skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, the only difference is that you might be using less optimal system calls, but there is no reason to be blocked and not target ancient kernels. I linked to 2.6 this year and everything ran fine.
Everything is just so slightly off, this actually gives me fvwm95 flashbacks.
Dreams on the PS4 is a little like this. Every game loads instantly, and every asset is remixable into other games and offshoots.
Certainly agreed the water is muddy, and that only the kooky fringe hold to all these, but that fringe is growing. The widely-hailed current sources for this kind of thinking are Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo; the latter, specifically, is being hired by companies nationwide to run seminars for employees to train them with this kind of worldview.

It's also pushed strongly in academia, and is quite common to hear about among young progressives as compared to older ones. For concrete examples, look into the Mike Nayna documentary on the Evergreen State College's 'Equity Council'; it's an extreme example, but you can hear the same process happening to lesser degrees elsewhere.
Interesting site - thanks for sharing.

Just wondering where you get stories from, and how you choose the ranking of what gets displayed?
So, don’t water my plants, but if I do, I have to soak them through.

Got it.
Yup, the leaker is still out there, using John Doe pseudonym. What we do know is that they first contacted Bastian Obermayer from Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Well okay, that wasn't their first attempt, we also know that they've tried to get in contact with Wikileaks and others, but nobody took them seriously before Bastian.
If you ever statically link OpenSSL, your binary now has a builtin expiration date. You are doing your users a disservice.
Exactly. If most people wanted that there will be a company somewhere gobbling market share by selling an easily repairable phone.
But most people think repair ability is nice to have not a priority
The reason the parts are "fake" is because of Apple's stance on repair. There's no technical reason why Apple can't sell parts at a fair price.
> Dear Sweden

> I just heard. What the fuck? I really liked Descartes! I sent him over so we could share, and you go killing him?! Fuck. This is why we can't have nice things.

> Toodles, Marie.
They also lack the ability to signal listening.
"just buy their chips from ARM china"

I'm really not sure what that means. Does ARM china have fabs?
Meteorologists are pretty good at their job.
And if the upstream developers are unresponsive, or only provide the bump with the latest bleeding-edge version which you can't upgrade to yet?
Go has strings, slices, maps / hash tables, channels, and interfaces. C doesn't have any of those things. (It has quirky string libraries, and string literal syntax, and that's about it)
As a small developer who handles my own support, I agree with this sentiment completely!!
[0]: https://www.durr.com/fileadmin/_processed_/6/0/csm_duerr-pro...
from https://www.durr.com/en/media/news/news-detail/view/digital-...
I don't know, why did we need Java when CL/Smalltalk/etc. already existed?
Or just stop insisting you must be able to control thermostat remotely.

I'm pretty sure if I had smart stuff at home, I'd be tempted to check it all the time. Better avoid that.
Then we should fire Nixon for taking the wind out of the sail of every non-military public works project. The delays are due to the US backing out of what it originally agreed to. First plasma was nominally 20 years ago. The schedule was rewritten constantly for over a decade while the world wondered if it would ever be funded.
Kind of makes sense right? Sometimes it doesn’t rain for weeks but the plant still has to survive. Then it rains for a whole day and plant is completely soaked, still survives.

I guess the biggest problem plants have is that humans want to interfere with their natural cycle :P
If he had burned the money there would NOT be a huge favorable popular opinion about his "good deeds" (note the quotation marks, because they are only good for people unaware of their consequences).

So I don't think he would get the "same results" by burning the money.
> It's published in nature, you can be sure it's pretty serious

Haha. No. (MD with 15y experience in clinical research)
Joe Armstrong had some similar thoughts: "Why do we need modules at all?".

https://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-May/05876...
Think about the the practical value of queries. Queries are the main point of DBs. Now think about most applications. Are graph queries useful for CRUD? .... no. So that is why.

relational is good for lookups and adjacency queries, and thats the main query semantic in CRUD
That’s a sane answer. I don’t care about that stuff and value other stuff more, so I buy from Apple.
You don’t, you don’t buy from Apple, but from another company.
And unless Apple starts paying me money to be an Apple evangelist, I have no reason to try to convince you wrong.
By "software solutions," I believe they mean simulating wind tunnels so they can rapidly iterate. Once they have something that works, they still build a physical prototype and test it. There's no real software risk. (See bullet 1 under "Why Did The Concorde Fail.) There's another article on Boom that talks about this approach.
Things have gotten much cheaper, small, and better but we are still driving cars, still work similar jobs, similar homes, etc.

Still no flying cards, robots to do our work, AI, fusion, etc.
> Well, it's what traditional distributions do every day.

Which coincidentally is why I'm not using Linux right now. :) A move towards static linking in the Linux world would go a long way towards changing that.

