skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This brought back memories from college, when I tried to write my own C memory allocator. It was decidedly simple and extremely inefficient (pretty sure it used linked lists...), but after much hacking I did eventually get it to work with some small CLI programs using the LD_PRELOAD trick... but when I tried launching Gimp, the inefficiency quickly became apparent. I think eventually the splash screen did come up, but I never gave it enough time fully to start!

My implementation used brk()/sbrk() exclusively, but I thought about re-implementing with mmap(). Hell, maybe I can try to write an allocator in Rust and expose a C-compatible interface.
The Most Ambitious Diary in History
That Requiem for the HMD article has not aged well. All of those issues are a matter of iterative improvements over what we have today, and the devices will be ready for mass adoption.

Have you seen the leaked Quest Pro design[1]? It's already close to being ski goggle size, and it's only a couple of generations away from something the size of sunglasses.

Displays are getting cheaper, better and higher resolution. UX is being improved, passthrough cameras already exist.

My estimate is that towards the end of this decade we'll see unprecedented adoption of VR/AR outside of the few niche use cases we see today.

Meta is jumping on the bandwagon early, making their brand synonymous with VR, and betting big that this will change how everyone uses computers today, and that it will be the tech to replace smartphones.

As much as I dislike that such a user hostile company is trying to popularize the metaverse/VR, I'm sure they did their research and are confident this will eventually sell like crazy. I think they're right.

[1]: https://nitter.eu/basti564/status/1452366495053488135
When did "non-inclusive language" become in scope for a security scanner to find?
Why does the NYT OP suggests Dec 2010?

> The decision shutters a feature that was introduced in December 2010 so that Facebook users could save time. The facial-recognition software automatically identified people who appeared in users’...
Textbook arbitrage - congrats on the fortune
UI was best in the 90s anyway, so that is a plus.
“What is so hard for people to understand” says HN commenter: “the metaverse clearly means [my definition of the metaverse] why can’t people see this?!!”

Well, Zuckerberg didn’t give a clear definition, the term itself is made up, and it doesn’t currently exist (otherwise, what would we be building?).

So no you don’t know what it means or how it will turn out, and neither does Zuckerberg. He might have a vision of what he’d like it to be and how he’s going to make money out of it, but he’s very probably very wrong.

It’s obvious a deeply immersive experience will eventually arrive but it seems far from obvious how it will be used, much like predicting the rise of Tik Tok in 1990 based on email and usenet.

The best way to predict the future is to make it. Hackers built much of the early internet, so let’s go build the early metaverse and at least make something insanely experimental and magical and beautiful before the next Zuckerberg comes alone and devalues it.
Ctrl+Tab recent order is an options in the settings in firefox. Not sure if this is on be default. I got used to this feature from VS Code. Lovely to have it in Firefox!
Any study like this takes a very narrow view of good vs bad. Can we even begin to quantify how much good alcohol has done? The amount of fun and sociability it contributes to is staggering. Same with marijuana and no doubt other drugs (i have basically no knowledge of the upside of hard drugs so can't speak to it, but if you google Benzidrine there is an Atlantic article that mentions amphetamine and some upside).

I don't disagree that there are vary bad sides to drug use, same as for driving, soda pop, cheese, whatever. But we shouldn't pretend in a vacuum that there are not also positives, and short of severe societal consequences (like with some hard drugs, perhaps) people should generally be able to choose for themselves
Apparently Pfizer lied in their trials.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/falsified-data-pfizer-vac...

So interesting all the retarded democrat commies want to murder 5 year olds with that poison now.
How were you contacted? Been a customer for some time. Looking at my billing history looks like 2013. Must not be long enough :(
Interesting, I read through quite well. I wonder what triggers different perceptions of fonts. My eyesight isn't great but I don't wear glasses. I probably read slower than the average reader so that could be it.
They have an s3 api implementation.

We offload some of our Veeam backups to it.

