skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest issue with Diamond is that he's just wrong a lot of the time. This is especially so in Collapse, where virtually every single case study he talks about is something where consensus opinion is that environmental degradation played at best a minor role.

As for Guns, Germs, and Steel itself, it's not quite as bad as Collapse, but it does have issues. The underlying thesis--of geographical determinism--just doesn't hold up to actual evidence that well: there's not a lot of evidence for Neolithic technology spread in the east-west axis of Eurasia, especially in comparison to the rather prolific spread you see in the Americas. In particular, cereal crops: you see very little spread of cereal domesticants between Mesopotamia/Mediterranean and East Asia, while maize spreads from Mesoamerica well into both North and South America, supplanting indigenous crops in both places.

The deeper issue with GGS, for anthropologists in particular, is that it has an underlying presumption of a unilinear model of civilization--essentially, the idea that something like the tech tree in Civilization games is a good model of how technology works. In anthropology, this model is deeply discredited, as it performs extremely poorly, especially when you look at cultures that straddle chiefdom/state societies.
India banned in VLC media player is impossible, thankfully
Weird stuff found in redesigned macOS Ventura System Settings app
Moving Datacenters Without Skipping a Beat
When you leave without going through the turnstile your card is locked and you can't re-enter via the turnstiles. That's what the sticker is for: it tells the station agent that you should be able to re-enter via the emergency exit.
Core sample via remote controlled submarine. Magnets sounds goofy. I suspect he knows something we don't.
Well, they're better for you than salmonella.
But not American onion farmers.
As far as I can tell the software is not aimed at mobile users at all so why does the website need to be mobile friendly?
As someone who is mostly familiar with autodesk's M&E division which is responsible for 3ds Max and Maya, it is comforting to see that the other parts of autodesk also hate their customers.
I've used KDE for decades before switching to Awesomewm, so still use Dolphin.

I like it's detail view mode and split mode (two panes). Also when you drag and drop it pops up a menu asking if you wanting to copy, move or link (if you haven't held down ctrl, shift, or ctrl+shift respectively). Good handling of zips and other archives, as well as files over protocols like SFTP. The left-hand panel with places, remotes and devices is handy too.

Would be nice to have something similar that starts a bit faster.
Are you saying that the average person having sex with more than one person is cheating or simply only persuing casual relationships?
Was that something you could ever do with Fusion 360? Fusion 360 was my introduction to CAD and it has been very cloud-heavy since I started using it. I think they must have some other product for actual companies, competing with Solidworks.
> using Hitler's residence as a hostname

Whatever can be said about the others, this one is not true.

One person on the mailing list (FRIGN), who is not "officially" part of suckless afaik (but I could be wrong), had the hostname wolfsschanze in his mail headers. I myself have been subscribed to the suckless ML for many years and checked, and the only messages with this term were sent by him.
> Even worse: they're asking NON-riders to see an agent twice

Presumably on the second entry you will be riding the train.
Supreme Korean Court has a rather different vibe from Korean Supreme Court
Pretty much every government does that.
Here's a spot on quote from a quite good movie:

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HxiU4D1YdVY?start=16&end=20
The whole point of make is to handle partial rebuilds. It is why it was invented in the first place.

"Make originated with a visit from Steve Johnson (author of yacc, etc.), storming into my office, cursing the Fates that had caused him to waste a morning debugging a correct program (bug had been fixed, file hadn't been compiled, cc *.o was therefore unaffected). As I had spent a part of the previous evening coping with the same disaster on a project I was working on, the idea of a tool to solve it came up. It began with an elaborate idea of a dependency analyzer, boiled down to something much simpler, and turned into Make that weekend."

