skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're saying his bedroom is on the first floor and he only goes upstairs for computer? If so, I'd go ahead and move his computer down for him.

Older individuals eventually need to accept that their autonomy is going away. They're mentally declining, they're already physically declined. They're not in a fit state to decide basic things like: how to prevent falls. While it may be your father's right to stay in his home stubbornly, I don't think it's ridiculous to ask him to minimize the potentially deadly fall risk of a staircase at 86.

Do family members really have the right to tell their own nuclear family: I am correct to risk my life, you are wrong for trying to keep me safe? I think if your nuclear family suggests such a slam dunk win, it's best to just accept it.
Heisenberg discovered the simulation.
Capitalism means different things to different people and in different contexts.

Separation of ownership from management. Tradeable claims on the firm. Legal personhood of the firm. Private property. Free trade between countries. Market determined prices.

But it’s lazy and wrong to use it as a synonym for greed. Despite Gordon Gecko, greed is not good. Just seeing something we consider bad and saying “Capitalism” is a pose and not an argument.
Is a pig the farm's customer when they "pay" with their flesh?
Could you elaborate on what you mean by "use"?
I remember having a chat with Andrew Gerrand at some Go conference, about how syntax highlighting is mostly done wrong, we just got used to it being that way. It's not like we colour words in a sentence based on their type, but we do enjoy tools highlighting misspelled words or grammatical errors.

In my experience syntax highlighting as a tool mostly help with certain classes of errors (e.g unclosed string or comment), not visually tokenising text for me to understand.

I've seen some such uncoloured theme (nofrils) that would de-emphasise either comments or code, and you could toggle between the two states, which I found quite useful in nicely commented files:

https://robertmeta.com/posts/syntax-highlighting-off/

There are a bunch of learnings and a couple of links to references in that article. Ironically one of the most prevalent I experienced was this one, which I found very odd because picking a colorscheme for my $EDITOR is quite literally a choice that would affect only myself:

> People on the internet will get very angry at you if you tell them you don’t like syntax highlighting. VERY ANGRY.

Some of these vim "color"schemes:

https://github.com/robertmeta/nofrils
https://github.com/clinstid/eink.vim
https://github.com/ikaros/smpl-vim

They pair well with vim-airline's "raven" theme.
I feel signing up for a new paid/self-hosted email becomes tricky when a person has used an email for most of his life. All the online-services, grad school, office-alum, etc. use the old email. And now when you switch to a new one then it becomes hard I feel. Any suggestions?
Supposed to be nonsense stories, but after two minutes of listening, I don't find it nonsensical at all. Sounds like something perfectly reasonable written by a seven to ten year old child.
```
for i = 1:typemax(UInt64)
s = ""
if i % 3 == 0
s = s * "fizz"
end
if i % 5 == 0
s = s * "buzz"
end
if s == ""
s = string(i)
end
println(s)
end
```

Measured over 10 s after a 10 s burn-in period, Julia 1.7 on Ubuntu 21.10.
I've never understood all of the Angular hate on HN. I do understand the fact that it's very much the "corporate" option like .NET is, but that doesn't make it bad. I actually really like it and find it very intuitive.
Is it not a little pessimistic (and not to mention, very convenient for the ruling class) to believe that we've reached the peak process of resource allocation and community building in the western world of 2021? There is no possibility for an alternative to the current system that is slightly more equitable to slightly more people?

I think that's why these statements sound like cheerleading for the status quo.
Just because it's impressive doesn't mean it's not slower than other systems. It's not mutually exclusive.
I don't see why a unikernel may not have a dedicated debug interface, much like MCUs that lack a console but have JTAG.
These fairy tales are quite hypnotic for me due to weirdness of AI generated grammar and plot. They reminded me of a beautiful fairy tale Richard Bandler wrote. It is a fable written intentionally using hypnotic language techniques (part of Neuro Linguistic Programming set of patterns) and a nice read.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/364664.The_Adventures_of...
I was wondering if you can freely customize the system (install software like a normal Linux Desktop OS) and checked, and I found a curious detail ( https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineNote ):

> NPU (Neural Processing Unit) Capabilities: * Neural network acceleration engine with processing performance of up to 0.8 TOPS; * Supports integer 8 and integer 16 convolution operations; * Supports the following deep learning frameworks: TensorFlow, TF-lite, Pytorch, Caffe, ONNX, MXNet, Keras, Darknet

Very odd for an EPD tablet!
> given their precarious situation in the Middle East

That’s an interesting choice of words but I guess settler colonies with apartheid policies do tend to be precarious
>They find some technically hip, well known content and create a new channel with a very similar name as the originator. Create an exciting full screen ad for a crypto currency faucet scam, with price charts and crawls. "Live" stream the original content inset into the ad.