I think they could compete with an S3 provider that’s better than Glacier or so. Especially if you can start presenting it to say…Linodes or something.
I guess just consider it this way: A group broke away, for whatever reasons beyond your understanding and because they broke away and don’t seem to still agree or seem to enjoy being a subset Debian, they continue to exist. Some people find value in this.
Gaze upon a forest and realize trees never fall the sun never fully shines and its always misty and cool.
I've seen about 30 joe rogan podcasts over the years as background noise during some dark souls runs - not once does the guy present himself as an expert.

if anything he just brings on people who are experts and asks them a bunch of questions.

why the hard-on from twitterinas that want to shit on the show because he interviews people accused of "wrongthink"?
> again, this is part of their security model, to ensure you've asserted physical presence.

And again, it's totally optional, because "reduced" and "permissive" security mode exist.

(Yes, you said that, but I feel it should be re-iterated because it's important! The user is in control here!)
You cannot learn to be likeable.

Learning basic social skills is pretty easy for most non-neurodivergent humans

It's about time, this "cultural fit" nonsense to die. Companies who are operating with this mentality will never produce long-term value. Period.

Ah yes, because all the companies that have toxic cultures where nobody likes each other are thriving right? I think as with most things, you need a balance. If you have an active dislike of someone because of rude behavior, the chances that you're able to collaborate and work on something together is nil.
If this is a solved problem all the better, then the tech is ready. Now only the people problem, which is the biggest hurdle, is left. If you think raising taxes for the people that use the shared resource is a good solution of course. I think letting the users that use a shared resource pay for it is an acceptable solution, but not everyone thinks that.
Not everyone likes that, personally i always disable antialiasing. Even on Windows 10 i use a registry setting (since Microsoft thought it wise to hide the UI option) to disable text antialiasing since i prefer the sharp text.

Sadly many fonts nowadays do not have hinting information at all, but at least so far Firefox, etc allow me to override sites' font choices with fonts that look good with my setup.
It's worth contemplating the ills of alcohol - but it is available in any quantity to anyone who wants it, and it's socially acceptable.

If we sold Opiates/Fentanyl to anyone who wanted it it, in whatever quantities, and there were no social stigma, with 80% of teens doing it 'at least a little bit' before age 21, and 97% of the adult population consuming opiates at least on some occasion again with 'easy access' ... the harm would be orders of magnitude greater than alcohol.
Then why do you often need external readability reviewers, especially if you or your team don't contribute to a codebase frequently? Having humans judge other humans' style is a given; it is part of the PR process. But why do you _also_ need someone with a readability rating as opposed to a code owner?

Note: I'm not a Googler nor a Xoogler, but my partner worked at Google for some years and so I've heard her complain a lot about Google and readability.
Why do you want to "engineer your way to the fucking top" of a broken organization with a bunch of teams full of bad engineers managed by stuffed shirts who don't give a shit?

You may think I sound naive; I think you sound burned out. In my experience, it's pretty common for someone to say, "hey boss, Joe is really phoning it in these past few months, it's dragging the team down and you need to do something about it" and for the manager to either help Joe improve or fire Joe. And given how cynical your attitude is, I think you'd be very surprised at how often Joe actually does improve. Everyone will have the worst year of their career at some point, and it usually isn't the last one.
Prescription meth goes by the trade name Desoxyn, and it's not the same thing as Adderall.
meta (adjective)

pertaining to or noting a story, conversation, character, etc., that consciously references or comments upon its own subject or features, often in the form of parody

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It's obvious to me that the real reason they called it "Meta" is because the entire goal is to collect information about YOU, the user. It's an entire platform and suite of products designed to extract as much "meta" information about its users as possible, and then monetize that information.
I’m not calling CDE modern. I’m saying that the Linux user base has terrible preferences when it comes to software which hold back actually modern and good software like Gnome/Wayland/systemd.
No, they mean "Desoxyn", literal D-Methamphetamine.

