skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given that an independant funk band hired someone to design not one but two fonts purely for their own marketing material[0][1], I think you overestimate how much it costs to hire a font designer relative to the average film budget.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrf_RPBJ6g

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJEn7HcpfXE
That struck me too. One of the first casualties of this sort of purity spiral seems to be simile and metaphors, everything gets taken literally and in totality.
I wonder if anyone ever made use of the disk drive as an extra source of RAM and CPU cycles?

Not extra RAM in the sense of paging to disk, but in the sense of (ab)using the RAM in the disk drive?

Wikipedia said the most common model had the same CPU chip as the C64 and 2kB RAM.

EDIT: https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27911 says yes, and lists a few demos. https://www.reddit.com/r/c64/comments/iw2ubd/can_you_use_the... might also be interesting.
I agree with you personally, but really what we're talking about is playing sport against a team that continually bends and exploits the rules and comes out ahead. You can talk all you want about morality, but the facts are the facts.

Corporations have been doing it for decades, and anyone that doesn't do the same will continue to be taken advantage of.
Ribbon Filter (2021)
For me on duckduckgo, the first two results are this thread and the fourth is the story itself.

>There were (true) stories of people falling off cliffs and the terminal relaying their scream in time for a Hub unit to switch to that terminal's camera, realise what was happening and displace a drone to catch the faller in mid-air; there were other stories about terminals recording the severing of their owner's head from their body in an accident, and summoning a medical drone in time to save the brain, leaving the de-bodied person with no more a problem than finding ways to pass the months it took to grow a new body.

>A terminal was safety.

>So Gurgeh took his on the longer walks.

Our cell phones might sometimes be pretty useful devices, but they're not quite capable of that sort of thing yet.

Still, you can walk around and explore without using it, while still having it along in a pocket just in case you do the modern equivalent of fall off a cliff or get decapitated. Just better hope you have cell service and your battery is charged up if you do.

I got a smartphone 10 years ago after a trip where I got lost in an unfamiliar city at night. I did manage to navigate my way around by sense of direction and spotting buildings and river, and was just a little late to the party I was going to. But I thought something with maps would be more useful than a flip-phone if I ever got lost while traveling again.

A few years later, exploring randomly in the mountains a couple of states away with my wife, we pulled into a small town late one evening and got out our phones to look for a place to eat and a place to stay. No service, for either of us. So we just wandered around the town with our eyes open and asked people. Found a great restaurant and a nice quiet little bed and breakfast. Once again serendipity beat the cell phone.

What is more concerning is that kids who've grown up with them their entire lives just might not be able to handle that sort of thing. They might just freak out as much as if they had fallen off a cliff or something.
I don't know if there are good use cases for JSON patch, but I found it pretty inconvenient to use when implementing a SCIM server (which uses JSON patch for PATCH method updates)
Are you using MS Defender on Linux ? If yes, good luck.
The last time i saw an antivirus catch a virus was about 20 years ago. Since then i had to clean up my work computers a couple of times, by hand, with the antivirus happily running.
XSLT can do too much, you can even draw a map with XSLT with styles like Osmarender[1]. Javascript is already the XSLT of json and it is good enough at giving alternatives to a locked down format.

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmarender
someone who has a billion dollar exit is in a somewhat better position to pay those taxes than a person scraping by on minimum wage. What you seem to be advocating for here is not less taxes but pushing the taxes downward to people who can less afford them.

Maybe instead the federal government could do inventive things like substantially cut the military budget.
I've long held the opinion the best chat app is no chat app, i.e. delegate everything to your favorite issue tracker and other forms of knowledge keeping (e.g. Git commits, design documents).

Let everything be either fully 'literate' (for lack of a better term: abundant context, complete paragraphs and argumentation, hyperlinking), or fully sync and human (meetings), with no in between other than email, used thinly.

I'd wager that this approach will be increasingly obvious as more people burn out from messy remote settings - many of which were improvised due to the pandemic, yet are here to stay.

It's a model that has worked well for OSS - many projects do just fine with Github alone, sustainably, for years.
I'm up 40% since Jan 1 2022. I've been short the markets and shorted AMZN since November 2021. I've made roughly $100k on it and just closed my position today.
Left out matrix as an alternative?

Matrix is even more overwhelming than slack in the same sense that email is more overwhelming than lotus notes. Maybe overwhelming is fine if the use for the tech isn't siloed to solving communication in only one part of their life.
It's just the very beginning of it. I'm adding different languages/frameworks as soon as I can.
Pretty sure your dig! implementation would be faster with a traditional for loop (aka #each).
> There are several classes of problem that really seem to bring out the [...] crackpots

You wouldn't believe how many people on reddit have proved the Collatz conjecture or found a polytime algorithm for 3-SAT...