There's guaranteed to be several running after every Falcon 9/Starship launch, sometimes they'll attract almost as many viewers as the real livestream - very likely to be bots. What's even worse is that YouTube are recommending these, and with the removal of dislike counts it becomes even harder for the layperson to know if what they're watching is legitimate.

With the exception of copyrighted content it seems like YouTube find it acceptable to offer criminals a multiple hour head start on their mods, allowing them to stream any damn thing they like.
Not all Structures are Hierarchies
They all have the ability to control that funnel though. In this case, they could allow channel owners that have been demonetized to open a ticket. Or allow artist representatives that already have "special" YouTube accounts to complain, etc.
Can they at least add a liability provision allowing disaffected drivers to sue for malfunction? Maybe that would balance the scales.
eh, it's like "give money to the programs that plant trees in the poor neighborhoods" except obviously you can't say words like "poor" because that might be mean and dismissive so you start rewriting things to be more about the unfairness of the whole situation until it's the usual impenetrable jargon
Yep, and if there is an exception, all the people will use that to bypass it... thus no reason to even have the detecting in the first place. Happens all the time.
I agree, but even among e-ink displays there are refresh rates that make it difficult to enter text or view terminal output.
I think the only time a Harberger tax makes sense is for illiquid investments, such as investment real estate. Everywhere else, the forced buying and selling creates more problems than it solves.

In this example of Disney's IP - it takes a lot of time and money to make a movie. A competitor to Disney could wait until they announce a new movie and then forcibly buy up enough rights to make the movie illegal to release. It encourages and creates a framework for sabotage among competitors.

The steady state is that one mega corp emerges victorious. Disney sets up a script that forcibly purchases any "super hero" adjacent IP. No small time creators would ever be allowed to exist, when large corporations are allowed to smother them so easily.

I also strongly disagree that this is the simpler option. Figuring out how to price your property and how often to re-asses would definitely bring about OP's concern of "gets messy, encourages dishonesty, and pretty much forces a new subindustry to spring up."
But then you'd have WinUI in even more places where it doesn't fit. Why would someone footgun themselves like that? I get that some people might personally like it but it's going to be 'the odd one out' at best.
License suspension or revocation is de facto not a thing in the US.

Okay, on paper, yes, it exists but then you have:

- "Hardship" exceptions for going to work/groceries, which are totally abused.

- Driving on a suspended license anyway. When you get caught, nothing happens. Perhaps the suspension is extended.

- As a shitty driver, you plead your case before a jury and the decision is reversed because most people are shitty drivers and they sympathize with other shitty drivers.

Source: I was hit in my grandmother's driveway by a driver with a suspended license. Went to court. Nothing happened other than insurance paying for the damage.
This always makes me think of the 'uncertainty principle' and quantized values in physics. As a layman, it seems to me like both of these combine to limit the amount of information needed to describe the state of the universe.

I don't know enough about quantum mechanics to check if this makes sense. My wild imagination suggests that 'waveform collapse' could be modeled as the result of a simulation being forced to resolve a state of a specific particle for further calculations. I imagine it is hard to come up with a plausible 'simulation model' for this that includes features like probability wave interference and entanglement of particles.

Such a model would be amazing for insight into quantum mechanics, and also have far-reaching consequence for metaphysics. It would strengthen the argument for us living in a simulation, if the peculiarities of quantum mechanics can be modeled as artifacts of a particularly efficient emulation.
Hands down the best browser I've ever used because of their customizability and speed, and the support on their forum is swift and effective. Moreover, the developers are staunchly against crypto“currencies”. Seldom, some websites break, but that's because I extensively use uMatrix.
Do they have gift bailiffs who come and take your couch if you can't give an expected gift at some point? What's the interest rate on gifts?

I'm not sure how to make the above sound less snarky - I'm genuinely interested in how this stuff compares to more formalized systems of debt in modern societies.
> By the way, the cell phone networks and internet connections in Germany are on the level of some 3rd world countries.

There is no need to insult 3rd world countries like this.
Peak support seems to be around the platinum/CDE time where everything was just happy to finally have consistent sets of widgets to work with.
> Windows didn't treat me like an easily-exploited idiot.

