skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are some BBS based mail networks, but they are hyper specific to retro stuff I believe.

Based on your description of Usenet I think what you miss is the context around Usenet (exact period of life, young/single/student for example) and not the Usenet itself. You can find plenty of places where there are forum like discussions, but it won't be the same without the context.
I agree. But other times I'd also very much dislike being bound by "code" that the democratically elected lawmakers agree is buggy (buggy compared to their and the electorate's intentions).
i still find games to be great for my mental health, even more so now as an adult than as a kid. they are a place where i can make uninformed decisions based on my gut, and experience no negative consequences to my life. i treat every game like a sandbox. dont get sucked into the idea that anything you build or create, or skills you develop, in the game is meant to last.

For example, in an RPG game when I find a powerful 1-time use item - I use it as soon as I can.

There are many factors to optimal decision making, and optimized results are just 1 factor. Games help me explore trade-offs with quick vs long decisions, side effects of over planning, stress and panic effects on decisions, etc.

It carries over into the rest of my life, even work, where I am better able to manage things, like diminishing returns on my efforts, in ways that are very personal to me and my natural tendencies.
> if content cannot survive without advertisement

Goodbye, niche knowledge sites, I suppose
I think they do while in port in Hawaii. Hawaiian electricity is largely diesel (other than nuclear coming from Navy ships).
This, and the overall build-quality of the devices makes it hard to just discard them.
Even their batteries are still mostly good.
I’d love to repurpose them, have several here aswell lying around.
>you don’t get to make creative decisions.

You do. I think it's a major appeal of making games. Miyamoto is not designing every level, art asset, every shader and every post effect.
Yes! We're using Durable Object under the hood :) Thanks to you for providing such a great platform!
I first played Morrowind two or three years ago, a few years after I first played Fallout 4. No nostalgia glasses for me, I had negative interest in games like Morrowind when Morrowind was new.

But playing Morrowind made me realize just how crap Fallout 4 is as an RPG. Fallout 4 has almost no choices to make and all the characters worship you as a messiah five minutes after meeting you. Morrowind is very rough around the edges, the roll-based combat system was a very hard swallow. But despite the rough/exploitable mechanics and the bad graphics, Morrowind still manages to be a much more immersive world because the people in it actually make sense. They have their own agendas and biases and they don't care about you until you give them a reason to care. In Morrowind you join a faction and are given orders by some regional flunky, or worse, that regional flunky tells you to buzz off and do shitty odd jobs for another apprentice in the faction. In Fallout 4 you approach a faction and immediately meet the faction leader who tells you that you're Howard's own gift to humanity.
I'll be curious when we can expect a Mac Pro Tower on apple silicon. I know one person whose high-end music studio revolves around his tower and low latency multi-channel audio cards. He's starting to have concern they will be abandoned.

For apple it's a small niche.
That's fair, it was hard to condense the gist of it into a few words. I think (hope!) the opening paragraph is a good summary of what it's actually about, though:

> Here’s a theory: browsers, by sheer force of adoption, become the standard bearer for every domain of software they touch, even usurping incumbent standard bearers. As browsers become more capable, this is encompassing a large fraction of software standards. In a certain sense, (nearly) all software is now web software.

In this sense “web software” is broadly meant in the same sense that software that deals with Linux standards might be called “linux software”, and the point of the article is the surprising amount of influence browser developers have over software (and even hardware) we don't usually think of as being “web software”.
I think we are mostly talking past each other.

> But we can collective take action and start demanding F/OSS alternatives and software that does not lock us into any trap and we should be ready to pay for it.

A nice sentiment, but I don’t think this has any realistic chance of happening. Individuals boycotting something has, as far as I know, never worked to achieve anything, and that is, in effect, what it is that you are proposing – boycotting proprietary software in favor of paying for free software.

> This is the worldview that implies that F/OSS is something that should be only a hobby, and something to be practiced only by amateurs (in the good sense of the word).

Oh, no. Software will probably be written all over the place, both for pay and not, to solve people’s specific problems (either their own problems, or the problems of their immediate customers or associates). What does require spare time and effort, however, is generalizing this software to be useful for a wide class of people in general. Also general polish, manuals, error checking, etc. This work is what will never have an incentive to happen except the minor recognition and job satisfaction which I mentioned. And for people to spend the effort for this minor reward, they must have an abundance of effort and time to spare on it. And somehow supplying this to developers is, I believe, the only solution.
I can recommend Plant Net and Bird Net. They're recognition apps for plants and bird songs respectively.

They've given me a way to be more curious about the natural world around me and get me out of the house and actively engaged in my environment.

