretty cool, but they need to step it up a bit.

It needs to be more demand-driven and offer up tons of titles. I'd love to be able to pick a title and see it in a theater. I want the experience where I can select a film from a vast library and just go see it. Maybe I could post about it to get other confirmed bookings, and then if it hits a threshold, it gets played. There are significant legal complications for licensing, surely, and there are practical technical challenges around distribution and DRM.

Additionally, the theaters need to sell drinks and offer entertaining environments in more of a mixed way. Arclight had a fair amount of success with its concept, offering cafe, bar, and restaurant experiences.
Hug my friend and father. Both are about to die.

Start leaning how to invest money. Savings account is not an investment.

Read those books I bought and never read.

Watch out for smartphone addiction.
The main reason why not enumerating all the files in the build system is a bad idea is that the build system won't know to rerun itself and re-scan dependencies after you added a file. If you do enumerate the files, you need to change a build system file to add an entry for the new source code file, and that tells the build system to rerun itself and re-scan dependencies. And in the grand order of things, adding a file to the build system is a triviality compared to actually writing the code in it.
Piper gets at least 10s or even 100s of CLs a second
I had to google half the words in that poem.

"sleekit" -> slick or sleek

"laith" -> loath

still haven't figured out what "na", "awa" and "sae" are
The main reason I started using a (paid) VPN is because I legitimately don't trust my phone company to not track what websites I go to. I trust a company I pay to not do that much more.

I absolutely expect a typical phone company to do this regularly since they have the required access, their customers mostly aren't saavy enough to realize it's possible, and they don't get paid to not do it. I realize you're merely shifting who you trust but I would trust a company I pay to keep my browsing private much more than a phone company that wants to make every possible penny off of me.

Is this not actually a valid use case?
Nice!

Nitpick though -- by standard convention for terminal fonts shouldn't it be called a 5px wide font? (4px for the letterform, 1px in between.) Since they're sized according to the pixels available for each character.

I was really wondering how on earth letters would be clear with just 3px left for the letterform... :S
A younger me would scoff at this idea as missing the point. An older matured version of me definitely craves a selection of good very low or zero alcohol beers. I genuinely enjoy the taste of beer and nothing beats a crisp pilsner on a hot summer night, but sometimes I dont want the buzz, the lethargy, or worse the rare hangover from a misguided overindulgence.
Why not? As far as "looking for something to do", preserving a dying language seems a lot more interesting than a lot of other things people do with their spare time.
Perhaps lockdowns are overrated, I think nobody knows for sure the correct weight of it, but I'd be really surprised that it has absolute zero effect.

It also depend on other factors. I guess most people in Florida and Texas move in their own car. Here in Argentina most people use public transport.

For example in normal times I have once a week to commute from one building of the university to another building that is like 7 miles away. I can take a bus, the trip is 90 minutes, and at rush hours it has like 100-150 persons.

I can also make the middle part of the trip using the underground/metro, so I pass under the mess of transit in downtown and the trip is only 45 minutes long. Now I have like 150+150+150=450 new friends to share the air. (And the underground/metro cars are bigger and more crowed, so perhaps it reach 200 and the total is 500.)

Many persons here in normal times must do similar or longer trips everyday, twice per day at rush hour. (Perhaps bus+train+bus, or bus+train+undergroung and the can't skip the train because they live too far away.)

(And the same morons that open in summer the window because the air conditioner is not cold enough, will close the window in winter because the wind is too cold.)

So in different places, a lockdown may have very different effects.
The overall system behaviour is hard to predict. So yes we need to try it out and see.

But as a user I can say that I do behave differently when it comes to upvoting content on LinkLonk. It is much less impulsive because my ratings have consequences for myself. If I find something that I completely agree with but I haven't learned anything new - I would not upvote it on LinkLonk, while I would be tempted to signal boost it elsewhere (like HN). Let's see whether this generalizes and what kind of system behaviour emerges out of it.

To properly test it out we need more users.
I had a similar problem in my previous house which didn't have central AC. The insulation in the house was great for about one day. But in an extended heatwave, outside 100F meant eventually inside 90F.

