skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever programmed in assembly? Code that I wrote 20 years ago in Motorola 68000 assembly is easy to read and understand for me today. While I have seen “modern” code written in modern languages (by other people) that made me want to throw up and/or throw things at those people :)
I don't get it, you can upgrade it. What's the problem? 16GB is not the maximum possible RAM.

Edit: I meant, you can upgrade it when speccing the laptop. The RAM is probably soldered.
The Rob Pike name connection is indeed a fun detail.
Scams could be exploiting data bugs. Literally all scams depend on verification failure.
Ephesus is far more recent, anyway it is now inland because of river silting. The sea didn't went nor up nor down, it was pushed further away over the centuries.
I assume you are in some IT or software role?

Yes.

what is it that they actually trust you to do around patients?

It varies from year to year, but is always interacting directly with them. I've been hugged, cried on, held people's babies while they (the parents) vomited in the hallways, had people rant at me in languages I don't understand. All kinds of human activity.

How do the "real" healthcare workers treat you?

They pretty much ignore me. I expect on some level, they're happy to have someone picking up the details so they can do other things, but for the most part they seem far too busy to even notice that I'm there.
Well actually... I use vim keybindings everywhere including IntelliJ, and I don't use the backspace to delete as it's inefficient... I sometimes use the return key, but not that often either since I have more efficient ways to open a new line as well. I'm sure there's lots of devs like me...

That said, the location of the power button is unfortunate, I would expect it to be on the corner.
> ACM has opened more than 117,500 articles published between 1951 and the end of 2000, during the first 50 years of its publishing program.

Up to end of 2000, so it appears there's still residual value in holding Lifetime Membership[1]. This is nevertheless a huge leap in the right direction.

Here's to hoping ACM applies some funds toward maintaining the DL mobile app, which hasn't seen an update in like 5 years.

[1] https://www.acm.org/membership/lifetime-membership
This isn't really the gotcha moment you think it is. Primaries are, well, mostly a farce and the people that show up for the primaries are the ones that often have the most free time or ability to do so. Retirees, wealthier individuals and so forth. There's no better evidence of this fact than candidates like Bernie Sanders having extremely high popularity among the younger generation which tapers off the older people get. There's a massive and growing generational divide that's only going to get better once the voting block that enables them starts dying off.

Assuming that the primaries represent who will actually win a presidential election is as much of a mistake as assuming that polls are accurate when it comes to election day.
I probably would too, at this point!
No, not really. The US financial system does it using SFTP and tech from the 70’s just fine.

All the stuff you’re talking about is only useful when it’s nothing but distrusted counterparties with no trusted intermediaries, no place anywhere someone can store a copy of the data they trust, etc. which pretty much never happens in the real world.

All these issues got worked out a long time ago in ways that really do work fine. It’s a bit slow, but it works.

Most of the things you’re talking about also have big disadvantages for real world players (no one generally wants all transactions stored forever and visible to everyone for instance, or for transactions to be immutable even if there was fraud or fat fingering).

Where it CAN be useful is where the existing power structure is actively trying to destroy trust in any active institutions or actively driving the economy off a cliff bandit style, but is also unable to clamp down on internet connections.

Which does have some niche uses, and it might be more than that at some point. But right now it’s just not well fit for purpose compared to the equivalents.
I did not get the impression that the carvings at this site were anywhere near as large as StoneHenge, Easter island, or Giza: they mention a life-sized man statue, large pensis, and friezes.

And if the site was occupied for hundreds of years, they could have been carved over time, spreading out the caloric requirements.
You seem to know what you're talking about. Ignorant question: do you think Dagster would work better as an orchestration/validation tool than AirBnB's Wall?
>there was probably little actual reason to come here at all since, presumably, game and fish were as robust in all the lands they travelled to arrive here and fellow human pressure was non-existent.

I don't think this is true, there were lots of good reasons to move into the Americas, notably the presence of many large species of game animals that evolved without natural defences against humans (which were all quickly hunted to extinction or out-competed). Maine would have been on the fringes of habitability at the time, but other areas like Mexico and Peru were ideal climates for humans to move to, much better than the Siberian wilderness their ancestors travelled through.
What do you mean? That the external equipment itself is somehow radioactive, or what?
I think the thing is that different people are commenting. People who say "needs more x, y, z" here are not the same who say "it's too heavy" or whatnot on some other thread.

Also, people who think this laptop is just fine (I don't need more than 16G of memory, and HD is fine for me too) have little to comment about, or the only comment they really have "hey, looks cool!"; which are kind of the unsubstantive comments HN discourages. So by and large, those people won't comment. But people who do have something they want to see better do have substantive things (or rants...) to post about the keyboard, screen, memory, or whatnot, so they will post them.

