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I sincerely hope you're aware that none of those options existed 22 yeara ago when this particular essay was written.

Microsoft were trying to sell Windows NT to chip designers on the premise that they didn't need to use scripts.

MacOS at the time didn't even have a commandline or interactive text-driven shell.

MVS TSO/ISFP had JCL, but the principle mechanism for interprocess communication was DASD and structured datafiles, not piplines. (VM/CMS more closely approached the Unix model, but was far less widely used.) VMS had COMfiles and DCL, but lacked the full nuance of Unix scripts.

And none of those systems were available on commodity x86 hardware. Linux (and numerous proprietary Unix clones) could run on 386s, and in some cases 286 systems. Need a system at low cost and with sufficient flexibility that the disadvantages of low-power were largely obviated? Unix had you covered.

MacOS and Andriod adopted Unix or Linux because the were clearly superior options. Fuschia ... I think ... is following similar lines (I've not followed it closely). Microsoft introduced Powershell after it became clear that no, GUI toolbuilding simply lacks the flexibility of the commandline. (And they still came up with something incompatible. So WSL got bolted on as part of the stock build.)
> But, as a separate issue, the above essay is focused on computers, and so it implicitly raises the Solow Productivity Paradox: why don't computers seem to add anything to productivity?

Just going by eye, there is a pretty sharp trend upward from about 1990-2005, which I think roughly corresponds to the period when the bulk of computerization happened in homes, offices, schools, as well as being put to use in many of the most important embedded applications -- factories and machinery, automobiles, etc.

Eyeballing the trend before 1990 has it continuing to low-$50s, instead it's mid-$60s, a 20% increase.

So why do you think this graph shows computers don't seem to add anything to productivity? I'm not saying they have, but I can't see how that graph demonstrates they haven't.
And there's so much we still don't know about the nervous system and cognition.
This feels like a non-solution; implying that working harder solves mistreatment simply glosses over the work that women do, and could implicitly associate harassment with "poor performance".
The plastics industry pushed recycling (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) as an individual's duty to return piles of packaging and single-use items, not the manufacturer's, to subtly shift the blame for microplastics and plastic pollution.
Well, it may not be the fault of the bad actors' mothers but it's _also_ not the fault of the bad actors' other peers who happen to be men, unless the peers are bad too, (as well as the mothers if they happen to be bad too). We all know stereotyping is not the way to go.
It feels like this particular incidence is the source of so much panic and misinformation. Is there news here? Yes, it appears as though we now know that vaccinated individuals can spread COVID if they get infected. But the CDC still maintains that infections in the vaccinated are rare, and if it does happen, the effects are mild. Provincetown proves all of this out.
It feels like the media is using this as an opportunity to paint the worst possible picture - an uncontrollable outbreak which scares the cautious, and a snap back to mid 2020 restrictions which scares everyone else.

The town manager of Provincetown put it well when he essentially said that breakthrough cases were expected on some level, that this whole incident is proof that vaccines work, and that vaccines are our only way out of this.

I also can’t help but feel like Provincetown is getting a lot of attention because it’s a hedonistic LGBTQ destination that’s easy for people to turn their nose up at.
The assumption is that somehow every man is complicit. Like we all know about every bad thing that happens to women in our lives and workplace. Not only that, it assumes we have the power to fix things or make changes and we just choose not to.

I don't know about other men but it absolutely alienates me from "the cause". I'm not having anything to do with people who start out by assuming I'm part of their problem.
I had a next slab in the 00s but I had to get rid of it because of space. Recently, I had a Pentium 3 random machine and I finally managed to install OpenStep 4.2 on it. The trick is to find the absolute latest patch to have the VESA driver so you can have color.

If you are curious about NeXT, I highly recommend finding a random intel pc from the 90s and installing the intel NeXTStep versions or OpenStep.
even if it's 15000 times slower than my 2014 laptop (which it isn't): the ECDH operation still takes under a second

and that's the expensive operation (done once per connection)
Is there any reason anyone in their right mind would use + that way in VBA?
Depends in part on the cipher suite. For software implementations, the current generation of chacha20-poly1305 and ed25519 are tolerable. But earlier generation ciphers were designed with hardware acceleration in mind.

This tool is relying on libssh2 for its SSH implementation core. chacha20-poly1305 and ed25519 are both extensions and are not included.
Not electronics, historically, obviously. But this is important.

Gold became "gold" not because it was "useful" -- but almost precisely because it "wasn't." It was shiny, pretty, and scarce, and also NOT GOOD for tools. Its rise as a symbolic store of value is likely directly attributable to its lack of intrinsic value.
I tried that. Their free api is too little of use. 1MB file.

