skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not always, sometimes the justification is just an honest "we need money" - e.g. the German tax on sparkling wine was put in place to pay for the battleships of the navy.

The Imperial German Navy of Wilhelm II. In 1902. Still in place. :D
Like the religious extremists that destroyed American cities like Detroit and Baltimore in the 70s and after? Maybe it was this same religious extremism that is leading to the economic crisis today in Florida and Texas? /s
I was young and hungry enough for LotR content to absolutely love that game, but I had and still have no idea how it was supposed to work.

I don’t remember many details now, but I still have a crystal clear memory of the feeling of playing that game.
I disagree with that completely, and I'm deep into the Julia community. The article is very, very clear that the author considers Julia's level of bugginess to be unacceptable.
What you have described is not a free market, but in fact 100% monopolistic anti-competitive moves that fall under anti-trust regulations.
overwhelming support was for 100%+ keyboards

From your mouth to God's ear.

Love my MacBook, but for my purposes (writing code commercially for 30+ years), the bigger the keyboard, the better. Especially once it's fully configured with macros.

If the keyboard enthusiast community ever brings back reasonably-priced keyboard with the second row of function keys that are easily programmable, I'll buy one. 3270's were awesome.
I'm working with the Delphi libraries every day in C++ Builder, bucause my company bet on Turbo C++ and Builder in the 90s, when Microsoft technologies seemed primitive compared to it.

At a recent meetup in my country, 90% of Delphi developers were over 60 years old. Also, Embarcadero licenses aren't cheap.
> underwear colour enforcement

Is that being... controlled?

WTF.
That's gold Jerry! Gold!
I write it as someone who does not follow this space…

…does “letting community down” matters? The phones and the open source seems to be open, can’t you just… put your own OS on there or whatever?
Not proprietary, but not iSCSI-specific either. The whole idea is that you can use any protocol you like. Could be iSCSI, could be NBD, could be AoE, could be something proprietary but that's less likely than open/standard alternatives.
This. I was hoping Julia would be a quicker and more pleasant R. Instead it's turning into a super ambitious language that wants to be as fast as C++ but that makes it slightly less pleasant and useful than R. And if I need C++ speed I can just write C++...
I find interesting initiatives to work on the side at Mozilla- Foundation (&Mozilla Corporation could be good for paid work) : https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-you-can-do/
I'm genuinely curious as to how they function at such a high level while drinking so much. What's their secret lol
Just this year, the American medical association changed their recommendation for children from whole milk to 1% milk. I thought it was mendela effect when the pediatrician said this at the last yearly checkup.
Checkout Design Thinking https://designthinking.ideo.com/
Getting in on the ground floor of a Ponzi scheme is a valid investment plan.
What alternatives do we have? Don't mean this as a dismissal, genuinely want to know more about the state of open source hardware.
Yep! Character devices are much closer to "stream of bytes", and from the FUSE perspective they look like a single file with limited operations (open, close, read, write). Think of something like a mouse (sending a stream of motion/click events) or a webcam (send stream of frames, receive basic control commands). If you've written even the most basic FUSE layer, you've got all the necessary handlers to implement CUSE too.

Block devices operate on blocks of data identified by offset. Hard disks, CD-ROM drives, USB sticks, basically anything where it'd make sense to say "read (or write) these 1024 bytes at offset 0x10000".

You can in principle implement a block device-ish API in FUSE by disabling open/close and requiring all reads/writes to be at given offsets -- IIRC this is how the "fuseblk" mode added for ntfs-3g works -- but the protocol is too chatty to be fast enough for things people want block devices for.

I've also heard the kernel's block layer error handling doesn't interact well with the FUSE protocol, but I don't know the details too well on that.
Dare is a model verb too in English
Your private data gets accessed by a random person instead of by a megacorp.
One example of a precaution taken: Spread-spectrum clocking.

Perfectly clocked signals have really high EM spectral peaks (noise radiated at particular frequencies). You can intentionally make the clock a little worse, spreading that radiation over more of the spectrum, and it will reduce the chance that those peaks break other things.

https://www.microsemi.com/document-portal/doc_download/13543...
That’s my use case for Feedly -> Pocket.
One of the things I've learned about Lebanese is that the scars of war are very vivid in society and it changed it for generations.

