skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. It's caused by this single standard input/output model. Even using standard error is unergonomic and leads to magic like 2>&1.

What if programs could have any number of input and output file descriptors and the numbers/names along with their contents and data types were documented in the manual? Could eliminate the need to parse data altogether. I remember Common Lisp had something similar to this.
Hi, I'm from Merriam-Webster. We need to add "Overton Window" to the 2023 edition. OK if we cite your post, not just as an example, but as the literal definition?
I'm curious what would happen if somebody uploaded illegal data (e.g. child porn, sensitive PII, or government secrets) to an Ethereum contract. Would these nodes be legally required to filter it? If you look at something like the Pirate Bay, it's not simply enough that you are an allegedly content-unaware service -- once you become aware of your service being used for or distributing something illegal, you are required to mitigate it. At the end of the day, these are businesses which operate within a jurisdiction and must act in self-preservation.

But at the point where they start filtering transactions/addresses, there's going to be big questions about what is the true view of the blockchain.
Whoa, I just started watching Turn. That's cool. I had no clue Culpeper had any history like that. When I was growing it up, it was all Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg, Fredericksburg.
There's plenty of demand for managers and I can still do "real" ;) work as well.

When I say we I don't just mean "me". I mean all levels up to the CEO. And we demonstrate that all the time, it's not just something we say.

Again, this is still a business, it's not a non-profit, but there is alignment between treating people well and having a good business and finding more great people. Randomly firing people or abusing people, is just stupid. Please don't work at places that do that, not only because you'll get fired, but because that business is hurting its long term success.
> You immediately need to hack the API?

May I remind you of the name of this forum?
My experience with the snaps was so horrible that I avoid Ubuntu and other distros that install snapd by default. Thankfully, Linux Mint 20 disables support for Snaps entirely. There is a short list of things I dislike about snaps:

- very slow startup time
- forced auto updates (that tend to break things)
- Snap store is proprietary, centralized and entirely controlled by Canonical
- pollute home with ~/snap directory (not even hidden)
- badly integrated with the system (GTK themes...)
- creating snaps was easy only on paper
- hard dependency on systemd

Therefore, I sincerely hope Snapcraft has no future and the community will converge on a single "universal" packaging format. I don't really care if that's Appimages, Faltpaks or something else.
Learned this the hard way. No matter the change or version, I always try to double check both CHANGELOG and the commits.
So you want to roll back the clock to lifestyles typical in 1889, a simpler time when it seems another coronavirus pandemic probably swept unchecked throughout the world and killed a lot of people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7252012/

Most of us enjoy our "unnecessary" social contacts. If reducing those is the price then no thanks, I'd rather have the disease.

But feel free to go hide in the woods with your family if that's the life you prefer. Just watch out for the COVID infected animals.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/covid-rampant-d...
> Is someone seriously telling me that a dedicated engineering and marketing effort couldn't build a similar consumer-centric device that functioned as a server

They already have, and their name is Synology:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/DS120j
Hm, I think my point might not have been clear enough. I would find it hard to function without interacting with central system, like sending an email to someone on gmail. Just today, I emailed a plumber on gmail, but it could easily have been an old friend or a relative or whatever.

How do you email the plumber, is my question?
Please tell me you're taking notes somewhere, because that sounds like a really fun project.
>> In all my years of doing tech support, in all the various areas of work I have been doing, I have not seen a single case where it was not beneficial to migrate from Windows to Linux whether we're talking about servers or desktop.

Doubt
It wouldn’t really disincentivize that much. You aren’t grasping the status quo and power dynamics of all of this. Double that $300K and even i would strongly consider risking my life for that amount of money for some time. That money is peanuts in the scheme of things but is enormous to many, many people.

Seriously. If Google doubled that money and the only way for me to be safe would be to stay in some glorified prison while working, I’d probably do it for a few years.

All you’re doing is pointing out how bad the power dynamics are and attacking the weakest and least powerful parts of said dynamics. When there are so many simple ways to get around this sort of scheming. Mine is one example. When you’re talking about cogs. It is extremely easy to replace them. It is sad you want to attack the working class (in this situation it’s privileged workers making a lot but in terms of the system, they fit into this).
I agree though I comend the bravery of those upgrading database driver libraries without so much as a glance to the release notes before releasing to production.
First of all, the 1400x is a miscalculation, because it attributes a sum to be earned out over many years to a single year.