GoodRx hilariously has great meth coupons:

https://m.goodrx.com/desoxyn
In defense of Zillow, they weren't looking to buy a "portfolio" of houses - they bought as many as they sold, and didn't have any net negative effect on housing supply.

Yes, they're profiting off of a bad situation, but they're not the cause of it. Bev from the local council's planning department, as well as Michael Caton's horrific propaganda piece, has done more damage than every flipper combined.
Yes, but why are we eating more? It's not like people in 1961 had more willpower than those in 2021.

I think there's some truth to the CIH and palatability. It's pretty hard to argue that food engineering hasn't made super tasty snacks designed to get you hooked. Those same snacks just so happen to mostly be high-carb as well.
which ended up not really being cheaper
It’s so appalling to me. Anything called a “timeline” that is not and cannot be ordered chronologically is going to lose me immediately, as Facebook did when they made that change.
> though I am not sure that any of the results should surprise anyone [...] none of the "clean" sources can easily scale on demand. Sun, wind, hydro and nuclear have either fixed or random output

That does surprise me a lot. Here in Brazil, it's hydro which follows the load. Nuclear has fixed output (always the maximum except when it's offline), non-nuclear thermal is mostly constant (with large changes whenever generators are dispatched on or off), solar and wind do their own thing, and hydro is the one left to fill the gaps between generation and demand. See it for yourself at http://www.ons.org.br/paginas/energia-agora/carga-e-geracao (select "SIN" on the first drop-down for the whole country); selecting "Geração Hidráulica" (hydro) on the second drop-down you can see how well the shape of the generation curve matches the shape of the demand curve at the top, while for instance "Geração Térmica" (non-nuclear thermal) is nearly flat.
When the solutions to a problem are either suspending freedom or "re-education", I think you really need to stop and consider what's really the lesser of the evils.
Apology! Please ignore this post and read the corrected one. I hadn't realized it was there until it was too late to delete it. Not being able to delete a post when there are no replies isn't the most cleaver of ideas in my opinion.

Incidentally, the problem occurred when I was editing the text and I responded too quickly to a page that wasn't appearing to update. The server responded with a one-line message to the effect that it hadn't uppated the text and whatever I did next somehow created a duplicate.
Although it is important to understand that fake meats are a part of traditional vegetarian culture, at least East Asian ones. There's a whole genre of Chinese food that is based on fake beef, fake pork, etc. Whether these are better or worse than the new "disruptive" versions from Impossible and Beyond is another issue, but the idea that "real vegetarians" don't eat fake meat is a narrow, Western misconception.
It's a 5.5B submarine actually
Brave October Stats
Are you trying to claim based is from some random subreddit
Package number is not enough. For example, .NET’s BCL is probably the largest of all the languages you shown where the other ecosystems would have to provide what it covers.
Intelligence implies vetting one’s sources well.
> HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE

My life became much better after setting this.

I wouldn't be averse to a HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_INTERVAL=180d either, or HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_ASK=y .
TLDR; According to CEO they tried to estimate current price vs price 6 months down after a flip and their estimates had been way off. When house doesn't sell at higher price, it creates inventory, monthly loss on rent value and volatility in balance sheet which is not good for a public company. So basically their algorithms had a lot of noise and scale wasn't still large enough to smooth it out for balance sheet.

This is however surprising to me. During COVID, house prices have gone amok. A lot of buyers are now buying 10-20% over asking and waiving everything. Prices are going up 10% every 6 month in my area. If in this market if you can't make money buy flipping, I don't know how you can make money ever.
>The loss in rent can be accounted for.

This is only true if being a landlord is your "day job."
> Consistency, even if it is unfavorable to your preferences, is superior to inconsistency. So a codified set of best practices is better than none at all.

