skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh oh oh! You mean like this?

http://www.oldskool.org/tales

> Fun with the Atari ST

> Fred Butzen writes:

> "Here's one of my stories. Not really old school, but it's funny.

> In the mid-80s, MWC wrote one of the first C compilers for the Atari ST -- the "Jackintosh", so called because Jack Tremiel (formerly of Commodore) designed it with Atari as a rip-off of the Macintosh. It had a GUI built around Digital Research's GEM interface. It had two floppies, a 68000 CPU, and 512 kilobytes of RAM -- which in those days was a lot of memory. To save money, the hardware was totally sleezy. From time to time it would simply stop working, and you'd have to open up the unit and reseat all of the chips in their sockets. If you were in a hurry, you'd just lift up the unit about six inches and drop it. A total piece of junk.

> Part of the savings was that the machine had no MMU and no parity on the memory. This meant that the machine was totally unreliable; however, it also meant that a kid hacker could do anything to the hardware, and there's no way the machine would stop him. (Mind you, that anything included smoking the tube, but that's another story.) For example, I wrote a little program that reset the base address of video memory to zero, which was where the operating system lived. (Video used RAM, of course, rather than memory on a separate card.) It was kind of cool, because when you ran a program that allocated memory -- say, a sort program, you could see the memory being allocated and deallocated on the screen. The difference between qsort and shellsort was really obvious just by the patterns they drew on the screen.

> Anyway, as a programming exercise I wrote a version of the game of life for this machine. It ran fine; however, I made one mistake: I forgot to set the clipping rectangle around the screen. So, the first time I built a glider gun, the glider went creeping off the screen, and just kept on going, crashing through memory. Mind you, there's no MMU, so the machine is still running while the glider is rampaging through memory. Because the 68000 used memory-mapped ports for its hardware, you could see where the glider was going because the disk drives starting running, the lights flashed on the keyboard, the tube blinked, and so on. Finally, the glider hit something really vital and the machine died with "streaky bombs" -- a sign that the operating system was really, really sick.

> Of course, I had to show this to all the other guys. We laughed ourselves sick watching that happen."

I have been wondering what those "streaky bombs" would have looked like for years!
Smaller portions. Eat whatever you want, just eat less of it. One of the best ways to do this is to avoid restaurants, or at least set aside half of the portion as soon as possible and save it for later; restaurant portions are insane, even at "healthy" restaurants. Get used to feeling a little hungry in the hour or two leading up to your next meal, and after a little while your stomach will shrink and you won't want/be able to eat nearly as much as before. From then on it becomes pretty easy; just avoid having access to bottomless, passively-delicious food that overrides your actual hunger senses, and you otherwise won't have much trouble sticking to reasonable portions.

(Speaking from personal experience of losing several tens of pounds over covid, due mainly to not eating out)
Rob here from Rownd. I just updated it, your feedback was spot on and I added a "try it now" button to the landing page.

Edit: Even better, I updated the call to action at the top of the landing page. Thank you again for your feedback!
Sounds just like my son. He's also on the spectrum, loves Kurzgesagt, and has a million "what would you do if ..." questions about hypothetical scenarios. He's 9.
I can’t understand why people are so attached to cords

In my case:

- one less battery to charge (on work trips in particular, I have a lot of devices/equipment that need daily charging)

- no worries about bluetooth synching or wireless interference

- less likely to lose

- better sound quality

To each their own.
If I understand correctly this RCE is mostly a big concern to hosts that don't make use of redis authentication, as eval is locked behind it? Some quick testing on my end suggests the eval command is parsed before authentication check but requires authentication for execution, but I may be wrong here.

In a perfect world we can all update immediately but when we still have some servers in Ubuntu 16.04..
If a deal is inked, you can post, but even then usually you’d check in about messaging. I think you were just super pumped :) but it’s still a faux pas.
I think a lot of programmers prefer not to use a mechanical keyboard.
If abuse is dealt with adequately (which is a tall task), this approach allows more worldwide discussions which is a productive mission.

