skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Desktop Linux does not suck.

It has not sucked since about 1993

If you compare Linux 1993 to Mac SO 2022 it still stacks up, almost.

Comparing Linux 1993 to MS Dos of the time is unfair.

It took MS till about 2000 to be able to compete with Linux on quality

MS Windows was successful for other reasons than the operating system.
We have a 2019 Honda Pilot. The remote start will work for two 10-minute cycles, but then it will not work again until you start it via the primary ignition switch inside the vehicle. Other manufacturers may differ on this behavior however.
Unless the victim has a GPS tracker installed on the vehicle.
Pros: faster, quieter, better quality, don't need to know how to load ribbon when it runs out.

Cons: fancy paper, fades over time, destroyed by even minor heat.

We switched from dot matrix receipts to thermal a few years ago and there were several very vocal complaints about the relative impermanence of a thermal receipt.
Honest question who still uses kaspersky, avast, norton etc in a corporate environment?
Let's remember that Scalia was a judge, not a political theorist or a legislative expert. Scalia's expertise would be the operation of the judiciary, courtrooms, etc.
They are pointing out "can" vs "should" sure you can onboard them remotely and try to build team cohesion remotely but it's just worse then in person.
> There are benign masses that are radiologically impossible to distinguish

Time to bring out the pigeons.

Having just read the paper again, It’s fascinating.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4651348/
Bitcoin is a failed currency - see the original paper. After around a decade of failing to find demand the big holders started to market it as a commodity but since there’s no inherent value to it unless it’s actively traded it doesn’t really fit the usual meaning of that term.
See also: https://github.com/nmap/nmap/issues/2237
And, for something completely different: Brenda's GDC talk about her board game Train is deeply moving. It's a tear-jerker. https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1012259/Train-
I am very interested in any project that implements multi-active SQLite clusters with no cluster size limit, do you have any links for me?
Churches and most clubs don't have extremely intelligent people with similar interests i.e. your tribe. When I talk to my friends I am usually at maybe 20% brain "power", when I'm at work I can mention basically anything and someone will have heard of it.

YMMV.
Perhaps by training everyone, potential bad actors know that everyone in the company will recognize what they are doing?
Both parties are capitalist, yes. But the parties do not approach capitalism and more importantly the role of government in capitalism the same.

So if you are a hard core communist or socialist, yes the parties are both capitalist and your ideological lens prevents you from differentiating, but for the vast majority of American's, one party is far superior to their everyday lives in meaningful ways than the other. As a reminder, the Democrat's Child Tax Credit program cut child poverty nearly in half after decades of stagnation and regression. No tax cut ever did anything like that for America.
This interests me a lot. If blog author reads this, is there some way to reach you in pm?
It's possible to express many common features and functions of other languages in sh fairly well, so it's probably possible for a tool like this to output something not too bad.

But even so, I would never expect any transpilation output to be more than technically readable.

The part with the high level meaning is the part the human wrote. That's the entire point of any language.

The output can not be considered source, regardless that it's possible to also write source in that same syntax.

The only reason to even bother with transpiling instead of just requiring the necessary interpreter, is to ship something that the target already supports. It's very very little different than shipping a binary.

The differences are just that a .sh is at least possible to read and hack vs not-possible. Not convenient or good, merely possible vs not-possible. And a .sh is more portable than a binary in that it doesn't care what the cpu or os is.

If you want anything more high level meaningful instead of some 90's web page generator html output, you have to write that yourself. An automated tool cannot reverse engineer some code into an elegant expression of the original intent of that code. In that way a compiler or transpiler is not much different from a decompiler.

Though, I admit there is room for levels. I don't know just how crude this tool's output is, but I know there is a range of what's possible, it does't have to be
I think OpenAPI is a rather arbitrary and approximate description of models built upon HTTP with JSON, but that's constrained enough, and the problems solved are often similar enough, for such a solution to be useful. Actually maybe JSON schema would be more useful to consider here, since that is about formats, rather than interfaces or protocols.

With binary formats, on the other hand, there's neither data model nor usage constraints like that, and a generic tool to handle all the things would be just the Turing machine -- and then we have a bunch of languages for that. As for kaitai struct and similar attempts to handle arbitrary binary formats, I hear of those from time to time, and in some cases they seem to be useful, but they too should be either Turing-complete (and then it probably makes more sense to use general-purpose languages) or would fail to be useful occasionally.
I must say, I appreciate the honesty.
This is unproductive quibbling.

If I, a middle-class independent contractor, attempt to bribe a government employee to award me a contract, I am going to jail.

If someone with even lesser means attempts to bribe a social worker to award them welfare of some kind, they are going to jail.