Indeed, but at what cost? Every step of added gatekeeping reduces development velocity, and Google does not have a monopoly on high scale services (cough AWS cough). In an ideal world for every full-time dev writing code, you'd have a full-time reviewer whose job it is to simply review that dev's code. But the real world has budgets and deadlines, and humans become discouraged when changes take too long to complete. So is readability worth the added gatekeeping cost is the question.
I know of one gravity gradiometer technology developed by the US Navy for submarines that was de-classified and commercially deployed in airborne gravity (gradiometer) surveys. That happened in the '90s, and (as of about 2010 or so) the technology was adapted and actively deployed in Australian mineral exploration. The mining technology was named "Falcon" and the BHP was the mining company that deployed it. I have been out of that game for a decade, so for all I know the tech has changed corporate ownership a few times, but it definitely exists.

You are absolutely correct. There are many, many ways to interpret such gravity information -- most involving solution of ill-posed inverse problems. I have my personal favorites, but so does every other working potential fields geophysicist.
Search "you" in the thread. It has been that way since the beginning, in fact you started the thread doing so.

I don't get the your logic of starting the thread talking about my opinions then asking when it became about me when you are literally talking to me about my opinions the entire thread, posting "So you agree the question is then one of taste and cost." and even dreging comments from other posts about my opinions. It is all about me.
What you're doing wrong, very honestly, is you suggest and 2 of your suggestions are losses (denying release).

Dont suggest, make enemies: send emails to both teams saying now it must be like that, lay the plan, pose a meeting to go through the plan and get yelled at. Once you get yelled at by the complainypants because what you tell them to do is too hard, now you can go to your manager and explain him they complain for the sake of complaining. The tech lead will get a earful and either fight you to his grave or admit defeat and let you do your reform grumbling waiting for you to fail.

I do that in a giant bank that cannot move without 10 approvers to everything, and the more these helpless teams fight me the more management put me in their midst to reform them ... and Im just a silly dev nobody and I can tell you the wonders one can do by just bulldozing. There are things to do if you fail eventually, which is to teach the higher ups to enjoy trying and failing, but that requires a bit of weaseling charisma :D
Situation: there are 14 competing standards.
"14?! Ridiculous! We need to create one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases." "Yeah!"
Situation: there are 15 competing standards.
-- https://xkcd.com/927/
Sure. But I used to like the occasional burger, and now I can have something that tastes similar without the ethical concerns. Is it healthy? No. But neither is a fast food burger. Is it satisfying as an occasional treat? Absolutely.
Yep. Fannie and Freddie are buying nearly all of the mortgages in the US right now, so the only people lending money at 3% (or less) is the US government.
Some people call US foreign policy woke imperialism.
I think there's a view that his content has changed recently. I used to watch him a lot in previous years as it really was the best place to just hear conversations with interesting people. Now there's a view that he's taken on a particular political lean and has surrounded himself with conspiracy theorists. I doubt he's actually promoting them but his show does put them in front of a large and impressionable audience (in my personal opinion, he is extremely impressionable himself and parrots the views of his guest for the sake of the conversation regardless of his actual belief).

There are also some theories that his sudden giant increase in wealth may have contributed to his shift from the mainstream to the fringe
> high-quality

What does that mean? Quality in what sense?

> high-precision

The UI is just rectangles and lines. Even "modern" UIs like Windows 10 is made up of just flat rectangles and lines. The precision to draw flat rectangles and lines hasn't changed over the decades.

> and high-fidelity rendering

The fidelity being high or low depends on the source material, GUIs are drawing themselves from scratch and at most copy existing resources (images, etc). Unless you use "high fidelity" as another way to write "good looking", which i hope you understand that is highly subjective.
> Declarative configuration management systems solve this by unchanging your configuration after someone messes with it manually

Not always, there are frequently ways to do an "end-run" around tools like Puppet and Ansible; take for example the following list of /etc/*.d directories on a Redhat distribution:

/etc/bash_completion.d

/etc/binfmt.d

/etc/chkconfig.d

/etc/cron.d

/etc/depmod.d

/etc/dracut.conf.d

/etc/gdbinit.d

/etc/grub.d

/etc/init.d

/etc/krb5.conf.d

/etc/ld.so.conf.d

/etc/logrotate.d

/etc/lsb-release.d

/etc/modprobe.d

/etc/modules-load.d

/etc/my.cnf.d

/etc/pam.d

/etc/popt.d

/etc/prelink.conf.d

/etc/profile.d

/etc/rc0.d

... <snip> ...