If they had rebuilt the whole project, make would not have been needed, However because they wanted to do partial builds and the manual process had downsides make was invented.
st is superb. Other terminals have more features (that I don't care about). Kitty is well thought-out, but Kovid has a lot of strong opinions that cause all sorts of problems with common software (like vim & tmux). Wezterm is also a fine piece of work, but the constant upgrade notifications turned me off. xterm is a classic, but the .Xresources / xrdb dance gets to be a pain.
Depends on how much the split away.... if it's like 0.1dB loss, it could be explained by a normal bend in the fiber.
We talk about leading by example but this is actual leadership by example.
Are you confusing the Suckless team with the Charlottesville neo-Nazis? I don't see anything about Suckless shouting those things or attending such rallies. If they did it would obviously change the equation. If they didn't you should probably edit or delete your comment.
I dunno, people still find it pretty easy to be naive about how great and free a socialist paradise would be.
I've been using dmenu for ~10 years now :) can't imagine opening programs in a simpler or more efficient way.
I wrote parsers for some of this data pre-1990 in GWBASIC. Replacing COBOL code that did the same.
‘tis not
After 35 years missing, an Air Force captain mysteriously reappeared in Bay Area
The about page says: “English-only, global and public forum that has nothing in common with ancient and untrustworthy social networks.”

So they filter out any non-English text?

I also wonder what they mean with “untrustworthy” and how, specifically, this is and will remain different.
If you need additional functionality, you must patch the program's source code with diff files. I don't think this principle scales well. If you change the source code, all patches will become invalid. How is it supposed to work?
I liked the writeup. I definitely see how this principle of marginal advantage extends to any competitive game that I am aware of.

Spiritually I would compare it to the concept of ruin[1] in betting games. It doesn't make sense to bet your entire stack on a single event that is anything but a certainty. A smart better must always hedge their winning odds by retaining a small portion of their funds. Similarly, marginal advantage in a game should be considered as probability edge, rather than a guarantee.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/risk-of-ruin.asp#:~:tex....
Arguably, it should be First General Purpose Language then. Might also help avoiding confusion if the implementation isn’t GPL.
Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am, is a man in a mask.
If you can generate this image I’m inclined to say yea (outside of like actually displaying it). I doubt your frame rate would be too good tho
This might not have been clear enough, without the prefix it will still (attempt to) save the state, but to ICE memory space.
Man, Autodesk has been making all the wrong moves recently. What is going on over there?
They saw raid shadow legends was making more money than them and thought they'd take a page out of their book on micro transactions.
> Note: very pleased that the box serving the site is pretty consistently at less than 1% CPU during the HN hug of death.

The connection has timed out

Tempt not the fates, for they are cruel -- or, alternatively, the "hug" is not one thing

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https://github.com/mpw/Objective-Smalltalk#readme is the repo linked from the Download page in Wayback, for those into such things (but based on a recent commit, it's not Open Source: https://github.com/mpw/Objective-Smalltalk/blob/master/Stsh/... )
s'not
To be fair, there are a lot of ag goods that don't have futures markets
Maybe, but the number of times you need to see an agent is still 2x the number of failed ride attempts.
Improving Postgres text search speed
I wrote up my recent experience optimizing Postgres text search on a database with a few million records without relying on a new service like Elastic Search.
I think part of their ethos is that they don't like scale. They like small. It's a feature, not a bug.
well at least we have 4 years to make good on this world if that's the case.
There are so many sad, defeated looking people walking around SF. Lots of people still wearing masks, not going out, role playing like we are all still in 2020. This isn't the case in practically any other city in the U.S.

SF needs to adopt a positive attitude change in order to rebound like NYC did.
> Edit: if you are going to downvote, at least don’t be a coward and provide feedback

I know downvotes can be frustrating, but please don't give in to the temptation to add things like that last bit. It's against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) because, as they say, it never does any good and makes for boring reading. It also just attracts more downvotes.
yup, thats the appeal - in a multi language environment a common call, not having to futz with cargo run, npm run start, python3 -m something, etc
Political campaigns spend money. They can't just give it all back to donors later.
The article says:
"So when you change what + means, it will throw away all those methods it compiled with the old definition. Poof. Gone."