Yes, it takes tens of thousands of people to design, make and sell Apple's products. Tim would be the first to acknowledge that. Does this mean that each of them is equally valuable to the company and equally hard to replace? No. (Which is not a statement about their worth as _human beings_, mind you).
OMG, +1000000
And that there's no metadata for someone to link them with. Where "metadata" might include things like "your writing style."
Generally high methane emissions are what make meat look really bad.
At this rate the metaverse might actually become a thing, if the hardware allows for enough immersion
Businesses come and go. I admit I don’t know how many gates Lufthansa acquired when competitors went out of business or were acquired by them, how many have been theirs since each terminal opened. Since in the past they were smaller, it is obvious that gates are something that can be acquired. Maybe not on the ideal schedule, but such is life.

Brussels Airport has plenty of expansion planned. Airports get bigger over time, not smaller.
> I originally advised my mother to migrate from Microsoft Windows on the desktop to Linux because before that I had to go to her apartment about once a year to make a clean install of Windows because Windows had suddenly broken and didn't work any longer, or because everything suddenly started to become really slow. The classical Windows problems.

Back in the Windows 95/98/Millenium days this was sooooo common and problematic that, as "the computer guy" in my friends and family circle, and because I hated Windows with a passion (I was already using Linux), I'd use the same ballistic solution: I'd perform a clean install, once. Then I'd use Ghost to image the install (Ghost from already way back before Norton bought it and it'd became Norton Ghost). Then I'd keep copies, on HDDs, of everybody in my circle's Windows clean install. Once every x months someone would call and I'd re-image the clean system.

What a piece of turd.
I’m sure the UI part is relatively light. What you draw on it and how you calculate what should be drawn will probably be key.
It’s not the same as web2. These web3 frontends don’t have moats or lock-in like Facebook or Google, because they don’t actually control the data. The data they serve is all from public ledgers. You can switch off of Infura in a second by changing your RPC url.
So if I own an NFT and make sure to store the hash, does that mean I also own all collisions?
You need to leave me alone or I will call the police for harassment.

Do not contact me.

I do not wish for you to communicate with me further.
> When I got my last book copyedited, fixing the location of "only" was one of the most common changes.

I remember a puzzle which presented a (fairly long) sentence and asked "provide a word that can be correctly inserted at any point in this sentence".

The answer was "only". (Of course the meaning would change according to where the "only" was placed, but still... you'd have a hard time inserting "experience" at every position of a sentence.)
That's a different mechanism (and a feature rather than a bug).
I have a degree in the biomedical sciences and I often see CS majors/software/math folks insert clear cut divisions between terms and things than could possibly correlate.

I feel like a lot of people don’t understand how continuous certain parts of biology are (and aren’t).
> Proton and Wine are helping prolong the Microsoft monopoly on PC gaming! What we need is for some of the big game developing companies to release some of their biggest names on Linux only, with absolutely no support for Windows.

Not going to happen unless the community comes up with something better than DirectX and port it everywhere.
Ironically ttansforming K.I.T.T. revealed the limitations... but still excellent progress!
I find _myself_ confused by Windows, when I have to support it - I'm surprised Microsoft expects anyone without support chops to understand some of the questions they're asking.

Several of my family members are in the same boat as the author's: they run Linux in spite of having low computer aptitude. I do typically have to help them with, say, installing software, but so much of their experience happens in a Web browser that it's a rarity (the last install I helped with was Skype, the web app not being terribly great). Given that they're also somewhat change-averse, the Linux desktop has been pretty great for them: the UI metaphor of Cinnamon is more or less the same as Windows XP's or Windows 7's, which is what they were used to, and it doesn't seem at risk of changing anytime soon.
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Please share link to video.
China's $1T 'artificial sun' fusion reactor is five times hotter than the sun
nice writeup - adding a test should also help increase confidence here
And we inject deadly viruses into our bodies when administering vaccines. Yet they still work.

Just because you haven't had experience in this field of study so it sounds weird doesn't mean it's somehow useless or doesn't work.
Advancement in this space is going to be very non-linear.
A friend of the family has been running Mint as a daily driver for a couple of years. It works pretty well but it does require some Linux expertise.

I definitely would not recommend that to anyone out of the box. More for power users still.
It's a little ironic, but I find Linux to be perfect for two groups of people: the nearly computer illiterate, and coders. It's all the people in between where it struggles.

Yes, if you need your computer to check email and visit websites, and maybe deal with digital photos and do a little light word processing, Linux is rock solid stable and more than up to the task. I can see my own mother being just fine with it for those purposes.

Conversely, if you need to roll some scientific HPC code, it's the preferred solution.

But God help you if you need to do multimedia desktop publishing or do Photoshop-level editing of photos or (in my case) do anything requiring a Common Access Card.
No. Let me try again.

1. Increasing housing stock in already saturated markets stresses resources and creates a demand for more infrastructure.

