skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It got to the point, as a kid with a Hayes, that every time I mentioned a phone number, I prefixed it with ATDT.

Redialing to get into a bbs seems so long ago, but when a site starts melting under load or a merch drop, I realize the waiting game is played the same way, just in a new box.
Thanks for the term "COVID clingers", it gets the message across.
Cacklin'
A man behind the smallest V-12 engine in the world [video]
How lithographs are made
Were those not mostly lightweight MOTIF apps? RPi Linux distros running heavyweight GUI desktops are the problem.
This is classic bullying. A group of cowards get together and beat up some poor fella who can't respond in kind. I don't understand how did this become acceptable.
This might be great but the moving stars in the background meant I had to close the tab before I could find out.

I'm sure the developers just thought it was pretty but _argh_.

(note that I am judging myself for posting a comment complaining about a site design rather than anything meaningful but my visual processing is still screwed up several minutes later and I dearly hope somebody who reads this will avoid making the same mistake later as a result because -ow-)
I stumbled upon lichess.org just under 512kb in the blue team.
Now wonder it feels so fast. I love lichess.org.
Could you link to the articles about how much they hate trans people? I would see that as a strong indicator of hidden, ideological, partisanship — but I couldn’t find them.
Does not really apply to woke-mobs bringing down statues or burning books.
Tell that to management. As soon as they hear "P2P" they will decide to perpetuate the status quo that makes P2P hard, because P2P is evil and illegal in their books.

And we sit here wondering why the powers that be are not interested in faster IPv6 adoption. Few if any of the reasons we exchange on HN have any bearing outside of this bubble. A typical business in 2022 still has no incentive to embrace IPv6, facilitate P2P, or make the internet more decentralized.
What do you expect, it was $30...
ok, you got me. I am rethinking this a bit.. but, may I suggest changing "Northerners were quite racist" to be "Northerners were quite tribal" ? I think the survival of communities in those harsh days required more immediate survival interactions, and very importantly more cooperation in healthy child-rearing. Humans act in groups.
Narcissistic personality issues maybe?
Iirc, most of the gnu coreutil came from its locale handling.

It supports lots of different legacy encoding.
Yeah that doesn’t really make sense. Print is always measured in physical units: pages, columns, inches, etc. Type can be adjusted to fill this much space, so the character and even word counts are somewhat flexible. There are of course limits to the amount of adjustment that can be made, but even with none at all, proportional fonts means exact character counts would not be the right unit of measure to ensure a piece of writing fit an allotted amount of space.
> When I see people minimizing COVID, I wonder if they've somehow avoided seeing an excess death graph even once for the past year-and-a-half.

In the UK where I am from, I’m not entirely sure you would come to that conclusion - you would probably find that the first two waves caused significant excess deaths but the impact of the last wave has been much lower (probably from a combination of multiple factors).

Uk government data below, see “all persons” tab:

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiYmUwNmFhMjYtNGZhYS00N...

Looking at the (fairly low) excess deaths only tells half the story though - you also have to look at quality of living, which is undoubtedly lower in my view.
> It's not as if Tesla “flooded the market” either in that period.

You don't seem to be familiar with how long it takes to ramp up production of a 10000+ component product, based on a ground up design in just about every aspect.

Tesla, founded 20 years ago, sold 1 million vehicles in 2021, that's half of what Mercedes, a century old company sold in the same period.

> its main value is as a status symbol.

Go have a free test drive in one. And then in some other "cheap ones". All I have to say.
Agree. I've seen this insightful bon mot attributed to G. B. Shaw (though I can't find a reliable source):

English is one of the easiest languages to speak badly, but one of the most difficult to speak well.
I have a theory that the 'trick' here is that the battery isn't rechargeable... Not yet at least...

For a PR stunt, they put lithium–manganese dioxide or some similar chemistry into a tesla. They're not rechargable, but they have a very high energy capacity.

They'll obviously have a lab furiously working on trying to make a rechargeable version... But for now, this demo is great for getting investment.
> I think most corporate network should be able to do pure IPv6 internally, and then tunnel to IPv4 at the gateway.

With the amount of legacy applications and systems populating the typical internal network that idea won't be going far.

Where IPv6 actually can be used and should be deployed in addition to v4 is in the perimeter networks. Offering or being able to use services on the internet over v6 (via proxy) overcomes the real shortage of ipv4 addresses in the internet at large.

I expect internal networks to be last places to be moved to IPv6 only.
>expensive in the long run due to pole replacement and tree maintenance,

Not compared to burial. The cost is up front (not amortized) and is a big enough multiplier that it won't overcome maintenance costs, especially when including buried repair/maintenance costs, which are significantly higher than overhead, even taking into account the lower frequency. (Tree roots, dug-up lines, cathodic decay and leaking conduits, necessary relocations, etc, all happen.)

