skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the comments are from the point of view treating the phone as a desktop to use directly with is not very nice experience.

I want to treat the "old" phone as a server: 8 cores , 6 GB Ram, UPS, plenty of storage(expandable), Low power consumption
, small form factor, redundant network 4/5G+Wifi, has built in screen and "keyboard" for time when you need to do debugging.

Does others experience with this kind of setup?
What services are you running ?
Sliver – Adversary Emulation Framework
There are cheap trackers from aliexpress that can be used in place of airtags. Most include GPS and use mobile internet for sending location updates. May be the airtags made tech based stalking more popular but will it reverse just because Apple takes it back. Also its not like finding where someone lives is a particularly difficult task given the ridiculous amount of information there is online. And as for the public transit example, may be all they have to do is wait till the victim gets down the from the bus to find out where they live ? (I mean it is public transit after all).
New Dell Latitude's CPU severely throttled on Linux systems (ongoing issue)
Well, yeah, ideally I'd like an UBI-like system, so that one can moderate Reddit full time, and still pay rent and groceries. But letting that aside, do you think that all volunteers are in fact exploited? Or just these examples, because effectively they help someone else make money for free?
I started my devops career path in 2017 by looking over the shoulder of a woman working on her laptop on the train. She had a tmux session on one side of the window, and a doc page open for something called kubernetes on the other. I googled it, and here I am now.

Funny how it all works.
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While I don't attempt to solve life problems by creating a database and writing a bunch of code, I think you're going a bit overboard.
Ok, turns out I was "Rate Limited" for opening too many Tabs with Twitter.
All electronic. No springs, use weights and magnets.

Power it by solar and LTO batteries. Double or triple redundant key sensors.

A full redundant copy of the firmware and automatic checking and repair of anything going bad, or better yet an ASIC(I think a RISCV synth with samples in mask rom could still be cheaper than somw high end pianos...)
This reminds me. I am about to go to bed and have not brushed my teeth.
Ask HN: Do you consider ageism in tech to be a bad thing/unjustified?Why?
I was reading this thread about ageism at IBM: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-execs-called-older-workers-dinobabies-in-age-discrimination-lawsuit-2022-2

And I can't help but think that it kind of make sense to me?
Honestly if I'm still an employee by the time I'm 35/40, then I messed up somewhere.

Your memory certainly isn't going to improve with time, it can only get worst AFAIK, sames for the number of neurons, your brain elasticity, your capacity to learn new stuff. For instance I can honestly say that my dad learned less in the past 12 years than I learned in the past 12-24 months, even when he puts his mind to it just doesn't work that well anymore.

In most cases you're going to be out of touch with young people(whether customers or employees), I think it's +/- inevitable and it's going to happen to me too at some point, that's just the circle of life.

Now this may come off as really evil, but you're also more likely to get sick or hurt yourself. Do I want to have carpal tunnel syndrome or osteoarthritis from typing 8 hours a day for the last 40 years? Not really...

You've most likely got less stamina too.

Statistically speaking you're less likely to change your mind on any subject, even if you want to, the older you get the more your beliefs are fixed, and the harder it is to change in any area. Not saying it's impossible, just harder.

Is there any non-emotional reason that causes people to think it's actually a bad thing?

Of course I don't think older people are worth less than younger people as human beings. I just think in a lot of cases it might not make sense business-wise to hire them/keep them.
Hard disagree here.

My days are long and full. And as a somewhat introverted person it takes additional energy to remember to keep in touch with people. Even those that I like very, very much.

So it helps to have a reminder and something that actively pushes one to do so. Not every person in the world is wired the way you are.

Jakobs approach is basically a more automated calendar. Plus, he is actively making an effort to keep in touch with people he deems important enough to be in his life. Its not as if he is sending automated messages to them.
Thus the security model of DOS is still a problem even without internet connection.
Any tips on how to solve them?
I start off with words like 'piano' and 'lemur' to get some idea of which characters to include, but after that it just seems like a brute force challenge?

E.g. let's say 'piano' gives you 0/1 and 'lemur' gives you 1/0, how do I proceed from there?

I'd know that the word will contain one of 'lemur' in that exact position, and none of the others. Likewise one of 'piano' but not in that position.

So the number of combinations possible right now is 5x(5x4)=100, each with 3 open slots that can contain 26-8=18 other characters. So 100x18x18x18=583200 options.
And I only have a few guesses left.

So let's see if we can narrow it down with a word like 'jumpy'. I'm already screwing up now because I've used the letters 'u' and 'p' before already. Let's say 'jumpy' returns 0/0.

