skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I sounded like that, I should have spent more effort. Sorry.

What I was trying to bring across, is that it is "public space" which implies it equally belongs to everyone. But that this is not the case for what you are allowed to advertise. Corporations, or at least "those with connections and/or money" are allowed to be heard a lot more than anyone who lacks these connections or funds.

I call that "skewed". A fair and level "public space" would give anyone, regardless of how much money, connections or lawyers they have, the same ability to present their message.

I am not saying that this would always be a good thing; because this probably means far more advertising noise. It would probably turn our streets into a printed version of twitter. Ugh.
I am trying to say that in order to make this less skewed, "those with money, connections and/or lawyers" should also not be allowed to use that public space to deliver their messages. That is a level playing field too!
"Get your browser, cookies, rectum etc fingerprinted by CloudFlare, nbd"
SpaceX has to allocate bandwidth on the satellites to consumers. If consumers move, they will have overallocated bandwidth in some places, degrading network performance. They'll probably come out with a mobile product at a higher price point in the future.
Hiroo Onoda Survived Isolation for 29 Years
I am aware of the fact that I am (/the brain is) thinking and it is the source of all problems
While certainly not high art, 'Lost in Space' was decent popcorn scifi. The third season released earlier this month and wrapped up the series.
I think it absolutely is an issue. Don’t drop my connection more than once a year.
What you propose seems nice but is infeasible. Lightweight doesn't just mean getting rid of Paint3D and all this cruft installed by default. Today you have tons of APIs and services that need to be running, otherwise X breaks. The X could be your Bluetooth audio connection, and app that uses an obscure API call, a network service etc. So basically your lightweight alternative would be a broken, less powerful copy of Windows 10.

So at that point it's just safer to use an older combination of OS and software that you know has been working fine.
This is perhaps the oddest point the article makes.

They argue that JavaScript is still available for its “originally intended” purpose of light scripting, but that using less JS on the front end somehow frees you to use whatever you want on the back end.

But there is nothing inherent to SPAs that would force anyone to use JS on the back end.

And if “diversity is our strength” then I see no reason that wouldn’t be equally true when building JS-heavy SPAs.
Kodi already has a (passable) web interface, so it's possible to expose that externally and get on-premises Spotify and Netflix on the same interface.

The main problem is that the remote control and the remote viewing interfaces are co-mingled, it's not very usable. There are alternative interfaces, but they are crappier.
Paper link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07802
Until someone builds a Steam that does allow it, and users start migrating over, and steam has to either allow it or keep losing market share.

Companies don't do things out of the goodness of their hearts, they do it because better, faster, more consumer friendly competitors appear.
That's weird, until recently I had a 3930k on which I occasionally ran Win 10. The computer had a SATA SSD (Samsung 840). It worked very well. It was occasional because I find Windows annoying for reasons other than performance.

I've upgraded the CPU to a Xeon E5-2667 v2 (basically a 4th gen i7) to get PCIE 3 for my GPU. I've installed Windows 11 on it for my curiosity / gaming needs. It works very well, I'd say it's smoother / snappier than Win 10, but I'm wondering whether that's just some tweaked animation delays.

It's undeniably better than on some 8th gen i5u + NVMe I have on a work laptop - which is officially supported!
Who is "we"? How is checking for a licenso offline not drm? If there is no license key present the software still misbehaves in that case, no?
Yes, HDCP is supposed to prevent though it is easily bypassed.
You might want to look at some of the more modern / postmodern branches of Christianity.

Some people who practice it sincerely don't think of the Bible as a literally true document that has no mistakes or inaccuracies, nor a rulebook that must be followed in every particular, but rather a series of subjective recountings of different people's encounters with God over the course of many centuries, strongly colored by their cultural context and identity.

I think most such practitioners still believe there's a historical core somewhere in the Gospels, particularly around Jesus' death and resurrection.

