skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Neal Stephenson's earlier work has "more soul" - Snow Crash / Diamond Age actually has characters you care about and like, his later novels get increasingly more abstract, though even better in the technical sense. I think the only character I remember from Seveneves is the cannibal leader, that's it.

"A Deepness in the Sky" was REALLY good. The Forever War was good for the concept.

In short, yours looks like a great list I will come back to, thank you.

However, I do strongly dislike Remembrance of Earth's Past / The Three Body Problem - it's vastly overrated in my opinion and the characters make no sense. The best part of it was the intro to the first book which gave an interesting glimpse at history.
Traditionally, part of what made it worth paying IBM prices was reliably top-notch service, but perhaps that changed over time. What were your experiences? And which decade?
Maybe 80s compilers for MS-DOS/Windows were garbage. Maybe even the ones for Unix were garbage too, and we just didn't care. I've only ever worked on Unix-based systems in my 35 year careers in software, and given that the entire operating system (bar a few low level details) was written in C from the beginning, it has always been rare to fall back to asm for anything unless it was essentially impossible to do the job in C.

I've written on the order of a half dozen device drivers in my life for sound cards, motor controllers, DSP boards and sensors, and have never used asm for any of it.
Some day I'm actually going to try this in an interview.

Interviewer: "Why do you want to work for us?"

Me: "Honestly, I don't want to work for anybody because I have too much other stuff I'd much rather be doing with my time. But I need an income to sustain myself so, if I'm going to work, I want to work here because I think it'll be easy, provide decent benefits, and it's a 20 minute bike ride from my house."
Do you have A Sea of Words, the lexicon for reading O'Brian's novels? I highly recommend having it by your side while you read. It helps a lot.
Oh come on, just a random interview. Right. Yep, I’m sure that happens all the time.

…oh wait, no, it doesn’t.

I’ll say it again: it is naive to assume that this is not orchestrated by a press division. Any vague hand waving to the contrary simply doesn’t acknowledge the reality of how media content is produced.

> As for why now, who knows…

Believe what you want to believe I guess.

Maybe you’re right, maybe they just wanted to let us know their doing their jobs now, because they’re feeling nice, or like, it happened to come up in the interview.

…but, in my view, people can, do and and will continue do their jobs without making media content for it.

When media content like this appears, it is orchestrated.
I am very glad that I did not do all of what my peers were doing.
My kids were raised out in the woods basically...it's tricky. When they were little they played outside quite a bit, but as they got older they just lost kind of lost interest. I think the loss of the social connection over the outdoors is some of it...they can play out there all they want but if there's nobody else out there to do the same it gets old quick.

I saw someone mention summer camp, some kind of structured mechanism to do it would help a lot i think.
>the behavior of those companies that completely disrespect and tramples their customer right

Here is a "radical" idea: what if we had an Apple users union? What if Apple had to justify their app censorship to that union? What if the union could vote that censorship out?

Our current capitalistic model assumes that competition is the solution for the consumer, but the Apple/Google stranglehold is essentially indisruptable.

Of course, the only way we could really get this union model would be to have it forced by the same government which has repeatedly and increasingly failed to protect the consumer from these bloated monopolistic corporations. I guess we'll have to settle for some optimistic SciFi porn. Paging Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/
Almost certainly has been edited? Now I wonder what the original post was.
Not to mention it will kill the lifetime of the bulb.
This is exactly the kind of thing that keeps me coming back to HN year after year. 99% may be a quick, mildly entertaining read, but that 1% tends to be empowering or life changing for me. I've had a continuously growing interest in plant and bird identification as a hobby (animals are a bit easier). I've gone so far as to research apps, put Audobon society books on my wishlist, and try to look up some specimens I see in my area. Unfortunately it's, frankly, a steep learning curve and not a habit yet for me to take pictures, remember to look at them later, search their characteristics, etc. This will be the perfect tool to help me jumpstart my newfound interest and get more familiar with the flora and fauna around my home.
Perl scripts look like piles of vomit to me
Progress has solved every problem the human race has ever had. I see no reason to believe regression is the way to ensure a better future. I trust precedent far more than models by academics who know very well just how unreliable predictive modeling can be.
On all the servers I manage, 250+, I put the task bar on the left or right. It's my quick and dirty way of making me visually identify where I am so I don't do anything stupid.
Burying in urban areas is expensive but you don’t have so much length to bury. The work is also amortized by high population density.

They definitely make all their money in cities, most utilities do. The monopoly license to operate in a city makes servicing rural areas tolerable, but everyone would avoid servicing them at the same rates if they didn’t have to.
I have the app and do like it, but my phone's camera quality doesn't seem good enough for this to work properly (iPhone 6). I have to get pretty lucky and be able to be super close to the bird so that very little zooming or image enlargement is needed.

