skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree with what MS is doing here, but "I don't like being asked to use a different browser" is going to be a hard sell to your employer if they don't already have Macs as standard.

If they do offer Macs though then I'd say just ask them for one and say you'll be more productive. It shouldn't be a big deal for any reasonable employer, I'm sure they could find a new home for your current device as well.
I was wondering how much native MS Office matters these days. I've been using OWA and Office 365 via browser for the better part of a decade on a Linux workstation because that's the compromise it took, but the experience was never good. I wonder if native would make much difference.
This was common with Delphi/Pascal because units were designated per file, and nobody wanted to type hundreds of "uses" statements to import every one of those. So, people leaned towards keeping code in as few files as possible. For example, TurboVision had units named "Objects", "Views". I'm sure they were thousands of lines long.

It was possible to use include files to split up a single unit, but that wasn't used much either because lack of cross-file navigation features in IDEs of the era made it really difficult to manage many files.
> what is the moral of the story

Your boss will still expect you to be able to fix bugs in an hour or two without introducing any new issues.
I always appreciated the clarity of diagrams in TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1: The Protocols.[0] IIRC the diagrams were generated with graphviz using dot, which can output SVG. You can trivially post-process the SVG to alter fonts or other display related attributes as necessary.

In terms of data sources, you can potentially parse the metadata for known protocols out of a good protocol dissector like tcpdump[1] or Wireshark[2], or https://www.luismg.com/protocol/

See https://graphviz.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples.html#stru... for a tabular example.

[0] A decade or more ago someone posted the source TeX. Unfortunately I lost it. If anyone has it, sharing is caring.
[1] https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump
[2] https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark/tree/master/epan/diss...
From my understanding, you want it in the lymph system (hence muscular injection). It is believed that issues like myocarditis are where the injection might hit a vein.
By "receives", you mean they go to their TOTP app and get a code, right?
Harris is well intentioned, perhaps, but those principles are non sequiturs.

Preferential attachment creates winner-takes-all outcomes. aka Power law distribution of attention. It's something like a law of nature. The stuff Harris lists are second order effects, at best.

Twitter and others did two things:

First, they reduced transaction costs. Discovery, foraging, communication. All the costs fell thru the floor. Every one, including me, thought this was a great idea, and expected great outcomes. Not until Clay Shirky do I even recall a concern or criticism about this.

Second, recommenders accelerated winner-takes-all. Given the high stakes and shortened shelf lifes, gaming the system became all out war.

@jack wrote:

> centralizing discovery and identity into corporations really damaged the internet.

The only part right here is forfeiting a core pillar of civil society -- authenicity (identity) -- to a paper clip maximizing corporation that has no regard for or responsibility to that society.

We let the fox guard the hen house.
> compressing them as much as I could

Yes, this is technically not 100% true, it's just 99.9% true. Previous tests have found those additional options to provide negligible improvement in compression. Very rarely do I get even 1% more compression out of enabling all of them compared to ect's highest built-in compression level (`-9`).

Basically what I'm getting at is that ect seems to hit the point of diminishing returns much quicker than anything I've personally tested. I'm curious if you have found a tool that achieves the same or better compression more quickly, that's why I asked.
I know that the silo has to be greater than the diameter of the object holding them. This is much more true for an airplane than for a missile.

I know that planes have folding wings. The issue is the length, not the wingspan. That's why I quoted the length of the plane. None of those planes have folding nosecones.

I am considering vertical takeoff. The maneuver you are suggesting would not work, because the airplane would stall unless you accelerated it to over 300km/h. To do this in an aircraft carrier, without having to worry about gravity, is already hard enough that you either need massive steam boilers or an extremely expensive EMALS system.

These catapults cost around 800 million dollars, by the way. Accelerating a 30 ton object to hundreds of kilometers an hour in slightly more than a second is extremely expensive.

If you were to do it any slower, you'd need your silo to be over a hundred meters deep.

Then you have the issue of trying to prevent the airplane from crashing as its wings are unfolding. Without thrust vectoring, vertically, almost at stall speeds, there is little chance the tail will be able to handle the task.
just because you have a staging environment doesn't mean you shouldn't use feature flags.
>You might have to explain to me how that would work.

You render frames at a very low resolution and send them in a format that is quick to decompress. Then you send keyboard / mouse input to the computer that's running the game for you.

Streaming games has been done on the game boy so I'd imagine you could do it on other ancient hardware.
Man, now I want to test myself against your road logic code. Sounds like a worthy challenge.

