skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good point.

MS has "sold" a fair bunch of licenses that have gone unused.

I'll keep buying licenses if I use it - and keep telling people that Linux has been usable for ordinary people the last decade, is faster, more exciting and collect less data about you and your family.

PS: MS employees here, your company really had the chance to be the serious choice but after getting ads on Professional licensed machines I just don't believe the marketing anymore.
Is substack any better? It seems to be the new hotness.
ProtonDB often does have comments listing workarounds, configuration tweaks, known issues, and things/patches to install to achieve the best results. In that sense it reads very much like PC Gaming Wiki, which lists all the same things for Windows games.
"practice" assumes a lot here.
Has AI found a new Foundation?
(Spoilers)

The end of Tom Clancy's 1994 book "Debt of Honor" featured a 747 being crashed into the Capital, which is about as close as fiction gets.
The question is "did it trigger hyperthermia" not "was the thing that caused hyperthermia 170 degrees". A bath does not need to be anywhere near 170 degrees to trigger the same level of hyperthermia since it is able to store and deliver heat much more efficiently than air (hence why 170 degree water would severely burn you).

Remember your core body temperature need only change a degree or two to trigger strong responses from the body. After about 5 degrees you're into hyperpyrexia which is life threating.
Did it?

I almost exclusively use the mobile browser and don’t like installing lots of apps. They’re intrusive, they always want to collect things like location data, drain the battery, take up space, and spam me with notifications. The app is often built to steal more of my attention by being faster and shinier…

For example, no matter how hobbled the Reddit web experience is, I don’t want their annoying app. I’d rather sandbox it to iPhone safari and protect my sanity.
they have dinky portable ones on amazon for few hundred.

It's great for sweating out, not sure about how vetted the build material is given that silver colored coating insides of fabric seems to rub off.

also, can't remember the source but I believe excessive use (everyday, 30m+) contributes poorly to testicle health, to the point of making you infertile for a while. I imagine optimal sauna usage would involve using an icepack or alike if you did it everyday.
Okey, maybe I changed that a long time ago and forgot about it. Mine just shows my most visited sites.
So, seems mastodon is fragmented or segmented into many independent networks. Do those interact with each other in any way? I'd hate to join one and miss truly interesting content on another...is it possible to distill multiple into one on the user end? Just asking, as I've never tried it before and the concept seems a little confusing.
Central planning at its finest.

People who don't own a car could use that money to buy something useful.
I prefer employees who say "I don't know" over confident bullshitters.
It was a godsend, I always wanted something like this. I’ve used it in around 10 projects over a year (2019-2020j and it broke every time, suddenly, from a day to another.

I hope nowadays it’s more stable. Personally I’ve ended up rolling my own and it works as a charm, integrated with unit tests
on this day several years ago, one of my mom's friends was on her way home when a random white asshole rolled down his windshield and screamed "Iranian bitch" at her. She was terrified and came to our house. My sister was convinced that they were going to start rounding us up. My dad put up a patriotic flag, not out fo patriotism, but out of fear of retaliation by people who didn't think we were patriotic enough. None of us are Iranian or middle eastern but given the climate, everyone that even looked like they could be from that region were terrified.

Fun times, I think its a reason I generally like to stay outside the united states these days.
My life partner died on 9/11. Not that 9/11. Two years ago. Because of a brain tumor.

That personal 9/11 will always overshadow for me the one that this site is about. The one that from my point of view was a kind of natural disaster caused by fifth elemental force, the force of human stupidity. The one that triggered secondary wave of human stupidity that toppled any illusion that USA is a righteous and effective country that anyone could still have. Terrorists really did hurt USA on 9/11 but 99% of the ultimate damage was self inflicted.
How does geizhals compare to idealo?
100%. Cheat Engine is an excellent tool for working around old odd mechanics that don't quite work right or were balanced against gamer expectations from an era that was very different from today. Or just as a tool for bypassing game design decisions that you happen to disagree with.

