skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not really convinced that the market value lost by Spotify has anything to do Neil Young. It’s much more likely that it’s just general market trends - the same thing has been happening to most tech stocks over the last couple of weeks
I know, but potholes that damage your suspension? Maybe if you're driving 400 in your bugatti.
I’ll need to play with this. I need to also revive my vm that was running OS/2 Warp so I could play the original version of Galactic Civilizations.

I know archive.org has running classic games in the browser, but I wonder how many will run under FreeDoS.
I tried many software tools, but none satisfied me.

Nowadays I use pen and paper: I write down at most 5 or so items I need to work on. At most 5 so that I can remember them later on. Then immediately after I write them down, I throw the paper to the bin. The whole point of writing my list down is that writing has a different effect on me than just thinking.
Aren't PWA's vulnerable to browser extension attacks?
I don’t know about that.

I had an interview very early in my career with a financial services company that lasted two days. I spoke with 12 (!!!) people. All of them asked me the same questions, and very few of the interviews were technical in nature.

What I learned from doing that is that they need a LOT of people to do anything, i.e., everything gets done slowly there.
It's also missing the my favorite children's animated series "Alfred J. Kwak" [1]. A Dutch-Japanese collaboration notable for it's exceptionally mature treatment of very difficult topics such as apartheid, environmentalism, inequality, doping in sports, facism, etc.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Kwak

Edit: After seeing the series, Tove Jansen allowed the same Dutch-Japanese crew to animate the Moomins in a Dutch-Japanese-Finish collaboration. [2]

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin_(1990_TV_series)
You can take the state of Tamil Nadu as a counter example. A lot of welfare schemes have photos of politicians both dead and alive. Mostly presented in a way that implies the old guard is passing on something to the new one. It's there in a lot of other states come to think of it. But of course no one did it to such an extent at the national level than modi. Almost every other scheme is under his name
So either we have to limit all speech or no speech? There's no middle ground?
The terminal isn't aware that you're, for example, using an indent because the help text of an option should appear indented from the option it's explaining. So the line wrap will go into the next line and ruin the readability.
This.

As a repair shop, how do you warranty one of those Alibaba panels? I've received defective ones from the factory.

When removal carries a significant risk of breaking the device and the only spares are bootleg, the repair shops wind up paying the price.

Customer comes in, pays for a replacement panel, the replacement is defective and removal is potentially destructive. So now you don't get to return the defective panel to the vendor for a replacement.

Who buys the second panel and covers the work of disassembly a second time? Because the bootleg panel was faulty.
Tesla is sort of the real world version of that old "why don't we build cars like we build computers" joke from the 90s.
Looks like Rust is missing something like hoogle. The language's types are barely powerful enough for it to add value, but it's certainly on the "adds value" side of the divide.
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/uu5jJ

This seems like a bad idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Disadv...
India doesn’t produce a lot of consumer goods. However, there is a good chance that the lab equipment and chemicals used were manufactured there. For some reason, most drain caps in the US happen to come from scrap iron mills in India..
People cannot code if you ask them to do something they don't understand.

I have seen people who have none of step, if and loop basics nailed down sitting in C++ class and be very frustrated why nothing they do is "correct". They hope get lucky and get their program right by throwing some things at the wall. That is because they have never experienced successfully putting multiple simple steps together in a list to achieve something meaningful.

Play some kid games where you need to put in steps, if statements and loops to move some character around obstacles. Need to give time to intuitively understand and develop curiosity about what is possible next. Then learn what is an API and what can be done when interacting with those. Then go to overview of a code file, variables and Hello world.

When people are clueless and you say it is "simple" - It is over. Few minutes later their brain starts blocking everything that looks like code to preserve their ego and they lose all interest.

That is result of skipping basics not giving a week to feel good about successfully playing some game with steps, ifs and loops. Going forward while still clueless and before interest for next step is in place.
Oh fun, which startups are those?

Real estate on the blockchain is my favourite bad blockchain idea because if someone loses access to their wallet they presumably lose the ability to ever sell their house.
Okay, but why start with Joe Rogan instead of Eminem?

(I’m not advocating for either, but Eminem regularly says far worse things than Joe)
A personal bane of my existence is WSL’s lack of ipv6 support. You can’t even use WireGuard and ipv6 because it’s missing some kernel options.
There's a lot of interesting Greaseweazle-y floppy development being done at Adafruit right now. Some days they're posting multiple videos a day showing progress updates.