(Everything I've read about NixOS seems great, thanks for helping with that—it's just that it also has a large barrier to entry.)
I don't know about macOS, but they also did this on OpenBSD. The reason is a recent security addition in OpenBSD, where they made it illegal (as in: violate it, and the process will be killed) to issue syscalls to the kernel from anything other than libc.
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> Tweet may have been deleted

Why use twitter's widget instead of copying the text content of the tweet?
I'd rather expect that the 'user-facing' GL implementation (GL2.x, GL3.x, ...) is identical and can be statically linked, and that only the graphics driver layer differs between machines (which would be similar to an executable which links the C library statically, which in turn talks to the operating system through syscalls).

But to be fair, dynamically linked GL wouldn't be a problem, if this wouldn't also pull in a dynamically linked glibc (it always comes back to glibc unfortunately).
Oh ok thanks for letting me know.
I remember mine eating raw pig fat (home made) straight out of the jar. Just fat with a little bit of bread. That was back in the early 90s when "fat" was considered an enemy and my relatives would jump on him for doing so.

So yeah. Income might be a good indicator for health in some parts of the world. But the irony of poor people having better health than the rich is not lost on me. They just couldn't afford the "good stuff" from the market

It's incredible both our posts have been downvoted. I am struggling to understand what's so offending about what we've said.
Still have my SE/30. Got it in the late 1990s at university surplus for $75 or so. Last time I fired it up was around 2016; still worked perfectly. Probably should try it out again soon.
As someone who worked in fusion research for a few years for 30-50% of the salary that industry would pay for the same work: bullshit.

You're talking like someone who has no clue.
> The entire concept of “need” and what is “helpful” is ideological

How so? Is it objectively good to have a dozen children in an economical, political and ecological environment that would lead to most of them starving, getting ill, becoming child soldiers, and staying poor and uneducated with no prospects for a bright future?

> so you are simply stating your anti-human ideology and shock that other humans have a pro-human ideology

No, I'm just exposing the anti-human nature of "be fruitful and multiply" at the behest of religious doctrine that doesn't care about the consequences.

Whenever "reducing population growth" is equated with destruction of human life, the person associating the two exposes themselves as an actual monster.

How on earth is "not having 10 starving, uneducated, sick children with a future of continued existence in poverty" anti-human? Can you explain that to me?

I'm advocating for people in the Sahel to have only one or two children that they can actually feed and send to school and who may eventually find a job and make a decent living as opposed to ending up in the same miserable conditions they parents find themselves in.

Unsustainable population growth is a major problem [0] [1] [2] and if your little world reduces the planet to your local neighbourhood and "pro-life" activism at your local church, then we might just have different perspectives on life.

Why it is so hard for some actual ideologists to just look at facts and simply accept the economical, ecological and political effects that uncontrolled population growth can have; it's truly beyond me.

What really grinds my gears, however, is how some folks can sincerely equate suggesting solutions for improving the live of billions of people with being "anti-human", while it's their religious doctrine that's causes the continued suffering of generations to come.

I'd rather see a Bangladeshi family of three with a child that has access to healthcare, education, healthy environment and a stable economic future than parents who struggle to even feed and clothe their 5 children in their 25 m² makeshift hut without sanitation in the slums of Dhaka...

But sure, it's ME who's the anti-human hypocrite.

[0] https://ideas4development.org/en/population-growth-sahel-cha...

[1] https://www.britannica.com/place/South-America/Effects-of-ra...

[2] https://bankofinfo.com/population-growth-in-bangladesh/
It's not about wasting time. Take a look at this vide:
https://edition.cnn.com/videos/crime/2014/09/25/dnt-trooper-...

Did anyone in the video get killed? Did anyone in the video go to jail? How many mother with prams do you think he would have killed?
Y'know fair. I think defense contractors need to be considered separately from most corporations. They are inherently more dangerous than your garden variety corporation.

Though, my understanding is that they are still not allowed to control nuclear weapons, so I'd still put them in sub-government levels of dangerous.
Obviously highly subjective, yet heavy of conventions. Usually the subject comes before the qualification. "counter is an integer", "let counter be an integer" instead of "from the integer take counter".
Of course there is. That’s how you avoid replay attacks.
Probably waiting for automated metro to come over to replace those cars, stretching them last service years as much as possible.
> and 30 cheap soil sensors for around another $20.

Where do you get them?
Trillion-dollar coin, Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
yeah i was hoping to see more skepticism
I guess we can just assume that one day all our encrypted communications and records will be deciphered by future historians.
The Efficacy and Cost of Hedging with Options
XML is like democracy, anything else that tries to replace it, does a lousy job getting comments, schema validation, streaming parser libraries and IDE tooling.

May I be safe from React as much as possible.

In any case, Composer just hit stable for all of those Kotlin lovers.
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> Apple gives a shit about your privacy.