Is this enough? What about the function's side effects?
If the function changed 1000 variables with the wrong + definition, is it going to roll them back?
I run ST and I'm generally happy with it, only problem I've once had was that it crashed on some non-standard characters once (emojis maybe)
Seems like it’sn’t :V
Lately? Autodesk has been a user-hostile company for a long time.
The open letter shows more people how crazy those Tesla fans are.

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Of course this half baked system that requires constant over the air bug fixes would plow through a kid in a crosswalk.

What puzzles me is that people actually bought into the marketing hype. Its a prototype quality car running alpha software…
I have been at several lunches with executives type events at different places. The groups are small so it makes more casual back and forth questions much easier, which is useful.

From my perspective, the real value of the lunches was strictly building rapport across the company. At some places high level employees (doesn't necessarily have to be management) often feel unapproachable and they feel more abstract concepts than people. Having lunch with them re-enforces they are also people, people you may even get along with.

Other companies I've been at only do Q&A sessions with large groups of employees, and this is still useful, but the format doesn't help the culture. The answers you get are often the company line, and you cannot dig deeper. The people answering the questions are still abstract identities that appear to tout that company line, with no real personality.
Or Europe will import less grain by sea and boats from the US will go to other ports. Fuel is being stockpiled by Europe, but not other commodities right now.
So I've mentioned this before -- traditionally, journalism involves reaching out to the person you're writing about for comment before posting it. I wish they'd mark off as "opinion" pieces like this that clearly don't follow those methods.
Provided the source is reasonably organised the configurable variables etc are likely separate enough from any code you would care about patching.

Patch applying is quite robust, you do not need the code to be identical, the line numbers don't need to match exactly, it's most sensitive to the few lines of context.
"Paper/paperboard food packaging: PFAS may be used as grease-proofing agents in fast-food wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, take-out paperboard containers, and pet food bags to prevent oil and grease from foods from leaking through the packaging."

https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/authoriz...
Just like Saran Wrap[1], the new "safer" version of the powder[2] is not a direct replacement in all cases[2]

1 - https://www.delish.com/food-news/news/a54538/why-saran-wrap-doesnt-cling/
2 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9450142/
For super large systems, you do something like DPDK or XDP instead for large memory and super high throughput, the kernel's network stack is not designed for that anyways.

HPC has been moving huge data cross PCIe running Linux for a long while, there must be multiple ways to overcome IOVA-4GB-allocation limit.

Last, they can be dealt with at hardware level, let the (smart) hardware(e.g. an offload engine, or accelerator) to manage the memory on its own for DMAs.
Inventor is their direct competitor to Solidworks, which afaik can still be run offline.
I think the point is they they're not neonazis. I don't want to support neonazis in anyway, including using their software.

That said I've used their tools and I'm not a fan. It's far to minimalistic for me.
Agreed. Thank you, just frustrating. I will remove “coward” ;)
How else will I know who to hate.
I have a git branch where I apply my patches. If the master branch is updated I pull their upstream changes and then rebase my commits on top of theirs [1]. Once in a while conflicts may arise, but they’re usually solved easily.

[1]: https://dwm.suckless.org/customisation/patches_in_git/
> Active users were younger (44 years vs. 62 years, p < 0.001), less often diabetic (23.2% vs 37.2%, p < 0.021), and more frequently active tobacco smokers (20.3% vs. 4.1%, p < 0.001) compared to non-users.
do you ever pause and wonder why that number is of so importance? I noticed my eyes were constantly zooming up and to the right to read the number and after unpacking this I have since removed it from view using a firefox plugin.

Downvote me all you want, it won't silence my thoughts.
Ugh. I think it’s a matter of philosophy but I can’t connect with Microsoft. It feels so alien and hostile.
This is the plot of the book “The Circle” but it was more expansive than just for CEOs
This is a new low, truly more dystopian than I imagined software could ever get.