Always tricky though when the hacks have both undefined features AND bugs.
They will overrun the ICU's with mild Covid symptoms? That was the problem during last year's big waves - overflowing ICU's combined with hospital staff out sick.
>I’ve literally had someone sit in front of a Linux computer with OpenOffice and work fine on it until they realized “hey the title bar says OpenOffice Calc - it’s not excel! I don’t know how to use this!” Despite the fact they were using it just fine.

I guarantee that this won't happen with "brenda in accounting" (ie. typical excel jockey). The mismatching shortcuts/formulas/feature set will immediately tip them off. For someone who's viewing a few spreadsheet and/or doing some basic editing (ie. entering cell values), I can imagine it happening.
ZFS would kill the main reason alot of people use unRAID. which is the ability to use different sized disks with out sacrificing space, and the ability to adhoc add new disks

ZFS would require the use of all the same size disk, or your udev would be limited to the size of your smallest disk, and make adding new disks much harder
I use onemedical because it's easy to find providers in my area with them but I recently got notified of a class action lawsuit against them for... misleading people into thinking they need a membership to use their facilities? I'm still confused on whether this means I actually need this membership in order to book appointments etc.

https://www.onemedicalsettlement.com/
Why "unsafe"? Isn't safety supposed to be handled at a different abstraction level (in hardware)?
It's a good thing that the risk of becoming obese can be reduced dramatically by two free vaccinations a year, then.

(Also, your second claim does not follow from the first.)
All initial restrictions were to slow the spread of the virus to prevent overwhelming healthcare systems, not to prevent children from getting ill specifically, as literally everyone knows.
> the mainstream consensus was that anyone who prioritised the economy over stopping Covid was an evil murderer, and every single Covid death that happened was caused by our government not stopping it.

This poses a false dichotomy between strict lockdowns and economic growth. The UK had both bad death rates and a bad economic hit compared to other countries in europe. I think the conservatives tried to balance the short-term interests of the economy against case numbers, and ultimately ended up muddling about in the middle, which was why they ended up with the worst of both worlds.

The countries that did really well in the pandemic (east asian countries) typically went for what seemed like drastic measures in the early stages. As time went on, it's become apparent that their liberties, economies, and also case numbers were all far less impacted by the pandemic compared to western countries that had to go into emergency lockdowns as case counts soared out of control. Even in the limited context of western europe, one of the reasons why the UK had so many days in lockdown (more than France or Germany, often with more stringent rules, iirc) was because they prevaricated so much about bringing in lockdowns, then had to make them much tighter to compensate.
What does your comment even mean??

It’s even easier to say Twitter is bad if you haven’t made millions from Twitter. In fact almost everyone can say Twitter is bad.
Very strange that Simone Biles (the olympic gymnast) is Chief Impact Officer at Cerebral, front and center on the homepage.
I would argue that a low cost broad market index fund like VOO is the most risk free and inflation resistant asset class to own for investment horizons beyond a few years.

I have full faith in the US government to pull out all the stops to make sure equity prices of publicly traded companies remains stable and increasing, and continuously lowering the purchasing power of the USD if need be.

As far as I can tell, all the state and local governments (and hence taxpayers) are invested in the publicly traded markets via pension fund investments, the older voters with retirement savings are invested, and political leaders are invested in maintaining and growing equity prices.

Short of revolution, I do not see how incentives for political leaders would change.
This is the single thing that has prevented me to acquiring iOS devices. I can't imagine life without FF add-ons.
Really doubtful about these claims. I know gender studies has generated tons of studies like that, but the quality is low.

And in these examples, what would be the repercussions for being perceived as lazy? If he wants a family, the problem for the part time working man would presumably still to be able to provide for a family, which would not be an issue of perception, but of actual shortage of money. If he doesn't want a family, it doesn't matter. The difference is that a woman would never need to earn enough to provide for a family, so the judgement "too lazy to provide for a family" would not apply.

And a messy woman's household will be seen and judged by whom, exactly?
Teachers, Professors, and TAs may have prepared a quiz for us: to test the knowledge of others in order to help them feel learned in application.
I've refactored monolithic code several times in my career. It starts with a thorough going-over, making notes, identifying the state machines and drawing what was handled and what was not.

Then, reimplement as a simple state machine but this time, fill in all the transitions (event+state => new state + action)

One was an Infiniband code base from the vendor - a 'computer scientist' had written several layers to do what one or two could accomplish. Another, the Windows CE DHCP client (went from seconds to choose an address to milliseconds). Then there was an HDLC modem protocol - I got done, that was sped up a multiple and no longer crashed.

I can't understand them by just reading. I had to make a road-map of all the states, events, actions and interfaces. Design a new code. Then make sure every function of the 'old' code was represented in the new code - line by line. So nothing got dropped.

Satisfying. But more like turning the crank and making sausages than design or architecture.
theres MacOS. Thats the real immediate threat of Windows 11.