I use PDF24.org which actually does everything great.

Anything offline?
We would probably be using one of the BSDs. However, it is better to look at it in reality: Torvalds did the hard part, which is getting there first.

His biggest contribution is actually in maintaining and growing his project into the huge thing it has become today. What would have stopped the continued fragmentation in the BSDs had they carried the day? Yes, Linux distributions are quite fragmented, but most of them run the same kernel (now-defunct mkLinux ca. 2002 aside).
But not first run movies that have a theatrical window.
Easy to fix technically, but first the issue must be recognized and demonstrated, then the delicate process of negotiating the social and economic realities in which the technology operates.

And that's the problem with ML in general: its failure to recognize the implicit biases in choice of dataset and training and the resulting problems, of which Microsoft racist chatbot Tay[1] is merely the most blatantly ludicrous.

1 https://spectrum.ieee.org/in-2016-microsofts-racist-chatbot-...
I like the image of Biden being given a "super downvote" button on reddit, that like...counts as ten normal downvotes.
Children will think there is a monster under their bed based on no evidence at all. That speaks to something beyond object recognition that happens at a different processing layer.

Humans do not need to be trained on billions of images from around the globe to semantically understand where human faces are not expected to appear. Modern AI can certainly recognize faces really well with that level of training now, but it still doesn’t even understand what a face is (i.e. no model of reality to verify its identification against).
Wow, are you okay HackersNews…?
well you can on ebay ;)
Does anybody find it strange how there's never a single post by man in female dominated industry? Yet i see headlines about 'women in tech', almost every day.

And please can we call it IT, not 'tech'. As a dev, 'tech' always sounded as though you were doing things much harder than IT.
> The biggest MMO of all time, still even today.

Honestly, for the first time in a long while there are questions about this. Subs of anyone who renewed around shadowlands launch are expiring and active player numbers are down. It's hard to know for sure since neither WoW or Square release numbers, but if ffxiv retains enough of the current surge of newbies, Endwalker will almost certainly have more players than 9.2
OP here! I found my activity was slipping because of pandemic but didn't have the consistent motivation to go out for a run.I have always been motivated by stories and tales of adventure and built this as a way to live out some of the stories. There are other apps- Pokemon Go or zombies run that offer fantastic experiences. This app is a different take, using graphic art and videos to create the motivation to step out for a run.
Facebook pays well above the typical market rate from what I can see, presumably as a result of that being the only way to attract the talent they want with their reputation.

Google has a great reputation as a great place to work with most people in the industry. I think that is actually responsible for a pretty decent portion of their success.

People in the game industry who are any good have the ability to work for any number of companies in the game industry, Blizzards worsening reputation is going to mean blizzard has to do more (probably pay more) than those other companies to attract them.
Long time employee of one of those companies, here.

To believe that there is some dictate about how a story is covered or why that comes from the top is to believe that we are way more organized than reality. Yes, some corporate-synergy exists to cross-promote, especially on morning shows, but when it comes to news, we are usually pushing so close to deadline there's no way to even allow for corporate control.

That said, there is a need to meet an ever decreasing budget. That's the parent co's real bias; to be cheap.
The issue here is it's asking women to be activists. Few companies want activists. Most companies want to achieve fairness and equal opportunity, but they also do not like agitators (because one can never have control over agitators, you never can know their next target, so to be safe, most companies tend to not want them around).

It's the same conundrum with double agents. You agree with them helping your intelligence org, but you can never fully trust them. You cannot control their motivations (unless you hold their family hostage like they did in the USSR, etc.)

From that standpoint, this is not good advice. Leadership is key. You have to schmooze leadership and convince them it's the right thing, but not via these activist methods.
Good article:

Not all men - how discussing womens issues gets derailed: https://slate.com/technology/2014/05/not-all-men-how-discuss...
They really managed to find ways to make it work despite the hardware of the day. There was a lot of hand coded assembly until the mid 90s.
If we're talking about a skill that can be written down, the following works for me:

- read the manual and summarise as I go

- using the table of contents of my summary, I rewrite the summary in another document

- I repeat this rewriting the summary a bunch of times over multiple days

- this works for text, diagrams and code

For me, the act of trying to recall from minimal input (a topic heading) gets the job done.

It's really just a variation of the techniques already mentioned here.
They were big in education-- student computers in elementary and middle school for me (basically, about 1992-2000) were basically 100% Macs. It wasn't until high school that Windows boxes started showing up in classrooms and computer labs.

They've also always had a decent base in the creative space-- Photoshop 1.0 being a Mac app had a big impact. Scully's mismanagement of the company meant a lot of people dumped the company in the mid-1990s, though; Jobs' return, the OSX transition, and the Intel switch were all necessary to bring the Mac division back up to where it is today.
> You expect if you built a greenhouse or power generation source for indoor gardening that some government would spend the effort to send in troops or bomb you?