Still, nice app as a field guide.
Write signatures, not schemas
Is Consciousness Bound by Quantum Physics? We're Getting Closer to Finding Out
I don’t think that’s a flaw! The study is “95% of paint splatters” not “95% of random strings of ASCII characters”. If common OCR programs are optimized to produce letters and spaces, fair game!

(You would of course want a “proper” scientific study to be more rigorous about these things.)

Edit: Also, the programs in the article appear to be mostly special characters?
> MAD policy

MAD is still going strong. It's not military based, but economical.

It's the reason why theories about intentional release of COVID-19 are bunk.

China is worse off than it would have been without the virus.

Same goes for nukes. If Xi or Putin decide to nuke the US , people will assault their palaces in 3-6 months for food and water. Even if the US somehow fails to respond.

The global economy is interconnected to a degree that makes it impossible for a leader to order a nuclear attack and not have his own people remove him violently
It seems to primarily be a frontend thing. I get tons and tons of them, it's really annoying.
No. Bad idea.
He would be a fixed point arithmetic advocate.
I almost feel that the camera is blinking with this guy.
Godspeed to framework! When you have a linux version I'll buy one.
It isn't a rumor. Intel announced it at CES.

https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-teases-alder-lake-cpus-...
GP said "computing was different back then", not "Zip was developed on a toy operating system that lacked these sorts of facilities".

I did note that likely what mattered the most was that pkzip's creators didn't care about (or maybe even know about) Unix.
Reminds me of the joke: "Perl is the only programming language which looks the same before and after encryption."
I once had to learn Perl to implement an algorithm for a proof of concept. It was weird as I was only used to C like programming (and a little bit of assembly)
VSP Hangar: SpaceShip Two (VSS Unity)
Yeah, there is that, but I wash hoping to see a great use case for C preprocessor macros. WPF data binding doesn't seem like good candidate for something you're likely to want to do in a C program.

Or were you really just meaning to advocate for metaprogramming in general?
The PRs are really helpful when you do actually want to update.
> by calling them "unaccountable State bureaucrats,"

Is that what they said? OMG that is great! I love it!
They should stop funding them by moving the HQs to a republican-dominated state.

Of course, I do not condone sexual harassment, but usually it's just some nasty emails or water cooler talk, and not physical harassment.
also with LED? I though you reduce the light by letting then blink really fast.
> The person you're responding to has changed the defaults.

Hm. Are you sure? Their description of the different behaviour of the top and bottom rows doesn't sound possible, so I assumed their taskbar was a third party one or used third party extension that adds features.

The Windows 11 Taskbar sounds pretty bad from your description.
Software Supply Chains and the Modern Challenges
The EU is already working on a "digital euro". As for the comparisons with blockchain, the free nature of it is an illusion. Someone is paying dit the power and data the networks consume, but those costs are abstracted away in electricity bills, nnetwork subscription costs and incentives for as long as processing and mining makes business sense.

At the moment, the banks and payment processors get paid small amounts to run what in crypto terms would be the payment processing network.

Decentralised currencies are not in the interest if governments and most citizens. While they allow some people to live "off the grid", they also make money laundering trivial through mixers and anonymous wallets. Whatever decentralised equivalent you come uo with, you'd need to subject to massive privacy infringing rules to prevent all kinds of fraud. No government will give away the limited fraud prevention methods they've fought hard for to get back.

What you're left with is a network similar to what we have now, with individually run processing nodes instead of centralised bank nodes, and a nation state's ability to secretly inflate another bloc's currency by suddenly turning on a massive mining/processing super computer plant.

Instead of looking at crypto to revolutionise the ecosystem, we should look into evolving the current system to make transactions easier. We've already standardised bank account numbers through IBAN. Transferring money between banks connected in the right way already takes literal seconds and is free. If we integrate these systems into each other, we can have EU or even worldwide money transfer with no transaction costs, no delays, and barely any extra costs in total. The "digital euro" may be a solution to this system, allowing for easy bank to bank transfers while still interfacing with customers.

As for the currency war, that's been going on since the beginning of trade. The EU threatened to use the Euro as an oil currency to trade with Iran, angering the US greatly. Only in countries with bad or mediocre banking systems will there be any risk of currency wars, but the governments will likely make sure that no stores accept the "wrong" currency if a digital currency ever becomes widespread.

In practice, you can't just create your own currency, as Bernard von NotHaus found out the hard way. Crypto is a nice way for people to speculate and lose money in, but it won't replace the existing currencies any time soon.
I don't think is optimal, either. It's not worth investing in onboarding someone, getting them situated in a team, then having to tell everyone a few months in that the person quit. If that seems like a very likely outcome, it makes sense to avoid it.
I just love how hacker news threads can randomly lead you to wildly different conversations topics :D I would've never learned about this stuff otherwise

but aren't starfish symmetrical either way? in the same way we have a head, but our head is also symmetric to itself. actually they have 5x symmetries :) would this be considered rotational invariance? idk
It would be wonderful if there were bulk editing of Dependabot settings across multiple repos. The weakest part of GitHub is the lack of bulk administrative edits (repo settings, not code changes) across multiple repos.

