skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably some ISPs will sell NAS or similar device and, with a monthly fee, you would have external access via a custom domain name (like john_doe.verizon.com, for example).

A lot of non-techy people already have NAS, external hard drives, and things like that. I don't know how ISPs haven't done already this.
I have used this compiler for a few years.

At that time I have also disassembled a part of it, but not the compiler executable.

I have disassembled the Fortran runtime library used by the compiler for generating code.

Disassembling the library was more useful, because I wanted to modify some of the standard functions, e.g. be replacing the multiplication algorithms with faster algorithms.

Because the target CPU for the compiler were the 8-bit processors compatible with Intel 8080, which could perform in a single instruction only very simple operations, the code generated by the F80 compiler consisted mostly in a sequence of function invocations for functions from the runtime library.

Even a 16-bit multiplication or a 32-bit addition were operations complex enough to be done by library functions.

So the runtime library included a set of functions for implementing all the Fortran operators and all the Fortran intrinsic functions, for all the sizes of floating-point numbers or integer numbers, including operators with mixed operand types, e.g. besides functions for multiplying double precision numbers or single precision numbers there were also functions for multiplying a double-precision with a single-precision, or a double precision with a short integer, or a single-precision with a long integer, and so on.

So there were many functions in the runtime library. The reason why separate functions for mixed types were used instead of applying implicit conversions, was that multiplication, divisions and other such operations were very slow on 8080/Z80 (requiring many milliseconds, instead of much less than a nanosecond on modern CPUs). So taking advantage that one of the operands was smaller could make the function faster.
the germane point is we've tried just about every kind of land, at this point, and none of them play out.

could it work in 50 years? maybe. probably not.

it's not working in 7 years, which is the climate change timeline.

it's time to stop trying to chase new inventions, and just build 1970s nuclear.
I don’t know about obsession with truth, but I think having a shared reality is the basis for relationships, trust, and many accomplishments.

I don’t think truth is something that people should obsess over, but it is very important to seek and hopefully gain understanding.

I remember reading 1984 and the breaking of people to admit that “2+2=5” was an interesting way that people accepting false things as true is very bad.

I think intent matters a lot as judging people for being mean is different from someone saying “the sky is blue today” and the listener is harmed because they hate blue or whatever.

That’s a completely made up example, but I think real, although dangerous, example is trans issues. There are bigots who say things like “women aren’t men” or whatever to hurt people and I don’t think that’s right. But then someone will say “men are generally stronger than women” to discuss some scientific principle and people feel harmed there because they don’t want any differences to exist.
Peter Norvig creating a tiny SAT solver for sudoku stands out as one of the most sophisticated examples of a “simple” application that I know. The last time that came up several people said they use that exercise to introduce themselves to new programming languages.
Wow I thought to myself “surely Moore is dead” but he’s 93, worth 10 billion and still kicking.
As soon as they add support for putting wireless networks on VLANs, I'm buying.
Why do you think someone should behave the same way in a single party system?

Support is achieved in different ways in different societies.
I wouldn't say OneNote is a 1:1 replacement. The tagging system works differently and is more for callouts than note organization, while OneNote itself is much more folder-driven than Evernote's limited foldering ability (which it compensates for with stronger tag support).
This is a complete misuse of the unsafe as language concept in high integrity computing.
Happy isn't really a good goal. It's can be the result of a process, but aiming towards happiness as a goal in a of its self is mostly ruinous. There's ton of wisdom on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-or_D-qNqM

Right?

Me I'm aiming towards harmony with my life free of unnecessary suffering simultaneous with the same thing for my family.
The 3rd generation Ranger (1998–2011) was 70.3 inches wide and 188.5 to 202.9 inches long (depending on cab and bed options)

The new 4th gen Ranger (2019-?) is 72.8–79.8 inches wide, and 201.2–212.5 inches long and you can't get a regular cab or any two door version in the US. It's simply no longer a compact truck. The Tacoma isn't a compact truck anymore either.

Edit to add: maybe electricification can get us actually small trucks again.
So far I heard the other way around: A natural infection also always means an attack on the immune system by the virus. Also if you have a very light infection your body often doesn't create as many anti-bodies as with a vaccine.
> “Ignorant” and “insensitive” are telltale signs of orthodoxy

Some would call them telltale signs of knowledge, wisdom, and a moral framework that places great weight on respect for others, when used in a corrective context.
Truth and fiction are indistinguishable on social media. The medium itself encourages this. Falsehood is built-in and inseparable.

Of course "journalists" sometimes spread "stories" based on random social media posts. What is really interesting is that the posts were there first, and the internet amplifies them on its own.

To any reader who's not in on it, the original comment about the Roku crashes sounds plausible enough by itself. It is then upvoted organically to a broader audience.