That's the impression I get from a near distance. I haven't super-closely at those versions myself (though it's on my todo list).

One site presenting something like this perspective is here:

https://www.is-there-a-god.info/
>Knowledge is good, and I don't think any fair deity would oppose knowing unconditionally.

Humanity's original sin, according to the Bible, was literally eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge.
I wish they would improve the search... it's the one thing that I miss from Google Maps.
I don't appreciate the insinuation. The level of severity should not gate how people feel about this specific issue.
therealdavesky , I am sorry to hear that. I suggest, dont get demotivated. Keep trying. I am sure you would find one. Good luck.

@all,
Is this a general trend for experienced devs? Lets say, someone doesn't have a gap in resume and is well versed with the current tech, system design etc and the current employer is fairly reputed. (Say top 25 in terms of market cap in the US). Will this problem still hold? My understanding is that, at 20+ yrs experience, people expect us to be in leadership roles such as director etc. But then, not everyone can get to that level.
Off topic, but I’ve been curious about moving from tech to working in LEO (cyber, fraud, etc) but the FBI/SS requirements around mobility are untenable for me. I’d be interested to hear your experience and any advice around opportunities (in Texas) that are compatible with family life.
I own a physical copy of Diablo 2 that does not work anymore. License is dead and I don't know why.

Owning a physical copy is not helping me play the game as Bliz has decided that license is no good.

An NFT could have the same experience. Nothing forcing the vendor to honor it.

Seems if NFT game licenses worked the way they are being talked about in this thread then there would be no way to ban players for bad behavior because it would be out of the hands of the developer. Which clearly isn't true.
Yep, For me at least, acceptance of the unknown and unknowable is a deliberate process, almost a ritual, not a natural state.
I used Avis in Italy many times, and don't remember that it ever were possible to get the car without a credit card. Actually, it's in their FAQ:

https://faq.avisautonoleggio.it/Res-Channeling/Reservation-E...

In short, the translation is: prepaid cards (and only certain types, not Electron/Cirrus/etc) can be used to pay online only, and another card among those accepted (i.e. a credit card) should be presented at the desk.

The UK version of the FAQ tells basically the same:

https://faq.avis.co.uk/1492093922

"PREPAID cards are accepted online however they are not accepted at the counter which means a non-PREPAID card must be shown at the rental station (together with the PREPAID card)"
From what I've read, that's why physicists started giving things whimsical names like Quark, Charm, Strangeness, etc. The problem with using common words is that they always suggest an analogy, the analogy is never perfect, and often causes more confusion than understanding.

(Also, Murray Gell-Mann was a whimsical character to begin with).
This is one of those github repositories that you just clone and move on.

Don't fork, just clone to your local system. When it gets taken down the forks will disappear, whereas the clones will not. You can also just download a zip file.

https://github.com/widevinedump?tab=repositories
The DRM (tries to) prevent it.

You can also record the HDMI signal, which HDCP is supposed to guard against. But it was cracked even before it was being used/enforced. So now it only serves to create incompatibility issues and bugs for paying users. Even though it has been irrelevant for more than a decade.

I guess the reason for why it still exist is because it prevents/hinders legal products to circumvent it, since that is against the law in many jurisdictions.

Anyway, the downside of both solutions is that you have to re-encode the video, which will never be as good as the original source you get directly from streaming it. Though I'd imagine the difference is quite negligible. More effort though!
IPFS is broker, or, a trail of tears
I'm kind of a pagan/panpsychist/discordian/chaos magician. I try to sidestep all that "is the supernatural 'real'?" baggage by treating it all as an abstraction layer - do my practices get what I want? Maybe it's Yahweh, the Force, universal consciousness, flying spaghetti monster, or just good ol' confirmation bias, I don't particularly care most of the time. Sometimes I straight up pretend I'm in a video game or the Matrix. It's fun. I try to lean into "Nothing is true; everything is permitted" when it comes to unfalsifiable stuff.