Sometimes you get games that have a fully feature dev console and you can do it all in-game, but that's sadly much rarer these days.
You definitely could write a lot more in Ada. The world would be a lot better off for it. Unfortunately, with the way things are going right now, I don't think it will happen. It takes a lot of active convincing to keep people from writing absolutely everything in JavaScript, so I don't think we'll be able to get to a point where Ada's ecosystem will be built out enough for it to be a common general-purpose language.
It's hard to say how exactly to draw the line, but "array language" to an APLer usually means a language whose primary influence is APL. So these scientific languages that throw out most of the syntax are nearby but don't quite belong. From a practical standpoint the APL Wiki is centered on APL and exists to document the kind of niche material Wikipedia wouldn't cover, which is why there's nothing about these more mainstream languages currently.
>"Racked up a several-hundred-thousand dollar bill in a couple of hours."

This is enough to rent big server from Hetzner / OVH for like forever and have person looking after it with plenty of money left.

>"I've experienced how painful companies that tried to run their own infrastructure made things like DB backups"

I run businesses on rented dedicated servers. It had taken me a couple of days to create universal shell script that can create new server from the scratch and / or restore the state from backups / standby. I test this script every once in a while and so far had zero problems. And frankly excluding cases when I want to move stuff to a different server there was not a single time in many years when I had to use it for real recovery.

I did deployments and managed some infrastructure on Azure / AWS for some clients and contrary to your experience I would never touch those with the wooden pole when I have a choice. Way more expensive and actually requires way more attention than dedicated servers.

Sure there a cases when someone need "infinite scalability". Personally I have yet to find a client where my C++ servers deployed on real multicore CPU with plenty of RAM and array of SSD came anywhere close to being strained. Zero problems handling sustained rate of thousands of requests per second on mixed read / write load.
>Temperature around 95-100.

lucky bastards. Judging that such setting is everywhere here in US, it looks like some public standard prohibit higher than 160 or something like this. Playing with the temperature sensors (like cold toweling it) i usually can get it to only 180-190F at some places with 195F (90C) at best.
Bezoism
And yet that's what happened.
Honest question: Do columnists leave NYT for Medium? (Perhaps they do, but if so I have failed to notice it.)
https://archive.is/Kp9lQ
What is the practical application of this? Free energy?
Where is a function body colored differently than its argument list?

(I mostly agree with you. My preferred syntax highlighting is for just comments and string literals.)
> Also, nothing wrong with paying for content — I'm a Medium subscriber, among many other publications.

There is when your publishing medium gatekeeps you for no other reason than to drive its own metrics. (Also nice humblebrag?)

Medium is scum, I hope it burns
Funny that this is trending for the first time on HN after all these years.

FWIW, I was the original founder and developer. This started as a Perl script crawling 8 local merchants' price lists and writing a single HTML file (some time in 1997), then turned into a CGI script reading flat text files (i.e. no database), then into a mod_perl handler. No complete rewrites at least until 2014 when I left the company. Perl got really unwieldy at some point, would not recommend (and my code was universally hated I guess).

By the way, geizhals.at (the original domain) was in the top 2000 Alexa websites for a few years (somewhere around the years 2000-2004) AFAIR despite being from a very small country.
Reader mode is your friend. (Not that I'm a supporter of this pattern)
Thanks for writing this. It is good to hear the experience of someone that was close by. I live clear on the other side of the country (and did on 9/11 too). I didn’t know anyone that died that day, and to the best of my knowledge I’ve never met anyone who lost someone that day either. So it is good for those of you who did experience it to write about it since it is so easy for people like me to be no more affected by it than any other historic event that is far removed.
If you know anyone who has ever worked at microsoft they can get you a copy with a MASSIVE discount. Living in Seattle I just buy all my microsoft products through friends.