That is the discrepancy that matters.
The only way I could see of achieving that would be to heat each face very rapidly with something like a high-powered infrared laser, so it can reach oxide-forming temperature before the heat has time to spread. The low thermal conductivity of stainless steel compared to many other metals would actually be rather useful here.
I actually just picked up the exact same printer but hadn't yet had time to see what OSS libraries were available yet. I had a previous project where I printed photos on a low res thermal printer. The images sucked, but people loved it.
Value is anchored in the equilibrium between supply and demand, that's it.

Maybe the things you mention do drive that equilibrium. But I'd bet you'd have a hard time developing a profitable trading strategy based on those metrics alone. I know I have tried with little success.
This is bollocks. Eugenics is simply controlled or selective breeding. It's like GMO, an overly stigmatized word that few know the actual meaning of. It's not all about pure-breeding humans and traits like an Aryan master race or franken-foods. Sure there are people labelled eugenicists who were racists or whatever that did that but their characterization of the word in this apology is something I hope they apologize for one day. Genetic engineers, gene therapists, and genetic counselors-- eugenicists-- interested in improving the quality of life for people would appreciate it.
Oh Easy Question: No.
One consequence of the DMA seems to be that people will finally be able to choose to have just one account on the one messaging service they like, and use that to connect to anyone else, no matter what services those contacts use.

Does P2P Matrix take things a step further, though, potentially allowing people to have zero accounts, and just having a private key file on their device (or synched between multiple devices) and a display name of their choosing?
Adding this one, we are spending a lot of time getting all the calculations on sequestrations right, here is some deeper information on this. https://carbonplan.org/research/ton-year-explainer
I've listened to a bunch of John Romero's apple time warp podcasts about apple2 development. It was very small companies (sometimes single developers). This was in the 80s... A little bit before.

They're kind of fun when they get into old stories about long gone companies. They don't come out very often however: They're 10% annoying and 90% really fun.

https://appletimewarp.libsyn.com
Microsoft products for large institutions are very popular; they don't need bribery (or even bad taste).
I'd put it more positively, men, women, black, white, gay, straight whatever, everybody is equal - most people feel this way and don't give a shit about the irrelavant personal attributes of the actors. They want to see a good movie, period.
In case anyone else has a problem reaching this, I had to use Chrome, otherwise I got "Error code: SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP".
Actually, I do have some links that I'd pocketed (and forgotten about):

Old CSS, new CSS / fuzzy notepad (this one was featured on HN several times)
https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/?utm_source=p...

Ask an expert: Why is CSS . . . the way it is?
https://increment.com/frontend/ask-an-expert-why-is-css-the-...

CSS Thesis by Håkon Wium Lie
https://www.wiumlie.no/2006/phd/css.pdf
Also a puff piece.
This may some day be the last remaining Rubik's cube
> Rather, it will be purely a financial decision.

I agree and think this will be the key. Most will return to the office and the companies that don't will be out-competed forcing them to close or return. Of course this will take years to fully shake out.
The source (etymology) of the phrase is a play on words:

* "grass roots" support is an 'authentic' community response on an issue

* AstroTurf® is an artificial playing surface used in some sports facilities (especially indoor ones), instead of a one made from real grass

So "astroturfing" is the creation of an 'artificial community response'.
yup :>
I agree that diagnostic-port reprogramming at the point of theft is uncommon (although absolutely not unheard of).

I'm not sure what the effect of that observation is, though - key and immobilizer security is extremely important still, because cars which are stolen by any mechanism (tow, stolen key, transponder relay, etc) then need to be resold or broken down for parts. Especially in Europe where control module security is generally both more robust and more insurance regulated, many parts on a stolen vehicle are increasingly not valuable unless the immobilizer / key enrollment system can be bypassed.
Really they shouldn't, but many people like to watch celebrities and hear their opinions.

From what I understand, in Roman times people had very different views on actors and these people would generally not be taken seriously [0]. However these days whenever a big movie actor has something to say on say ... COVID or Russia or Climate, people listen.

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[0]: http://ancient-romans.com/actors-the-lowest-social-class-in-...
Microplastics Found in Human Blood
Because it's a comment consisting of only four words that adds nothing to the discussion, and has little to do with the article? Or maybe it's because the evil SJW lobby has infiltrated Hacker News. It seems more reasonable to assume the former.
Interesting but that is n=54 and for a specific geomarket (common supply chain).
This would save a lot of oil.
I don't know OpenAPI and only did a quick read. Does it support any formats other than JSON and XML? If not, then it hardly seems like an appropriate analog to what you're asking for.