Being able to remove ones self from heavily controlled corporate echo chambers is refreshing to thinkers that strive for objectivity.
It's not just you. Slack reports disruption
Ternary expressions have been around long before JavaScript was a twinkle in Brandon Eich’s eyes.
I read it as laundering gambling, not money. Gambling is illegal for children in most places and this is a way to make it legal.
Some people consider this added complexity?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30509806
> Before writing the resume I set out to find the ideal tool to write it.

Um, any word processor? Even a text file? A good resume is only a page long. Spending time researching the ideal tool, buying it, installing it, worrying that it is malware, learning how to use it, seems like far more time than just typing it in.

Heck, my early resumes were written on a manual typewriter. Then they became text files sent to a daisy wheel printer, which made them look very nice.
"resist the urge to do a hybrid slide, and if at all possible make presentation slides at front, reference/supplementary slides at back."

This has been my SOP for years, but its amazing how resistant some folks are to it (like $NUMBER_OF_SLIDES is the sole measure of quality...with "more slides are bad, mmmkay" being the default). I fought with my last boss on this endlessly, as I would rather have many slides with small digestible chunks of info that I could scaffold my presentations through at a brisk clip, and they preferred as few slides as possible, with dense text and charts, that they would elaborate on in long exposition.

I always got better positive feedback, to no avail. My decks would be 'edited' into a compacted slop-fest. Drove me batty.
Not to mention the iPhone App made by Reddit is that one giant sucking sound of your privacy.
Might be worth looking into Lyx also. It's a sort of WYSIWYG for latex.
Of course the situation is nuanced. But we're here to discuss territorial wars of aggression. Not to write a book on ages old cultural interactions. Taiwan and China are both separate sovereign states defacto. They have functioning governments and standing militaries. Any meaningful discussion about the issue has to start from there. Pretending the RoC military doesn't exist just because a bunch of people on the mainland feels like it doesn't actually change reality.

If the PRC wants to change that reality then that means military action at this stage. One China quickly looks like woo woo bullshit when Chengdus start falling out of the sky and Taipei 101 gets hit with a cruise missile.
Inflation happened during the first tiniest fractions of a second post big bang. No telescope is going to make direct observations of the inflationary period so I'm not sure what you mean by this.
Try 20hz for a bit and you might change your mind on "Pixel density > refresh rate outside of gaming".
That's fine, but it has nothing to do with travel warnings. The US state department didn't tell unvaccinated people to avoid travel to NZ, it made a blanket recommendation.

You started this subthread by making a comment about "burning rooms", implying that the US situation is somehow worse than New Zealand in the present moment. Historical trends are what they are, but currently, irrespective of aggregate historical death rate, NZ is doing worse than the US. There's probably a greater risk of catching Covid right now in NZ than there is in the US.

(But this is all a silly discussion. The horse is out of the barn, Covid is literally everywhere, and these travel restrictions do nothing but cause pain. About the best you can say is that state department "recommendations" are the least absurd of an overall absurd response.)
Perhaps an ignorant question, but don't hidden services not need exit nodes? It'd make using Twitter a lot faster, I'd assume?
My brief perusal leads me to conclude that the author doesn't indicate which five of the fourteen are true.
Mind telling me more about the Google NYC office?
I also wrote a script to get a vaccine appointment! I wonder how many other people did that.
Totally agreed on this!
The more conditional logic you have in a component, the harder it is to write tests for.
The idea that the Soviet Union won WWII is itself propaganda and ignores the contributions of many, many nations, not to mention the entire Pacific war. Also, the liberation of France was exclusively the western allies.
Some disconnected thoughts:

Title is misleading: Tow-Boot wants to become the standard way, but it isn't one today.