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Floppy

(here are some representative posts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQvzZKNvRM0

https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/01/16/5-25-floppy-reading-wit...

John Morris's Applesauce floppy disk controller hardware and software project continues to add functionality.

https://applesaucefdc.com/what-is-applesauce/
Since you (apparently) can read it, page 15 frame 12 of the book (in the original link, he's "cutting" a potato with the knife's handle). Is that lambda calculus? My understanding is that "К" in Cyrillic is the same "K" sound as in the Latin alphabet, but it looks like a typical lambda calculus expression: λ x . x (identity function). And it makes sense, cutting a potato with the handle leaves it unchanged.

I'm just curious why the symbol К is used (visual similarity to λ?) and wondering if there are other similar lambda calculus jokes or references in the book.
Sorry didn’t see it.
That’s true (for now), and hopefully this is just a first step. As that, it does have other perks too. The Dewalt adapter is 2-way, allowing you to use existing batteries to power USB-C devices.
I have an EV, but only because I can charge it away from home. My office has free charging, which is great.
Good point. This article uses quasi-experimental methods and finds important partisan differences in Swedish local government: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40283092?seq=1#metadata_info_ta...
Its strange you say that. Strict gender roles is considered a conservative thought in the US. Thinking of gender as a fluid thing would be considered leftist view.

The introspection of gender roles, as in it being a social construct we can examine and change is also a leftist view, so maybe you're getting that from the fact we're discussing sex and gender at all?
TFA:

> Jumpstick is probably one of the best alternatives to StumbleUpon as it closely reassembles the popular one-click exploration experience.

ITYM "resembles".
The stock price has been trending down for the last month, along with the rest of the market. I don't think this issue has had much of an impact.

It's ironic that these Sixties artists who sang about freedom from "the man" are now trying to force a giant corporation to censor another artist.
At the risk of overinterpreting your comment, I think most religious people would be surprised to see their religion characterized as an ersatz government social service.
But this is only because everything mainstream that is P2P uses some kind of a centralized relay server. P2P would be much much cheaper for everyone if everyone used IPv6, so it makes a difference.
Again, this is not about you. I get that you have an opinion. But if you want it to be more than one anonymous goof's quirky and apparently uninformed disposable niche social media comment, you're going to have to put in the work.
Did you know the term was coined in a satirical book about a dystopian society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
Because they outsource to the U.S., and for the U.S. customer there is no difference between Germany or Ukraine. In Ukraine they also pay a lot less (if any) taxes than they do in Germany. Plus, you can exploit people more in Ukraine for sure (they are happy anyway because they routinely get 20x the median income in their area, by the age of 40 it's typical to be independently rich and exit active work).

And no, these services are not 'cheaper' - people who want it cheaper, hire Indian companies.
> Americans don't want these jobs.

They don't want these jobs at the current pay rates. Let's not forget the most important qualifier here.
If developer was a Business, they might try asking for mediation: "If you are a developer based in the EU and you offer goods or services to consumers located in the EU, you may also apply to resolve a dispute with Google Play through mediation." [https://support.google.com/legal/answer/9792937]. No such luck for open-source developers.
Looking forward to when R Kelly pulls the "Remix to Ignition" from Spotify to protest Joe Rogan.
The driving experience in an EV is objectively better, on the whole, than a gas car. The climate factor doesn't weigh into the driving experience. It's the instant torque, the always-full-in-the-morning home charging, the lack of smell and noise, the easy maintenance, and (in the case of Tesla) the in-car computing environment.

It's not about the "smug" or "halo" factor. If it were, why would so many people be lining up to buy the electric F-150?
> I'm sure the folks at F-Droid would be happy to host the app,

Empirically yes:)

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/rkr.simplekeyboard.inputmeth...
Were tilt sensors a damage prevention thing? I always assumed it was just an anti-cheat
So is the problem that they aren't acting sooner or that they shouldn't act at all? Because I don't see how an argument that bad stuff is happening invalidates people acting against other bad stuff.
I mean, the original purpose of NAT was to let you move hosts between networks without renumbering them. No one really does that though, your laptop or phone happily renumber themselves when you move networks.

No one's going to use NAT for keeping IPv6 between networks.
Hey, thanks for the comment.

> Excellent perception that sometimes depression isn’t caused by some chemical imbalance or childhood trauma. Life is often just hard, and sometimes you’re going to act like an jerk to try to cope. I’m not perfect, I suspect you’re not either.