Well, if you are a US citizen, it is illegal to do that in Antarctica without a permit from the NSF (under the Antarctic Conservation Act). If you do it anyway, expect to be prosecuted, and the US will send agents to arrest you, even if you are in Antarctica. The FBI has made an arrest in Antarctica before (due to a fight at McMurdo Station).

All state parties to the Antarctic Treaty have similar laws, which (generally speaking) apply to their nationals worldwide.

If you were a sole citizen of a country which is not a party to the Antarctic Treaty – such as, Andorra or Afghanistan or Costa Rica or Cyprus or Ireland or Malta or Nigeria or Uzbekistan – then you'd have somewhat more chance of getting away with it. But surely your act would cause an international incident and they'd look at ways of shutting you down – the country of which you are citizen might suddenly decide to sign the Treaty as well, and shut you down. If the country of citizenship lacks the resources to shut you down, it may give permission to another country which does have those resources (e.g the US) to act against you on its behalf.
> I really hope you're not suggesting that the reason why nowadays casts aren't solely composed of straight, cis, white people is because all of the unqualified other actors are being given jobs they don't deserve.

I can't parse this, sorry. Too many negatives.

> Maybe "attempt at representation" can also mean producers, writers, casting directors, etc. just finally realizing that the world is full of more than just white people, and maybe stories should be written that include those people too. It doesn't have to be some awkward forced diversity where it doesn't make sense.

This is exactly the issue. Good art does not come from earnest people "trying to tell important stories about more than just white people".

> Sure, and yet I just see a lot of hand waving about all this rampant non-genuine diversity without any evidence that this is widespread. Certainly that sort of thing exists: of course we've all cringed at a character or casting decision that was clearly made for the wrong reasons. But I just don't think I see that happening that often these days. Maybe broaden the types of TV shows and movies you watch to stuff that isn't targeted squarely at straight, cis, white people?

I'm unsure how I could provide "evidence" of a movie being "non-genuine". Do I need to explain how I calibrate my Genuineness-index? Should I show my work? We're talking about movies. If I watch something and can't get into it because I judge it to be "non-genuine," I'm allowed to say so without offering evidence and, of course, you're allowed to disagree.

It's too funny to be accused of watching "stuff that is targeted squarely at straight, cis, white people". 90% of the movies I watch are foreign movies, low budget/arty American movies, or classics. You're assuming I'm a bigot when, in reality, I'm making a very basic point about where art comes from (not from people trying to "pursue equity, diversity, and inclusivity").
How are you compiling to C? With the LLVM IR to C backend that was (is?) maintained by the Julia folks? My experience from a couple years ago was that it didn't produce output which would compile with baroque C toolchains for platforms that LLVM doesn't support... I'm giving very unsubtle side eye to you TriCore.
That’s true of the past but not the present. The U.S. military is clearly and consistently including cost in its decisions today. Anyone who argues against this simply hasn’t looked into it.
It's a bit of both.

Jay Leno spent years showing us clueless Californians who couldn't tell us why the 4th of July is a holiday. These types would seem to confirm Huxley's suspicions, but they don't make up the entire country.

For people who aren't controlled by their base desires, where soma and orgy porgy failed, today, deplatforming and "fact checkers" are stepping in to finish the job.
Or, if you want to do it in the other direction (sometimes this is more convenient), NCSA Telnet for the Mac has a built-in FTP server. I use this to upload files to the Power Mac 7300 directly from this Raptor Talos II.
I think you would be better served by a simplified, less optimized code generation, as from what I understand LLVM is the thing that takes a lot of time. You can see this pattern in Crystal and Swift for example, that also use LLVM and are also relatively slow to compile, compared to OCaml or Go which have their own backend.
Seems like the problem lies with level of scrutiny applied to the research behind this device. If it is something that reads things based on skin pigmentation, wouldn’t you want to test different pigments?

Not sure this speaks to racism though as the article alleges. Research Bias and ignorance perhaps. Hopefully we can come up with calibrations for skin color here?
Yeah I remember having a long conversation with their support for the alternative solution to this report and they just told me to pound sand. It's crazy to me that it returned without any fanfare.
>Just because men do a bad thing, doesn't mean every single man is responsible for that.

Where in the heck did you get that from? The author made no such claim. Anywhere.

I also didn't feel like the author was "yelling at men". I felt she was trying to get us to understand her frustration.

Confident, respectful men don't get offended by posts like this. She's not talking about me (generally speaking that is - I know I'll never be perfect). But, I also know that I can help. I can be an ally. I don't mind being reminded of that.

