skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So... anyone else having doubts that with all the apocalyptic things going on around the world people will keep their appetite for mindless distraction and will still be able/willing to one-click buy random stuff on a whim? When they might have to expect waiting weeks for the delivery, and/or pay humongous transport fees?

Asking because that seems to be what much of modern IT is angling for and why there's so much money in it.
The majority of those immigrants are likely from other European countries with similar cultures and backgrounds. If you take in too many immigrants you'll just destabilize Switzerland and then Everywhere has the same problem.
I cant afford these books.
Hmmmmmm.

Native port of SectorLISP (https://justine.lol/sectorlisp/) to the Quest for Tetris processor (https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...), anybody?

SectorLISP is x86-specific, so this wouldn't just be neatly mushing existing things together, but I think the result could be very interesting nonetheless. I'm tempted to note that SectorLISP's tiny size could make this a reasonable one-shot/nerdsnipe-sized weekend project :D
Berec set to issue new net neutrality rules
Those of us experienced in DevOps have been trying to set standards for repo/project structure, deployments, etc. for quite a while, but it seems like every developer has their own idea of what they did the first time they read a blog post about "how to build X app" and then will use a different structure after they consume their next Medium article. Or, even better, they're been "doing it this way for 10 years", or "I heard Facebook/Amazon, etc. does X".
This post reminds me of the chapter in Steve Wozniak's biography dedicated to his obsession with phone numbers. It details his favorite owned numbers and attempts to convince phone companies to sell him numbers that make have interesting properties when converted to binary.
In the US, firearms are more likely to kill your child than car accidents are[1].

1. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2201761
Yes but to a lesser degree, see for example drinking water.
Someone needs to write a book with the list of books to learn C++ the correct way. It's definitely unaffordable.
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Its a real concern. Kids going in to daycare will be sick a ton based all the anecdata.

It SUCKS having to keep paying $250+ a week to keep them home while you or a partner are missing work on top of it.
Memory safe, perhaps, but data races are definitely possible. The main issue is that their STM system doesn't scale very well. It is good enough if you want to keep a simple CRUD GUI in sync but don't expect to be building high performance web servers anytime soon with Clojure atomics. You can't just create and throw those around willy-nilly like Goroutines. Clojure people doesn't like talking about the language's weaknesses but I have seen quite a few Clojure projects get rewritten because of maintenance cost and runtime inefficiencies. Project Loom is the best option right now for scalable Clojure concurrency/parallelism.
Home-grown Euro chipmaker SiPearl signs deal with HPE, Nvidia
Put simply: if the network can talk to the public facing Internet, it’s vulnerable. You can solve this with airgaps but even those are vulnerable to side channel attacks. One thing you could do is remove any ‘radios’ from the machine that can be used for exfiltration and thoroughly vet and audit all your hardware. Bonus points for placing the machine in a giant Faraday cage.
'Bit sad innit, but what can I do about it except globally irrelevant feel-goods that we're conditioned into doing on the individual basis?
Cheap, clean energy solves a lot of the problems described, and until we get people to understand that the only energy that can be produced on a low budget, with little impact to the environment is either hydro or atomic, we are going to be a long way from a long-term solution or even remediation. Wind and solar are also extremely promising, but the load put on network balancing, storage and conversion makes me sceptical of their performance under unreliable conditions.
> else having doubts that with all the apocalyptic things going on around the world people will keep their appetite for mindless distraction and will still be able/willing to one-click buy random stuff on a whim

Wouldn't people in the described apocalyptic scenario want mindless distraction? Anything to keep their minds off the, well, apocalyptic things going on.
Note: Not at all an emacs expert, but know some stuff about trying to parallelise a long-standing language ( GAP -- www.gap-system.org , 30 year old maths language).

I'd strongly recommend something like Javascript's "web workers", where each thread lives in an almost entirely independent memory space, with sharing limited to explicitly named buffers.

The problem with traditional "everything shared by default" threading is even when you get the basic core working, we found throughout the system there were buffers and caches, which all needed making thread-safe. Even after that, every library needed some fixes -- and while these were often simple these libraries may not have had updates in years.
Edit: I have misread the comment. The poster and I agree fully. (Original comment follows)

This is just false. The risk of vaccines is lesser than the risk from the diseases they prevent.
They don’t generally pay people extra to commute either, but certainly do whichever is cheaper for you. The one time I had a long commute I was paying upwards of $200 a month for the train. Gas, maintenance, repairs, depreciation and so on for a car would have been even more. Add in the drudgery of the daily commute and the cost to me was not small.
Cooked, safe, but raw looking steak could have a market today. "Raw foods" is a thing, right? Just the thing to gross out the vegan in-laws, too.