Imagine this becoming a pattern. You have software you need for work, and the company behind it wants more money — so they pick the most popular feature and make it pay-per-use. It’s horrifying.

I hope this fails fast and hard, as a lesson to other companies. I doubt it, though. I ran IT at a big architecture firm 25 years ago, and everyone hated Autodesk then. That hasn’t changed — most architects still hate Autodesk, even if they have to or choose to get value from Autodesk products.

At that point AutoCAD still used dongles for licensing. If you upgraded a license you had to have both dongles plugged in. Some computers with multiple upgrades had multiple dongles hanging off the back, and I had to build custom dongle supports so they wouldn’t fall out and deauth a machine in the middle of someone’s work.

So yeah, even with that history, this surprises and horrifies me.
Why do you think your opinion is more valuable than that to which you reply?

For what it's worth, I can rattle off many more project names at random in 30s, and odds are they'll all have installation methods that aren't curl-pipe-shell, there are just so many more of them.
Dmenu was kind of nice when I was on a minimalist software kick.

I get that modifying source code as an alternative to configuration is appealing to some. I suppose it’s nice for the maintainer, they don’t have to worry about handling more than just their preference.
This flies in the face of all my experience in management. Organizing people is mostly an exhausting grind. Maybe not hard work much of the time, but a lot of work, definitely.
I think the relevant consideration is not the number of latinos that are undocumented, but the number of undocumented that are latino.

I work at a company that helps US employers provide H2-A visas and benefits to undocumented immigrants, including banking services, so I'm not totally uninformed here.
I think even as a business you would be in the right.
Selling you a license and then removing functionality from it after you sold it to them.
This isn't even a SaaS. This is a desktop program with some bullshit inconvenient "save to the cloud" feature that would be better off missing (I have Nextcloud if I really need this, thanks Adobe), and various functionality crippling like removing the local simulation just to force people to rent cloud machines from them.

Fuck Autodesk.
Complex queries are audited all the time. Also, side-effects must be able to be audited/logged. Excel runs on thin air.
Good thing they stop adding built-ins, I guess, 20 years ago.

In case someone want to see all the defaults, run `make -p`.
Yes.

Though, given that you have nothing to lose, you could consider first kindly telling the bosses what is insufferable. Maybe that could help, idk?

Or I guess I'm curious too: what makes the immediate bosses insufferable?
Why do you feel entitled to ask your coworkers on dates?
particularly given this:

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If I am in the middle of a project at the time of this update, can I delay the Fusion 360 update to solve the remaining tasks on my local machine?
You can temporarily pause the update by enabling Offline Mode prior to September 6, 2022. This enables you to delay the update, only until you are prompted to reconnect to the Fusion 360 servers (up to 2 weeks after switching offline). You can find more details on how to enable Fusion 360 Offline Mode here: How to work in offline mode in Fusion 360.

It is recommended to not rely solely on the limited time you are provided by using the offline mode to complete your project. In the event where you require more time after being prompted to log back in, you can explore the cloud solve options, which utilize the same solvers as the local solvers had previously.
Nah, Fusion already has "cloud save" exclusively, so that ship has long sailed. You can't not share your designs with them, AFAIK.
Not sure if serious or sarcastic because I’m sure people do that.
>Maybe with cache poisoning? If the instruction after STOREALL could be fetched from cache and regular ring 0 could poison that cache, code execution in ICE mode might be possible.

The 286 had no internal cache (in the sense of CPUs today). It did have a queue of prefetched instruction bytes, as well as another queue of up to 3 decoded instructions. But that gets flushed by STOREALL, since it effectively returns the CPU to the same state as after a reset, only with the ICE mode flip-flop set.

(Normal breakpoints, or any control transfer at all, also have to clear the queues, else the CPU would first execute whatever it had prefetched before continuing with code from the new location!)

And yes, in my experiments with this I did try to stuff something in the prefetch queue anyway, as well as setting the IDT limit to zero and enabling the trap flag in the hope that it would cause a triple-fault while in ICE mode. No such luck.