I got decent cooling results with two separate window fans, opposite sides of house, one blowing in one blowing out. Of course, all other windows are closed.

Depending on your window frame style, these types of dual fans fit inside a window frame and don't leak air. They can be set to: both in, 1 in 1 out, both out. So quite flexible. https://www.amazon.com/Bionaire-BW2300-N-Reversible-Airflow-...

A single window fan of the above style can cool a single room quite well, blowing cool air in and blowing hot air out.

As others have mentioned, depending on breeze and temperature, opening all the windows can sometimes work better than multiple fans.

Fans are just no substitute for a real AC unit, which can lower indoor air temp to below outside air temp and can also extract moisture from the inside air.
If you have a chance to try it with Clamato, I highly recommend it. I never thought I'd say "the clam juice really adds something", but well, it does.
So conceptually, this tech could be used for air-conditioning, during the bright summer day, without consuming electricity?

If so, that's pretty sweet.

Like at what scale does this work? How much is needed to cool, say, a 1000 sq ft apartment in nyc?
thanks gmail, for fixing a problem that you probably created on purpose.
I accept your broader point. I have a minor quibble on invention of the steam engine:

First rudimentary steam engine was the Aeolipile produced in the first century in Roman Egypt. In this light one can also say China had the steam engine during the Song Dynasty(960-1279).
https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/2012/did-the-chi...

The point is that for steam engine technology to take off, there had to be an economic problem it solved. In a nation with prevalent slavery or abundant human labour, an early steam engine is superfluous.
There is an “output” to these RC5 devices, but it’s not for what you might think.

It’s for relaying remote signals to other equipment. So you have one remote to the unit and to the output of that you hook another device or an IR extender or whatever. This can allow you to have one piece of equipment “front and center” and other equipment in a closet.

Plagued by the same vendor compatibility issue as everything else. I don’t know why I ever had even remotely high hopes for HDMI CEC to work as intended (it has gotten better in the past couple years).

So you can get “data out” but not values and addresses. Just another device’s input / requests.
It's a space-saving mechanism; since forks are extremely common, sharing commit trees across all of GitHub makes the forking action very cheap.
For starters, real text handling. Just doing a full text widget with all the trimmings is quite complex problem. Druid has made good progress on this front but is nowhere near where it should be. I also put IME in this category.

As mentioned elsewhere, accessibility. Aside from web technology, Qt is one of the very few cross-platform toolkits that gets this right. I'm happy to see that some other projects, egui in particular, are starting to pay attention.

One of the things that Druid doesn't do well right now is integration with 3D and video content. That will depend on the application (it's not needed for font editing), but is definitely needed for a toolkit to be considered general purpose. The implications go deep, mostly because you have to hook pretty deep into the system compositor to do this well.

I may do a blog post on these infrastructure topics, depending on interest.
everyone need to switch to Matrix E2E messaging... including all signup forms on all websites.
My impression of this comment is that it is overgeneralizing, reductive, and pretty nihilist. That being said I do agree that minority languages, like our lives, are ultimately, in the fate of the great cosmic void, meaningless. But no, minority languages aren’t completely useless. Every language is a window into the structure of human language, which is something we are still trying to understand. Some people might tell you that sort of linguistics is also useless, but that’s a different conversation.

I would compare it to the sad loss of knowledge that results from another animal species going extinct. There are secrets in its genome that we will now never discover.
Only 52 US companies are in Fortune 500 list since 1955
I didn't realize people were using fonts to do things like visualize data. Is that common? Are there other fonts that are suitable for this?
I strongly prefer DIY lemonade, exactly because I've got full control over the sweetness. (and throwing in a few fresh mint leaves is a nice touch, too..)