My parents did a short bit with some multilevel marketing scheme selling irradiated foods in the late 70s. I wound up eating a lot of the "salisbury steak" things; little "boil in bag" plastic pouched, non refrigerated meat bit that we got cases of in trade for publishing work I think. Quite good actually but looked as if someone had already tried to eat it and failed. I do not recall the color being reddish but they were covered in a gravy and soaked with who knows what dyes.
> If this means anything, it means the DDG browser blocks all trackers, always, in all places, no?

You've created a completely unrealistic standard. Nothing meets the standard of blocking all trackers everywhere as that isn't possible today or in the foreseeable future.
The volume of Wikipedia edits has been fairly constant since 2007:

https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/all-wikipedia-projects/contrib...

And, just to repeat the point, Wikipedia edits are not made by Wikimedia Foundation staff, but by unpaid volunteers. Nor do Wikimedia staff check or review the edits: that too is done by unpaid volunteers.

What the Wikimedia Foundation staff does do is programming work (this used to be handled by volunteers as well in the early days), PR work, fundraising (about 50 people work on fundraising alone), legal work, outreach ...

https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/staff-contractors/

They are also trying to position the Wikimedia projects as "the essential infrastructure of the ecosystem of free knowledge", globally.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/...

Of course, the bigger a bureaucracy, the more people you need to run the bureaucracy. The time when Jimmy Wales used to tell people how "lean" Wikipedia is – the only expense being hosting – are long gone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQR0gx0QBZ4#t=275

The WMF's most recent annual salary bill was $68 million, up $12 million on the year prior.

And as long as the money is coming in, that bill is going to grow.
> I went through and bought a dummy number to figure out how to purchase the number programatically, and then did the same method as above to purchase it.

This guy is going a little hard on the automation at the end there, what's the point of automating a one-in-a-lifetime task?

Just buy the one number you want instead of the dummy number and you're done.
But that's not true: every individual household and business is trying to maximize their profits (or at least, those that aren't are replaced by those that are), reducing their expenditures and increasing their revenues. In the presence of a stable money supply and stable prices, the only way to do this is through innovation and better efficiency: you reduce the value of your inputs, or you increase the value of the outputs. In the presence of external variations in the cost of capital, it becomes more profitable to capture that external capital than it is to increase efficiency.

Peter Thiel and many other observers have noted that American innovativeness and productivity growth fell off a cliff c. 1971 [1]. He blames government regulation; however, a more likely explanation is that Nixon turned the U.S. dollar into a fully-fiat currency right around then, incentivizing people to compete for newly-created dollars rather than capture more of the ones circulating through the economy.

The causality might run the other way around too, as the Fed holds rates artificially low to paper over low real productivity growth, but this is not an improvement: it just means that we have a feedback loop between money-supply growth, inflation, and low real economic growth.

[1] https://www.seeitmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/debt-...
I got a memorable phone number a while ago. Websites like numberbarn.com make it relatively easy. A key realization I had is that repeating numbers aren’t the thing to look for, because they’re what everybody is depleting and marking up, and actually aren’t a very good proxy for what you really care about, which is memorability and maybe aesthetics. For example, 34567 is better than 37771, and also more likely to be available and cheap. Repeating digits and their associated markup are also about typability, but that probably barely matters to you if people are almost always calling from their address book.
On a similar note, if you ever need to provide a (US) number for a discount and they don't verify it (like at grocery stores) you can almost always just use a 555 number [1] in the format:

XXX-555-01XX

These are designated as "fake" numbers and are used in TV and film when they need to show a number on screen but don't want to open up some random person to prank calls.

Also, these numbers are almost always going to already be registered in a rewards program:

XXX-555-5555
555-555-5555
XXX-867-5309

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/555_(telephone_number)
Maybe not the forum to ask, but I have added an animation to my homepage - an image appears after it is loaded and slowly glides to its new resting place (different from initial location).

I suspect this is why my LCP is crap. But I'm unsure of a way to make the lighthouse score better without removing the glide animation. Do I have no recourse?

https://videohubapp.com/en/
If you have a Raspberry Pi, you can run ZynthianOS by just flashing the image and booting. You can also run Zynthian headless on your own RaspberryPi, should you have one available:

https://wiki.zynthian.org/index.php?title=Beginners_Headless...