Can it support s-expr based formats? Plain text keyword:value pairs? Any arbitrary input? Because that's what you're asking for for "binary formats". Which is a wide-open field. To have a universal system for that you will need something closer to the parser description formats that you have already rejected. Just like you'd have to do to properly support any arbitrary plain text format instead of just JSON and XML.
Youth is dumb.

When I was in my 20's, my mentors were all 50+. And, quite often, I would have to hit the wall before the good advice they gave me made sense. I realized later that I was really irritating to them at many points. It took me, like, 4 times hearing "You might want to think about that" from my main mentor before I started mentally translating that to "Dumbass. You're about to hit the wall. Again."

I am not a smart man.

They stuck with me because the magnitude of my vector was large (ah, the province of youth--boundless energy), so, even if I had a significant amount in a useless direction, I also had a significant chunk in a useful direction. And I would learn--I rarely made the same mistake (but I was quite good at making new mistakes ...)

However, if the people around (not just the kids) really don't understand that you're an expert at what you do, you really should think about getting a different job. If the consultants are willing to pick information from your brain, that's a good sign that you really do know what's going on. In return, you should make use of their people network--poke at the consultants you think are good. And right now is a good time to be making such a job change.

Ageism is a thing. On the flip side, the number of greybeards in this field continues to increase year on year--the people who learned computers as kids in the 1980s are now hitting their 50s.

Good luck and hang in there. You're not alone.
The reason: ha for databases is hard.

However galera cluster and/or percona xtradb cluster work remarkably well, considering they’re open source.
The only thing I want in this context is for you to understand people have motivations that are not solely based on profits.

You having continuity for two posts in a row would be a nice-to-have though.
They also have a tool available as a docker image to pull any website you want into their format effectively making it searchable and portable.
The science behind not, but the movie was discredited. It was a whitewash by his ex-wife over his girlfriend. The director fell for it. excellent movie though, even if you cannot trust anything the wife said.
Short term the results are irrelevant. But long term they play a role in who gets access in Hollywood. Winning an Oscar means that you have more opportunities in terms of roles/budgets/resources etc. The things that happen at the academy awards have an effect on what people have an option to see in the future.
> And fundamentally it is the fulfillment/satisfaction of the needs of the person who asked.

Do you mean that the thrower gets to decide which answers are "quality" and deserve a payout?

> If found true, you’ll get refunded for that answer

This seems to imply that throwers will be automatically charged for any catchers before they've decided it's useful, which sounds like a huge problem.
I like high grain images, but I also wonder if it's kind of a fad?

The ability of modern digital cameras to shoot essentially unlimited photos might not be without its drawbacks, but being able to shoot low grain images practically in the dark is pretty cool.
I don't think I'm demanding anything. But what I would like is for US businesses not to encourage or reward corruption, which harms the citizenry and diminishes the sort of strong competition that makes markets work well.

I also think it's both ridiculous and insulting to suggest that corruption is some intrinsic property of Bulgarians and their "foreignness". Or anybody.
Results are interesting - especially if they put a spotlight on something you hadn't seen - but can't come up with any reason to watch the ceremony.

It would be like a soccer fan watching The World Cup, but instead of a watching soccer actually being played, they just flash up an unattributed final score, and then the winner is invited to make a speech about how they and their team played.

Ceremony isn't about TV, films or music - its just a chance to watch the celebrities.

This can be enhanced greatly my a host (I'm thinking Ricky Gervais at golden globes) just skewering both the organizers, presenters and recipients - but that's just a "baited roast"
The reasons corporate IT uses Microsoft:

* Backward compatibility: Ripping out everything and starting over is very expensive; what is the return on this investment for the company's bottom line?

* Applications: Everything in business, perhaps outside creative arts, is compatible with Windows; much is only compatible with Windows.

* Management: Active Directory is by far the leading tool for managing thousands of computers efficiently. That has a network effect: Other management tools, including for specific applications, integrate with AD. This automation greatly reduces labor costs and improves quality.
claiming to be a bird is a thing. They call themselves ‘otherkin’

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otherkin
Wow. Scott’s videos are great, but his writing is even better. I can’t wait for more.
Then I hope Apple allows an option to enable an opt out for these third party stores
Room 641A. Thank you for sharing the link/story, absolutely fascinating.