Just pick up a small bottle of 100% pure lemon juice, add about a half the bottle to a quart of water, ymmv, and whatever (brown!) sugar and other stuff you want.
As someone who speaks a language that may be going the way of the dodo in a couple of years, watching his family back home decide not to pass it onto the next generation because it has no economic value and takes away from the rat race of school and jobs, and knowing there's no objection I can make because having grown up in a foreign country means I can't even speak it correctly, I'm afraid I have to agree with that bleak assessment. Waxing poetic about how minority languages should be preserved seems hollow when the minorities themselves don't see the point. Why do they have to shoulder the burden of carrying an outdated relic just so some English speaking aristocrats can feel blessed about how diverse their world is?

There are days when it feels like fighting a losing war. Digging up a few old movies to hear the sounds of a dying language and wondering if your kids will care enough to keep this game of broken telephone going into its final rounds, and why you have the right to impose that burden on them in the first place. Maybe it's better if they never know what they lost. I recently found out that my parents could have taught me two other languages that are also dying out, but they decided not to because who in the world would I use them with? Then I shrugged and went on with my day.
Countless overlooked would-be psych bands of that era (many created to cash in), I was surprised the day I found one-album band 'Clear Light' (played with Hendrix, Doors, Joplin).

Album: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvkYzF3xmLs&list=PL8a8cutYP7...]

Details: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160823124408/http://www.offici...]

Drummer Dallas Taylor is found on a lot of Crosby, Stills, Nash records.

Vocalist Cliff De Young soon went into acting, has appeared in over 80 films.
I prefer alcohol free apple wine. (no, it is not apple juice)
I was visiting DC for a wedding and in busy nightlife areas it was way easier to flag down a cab then figure out which of 10 cars pulled over is your uber.
On the other hand think of the reaction people had when watching the First Star War Prequal when the opening crawl started on opening weekend(we didn't know yet), Avengers: Endgame when Tony got the Gauntlet. Watching all of the Doctors show up at the climax of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Episode simulcast in theatre. Its a communal experience then. the first glory shot of the Enterprise in 2009, The cheer of the crowd knowing everyone else is feeling the same as you are is a amazing feel you cant get at home watching you 80 inch flat screen.
Some kids can. Some kids definitely learn only one language really well and struggle with a second indefinitely.

I'm sure there's some cut-off and a way to do it right and so-forth. But are the surviving native speak of an obscure language in some rural village going to suss that out.

Plus a lot of kids who a language just when they're young go to forget. I remember, growing up, a friend who could understand but not speak Urdu. He wasn't going to perpetuate the language.
I too have seen theaters that offered great old movies, but only a few people showed up.

I for one would be happy if I never saw another action movie, or superhero flick.

I get why the studios are making them. They can be seen around the world. The movies are simple so dialogue, script, and plot, don't matter much.

Plus--there's another whole fortune to be made on licensing products.

As to why people don't go to the theater, I guess it's a generational thing?

I loved going to a dinner, and a movie, on a friday night with my high school, and college, girlfriend.

Today 20 somethings have Netflix and chill. If I had Netflix and chill years ago, I would have probally gone that route too.
Betterment of the species?This is another conceit a certain segment of the SE community has. You aren’t physicists, engineers, biologists or chemists; nor are you artists or philosophers.

I’d estimate something like 99% of all software development (especially, perhaps, open source) is either for toys or else actively harmful. “Betterment of the species” indeed.
It doesn't matter. Divided government and electoral pressure means that we are fixed right of center for the foreseeable future; there is a reason we elected a conservative Democrat as president. The Democrats also can't just go off and propose nationwide solutions to homelessness, they can barely get an infrastructure bill going.
Fortunately I have a DVD/VHS* store rental near me that has 100,000+ titles, so as longs as the DVDs don't break, this will be an option for me.

I don't understand why DVD stores don't make a comeback, because they aren't subject to the crazy streaming licenses.

Or am I really that "unhip"?