ZynthianOS can be configured with external MIDI controllers for the menus, etc. That might be a bit of work, but its definitely worth the effort, because ZynthianOS is just amaze-balls. NORNS too, its just astonishing the power in these little distros.

As well as the original Zynthian, I also have Zynthian running on one of these:

https://www.audiophonics.fr/en/open-source-streamers/rasptou...

.. with a touch-pad, and its just such a tidy, neat system. I look forward to this particular flavour of machine becoming much more prevalent in the MI world ..
Sweden who shut down non-EU flights for 2 years?
“ Some other 10 would be measuring and thinking how to do it”

That is wildly optimistic :)
My 12-year-old brother automated our garage
>You can easily search how far away is that storm?

Pull up radar on Weather Underground (and/or look at the hourly forecast) and you should have a pretty good idea.

Whether or not that's the best example, the point is that there are a bunch of things I might want to know/do while driving that I can't look up without pulling off the road someplace. And even if I could theoretically look them up by voice, it would probably be an exercise in frustration to try to do so.
I have hundreds of recipes in my file that I've never tried, requiring thousands of conversions. Even if each conversion is only done once it's absolutely worth automating.
I think the basic idea is to cross energy use of a language with ubiquity of existing deployments.

So take energy use benchmarks from things like this

https://haslab.github.io/SAFER/scp21.pdf
https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

and cross it with popularity?

https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/
The first part of his murder command can be accomplished by using pkill or killall (but maybe those aren't available on mac?). The second part is useful though.
> CCP apologist

Could you link to the corresponding comments? (two link would be enough)
> You can however build software in modules or independent parts as long as you have clear specs about what each part should do and proper testing.

Where do these clear specs come from? That’s the creative process I’m talking about.
I wonder if OP did things the hard way. I2C eeproms, including their 24C02 has a write-protect line.

They could probably enable write protection and the chip would never decrement.

Just cut WP off from gnd and attach to vcc (with a pull-up for good measure), or vice-versa and voila.

Depends if the machine’s MCU verifies writeability or if the decrement actually happened and cares.

Early paytv satellite systems didn’t care…
I've never used it for note taking.. but it's my go-to tool for annotating PDFs.

Mostly when I have to fill out a stupid form and sign it.

I've been doing this with xournal for years :)
No, it just means making it possible to buy parts, repair manuals/schematics for products and preventing manufacturers for refusing warranty coverage when a repair is done correctly by a third party or product owner. We have right to repair for cars, and have since the 1970s, and without it... the car economy would be more frightening than it already is.
It’s perfectly reasonable to think both “neat design” and “fuck them” at the same time.

No-one’s nice design has a right to exist nor does their business have a right to work out. Personally I’ll do what I can do make DRM fail and companies that implement it go bust.
If you believe that valuation then it's ~$1.5M over 3 years. I would personally ask for explanation of the $70B valuation because if it goes for a piddling $500M your friend gets ~$11K over 3 years
Also keep an eye on the rise of auto-immune diseases in the following years. Two years of lockdown will give rise to a lot more children developing peanut allergies, asthma, hay fever, diabetes type 1, etc.
Search for "signage displays", some have TV functionality built in and some have no, or more tweakable, smart functions. Cost is a lot higher than consumer sets as is quality: they're built to guarantee 18/24 or even 24/24 operation and are the same screens one sees around at malls, streets, stations, airports, etc that would be simply too costly if they broke as often as consumer devices do.
1990, and I've still got things in my .cshrc to fix quirks in SunOS 4 and Irix that I can't bear to remove out of nostalgia.
This whole conversation is pretty pointless and "Having a full set of imperial kitchen measuring cups costs less than any meal you are bothering to prepare and takes up less kitchen space than a single salad bowl" demonstrates exactly why.

Having an Alexa and asking it how many grams are in 1 1/4 cups of white wine vinegar is easier than having 2 sets of measuring cups. It's easier than having 1 set of measuring cups.

0 measuring cups takes up 0 space and I have no use for them. I use a bowl and a scale. That's easier for me than messing with measuring cups and having more crap to clean.
I had to re-read GPs comment several times but I think they want to say that even unvaccinated kids are at lower risk than vaccinated adults.
I much prefer Choose Simple Technology, where “simple” is as it is understood as in Rich Hickeys Simple Made Easy.
They're not really for the same purpose. The internet is great for finding documentation and reference material, but for larger, cohesive concepts like the book this post is about is on, especially since it's somewhat fringe, you will likely only be able to find bad blog spam on medium, which will be far inferior in quality.
> The context is that the economy is ever expanding

Quality of life is not the economy. If housing and healthcare costs double, and everyone works ovetime to afford them, economy grows.