In short, you're 1) seeing a very biased view of what people think, and 2) HN is not a "hive mind" where everyone agrees.
The Libyan conflict was several countries working together and stuck a NATO label on it. Most of NATO was not actually involved. It also included some countries outside of NATO, like Sweden.

You can blame it on France misusing the NATO moniker rather than it just being a coalition.
The big mac index:

https://www.economist.com/big-mac-index
The cookie banners are not present to ask to set cookies, the GDPR allows for "necessary" cookies.

What the banners are for is that the GDPR requires permission to set tracking (advertiser) cookies, not that any banner text actually honestly tells you that this is the real reason why it exists and is asking your permission to set cookies.

Perhaps Apple has no tracking (advertiser) cookies being set, and therefore they have no need for a "cookie banner".
Russian Botnet Can Spam Social Media on 'Massive Scale'
Cool, I'll have to tell my dad about this before it's too late. His versions were many years before this but published in Germany so maybe totally independent.
How frequently are you and your team willing to spend that 20 minutes? Are you confident you evaluated it precisely? Are you always going to install the latest release? What do you do as the codebase grows and that 20 minutes turns into an hour?
Qualcomm Ushers in the Wireless Metaverse with a New AR Smart Viewer
Making the perfect noodle dish. Noodles are the base, and you can always try different ingredients when you get bored. Play around with mushrooms, shrimp, beef, and different sauces.
Because according to the mythology, Cassandra's prophecies actually were predicting the truth.

I think the part where people didn't believe her wasn't relevant, when it came to the DB product naming. She was a "source of truth" regardless of people's belief in it.
Would people still ignore it? At my work, we have a Slack bot that pings us to do a certain task by a due date, and I find most people just ignore it because it’s not an actual human being that is bugging us
FTA:

> Two of his companies, however, have faced allegations of sexual harassment in the past. In December 2021, the same week he was named Time's Person of the Year, four women who worked at SpaceX spoke out about sexual harassment they said they faced at the company, where Musk is the CEO. One, Ashley Kosak, published an essay recounting being groped and touched inappropriately by male employees while she was an intern. Three others — one of whom said she was bound by a non-disclosure agreement — recounted similar treatment to the New York Times.

> In response to the reports, SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell sent a company-wide email saying that "timely reporting of harassment is key to our maintaining SpaceX as a great place to work; we can't fix what we don't know," the Times reported. She added that SpaceX will "rigorously investigate all harassment or discrimination claims and take rapid and appropriate action when we find our policy is violated."

> And at least six women have sued Tesla, where Musk is the CEO, alleging sexual harassment at a Tesla factory. Men at the factory ogled women and remarked on their clothes, the complaints said, leading some women to wear baggy outfits and use stacks of boxes to obstruct the views of leering co-workers. Some of the women claimed they were retaliated against when they came forward.
Failure to grow, or at least to turn over users with time, is also a problem. Ultimately you end up with a dominant cohort which ages through the system.

For various reasons, Diaspora* seems quite prone to this. I have a number of suspicions as to why, though stagnent development and either intentional or incidental decisions which have made the platform almost perfectly opaque to general web search seem to be likely factors.

Mastodon, by contrast, seems to acquire a new major group of new adopters every year or two, that I've noticed.

(I'm active on both platforms.)
I think it is perceived to people differently by the stance they chose to take (voluntarily or involuntarily) about life. There are a set of people who see life as maximizing risk to stand our from the herd. It is mostly people who learned the world not by books, but by experience: Musicians, artists, entrepreneur, etc. The other set of people try minimizing the risk to make life predictable: engineers, lawyers, doctors are likely to fall in to this category. I don't think one is superior to the other. It is just matter of your innate genes, early life experience, or from your parents whether you are risk seeking or risk avoiding.

And in poker you can take two strategies, play tight win small many times, or play loose win few big ones. Poker teaches you which strategy fits to your emotion/personality, and where you feel the most happiness. What I learned in poker is that I am much more of a loose player even if I bet real money. I was once a full time employee of a big tech firm, and playing poker just revealed what has been missing in my life: risk and thrill. So I decided to start by own business to maximize thrill and risk which has been much more 'emotionally' rewarding so far.

I am also a decent chess player (lichess.org elo 1800), but I find poker much more challenging and resembles many aspects of life. The frustration of being rejected by girl is strikingly similar to losing 3-betted pot in poker. The agony of seeing your stock price fall feels the same as your opponent folding his hand while you have a nut. Going through these up and downs teaches you a profound wisdom, as also mentioned in the article, that you shouldn't be taking too much feedback from success and fail but you should optimize the the rate of success of your strategy.