2. When we have more land and more people, we can build where there is land with suitable infrastructure.

3. This means: don’t build if you don’t create infrastructure.

4. Example: a child climbs on a grown man’s shoulder. He is very strong. He runs around. Looks like fun. Another child jumps on the man. And another. And another. And another. Until he is flat on the ground with a pile of children on his back.

Solution: Find another shoulder to climb upon.

I hope this clarifies.
I definitely agree. Procrastination is a feelings problem and it took me a long time to realize that.

Often when I actually do the thing, I realize it is harder or feels worse than I was consciously feeling. It makes me think, "Oh yeah, no wonder I was putting this off. This is hard."

An example of this is decluttering, which sounds easy but in reality involves making a lot of difficult, often emotional decisions (i.e. coming to terms with the fact that I'm not actually going to use something any time soon so it would be better to get rid of it than keep it hanging around taking up space).
I don't get it. What's the point of using Snaps on server when it's simpler to just run containers?
> Even nerds do not want to run their own servers at this point. Even organizations building software full time do not want to run their own servers at this point.

I want this to be wrong.

Broadband providers make it very difficult to run your own server. Server construction is also in a very bad place as well, so this has spread from consumers to companies. There are just too many externalities from all of your vendors that are left to you to solve and that opens up space for a small number of companies who have people who work on those problems as a full time job, amortized out over X vendors and Y customers.

Until or unless that changes, a bunch of things I'd like to have happen won't happen. I should be able to pull files from my home computer when I'm stuck in an airport in Paris. That was the original promise, but we ended up with something else that has a lot of rent-seeking involved.

I think there are a few people working on the servers problem, probably nowhere near enough, but Broadband companies are also largely to blame for this. I'm not sure if Starlink or municipal broadband that is run like power and water, are ways out. But what we have isn't going to work, and consolidation is just going to get worse and worse until someone fixes it.
Do not respond to soliciting emails e.g. give me, send me, show me, please forward, click this and that etc.

Do not especially send money if somebody asks you to do it.

Do not click links in emails. Unless you are 100% sure it is from trusted source.

Do not download and open email attachments. Unless you are 100% sure it is from trusted source.

Dos:

Check every time who sent you email.

Check if person's or organization's email address previously sent you some mail.

Compare received mail and email addresses with previously received mail and corresponding email addresses.

Check email title, check email grammar, check similarity between text(structure and wording) of current emails with past emails from the same sender who sent you mail.

If you spot something suspicious search and research it online.

Etc.

There are 99 advices I could give but this are some off the top of my mind. Similar advices apply to SMS fraud.

Tbh most of this stuff can be automated.
Upwind I would hope.
Upvoting because I think this strategy would be effective, and people should see what an effective strategy looks like, but I find the long-term social consequences very worrying, and don't think it's worth it. What you're proposing feels like a Black Mirror episode.
People like you and me who willingly participated in a public funded study. If Pfizer did not anonymize the data from the beginning that is foolish at best.
Spring Native – Native Executables using GraalVM Image Compiler
Not really. Just personal experience. And I think that's the key point here - coming up with a design that is fit for the world (wide web), and not just academically viable.

I suppose the evidence I would give to back up my statement is that if it was well designed, it would have been adopted. As it stands, I only find it is supported among the more distinguished services that I use.
It is quite difficult because indeed everyone has a profit motive to shill. The only way I could get a good read on anything was by experimenting with the tech.
This looks great, congrats! I’ve tried a number of photogrammetry software and they typically had challenges. One question: are you able to determine the size of the object?
also shouldn't be confused with this old bumblebee project, in which a space makes a large difference in what is rm -rf'd:

https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/issue...

comments on commit are also legendary: https://github.com/MrMEEE/bumblebee-Old-and-abbandoned/commi...
As house prices drop, more people will try to buy full-sized single family homes and the least desirable houses fall faster. You could get a 10% drop in house prices, but these split lot houses could fall 50% or more, just like condo prices.

This happened during the housing crash of 2009. I know first hand, my own condo dropped by more than 50%, which I did a strategic default on.
How did you set yours up?
> People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will.

This depends on what you mean by servers.

Nobody wants to pay money for dedicated hardware and experience service interruption if they fail to constantly provide it with power and internet.

But a lot of the need for "servers" could be eliminated by running a Tor onion service on your phone and accepting connections from peers. You can get e.g. direct messaging from this without any "servers" of your own, but also without any Facebooks playing MITM between you and your peers.

> A protocol moves much more slowly than a platform.

I could make two criticisms of this.

One, sometimes stable is good. We all whinge about the decades-old protocols that were designed for mainframes the size of buildings with less memory than a toothbrush, but now try to think of something you want from current day Reddit that you didn't get from ten years ago Reddit. Maybe the problem is some things got frozen before they were cooked, not that stability is bad once you have something that works.