There's nothing preventing the adoption of buried electrical today except the customer's willingness to pay for it.

New neighborhoods and houses that want it, pay for it. Simple as that. And nothing prevents replacing existing overhead except it becomes a 100% unnecessary cost, once overhead has already been installed.

>...and all it takes is a slight increase in capital expenses for installation to replace them with underground

>slight

4-10x upfront install cost. Higher in urban environments. Not slight.

If it paid for itself as you claim, why are companies almost universally making an irrationally expensive decision?
> I live in the city

Then you probably don't need a car, unless you have special needs or your city is some car-centric shithole (like, sadly, most cities outside the Netherlands are to a point, even in Europe, which often gets praise from US bike/public transport advocates).
I believe Maven supports this, but I don't know if it's turnkey like cargo docs.
Glassdoor is super useful & also just great entertainment
For 2) hypervisors usually have compatibility with select older devices such as the E1000 network adapter (and other older ones even) enabling older systems to interface without needing anything special for virtualization on older guests. There is also of course nothing preventing folks from continuing to add drivers for newer/more efficient virtual adapters, after all they already wrote the OS and the virtual adapters have open source implementations to base off of. Between the two of these methods drivers are pretty well covered as is.

3) is already part of the FreeDOS installer.

4) Is best left to some other project(s) both from a scope perspective as well as the legal perspective you mention. Particularly for modernizing the installers. DOS software collections are quite easy to come by, particularly with organizations like Internet Archive.
Personally I use fastmail.com and I am happy with the service, but it costs $5/month so I am not sure that is what you are looking for.

You could self host, but setting it up is a time investment and probably not worth it unless you have fun doing it
Avoid converting all freemium accounts and just add the Google Apps marketing tag line to every email. I'd be good with that.
I got the context. But can someone explain how this is funny?
> But there's no substitute for diving into real texts, and there's not enough time in the classroom to do that enough.

True, but classroom is still necessary if you want to go beyond conversations in a more or les broken language. I often hear people complaining about school and arguing that you just need immersion in the culture. But looking at the grammar and the way the language works is invaluable to make sense of what you hear, truly understand it, and make progress beyond just repeating things you've heard already.
I don't have a specific reference but I'd say it's a common knowledge assertion based on the growth in the number of parameters in models over the last 10 years. There are lots of places where you can see how the number of parameters, especially in language and vision models, has increased, and find that the amount of training time quoted. Normally it's framed in terms of compute instead of energy.
CloudFlare tiered cache is now free BTW
> If the jobs are truly unnecessary, the company and society will stop paying for them.

This is a circular argument, isn't it? Why is the work necessary? Because society pays for it. Why does society pay for it? Because the work is necessary.

I reject it. Money != value.

> Raising a kid is the hardest job and work that I’ve ever done. I don’t get paid money for that…

That's a good example of a task that is valuable (in the real sense) but not work (since it is voluntary). Here is how I define "work": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30127704
You almost had it when you said “electoral politics”. But then you missed the mark. The entire federal system in the US is built to favor rural areas. From the 2 Senators/state where CA only has the same number of Senators as the least populous states in US, the Electoral College method of presidential voting where twice since 2000 the person with the most popular votes lost the election, and gerrymandering where the party in congress doesn’t represent the popular vote in nearly the same proportion.
ISTR a product or platform called Autonomy in that approximate time period that was centered on intelligent agents, is it the same company?
omg yes. adding this to my list of ideas: https://eugenekudashev.com/randomcoin/ideas.txt
Recoil 0.6
I admire the dedication to projects like this.

First you have to (or someone else has to) disassemble the original binary, since the original source code is usually long gone.

Then you have to actually go through the code to try to understand it all - this is difficult to do in a high level language, but even more so in assembly. Even if it's already disassembled and someone else has already added comments it's still not easy.

If you don't already know the ASM language being used, you have to also learn that as you go.

Only once you have a complete understanding of the ASM code can you even begin reimplementing it in C.

Then you have to test it and make sure it actually functions like the original.
I prefer to use explicit return statements everywhere -- for greppability.
Isn't a race to the bottom a good thing? I want cheap backups.
Ok that Fallon clip is really bizarre reminds me of the one million pixel website episodes of late-night.
And it’s NOTORIOUSLY hard to attribute effective metrics to IT.

From a security standpoint (because that’s my wheelhouse), if you’re not under attack, your metrics suck, if you chase tickets, a lot of them get closed without effective resolution.

We’re not manufacturing widgets, and can’t earn that bonus by making 10% more widgets.
Please make your substantive points without crossing into personal attack, which degrades discussion and evokes worse from others.