Do they really give a shit about your privacy though? They mess with 3rd parties (eg: Facebook), but Apple itself seems to be happy to collect data about you and your devices, not use end-to-end encryption for many of their services, scan content on your device, etc.

Maybe they're better than Google, but I wouldn't say that they give a shit about my privacy.
within a limited time horizon that is. IIRC meteorological forecasts are about 80% accurate a few days in, 50% accurate about two weeks into the future, and after that of not much use.

Economics of course is often expected to make much stronger claims, people have expectations of it that resemble Asimov's psychohistory despite the fact that there is no science that manages to tame that level of complexity.

I think it was Tyler Cowen who said once that economics is more useful as a tool to clarify thought rather than a tool to make predictions. People just have the wrong expectation of what economics is.
That's more an issue with certain online market and monopolists. If there is a diversity of products and reliable reviews and reputation systems due to different markets competing in this regards, then you can trust to get the parts that you want.
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> If OpenSSL, or LibreSSL, or Go's encryption modules, or any gigantic encryption library has a vulnerability, you basically have to recompile, distribute, and then have your users download, every single god damn networking program.

Good, then you'd know that these 50 of your networking apps have each been tested by their developers' test suites and have no bugs that have been introduced as a part of this dependency. Essentially, there would be a server farm out there that'd run all of the tests so you wouldn't have to deal with prod breaking because of some new dependency version not taking every possible configuration into account.

Of course, that implies:

- that there are automated builds in place
- that there are automated tests in place
- that both of the above are run regularly, on every dependency update
- that both of the above are actually meaningful (think close to 100% functionality coverage in tests)

The current situation of relying upon dynamically linked code is only prevalent because we as an industry have decided not to even attempt to do the above. I'd say that it's a matter of not being willing to put in effort, not being willing to test our software and packages, and not being willing to develop software more slowly but thoroughly. Everyone wants "good enough" now, rather than "almost perfect" in 10 years, regardless of whether we're talking about developing software, or the tooling around it.

> But it's worse than that. Because everyone wants to ship a statically compiled Go app, nobody packages for the distros.

In my eyes, that just adds to the above - there are so many deployment targets out there, all of these different packaging systems that are used by different distros and all have numerous idiosyncrasies as opposed to a single good package manager, that people have been fed up with it and now just either ship Docker containers or expect you to download binaries.
Easier said than done, but yes most mRNA companies are trying the non-personalized and personalized cancer vaccine idea. The issue is the immune system is held back, like a big bouncer holding you back in a fight. Checkpoint inhibitors remove that bouncer, but now you're drunk and throwing fists all over the place, hitting both your friends, the bouncer, and the hooligans at the same time...
That's normally what kernel abstractions are for, but unfortunately for various historical reasons graphics API often bypass the kernel in part or in full. There's also the problem that graphics are often very performance-sensitive so costly abstractions may not be desirable.
I was obsessed with the Ligne Claire years ago. There was this black and white drawing of a plane cruising above a tumultuous ocean, taken from the album L’Étoile Mystérieuse. It was purely done with black lines but the movement and the depth of the drawing was fantastic. I was never able to find that drawing again.
“The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust.” - Satoshi Nakamoto, The Bitcoin Whitepaper.

What if I told you that the root cause of inflation is not the price increases, those are a side-effect. The real cause is that the value (aka purchasing power) of your money is being diluted by means of central banks printing money and stealing value from the populace over time.

70% of the US dollars that were ever created were created since the invention of Bitcoin. It is only natural that the real value of those dollars has fallen.

Inflation is theft by central bankers to pay for politician’s desires without openly increasing taxes on the people.

Bitcoin fixes this because no politician, central bank or corporation can ever inflate the supply over 21 million, nomatter what they do.
> We already have that problem with Linux support for battery life and hibernate.

> It doesn't work in the vast majority of laptops, while with Windows it does.

That's kind of my point. The status quo is already not ideal, this doesn't seem necessarily worse than the status quo, as long as Apple and Google aren't overly restrictive in preventing alternate OSes (which of course is a big if).
Yes I’ve thought about this for ages, however there’s hardly any CO2 in the air that’s the thing a small amount causes the green house warming, but I wouldn’t have thought it’d be easy to remove that small amount out.

I don’t know much about CO2 deposition, I assume that’s the opposite of sublimation. However this does happen a lot on Mars.

Certainly the fact that photosynthesis can work with such low concentrations is impressive, mind you if it couldn’t work it wouldn’t.
Blender addon to generate better building models from satellite imagery
Petty theft is more an issue of economic inequality. If the criminal had an incentive for being honorable citizens, then theft would not happen.
Well that explains the name of the library specialized in comics in my Belgian city, neat.
R is way more powerful and flexible for data science stuff. (Going from Python to R is almost like going from Excel to Python.)
As far as I'm aware, the creator has been testing network stuff over the past few years.
Before artificial lighting wasn’t it standard that people had a first, then second sleep?
Ageing and declining population everywhere - already most developing countries from 90s have net negative population change, and it spreads to more and more countries.