There's going to be a lot of resistance to distros shipping a binary they didn't build from source. It might work if you could ship Tow-Boot on the hardware and make it optional for the OS to care, but unless I've missed something OS integration is needed (if nothing else, because it has to share storage).

Why make a new thing, rather than improving upstream u-boot to cover as much as possible? Like... I would expect the existing u-boot project to be very much in favor of supporting all possible hardware and standardizing ex. LED colors to always mean the same thing.
Thank you for the clarification. `[1]` and `[2]` hyperlinks in the intro section point the benchmark
> I think loot boxes with RNG rewards are a disgusting practice.

I completely agree. I think there exist many disgusting practices; that doesn't mean those practices should be prohibited.

As an alternate approach, suppose that this were addressed through ESRB or similar: "gambling elements" could be called out as a theme (alongside "smoking" or "gore"), and have a minimum associated rating (e.g. not "E for Everyone").
I believe they meant that it was the gambling that was being laundered (disguised) not the money.
Okay, and they're all political, depending on who you ask. What type of political ad do you want to see banned, which isn't a product or service?
Generally it's not something VCs are interested in. I'm not an expert so I might not be clear on the why... but as far as I know it only really makes sense to seek out an arrangement like that on smaller investments under <$1mil. Even on a small investment you'd probably be lucky to see a 2-3X return in 5 years.
The problem I've always had in asking for a raise is that it seems to me in a downturn situation, dissatisfied over-performers are probably second in line for layoffs after under-performers. If you can't give them a raise, and they're likely to jump ship soon, and will likely land another job shortly. (I'm not sure how unemployment time of recent layoffs feed back into employer's unemployment insurance rates.)

So, my career has been a big raise my first year out of college, followed shortly by a 2x lateral move to another company, followed by a bunch of single-digit percentage annual increases, followed by another doubling of my salary. A couple of times managers have also pro-actively scheduled meetings with senior management when they feel they've screwed me over on bonus/salary adjustment, and I got assurances they knew they owed me once there was more budget available.

I know I'm too agreeable, but I don't ask for a raise unless I have a written offer in-hand. I've seen varying advice on how to handle counter-offers, but it's also risky to accept a counter-offer if there's a company down-turn, as you're now more expensive and recently have shown a willingness to leave the company.

I guess the solution is just to be confident in your ability to quickly find a new job if you're laid off. I've given plenty of interviews (somewhere between 200 and 500 in my career) and am very confident in my ability to both leet-code and pass technical interview questions. Yet, I'm very hesitant to risk being in the position of interviewing when I don't currently have a job.
Btw, this is yet another person claiming that you create strawmen to support your arguments. Maybe “ruminate” on that.
You have to love that line of thinking. Everyone gets self determination except for those guys because la la la we can't hear you they aren't a real country.
It was 5,000 clients who paid $40 each totaling $200,000. Not 200,000 CDs.
Bluetooth syncing issues? I put my AirPods in my ear and my phone immediately switched to them. I put my phone in my pocket and switch to my iPad and the audio switches. I get a phone call and answer it and my phone switches back.

If my wife wants to listen to the same thing I’m listening to, we can share the audio.
Fwiu, the magical path to launch Grub on an ARM board is:

/boot/efi/debian/grubaa64.efi

And that doesn't quite require tow-boot to do hw init?

"DOC: How to boot into Grub" (in order to get a passphrase-protected graphical boot menu where you can modify kernel parameters like `rescue`)
https://github.com/Tow-Boot/Tow-Boot/issues/110
I usually work harder during that period than any time before, sprinting to finish every project I started while documenting everything and training my peers. At one job I pulled an all-nighter on my second to last day finishing up a project.