What might be possible is some external hardware that pushes opcode bytes onto the bus with the right timing. I'm not enough of a hardware person to design something like this, and don't think the DMA controller could be (ab)used for that purpose.
It’s not about high or low to lock in profits, they sell futures well in advance to eliminate uncertainty and hedge their naturally positive position. The speculator buying the future takes on that risk.
Or what if it’s a kite, or a piece of trash blowing in the wind, or a paper airplane, or…
"actual food corn" is basically irrelevant. The reason we care about corn at all is its use as feed corn and chemical processes
Patents only last 15-20 years, right? How is Blu-ray not public domain by now?
Comments are a liability for most news organisations: they're generally low quality and give visibility more to those who care a great deal than those with something interesting to say.

This goes double for the UK, where we have stricter libel laws and a weaker liability shield than s.230 CDA. And treble for a story where the comments are likely to feature more heat than light.
I was open minded about "Debris", but only made it through the first episode and had to stop watching. It was really bad. Just terrible.

However, if anyone out there likes this kind of science fiction, I must highly recommend the 2019 series "Project Blue Book" starring the superb Aidan Gillen (GoT fame) playing the character of J. Allen Hynek.

Unfortunately, this amazing series was canceled after only two seasons, likely due to poor timing, since it was showing during the chaos and uncertainty at the height of the pandemic. But every episode is well written and the acting, for the most part, is really good. Check it out.

One of the things I like most about the Project Blue Book series, is how they try to recreate the 1950s-1960s aesthetic, somewhat following in the footsteps of what "Mad Men" sought to achieve in terms of recreating a bygone era.
You can export local f3d files (also STEP, STL, etc, but f3d contains the necessary bits for timeline, etc).

I assume AutoCAD is the closest equivalent to SolidWorks that they sell, but I'm not certain. That's the first CAD software I used- back in middle school, so mid-to-late 1980s. They added 3D support and I think it uses the same underlying code to handle 3D structures. Again, not certain- it's not a product I pay any attention to.

FWIW, I spend a bunch of time in Fusion 360 and I hadn't really done anything with simulation (it's on the bucket list, but not a priority).
>Is everyone at WhatsApp also guilty of a crime for continuing to work on WhatsApp even though they know the Taliban uses it for communication?

If the law is written by authoritarians they very well could be. What is legal has absolutely no relation to what is right, wrong, ethical or unethical. It depends entirely on the people passing the law.
Sure, I quit at 4 months once I realized my boss (CTO) had no experience managing senior people US based like me, and had only managed cheap offshore devs that he could yell at.
I don’t care so much about the upper right total (at least not that I have now achieved everything there is to be had by it). But I do sometimes notice individual comments when active in the discourse.
It's an open letter. Did you expect an open letter not to be opinionated?
People care much more about meat price at the market than how much an ear costs
Maybe FreeCAD should start charging businesses for compiled executables.
I wonder if the source of eggs you are both using might factor into it? Size, age, fridge/not, free range and what the hen was fed.
The fact they are bringing a magnet shows how confident they are its iron. My hypothetical scenario:

"There's a chance its not iron but something new!"

"What chance is that?"

"Its inverse to the chance we told our funders, who gave us millions to collect it with a magnet, that it was iron."

"So its pretty guaranteed its iron"

"Yup".

"Aren't your funders concerned you are saying it could be something different than iron?"

"You see the name of the university and a few corporations on the ship? Would you be talking to us if we were just getting a run of the mill iron metorite?"
Finally a build system with a statically typed language
No-one in these spaces was using Fusion/360 to begin with. Aero and defense are mostly CATIA 5 and Pro/ENGINEER (Creo), with offline PDM.
Make the common case easy and the other cases possible.
Related:

Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27100272 - May 2021 (54 comments)

Objective-Smalltalk: now serving its own web site - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964665 - Jan 2019 (26 comments)