Of course, life is short and we only have few hands. Even if we count a day as a hand, we only have 365 * 40 = 14600 hands. So I don't think either strategy is superior to the other. It is more about what strategy feels right to you. Poker teaches exactly that. You get to know more about yourself
Child Circumstance, Personality Traits – Associated with Loneliness in Older Age
Yeah I think you did. Here is an example, maternity leave is 65% of salary but capped at 1800 euros. If you make 6000 a month and want to make use of maternity leave, you have to lower your living standards significantly so you can stat with your child. This would make a lot of sense and fair for someone making ~2800 though. But as a high earner, and a high tax payer, i cannot use this system “feature”.
Civilizing Social Media: Strategies for depolarizing political discourse
The media told people that Bernie Sanders was unelectable, so people voted for Biden.
Those charitable programs exist now. There's nothing stopping them from existing. So why does the problem still exist then? And more importantly: Why have other countries solved this in a far better manner than the US?

There's plenty of easy answers to these problems if we'd look to just emulate what other countries do for welfare, healthcare etc instead of pretending that we're better than them while failing at every aspect.
Don’t forget the statues at the site have 6 fingers. No one has explained that yet.
Yes, this was my interpretation. I don't mind cafes or whatever, because as many people mention, the blending together of all those convos is fine, and helps sometimes, but would lose my job in am office pretty quickly at this point. All it would take is one asshole crunching an Apple and I'm done
Their argument about trimesters isn't terribly bad. The basic gist is that there are competing interests: that of the woman and control over her body, and that of the state in its interests in protecting humans.

They basically ignore the question of whether a fetus is alive or a citizen. It's the state's interest in protecting a potential person/citizen vs the woman's right to privacy.

The trimester system allows the controlling interest to shift as the fetus becomes closer to a citizen (and thus increasing the validity of the state's interest). In the first trimester, it's not at all close to a citizen and the woman's rights reign supreme. There are some concessions for the state in the second trimester, and by the third trimester, it's close enough to a citizen that the state has a compelling interest in preventing harm.

They explicitly call out that the right to privacy is not absolute, which is basically par for the course. The 1st Amendment doesn't let you incite violence, the second doesn't guarantee your right to buy a tank and ammunition, felons can't vote, prisoners can be slaves, etc. Basically none of our rights are absolute. It's a balance between preserving the rights of the people and the interests of the state.

It's an arbitrary framework, which the SC acknowledged, but you have to draw a line somewhere. Without a consensus on when life begins, that's always going to be an arbitrary line.
Visiting the front page I don't see any ad services being loaded. There is Omniture analytics, first party, on the apple domain, but that's it
Well I like the mechanics you've suggested but I'd rather basis it on some other metric which more closely maps how much surplus cash an "average person" has in country X.
As far as I understand, this only resolves conflicts, git can already resolve with it's line-based approach. I'm talking about conflicts within a single line, that a line based approach cannot solve.
> The civil war was not reframed after the fact to be about slavery, quite the opposite in fact.

Should I believe you or lincoln?

'...My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery...'

https://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greele...

If the civil war was about freeing slaves, why did lincoln wait so long to end slavery? Why didn't he do it immediately?

> It’s part of the ‘lost cause’ narrative furthered by the southern states after the civil war.

Who cares as long as it is true? I'm not a southerner. Not a fan of the confederacy.

Is your assertion that racist white northerners fought a war against racist white southerners to free black people? Does that make any sense to you? Have you looked into lincoln's opinions of black people?

"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [applause]—that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality..."
We went to Orkney on a whim and it was super interesting. In addition to the neolithic stuff there's the Italian Chapel and Highland Park, highly recommended.
Turns out the fabled year was 202X all along.

I'll admit, I'm delighted to see HP announce this, if only because it means System76 will (probably) get more funding for Pop_OS and that this may "legitimize" the Linux Desktop more with three major manufacturers carrying supported options.
Same thing happened to me a few years ago. I have a giant subwoofer sound system in my car and usually play music loud on the freeway. That alert scared the hell out of me. Easily could have caused an accident!
I use right shift more than left shift because most of my hotkeys use buttons on the left side of the keyboard and two handed combos are more comfortable than hand stretches.

Right Alt/Alt Gr is a different modifier than left alt, though I'd say 90% of my usage is AltGr+4 for the € sign.
There Was No Terra 'Attack'
Ha ! Good idea. That's the type of metric I'm after but, understandably, it only cover countries where McD'd operates and in world standards that's quite a small set. Still I think it's a pretty good idea and I will keep it in mind.
I suppose the downside here is that lavender reduces testosterone.