Huge cities disappearing as remote working, automation, rising sea levels and mass migrations make most of them pointless.

Lots of civil unrest, mass migrations, new plagues and wars as the globalized economy collapses and disappointed voters choose new kinds of populism to save them.

Rich people moving to the few lucky countries that won on the global warming and now try to isolate. Everybody else fight for scraps.

Eventually population adjusts and stabilizes on much lower level and reproduction rates grow again as repopulation starts.
Not 100% sure, most my GUI stuff has been GTK based.

This is a Qt framework and OP has more experience than I with Qt from what I could tell from his post.
On a system where security is critical, I would probably need to re-evaluate my use of that software.

It doesn't necessarily need to be the upstream developer, it could be some other organization analogous to a distro maintainer. What matters is that someone who is familiar with the software and code base has actually tested the update in a purposeful way.
This could get a bit awkward for the people who freeze themselves.
Corporations are gov created entities. So its one and the same, especially after decades of regulatory capture and revolving doors of CEOs and officials. Its the same peoblem.
I searched but didn’t come up with anything I’d buy. Have a link handy?
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I don't find it surprising that this space is being crowded with opportunists, marketers, scammers or people motivated by greed because that's the most obvious thing that would happen when you mix vast amounts of money with new technology that offers such possibilities. Their existence doesn't invalidate any actual premises.
AliExpress or anywhere else cheap electronics components are sold. (Haven’t looked, but I’ll bet dx, taobao, banggood, and the others also all have them. Amazon and EBay are often faster and cheap-enough now that ePacket has been nerfed. Search something like “soil sensor 10pcs”; looks like they’re $12-13 for 10 there.)

They’re cheap to make (basically just a small PCB with a few passives and a connector) and while they don’t last a long time in some soils, they’ll last long enough for you to learn what you want and then decide if you want to change sensors every year or three, go higher quality, or find another way to estimate evapotranspiration and water based on open loop control and monitoring (which is what most people likely end up doing, either technically or by human approximation).

If you (or anyone else) is in, or willing to go to, the edge of Cambridge, MA, I’ll set a couple aside for you for free.
> Are RDBs the default way mostly due to historical reasons?

It sure helps, because you got literally generations of developers trained on how to best utilise them.

Additionally, you can use ORMs, GraphQL adaptors or similar abstractions to build graphs on top of relational storage, and keep your existing infrastructure, which makes hybrid setups a lot more attractive than graph-first ones for non-startup environments.
Sorry, but no. As someone who is a bit obsessed with language and the exact meaning of words, I have to stress that this is incorrect.

"Gezellig" always implies having a good time with other people. Being alone, no matter how comfortable, cannot ever qualify as gezellig.
Are you saying that your personal optimum for resale value primes over the collective optimum of having a replacement parts ecosystem ?
We vote them into office. Or at least the small minority who bother to vote in the primaries do.Candidates that are closer to working class tend to lose in the primary elections despite the amount of information online and how easy it is to access compared to the past.
Facebook can disrupt and make it difficult for a religion or sexuality to communicate or engage in culture.

They may not be able to tax or put people in jail directly, but with lawyers, lobbyists, and DMCA takedowns they can achieve similar results.

They can hire lobbyists to affect government policy like immigration, environmental protections, and war.

I'm less concerned about what happens if Facebook fails than what happens if Facebook succeeds.

Note: "Facebook" used as a placeholder for any mega-corporation.
> every month, millions of credit card companies mail out zillions of bills to consumers in the mail. People write paper checks, stuff them in trillions of envelopes, and mail them back. The envelopes are put in big boxes and taken to countries where labor is cheap to be opened and processed.

Is this really how it works in 21st century America? Everything I get billed for here in the UK I get an email bill and the payment just comes out of my bank account directly without any manual work on my part, presumably highly automated at the other end, too.

Credit card, mortgage, council tax, bills for water and electricity - there is nothing I pay manually and certainly not with a piece of paper.
How about Detroit? That and New York are the only places I want to visit if I ever find the time to cross the Atlantic
> OpenBLAS is incompatible with application threads.

I’ve never had any issue when using it in OpenMP codes (either compiling it myself or using the libopenblas_omp.so present in some distros), what do you mean by “burn in a fire”?
Not sure. If you add up damages from theft, by far the rich and powerful steal more in absolute terms.
Yes. Society should follow your desires or else….

Sometimes I wonder where all those millennial Mussolinis came from.