One side effect of the wars is that Lebanese people live much less programmatically and far planning than pretty much any other society out there. They try to enjoy life as much as possible and I believe they rank highest in the world for how much they go to the barber and how much they spend on cosmetics, etc. They care more for looking good to themselves and others to day than to save for tomorrow.

They live like they are forever in a truce thus they do their very best to find the glass half full rather than half empty and all that makes them very friendly, open and beautiful people that do their best at enjoying everything before the next bad thing will hit their country.
Not “layers”, but “features”. 3nm is basically a pixel size for chip schematics, it doesn’t mean that they draw 1px features with it.
“The Market” isn’t “readers of Hacker News.” It’s part of the market, but it would be foolish to let critiques here drive decisions. If we listened to Hacker News Dropbox potentially wouldn’t have been a thing.
Because AOSP is controlled by Google and the incentives to develop an actually open platform are not there. Even the SDK to develop for it is guarded by a silly license.

That could have been a first step though, but at the risk of endangering the motivation to develop for mobile GNU/Linux and still be dependent of AOSP with nowhere to go when it really goes towards the wrong direction. More and more (essential) components are proprietary and shipped with the GApps. Even something as essential as the notification system relies on Google's servers and proprietary bits (this part has an open source re-implementation though, microG). At this point you need to recompile Android apps to avoid that… if you have access to the source code.

It's hard to fight against this direction, release after release, I think it is a lost battle.

I could live with AOSP today but I'd rather have a functional GNU/Linux environment with no bullshit in a few years.
LibreOffice 7.4 released with MS Office compatibility improvements
Not to be that person, but I have had this opinion for years now and have received some flak for it. Any movement to increase or bolster the car is misplaced.

> Today, Silicon Valley tech companies are getting into the business of redesigning American urban life, just as auto companies did previously.

This is exactly it. And capitalism will never fix people's actual problems because that's not what it optimizes for.
I have an entire system for this. It has four levels: reality, perception, choice and action. The most relevant part here is action, which has three properties and corresponding tactics.

1. Effort: make it easy, increase the ability to act, minimize costs, tiny steps, worth doing badly

2. Reward: make it attractive, increase motivation, highlight benefits

3. Time: make it timely

Time and effort discounts the value of reward, which is why we are inclined to obtain rewards as soon as possible, spending the least amount of energy.

While the action level is about tactical speed-accuracy trade-offs during execution, the choice level is about strategizing what to do and what not to do in the first place. Deciding the shape or scope of a project is at this level. Taking the cumulative effect (habit formation) into consideration is also at this level.

The perception level about realizing that we are highly affected by context (familiar and unfamiliar social, physical, mental environment) and the many ways we can shape that context to achieve what we want. Being flexible, playful are important here, and self-compassion also. The goal here is not necessarily to acquire an accurate perception of reality, but a practical one. You can see the same thing in nature, like how our vision is adapted to the color of certain fruits, or how we are innately optimistic.

The reality level is outside of us, we barely perceive it, let alone affect it, and yet it's the most important part of us. If the perception level is about thriving as individuals, the reality level is about trying to see the world as it is by eliminating our pesky self from the picture, realizing how temporary and fickle we are, and finding meaning outside of us. Self-sacrifice, compassion, understanding the relationship of things, even raising children, or an entire community is at this level. The reality level is about things that are bigger than us. Such realization may be brought on by disassociation, reflection or communion.
Nice of you to cherry pick the "good" stuff from the article. The things people take issue with are being forced to rent everything from some unknown overlords who now are the only ones allowed to own anything. You're also required to share your personal accommodations with others. Apparently money is not allowed either since no one actually pays rent but they do work so it's some version of "from each according to their ability, to each according to his needs"

> we don't pay any rent, because someone else is using our free space whenever we do not need it. My living room is used for business meetings when I am not there.

It also posits that anyone who does not submit to this regime is simply left to rot in the countryside. Implying that they live the equivalent of 19th century life probably with no electricity, running water, or medicine. Sorry, you don't get any technology if you don't want to be a serf.

> My biggest concern is all the people who do not live in our city. Those we lost on the way. Those who decided that it became too much, all this technology. Those who felt obsolete and useless when robots and AI took over big parts of our jobs. Those who got upset with the political system and turned against it. They live different kind of lives outside of the city. Some have formed little self-supplying communities. Others just stayed in the empty and abandoned houses in small 19th century villages.