What if, horror of horrors, this is because most Windows users actually are easily-exploited idiots...
I wouldn't fall into sleep because of intermittent bursts of laughter over absurdity of the stories...
I’d rather someone screw the screws in to the perfect amount of tension for the job than worry about making all the screw heads line up and also waste time doing that. So I found the whole article a little exasperating. I guess there is something in there about form vs. function and how people see the world.
I've set up forwarding from the old email to the new one and am slowly pointing everything towards the new email.
where do you backup the data? I keep it in the Dropbox for now (anything other than GDrive)
How to approach learning and teaching C++ [video]
There's no reason you can't migrate over slowly. I have my freemail and personal domain both in use for this exact reason. Slowly switch over. It won't happen overnight.
What's the difference ? if you win against best play you win against less good play too no ?
I think I was thinking along the same lines as you. There is a section in the linked github titled "is this legal"[0]

[0] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM#is-this-legal
I had to look that up ... is that Euphoria?

As stated above, I think that how the code is structured also heavily influences readability. Maybe even more than syntax highlighting.

Case in point: I was fortunate enough to work on a Haskell project some time ago ... and one of my colleagues from another team at asked me how I manage to make my code look that concise. No secret there, it is just pretty easy if the language is that expressive.
> it is rather similar to the cost of a function call.

It literally is a function call, most of the time.

And yeah, thumb-2 was the preferred encoding for 32b iOS and Android, and the only supported encoding for Windows phone, so it was used on billions of devices.
>I don’t see why

Because simply PRC has never been deterred by nukes over sovereignty issues. It has fought with nuclear US, USSR and India over core interests less interest than TW. Former two while PRC wasn't nuclear power herself.

Also because TW is thoroughly infiltrated by PRC spies, and TW even hinting nuclearizing gives PRC legitimate casus belli to go to war with relatively few consequences due to proliferation concerns. Not to mention US would be arming weapons of mass destruction to CCP's antagonist in domestic Chinese civil war. PRC would likely treat any nuclear US on TW's part as direct US nuclear launch. If it's going to trade Taipei for Shanghai, it's going to make sure US loses NYC as well for participating.

Reality is nuclear deterrence doesn't actually deter when core security interests are involved, i.e. USSR HAD nukes on Cuba during the crisis and US was still willing to invade.
(With apologies to Churchill)

Many forms of commerce have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that capitalism is the worst form of commerce except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

But honestly, GGP replying with a one word answer "Capitalism" and to paraphrase your reply >"The system has brainwashed you" does no one here any good. Please expound on what system you would like to see implemented and why it would not have this problem. You will probably have to defend your ideas but that is what debate is for.
I forward my gmail and iCloud accounts to my Fastmail account where my own domain is setup. I also only use my new email address and replace the gmail and iCloud whenever I see it in use. It’s a long process but worth it.
Could you use super high air pressure around the food to accomplish this? Or does the food need to be in some kind of shape matching pressure vessel with no air?
Jumping the Air Gap: 15 Years of Nation-State Effort [pdf]
Not only that, but wrapping a deprecated framework at that... and then all the stuff that came in between. It's almost as if we're back at square one.
Don't mistake concepts and reality. Windows has always been a bridge between hardware and sales. It was the platform that MS made so dev and users would depend on to meet.
Be very weary about this and investigate carefully, IDK the financials of OPs family but they can become a costly burden to maintain and fix if issues arise. Especially if they are on a fixed income.
Are you saying that we shouldn't vaccinate, because strict lockdowns worked, against the COVID-19 original strain, for a while?

It's technically true that this worked then, but 2020 is gone, not to return. a) new COVID strains were inevitable and b) prolonged strict lockdowns unpalatable and c) mass vaccination has a huge benefit. As part of a multi-pronged strategy, of course. Depending on only one measure, be it lockdown or vaccination, is not going to work.
You know they will.
First of all, the linked LRB article is just a must read. The cyber beat is often the most underreported in investigative journalism. Probably because its so difficult to crack (hehe) into that subculture. But it's clear it's chock full of 21st cloak & dagger stories that perhaps will one day be told.

Israeli firms enjoy quite a large footprint in the US too, clustered around Route 128 in Boston for example. I've met many engineers from firms like Carbon Black there. And I got the same sense as the article: when it comes to cyber capability, there is no international system at work, it's every party to fend for themselves. And you thus get these situations where nominal allies are infiltrating their fellow so-called allies!

In military budgeting, the requests always come for the next threat. We need an F-35 jet, because our adversaries now have Su-49s. And so the next gen cyber startups are already selling the new: quantum internet. With the tagline: "no eavesdropping over arbitrary distances" ;)

https://www.entanglednetworks.com/
Isn't that just cryptocurrency?
Apple's iDevices and T2/M1 Macs all require Internet access to finish their setup.