This is pretty much the only way I've been able to balance the super rational science heavy side of my mind with a deeper need to feel a spiritual connection.

I don't currently have a day to day practice, though I used to meditate daily. I really should get back into that though.
Though often they get it wrong, like when I bought a movie off Apple and it errored when I screen mirrored to my dumb TV and it’s back to piracy first for me.
I visited it once too and really enjoyed it. I’d consider moving there if immigration to Japan wasn’t so difficult.
I would think running it behind a hardware firewall/router/NAT and using a modern browser (someone further up mentioned recent versions of chrome) should take care of most vulnerabilities unless opening something malicious (document/app).
Protectli boxes running OPNsense seem good. A bit more expensive though.

I advocate separating APs and WiFi from router.
> Most of that other junk can go - UI framework of the day, Cortana, Bing in my start menu, Windows Store, enhanced error reporting? Don't need it. Don't want it.

You are not expected to. Most people believe the new features in proprietary operating systems are for them. Sure, a few of them are (although in the case of Windows 11 they might not be obvious). But today most of these are aimed at extracting value from the existing position - hence tons of adware on a fresh copy of your OS.
Plenty of good bullet points, but it's now a quite outdated article. A lot has happened in Lua since 2012.
I 100% agree with first part.

I don't follow / automatically agree on second part. I have three ThinkPads with i5-2520M that my family and I use daily with windows 10. Email browsing word excel etc. Some light games, lots of photo browsing and sorting and minimal editing via acdsee. If windows 10 is lagging in what is clearly a superior system from specs perspective, something doesn't work right. My first suspicion is ssds in raid as there's a myriday ways to get that wrong, but who knows?
This opinion gets tossed around a lot, but I've found the opposite to be true, in part because all projects trend towards becoming an unholy mess as they grow large, so being able to accomplish a goal in significantly fewer lines of code has tangible benefits.

If there actually is a correlation between high level languages and "trouble", it may be just because a high level language lets a less experienced developer (or team of developers) get farther than they otherwise would in some lower level language, i.e. the more cumbersome nature of a lower level language forces you to follow best practices earlier or the whole thing never gets off the ground, while the same sloppy devs + a higher level language might actually get as far as shipping something.

Whether that is ultimately better is debatable, but the problem is more how the tool is being used than something inherent in the tool itself.
You totally should, it's a lot of fun. I'd suggest trying to find some bacterial genome sequencing (like E. coli) done on nanopore if you're interested in those data. I don't have a link to any handy right now, otherwise I'd post here, but assembling bacterial genomes is shockingly easy these days and doesn't need near as many resources as doing a human genome, so it's great for learning (I love the assembler Flye [1] for this).

And RE: home sequencing, honestly the hardest part for a beginner will likely be the sample prep, since that takes some combination of wet lab experience and expensive equipment. I really wish molecular biology was as simple to get hacking on as writing software. The lag time between doing an experiment and getting a result is so much longer than waiting for things to compile, it just makes improving your skills take longer.

[1] https://github.com/fenderglass/Flye
That behavior comes from the police chief and district attorney explicitly telling street level cops what they can't police.
I'd do that too, for the same reasons.
Kind of a trend... I don't think Apple realizes that as well.

Photos? Tons of frameworks for scanning my photos and adding 3d custom emojis to Messages? They also lead the way for vulnerabilities like the latest NSO.

What if we could just have a bare OS with all core frameworks and let users decide what to install.

If nothing else for reducing the attack surface.
It seems there is a window of ideal time. You've described when that window opens. It closes as OS's evolve out from under the last patch. Steam in particular appears in no hurry to require games be playable after any initial QA.
He has a PhD Metallurgical Engineering and works in the steel industry (though on automotive steels, not on knife steels). Not quite the same as someone off the street. From TFA the company was mainly worried that his knife-steel knowledge was purely academic (since he's never worked professionally on high carbon knife steels).
First half I agree, second half builds on a sense of suspicion and mistrust over the other and on a sense of having “them” figured out, which is a nice pleasure to indulge in, but I don’t buy it at all
Some did. Most started as multimillionaire.