"641A is a bit dated", has anything more recent come to light?
I am not suggesting that you or I can compute the NPV of future cash flows and then value the share, certainly not easily. But that was not the point. The point was to distinguish shares (and other securities) from coins: the price of the former is (softly) constrained to be within the vicinity of their intrinsic value. Cryptos have zero intrinsic value.
Maybe in aggregate modern gaming exhibits less humanity, but the best games today are on an entirely different level of story telling and emotional investment than 1991.
Mac Mini and iPad Mini = Touchscreen Mac
Two things:

- one of the devs of that site, Byron Knoll, was my best friend in kindergarten, though he moved away and we haven't spoken much since

- I get a very different vibe from rpscontest --- a sort of "the wicked are punished by the wicked" vibe. Nobody can play non-optimal moves forever and get away with it---one of the bot devs is gonna lose his shirt in the market one day. (Yes, it is extremely weird that I moralize this)
> In California, for instance, you have to pass a smog check every six months

I live in California and you only have to do it every other year [0]. My car is almost 30 years old, not super well maintained, and it's never failed.

[0] https://www.bar.ca.gov/Consumer/Smog_Check_Program/FAQ
Apple will soon require 3rd party app stores to remit 27% of all revenue.
i get ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH on chrome
It is arguable that the prohibition of bribes is a cultural thing.

So insisting on not bribing in other cultures is some sort of "imperialism".

That would make bribing foreign officials a "legitimate" business expense.
Hollywood isn't dumb, they make creative decisions based on money. Ghostbusters may have been a flop, but Black Panther grossed $1.3 billion.

There is a preponderance of evidence that more diverse cast and crew leads to higher profits, that's why studios do it. There are also the second order effects, where more diverse writing rooms, directors' chairs, and cast members leads to content that resonates with more people (rather than the traditional approach of creating content just for the average American)
Greed, like all negative emotions, makes you stupid. Conmen occasionally write books about what they do and they all say that greed is the hook that catches their victims.
Primary complaint document:

https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
Not hard technically, but hard because people associate free things with cheap and there's a lot of experience momentum that really upsets people if they think they're being forced to do something even slightly differently.

And yes it's a viable alternative and has been for decades.
"Crypto" to me is about cryptography, not cryptocurrencies.

re: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_naming_controversy

and (of course) this: https://www.iacr.org/meetings/crypto/

I wish that lazy people did not overload this term.
I have contributed code to projects "owned" by one of these types of organizations and after 8 months of waiting for my (very small) patches to be reviewed because I wasn't internal, it just didn't feel like healthy Open Source. Calling them Fake Community Projects as a term works just as well for me.

OpenSearch could be a contender (though I did not have fun running Elasticsearch back in the day). I will keep watching it and see how development goes, it's a good call-out.
Honda and Sony Announce Plan to Start New EV Brand Together
The issue with crypto is that reasonable use cases are early, and don’t attract attention except for niche communities.

There’s a few big ones, for example, filecoin right now has created a commodity market for storage that is currently 10,000 cheaper than S3 in some instances. (See file.app for stats)

But realistically, the interesting projects are very small and hard to find.

However, scams and ponzi schemes, by their nature are very public, easy to find, and have lots of people talking about them (often for financial gain).

Everyone building anything sane is so tired of having to explain that their thing isn’t a ponzi, isn’t an nft thing, and isn’t shilling proof of work, that they don’t post to hacker news, and so they exist outside of your bubble.

Crypto is like the story of the blind scientists studying an elephant. The first one touches its trunk and says “it’s a snake!”, the next one touches its tusk and says “it’s a spear!”, the next one touches its side and says “it’s a wall!”. None have the correct answer, because no single party has a full view.

The crypto skeptics are as irrational as the crypto optimists: firm believers in their own view, based on an incomplete information.
GRPC has a reflection protocol [1] that can be used to build Swagger style tools [2]

[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/server-reflecti...

[2] https://github.com/grpc-swagger/grpc-swagger
they cannot. that's why it's a big ethical outcry also. it's a pretty invasive operation.

but practically let the relatives decide, and when the patient can communicate, check the consent later.
or find patients which can consent before losing communication.
By a curious coincidence, I’ve just been listening to The Black Star Passes by John W. Campbell, where a gas made of light is used as a fuel by Venusians.
I think I see, when you say you "repeatedly said was redundant," what you meant was you mentioned something once. Thanks, I was a little confused there because the words you use actually mean something else... but your intent matters more than the semantics.
I think you are referring to the notion of consilience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consilience
Missed opportunity: fsharpforfunandfunds
These crazy physicists are going to create a white hole in the lab.
For every btc bought there is one sold, the equation you gave thus adds up to zero.
Note that there is no ethical way to determine if hormone blockers on children are nonreversible due to the known long term possible side effects of any medication.
Mounting evidence for a 95 GeV Higgs boson
The acid in Diet Coke (and Pepsi) slowly destroys the enamel on your teeth. Once it's sufficiently weakened, the bacteria will have easy access to the inside of your teeth and you'll be plagued with painful and expensive teeth problems (if you aren't already).
Eppur si muove.
that's me, please see my profile. :) (i've added an edit on the bottom of the article)