If people drop dead as soon as they reach pention age, and if we put children to work, economy grows.
> No doubt true, but there are alternatives which Java has not pursued – for example, support multiple versions of a class, code is JITted to work with the latest version at JIT time, but other versions are detected and cause a fallback to interpreter mode

This is already how it works. You can define any method definition at runtime and the JIT will fallback until it can optmise the new version again. What Java doesn't allow is modifying classes or interfaces because that would compromise the type safety of the language, which AFAIK is not a concern in Smalltalk.
Time it to finish when you get up and it will release a lot of warm (humid) air to help you warm up your house
A 777 can take you from Warsaw to New York, which no train can do in any time.

For a cost of 737, you can have five trains. But a 737 can make a 1000 km flight, be back, make another 1000 km flight, and be back — in the time it takes a train to make one-way 1000 km ride.

Your points are valid, but it takes more 400-seat trains to provide for a good intercity connection where one plane can do it.

Additionally, in the time the plane flights from point A to point B, the air has lots of space to accommodate other planes. But trains need to share the limited tracks resource — e.g. one one-way tracks, you can't have two trains going in opposite directions, or they will crash into each other.

We have a one-way regional rail line that has double tracks only on the stations, so that's where the trains can pass one another. A failure of any train to be there on time wrecks the whole day schedule.
Yeah but if it has value to me it probably does to others. These kind of things, good houses, land, gold etc. have a good record of retaining some sort of value over long periods of time.
I didn't notice it initially but (part of) the two top lines are italicized. Presumably this was the input prompt.

Which is kind of cool to be able to look at and observe that it made that from just those specific 48 input words. Huh.
Who didn't close schools and daycare.
TL;DR: We have no idea if they were real, and if they were what caused them, and it's ok to be unsure and inconclusive sometimes.
Is there a way you can post an example? I'm not certain I know what you mean.
On the Shortcomings of Gemini Protocol
This person is assuming the problem will occur, and thinking about what their type of work will look like under those conditions. So, it is less interesting of an article if you want to hear about attempts to innovate around the whole problem.
Progressive Enhancement in E N T E R P R I S E Q U A L I T Y "javascript" frameworks used in industry?

I am perfectly willing to believe this is implemented in industry and exists but I really don't believe in industry. I have heard of them. I have just never seen one.
If a disgruntled employee went into the office one night and changed all of the computers to not try to boot from the hard drive anymore, would that not be sabotage, just because it's possible to undo?
Wasn't DDG in another bad headline recently?

I'm searching...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...

there seem to be many headlines lately!
There are two better explanations than the Great Filter:

- Dark Forest theory is popular in China, that civilizations should conceal their existence to prevent being destroyed by a more advanced civilization

- Our own high power TV and Radio transmitters will be shutdown soon in favor of fiber optics. Even better communication mechanisms should be no surprise
Nah, the phrase is "choose boring tech", not "choose convenient tech".

The problem is that calling out "resume-driven development" triggers the resume-driven developer. They're enraged but they don't know why they're enraged. They feel condescended, like they're being treated beneath their station. Instead of digging into this feeling, the resume-driven developer just blames other people. The possibility that maybe the resume-driven developer is overestimating themselves & confusing the word “fun” with “productive” never crosses their mind.
> Two years of lockdown will give rise to a lot more children developing peanut allergies, asthma, hay fever, diabetes type 1, etc

What would be the mechanism of lockdown leading to peanut allergy?
I use Alexa's announce capability to tell my wife to answer the phone--but what I actually tell her to say is in her native language, not in English. The announcement works fine but my phone tries to render it as English text. Never the same thing twice.

And she definitely does the 50/15 thing to me, although generally the other way around. Everything from 30/13 to 90/19 is vulnerable to being misunderstood. My wife has a lot more trouble with it--she learned her first word of English at 43 and so she still has a fair accent.
That does not mean that it needs to be fulfilled by sources which can vary their output. You can just as easily curtail renewables when overproducing.
The great thing is that we can always build a new boat. Google's and Facebook's business model is not more important than the individual right to privacy, and if Google and Facebook cannot peacefully co-exist with the individual right to privacy then Google and Facebook must simply not exist.
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There's a difference between not supporting something and going out of your way to make sure it doesn't work.
Dumb question w.r.t washing machine: don't you have to dose detergent in with each load, or do newer machines have some sort of large reservoir? If the former, how would it know if you're running low on detergent?
How to protect domains that do not send email