This industry is small and I want to leave a good last impression.
Who believes Steve Jobs was a nice, humble guy?
What's your argument against Java? It's a solid, proven technology.
Always really exciting to see a number like 10X anywhere in release notes, it's like Christmas!
Charging every last peripheral is annoying.
Ex-fighter pilot is using commercial VR to get the same experience
Thinking in Rich Text
Russian MoD has confirmed the use of the TOS-1A weapon system in Ukraine
Where are you located? I don’t think giving notice is enforceable for FTEs in the US.
EAT MORE. Just make sure what you eat has fewer calories. Veggies and meat/fish, less bread/carbs. Don't drink your calories, stick with water black coffee or tea.

Another weird tip, be slightly cold. Your body will burn more calories to warm itself.[1]

I got downvoted, so here's a reference: [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/02/how-being...
They're not 'our version of martial law' because the term 'martial law' has a specific meaning, about suspending civil rights and putting the military in charge of civil security. The Emergencies Act does neither, and indeed no law in Canada allows the government to suspend the Charter.

You're right that we may disagree on some details, but I think where we'll agree is that this should not have been a situation that required a federal emergency. I fully believe this could have been handled just fine at the municipal level and, failing that, provincial level, and should not have required a federal response.

The way I see it the real emergency was that the Ottawa Police and then the Ontario government were spectacular failures, and this created a scenario where, I believe, the federal government was entirely justified in enacting the Emergencies Act and the mandates they did.

But regardless of whether it should have been invoked, what happened was not 'martial law' nor would I call it 'shockingly totalitarian', and that's why I said DHH's hot takes were bullshit.
Reminds me of this very bizarre thing I found on YouTube.

I was elated when I discovered it's possible to put quiet Noctua fans into a noisy HP ProCurve router: https://youtu.be/UbBtcQg9WF4

What's bizarre are the account's profile picture and name...

I wonder if these accounts get taken over due to a password leak, mass-phishing, or some such. They are then used to post provocative comments that link to related scammy services. Either that, or YouTube simply has a lot of sick-minded people.
>> This looks super exciting, particularly the idea of building a new Open-source B-Rep CAD Kernel.

Yes, I think he's being rather naive about that. Starting with flat surfaces and straight lines is really ignoring the hard problems and will likely require a complete rewrite later. IMHO support for NURBS surfaces is a requirement for CAD and export/import of STEP files as well. Having said that, if he keeps going it will be a good thing. Some related efforts:

Another (stalled?) CAD kernel in Rust:
https://github.com/ervanalb/arcade

Another one in Rust that can also read STEP:
https://github.com/ricosjp/truck

That one reads STEP by using:
https://github.com/ricosjp/ruststep

There is a geometric constraint solver written in Rust:
https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/constraints
to be used in another CAD:
https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/arcs
If I recall he moved all his work to gitlab. Here is arcs:
https://gitlab.com/Michael-F-Bryan/arcs

All of this is very ambitious and I look forward to a day when a good CAD system written in Rust is readily available.

In the mean time I shall keep plugging away at the Solvespace C++ code:
https://solvespace.com/index.pl
Why should hospitals be forced to provide care to sick people? I mean this 100% seriously, what would you do if hospitals just straight up refused patients that were expensive or annoying to treat focusing entirely on “profitable medicine?”

“Oooo sorry Jim, there’s no money to be made in cancer patients.

The government has an interest in people having access taxi services 24/7 because it prevents DUIs and licensure/regulations is the means to ensure that.

“Well the government should provide that transportation then.” — They are via this regulation.
And it serves those with/in power; they want obedience.

We are regressing and sliding down the sides to the bottom and headed towards authoritarianism. Many conservatives (and their "leadership") demand loyalty (obedience) to not just the party but the person (Trump). Many liberals are demanding obedience to government and party edicts (mandates).