Sheesh, the early comments here tell me that the author could actually be understating the problem.
This is already happening. I work for a large b2b saas company - many of our attention-oriented metrics (eg traffic, top of funnel lead generation) are off by 20-40% year over year. We are hearing that peers are seeing the same thing. People are sick of screens and relishing the offline world, which is even touching B2B.
NeXTSTEP is also really great on PA-RISC, if you want an oddball combination.
I thought hackerses work because they love hacking
Do Olympic-Level Achievements Make People Happy?
In terms of entertainment, I was happy with 40 cable channels, and seeing a great movie every once in awhile.

Hell, I was happy kid watching free cartoons on the Zenith?

While tech got bettter talent seems to have nosed dived? (exception being a lot of free talent on youtube)

The pure talent of the 60's-70's was magic, and that era was before my time?
appreciate you here mthoms
It does not have to be. If the mainstream media set consensus, everything will have to fall in line.

So in HN, the readers will do the job of censoring info if they are very out of line with the mainstream narrative.

Look at this submission of mine.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941820

It was flagged promptly and removed from view in a little while..

Although, I ll have to admit that this site holds up better than most similar places, and that is probably because it is not very well known...

But on the otherside, you can buy a high karma HN account on some sites, so everything is in place to poison this site as well. I think it's just a matter of getting upto some threshold of popularity..
Edit: removed. I should take my own advice.
Could those recent rock throwers be dnd players? Maybe satanists too?
it's no problem, the killer feature (that it works at all, and can connect to modern servers with default configs) is solid, and more people using it will help flush out bugs
The Delirious Cult of Recreational Benadryl Users
Very cool! There's another site I used to frequent with a similar bent, focused on golfing: https://www.dwitter.net/
I'm not sure about "find" -- but I also use "entr" for this (and just about a billion other tasks, is there anything you can't use it for?) and I personally do something like:

ls src/**/*.filetype | entr -r -s "some command"

And this will catch new files
I’m getting really fed up with people lobbing accusations of bigotry to try and dismiss others’ concerns and criticisms without actually providing any substantial counter-argument.
There's a category of restaurants that still exists in Greece (though admittedly on the decline) called a mageirion/magirio that sells home-style cooked food like pastitsio, stuffed peppers, moussaka, etc., usually from a limited rotating menu. Not sure what the closest U.S. equivalent would be... maybe a southern "meat and three" type place?
This has to be the most accurate description of competitive fencing I've ever read. Especially the 'yell loudly' bit.
Cmon now, intel chips didn't level off till around 2010.
What constitutes a "significant number" of customers to your mind? Losing 5% of WoW customers in very mature recurring revenue business would be huge hit, and not something they can easily make up. Its not like kids today are beating down the doors to play a game that launched the year Ronald Reagan died.

Even customers without a heart will be upset when content deadlines slip because of labor turmoil caused by this mismanagement.

And, of course, people who are upset about this who do like Blizzard games or work for Blizzard don't want Blizzard to be killed off. They want things to change. And it is not like 'frat boy culture" or incompetent management benefits shareholders. So perhaps that change could come.
> Does anybody find it strange how there's never a single post by man in female dominated industry?

I don't know what point you're trying to communicate here. Which female dominated industries do you regularly see discussed on Hacker News?

> And please call it IT, not 'tech'

Why should anyone do this? I have worked in tech for 20 years and refer to it as such.
I wish this piece had moved beyond finding out about a new word and what it means. It felt like it could have been the introduction to a longer piece about actually learning to stop worrying about unread books, but instead the author seems to have trailed off in a mirror to the books the piece focuses on.

Is the discovery that other people have a word for the accumulation of unread books really enough to make the attached anxiety melt away?

I'm the grandchild of librarians on both sides, and I've had the urge to archive and catalogue and preserve and retain for my whole life. It's crippling. There's a perverse illusion buried in the need to collect and archive books and possessions. I wish the author could have done more than scratch the surface for me!
You are right that it's a terrible idea (I hope it was clear from the article that it's an experiment and should stay that way), but could you help me understand why this is fundamentally broken?

I would say that by using setInterval you are buying into this kind of behavior and would have to create your own synchronization.

If you are saying that this transpilation step changes the semantics of the code, then I completely agree!
Researchers find gaps in clinical trial data sharing
General intelligence requires it to solve real problems in the real world. It isn't about emulating humans, but emulating anything resembling an intelligent being we are aware of. It would be totally exceptional if we could properly emulate the intelligence of a fly or an ant, but we can't even do that. "Emulate a human brain" you say, but we can't even emulate brains a million times smaller than that.