Windows 11 Home requires Internet as a Microsoft account is needed during setup. Unless there is a workaround that I haven't read about.
> you need to have a clear advantage over everyone else. China will never have that over the US+Europe.

"never" is a strong word here.

Tech and military wise they're catching up really fast. They have a much fitter and controlled population. Their economy is doing real good, they're spreading their influence over Africa, &c.

The US is crumbling on virtually every aspect, Europe isn't doing much better, if China and the US stays on their respective courses your "never" will be more like "in 50-100 years".
Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart
I wrote about my experience for that exact same situation here:

https://7c0h.com/blog/new/lost_gmail_ii.html

In short, you can send their Data Protection Office a letter demanding access to your data. In my case it took almost three months but they eventually relented and reset my password. I guess a lawyer could have gotten it done faster, but who knows.
In the US that really depends where you live and where you are at in your career. If you just started a year or two ago that would not be out the realm of possibility in the US, in what many affectionally call 'the fly over states'. Depending on where you live it can be a lot less or more. If you have 10+ years 100k+ US (90k UK) is not unreasonable at all. You see very large comp packages here as that is what the VC companies talk. They also usually include in the comp package things like parking, your desk, the building you work in, health insurance (usually at least 12k per year), the nice dual screen computer, any 401k contributions, RSU that has not matured yet. Basically anything to make that number seem huge. One company I worked at they were saying I had a comp package of 250k yet I took home closer to 110.

But take home base pay is usually in line with whatever area your are living in and the amount of exp you have. Everything else is bonus. That bonus is usually bandied about in interviews but sometimes never materializes.
This has happened to me too, but in my case the Google account that I lost access to is the admin account of a Google Adsense publisher account. For some reason I don't receive the 2FA code to my phone, though I do know the recovery email address and the password. I don't log into the Adsense account a lot, it's a small amount of revenue, enough to cover some DO droplets every month. Given that I don't log in a lot, between my last login and first getting locked out, I had switched ISPs and switched my main browser to FF from Chrome, and even erased all my old Chrome data. So, new IP, and no cookies/fingerprint, not getting the 2FA codes... lock out! No recourse. No person to ask.

What's more funny is that I figured, well, I'll just create a new Google account and sign up for Adsense again for my domain with the new account. Turns out you can't do that because the domain for the Adsense account "is already in use by another Adsense account".

There is simply no customer service.
I had a bit of a squeaky bum moment the other night. I needed to sign up for Stadia and was asked for my gmail address and password which for the life of me I couldn't remember (and it wasn't in my password manager).

I then requested a password reset and tried a couple of the account rescue codes. Turns out I'd used these specific ones before but hadn't marked them as used (doh!) and at that point stopped in case of a hard lockout due to "suspicious activity".

So at this point I capitulated and just went for the "I'm dumb and forgot my password and have no other codes or keys" option. I was then told it'd take SIX HOURS for google to verify my account before they'd send me a password reset link.

Luckily it all worked out and all I lost was an evening of Stadia, but I couldn't help feeling I was teetering on the edge of loosing my account.

Footnote: yes I have considered switching to a paid service such as Proton Mail, but at the time covid happened, I lost my income and couldn't afford it. I think this experience will spur me on now that I'm gainfully employed.
macOS guests use Apple’s own ParavirtualizedGraphics framework, which comes with none of the downsides of virtio-gpu. It pipes through serialised Metal at native performance.
My very real problem of being trapped in a car while being attacked a bear?!?!
I have been doing this for a few months for similar reasons - particularly spinning up family accounts with little additional overhead - but decided to pass in favor of hosted. Getting everything set up was fine enough and my mail was eventually being received in places I expected (I had to add my domain in Google's panel somewhere), but I noticed lag on receiving stuff, and was still occasionally ending up in spam folders. How are you overcoming that? Forwarding stuff off? Do you host in a VPS somewhere?
No good advice to share on the juggling bit, and I apologize if this sounds ghoulish, but plan now for their eventual incapacity. If they haven't done so already, get all of their financial info together in one place while they are still able to help you. Mortgage/deed, car info, credit cards, major recurring payments, investments,and insurance policies. Also all email and web passwords.

I would also suggest a visit to an estate lawyer to make sure that wills are in order and that there's a plan for all major assets.

All of this can be difficult if your parents are in denial and plan on living forever, but the more you can do now, the better off you will be later
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