The ways one can use to multiply millions by a thousand aren't open to people that only owns thousands. And you really don't want to multiply your possessions by a thousand if they are negative.
I was thinking about similar web app idea, a social bookmarking app. I think this idea has really nice potential. The bookmarking base where other users could see which user has it's own most favourite sites to visit. Keep working on it.
Luckily most vaccinated are not this empathy lacking self righteous...
No on cares about your forgiveness

In 10 years we will still be analyzing the health implications of the vaccine. And the effects on the health system

Also the unvaccinated tax not only is pay for the public health system, they are also pay for the vaccines, that give billions in profit to the pharmaceuticals, and has little to no benefit for all under 50
I haven't noticed any particular limitations, but my understanding is that it's not very straightforward to get by "official" means.

At work, another team is in charge of point of sale and other similar devices running Windows IOT or whatever it's called now, and apparently licensing is completely different from the "regular" desktop and server installs.
The Orville is coming back on March 10 with season 3 - after a gap of ~2 years since the last ep of season 2.
* visualisation and morning prayer,
meditation

* contemplating the four thoughts
https://tsoknyirinpoche.org/teachings/how-to-structure-a-dai...

* prostrations and mantra

* reading dharma books
https://www.lionsroar.com/buddhist-books/

* occasional vajra dance and yantra yoga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=var4yRB1Fnc&t=565s

"Before we discuss the technique of meditation, let us point out the merit and sanity and wakefulness you are going to get out of just simply being willing to sit like a piece of rock.
It’s fantastically powerful. It overrides the atomic bomb. It’s extraordinarily powerful that we decide just to sit, not hang out or perch, but just sit.
Such a brave attitude, such a wonderful commitment, is magnificent.
It is very sane, extraordinarily sane."

The Path Is the Goal: A Basic Handbook of Buddhist Meditation. Chogyam Trungpa
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/rc3/2021/Fahrplan/
I don't care about downloading anything. Does it allow me to watch netflix without the need of proprietary software?
What are you doing to make the world more fair?
Pretty much everything else, but the baseline is what we currently use: computers and smartphones and tablets with windows/cli interfaces.
> Man what social workers get BMWs?

well, BMWs tend to last a while and very old ones are often affordable but reasonably functional used cars, so probably quite a few.

If you mean new BMWs, then ones that are wealthy from some other source and doing social work for self-fulfillment.
Disable spectre mitigations
Thanks for sharing - your story reads like a movie script! I'm lucky enough to not be worried about my health (yet) but maybe I should start tracking variables other than bodyweight. I'll definitely be coming back to your post for more inspiration.
Ask someone why they'd support mandatory vaccination and generally you will hear: to stop unvaccinated people from spreading the disease. Definitions do matter here. Governments are leaning heavily on this misunderstanding.
so why come here to contribute nothing to an otherwise interesting discussion?
For learning, I started out reading the book The Druidry Handbook by John Michael Greer and /r/druidism. From there I explored various parts of Druidism and some paganism that interested me--elements (not science elements, spirtual/symbolic ones like air/wind/fire/earth), tarot, and living with nature.

For rituals, you can choose how far you're willing to stretch your imagination: a contemplative walk in the woods, or trying to commune with trees. I started doing tarot cards as well, which for me is less divination and more perspective. It hacks your minds pattern matching and forces you to think about situations from a different angle. It can also be fun or intimate with other people. My family celebrates the wheel of the year which gives you tons of opportunities for fun festivals/connecting with each other and nature. All of the holidays fall outside of traditional Christian holidays, so it's really easy to celebrate them without upsetting your extended family as well.