At this point I actually don't care, I just want to train myself through practice to become more resilient, make better choices, have better reaction, and formulate better responses.

I just re-read what I just wrote and WOW! That sounds good. I must add to that:

Train myself to better navigate the gap between planning and executing.

> I have to break project sized work into smaller mini projects, or I get intimidated. I accept that I’m weak and easily distracted, I guess I’m treating myself like a child. Who cares as long as it works?

Good reflections. You might enjoy this book "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries" by Peter Sims.

> I also let people take advantage of my agreeableness. Only solution I’ve found is to change jobs every couple years.

LOL, welcome to my resume.

Merci (nice username)
True. I’ve switch jobs for learning opportunities that paid the same as I was already making. But the end goal was to stay for a couple of years so I could make more money somewhere else.
So your complaint against Japanese carmakers is that they aren't trendy enough? Not nearly as bad as the rest of your examples. What about the Koreans?
This is generally what physical security comes down to--making it impossible is simply not feasible. All you can reasonably do is make your stuff harder to get than somebody else's.
Why would they?

- IPv6 is basically an abandoned standard. I wouldn't expect them to support gopher either.

- Residential ISP support for ipv6 is spotty, and anyone who does offer ipv6 offers ipv4 as well.

- When it is supported, ipv6 tends to be substantially slower than ipv4 in practice.

- The addresses are a pain to look at and work with.

- You now have twice as many things to fail.
Glassdoor can be amazing at finding dirt on a company. ALWAYS sort by new. Many companies (unfortunately) incentivize their employees to write five star reviews. Those will show up first if sorted by Best.
Sure, but the Eastern Roman Empire isn't the Roman Empire, then, change my mind. (Said mostly unseriously, of course. Labels are just that.)

I did once take this dumb argument to the end that the Roman Empire never actually ended, it just ended up on an island with a different flag and then unceremoniously transferred itself to North America later. Then I learned Asimov had already done it.
Yes? That would be a step that would disrupt their current monopoly status.
> (in most US localities)

I agree, there are some, but is this in most of the US? That is what was claimed, without any backup.
I do not think that English is harder than any other language, but it is always difficult to learn a new language. We agree there too.

It seems to me the argument is a bit backwards. If the poster cares about promotimg language skills for integration, why not address that instead of moralizing on people for not learning the right language?
After the first time the binary is executed, it should be comfortably in the memory disk cache. And frankly, on a modern SSD, the sector size is large enough that the only difference is reading 3 instead of 1 sectors to call "ls". Barely matters if it gets batched.
You might be the only other person on the internet I've encountered who has noticed this phenomenon. Do you see it everywhere like I do (social media, personal conversations, journalism, politics, you name it)? And while most people dismiss it as "just people being people", doesn't it actually seem like an extremely big deal?
Democracy is a broad term. It can be used politically, but it can also refer to:

A) a leveling of access (ie, that ordinary people are able to participate in the process).

B) a rejection of "snobbish"-ness about a field or its participants.

A light, non-political definition of democracy is just taking something that is restricted and making it broadly available and accessible, or changing perspectives on that thing such that normal participation in or usage of that thing isn't looked down on.

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From a "political" perspective (although probably not political in the way people think when they hear the word), democratizing code can also be thought of as an assertion that ordinary people should have agency over what their computers do. By building no-code solutions or accessible coding environments that allow ordinary people to create and share solutions to their problems, we give them the ability to compete with us about what those solutions should be.

In other words, it's not that a group of professional programmers decide what your computer can do, you can decide what your computer can do, and you can share your solutions and creations with other people on equal footing with the professionals.

There is a kind of "power to the people" mentality bundled up in concepts like Open Source and Open access to code. On one hand, these concepts don't require you to share anything, concepts like Open Source and Open access in computing allow for people to create fully private software that is entirely individual. But these concepts also allow groups of people to promote ideas about computing and about engineering in the form of working software or scripts that other people can use, and that gives those people more of a voice in conversations about what computers should and shouldn't do -- conversations that in a more locked down world would only be happening inside of companies or inside professional circles.

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I'm certainly not trying to create charged language, and I get that people might read democracy as an explicitly political Right vs Left thing. That was not my intention at all. But my feeling is that "democratizing code" is a fairly common term that I've heard a lot over the years, even leading back to my childhood -- so it didn't really occur to me that people would read it any other way.

