skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cows are actually a way to convert otherwise worthless land into food

As someone who lived in a subsistence farm, that's absolutely not true, not on a large scale.

That is true in some places where the soil is not suitable for agriculture and the cows only eat grass, but that would be a minority of cows that exist today.

If that was even remotely true, there would be no cows raised by eating grain.
Do people lose data or lose proof of identity when they have had account(s) banned?
The nsa intercepts everything so naturally there’s something illegal among it
In the corporate sphere, software is treated as an ever-evolving amalgamation of code and people - This is why enterprise software services keep changing and breaking over time; without the people, the software stops working. Also, as the people change, the code changes. The code is often overcomplicated; there are a lot of politics going on whereby developers introduce unnecessary complexity into the code as a way to make themselves essential to the company. The code is too tightly coupled with individuals or teams. When some individuals leave or the teams are shuffled around, their code has to be replaced. Also the code is often tightly coupled to specific hardware or operating systems or SaaS services; developers in big corporations rarely bother to try to make their code portable to different cloud providers or operating sytsems.

In the open source sphere, software is more often treated as just code. There is not such a strong incentive to play politics because there is no money or job security involved. Because the software often needs to run on a wide range of systems within different cloud providers by different people/companies, on different operating systems with many different execution engines; coupling to specific hardware, systems or SaaS services is strongly discouraged. When open source does become coupled to some external service, it's more likely to be a blockchain - Which has this 'forever' quality (due to the decentralization aspect) and it almost never changes.
"Of course, nobody uses plain TeX" I use plain TeX. I dislike LaTeX.

"we use TrueType fonts, not METAFONTs (xetex); PDFs, not DVIs (pstex, pdftex); Unicode, not 7-bit ASCII (xetex again)" I still like METAFONT, DVI, and ASCII; I want to use character sets other than Unicode (and don't want to require converting to/from Unicode; some can't be converted anyways).

"the parts of TeX that people actually use are 1) the box-and-glue model, 2) the hyphenation algorithm, and 3) the line-breaking algorithm." I agree, although I use the other features too including insertions, custom output routines, etc. Also, the math typesetting of TeX is commonly used.

Perhaps if the troff output format could be used, or something combining DVI format with troff output format.

The font metrics of TeX are a bit deficient and could be improved, e.g. specifying accent positioning above and below properly, multiple kerning/ligatures, more than 256 characters per font, etc. (The font metrics common with PostScript are also a bit deficient.)

What I would like is a typesetting system similar to plain TeX but to be able to extend it with PostScript code to alter the behaviour of the typesetting (with immediate and deferred, similar to the \immediate command in TeX can make writing to files immediate or deferred when shipped out, same would be true of PostScript codes too; immediate PostScript codes would be executed during the typesetting process, and deferred would be executed as part of shipping out the page (so diagrams could be inserted)). (Some programs can output PostScript; that isn't good enough since it is executed too late)
I can't even get replacement parts for my still in production toaster oven, much less things that stopped being produced 3+ years ago. Honestly, I think software has had noticeably better support than hardware - hardware is typically "no" or "here's a different replacement" or "do it yourself (if that's even possible, oh and that voids the warranty)". Software often gets free, easily applied by everyone patches for a couple years or more, and those patches are often available for a decade or longer, even beyond the lifespan of the company, thanks to (sometimes sketchy) alternate hosting sites, which also supply it for free.

But to the broader point: I think the cause may be that much of software is built with the intent of it being one-shot. Build to a target as fast as is reasonably possible, then abandon it to do a better job next time. And because there will be numerous flaws with such a quickly-produced thing, make sure to hide your shame, along with hiding your competitive advantage that others can duplicate for free because there is zero material cost.

So, broadly, the current status quo makes sense. But yeah, it has downsides.

I sure would like open-source everything though. That seems to be the only way out.
If it was about an individual, I think it would be called stalking. Overall I fail to see the difference no matter how many people are involved.
The market sets the rate for onsite computer repair between $50-$100 an hour; those hours are not prorated, so 10 minutes could be 100 bucks, and 3 separate 10 minute repairs could be $300. Cost of a support call will include the time it takes to figure out what the issue is before the actual repair is implemented, not to mention the cost of new parts if necessary. And generally, software problems will take longer to resolve than hardware problems, and there will often be more than one problem. Solutions take time, and when that time adds up to half the cost of a 3yo computer when it was new 3 years ago, it would have been more cost-effective to purchase a new machine than invest repair costs in a machine that could die forever next week with no warranty. You could get lucky, but you could also get screwed. With new hardware under warranty there is less risk of the latter.
Wait till people fire up the coal in their homes like they do every winter.

