skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard enough stories from friends and family about samsung fridges and washing machines dying shortly after their warranty and Samsung wanting crazy money to fix them. Also a friend who bought their top of the line "frame" TV and returned it within a week because the TV had stutter when watching live TV and there is an 800-pages long forum thread about it on their forums, with Samsung basically replying "we're aware of this issue and we aren't planning on fixing it".

On the other hand I have their phone(S21) and I'm very happy with it.
Steam should simply disallow this. People invest thousands into a games collection. Having games become inaccessible is not acceptable. If they do not and this becomes the norm nobody will even bother with Steam anymore. People will just move to gamepass and other cheaper platforms that do not give the consumer any sense that they own games. I'll be trying to move to gog a bit more because of this, but my Steam collection is big.
Okay, fair enough. To me, the risk involvement is so obvious (to any serious business function!) that I find the management/reduction distinction a more important point. But I can see it your way too.
Inkscape Extensions: e.g. laser and vinyl cut/plot
Why didn't the German government massively subsidize Green energy?

How on earth is it right to criticize a government for subsidizing green energy in the face of climate change? The reason why solar panels are so cheap today was because Chinese companies achieved economies of scale due to governmental support. This is a GOOD thing.

European countries were way ahead of the curve 10 years ago in terms of these green technologies but chose to do nothing. Their solar companies could have been world leaders as long as governmental policies supported them too. They would have been wiping others out. How can anyone blame China for investing/subsidizing in green energies? The way I view it, it's their just rewards for at least taking this aspect of green technology seriously while others did next to nothing in terms of subsidies.
I feel like this has been said many times, but I'll say it again: there's a difference between sex and gender. Sex refers to the genitals you're born with, so you're correct when you say there are only two sexes (ignoring intersex for the moment, which does occur but can be considered an edge case).

Gender, on the other hand, refers to the social construct of how we see the relationship between these sexes in society. Transgender people are those who identify as a gender that doesn't specifically match their sex. There's no re-writing of science here, just an acceptance that a significant chunk of the population (yes, ~1% of the population is significant) want to live as a different gender than the one they're assigned at birth.

I hope that cleared it up.
OT, but he also happens to be the developer of kitty, my favorite terminal emulator on Linux: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty
The graph you posted is affected by the end of mandatory testing, which is why you now need survey results. Mandatory testing acted as a sort of very poorly controlled "survey" because people couldn't opt out, but now testing is done almost entirely at home using LFTs without results being reported, you need a recruitment survey approach.

In the UK there was a decline after March 2022 but now, as I said, it is heading back up again and has nearly reached the same peak as previously:

https://health-study.joinzoe.com/data#levels-over-time

2022 is showing much higher peaks than other years when you use data sources not affected by the collapse in testing levels.

"vaccinated vs unvaccinated hospitalization and death rates, you'll find a significant pattern there."

I think in many countries the hospitalization rate for vaccinated/unvaccinated now matches the underlying proportions, i.e. no effect on hospitalizations or deaths any longer (and possibly never, due to how the data was being distorted by various factors previously, but that's a harder case to prove due to government data secrecy).
> I genuinely believe HN is being inflitrated by Russian bots left and right

Honestly that's the better and reassuring option. The alternative is that HN has many soulless humans that can't be bothered to care about a genocide next door if that means they might be inconvenienced.
You can get ones that fit. These for example: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adapter-SAILLIN-Compatible-Thunderb...
"Spotify pays [rights holders] between $0.003 - $0.005 per stream[1]" - let's take $0.004.

Assuming an album costs $10 to the customer, with approximately a 5% sales tax[2] and 25% margin[3], and there are 10 tracks per album, the nominal comparative cost per track is somewhere around $1-0.75/track.

That means that the 'break even' point between Spotify and buying an album is around 200-250 listens.

I think this is a bit on the high side, but bear in mind that this doesn't take into consideration that a) those 200-250 listens may be spread across multiple owners of a CD (if it's sold as second-hand), b) Spotify encourages people to listen to music that they otherwise would not have bought, c) Spotify monetises otherwise 'free' listens, whether it be radio, LimeWire, etc.

Spherical cows in a vacuum, etc., but on balance I think that 200-250 listens to a track is not a bad break even point.

[1]: https://dittomusic.com/en/blog/how-much-does-spotify-pay-per...

[2]: https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/sales-tax-b...