It's a bit like an educational alternative to Pokemon Go.
No need to talk down to my neurodiverse friends, they understand irony and sarcasm in written text just fine. The neurotypical ones sometimes miss it, though.
I think so, it really save a lot of bandwidth as almost all HTTP requests have multiple of these common headers encoded in the Huffman table.
I use uBlock Origin with Firefox. Is Privacy Badger worth adding on top of it?
I don't see it mentioned yet that there are some still active, moderated Usenet groups, such as misc.legal.moderated and misc.taxes.moderated, which don't include spam.

Back in the day, even some unmoderated groups were mostly self-moderated, such as the comp.*.oracle and comp.*.perl newsgroups. What spam there was, was posted by humans, not bots, and was quickly ignored to oblivion.
https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

MMAcevedo (Mnemonic Map/Acevedo), also known as Miguel, is the earliest executable image of a human brain.
Godwin's law prevails.
Had something similar happen with low-level components in a PHP application I inherited repeatedly calling trim() and/or str_pad() on values that had already been processed. Refactoring those out led to a 10-15% performance boost in our test suites.
That depends on whether you share the content. In this case, there might be legal requirements for checking on the shared content, so dropbox can't avoid it.

But they might do something about how they handle this. Especially if it's an likely older account. Dropbox has many creators as customers. They should have more experience to handle this gracefully.
Every time our operating costs go up (eg, cloud providers), something else in the organization gets more complicated in order to make up the shortfall. Or super simple when we go out of business.

No free lunches here.
Language learning apps are great, but they all need notifications disabled or they quickly become annoying. Duolingo is particularly bad about this and the language they use to "encourage" you to open the app is so weird and manipulative that it has become a meme [1].

I like Clozemaster a lot and I don't think it sends any notifications by default unless you opt into a once-daily study reminder.

1: https://www.google.com/search?q=duolingo+meme
Don't blame the people, blame the environment.

People might start off curious but eventually they keep running into political roadblocks and other nonsense, which slowly beats the interest out of them.

If those are the kinds of people that continue surviving then those are the kinds of people which your environment cultivates.
My guess is that all these major tech companies are seeing Microsoft, Google, and Facebook gain a lot of recruiting clout and general industry goodwill through their other successful open-source projects.

So now there is legitimate incentive to develop and get adoption for your own "faster Python" project, which (if successful) could end up being used by millions of developers around the world. Imagine the clout and name recognition that would come with being the company that finally made Python fast after 20+ years of failed attempts. Not to mention all the free labor (bug reports and PRs) from the open-source community, all while optimizing the tool to serve their own internal technical needs above all else.

That's my only explanation for why these companies are all DIYing their own project and not contributing to existing efforts like PyPy and HPy. I think ultimately this work is all good for the Python ecosystem, but clearly I'm a bit cynical and skeptical of large tech companies' motivations in general.
I am talking about the technology.

Yarvin's own writings indicate that Urbit was written to be that of a medieval castle, limited landed ownership (with 2^32 stars) with the intent that new people would have to buy from these star-landlords. Those "political views" were encoded into the basis of Urbit at the deepest architectural levels.

So again, saying to avoid "flamebait" is just a distractor from discussing the real issues with Urbit itself. The "politics and technology" are one in the same.
Upgrading the mini makes sense, but the performance motivated desktop market has the Studio which is early in life cycle.

As long as they are constrained on M2 chips it probably isn’t worth the customer confusion to bring the Mini closer to the Studio.
Didgets is not some abstraction between a file system and applications where it just caches data in RAM. It is designed to replace file systems as an on-disk storage solution.

Yes, you import files into Didgets just like you would copy files from one file system to a new one; but the data is stored on disk in its new format. Just like other file systems do when you mount the volume from disk, Didgets will cache some system structures in memory to speed things up; but our on-disk structures are much smaller so we can read and cache what we need faster and using less memory to do it.

As I pointed out earlier, the system is designed to manage DB tables as well as unstructured file data so it is much more than just a different kind of file system.

It seems obvious from your comments that you have no intention of downloading and actually trying the software so it seems pointless to try and address all your objections. If on the other hand you try it and run into a real problem instead of just a perceived one...then I will be happy to help.
Well that's because almost all of them aren't actually vacuum cleaners; they're just sweepers. Brooms work fine on hard floors, not so well on carpet.

Dyson make a (super expensive) vacuum one that actually vacuums, with a brush bar and everything. There are probably others now.
Using multiple events for a single bit seemed pretty inefficient to me when I built a random number generator based on radioactive decay [0].

I ended up toggling a bit every time an ADC was sampled. When an event was detected (rising edge triggered with hysteresis), the bit associated with the rising edge sample becomes the output random bit. I think this is acceptable as long as the ADC sampling rate is >> the expected event rate, but I haven't done the analysis to prove this to be the case. The result is one random bit per event (unless events pile up in which case only the first event counts).