And honestly with recent development of Apple's hardware, and gaming on Linux, Microsoft should be worried. Windows 11 feels like Microsoft make a step forward and 2 steps backward
It isn't so much the destruction of habitats in itself as human encroachment of rising density increasing the odds of both contact and exposure as well as transmission to larger human society. Ebola is a horrifying and contagious disease but it is limited in its spread to rural areas where it quickly burns itself out by being too lethal.
Most parents with k-8 children should know this first-hand. Memory is fading but as I recall, two weeks after school year started we could pretty much expect a bug to come home. (continuing through out the winter months of the school year)
Surprised nobody's mentioned the Telegram Android app yet. Their ChatActivity.java is 27, 720 lines! https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DrKLO/Telegram/master/TMes...

Thing is, there's a great knowledge of the Android OS in there and the app works great when I use it. I think the OP blog post is correct 'Users don't care about the technologies or code.'
His dad asked Richard to teach him calculus, but just couldn't get it. Still, the idea of an adult wanting to learn something like calculus shows me he was a smart guy.
To be clear it was a one-time lifetime payment!

Kinda seems like this latest release accumulated a lot features and could be part of the relatively slow release pace.

https://forums.unraid.net/bug-reports/prereleases/unraid-os-...

However, their iteration approach seems smart to me. As far as I can tell they have experimented with some of the big features as optional plugins before adding them to an official release.

For example: in between the latest official release and now they released MyServers plugin to remotely monitor and perform high level server operations. It’s great and has been gone from early access alpha to a full fledged product.

Additionally the wireguard integration was released as a plugin first, and will simply be more deeply integrated in the latest upcoming release.

https://unraid.net/product/my-servers
How is character map broken?
> Every single preventable death is a tragedy of cosmic magnitude, and much disruption is justified in avoiding even one.

Couldn’t disagree more. Death is inevitable, and most death is preventable. There is absolutely nothing cosmically tragic about death.

Government imposed disruption is only justified to a very measured extend. Think “seatbelt laws” and environmental and product safety regulations.

We are endowed by our creator with inalienable rights including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Most choices a human makes along that path will involve a measure of risk of shortened lifespan.

The purpose of life for most people is not to live as long as possible. Certainly a government has no right or moral authority dictating that to anyone.

And the most glaring point is that even if the goal is altruistic (i.e. extend lifespans) the implementation was a ineffective totalitarian shit show than could actually in net total cost more quality adjusted life-years than it saved.
I like hotrodding cars, but not full time. I take a break from programming to work on my cars now and then.
What an odd take.

How would that change anything.

How do you handle the things you regret in life??
And keeping a Windows 10 system connected to the internet exposes it to what amounts to RCE that's only exploitable by Microsoft.
Pangur: A visual programming language for text manipulation
Eh? No it didn't. Compatibility list: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp833

It works on anything with a Haswell or later and Intel or AMD graphics, essentially.

(Note that the MacBook is 2015 because there was no product called that between about 2009 and 2015; the iMac Pro is 2017 because that's when it was introduced).
Defense in depth? With this safety feature inoperable, the margin of safety is reduced.

Other systems that might normally provide safety critical redundancy could be providing the sole measure of safety, with no other redundancy available in case one of those fails.

“Unsafe” is always defined based on context.
I think that trains can travel in both directions on the same track and the schedule keeps them from hitting each other head-on.
> would rather react than plan

Can’t help but notice that the people who throw around accusations like this are… still blaming the individual.
It's nice to have invariants - I believe I've seen them in Rackets contracts but I'm a little away from that stuff in my Lisp journey :)
> I guess those Silicon Valley software engineers have earned the title of bad actors with all the addicting software they write

You know, as someone supposed to be targeted here, I would agree, we need to take more personal and collective responsibility in what work we accept to do. This is a problem of culture. It's fair to point us out as a group when it's this systemic. Even if it's a small portion of people who are actually part of the problematic situations, the majority still accepts it for what it is, seniors will happily hire engineers without moral compass, FB and Palantir engineers working on destructive stuff still have a lot of street cred.

Of course it's frustrating being lumped together with the bad ones. And there's little you can do as an individual when you're outnumbered or outpowered. But those who can should do what they can to do good and not participate in the bad.

That aside, would it be fair to say you have an issue with that they scope the tribe/group they're accusing completely wrong? That MBAs are just a caricature if the people they're actually talking about, some of whom don't have an MBA and many MBAs are not those people? If so, agreed, it's a lazy and unfair one.
I would expect people new to the code base would look at this gigantuan file and ask why it hasn’t been refactored, and this probably was seen as an opportunity to familiarise new hires with the code base as well as get them on the same level as to the effort involved in a refactor.