This affects group (team) permissions as well - having to add a new team to multiple repos with specific permissions is a manual slog and hard to audit. Even the expanded permission categories are frequently inadequate - there's no CI focused "Let these users write to the repo and change hooks" permission level - all CI systems that self-manage hooks need full Admin rights.

The other code hosting I actively use is Gerrit, and the ability to hierarchically control what groups have specific permissions on multiple repos is far simpler and easier to use, from an admin perspective.
Oh wow this is cool. Thanks for sharing. Sadly kinda expensive.
> This is what happened with "Marek's disease"

Marek's disease in chicken is what the PLOS article is about: MDV = Marek's disease virus.

> The vaccine was "leaky" and ended up selecting for a more deadly form

The researchers of the PLOS article do not claim to know that for certain:

"Our data do not demonstrate that vaccination was responsible for the evolution of hyperpathogenic strains of MDV, and we may never know for sure why they evolved in the first place."

But this they claim:

"But whatever was responsible for the evolution of more virulent strains in the first place (and there may be many causes), our data show that vaccination is sufficient to maintain hyperpathogenic strains in poultry flocks today."

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Are you a carnivore in the strict sense, as in you eat absolutely nothing but animal meat like pork chops, chicken breast, even using animal fat for cooking? If so, I'd be curious if you have any resources that have information on the topic. I've heard of other people following a similar diet and while I'm surprised it's possible to survive as a human on such a diet, I'm more surprised it doesn't lead to uncomfortable digestive results.
Was this edited? I don’t see why anyone is reading this comment as rude or offensive … Seems fine.

He’s basically ribbing GP by purposefully misinterpreting the comment, so that what gave GP nightmares was his CMS rather than Perl itself.
I don't think it's so much about how you express yourself, as much as it is about how you have more deeply rooted associations with words and phrases in your native tongue.

On Language Processing Shaping Decision Making, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/096372141668026...

Emotionality Differences Between a Native and Foreign Language: Implications for Everyday Life, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0963721414566268
This is one of my all-time favorite things from 2021. Thank you for sharing!
Can you specify a single instance of this?
Agreed, the first half was semi-realistic hard science fiction, the second half felt more like fantasy almost. It wasn't bad, but such a huge shift from the first half.
It is if it's a standard that everyone decides to support...
> And no one batted an eye.

Citation needed! Pretty sure you do not have an accurate bead on how "everyone" reacted.

My guess? When people read their trusted news source, and it disagrees with a previous assertion that they've bought into? "Ugh stupid opponents are infiltrating our news. No way I'm buying into this government bullshit trying to force vaccines on us!"

(But I hope that what you say is right - that conservative news is finally encouraging vaccines... and maybe in a few weeks/months their audience will subconsciously flip to "oh yeah vaccines are good. I've always been planning to get them but I needed some assurance they are safe, which we're finally getting just now.")
> I would argue that large parts of the financial system actually failed 13 years ago. Bailouts restored them.

There are substantial movements in the market that only make sense if the motivation is a straightforward government intervention. It is a mockery of everything the financial system strives to be when we get hit by the worst crisis in around 30-50 years and the response of the stock market is leaping like a well trained puppy to breathtaking all time highs.

The US financial system is starting to flirt with central planning. I'm keeping a weather eye out for the day that the majority of US spending is done by the government.
I'm gonna go out on a limb but if this comment is reflective of your attitude, I don't think Tik Tok or algorithms are your biggest problem in establishing relationships with women.
I also get a lot of spam from dependabot because of prereleases, I wish they would fix this bug: https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/2547

As others have pointed out, you can opt for daily / weekly or monthly updates, I'll stick to monthly until they fix this bug.
Seems like a deliberate design choice, not some inevitable consequence of modernity. Why exactly does the board need to be cell phone sized when the actual form factor of even a netbook is substantially larger?
The Wikipedia page for the scanimate lists "Star Wars (tactical display in Death Star war room)"
or a VR headset with an addon - or even better direct stimulation of the brain.
It's 2021, stop writing legacy code that others will have to maintain.
please, perl ha nothing on q
The gear stick may be on the driver's left in the UK, but the indicator and windscreen wiper/wash stalks do not necessarily follow.

All my cars for the last ~15-20 years have had the indicator stalk on the left (i.e. same side as the gear stick), and the windscreen wiper/wash controls on the right, but I suspect that this might be a manufacturer-specific convention.

A quick bit of googled internet wisdom suggest Japanese brands tend to the right, European brands tend to the left, and EU standardisation has settled on left.