If a problem is hard enough and stated easily enough, it is crackpot-central.
When the music stops you will hear its loud absence.

So long as the exchanges keeps trading, those that dumped will consider them selves lucky to have sold at perceived local maximums and they will plow back into crypto. Until the religiously obsessive view of crypto ceases to dominate the mainstream the cycle will continue because it is fundamentally scarce. Buy the dip, hodl, “if you bought at every one of the last peaks you are still up…” — these ideas are religiously held and they are potent.
Love the analogy, really love it.
There are legions of starving artists that are probably better qualified to answer that than me :)
Thanks, that bike repair book is nice!
> Could you please elaborate? I think the way the US did it's COVID stimulus was outstanding and very close to the ideal way to actually address people's potential needs.

The way the US tax system works meant that non-residents got the cheque as well (because they have to file taxes). Non-residents are usually able to reduce their tax liability to zero, so a US citizen earning over 200k but not living in the US would get a cheque mailed to them.
The weird thing about HTML and CSS is: I know it could have been better if somebody took today's requirements and turned them into both a markup and a stylesheet language.

Yet: It is hard to find any duo as powerful and expressive anywhere you want to create user interfaces and layouts.

Writing HTML is not annoying you just do it. You can always use templating languages if you want to do so faster.
Which are mostly bots scanning serp results to prevent rate limits.
At least in capitalism you can start a new business. The folly of the Monopoly board game is the limited spaces which makes things a zero-sum game. The world is only zero-sum when the government doesn’t let you build new stuff through artificial constraints. In a free market always get new stuff.
This is not finding some mysterious loophole though, but using a government designed program.

I think it is sad they exist, but clearly they are there to be used.
Am a fan. I can't imagine suffering it that bad. For me it's just a few bad nights in a row that wear me out if I'm not careful.
I'm glad you're finding Cognate useful. Case is actually a higher order function that builds a closure that performs the pattern match - no compile time execution is involved.
None. Learn from your failures. Ask for feedback. Try to improve. No payed service knows how the interview will be.
The idea is to have the bare minimum every developer in that particular category have on their system and just help them boost their productivity with a good jump start and hopefully with the upcoming features during the development.
Older Admiral Cloudberg write-up on that crash:

https://imgur.com/a/vodAg
Everyone knew that the Macarena was a fad.
That would lead to a whole bunch of false positives when people are cooking. Which is an issue too.

Anecdotal: a friend had these in apartment and they ended up covering them with sacs everytime they wanted to bake meat. Cause otherwise the whole building risked evacuation just because they wanted damm baked chicken or something.
Yup, that's it
No, they (rarely) do

Here’s a recent example - https://www.bbc.com/news/business-56248558
The average Emacs user writes occasional lisp to customise its behaviour. I don't know any VS Code user that writes JavaScript to customise it. VS Code obviously does have larger mindshare and that does bring some very polished commercial plugins.
Blunt force contracts have been attempted with mixed success.
Infrastructure sucks relatively to almost everywhere else in the US (better than other territories, probably better than parts of Alaska). Legal system is really bad (bad hybrid of old Spanish law, 1950s American law, and nearly a century of corruption). High costs (inherent to being on an island) combined with regulatory/etc. burden raising costs.

It makes sense for completely vertically integrated businesses which are highly profitable (some software, crypto, pharma production), but it's not a place you'd put most businesses. compared to Florida/Texas (low tax low cost), a lot of other parts of the US (low cost moderate tax), or CA/NY/etc. (high talent pool, high tax).

It can be done, it's just harder, and it's probably not worth saving 20% long-term capital gains (if successful) this way vs. a higher change of a successful outcome at all otherwise. But for some specific kinds of businesses it works great.
> Ask 100 ten-year-olds what they want to do, and I’d guess 99 of them will say something that’s related to becoming rich or famous: A musician, YouTuber, actor, NBA player, Elon Musk, and so forth.

Pretty sure when I was a kid people wanted to be astronauts, actors, sportspeople, singers or musicians, or other things might make one rich or famous. When you’re ten years old that’s what you do, non?
Maybe Computer Science Unplugged would offer some inspiration? Teaching CS fundamentals without using a computer: https://www.csunplugged.org/en/at-home/

"Classic" version of the book with all the activities, also in PDF form: https://classic.csunplugged.org/books/

I would also recommend Elizabeth G. Hainstock's book "Teaching Montessori in the Home: The School Years" (and the first part, "The Pre-School Years", which is for children aged up to 5). IIRC, these books are from the early 1970s, but I was blown away by the clarity of the instructions, explanations and drawings. The School Years book is, obviously, aimed at somewhat older children, but it offers really interesting exercises and tools for teaching maths: https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-Montessori-Home-School-Years...