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That plus just having to deal with all of those different personalities. Sick people can be incredibly difficult to deal with. I was in the hospital for an extended period a few years ago. The nurse said she and her colleagues liked treating me. I asked why. She said “because you’re normal.”
Thanks! I used b2 before but it didn’t work well (or at all actually; it kept failing). This was years ago; I assume they improved so I will try again!

Edit; I knew I checked before; the pricing on b2 seems much higher? Am I missing something?

I am paying now including the restore bandwidth. But 25TB seems 125$/mo and then you pay for downloading it?
There’s nothing “bizarre” about comparing one part of a city to another, especially when the author themself describes NW DC as a bubble for the elite. They could have backed those claims up by walking through those neighborhoods as well, but they jump over to Virginia instead.

I’m sorry to tell you the author’s “usual fare” does not impress me as nuanced or insightful.
I've come across three people regarding NFTs. People who trade them and don't care whether it's bullshit or not, and hope they will come out ahead in the end. People who are very hyped about them but don't know anything about the actual technology. And people who see some useful niche use-cases for them in the future.
> I sent couple of others to weekends in hotels with their SO after long sprints

It’s a bit odd you’re setting your employees up to maintain their sex lives but I’m sure they appreciate the forced time off after stressful times
> While the stdlib sadly remains out of it (long-standing RFC 2324[0]), cargo doc will otherwise generate the documentation including all dependencies by default.

It's probably mentioned in that issue, but I'm sure I read recently they want to crate-ise `std`; at which point presumably `cargo doc` would show it like anything else, wouldn't even know the difference? (That was even the motivation iirc, just for a different part of cargo, not doc.)
Bugs, issues, problems are part of any new system being designed/ built. In my opinion, the bigger question is will Tesla fix these issues. They can take a headstrong view and say their product is best or they can iteratively fix the issues.
dpark: destroyed sydthrowaway
People who talk about how much they work don't work as much as they say.
Sure, but not for OP!
Also possibly of interest is CLK aka Clock Signal, an emulator that outputs a composite "signal" instead of pixels:

> Consider an ordinary, unmodified Commodore Vic-20. Its only video output is composite. Therefore the emulated machine's only video output is composite. In order to display the video output, your GPU must decode composite video. Therefore composite video artefacts are present and correct not because of a post hoc filter but because the real signal is really being processed.

https://github.com/TomHarte/CLK
I'll believe it when they allow independent inspection of the test vehicle pack. Until then, skeptical. Too many fake-it-until-you-make-it schemes and this could easily be one.
Major French computer store LDLC (and its subsidiary materiel.net) sells modern laptops with FreeDOS preinstalled (so you don't have to buy Windows). I wonder if that's something others do as well.
I use zoho. The free tier lets you use your own domain and so far that's been plenty for me.
It’s hard. At least for me, this is the hardest classes of employees to manager—-it’s much easier to get rid of somebody who is clearly failing or reward and further develop a high performer.

When I say uneven, I’m thinking of somebody who either: (a) is excellent at certain key aspects of their jobs but clearly below expectations in others to the point that it’s an issue, or (b) somebody who performs well but doesn’t always put in enough effort. In both cases, it’s subjective and difficult to determine that it’s to the point where intervention is required, because that’s usually an uncomfortable conversation. Often, you’re the first manager ever telling the person that they need to improve—-even if you’re not the first person to think there’s an issue. Typically, the other person will think you’re an asshole. As another commenter said, they may recognize later on that you were right but normally in the near term, you’ll have strained the relationship. (That’s why managers avoid those conversations. Sometimes it’s cowardice, sometimes it’s deciding that the juice isn’t worth the squeeze today.)

As for how to work on improvement, that always has to be case-by-case considering the issue and the personality. Sometimes the “stop doing that” conversation is enough. Sometimes coaching or mentoring or development experiences can help. If those don’t work, can you shift responsibilities around or find a different role that is a better fit?

Normally you try to gently do those things anyway before you have the direct conversation, and then hope the direct conversation provides some motivation/insight to take it more seriously.

If you’re on the receiving end of that conversation, I guess my advice would be to try to critically self-reflect and see if you can understand where your manager is coming from. If you can, then you’ve both got a common place to start from towards improvement. If you can’t, or you think they’re just being unreasonable about expectations, then it is probably time to move on or hope they move on quickly.
You're probably over thinking, like I say I was joking. The guy runs a satirical website with a sharp edge and his first two comments on this site were 'thanks, you're very kind', or some such. I thought the contrast amusing so posted as much.
There're two kinds of people: those who think life is a melodrama, and those whose moral opinions might be worth taking seriously
Yeah ok, thanks for your input.
FreeDOS is impressive. Had the occasion to use it after I ran DBAN on an old computer before sending it to a recycling shop. FreeDOS was even able to run the driver needed for the non-standard CDROM. It also is small enough to boot from a 3.5" floppy. It was a real trip down memory lane when software was a lot simpler - yet felt more substantial.
Like the Crypto AG affair, this is likely to be one of the major drivers of historical events in the next few decades.