/etc/rc6.d

/etc/rc.d

/etc/rsyslog.d

/etc/rwtab.d

/etc/statetab.d

/etc/sudoers.d

/etc/sysctl.d

/etc/tmpfiles.d

/etc/xinetd.d

/etc/yum.repos.d

Someone can manually log onto the environment and drop additional configuration files into those directories that vastly effect what is run on the system (and when it's run in the case of cron.d for example).

"Idempotency" tools like Puppet and Ansible are very good at saying, "this file should exist in this directory with this MD5 hash", but not as good at saying "this directory shouldn't contain anything except these files".

Of course you can list all the files out that you consider to be valid and their signatures in the above directories, but that's going to break next time Redhat pushes an update that installs/removes files from those directories.

I guess you could setup an audit script that checks that all the files in those directories match the expected RPM signatures, and then account for any local customisations (additions, removals, changes etc). But you are starting to get into a lot of extra work there.

Point I am making, is that these tools are not as forcibly idempotent as a lot of people assume.
Joe Rogan's views are very... normal, almost surely closer to those of the typical person than yours or mine. I'm not gonna go around telling people what they can and can't abhor, but I do think it's important to acknowledge that you're in a strong cultural bubble if you're shocked by the things he says.
In the video, they said they called the "Nintendo Entertainment System" to avoid calling it video game console.

a little digging (ROB is wikipedia famous).
R.O.B. (Robotic Operating Buddy) ha!

"In January 1986, an independent research firm commissioned by Nintendo delivered a survey of 200 NES owners, showing that the most popular given reason for buying an NES was because children wanted the robot"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.O.B.
I am working at company that just won a contract with a BigCo and it has to be one of the most frustrating experiences I have ever had. I was asked to test a configuration change and I was able to demonstrate that it worked locally in 15 minutes. Unfortunately, testing locally isn't enough so now I need to test it in the lab, but BigCo is so compartmentalised that it can weeks even to organise a meeting where all the stakeholder can get together and talk about what needed to be done to get the configuration changed in the lab.

We've had working sessions where the moment there was an issue, the developers at BigCo said that they need to talk to someone on some team and they wrap up the meeting for the day -- even if we had just got started. It's gotten to the point where we will have project managers in the working session -- essentially babysitting -- to stop the devs from just giving up.

The amount of stonewalling I've seen is insane. We were trying to address an issue with our integration and I was told that a particular configuration on the client side was impossible, or maybe that we needed a new license, or perhaps we needed to contract to another vendor and it's going to cost half a million dollars, or whatever other excuses they could come up with.

So I asked them what product BigCo used, I looked up the documentation, I sent an email with 12 steps on how to make the configuration change, I got on a video call with my contact at BigCo (and his boss to make sure he showed up) and I literally walked him through the setting up the configuration.

I just don't understand how you get to the point where that's business as usual.
Samsung 256gb. It failed.

I'm not sure what else to say. I know that SSD fail from direct experience. This doesn't mesh with you. I get it.

So yeah a Mac or other device with a soldered SSD is less trustworthy.

I'm not even talking backup as best practice or some good idea. I'm actually saying that due to this pattern of unreplaceable SSDs, the cloud copy IS the primary copy. The local copy on SSD is now just a cached file. That is a very big difference.

This isn't even an Apple thing. But they are one of the first.
Yeah I get that but that's just restating the question. If you just want to look at it from that perspective then they would have found some other reason to break away and find value and there is nothing upstream could have done about it, so complaining about them seems pointless. I'm not saying there's anything morally wrong with it, clearly they can do whatever they like with the open source code that they find on the net. But if it can't be explained simply and easily, maybe it seems there is some value elsewhere that was missed or misunderstood.