[3]: https://howtostartanllc.com/business-ideas/record-store
But I'm buying from/through Steam and expect that refunds will be handled by them as well
This approach has helped me, above all, to manage my expectations, which were too high. When it's clear that I only have an hour or two, I rarely start projects or parts of projects that are too big. Instead, I can focus better on the core problems in this short time. I lay down software architecture ideas, boil down problems to core algorithms, implement core functionality, write outlines of blog posts or summaries etc. Most of the time this means I'm 80% done. If the small project still attracts me then I'll automatically continue it the next day and start working on the remaining 20% that take much more time.
Nice that they released the lectures to the public.
Directly linking to the Youtube channel would be better: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoROMvodv4rNiJRchCzut...
Hah, theres a thing called a bubble and unfortunately yours might be about to burst.
Salaries (and cost of living) are significantly higher in Denmark than in Germany, it makes little sense to compare numbers without that context.
> Failed spectacularly.

Do people really still believe this?

Look at the actual facts on the ground: land-bridge to Crimea, Luhansk 100% under Russian control, Donetsk most probably getting there, also some chunks of Kharkiv province, about 7 million Ukrainian refugees, Ukrainian's army potential drastically reduced (i.e. "demilitarisation" that seemed to have worked), how is all this "failing spectacularly"?
> Around me were more than 30 dwellings and tombs, and that was just a tiny fraction of the remains here. I tried to imagine the landscape as it may have been thousands of years ago: green, lush and teeming with people as they moved noisily round, herding goats and calling out to each other.

When I read comments like that, I am reminded that changes in climate and terrain have always been going on. If we saw a green, lush environment turn to desert today, we would inevitably say it was global warming/climate change.

I wonder what they blamed it on..
These things have become symbols of wealth inequality, and sports cars in particular have become symbols of wilful environmental degradation. Many commenters would hate on a non-technical piece of art that symbolized/promoted the same things.
That shows how bad PC clones were at some types of video games. It took a massive programming effort to do a side scroller, requiring machines that arrived six years after the Commodore 64 or Famicom.
Love to see people playing with it like this :)
Can you post the exported map somewhere? I am eager to tinker with it too.
Screenshots would also be nice :)
> Even better, do these things with someone else

Sure but that's missing the point of the book.
Considering immoral practices adopted by corporations, such as vendor lock-in, use of slave work (directly or indirectly), law bending for its own interests, supporting and conducting biased research towards its own interests among others, I would say that is quite sensible to believe it. Big corporations, per se, are not evil entities. The people running them might or might not be, and when you have evil/immoral people running things, unless there are good control measures in place, they might take bad decisions.
Obstruction of justice is also illegal.

Your moral point is that you think it's okay to block anyone else from accessing your data, but it's not okay to destroy it? Because that's the only way I can make sense of your comment.
They will definitely follow that path if China can depend on Russia for mineral resources, and at this point it seems like it can depend. You don't need to control the seaways to bring iron, coal, gas or oil from Siberia and the Russian Far East into China. Mongolia next door has some of the biggest copper mines in the world that has just opened. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyu_Tolgoi_mine
A tiny part of Taiwan was under Chinese rule for barely 2 centuries 400 years ago. Even at that time China never cared about it nor made an effort to develop it. China doesn't have more claim to Taiwan than any other similar colonizers that came and invaded Taiwan throughout the centuries. Japan was the first invader to achieve real control of most of the island.

Eventually, beaten by Mao, Chiang Kai Shek and its army invaded Taiwan and claimed it theirs. The CCP never ruled the island of Taiwan.

Your analogy is wrong and there's no really other country with a similar history in the world. The CCP loves making claims based on dubious (i.e false) historical basis.
This is brilliant and I suspect generalises to "won't" when reading RFCs.
If we're doing it for aesthetics, I agree, we shouldn't.
A small caveat: nepotism was the practice when cardinals (who were celibate) would push their nephews into positions of power. So, strictly speaking, it is the other way around: celibacy caused nepotism, otherwise we would have had filism (from filius/son rather than from nepos/nephew).
I can see this personally happening more and more in Romania when I go visit relatives, and locals confirmed me the trend. At some point soon there won't be any reason anymore picking Uber over taxis.
Instead of focusing on the obvious progress story lets try to see what the C64 still has going for it and some unmentioned drawbacks:

- It was a somewhat open system that you could build something for without asking for permission!

- You could copy all software.

- The longevity of the hardware surpasses most devices built after for a fraction of the cost.

- It was repairable.

- Most sold compatible architecture with ability to be productive ever in the history of mankind, probably forever.

- 15W is pretty low power considered the lithography at the time (micrometers).

- Keyboard built in that still works 40 years later!

- S-video built-in before it was even called that, not even the amiga had that!

- The SID is unparalleled still in some regards.

- The VIC was incredible, sharing the 2MHz RAM with 1Mhz CPU interleaved and hardware sprites!

The only flaws I can find are:

- The IEC bug that slowed IO from the VIC until the 128.

- One button joysticks?! the device has POTx and POTy why not use those?!?!

- No built in assembly monitor in the default setting.