Did this narrow a lot down for me? I now know that we can ignore p and u, which means our options went down from 583200 options to 216000 options.

If I keep this up, I might get down to roughly 14000 options by the final line. Granted that only a few of these will be valid words, but still more than enough options to randomly guess.

So far I have not been able to get more than 1 letter correct.
Usenet was pretty magical back in the 1990s. It had none of the problems that this article points out.

The closest thing it has to a modern successor is public-inbox. Demand that your forums provide a public-inbox archive.

http://public-inbox.org/README.html

It stores the entire discussion history in a git archive. You can git-clone discussions, and then git-pull just the new stuff. It applies git's brilliant "everybody has a copy of the whole repository, not just the guy running the CVS server" to discussions.

sr.ht and kernel.org use this for their mailing lists.
> One can not forget about friends, one can only stop caring.

You seem to use forgetting in a sense that is akin to erasing a person from your past, as if they never existed. That’s very drastic. People do forget to reach out not necessarily because they don’t care but because things slip their mind. Life happens. Stress happens. The proximity isn’t that close anymore. And so on. Isn’t setting up a system like this not a good effort on their part? An example of them caring enough to make sure their relationship stays alive? “Don’t be a stranger” sometimes takes a bit of work. So why not use tools that can help with that?
I grew up moving a lot before email was ubiquitous.

Also all my family is overseas.

As a kid I would try so hard to stay in touch and it never worked. The harder I tried the more it hurt for those attempts to fail.

But I'd see family once a year or so and we'd catch up and it was always wonderful.

I think about people all the time, but it doesn't trigger my reaching out.

It's like a really deeply ingrained learned helplessness or generalized relational despair.

Some people for a variety of reasons, some cognitive, some environmental, don't have their internal desires intrinsically tied to the psychological pressure to take action.

Due to surgeries and anesthesia I also developed aphantasia, so anything short of in person interactions feels quite hollow.

Be glad your experience in life is healthy and normative, for some of us it takes effort.
Someone made a tool for this purpose: https://github.com/monicahq/monica

"You may call it cheating but considering my poor memory, I call it caring."
Interesting. I’ve got to say, a bit cold, but I agree that is definitely better than no reach outs at all.
would have expected a plain text aproach.
VR was tried a few decades ago(by Nintendo I think), it was a failure

VR was tried again a few years ago, it got quite successful
If I write my friend's birthdays on a calendar, prompting me to contact them on their birthdays, do you think that's treating them as assets not friends? If not, what is the relevant difference?
Hence "Nearly all of our glyph's can be written as is on a 7 segment display..."

You have to admit, almost all of them can be. Including the numbers. There are a few exceptions of course.
> where people are understanding and discerning between fact and fiction if we're ever to do things better.

Which bits of the linked news article were fiction?
Depends on accent. In my NZ accent, "oryx" doesn't sound much like "are-ricks" at all. To me oryx and aurochs sound similar enough I can imagine people confusing one unfamiliar hoofed animal for the other.
> The CDC page has a literal pile of primary source research and data. https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/seco...

There's certainly some interesting stuff there, but it's very clearly written with a heavy bias and very clearly not a primary source (indeed they state explicitly that their second-hand smoke estimates are based on unpublished data, which seems like a huge red flag).

> Do you really want to know the answer to the question you asked? You can find the answers without talking to me.

I am genuinely interested, just common-sense sceptical. Even heavy smoking is not that deadly (especially compared to something like cars - just looking at the impact on people I've known personally). The idea that there would be this huge mortality impact from the much smaller level of smoke exposure that second-hand smokers get just doesn't pass the sniff test. If I take the report you linked at face value, I'm supposed to believe that second-hand smoke kills fully 1/10th as many people as actual smoking - but most of the risks of smoke exposure are linear, and there's just no way that people are breathing in 1/10th as much tobacco as second-hand smoke as actual smokers do. So something stinks.

> Cars have high value in addition to their risks. Cigarettes have no value.

This is your fundamental assumption that's been going unspoken until now, and it's the part I'm taking issue with. Cars don't have a lot of value, IMO. And you're simply ignoring the fact that many people enjoy smoking, or you've decided it somehow doesn't count. It has a lot of value to them, that's why they do it.