The author didn't write misinformation for ad views, sponsorships, or even Reddit karma. He just released it for his own pleasure, as an "obvious" joke.

Millions of similarly motivated posts are being blasted out every minute, with content such as: memes with humorous but false descriptions of the content, selfies painting false pictures of people's lives, anecdotes with implied messages, creative writing of what-if scenarios or "head canon", compelling but baseless theories about complex topics, true statements cherry-picked to make false points, etc.

These are created not for sales, propaganda, or even internet points, but simply to share half-formed idle thoughts. That is: jokes, guesses, hot takes, wishful fantasy.

It may be obvious bullshit to the authors, but the medium presents it all as fact. None of us are capable of passing careful judgement on the sheer volume of content, so most is absorbed at face value.

This environment is also a fertile breeding ground for deliberate, malicious misinformation, but that's beside the point.

Ultimately, the only solutions are to stop consuming social media altogether, or accept that falsehood is now inseparable from actual facts.
Electrified Rail is important for great passenger rail, by nature of it's much higher acceleration and lower cost for increased service. This is part of great rail infrastructure for me and much of the electrification in the USA has been rolled back due to the different needs of freight providers and cost-cutting measures. Countries like India and China are also huge on electrification for dedicated freight routes, so it's not just a passenger service thing.

It's also much easier to compare as a baseline of decent rail infrastructure, since it implies a minimum condition of the line and a certain amount of investment in the last 100 years (and it was much easier to compare for the NE corridor, since that contains most electrified rail in the US). Most countries that are considered to have a great rail network have a lot of electrified lines, beginning with Switzerland but countries as Russia have also invested a lot in electrification. Electrification is a lot of effort, and it will take multiple decades to achieve a decent percentage in the US if it were started right now with a lot of political backing.

Many transit agencies in the US, including the one in Boston, are planning electrified rail (as they're aware of the benefits as well) but are unable to construct it right now (and likely the next 10 years) due to funding and ownership issues.

It's not impossible to run decent service over non-electrified rail, but the slower acceleration, near impossibility of high speed as well as the increasingly low availability of DMUs make it harder and, coupled with the higher fuel costs, unattractive.

Properly assessing the state of the routes without using electrification as an easy shortcut was way too much effort for me.

In short: Just because you have a lot of gravel roads everywhere doesn't mean you have a decent road network
These are rates per 100,000 for vaccinated, boosted and unvaccinated from Ontario (population 14 million). I don't see much benefit against infection to those with 2 or 3 mRNA doses.

The most recent datapoints (7 day average):

- Not fully vaccinated: 14.86 cases per 100,000 people

- Fully vaccinated: 17.39 cases per 100,000 people

- Vaccinated with booster: 26.89 cases per 100,000 people

https://covid-19.ontario.ca/data/case-numbers-and-spread#cas...
We needed the unique jobs feature, which only part of the enterprise plan.

And since (at that stage) our budget was low, the enterprise plan was too expensive.

I reached out to ask if we can do any other payment scheme, or at least get startup discount to start using, but were declined.

We ended up using an OSS library for that part and even now what we grown, still don't pay for sidekiq. If it was part of Pro, or we had a 1 year discount for startups, we prob just kept on paying even now (that we can afford it).
And yet wouldn't we expect a journalist who reads a tweet from an account that says, as you pointed out, "Not affiliated with MVPD," to do their due diligence and reach out to an official channel?

I can grant that it doesn't actually say "parody" in it's description, but we should still be expecting more effort from reporters.
There are some things you can have an impact on. Why not try being a really good person and not an asshole. Nothing matters in the world anyway, you won't get anything by being mean to anyone.

You can try to have good memories with your family and friends. Sure, everyone will be gone after a few years and nobody will ever remember you. But you are here now, might as well have fun.
One such simple project for me was https://kvak.io. A weekend crafting for a need I had and couldn't find anyone offering - a simple online notepad where I can share the note by just copying the url and the 'sharee' continues writing.

The process itself is indeed very fulfilling and joyful.
Because

1) most consumers have no idea what a NAS is, and even when they do, consumers have been conditioned that all their data is automagically beamed to the Apple/Google cloud at any and all time there's an internet connection without any user involvement beyond entering their ID when they unbox their phone for the first time, so it's impossible for a third party device or service to compete with this level of out of the box integration and convenience

2) NAS devices aren't made by Apple and Google so NAS integration into these ecosystems is a second class experience at best, and Apple and Google will never make NAS devices as they're incentivized to get you to pay for their cloud storage subscriptions for your data. Plus, as a a cherry on top, this way they can silently data-mine you as well.