I recommend having an open mind, I'm highly skeptical in general and definitely had to sift through stuff to figure out what makes sense to me. Which is OK with druidism, it's kind of like a Linux distro/DIY spirituality framework.
Thanks for this advice! There are several apps I use from f-droid (osmand, Voice audiobook player, antennapod) that could potentially benefit here. I've had to switch to the play store version of the ones I care about.
I imagine there would be quite a lot of selection bias involved there, since memory safety bugs is the class of errors that is easiest identify.

Unless Microsoft claims to have identified all bugs. That would be a bold claim indeed.
The Cargo Cult of the Ennui Engine
> Initializing arrays is weird in Zig. Lets say you want to have a 0 initialized array, you declare it like [_]u8{0} * 4 which means I want an array, of type u8, that is initialized to 0 and is 4 elements long. You get used to the syntax, but it’s not intuitive.

Alternatively:

var some_array = std.mem.zeroes([4]u8);

Though as mentioned later in the article the standard library documentation is not very good, making this not as obvious as it could be.

> Everything in Zig is const x = blah;, so why are functions not const bar = function() {};?

Good question, there's an accepted proposal to fix this: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1717

> The builtin compiler macros (that start with @) are a bit confusing. Some of them have a leading uppercase, others a lowercase, and I never did work out any pattern to them.

In idiomatic zig, anything that returns a type is uppercased as though it were itself a type. Since only a few builtins return types, the vast majority of builtins will start with a lowercase letter. I think it is only `@Type`, `@TypeOf`, `@This`, and `@Frame` that don't.
The idea of building a distributed crawler that runs on user’s browser sounds fascinating!! Now that is better than the user burning power to mine bitcoins solving stupid puzzles.
There is Somerville Ma, a town near Boston as well. Not sure the names are a connected though.
I really resonate with this
Aesthetic preferences exist in our minds independent of our direct experience. That’s why people can have aesthetic opinions of things the instant they experience them.

An aesthetic preference is essentially an ideal against which we compare our experience. Whether we expect to meet that ideal does not diminish its power. In fact if it was easily met, it would not be much of an ideal.
They are a thing in the US as well.
> In the US, sending money to another person's account, especially as an individual, is a difficult process, often requiring giving long account and routing numbers that many of us were told not to give out

Writing a check instead won’t avoid that since the account and routing number are printed right on it
There is some evidence that cows feel fear just before the slaughter process, and we know from their grieving wails that they have learned that their calves and friends never return after the slaughter truck takes them away.
Optimizing the service response time by using MapReduce
The $900B Cash Pile Inflating Startup Valuations
I wasn't trying to do that so I should clarify. MagnaCut is, so far, a success because of his unique approach. I asked on another forum if MagnaCut is using some new process that makes the balance of properties so much better than other steels on the market. Most cutlery steel dates back decades. I thought maybe what MagnaCut is doing relies on technology that wasn't available back then. Larrin said no. He deserves credit for his fresh approach to making a cutlery steel, and I should not have implied otherwise.

My poorly worded response was more to Crucible taking a chance on somebody off the street. Larrin is not some unknown quantity. He has connections in the knife industry, including Crucible. He's also a metallurgist with accomplishments in his own right. Crucible still took a risk, but it wasn't a huge one.
Sorry to break your model but FP has nothing to do with not having a time component. You can write operations over "space"

some_container |> map ( item -> item + 1 )

or write operations over "time"

some_event_sequence |> map ( item -> item + 1 )

both are functional programming.
There is a sample bias: you only see the poor people that made it to university, not the ones that didn’t (also went to uni in France). You also don’t see a lot of lower/middle class folks in prestigious schools in France.
I love your observation about the Lord's Prayer. I often end up using it as a framework too, partly because it does feel so complete (also because of course Jesus literally told us to pray like that). I feel you a lot in the urge to otherwise start with "forgive me" part, and I myself still do that a lot. I realize I need to work on practicing gratitude towards Him more often too, which is important to escaping the trap of self-pity I'm so prone to falling in.