I haven't finished reading this post yet, and I don't know much about cryptography, so it is somewhat risky for me to be summarizing it; but my summary is that Google's planned rollout of post-quantum-resistant TLS was aborted in November 02016 without explanation after only a few months rather than being continued for a few years as planned, apparently because it infringed a patent by Ding, even though it was based on a paper by Peikert that didn't credit Ding and thus didn't give any warning that a patent might be lying in wait. The plagiarism mentioned in the title is summarized just before the section "The concept of plagiarism":

> But 2012 Ding did reduce the LPR ciphertext size "nearly twofold", specifically replacing "one of the two ring elements" with "a binary string of the same dimension n", in the words of 2014 Peikert. The problem is that this isn't how 2014 Peikert was describing 2012 Ding; this was 2014 Peikert claiming this space reduction as something new, the result of an "innovation" in 2014 Peikert.

Though the post doesn't say this, the patent in question (https://patents.google.com/patent/US9246675B2) was filed in 02013 and issued in January 02016.

Bernstein explains that one result of this delay in deployment is that a great deal of TLS traffic that has already been captured and archived will probably be decrypted when quantum computers become available. He doesn't mention this, but I think this includes ciphersuites that claim "perfect forward secrecy".
issue `cargo doc` command to generate the documentation that will expose extension traits among other things. Not perfect, certainly. But together with rust-analizer and grep the generated docs cover all the bases.
This is not the case. Old music does good business. This has been a popular topic recently in the media e.g. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-killing-new-music/621339/
> Many departments are currently realizign they play a role in systemic discrimination, and those ratios help them understand how far they are from the mean.

I hope you realize this process started over 50 years ago. Most fields turned and are now dominated by women. The few fields that are still not dominated by women are probably that way for another reason than discrimination, women are far too good at taking over fields for some discrimination to stop them from doing so.
"Then you probably don't need a car... unless you live in a shithole aka pretty much anywhere outside the Netherlands"

lol
“Sell more albums”? I don’t even know where to buy albums anymore
> when Jobs came back to better control leaking of internal information and cut down on poaching

He also went further than that by illegally colluding with competitors to lower wages for employees. [0] [1]. What a great man.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/emails-eric-schmidt-sergey-b...

[1] https://9to5google.com/2012/01/27/court-filings-show-steve-j...
I am quite pleased with zoho feature rich and modestly prized. The nice thing is that zoho.com and zoho.eu are different entities.
I've developed a simple, two way SMS gateway which was connected a Debian (3.0) box to a Nokia 7110 via a serial cable. Everything was done via Hayes / AT command set. I still have the PDF containing the details for particular phone.

The system it connected would send an SMS for certain events and take certain actions for received SMS.

Development of this system introduced me to Serial Port programming and serious Linux use in general, and I never left after that day.
This was actually a hoax that Vice fell for. Pretty sad.
I particularly enjoyed this tweet of it. https://twitter.com/retropetet/status/1487147720670269440
I have been bit by the lack of greppability for traits a few times. I love the trait system, but I wish there was a way to track back to definitions without relying on the IDE of the day. It reminds me of old C++ nightmare scenarios where the original developers would overload all the operators and bury all sorts of redefinitions in an endless hierarchy of includes.
My comment is already on the top of this topic, and seems to have resonated with enough people. That's really all I expect from my comment. Maybe a little change will come from that. On the other hand, maybe YOU should put in some work, because you are really coming across as the entitled white male you probably are. The question is, is the data you gain from adding this question to every form in the US really so valuable that it outweighs the damage done by enforcing the conception that you are all different and divided by race? I doubt it, but I don't know. Do you think you know?
Who is the poor fella in this analogy?

Rogan, who got paid $100M to do his podcast there?
Or Spotify, with a market cap of $32B?
> I dispute that. Many contributors to free software are doing so in exchange for money, either directly by being paid by their employer or allowing ‘sponsored features’, or indirectly by soliciting donations or through monetising their software through support contracts etc.

Sure, in the same way that an Amnesty volunteer could be an undercover CIA agent paid by the government. That, however, is not the community's main mode of operation.
>And yet, it seems as though we don't really care about hiring people from poorer backgrounds, maybe without college degrees, etc.

That's why these narratives are so attractive to the already rich and privileged. It deflects fault/polarization from their own classism. It's not your rich parents that are the benefactors and perpetrators of socially corrosive capitalism. It's some amorphous "whiteness" that is usually a proxy for poor white people.