Elite controller was $99, and I laughed when it was on sale for like $150 last week as a best ever deal.
Yeah Medium was great at first. All the issues now are driven by monetization.
Yes, on mastodon you can follow @someone@anothermastodon.local even if you are on firstmastodon.local, and the server running your instance will phone out to anothermastodon.local to retrieve posts from the person you follow.
Probably, but who would have listened to him? He was well on his way to being a 1 term president who did nothing...
https://waterfox.net/ is what you're looking for, I believe.
Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero with high and then prohibitive prices put multiple nails in the Pascal coffin, but it fate was predetermined even before this.

Pascal occupies roughly the same niche as C. C is the language in both Unix and DOS/Windows were written which defined it success.

C was chosen by Microsoft for DOS and later for Windows - using it for app development was the path of the least resistance (Visual C, then Visual Studio, API for C/C++, Documentation examples in C/C++).

C is the language of Unix, it was used for kernel, user-space and most 3rd party apps. History of open-source and Unix is connect. It's not an accident that the first open source compiler which become popular and widely used (GCC) was a C compiler.

Once C because "an official" language for both Unix and Windows Pascal had no chances.
Yes, it can be gross. Thats why there are rules in public saunas, like shower before. Use a towel. Shower after before jumping into the cold basin, ...

But I still would prefer my personal sauna
I’m not a fan of Medium but I do admit that those are compelling arguments.
And yet zero of Android and ChromeOS games come into GNU/Linux.

Linux community likes to pat themselves on the back thanks to Android and ChromeOS using the Linux kernel, yet they are oblivious to the fact that Linux syscalls aren't part of the official stable API, only certain ChromeOS models do run Linux (a yet another guest OS, WSL style), and then what GNU/Linux gets are Electron apps.
I'm guessing the downvotes are from Valve/Steam fanboys who don't like any criticism of their favorite company; I see it all the time on social media sites. Valve have said that they will have every Steam game running under Proton by the end of the year, so pointing out that it's misleading statement at best will draw the ire of people who worship Lord Gaben.
I was referring to the NYT as an equiv. distro platform.
This seems to be a wildly incongrous conclusion based on a clear indication that a global pandemic is impacting operational efficacy and staffing levels. Not that it's an excuse or justification for blanket censorship.
And apps are worse.

When looking at news sites, HN, ... my way of using those is that i open interesting articles in background tabs and then go through them. With an app I constantly have to go back and forth between front page and article. Especially annoying with longer reads.
The obesity is most likely due to unhealthy carbs than meat. Eating grilled meat and salads will rarely get you obese.
On bare metal as well. Not a trace of doubt.
All rights act in tension. Preferring one disadvantages others.

I merely ask we have better data to make better choices.
Which isn't part of the public APIs,

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis
Bad data is often taken as good data, because sifting through it incurs 100x more friction than taking it at face value. When you ultimately get bad results you can just blame the bad data, and you still end up with a paycheck for the month(s) you wasted.
They are independent but federated.

The best example of how it works would be email. You can set up your own email server, and interact with other independent email servers seamlessly, or just find a provider you trust and get your email access from them.
Pps. * Just put a space after asterix.
> I wish people would stop pretending we have a choice to do nothing because the whole thing is just going to be too inconvenient.

But we do? There's no pretension here, no action is always a choice. That doesn't mean that we will be free from the consequences of course. I think many people are betting, consciously or not, on the fact that we can keep going like this until the day they die and then they won't have to care about the consequences.
Frankly: Google is only now-ish regaining the balance from the hiring slowdown COVID brought. It isn't far-fetched that some team went short-staffed until recently. And then, updating notices was not their top priority.
Did that a long time ago cant recommend it enough, you have a calendar to keep up with birthdays..
So, a few things, I don't think outright covid denial is a major thread. I tend to see much more "herd immunity/get to normal" from right-adjacent circles.