To me human progess has ONLY been the C64 -> Raspberry 4 arc: from micrometer to nanometer. And the raspberry uses linux and has all compilers built in, and still very few kids use it for it's initial intended purpose: to build software!

With electricty prices rising I think the Raspberry 4 will have a resurgence so I always develop my software to work on that device too.

But most important; with computers as with protocols there is no competition, you need to follow the standard and in the 80s that standard was the C64. I think ARM+linux will be that final standard unless risc-v can pull the open hardware trick off!

Seen that kids, that weren't even born when the C64 died, buy one and try to develop for it is a pretty good sign that the C64 will survive!
A related trick for text that you can't usually select: Hold Alt. For instance try using the mouse to select text in http://www.google.com with and without Alt.
I think one of the things in becoming an adult is understanding the trauma of your parents. This was a nice article.
> soviet stores. (...) but the ones available are guaranteed to be fairly good quality and at an affordable price

Must be different soviets that I lived in. The quality was often terrible (e.g. "chocolate" that did not contain cocoa at all, ugly clothes and shoes that would break down quickly, beer that tasted like piss etc.) and that is assuming the goods were in the store at all. Basic western goods, such as Levi jeans or can of Coca-Cola were celebrated as artifacts of an alien, infinitely more advanced civilization.
Nice to see Chris' work here. He's an amazing indivdual, hacker, and geek.

Check also some of his later works.
Early Audio Augmented Reality work:
https://www.media.mit.edu/speech/papers/1997/sawhney_ISWC97_...

And skin interfaces:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2971763.2971777
I recommend checking out clickhouse-obfuscator. It's a more sophisticated tool for dataset obfuscation.

Installation (single binary Linux/Mac/FreeBSD):

curl https://clickhouse.com/ | sh

./clickhouse obfuscator --help

Docs:
https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/utilities/clickhou...
Most (all commercially available?$ebook readers are not as simple as that.

And a file manager doesn’t track which books of mine are synced and which are not. Calibre does.

A file manager does not make it easy for me to correct the ebook’s metadata so it appears properly on the ebook reader. Calibre does. Calibre will also automatically download metadata for you from a variety of sources (with many options for the level of automation, including individual review with diffs from the existing metadata).

Calibre also makes it trivial for me to create a web server so I can access my books from any device from anywhere.

Calibre will also track which books I’ve read and which ones I haven’t. Which a file manager won’t.

Calibre also makes it possible for me to read the books on my computer itself before I sync them to my device.

Calibre will also automatically convert my book to a different format depending on the device I’m syncing to, something a file manager won’t do either.
That's the kind of superstition that's only brought about by deep trauma.
It should be unlawful to process sensitive personal data without adequate security. It already is in the EU, which is why private credit registers are all but extinct in the bloc now.
That comment was specifically about the Intel MBP 16” (when the first MBP 16” came out) and it’s accompanying press regarding the mic array.

I’ve also moved on to M1 and it’s miles better. Just don’t trust the release notes anymore.
Microplastics found in the meat, milk and blood of farm animals
> 4) mirror it to the cloud (unworkable, considering it's 16TB)

sure? we faced almost the same scenario, but with incremental backups plus data deduplication we have two outside backups (with Borg and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmox_Backup_Server ) that are updated nightly (with a cheap internet connection)

deduplication is really a must have for backups, plus encryption and read only, of course
Why would it be a "feature" to write non-portable programs that only compile on some but not all UNIX-like operating systems.

Because you want features that require platform-specific APIs and two Unix-like systems (Linux and Darwin) have 99.9% of the marketshare among your audience?

With this attitude Docker wouldn't have happened, because we'd still be bickering about a standardized API for container primitives, because someone wants to run containers on the Lites kernel on a PA-RISC machine.
That is a neat idea. I was sort of thinking of that, but was concerned about invalid and unused database objects.

You'd avoid name collisions pretty handily, though. I'm guessing that you would just need some policy to drop all of the old versions after some period.

You'd also just need to bundle grant exec statements with the procedure DDL.

That would work well with Oracle and DB2 as well. I'm not totally sure about SQL Server, though.
> Europe is not at war.

Do you consider Ukraine not Europe? What is it then?

> I am an EU citizen myself and I did not consent to join this war.

You need to be naïve to think that anybody "consents" to a war.

> > Not predicting Russian Imperial dreams of ruling the Europe?

> Sorry, but that was never the case and will never be the case.

Please refer to any rhetoric from Russian ruling class e.g. https://tass.com/politics/1432657
"the creation of an open Eurasia from Lisbon to Vladivostok".

My guess would be that you are "sitting far from the war" and thinking that it is not yours. However countries in the beginning of WWII had exactly the same sentiments - "we are far and it is not ours". Until it knocks on your door. This is why EU reacts, EU wants to solve this while it is not so close.
> warning signs that, in retrospect, were obvious

An intention spelt out in textbooks?! Quite an understatement.