Of course if you start by assuming that the value of smoking is zero then you'll reach the conclusion that the cost/benefit isn't worth it. But you could justify banning anything that way (I'm sure there's not a single thing in existence that has absolutely zero health risks associated with it). And I'm pretty sure the decisions about what things are zero value are being made mainly by classism (probably not intentionally, but just because the people who contribute to this kind of public health report come almost exclusively from a particular class).
Eve's selling point is people causing problems. I guess that's a way of dealing with that.
May be it will finally let Linux distros have a teeny tiny foothold on mobile ? May be the stuff that is difficult today - interfacing with the hardware can be delegated to the native OS and guest OS can focus on providing more features.
I bet you could do a poll asking HN if they'd work for Amazon and most people would have reservations.
If there are no snakes, it is likely there are small mammals around such as those that might have made you sick.
It appears that you feel strongly about this and that is ok.

I would only ask you to please be kind to people who do not share your experiences, social skills or background, e.g. introverts, people suffering from social anxiety, people who are on the spectrum or have ADHD... Hundreds of millions of people, who are fully cable of caring, loving and having close friends, yet have trouble maintaining friendships not because they are bad friends, but because their brains and emotions work differently through no choice or fault of their own.

If such a tool can help someone maintain a close friendship that would otherwise have fizzled, then that tool has made the world a slightly better place.

I don't expect this to change your opinion, but it might be useful to hear a different perspective.
It’s not a tech thing and is not sociopathic. Sells have been keeping cards on their customers for centuries and a whole category of software exists for that, CRMs. I personally can’t remember the names and ages of all the children of all the people I interact with. I still take the time to take notes about it when I can and review them before seeing someone. I still think it’s better than not caring at all.

Reading the comments on this discussion it seems that a significant part of HN is suddenly discovering that fostering relationships and keeping a network alive actually requires work.
Yeah that's sad. My take was just that the problem is not caused by the transport protocol.
Why Ruby is still valid choice in 2022
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> but because I genuinely have a hard time finding enough time for all the things that matter in life.

Mate. It takes seconds to send a simple text message/mail "Hey, how're you doing?" while sitting on the toilet.

Everyone sits on the toilet, quite regularly.
With all due respect, that sounds more like numerology after the fact.

7 segment font has been designed to work with 7 segment display designed to accommodate a simplified-lower-density English alphabet.

It's a typical engineering feat that says not much of the source alphabets/calligraphies: if you were used only to cursive, kurrent or gothic calligraphies, 7 segment is not much relevant.

If you are using greek alphabet, you also get into trouble to differentiate between latin and greek characters.

Not speaking of other languages representations.
Same here. It is slow though, since v10, but improving.
> We have a 26 letter alphabet

Who are "we" here?
This should induce criminal charges not against the software developer, it should induce charges against management and those that believed the data is enough for a conviction. Difficult case because that would also implicate judges and public prosecutors. Of course that will not happen, but they are guilty far more than Fujitsu.

A software error needs to be calculated for. This is technical reality that cannot be changed as of today. Of course that also implicates other industries like banking.

I don't think the UK government has enough money to compensate the people it wrongfully convicted. It is harrowing mismanagement that the software wasn't tested immediately before any conviction. Everyone failed here aside from the postmasters themselves.
At least for me when friendships/relationships become transactional it loses a lot of the value. This method of staying in touch feels _very_ transactional, and I just imagine sending some random person you spoke to a few times in high school/university a message every 6 months - 1 year.

Some people aren't meant to be in your life forever, and that's okay! However, there the people you choose to make time for will stick around.
Ghostbusters afterlife is a sequel. Came out November and was directly by Jason Reitman, Ivan Reitman's son.
I remember this one glider pilot who duplicated all instruments in his glider, so that he would never fail a glider competition day for technical reasons. And yes, he also had two yaw strings, this guy was r-e-a-d-y :)
Looking up "genetic distance" it seems there are many different measures, all seemingly expressing something more sophisticated than raw overlap. Perhaps the .12% is referring to something like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixation_index
What’s the alternative here? Stop contacting his friends unless he misses them? Also, why are you such a judgmental dick about it?
Thanks for that link! I was trying to remember what the number/theory was called.
What I am building is along those lines. It's more geared towards dashboards, and button-based interactions. But technically, you can code whatever. Right now it's a desktop app, cause then you don't have to deploy a server and screw around with CORS, and all that. All the people that use it so far use for internal apps, so they're fine with that.

https://www.jigdev.com

Let me know if that could be of interest, and if yes, what the tool is missing.
All bovines for meat production have to be free range during pasture season in Sweden. I believe the same is true for Ireland.

Anyway, grass fed pasture beef is a bit leaner, does have a strong flavour, but the tender cuts are still tender. It's not close to grass fed lamb w.r.t. gaminess.