Regarding Right-wing distrust: The vaccine is new tech (and I mean fundamentally new, not just another flu vaccine). This means that unlike previous vaccines, it's safety profile wasn't nearly as well understood. It's efficacy is pretty well characterized. Conversely, Ivermectin isn't just horse dewormer, it's used in humans too. It has a known safety profile, and had early research dramatic report a 90% reduction in death (the one that was later retracted). Remember, not believing in vaccines doesn't make covid go away, so you've got a chunk of people desperate for an alternative solution. So they see this "known element" and reported efficacy and think that it'll be an alternative to the vaccine.

The previous case was Hydroxy chloroquinine, and I have quite a bit of spite for both sides of that argument then too.
We did mobilize fighter jets (albeit without missiles, so essentially if the pilots intercepted it’d likely be a suicide mission). Also after 9/11 people straying in to no fly zones over DC would be escorted out by fighters.
Yea would be interested to know.

I would be thinking it's just some deadwood/log.

Maybe the skeleton was exposed?
I did work at MS, will have to reach out to former colleagues :)

Oh, wait the discount also applies to former employees?

Edit: yes if you are part of the alumni network. It has a fee but it is good value. TIL.
People were commenting about acquisitions in other thread: some wouod be unexplainable ones, until you realize that management just wanted to hang out with hip/stylish/trendy people…
Sarah Kendzior (and most likely other journalists from that time) mentions this in her book Hiding in Plain Sight: 9/11 changed the news, it shifted from print to the web because the web could update faster. Newspapers websites were no longer outdated copies of the print.

Of course that brought about a whole lot of other consequences.
What's wrong with paying for text? I don't own a TV and I assume most people are splurging more on their cable in a single month than s/o paying for five or six web publications.
It depends on the at-the-time-consequences of the failure. You ask yourself: What happens if/when it fails?

If you're in a position of the developer trying to get something working reliably, absolutely you need things to fail early and hard. But when something is in the field and in the hands of the user, you don't want things to crash.
So the Google suite of web apps has a feature called "Create shortcut" that turns a web app into a desktop app sitting in your launcher. Even with that feature, it's a subpar experience compared to macOS's native apps. So I wouldn't be so quick to claim that web took over desktop.
I used to work in a small computer shop and there were some (presumably) 60-70 year olds who I wouldn't consider to be computer literate in the least running Ubuntu and even other distros. There were at least a couple people who refused to use any other OS including Windows. One such customer always referred to their beloved Ubuntu as "Ukabuntu" for some reason.
Compared to YouTube, Medium is not "successful".
For what it's worth, you're currently losing my discoverability by using a platform that I don't. Me (and many, many other people) will get redirected to your site, see a big intrusive banner on our screen, and leave. It doesn't matter if you were about to disclose the panacea or secrets to life, there's simply no writing on Medium that's worth the royal asspain of stepping through your digital metal detector.

You're increasing the amount of complexity in your reader's stack to reduce the complexity of your stack. Much like how nobody clicks the 'Reddit is better in the app!' button, you should be conscious that most people nope-out when they click a link and don't get your article.
https://archive.is/ozASI

Does anyone else find the Economist's lack of bylines and complete author anonymity to be off-putting? It's scary how much influence they have and how no one seems to mind that they don't feel comfortable putting their names on the stuff the advocate for and report on.

Great article!
I’m surprised they didn’t mention Substack.

It’s not optimal for discovery, but rewards writers far better than Medium can.

It’s telling that so many people go to Substack once they’re kicked out of somewhere.

If you want to build your brand or an audience, Substack is the place to go.
If I used social networks, I might give it a try. (I did actually check it out though) But all social media networks seem anti-productive to me and, well, just not actually very social.

With respect to connecting with family & friends, I'd much prefer a pure platform based pretty much on just that.

With respect to other people with interesting things to say, I'd prefer blogs aggregating & curated sites like, well, HN itself.