I feel almost alone when I complain about this stuff. Coal + old clunkers = fantastic. There is no escape unless ones moves far away from all humans
Is python/django support coming for v2?
> Unless you can objectively judge the accuracy yourself.

As restrictive as it seems, this is actually the only way you can depend on when push comes to shove. And given how weaponized pretty much all information is these days, it is perfectly reasonable to adopt the stance that if you can't objectively judge the accuracy yourself, you simply won't take the information on board. Imagine how different the incentives would be facing a news outlet or a government official if most people adopted that policy.
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Civ III was released in 2001, but I feel the same way.
> when they die naturally.

For many (most?) animals, predation or starvation is the "natural" way to die before actual old age would be an issue. Many suffer horribly towards actual old age death.

I think this is a children's tale disney style myth we've grown up with.

I would argue that slaughter is more "humane" if done right.

But significantly better to not breed animals for food to begin with, if there is an alternative. Even if the alternative costs significantly more.
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The "chartjunk" here is generally presented as a counterexample. The octopus on p. 20, for instance, is explicitly called out in the caption as problematic because you can't accurately see the data.

For another example, you can take a look at page 39. You'd probably consider Fig. 40 to be "chartjunk," but it's there to contrast with Fig. 41, which shows the same information in a much better way.
Most phones don't have iPhone class CPUs.
It is a mechanical transformation from stack to registers. In other parts of the thread you mentioned TCO, one can also convert recursion into iteration, tail calls can be handled by the compiler or with a trampoline.

The universe is much more flexible than you give it credit for.
you can define ObjC method parameters with empty selector names if you want.

This for example is perfectly legal ObjC, callable as [foo gimmeAString:10 :"hey "].

- (NSString*)gimmeAString:(NSUInteger)count :(NSString*)piece {
return [@"" stringByPaddingToLength:count withString:piece startingAtIndex:0];
}
I understand that you're angry and feel frustrated, but you're writing about your Windows 10 experience in a thread about new Surface devices and Windows 11. That just feels off-topic IMHO.
I don’t want to undermine anyone’s analysis but part of Rogan’s success was novelty. Take the first time we ever saw Ron Paul on a debate stage. You ever heard someone just outright call our middle eastern wars stupid back then? Now days everyone does it. Over time we got over Ron Paul because we realized he’s a little nutty with the Libertarianism, but kudos for standing out when it was unique to stand out.

So let’s take Joe Rogan now. He brings up the Wuhan Lab theory a lot, but a lot of people do now. Sadly for Rogan, the rest of the high school (broader media/society) figured out ‘you wear and listen to the same stuff the cool kids wear and listen to’. Rogan is still attempting to be the cool kid and selling it off like ‘that’s who I am, truly’. But everyone else in high school (the metaphorical immature world) is also walking around saying ‘yeah me too, that’s who I truly am’.

Rogan’s novelty factor is waning due to copy cat culture, and we all notice it. We notice it so much, we are kind of tired of the fad and everyone included - even Rogan.

In other words, we’re kind of bored of it all now. Rogan doesn’t even have to be the base case. Examine Marc Maron’s rise and fall in relevance.

For me personally, I’d only be interested in listening to a 90 year old grandmother take on the topics of today as best as she can. That would be novelty at this point. But the guy that does MMA and watches the same movies you do, supports gun rights, but votes for Sanders, it’s just like … yeah, we get it. Not that interesting anymore.

Not sure whose fault that is honestly, but let’s not over analyze that the cool kids in high school, who were once the paragons of interesting, were actual just kind of boring to begin with.

Rogan is compelling on like 2-3 topics max, and that’s okay. He is not a good interviewer of the likes of Charlie Rose, and while a subject matter expert on MMA, he is not compelling or insightful as a Quentin Tarantino interviewing anyone in movies. In fact, he is not even compelling interviewing other comedians, which often devolves into comedians jerking themselves off at how naturally born funny they are. Zero insights.
This isn't surprising given that T9 is predictive and a typing contest would probably not coincide with your typical typing habits, though I am very skeptical that typing by pressing successive numbers on a number pad is faster than T9 for general texting purposes, at least after you've trained it. Perhaps I'm underestimating the speed of which these people could press buttons in succession, just it seems like depending on the word you're pressing significantly more buttons to type the same thing.
It is clear that technical progress is inevitable. I can show you an example of a site where almost all articles are written using AI (GPT-2, GPT-3). https://www.vproexpert.com/what-can-ai-do-today/ Is it badly written?
But was that because it was bad or because it was slow on those old microprocessors? T9 would fly on a modern smartphone chip
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Sadly, they've abandoned the Surface Book. This means that currently, there is no modern big tablet on the market. Besides, aside the outdated design, the Book is a very valid concept.