Basically the industry is moving, or we can argue that it has moved already, towards subscriptions, where you never really own your music/movies/data but have access to it as long as you pay your monthly/yearly fee, because this is so much more lucrative for big-tech than getting you to buy commodity HW like a NAS and physically owning your data.
I keep going back to the todoist app. It works OK but there is something about it it doesn’t click with me. Maybe there’s a little too much white space in the design and it looks like a webpage instead of an app that fits into the desktop.

I also really like elementary planner, but its sync feature doesn’t work perfectly with Todoist … which is more or less required for me because I need my todo list on my Phone. It is going through a major revision right now so I’m hopeful that it gets even better.

Both support recurring monthly reminders. If I were you, I would try elementary’s planner first. It was designed for elementary distro desktop, but it works just fine in gnome
Electrical waste is an obvious one. The devices that the internet run on are a part of that problem.
Sad but unsurprising. I'm amazed that archive.is is still around, to the extent that I wonder who really funds it...
>The post I was responding to was falsely attributing the quote to other sources.

My point is that is irrelevant, it's the equivalent of correcting a misspelled comment in an open source repo and calling it a contribution, it is indeed, but a very minor one that makes little to no difference.

You also didn't clarify that the quote doesn't belong to voltaire, you simply stated that the other quote paraphrasing it is from a Nazi.

>"Hey, somebody else said that" is relevant information.

Only if you don't want to discuss the thing that is being said itself by vaguely referencing the heretic who said it and implying that discredits the thing being said in and of itself.

>Discussion of fallacies is also largely worthless in ordinary conversation since we aren't actually making formal deductive arguments

It's the exact opposite in fact. Fallacies are literally called "Informal Fallacies", they are coined to give names to common sloppy reasoning tactics and rhetorical tricks in informal everyday conversations and arguments.

They are worthless in formal deductive arguments because they are completely dependent on content and have no syntactical forms, unlike - say - deductive arguments like "If P Then Q, P, Therefore Q". Their usefulness is entirely in this kind of conversation where charged emotional words gets thrown left and right.

>And further, my post did not stop there.

Correct, it continues on to a naive misunderstanding of the quote.

>It is not Voltaire's rule of thumb.

I think you established that quite satisfactorily already, you can move on to other points.
And Claire Lehmann seems to be anti-gay and anti-transgender?

I was not aware who that person was but by reading her blog posts it seems to be way too anti-gay and racist to be considered serious.
Warm up that one conversation
Am I too old to become a professional programmer?
I’ve tried to use Evernote a couple times, but within days it always lost data in syncing between devices.

For me Evernote fails the “you had one job!” test.

SimpleNote has been great to me. You can tell they’re not going to mess with the core recipe either.
> Should we also remove the fiction section from libraries?

Are people confused by the fiction section?

> Well people publish weird stuff in the non-fiction section as well.

Ok... what's that got to do with the fiction section you were talking about?
If you're wondering.

Yes, it's the same variant.

Yes, they have a working vaccine ( just not a RMNA one), but with a ( bit) lower efficiency and the older population is less vaccinated.

China is currently in the weak position of not being able to contain a super contagious COVID virus, as they have propaganda'd their policy as superior to the western one for the last years.

Not implementing zero COVID policy would mean their tactic is not superior ( vs. Flatten the curve)

There are other, more minor, variables, but that seems to be the biggest one. Eg. Election next year, ...
Regardless of whether one agrees, I had to smile at this, because it is simply a more formal way of saying 'OK, boomer'
Obsidian has a solid mobile app and a good sync service. It's not an issue.
This is great. The fact that there is an incredibly low marginal cost for software projects has been on the front of my mind for a while. Compared to working on something mechanical or electrical, you can get from "fuzzy idea" to "workable-ish code" with incredibly low cost in time and money.

I've learned a lot about browsers, for example, chugging away at a little toy website[0] with a buddy. I know it is simple, but it blew me away that I could dig into webkit to see why stuff worked the way it did. We are incredibly lucky to be digging into such an accessible field.

[0] http://legomosaicdesigner.com/
Ok. That's not what I'm pointing towards. But I see your point.

My point is that a manager and/or own would need to demand power efficient code and processes and the normal day to day business (like normal day to day nature) would be happy with code-that-does-the-job-just-good-enough-not-to-melt-down.
> UIs are inherently a painful domain

No they aren't. Developers think their a painful domain because they are the ones that introduce the complexity in the name of the customer who doesn't care, to increase the developers salary in some kind of crazy Ponzi scheme.
The unsafe concept exists since early 60's in systems programming languages.

The real issue here is Rust fans trying to make Rust into a type dependent language while abusing unsafe's original purpose.
Death rate is still pretty high in a lot of western countries though:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths
It is true ROM.
> It’s important to note that you shouldn’t use Hide My Email for everything. For example, you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking. If you trust the bank with your money, you can probably trust them with your email. I’d also think through those sites that may use your email to help others find you, such as social media accounts. If you’d like your contacts to find you automatically, you’ll need to use an email they know of.