Q: "So the part had been expressing an explicit, literal intention, public, codified, written, divulgated, explained et cetera?" // A: "...Heart, Hope, Daily routine, Expectation, Being alike..."

You are defending a perspective of intentional removal of reality, and the principle of reality constraint, from conscience.

> You can't really blame... for doing their best on making a war unthinkable through

In that '«unthinkable»' you show the whole point. It was very much duly thinkable.

Surely those who overrode reality, and in favour of illusion, and clinging unprepared in a cage of "que será", are to blame, and to blame, and to blame.
Twitter Hashtags were originally invented by users.
Okay, let's not give them advice that actually works!
Chromium is open source, so what is the problem of the chromium engine becoming THE standard for the web?
Using the clock line for data too. The disk drive was a computer too with a CPU, it run on very similar speed to the C64, so you can rely them being in sync.

In detail: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=568
> Since no other animal's body parts were found, it led the team to deduce that these were sacrificial.

"Sacrificial".

I hate it when I read this sort if rubbish, sorry. It plays too the idea that I'm ancient times, when presumably things were harder, our ancestors indulged themselves in hocus pocus, being primitive, superstitious claptrap.

Wouldn't it just be more honest to say "we don't know what the structures are" than play to these woeful stereotypes?
The real feature here is "on device", not the translation itself. A lot of people don't want to send all their foreign language browsing to third parties for translation.
I think OP means that people in Europe hate each other for various reasons other than being "white christian" even if a lot of them are that. See how Romanians are treated almost anywhere in Europe, despite a lot of them being as white as they come, and Christian too. See how Poles are still perceived in a lot of places.

So yes, I actually agree with that statement - in Europe white christians will be primary recipients of xenophobia, but it's neither because they are white nor because they are christian.
> Even the CG was horrible.

There wasn't any. From TFA:

> first attempt to visualise the digital realm itself

Few people realise that in 1982 there was no CGI. Tron is mainly
rotoscoped [1] but also a composite of creative effects and
techniques.

Tron is a remarkable movie for a different reason most people miss
today. It was seminal in defining the aesthetic of computer graphics
to come by "faking it till you make it".

Without the actual technology for model wirefame and rendering at the
time, the visual directors (Steven Lisberger and Donald Kushner) used
a combination of drawn animation (Jean Giraud), special lighting and
costume, and actual CGI overlays from the "Super Foonly F-1" PDP-10
[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tron&section=5
Apples to oranges. A158W is a digital watch.
Big win for the US and China.

Europe and Russia are both getting destroyed economically.

I’d imagine that Europe will be looking to quickly bring around “peace” in Ukraine, much to Ukraine’s detriment starting Q1 2024
While you can do that with a Kobo you can't drop the file and expect it to appear in some collections. To associate a book with a collection you have to either use Calibre or the vendor's app. I have epubs and PDFs that weren't bought through the Kobo/Rakuten store and they don't get filed in my collections. With Calibre (and a plugin) I can do that.

I do agree I could live without it but files tend to accumulate and putting books in collections help.

All of this would be much easier if the kobo was dumber and just created shelves/collections based on folders.
Autonomous vehicles can use existing roads more efficiently. In fact, that's the whole point of this tunneling project. Think of a tunnel as just a stupidly expensive road and you'll see that simply having autonomous vehicles without the billions of dollars of infrastructure would achieve the same goal. Simply close a few roads for normal traffic and you have the same advantages but without the tunnels and power rails. Vastly cheaper. And there already are lots of roads. So, these vehicles could go to a lot of places instead of only a select few elevators above the tunnels.

And of course you could actually mix autonomous and regular traffic as autonomous vehicles get smarter. Like is already happening in parts of the world.

Also, the main issue in cities is not tunneling into a central location but distributing goods all over the city using e.g. cargo bikes, small vans, etc. Many of those are already electric and typically operate from distribution centers on the edge of the cities. Banning regular traffic out of the cities would free a lot of space for that. Some cities are already doing that or at least strongly discouraging car traffic. E.g. London, Paris, Amsterdam, etc. have large car free zones and lots of modern electric delivery vehicles.
Tron was not a visionary movie. It was a dumb movie. I watched it in theaters when it came out. It didn’t make sense on any level. It’s not consistent with anything computers do or what information means to a computer.

It is a movie made by ignorant people who mapped a standard plot to a fictional concept of computing which resulted in nonsense.

It was painful to watch.
Let me rephrase your comment: "Eastern European opinion on Russia doesn't matter because they've suffered and continue to suffer from Russian imperialism".
Perhaps you're labouring under the illusion that education is for your good as opposed to the good of those who manage people? Why change a winning formula?
You might want to go to https://en.mapy.cz instead of the link above.