They've enlarged the Surface Pro screen (now 13", half inch less than the 13.5" Book), but it has a subtly different design (that is, port-richer), which inevitable increases the weight to 880+g - uncomfortable for extended time tablet usage.
Pff. Please. I smoke a pack a day. I'm getting cash back on my own medical bill. If you invest in Altria, then yeah, you'd be profiting off my death.
Read OP's point again: You don't need security upgrades in many cases. Neither my dishwasher nor my fridge are, or should be, connected. I could imagine them having some kind of protocol for remote maintenance (showing power consumption, warning about damage), but that's it.

Software for utility devices should not be a selling point. It should just be there and do its job and maybe get an update every five years or so.

Why does my TV need updates nowadays? My car? Do I have to download updates for my clothes or my bed soon? How about the toilet?

These updates are indeed just a way to turn products you once used to buy into leased stuff. Every business loves to lease: There's much more profit in it and the customer has no say about how long they use a particular device. But as a customer I hate it.

Here's just one instance: I had an old kindle paperwhite. I loved that thing for piling all the stupid, cheap scifi on it that I would otherwise have bought as cheap paperback and that would then clutter my apartment. Literally two weeks after the device went out of the warranty, amazon decided to push an over-the-air upgrade. And it bricked the device. Now customer care was nice enough to send me a new one, but what if they didn't? Who is legally to blame? I would have to explain the concept of over-the-air upgrades and how software can sometimes destroy hardware to a judge and that judge would have to apply law from a hundred years ago to that situation. In a court case over maybe $100 - good luck with that.
Fine, semi-automatic (I wear my awful skills as a soldier as a badge of honour).

Still, I have never seen a PH (professional hunter) need a semi-automatic assault rifle to shoot a buck.
Good luck trying to use it.
Seems to me that this piece comes directly from Magical Christmasland, never taking into account the fact that companies are entities that operate for a profit. Why would they spend resources on maintaining old software when they can just cobble together something that (despite being full of flaws) works well enough that most customers will never complain about?

"[...] consumers would, I suspect, be willing to pay a few dollars more for a gadget if that meant reliable access to software for it—indefinitely"

Even if customers would be fine with it, I doubt it would work. Not only maintaining multiple pieces of decades-old software is extremely complicated in practice but, mostly, why bother? Instead, companies are more than happy to focus on selling you a shiny new toy every few years. This way they have greater profit margins and the vast majority of customers are totally fine with it.
Meanwhile personified risks are those that make it an issue, even if they misunderstood a joke.
That command won't work because the lrrmjddkkn problem stems from the redirection to a file. Running curl as root doesn't elevate the shell and therefore won't give you write access to /usr/share.

I don't understand why developers don't just use the output flag of curl instead of using file redirections like this. sudo curl -o [...] would've prevented all of that, instead of relying on someone being logged in as root (which is a terrible security practice I thought we as Linux users have been over already). I have to replace I/O redirections with sudo tee way too often, and it's impossible for any Linux beginner to understand what's going on here.
There are many things which are not allowed. Trusting someone who mines all your data to not store one particular piece of this data is a bit naive.
If you're moving to a very poor country, maybe, but many comments are suggesting rich countries in Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, and so on.
Minor inconveniences mostly, but that's probably because I keep flashing different ROMs to try stuff out.

My only "issue" is that because of my escapedes with flashing I now have only Widevine L3 support, so no full-HD videos on Netflix. But this should be easily fixed by flashing xiaomi.eu ROM and then going back to AOSP.

This is my daily driver: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-11-0-official-davinci...
> many otherwise nice countries still apply conscription

It may be the case that it is a necessary condition for remaining a nice country. At least if their neighbors aren't always so nice.

Most civilized countries with universal conscription allow you to do unarmed service (military support tasks) or civil service. In addition there's usually plenty of wiggle room to avoid the conscription altogether: health reasons (or excuses), being a member of certain religions, delaying/avoiding/hiding, or just plain refusing.
It is tall order to expect companies providing up-to-date code for open sourcing.
Civ III came out in 2001...
The TPM and general older platform incompatibility problems have been advertised for long; not sure how it'll play out, but I'll avoid it like the plague.
This is a really reasonable counter point, but maybe we need to live in a world where that becomes a problem for some third party (or if right-to-repair really takes off).

You buy a device, the manufacturer finds out there are flaws -- if it's under their promised timeframe (there's an incentive for them to offer ) they offer you updates. If you're outside of their time frame, you hope for a third party or you determine if you must upgrade. As the number of devices outside support range grows a market is made.

This isn't a new problem -- software can copy off of the robust recipe that automobiles have left, hopefully making fewer mistakes this time and letting a little less corruption in.
> It runs but can't connect to modern Wi-Fi without an update, which it can't access without an update to its firmware (a classic catch-22).