Best of luck and have fun!
Most of my accounts are unimportant and nothing would happen if they stolen or hijacked. I totally write down those passwords somewhere. The important ones are not in writing anywhere (like bank logins). There is no reason to pretent all accounts are similarly important or that the same security policies should apply.
I've compressed all the data I have down to a single bit, but now I can't figure out how to extract it back out.
Yes, the private key leaves the dongle. FIDO gave up on that secure idea.
Go read the FAQ on multi-device FIDO.
https://fidoalliance.org/faqs/#multi-device-fido-credentials
The GKE team probably has other priorities.
Yeah except you get banned with prejudice for wrongspeak.
The pathological obsession with safety in the industry is a smoke-screen used to shield them from liability when accidents inevitably occur.

They will find ways to blame employee error instead of taking responsibility when their own policies contribute to accidents, especially if there are fatalities. The dead guy probably did it to himself. It couldn't possibly be related to lack of sleep, lack of maintenance of important tools in use at the time, etc.

It is definitely one industry where HR has the company's back and you are fucked if you raise any issues with them. I had a situation where I violated a company policy on location one time and this violation caused my crew and therefore the company, to be kicked off the location and replaced by a competitor's crew with a competing tool. This resulted in a nice meeting with my Field Service Manager (my direct boss), my Regional Service Manager (his direct boss), and a person whom I discovered after the meeting was a company lawyer who was present only to document my clear failure so that they could justify termination.

Questions were asked by my bosses and I responded with truthful answers and long-winded descriptions of the thought processes behind those actions. When they ran out of questions and thought they had clearly documented that I broke the company's rules about what I could tell clients about their tool's performance and that termination was justified, the lawyer introduced himself to me. I had had no idea who he was up to then, he was just a suit with a notepad who spent his time there taking notes.

He thanked me for my thoughtful replies and turned to my bosses and told them that they could not fire me since the client had specifically asked me to answer his question based on my own personal experiences and that when I answered I was careful to base my answer only on my own personal experience - for better or worse. Additionally, since they knew that the experiences that I used in answering the client's questions were true and not embellished (they both had direct knowledge of the problems I had encountered and later described), there were no grounds to terminate.

Up to that point I had no idea that they were trying to terminate me. Basically, the company policy was to parrot the marketing bullshit and lie to the client about tool performance characteristics under adverse conditions.

When the lawyer had delivered the bad news to them he stood up and extended his hand, thanked me for my time and told me to keep up the good work.

I was fortunate that I had been able to send resumes several weeks before while I was recuperating from job-related knee surgery. One of those resumes ended up giving my life back to me and allowing me to expand my career and eventually become a consultant to the industry. Though its been thirty years now I can still say - Fuck Scumbagger.
So no Analytical Engine patent for Charles Babbage?
Exactly, those defaults are a disgrace and also are surprisingly difficult to change, particularly when the action includes a mini-mode with its own key bindings so you remap a key, but then it still does not work after the first key press. Yes, you can find all the variables you need to change to remap a specific key but it wastes way more time than it should.

I guess most people know by now, but Emacs’ keybindings were designed for a specific keyboard that had way more keys that usual: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/495/what-...

As Emacs was ported, they replaced dedicated keys with chords and sequences and we ended up in this mess, instead of at some point doing a full review of the default keybindings to match the input devices we actually have, merging in the conventions that had developed in the meantime.

After three decades of use, I have internalized those defaults because I keep having to use Emacs in its default configuration from time to time, have remapped many keys in my workstation, bound custom functions and all that. It’s still a paper cut, and also prevents me from recommending Emacs to more casual users.
I'm kinda torn on this. On one hand it's super interesting, on the other it's state-sponsored army propaganda series, luring in young Americans, painting everyone in service as a hero.
See also the documentation. [1]

[1] https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/SVT-AV1/blob/v1.0.0/Docs/Ffm...
Same pattern is ActorDB: https://github.com/biokoda/actordb
> In 1985, Neil Postman, who was a media critic, wrote a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death. Postman argued that the media de-emphasizes the quality of information and over-emphasizes our desire to be entertained. Remember, that book was written over 35 years ago in an age without the internet and social media…

When I read that I knew the article was by someone who was young, because all those trends described in the article started before social media. But they did start when “media” started measuring their success based on user time consumption (post advertising).

> We’d rather have a real picture in a lavish private jet over a real experience that’s normal.

I think this is where the author sort of misses the mark with the article. Because that is exactly an example of how many people actually don’t want to be consumers, but rather producers.

Now, you can think that’s a bas thing. I certainly think it’s sad to see children who would rather be YouTubers than scientists, but at least those children still want to make something with their lives. I’m not sure whether social media has made it easier to become rich and famous, but at least you don’t have to deal with editors to even get your content put on MTV.

> Kittens learn that from observing their mother. As far as I know, cats can’t communicate the way we do, so they learn by copying each other’s behavior.