* Yes, you can actually rent a VHS player too
I'd be tempted to challenge this assertion. It made sense when handwriting to maximize for not having to spend too much time writing, but with modern auto-complete, I might start to believe that it be clearer to use the long form for everyone, yes even for a person familiar with mathematics. If all math was rewritten long form, I feel it would honestly have second order effect on approachability and being able to understand papers even from other mathematicians.
No they’re not a weird bunch. Humans unlike other primates like helping each other without prompting.
As someone who is familiar with both, they're slowly becoming different languages. The pronounciation is radically different, the grammar has already differed in some pronouns and conjugations (e.g. gerund) for a long time, vocabulary differences are slowly accumulating and we'll see how orthography continues to evolve. We're not quite at the Scots vs. English point yet especially because of shared media but it won't surprise me if it doesn't take too much longer to surpass that.
New features in stress-ng 0.12.12
Rotel still allows this, at least on models a few years old. I have a RA-1572 amplifier, and it's a joy to work with. Plug a serial or a network cable, and start talking to it. It supports the same commands over RS232 or TCP (basic TCP, not HTTP or what have you – just don't open too many connections too often, or it will choke). They also support IR IN / OUT, but I've never attempted to work with those. I seem to remember that the IR codes were documented somewhere, but I can't remember where I've seen that (I've never needed them).

The protocol is documented here: https://www.rotel.com/manuals-resources/rs232-protocols. The TCP commands are the same as the RS232 commands, the docs say on which port it listens, etc.

I've started building a "remote control" to an amp to be used from an I3 bar: https://github.com/vladvasiliu/amp-mate-rs (older Python version which doesn't do much: https://github.com/vladvasiliu/amp_mate).
New AI strategy enables robots to rapidly adapt to real world environments
It’s all just investments to reach a subscriber base of X with a retention rate of at least Y by certain dates. If you are ahead or behind adjust your capital spend accordingly.
In high school we were supposed to do a similar project about squirrel populations. We got lazy, stopped doing the walks and just submitted numbers similar to the team that had done the same project the year before. I mention this to one of those older students at a party and he tells me they did the same thing.
I live just over the bridge in Oakland and basically never go to SF for these exact reasons. I've tried a few times and its just too frustrating. BART+bike can work ok.
Totally OT, but have you tried pathr.ai? Curious about both of them, as they seem similar.
Yessir. This exactly.
The main problem with patents isn't their use as "first strike" attacks but rather their use for "defensive attacks". A big corporation can amass a huge collection of patents covering random trivial capabilities while a startup can't. This also lets the big corporation copy the innovations of a startup with impunity, because the startup doesn't have the resources for a drawn out legal battle, and they would fear the counter suits based on that patent portfolio. Someone else in this thread mentioned Amazon patenting a search field auto complete - that's the kind of ubiquitous functionality that could be weaponized in such a scenario.
Ah, I see. That's pretty cool. But all builds are run on the same machine, which is not a deal breaker; it'd be nice to distribute them on multiple machines, as well.
How Hijackers Commandeered Over 130 American Planes — In 5 Years
function generate_candidates(;n=1)
return 100 .+ (15 .* randn(n, 1))
end

How does this yield a Gaussian distribution?
Fair, but I think Slack/Teams are just as disruptive as physical interruptions, at least to me.
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> This is to protect against hostile environments blocking function calls by polluting prototypes?

Correct. I go into more detail about into our problem space and use cases here: https://transcend.io/blog/defeating-cookie-banners
Lad is the best Node.js framework
Here's an article about it published on the same day as this RT article, a week ago: https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/actualite/france/vers-une-quatri%C...

It references the same senate report.

Also France24 covered it: https://www.france24.com/en/video/20210705-french-government...
To be fair, before Uber, Taxis were crap everywhere in the US except NYC (edit: I should say, Manhattan), where they were somewhat expensive but a viable alternative to buses and subways (and driving was/is hellish).
Yes. At some point the employee should know. But there is a process, and I don't think they should inform the employee right from the start.
Is this documented anywhere? Or is it just happen to work and may break in the future?
This is an unacceptable policy and amounts to owning an employee outright, rather than paying them in exchange for specific labor. It should be outlawed and huge fines should be attached for any attempts to hinder outside work. But even leaving that aside, perhaps people should reconsider where they spend their money. A big corporation can do this only because they are wealthy and can afford to reject the few candidates who don't bend the knee and sign the employment contract.
Yeah unfortunately it isn't my call but thank you for your advice.