Always happy to clarify stuff like that though; and maybe you're right. I might be out of touch with the current climate and maybe the common usage of the term has changed.
You are absolutely right. It was not my intention to claim that you will get things right the first time if you just think hard enough. Iteration is needed very often.

What I've seen many times is "best practices" like this being thoughtlessly applied.

A react component that rerenders 20 times, but passes the test. A database with no indices, no problem (until the number of records grow).

Things like that can easily be defended with "no need to optimise prematurely" or "I wrote the least amount of code to make the test pass".
I think it's fair to be sad that greappability is being lost. But I also don't think we should limit ourselves to it; treating it as a design goal holds back the field. Languages can be much more powerful when they drop that constraint and assume the reader has (language-aware) tooling available to help them make sense of code.

I think instead we should focus on continuing to push the tooling forward. Language servers were an important step in this direction, freeing us from comprehensive IDEs, but I think that's just the tip of the iceberg. More recently we have Tree Sitter, and GitHub at least can do some basic semantic analysis of code right in their UI. How can we make it even easier to build tools that understand a language? And what new interfaces can we put on top of them? What about a CLI that lets you grep code at an AST level, maybe showing the types of the expressions it yields? What about a declarative format like TextMate that lets you describe the basics of how a type system is wired, so you don't have to craft a whole language server by hand?

Maybe there's also something to be said for designing languages to be "tooling-friendly", even if that doesn't mean "as plain-text". Lowering the bar for writing tooling that can have a semantic understanding of the syntax and types, etc.

There's lots to be explored here, in my opinion
It has been a long time since I looked at FreeDOS. When in it's nascent days I tried to get it running for some old DOS Games and couldn't get it to work. It may be a lot better now.

FreeDOS's main problem is that DOSBox can run almost everything in a modern OS backdrop. DOSBox CAN run windows 3.1 as well, and I believe Windows 95. And you can drop out of it to a modern networked OS whenever you need to. Sure it's less efficient, but there's now 100x (maybe 1000x) more power in the CPU.

For FreeDOS to really achieve its goals it likely needs several things:

1) works in a VM (which it appears to do)

2) runs almost all DOS software in a VM, this involves drivers that would enable long term VM compatibility. Do VMs have a "general networking driver" and "general video driver".

3) provide utilities for networking

4) ... this is the hard one:

FreeDOS would need to curate, collect, and provide collections of old DOS software with modern-friendly installers. The challenge here is legality and copyright.

Collections of WordPerfect / etc

Collections of the compilers / interpreters (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C++)

There are ongoing significant work in preserving Games with eXoDOS, but it's noteworthy that eXoDOS and eXoWIN (the 3.X windows preservation project) don't seem to use freedos at all.

As stated, DOSBox handles most DOS software. But one of the biggest emulation/preservation blind spots right now is the Windows 3.1 --> Windows 98 non-NT kernel software that was semi-DOS and semi-not. The programs could run roughshod on the memory space and APIs, but bridged to the gigahertz era of x86 CPUs. And x86 CPUs are a bear to emulate between all the modes and ISA extensions over the years.
https://paint-xp.com/min.html

It's MS Paint from Windows XP, ~700 KB in size in a single HTML file. Source code available here: https://github.com/assemblylanguage/xp-paint
I find that I’m beginning to see a trend. Perhaps an early one to the majority of people (millions of users rather than the internet literate hacker news people). And that is to hold a position “your information is bad” without saying what their basis for comparison is.

I’m all for people making a stand. But if there’s no rebuttal, I will remain unconvinced.
How about preemptively jailing all men in case some are murderers. Also a noble cause?
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I'd love to get all of your feedback, questions, and comments.
>I wonder why that is.

There are I believe issues with the memory manager and there is a sort of protection mechanism that actually prevents running Windows 3.1/3.11 also on newer MS DOS (aka the DOS 7.1/8.0 of Windows 98/Me, whilst the 7.0 from Windows95 should be able to run without patches), there are dedicated patches/programs for some of these (original MS) DOS versions, probably something similar is needed for freedos.

EDIT: for some reasons this post ended up after retrac's one that actually provides a solution
Neil Young? The same Neil Young that blamed gay people for aids?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTn9cHGPmUw
If it's legal, don't limit it.

Spotify doesnt have to actively promote it via suggesting to other users, but stopping unpopular speech all together is how we get things like the lab leak theory being suppressed then suddenly being ok a year later when the mainstream decides it is.
I wish I could even find an SEO specialist...they all seem to be missing something.