[Edit] It looks like the author did the same thing per their comment!

[0] http://robruark.com/projects/random/random.html
Start at Amazon.. Do 2-3 years. Take that experience and skillset you pickup to a Start-Up or start your own company using what you've learned. The Amazon job may also give you the startup capital you need to start a company of your own.
I use ReadEra[1] to read books on my phone. At first it was a quick fix for those times I do not have my ebook reader with me but nowadays it has become my default: having an ebook reader on your phone means that any dead time in the day is an occasion to read.
Plus, it is surprisingly good at reading pdfs, which is sometimes useful (technical books, research papers, etc).

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.readera&hl...
That is not what he said, and again the misuse of quotations to make it seem like that's literally what he said is definitely not helping the situation.
Last year I did a fair amount of consulting work for the GAIN initiative at Idaho National Lab [0].

They're doing so much good work with micro and modular reactors that can basically be "dropped in" decommissioned coal-burning sites because the infrastructure to tie into the electric grid already exists.

It was expressed to me that selling this idea to the private-sector energy industry was an uphill battle and uptake was very slow to nonexistent.

[0] https://gain.inl.gov/SitePages/Home.aspx
So put the check at the top of the top level __init__.py. Move any invalid syntax in that file to an import. Is there any reason that would be a worse idea?
I'm so excited. I want to use an old Ipad that has a failing battery as a home automation screen.

Poor iOS APIs mean developers can't create good kiosk apps to do simple things like control system settings, lock screen and so many more things that I resorted to an Android tablet.

This is finally going to make it possible and turn junk into gold.
There was the BTX standard, which failed to catch on.
Most PCs had only two fans: It used the same fan as CPU fan and main intake fan, and then the PSU fan. It had pure horizontal airflow, quite similar to earlier aluminium Mac Pros.

However, the CPU fan and cooler (including duct) had to be a fixed size.
Too large for small form factor systems, and too small if you needed more cooling.
ATX/mATX/mITX was cheaper, more flexible and hade more momentum.
Not dressed as a wizard, but there is a wizard on the cover of this book which has an entire chapter on writing an interpreter like that:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
I used to be a video game developer.

I guess it's down to priorities and passing the buck.

Our priorities were always on profiling the running game to make sure we got every ounce of juice out of the hardware and the game ran smoothly on the lowest systems. I can't think of one time we would have had the spare time to look at loading times. In those days we were being pushed into 80+ hour weeks just to make the game work at all, never mind finding time for "luxuries" such as this.

And of course, on a big team, a problem like this would always be someone else's problem.
Why should states invest it's taxpayer money into overpriced and slow technology when there are cheaper and fast improving alternatives?
From the "has-been-living-under-a-rock" department.
Thermal throttling?
I don't think they can. The legislation explicitly mandates usb-c as the device port. Sure, Apple can engineer their own proprietary-to-usbc adapter and ship it with their phones, but they will no longer be allowed to use a non-usbc port on the phone itself.

From https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2021/6988... , page 6:

Device-side connector: the included devices would have to be equipped with a USB-C receptacle on the device side (as described in the European standard EN IEC 62680-1-3:2021) and, in cases of charging power lower than 60 watts, be rechargeable with cables that complied with the same standard

Then on page 8, the latest expansion of scope:

Included devices: a larger range of small and medium-sized devices with power delivery up to 100 watts would be included under the scope of the directive, including e-readers, low-powered laptops, keyboards, mice, earbuds, screens, printers, portable navigations, smartwatches, personal care devices and electronic toys

Note the personal care devices: looks like this is going to include electronic toothbrushes and electric razors.
GitHub Skyline: Your GitHub story in 3D
This article has a couple immediately glaring flaws that lead me to not invest the time to deeply analyze it on the whole...

> because of having the kind of health care system you have in making sure that everyone who needs to be treated is treated

That's completely false, Canada has a presupplied quota system set by government forecasting and limited by budgets. If you need treatment you will be treated eventually but you might die or get sicker in the interim.

Using a COVID-19 based article to discuss the merits of single payer single provider completely ignores the massive cultural mentality differences -- the US focuses on individual freedoms, Canada focuses on collective good. This makes a big difference when it comes to adherence things like social distancing and masks. They're taking a multivariate system and claiming it's a single variable that caused the outcome.

Edit: and I might add that it appears that Canada is always intentionally undersupplied such that a moderate wait is guaranteed. Whereas it seems that due to market competition the US system is inherently oversupplied (at least in many areas) such that they can provide to those who can pay essentially on demand.
He's not the legal owner of the content he creates.
Hey, I'm not trying to convince you of anything. In fact I couldn't care less what people think of this specific project. It's not my money that these VC funds are spraying. I'm just trying to convey a modicum of common sense when it comes to evaluating sources for particularly extraordinary claims. I see Elon Musk get torn to shreds regulalry around here whenever he says something slightly optimistic about electric cars or rocket science, so I frankly find it astounding how easily people eat stuff that comes from guys behind private fusion companies. I guess plasma physics and continuum mechaniccs are less impugnable than rockets and cars for most people.
I really miss having a NATIVE app to access content from different communities in a standard format.