I’m not going to pretend to know how cats work, but we had a rescue kitten that never saw it’s mother (or any other cat) so anything and it still used the litter box.

> Same strategy, same actions, different times, different outcomes. Becoming rich and famous is mostly a matter of luck.

I play Blood Bowl, it’s basically chess mixed with dices. It’s very unbalanced and leans much more heavily into the dice side than the chess side. After around 2000 matches I’ve learned that it’s indeed great to be lucky, but to win consistently you need to be lucky at the right times.

I personally prefer that sort of thinking because it indicates that you need to set up your circumstances to capitalise on the luck that comes your way.
Oxygen candles smell bad. I would never want to use one except in an emergency situation. No scrubber necessary if I’m just evacuation.
Double-click + right arrow :)
Single human produces around 1kg of CO2 per day:
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/how-much-does-huma...

Seems that algae are up to 400x more efficient at CO2 scrubbing than terrestrial plants. See:
https://newatlas.com/environment/algae-fueled-bioreactor-car...

No idea though if such bio-tanks are a viable solution in a rather devoid of solar light shelters.
Only kind that doesn't give me massive boils on my forehead is "Carlson, very finest fish oil" expensive...
A person like this is actually unsuitable, even if he was smart. How likely you are to steal nuclear material is a factor there.
I sort of want a Hacker News/Reddit style tool for work with upvotes and nested threads.

Slack is good for realtime discussions but it's really hard to find a conversation from last week or a popular discussion that I should read.

For any topic that doesn't have to be discussed realtime, I just want a front page sorted Hacker News style based on upvotes and recency.

This will also make it easier to find the context of a decision years down the road.
> I was thrilled when found one of the addresses for controlling a sprite.

Wasn't that even in the printed handbook?
Available in new regions other than us-central?
That was a potassium or alkali metal oxide that reacted with the salt water and exploded
Taxes are not donations. You don’t go to jail if you refuse to give a donation.
What this boils down to is "salt is a couple orders of magnitude more dense than air, so we can fit a lot of air in very little salt". Which is a sentiment I think most people can feel is correct even if they don't know their ideal gas law or whatever.
There is this odd bias in our culture. If a guy does a bunch of stupid and unethical stuff with tech sounding things, people tend to assume he is smart and has oh-so-high potential.
Every PRNG is an excellent compression algorithm for particular kinds of random data. Actually every kind of unbounded size random data is generated by a device that doesn't contain all of the data at the start. These algorithms may not be generic, but a generic algorithm is not useful because you can always can just generate another random data set from scratch.
Mostly a jest, but now you're releasing these to the public, does that mean Google's moved onto something better?
Apparently it’s the American dream. Over half of US workers pay zero federal tax. https://thehill.com/policy/finance/599753-study-57-percent-o...
Let me talk about tether. It really is just an unregulated bank. The stable coin is a liquid liability for tether. It must own liquid assets in proportion to how much people want to withdraw USD. If too many people withdraw at once and they are out of liquid assets(reserves) they must sell illiquid assets, possibly at a different price than they bought them. Bonds with low interest lose their value if you can get new bonds with higher interest. Tether is unable to pay out USD if this scenario were to happen and the peg would be broken.
Well-meaning ignorant person here, but always willing to learn. I'll take your comment in good faith.

Some of my ignorance may be because the knowledge has been abstracted away, deprived of its nuance, and physically kept at a distance from where I have lived and worked.

My view is that most people are not fully opposed to industrialized farming. But rather I don't want there to be farms (or companies for that matter) that exploit workers, pollute the environment, bribe politicians (in essence, rigging the once free market) [1]. That's my main gripe. We live in a society, and profits should not justify treating others like they were less than equal to ourselves.

In my opinion, some of those companies are too large to properly behave like well-run businesses (not too large to fail), and they have accrued a critical size and mass that they bully away competition, and no longer have the interests of the customer in mind.

To paraphrase Douglas Adams:

If it maintains high prices like a cartel, and restricts competition like a cartel, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a large association of nefarious manufacturers or suppliers on our hands.
I'm still waiting for the business use case that recommends .rodeo

If you want to be global, avoid most country-specific domains, but there are a few exceptions that seem to have achieved traction - .io is tech-trendy, .tv was big for a while, and some can fit into the branding in a way like .us .in and the forthcoming .au (gold.au will be a very nice domain for whoever it sitting on gold.com.au right now).

There's also the potential to jazz up your name / brand / domain. I'm working with one company on a product right now, and while they had a cool 5-letter name for it they've actually re-named the whole thing to "Meet12345" because meet12345.com was available and 12345 certainly wasn't. Think getdropbox.com as an older, temporary example of this as well.
If there's some more depth or otherwise more detail then you should consider writing an article or blog post. Sounds interesting.
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