I agree with you, a rewrite is probably how they should have tackled this one.
What features did they add that required newer chipsets? It made sense sense for windows vista because of all the 3d/glass effects. For windows 11 all they add was... rounded corners.
First, we should be talking about the next 20 years - after all we are talking about a law we will introduce today, not in the past, and noone it talking about appliances lasting a century.

Secondly, while I never used a top loader, from everything I've read, they are worse in every dimention, so the comparison seems inappropriate - you are introducing extra variables.

Also I am not clear why 'incrementally adding water' was not possible previously, People built a 'smart' toaster 70 years ago, that could sence how cooked your bread is, and it was purely mechanical:

https://www.theverge.com/22801890/sunbeam-radiant-control-to...
Bikeshedding is usually more about how something should be done than how it should not be done. But, yes, you could think of them as basically one thing.
Tesla cars report their state back to Tesla HQ and have done so for years, this is one of the things they were banking on for their self driving work - the ability to train their systems on millions of miles of actual driving data. I don't know who pays for that connection, but they made it work.

Around 2010 the Amazon Kindle 3G with keyboard had a cellular connection for buying books, and it also had an experimentat web browser with worldwide free internet access.

I don't know who pays but it already happens, it's not new to 5G.
In some ways the world is very much the same; just more of it.
I suspect in the long run truenas scale is going to eat their lunch.

Regardless, many seem happy with unraid so glad it exists
That’s close to the usage of “screen saver” to mean wallpaper/background image and those people who think MAC and Mac are the same.
Forget covid, he needs to tell us his skincare routine
It's no joke, I know people in their early-mid thirties ( they were somewhat late bloomers from career growth being stunted from the recession) who decided just to not have kids all together as a result of the lockdown/drama it's kind of sad
Also an extremely easy answer for me to choose the future over the past. There was no reason my grandpa should have been getting dialysis paid for by taxpayers at the age of 93. For years. Give him access to assisted suicide and invest that money into the nation’s children.

And while it is probably easier to talk the talk than walk the walk, I do not want a dime spent on me once I am chronically unable to do simple tasks myself. If I need 24/7 care, then I like to think I will opt to take myself out.
I've found that there's a natural shift at some point where you know the reward has shifted from a financial one to something different. In the dish washing example, it's the reward of clean dishes vs the punishment of having no clean dishes combined with a smelly sink full of dishes. That said, I've definitely lived with roommates that didn't go through that transition.
Hrm.

> "Right now we’re releasing Windows 10, and because Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, we’re all still working on Windows 10." That was the message from Microsoft employee Jerry Nixon, a developer evangelist speaking at the company's Ignite conference this week.

So it was a Microsoft employee. But presumably not speaking ex cathedra, then.
It is used as a racist rhetorical cudgel however, a "shut up your opinion doesn't matter because of your race" to mark someone as wrong without addressing their point at all.

Related the concept is so terribly named it seems meant to raise conflict. Privledge implies that it should be optional. It invites the previously mentioned abuse.
Serious question: what the hell is a chief impact officer? Isn't former prince Harry also one for some startup? Is it basically just an celebrity spokesperson?
Lol, in Canada it will soon be illegal to give an honest opinion of our own government.
The best I can do is never to single out anybody for blame - even if I think they deserve it. If I see a problem, I submit a fix and move on.
> Adding incentives, nudging, and valorizing specific actions puts equality of outcome over equality of choice.

I'll buy the part about adding incentives.

Nudging and valorizing, however, are inevitable aspects of human life. Abolishing heroism is not realistic (and, honestly, it's a pretty mild incentive anyway).
You hear wrong as every house gets bought almost immediately and while 10-20% are institutional, the rest are private buyers. This is also fairly new and interest rates have been 4% for almost 10 years long before the current situation.

Rent is not 50% for most people. Yea, it’s bad for those people. But even then it’s possible to save.

Most people have benefited greatly from this very positive economy. Not everyone, but most.

Even if you’re minimum wage, the low unemployment has driven up wages
I was in the station for a different reason when I heard the announcement. The people entering and hearing the announcement were unsurprisingly very crestfallen, but it appears that twitter helped organize a lot of travel, with people posting where they were/going and picking up other travellers.

Also probably worth noting is that trains here are used fairly frequently, however unfortunately this isn't the first time trains are stopping - for example snow is a common reason for delayed/reduced service. (Snow isn't very common here in the NLs)
If your savings disappeared, I don't see how it's the system's fault. Houses and stocks skyrocketed over the past few years. Really the only way you'd have run out of money is:

1. you had all your retirement money in a checking account

2. you never bothered to look at your annual spend, total savings, and calculate a burn rate