In this case the issue is that PSP is so old that its hardware simply cannot connect to WPA2 networks (it can connect to WPA and WPA/WPA2 Mixed networks however). This is not something that a software update can fix.

Also, honestly, internet access is honestly not very useful for PSP, especially now. Pretty much all games have shutdown their online services, games themselves can be played from Universal Media Disc, and the web browser is pretty much useless with modern web, and with 32MB/64MB of RAM that the console has I don't think Sony could update web browser even if they wanted to.
Not just in the prequels. Not just any humans. Humans with a womb.
People did just fine without social media for 7000+ years. You don't suddenly need social media to fill some void that wasn't possible to fill before social media existed.

Note: I'm not dissing social media. I like it when it works well. I'm just responding to this idea that it's a need.
They really couldn't have picked a better book to do that with.
>Lambda is x times x times x.

A lambda of x is x times x.

(X de X kakeru X desu)
But you (generally) don't recursively put your physical folder inside another folder.
Java + Spring
I don’t understand your last sentence. Get rid of cows and then give people what?

I also think vegetables are very energy inefficient compared to for example potatoes. Not sure how we can defend growing anything with such a minuscule calorie count given the impact of pesticides and herbicides on the environment.
I'm sure the chickens did.
Not for long. :(
And we hardly knew you.
May you rest in heavenly peace.
The lack of format documentation is an obstacle to both of those: https://github.com/airbnb/lottie-web/issues/575
Maybe it’s just nostalgia, but I also remember that typing on those keyboards was way more reliable. Even with or without T9. I probably typed a little slower than on a virtual keyboard but at a more predictable pace. On my iPhone, I totally rely on autocorrect and I lose a lot of time if it get a big word wrong.

Typing on those phones required some practice to get muscle memory but it was accessible to barely anyone that had to use it. Even people who use computer keyboard all their life but are still watching they keycaps succeeded to type SMSs with the phone in their pockets.

I’m sad that we are getting nothing that stands between the old closed feature phones and the mini computers we call smartphones.
Gruber has now spent about a week of writing fuming articles going after Chen because he dared to say the iPhone 13 feels like an incremental update. It's almost creepy how he tries to erase that (pretty harmless) criticism, and even for Gruber it seems too petulant.
Gruber will always be an de-facto Apple employee, and therefore never be a trustful source on Apple, but it seems in his older age now he has lost the ability to hold himself back thereby creating a big "tell".
Do you honestly believe that Windows 11 will not do any of that stuff? That would be a sudden shocking reversal.
They most certainly should be, because an automated Google system having "flagged" a user as "a terrorist" means nothing in the eyes of the law. On the other hand, they should not in any way be without liability for wrongly suspending a user's account just because their automated system unjustifiably "flagged" them.
you find some types of milk products help your condition?
I have to say that I do not understand the bad press around Windows 11. I'm using the dev channel since it's available and while things have been unstable (expected from a dev release), the user experience is clearly an improvement over the mess Windows 10 is. My machine doesn't feel slugish anymore, the Start menu and settings panel are finally usable, the new windows snapping features work quite well, managing external displays isn't a nightmare anymore, etc.

I was even able to update my old Thinkpad x230 after enabling TPM from the bios, it feels usable again.
I don't know anything about this other chemical. (1) It is true that no other nicotine product produces the same "fix" as burning tobacco. But (2), other nicotine products definitely do fill 70-80% of the craving, and I think the rest is mostly down to habit.
It's very simple, actually:

Products that are connected to the internet directly or indirectly need updates forever.

Products that are not connected to the internet could keep the same software version.
Isn't the typical solution for this is to isolate the vats? Eg just like chip fabs are kept clean.
Solana is a fully centralized chain completely controlled by its creators, as evidenced by their recent unilateral shutdown on the last bug. Regular blockchains are already utterly useless, but they have the benefit of being decentralized. Solana is a scam, and so are 99% of the chains being created.
Although Aix has quite a few capabilities that aren't that UNIX and more like VMS/Windows.

The way shared libraries work, for example.
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This really is the only workable stance.
Yeah.

I remember reading somewhere text steganography being used not to encode a hidden message but to identify recipients who might leak the text. One way is to introduce small mistakes or differences like "were were" but differently for each recipient. One might get "were were" and someone else might get "the the", a third one might get a superfluous comma, etc., even harmless differences which are not mistakes are possible. One possible difference corresponds to a bit of information. If you have one hundred possible differences, you have one hundred bit of identificating information.

But I am sure that it is possible to work around this. Just don't give the exact memo text to the public. Paraphrase the text. I am afraid copy-edit or some intentional changes won't be enough if you don't paraphrase the text.

Dangerous and prone to mistakes but surely lucrative or satisfying for the leaker.