Then again I’m sure chronic anxiety and stress do as well.
i dont think it is super secret stuff.
I was thinking about the luhn algorithm since i read the article today, but the real story is (could be) that the guy is just a newspaper vendor and he do that by hand. If that is true.., well, chapeau.., bad thing is that the guy was stealing, but is impresive if he never read about the algorithm.

the other funny part is his last name...
What if we squished the size of the text instead?
Frick idk. I have a Chime interview scheduled with Amazon on Tuesday and I'm definitely going to fail it after many years in frontend. But I'll do some basic prep I guess and see how embarrassing it is.
Teach your kids poker is zero-sum gambling and explain what that means. So much promotion of vice everywhere.
Inflation is just a fancy word for redistributing wealth from savers to debtors.

The slow response was likely intentional:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fed-chair-jerome-powell-on-econ...
If bodies have been found, why hasn’t radiocarbon dating been done on them?
The keyboard is missing an Insert key.

But they're advertising an "FHD" screen as though that's a selling feature? That's only 1920x1080 - my Sony Vaio Z laptop from 2010 has the same resolution. People doing any kind of user-facing frontend dev-work pretty-much need a screen capable of 2x/200%/192dpi (i.e. 4K) at least.

...that's a deal-killer for me, as is the lack of a true middle-button on the touchpad.

I'll be sticking with my ThinkPad X1.
I think you and I are building up explanation backwards from an instinct that assets can’t be shared across games.

Images are hotlinked across the Web all the time, the problem is that random assets cannot be added to a game.

And the people pushing NFTing assets might have a different idea on games - e.g.(I’m open to refinements) the “game” is understood to be more heavy on game mechanics as seen in game of chess, so that 3D model of a piece can be anything, or that an asset is always a complete, tangible entity as a fully voiced and textured Companion Cube, rather than a husk of a car in the background with half of the body removed, etc.

And with that level of disagreement as deep as to what the game is, I’m not sure how we would all get to an agreeable conclusion. A chess game that allows any pieces in a Unity asset bundle as a piece sounds interesting if possible.
How to stop being “terminally online”
Not only is it 16:9, but it's only 1920x1080: no opportunity for 2x/4K which you need thesedays if you doing any kind of user-facing frontend work.
Well there were no spaces in enigma messages, but you can use the aforementioned property that no letter encrypts to itself to look for possible plain-texts and figure out their alignment.

e.g. "?E????????" is not HEILHITLER, at least not with that alignment.
I have definitely glossed over a lot of horrors when writing the above.
> This is so wrong it's a wonder how anyone could think this.

I and everyone I knew was taught this is school by people who wanted to push the narrative, and it took a long time to figure out it was false.
As far as frames go, Luxxotica exists because of regular old market-consolidation forces (i.e. it owns so many brands that it makes deals with optical stores to be their only supplier of frames.) Same reason you'll see restaurants that only sell soft drinks made by PepsiCo.

But the real interesting puzzle is why there are so few lens manufacturers.

If you Google the names of these (Zeiss, Leica, Olympus, Corning, etc.), you'll likely quickly figure out that 1. there's about one major optical glass producer per country; and 2. all the ones you'll ever hear about in an Western prescription-glass context are headquartered in countries that are key NATO players; and in fact often in the capitols of those countries.

What's up with that?

"Optical glass", besides being in prescription glasses and smartphone cameras, is the key bottleneck in the resolving power of military imaging satellites.

Each one of these companies is an example of the opposite of "regulatory capture" — these companies exist at the behest of the state, as pseudo-nationalized entities. They're essentially defense contractors that happen to make civilian products on the side.

Competitors to these companies aren't allowed to spring up, because any such a competitor would essentially be a mercenary arms-dealer for IMINT materiel assets.

With exactly one high-quality optical-glass company per country, each under said state's thumb, states can easily track where everything (of sufficient resolving power) that that optical-glass company makes, goes.

It's basically the same reason that there's only a few companies in the world making highly-precise gyroscopes (that could be used for missile guidance); or making industrial-grade cycling centrifuges (that could be used for uranium enrichment.) States will not permit these to be manufactured "out of sight."
According to privacy badger they have 1 tracker that connects to appleglobal.102.112.2o7.net
The U.S. Needs Its Local Public Health Officials Back, Stat
> If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.

Not true at all. For example, artists using Photoshop are typically not programmers and don’t understand the system at all. That doesn’t stop them from creating world class art. A great creative system hides all the complexity from the artist and frees them to express themselves in a way that is natural to them.

Also, understanding the complete system, from software to hardware etc. is pretty much impossible for an individual. So your “low level understanding” of a system will always be a simplified model of what is really going on.

I have seen this kind of thinking before and IMHO it leads you down the wrong track. Abstractions are there for a reason.

Smalltalk is a good example of this. Yes it allows you to manipulate lower levels of the stack (compared with most languages). But that hasn’t resulted in creative outcomes demonstrating the value of being able to do this. Smalltalk failed in the programming language market place.