For the former, I don't know how you get to a "pure" platform like that where you can communicate & share experiences/photos with each other without also letting meme-ish "lol this person of <political affiliation I hate> is an idiot"> posts through, but at the very least it could avoid surfacing them algorithmically and rewarding them with "internet points".
GH is a different realm than tweakers.net, the number of many product attributes GH tracks and allow you to filter for is 10 fold of Tweakers.
I don't have either, could you just tell us what happens?
Or it could be 5% of the calories, and unless you have some source on cattle nutrition this is just baseless speculation.
Except it isn’t the same at all. The NYT is an edited publication, not a distribution platform.
The uncertainty about whether my readers will get blocked from reading or not is a legit concern.
Why should they have right to pursue union status at FB? They should do that with whatever company is employing them and if there is that many it might even be realistic.
I can't stand syntax highlighting. I mean literally -- I can't read code that is displayed using syntax highlighting, and when someone tries to force me to, I can't understand it. When someone ask for my help with a piece of code, I have to ask them to turn the highlighting off (which in some editors is harder than you think). I normally use acme, which doesn't even have syntax highlighting, but it bothers me to no end that on some (many? all?) Linux distributions vim comes by default with syntax highlighting on. Fortunately BSDs come with nvi, which also doesn't have syntax highlighting.

Unfortunately, most blog posts and documentation on web sites spam syntax highlighting in my face. For those cases I copy the code in my editor to read it which also has the benefit of allowing me to see it with proportional fonts. I use proportional fonts for my programming.
Censorship is bad data, because it is selectively excluded data.

If gamma rays randomly excluded one post in a thousand, that would be mussing data. Censors excluding one post in ten thousand is worrying because they have motivations of their own, which gamma rays do not.
It was never going to be mobile battery friendly, so it was not going to survive anyway
Every nights I read through the hackernews posts of the day which didn't reach the front page for my newsletter. Every time I click on a medium posts and that I click "previous" the page freeze during 1-2 seconds.

Therefore I have a ban on Medium posts. When medium.com is in the URL it is automatically discarded, unfortunately they offer white label domain so I happen to click on some of those links.

Also I didn't do stats about it, but if you want to blog about something and do it on Medium you have a much lower chance to be featured on HN (not talking about others forum ). Choose wisely. HN is not the center of the world but there are only a few places that can offer 50k visits
Lazarus comes close
It’s clear the ACLU is internally conflicted, but that’s completely normal. “It split over decisions to represent the Nazis in the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s, and the Nazis in the 1970s.”

The real change has been mostly how individuals say things that the organization may disagree with. Still, I am concerned US politics has become so divisive that the right wing is viewed how the Nazis where back in the 70’s.

As to my politics, I don’t support the ACLU. Requiring locations to host rallies they disagree with isn’t a free speech issue anymore than allowing protesters to block a freeway in rush hour would be. Protests at government buildings are different, but rallies don’t need to be allowed to block public streets.
Authoritarian countries collapse because everyone is lying about reality. Same thing happens with metric driven management.
No data clearly indicates that there is no data.

A statement of "I don't know' clearly indicates a lack of knowledge.

A statemnt of "I have no opinion" clearly indicates that the speaker has not formed an opinion.

In each case, a spurious generated response:

1. Is generally accepted as prima facie evidence of what it purports.

2. Must be specifically analysed and assessed.

3. Is itself subject to repetition and/or amplification. With empirical evidence suggesting that falsehoods outcompete truths, particularly on large networks operating at flows which overload rational assessment.

4. Competes for attention with other information, including the no-signal case specifically, which does very poorly against false claims as it is literally nothing competing against an often very loud something.

Yes: bad data is much, much, much, much worse than no data.
The statement that started the talk about resellers was:

> Similarly if you’re building it yourself you can buy for significantly less from a reseller, many of which are wholly legitimate.

The horses mouth charges $140+, which is significantly more than the $100 that was about.
It's even more frustrating when it some programming related blog and you can't copy and paste the code snippet