Two, a lot of this is survivorship bias. If it's easy to push changes to all the clients you're either already centralized or you're susceptible to EEE. Protocols like that got absorbed into some centralized product already, so the ones that are left are the ones with more protocol implementations than there are tech companies. Then if there is any problem with the protocol at all it's impossible to make changes, but that's the very reason it's still in use.

If the other protocols eventually get replaced by something centralized, that eventuality only comes after the defects become fatal. When they're so bad that the problems exceed the network effect. But that's also the same time when you can release a new protocol version and people will adopt it for all the same reasons. You just need the replacement to be another protocol instead of a platform.

> Recreating this world

This seems to be a problem. We know generally what we want, e.g. P2P to the extent possible and completely fungible untrusted commodity servers when it isn't.

Then the people writing the code are also the people running the servers, so they're willing to write code that makes the servers stop being fungible and untrusted and we're right back where we started.

> This might suggest that decentralization itself is not actually of immediate practical or pressing importance to the majority of people downstream, that the only amount of decentralization people want is the minimum amount required for something to exist, and that if not very consciously accounted for, these forces will push us further from rather than closer to the ideal outcome as the days become less early.

Nobody cares about decentralization until the centralized entity becomes adversarial or unreliable, but then it's too late. The time to start caring about fire safety is not when you are already on fire.
The names of all countries that are written in any right-to-left languages (e.g. Arabic or Hebrew scripts) are written backwards. They should be right to left, but the letters are shown left to right.
What did you find misleading about the bar chart?

Do you really think there was a 5x increase in climate disasters between 1st and 4th decades as indicated in that chart? And doesn't this suggest to you that there might be something just a bit... "funny" about the data as a measure of events happening in the real world?

It's still more of a personal criticism of the guy

It's based on the content of his writings. Nothing personal about it at all.
The iPad just isn't a good computing device if you start processing files in any way. Web browsing isn't that great either since ad blockers don't match those on MacOS browsers.

I travel by motorcycle a lot, and though luggage space is scarce, I still pack my laptop with me. My iPad is a great reader and drawing tablet, but it's not a work machine.

I've tried a Surface tablet too, but it was terrible as a tablet and as a computer.
This is really awesome. I grew up with a lot of interest in phreaking, lived right at the end of Mt. Pony Rd on the opposite end of the road as the federal reserve, and had no clue about any of this.
I work with more than 20 engineers.

Our biggest problems stem from abstraction A built on abstraction B, built abstraction C, built on abstraction D.

Specifically, the abstractions are material UI, our component library in react, react data grid, and an app specific for any of it.

For end users, they want a table. TypeScript provides the logistics to make this sprawl predictable, albeit with a 500ms delay on user input.

CSS isn't a problem: it is the solution. That's why I'm working to get our tech debt paid upfront and upstream with it.
Also imagine the negotiating power the NHS has to buy drugs and treatments and machinery vs. a single hospital.
Yeah, you just change the RPC URL:
https://docs.metamask.io/guide/rpc-api.html
True and so far it builds in a somewhat crude manner that doesn't leave spaces for those other things without assistance. But hopefully over time the techniques will become more sophisticated. It also might be useful for making accessory structures and garden walls that are 90% complete since they don't need much else. I'd love to have access to one for a day to build some raised beds and most of a shed.
> Trying to pretend that we're going to vaccinate our way out of this is nuts, it's just whak-a-mole.

I had to explain this recently, people still believe "Vaccine is freedom" and "Vaccine is the solution", because "people are less likely to end up in hospital". Maybe that's true, but hospitals are still full, new cases are still as high as ever, vaccine effect is getting weaker in short time and variants are coming up.

We need something else. More early treatment, limit mass spreader events.
I disagree in varying degrees with all of your points, but I'm going to pick on this one because it speaks to a certain elitism and bubble thinking that's been increasingly rampant on this topic.

>WFH as the default.

The percentage of the population that can actually do this is much smaller than I think people realize. That percentage is highly over-represented on this website because we're part of the Laptop Class, and privileged as such. Regular people in the vast majority of the country, working hourly wage jobs and the like, cannot do this. Manufacturing, what's left of it in this country, cannot do this (fanciful aspirations of an impending automation revolution aside for a moment, and hey someone has to manufacture and install the robots). This is to say nothing of the fact that most people who aren't wealthy do not have the space at home to facilitate actually working from there.
Interesting essay on public stairs that showed up a month ago here on HN: https://tinyletter.com/HenryGrabar/letters/highway-expansion...
Insuring against the cost of insurance itself in Revolutionary-era America