Along with the IRC Comic Chat in Windows 98 :’)
The recent US nuclear construction projects have been plagued with similar incompetence, such as trying to build plans that were unconstructable, and then having to get regulatory approval for the changes.

I would like to see comparisons to other large construction projects too. The US is really really bad at large construction projects, but European construction seems a lot better.
Given sufficient time, every language becomes Java, and every format becomes XML.
My brother has a new house that's almost entirely one level and tile floors with just a few throw rugs. He really likes whatever robot vacuum he has. I've looked at them but I have a bunch of level transitions, always have various stuff in piles, etc. Last time I looked, I decided to get a cordless Dyson instead. I just pull it out, do a quick vacuum of high traffic areas, and put it away. Takes me 5 minutes--and totally solved the problem of my kitchen especially getting dirty between the times my housekeeper comes.
That assumes operating costs go up with cloud providers. Some orgs see savings, but obviously not all.
Yes that's good way to implement it!

But I'm still not sure this is the default behavior that we want, even it's only for deletion. I think it's more of a UX problem than an engineering problem as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31682073

To take another example, for rich text editing, I don't think undoing a formatting operation on text that has been deleted at the same time should reinsert the text.
Quite possible something hard illegal, like problematic porn or terrorism or such. I guess in case of some random hollywood-alarm being triggered, there would have been a DMCA-complain coming from that party.
New Google ML tool shows what’s on the surface of the Earth in real time
We need e.g Linux basic tools to switch / start supporting web-ish data format - json as their output e.g

df -h --json

so we do not need parsers for every tool, but one coherent format which is already popular and has built in parser for every lang out there
Most of the world doesn't have this. If all of your visitor base is devs with M2 macs then by all means go wild, but in practice this isn't how things go.
* c25k (couch to 5k) is an app I just started using to train for long distance running. A week ago, I thought I could only run for 2 blocks. With the first 2 runs on this app (and the advice from r/running to run slower), I now realize I can run a lot further than that already.

* SnoreLab & SnoreGym. My partner told me I was snoring and waking her up. Well, this app made it easy to collect data on that and then perform experiments in how to reduce my snoring. I now have a pretty great regiment and get a lot better sleep.

* LoseIt! A calorie tracker with a great library of foods. You can also track your weight and the premium subscription lets you track a lot more like body fat percentage (you'll need to get this professionally measured), water intake, and a lot more. You could do this yourself, but there are a lot of convenience features like creating recipes, seeing graphs of your weight overtime and getting estimates of how long it will take you to reach your goals, given your behaviors. I've used it multiple times during different periods of weight loss, so it has years of my weight history in it.

* SoundHound + Shazam. "What's this song? I love it!" Well now you know what it is and it's in your library. beautiful.

* Music, podcast, and audiobook apps. What's not to love?

* YouCut video editor. Got a little time and want to be creative? Combine with some other video effect apps and some of your own video or content downloaded from Reddit (I find I can download anything when I visit in browser) and you've got a nice little craft.

* Stellarium. I want to use this one more than I do. It's an AR star map. You calibrate it and then it shows you where in 3D the Planets and constellations are. As a city dweller I feel really disconnected from the night sky, so I downloaded this one.

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I will say that specifically on the toilet I have challenged myself to write instead of consume. Write what? Anything. Just write more. Open up an email to myself and... start writing.
Not much, the GTA5 online scene is alive and well. Considering they've sold this game over the course of three generations makes me believe they've made a mega flipton of money off this game.
Rails 8: Unreleased Features
> Yarvin's own writings indicate that Urbit was written to be that of a medieval castle, limited landed ownership (with 2^32 stars) with the intent that new people would have to buy from these star-landlords.

None of this fits the fascist political ideology.

Let us discuss the merits and cons of a technology that promotes artificial scarcity (cough IPv4 cough). It's an interesting topic, but it's not what you were doing with your previous comment and you know that.
I stand corrected. Apparently proportional representation only happened in the 1986 elections when Mitterrand made that change for that single election [1]. Amusing reading back on what happened vs. what I heard about from others.

Regarding the 3 candidates in 2nd round - yes that's only possible because France allows 3 & 4 candidates to go into 2nd round if they have over 12.5%. This is usually not the case, so 3-rounds are very limited but as you indicate they do present a plurality win possibility.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_French_legislative_electi...