Old egg laying hens are tougher and have thicker skin, yes. Just put them in a stew.
> CAS?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap

> My intuition tells me the VM provides a layer decoupled from the hardware memory model so that there is less "friction" and the GC is required to reclaim shared memory that C++ would need to "stop the world" to reclaim anyhow! (all concurrent C++ objects leaks memory, see TBB concurrent_hash_map f.ex.) That means the code executes slower BUT the atomics can work better.

I dunno about the GC bits; after all object pools are a thing in C++ so you have a consistent place (getting a new object) where reclamation of unused objects can be performed.

I think it might be down to mutex locking. In a native program, a failure to acquire the mutex causes a context-switch by performing a syscall (OS steps in, flushes registers, cache, everything, and runs some other thread).

In a VM language I would expect that a failure to acquire a mutex can be profiled by the VM with simple heuristics (Only one thread waiting for a mutex? Spin on the mutex until its released. More than five threads in the wait queue? Run some other thread).
I’m curious what the author expected Amazon to do? Put him on paid leave as a brand new (expensive) employee?
Just ask Eric Schmidt. Oh, wait. Whacky parsed as ad making sites. Nevermind. Didn't that guy write something about AI with another guy named Henry? Is AI trying to get us mad or get us laid? Somebody needs to write a program to figure that out and turn it into DoggyDuJourCoin. I heard you can make easy money doing that. It's all good. Who wants to bother with thinking when computers can do that for us now. I'm sure nobody is trying to take advantage of people who don't do that. #PTBarnum
at some point i started writing my own C++ based bot. some other guy did the hard work and reverse engineered the bits you needed to send to communicate with the server. my bot was able to log in and listen to spoken command from another character that was whitelisted. i could make the bot controlled character walk in any direction.

in the early days my internet was very unreliable, that meant a disconnect during hunting meant you got killed and loose not only 10% of your progress (thats easily 10s, 100s, ... of hours of work) but also loosing all your equipment. afterwards you had to rush to the spot where you died and hope you were the first to pick everything up. without your top equipment on you it happened more than once that I died again, losing another 10% of all your skill points.

learning to deal with frustration and anger on that level was an experience that was as painful as it was life-enhancing.
Why is marks new business venture bring advertised here?
They would be genuine and thoughtful if the system didn't rely on previously prepared notes such as "He publishes incredible posts on his blog".

This system is more akin to how a politician or salesperson manages personal interaction for maximum effect — there's a lof of method but little sincerity involved.

I'm not saying the system isn't useful to some degree, but this is a bit much for me.
I start by looking for related use cases that could be folded into the project. Then I design the UI. Then the architecture. Then finally, and with lowest priority and least amount of effort, the code.

I never do proofs of concept or throwaways or tests, because you can't test a whole architecture except by building it.

And I really don't care if each individual function is beautiful and perfect, it just has to be as good as I can get it without taking time away from unit tests, edge case handling, architecture, etc.

If the code is bad, I'll refactor it, if it's mediocre, I'll refactor it later, but I'm not going to rewrite and try to port over all the dozens of edge case handlers I've probably added, unless the whole thing is truly horrendous.

It is very messy and ugly to try to adapt something to have a UI with a completely different model under the hood, so I start with UI and workflow.
A very principled stance, I will take the same.
What's the difference again between hieroglyphs and ancient Egyptian? In any case, citing ancient alphabets is not a counter example, because by definition those alphabets would have been early on in the evolution of language before it had a chance to converge towards an optima.

Also this misses the point. The division of the letters into 7 segments or into some other system of segments or dots or something else is immaterial. The point is that a writing system will converge towards having as many distinguishable features per glyph as there are bits per character. Any curves or embellishment to a glyph that does not add more information can and will be ignored and forgotten. A glyph that reuses elements of other glyph's will be easier to learn and thus more likely to be adopted. The selective pressure on a writing system is to converge on something similar to the 7 segment display.
Sqlite supports recursive queries. It is clumsy and not too easy to write, but it works.

For syncing, what I did was to implement a simple automatic backup logic. Then if I want to move to a new device, I just copy the backup I want, which is just a sqlite db file, and restore it. It is not ideal if you are moving from device to device constantly, but it has the benefit that you can compare backups to see what exactly you have changed (I even wrote a tool to build graph visualizations from the output of sqldiff).
Not working for me (America).
Original meaning of genuine is that is original and truthful and not "looks original and truthful".

Also, you just make assumptions about the person and his motivations which speaks more about you than about him.

From the article:
> Most importantly, I always send the kind of messages I’d like to receive. They’re short, genuine, and (ideally) helpful. I never try to sell anything and there’s no agenda other than to keep in touch.
Nothing about that indicates that they are making more than they spend. Look at their assets vs liabilities. Their negative keeps increasing.