Strictly speaking, I would expect the indicator to be activated prior to commencing a manoeuvre, so would expect the two actions to not overlap.
They mention that several other such ports like the audio and power are easily replaceable so that seems a fair assumption. The modules are also track-mounted and appear to lock into place somehow, so it seems unlikely that the internal connection will suffer the same kind of torture an external port would.
100%. I spent 5+ years of my life helping cloud foundry take off, and saw the enormous benefits of having your own private Heroku.

But the market overwhelmingly decided it wanted to play with a lower level foundation (those CF instances mostly are still chugging along running hundreds of thousands of containers, but they’re in their own world… “legacy”?).

Let’s own it and not delude ourselves that the current state of Kubernetes is the end state. It’s like saying the Linux syscall interface is too complex for app developers. Well yes! It’s for system developers. We as an industry are working to improve that.
Reading stuff like "heads gonna roll" in the comments is kind of shocking to me. Have you never screwed up in your job?

How long have they shipped a secure Linux to a couple of hundred different devices simultaneously, while improving security, fixing critical bugs soon and delivering a pretty great user experience since they first launched Chrome OS? Sure, were soft bricks before, critical fixes introduced other bugs, duh. The same happens on Windows, macOS, Linux distributions - we're all human, we make mistakes, we try to learn from each mistake.

Don't give them a hard time. They already were in panic mode already.
For Perl

use const name => value;

Though ... I'm not sure why you'd need a "set" constant, as constants should be immutable, and set once ...
Feature requests always welcome! I'll pass it on to the Dependabot team.
1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Editing_System was internet in some sense, too, even though it was centralized and, one might say, not even ‘net’, let alone internet.

A year later, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Retrieval_and_Editing_Sys... got a bit more ‘net’ (https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-05-23/hypertext has a movie about it that is worth watching but unfortunately doesn’t show how it worked). At least, it supported multiple terminal types. That page also claims “FRESS still runs on the current Brown mainframe.” Iet would be amazing if that were true. Software that’s over 50 years old.
This review sounds overly negative. I don't have much interest in either party but it mentions the laptop got to 106f and said "too hot to touch". Well, that's only 41c. If 41c was too hot to touch, some fevers would burn your skin.

Then it mentions that the fn keys area was at 96f. That's body temp. A phone taken out of a pocket will probably be around the same temp and we are not complaining it's too hot.

Little details like that make me think they had some kind of negative bias towards the device and it is not clear why.

I am not defending the device since I haven't used it, but that review reads like "yeah whatever I guess I'll review it, but if it's not perfect I'll trash it".

I guess we'll have to wait for these first batches to go out to see what problems are actually a nuisance
The paper didn't mention knot theory or dynamical topology because, like I mentioned, those are areas that my research bring into the picture, but was the result of (what I suspect) is the same end goal. I read through the author's blog and my jaw kind of dropped, it was uncanny how similar paths we went down. It's clear he's interested in a general theory of linguistics that can be described in the language of algebraic topology among other mathematical branches and theories, so information theory was obviously involved. However, he's way ahead of me in respect to the subject of the paper; most of my spare time has been dedicated to the greater evil, which is prime number theory, but that paper (although has proof of concept) is still far from polished but I know who's perfect now to review it when it's ready.
Yes, sorry, I edited it to change it from present tense to past tense, as that was more in line with my meaning
Lamp lights are not dependent on whether you can see them or not, unless they are programmed to.

The state of an individual person’s consciousness has no bearing on whether the sun is shining or not.

Refrigerator lights turn off when the door closes. It’s usually easy to find the mechanism that handles this and manually trigger the light to switch off.

Regarding God, I assume you mean the Abrahamic god. There are many culturally specific deities and superstitions and there doesn’t seem to be any verifiable reason why one would be “realer” than any other.
Fantastic.

Those who do this the analogue way, often distinguish between bird song and "bird language." The former focuses on identifying species. The latter focuses on understanding the information birds convey to one another. Since a lot of it relates to predators (watch out, a fox!), this might be augmentable to determine the presence of silent animals too.

fun.
I am very suspicious of anyone who claims that no logs are made/kept. Stuff has to be logged for basic maintenance of a server for instance.
That's what they say about tablets in general.
But there is a loooong way. Filesystem access in Android is a mess, typing is a mess, multitasking is a mess (it seems that only services can run at the same time). Want to do some engineering work ? Good luck finding something. Want to do SW development ? There are some BASIC intetpreters. Security ? Two choices: all and none. User interface: Windows 1.0 ( though Microsoft seems to be returning to its roots with Win 10 and 11).
So yeah. Has a processor, some memory and a screen like a computer. Everything else is different.
Haughty propaganda, as expected.
Also - super old reference:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=768151

:)
I didn’t know there was a sequel! How exciting.