Social media is high on the list of use cases for such addresses to help preserve one's privacy.
https://tfthacker.medium.com/dashboard-a-simple-organization...
Not even 500px away from here, there's this exchange from you, contradicting your clever tweet:

> Can [ignoring ideas I don't like] get a doctor for my impoverished mother in law?

> If not then I'm afraid I must oppose some ideas in ways other than ignoring them. [Context: "We do not show up at their talks and try to prevent them from communicating with others."]
More nuke promotion.

It doesn't matter how you spin nukes, they will always end up costing way, way more than renewables + storage. Diverting capital to nukes slows our response to global climatic catastrophe, perhaps enriching a few at the expense of the whole world.
Probably both!
> Why has iOS never had a control for restricting an app's network access?

The funny thing is iOS (and I assume all of the other forks) does have this implemented but it's just not widely available. If you buy an iPhone in China, you can restrict individual apps from using both cellular & Wi-Fi. In other countries (I assume), you only have the option to disable cellular (Settings -> Mobile Data).

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/aib10i/in_china_ios_al...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/278051/ios-wi-fi-i...
and it is well known you can create an account with noscript/basic (x)html browsers and use those very browsers to perform the periodic "re-authentication" of this account.

(irony)
It's hard to put into words, which is why I said "feels" rather than "is" ;)

It might just be my own lack of skill, but I found myself initially getting overwhelmed at trying to hunt down which settings to change to ensure no federation or third party calls were made, since that was my usage scenario. Even then, a rogue "allow vector.im" snuck in here and there at first. My second go around a year or two later was much easier since I already knew what to look for, and had a better grasp of how to handle the ACME/DNS aspect of it all (which isn't the fault of the Matrix team at all, but was still a pain point). Some other pain points for me were grasping identity servers and trusted certificate providers and STUN/TURN and integrations, since there was a whole lot of learning necessary for me before I was comfortable just following the installation steps as-written.

I did try the Ansible playbook during another attempt, and while it worked pretty well there was still the same sense of "wow that's a lot of configuration". I also foolishly tried to apply it to a pre-existing server running nginx, which, while possible, adds some extra complexity to avoid breaking existing configs. YMMV, I am just not the brightest of fellas.

As far as resources go, a $5 VPS covered more than enough to handle even the older versions of Synapse for my use case, since I wasn't federating and have a fairly small number of users (under 100). I couldn't tell you whether federation or more usage would change that, but community reports (at the time) were that Synapse struggled. Much of that seems to have been addressed since then.

Overall I think if I were to start over, I'd stick to the Ansible playbook on a fresh server.
I disabled update check but it still wants to connect to the internet after it has been open for a while. Why does it want to do that?

For those who are looking for the code: https://github.com/Zuntek/WeekToDoWeb
Why focus on poor countries? Exactly for the reasons you mention I see only developed countries do this.

For the aluminium processing type plants issue, it appears steel plants and other heavy industry here in the Netherlands are investing in their own power/heat storage capabilities. Exactly so that they can operate on their own terms instead of the net having to develop a generic power storing solution.
Why? Honest question.

I fully appreciate owning your own data and hosting it somewhere, but no idea why we need to host anywhere but hyper-connected data centers.

I’d like to own my social graph, my profile, my permissions for who can contact me and read my data. But no reason for that to execute on my phone or home server. Have service providers do it, compete, scale and specialise. Let me host at home if I want to, but that doesn’t feel like the default we need.

But prove me wrong. I like learning!
This is American rail transportation’s learned helplessness. Freigh and passenger rail mixes just fine in other countries.
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For Python specifically, the colon is always used to introduce a block, which makes parsing somewhat easier as well as being consistent throughout the language.

However, one could easily imagine a design where certain keywords automatically introduce a block after the current line, which would eliminate the need for the colon. It would prevent one-liners (e.g. “if x: y”) but that’s no big loss. The colon would continue to be used for e.g. lambda, dict and annotation syntax.
IMHO part and parcel with the general increase in skepticism/distrust the past few years. Hard for me to verbalize. Feels very similar to the feeling I get as soon as someone starts telling me about what "They" think and do.

Let me try verbalizing this: People's own motivations tend to distort their own perception of other people's motivations and whether people are motivated in a direction at all: we see it here simply as this person was probably estatic just to have the opportunity to write for the New Yorker, much less for a paycheck, yet the immediate comments at the time were focused on noting how they felt about, broadly, "cancelling", and assumed this was an instance of such.

My 3rd biggest passion is finding a way to disarm the Theys and guesses at motivation. I never, ever, can...the way I do it in my own personal life is being very upfront and active, possibly rudely so, in asking people if I'm unsure. Everyone's on twitter?