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/politicalspectrum-1211081020...
Google Needs to Unlock Its Ad Privacy Black Box
Actually I think Twitter has been at its best, at least since the start of the invasion. I’ve been able to access expertise, military and political; see eye-witness video from Russia and Ukraine; follow the news minute by minute. Bullshit has been called out. People have worked to geolocate war crimes. Russian trolls have completely failed to control the narrative. Ukraine’s indomitable tractor drivers have nicked tanks. And the best evidence for this is the Russians shutting it down.
Alec Muffet, who helped Twitter on this, replied to your question on his blog: Why offer an Onion Address rather than just encourage browsing-over-Tor? [0]

[0] https://alecmuffett.com/article/16007
I don't know if these are weird or not, I managed to lose ~25% of my weight (still lots to go) by -

1. Eliminating liquid calories and substitute sweeteners. Once I figured out that substitute sweeteners made me crave genuine sugars I got rid of them which made it easier to get rid of all liquid calories. Other than one or two servings of alcohol a month in social settings and an espresso in the morning I've had nothing but water to drink for a couple of years. It's made a huge difference in the way I feel.

2. I got rid of "direct" sugars. No ice cream, desserts, other sweets. I don't worry about carbs (bread, pasta, etc) being converted to sugar.

3. As a general rule I'm not hungry until noonish. If I forced myself to eat breakfast it triggered something and I ended up being hungry all day no matter how much I ate. I've decided the 3 square meals a day thing doesn't work for me. I switched to eating on an unstructured schedule, mostly salty snacks (chips, jerky, cheese, etc) during the day with a protein heavy meal at the end of the day.

About a month after I had ^^^ figured out I started feeling much more energized which meant I was able to do a lot more walking. I live in a city, 90% of everywhere I need to be on a regular basis is within a dozen blocks. Where a couple of years ago I might have driven 4 blocks now I walk everywhere.
I wouldn't recommend it as a starting point, but I learned a lot from The Mythical Man Month. It seems like every agile/scrum/kanban/lean book starts by arguing that the old ways of managing projects had problems. It was useful for me to read Brooks' deep dive into what, exactly, those old ways were. Some of the methods stand the test of time and others have not (e.g. not using too many comments in your code because of how much disk space they consume).
Crypto.com Tells Loan Customers in 'Excluded' Countries to Repay by March 15
I like the sound, and the history.

But the name is really unfortunate, given a particular English slang word's identical pronunciation.
A Man Has Lived on a Cruise Ship for 20 Years
Hey This is very interesting. Im curious about what the due diligence process looks like to underwrite the loans for these businesses. Is there any research done into the space the company is in on your end, or is it purely based on their books and projections?
So should phones charge from the bottom too? Or laptops?

Is it really hard to simply add a circuit that regulates the battery charge level so users don't have to worry about this stuff?

Or use replaceable AAAs?

There are a ton of better solutions to this problem.
I'm not being disingenuous, and "the reality of the content business" is mostly arbitrary in many ways (I worked in anti-piracy for years in an irony to trump all ironies, and the industry is on a good day, a bad sub-plot from an episode of Entourage).

Those licensing and distribution agreements are often opaque to the public, and the industry has helped to create a consumer fickleness that perpetuates the bad habits all around.
France is almost completely unapologetic over any of it's past actions. They will issue lowkey official apologies, like they did to new Zealand in 2015 but nothing will change and no one will be prosecuted.

If anything, there is a huge desire to "go back to the glory days". It's pretty much the only country that is still so brazenly colonial (the concept of a francafrique is not even subject to any debate there) and they are regularly pulling "rainbow warrior" types of actions in africa even now. A good example is their complete control on Ivory Coast politics to the point of violently interfering when things don't go their way.

They even had generals openly admit on TV that they greenlit almost every type of war crimes in Algeria, with nothing of consequence happening to them even after their own confession. The past is the past, right?

So yeah I wouldn't hold my breath over the deportations happening anytime soon.
True, but a conversation about that can't exclude the fact that state sponsored information streams have been weaponized ever since the first states started providing official information.
You are probably right, but when the money first arrives in the bank you need to 'spend' it asap and may take decisions that are not in the best interest of the company (e.g. hiring to fast, spending a ton in marketing before the product is finished,...)