Living in this society also apparently means that everything you do or think is recorded and that it can be used against you, presumably by the people in power should your behavior ever displease them.

> I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.

And apparently a whole lot of people died on the way to this utopia.

> We lost way too many people before we realized that we could do things differently.

No wonder a lot of people reacted poorly to this but I think that was the point. They wanted to do a limited hangout to gauge public reaction to some version of their envisioned future. That allows them to manage the blowback by saying it was just a silly article after which they delete it and then paint all of its detractors as racists and right wing nutjobs which is SOP at this point.
That’s true but like I said, rightly or wrongly (and maybe I am wrong to dismiss it), I can’t be bothered with it.

This is a nice way to write if you want to let off steam, or have an argument on a site like this, but if you’re trying to influence people it’s not gonna work.
I want to hear more about what you expect the rotary encoder to be used for. You clearly put a lot of thought into making it happen, so - why? I feel like there must be some interesting use cases, but I'm drawing a blank.
Manjaro is and always has been a joke. I won't even consider PINE products given their relationship...it completely tarnished any reputation they may have had.
All of what you describe above is good for the rental and housing market. It brings the rents down.

Imagine the alternative, where all the depreciation rules you describe above don’t exist, and landlords have to pay a bunch more tax. In that world, the government has some extra money in the coffers, but how does anyone else benefit? Rents will not go down because landlords have to pay more tax, in fact quite the opposite will happen.

Really, I get that you might have moral feelings of unfairness about it, but you are focusing on a minor aspect of the housing market that only has positive impact on rents by bringing them lower.
Hacker Installs Doom on John Deere Tractor
> Beirut and Lebanon has to be one of the largest missed opportunities or what-could-have-been situations of the last 100 years.

I think what makes the potential of the city is also what makes it get into severe conflict. Beirut is a cross-road of global interests. I think it still is. It also has huge and wealthy diaspora.

Beirut will certainly come back, and most likely (unluckily) will come bursting again.
How so? There are multiple chip makers (supply) and a huge pool of buyers (demand).

As a consumer, I can now go out and buy a machine with Apple silicone, Intel, AMD.

If anything, we're finally seeing some improvements after years of chip stagnation.
FWIW C++ Builder could do the same and had access to VCL too. AFAIK (never tried it) you could mix Delphi and C++ in the same project if you wanted.
>I wouldn't be surprised if that is the case with other former colonies of Europe.

In Latin America, the central extractivist structure was kept after independence, only the owners changed. Now instead of a foreign crown siphoning off the wealth, it was the local owners of the land -- who still sold as much as they could to foreign powers, and spent the rest in petty civil wars against their own people. Another common occurrence was involving foreign powers in local disputes, as the landowners always put their own interests before the interests of the country.

Nowadays it's less overt in most places, but it's still going on.
>> The move from saturated fats (e.g. butter, beef tallow) to trans fats (e.g. margarine) was not necessarily a good one. Sometimes I wonder if most nutritional advice just follows constantly changing fads...

The reason for change is often forgotten or even misunderstood. From what I've read there is nothing wrong with eating saturated far or unsaturated fat, but transfat (a.k.a. partially hydrogenated) is very bad for you, as it chokes the machinery for "consuming" one or the other by being a bit of both.

After the crusade against fat, people also seemed to get the idea that eating fat makes you fat (the original reasoning had more to do with heart disease), but keto and low-carb diets that work would beg to differ. You gotta read the actual results to get to the bottom of things.
Making sure to get some food in while they're at it, actually
The "3nm process" has no bearing on the actual size of the gate's or anything like that and is purely a marketing term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_nm_process gives a reasonable summary in its introduction.

My remembrance of the specific quantum effects that you're thinking of are from quantum tunneling[1] of electrons. The problem occurs when the gate size gets small enough that electrons can pass through without the transistor being switched on, which starts to happen around 3nm.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_tunnelling
14 CFR Part 91.817, in essence, prohibits anyone from operating a civil aircraft at a true flight Mach number greater than 1 over land in the United States and from a certain distance off shore where a boom could reach U.S. shores.

https://www.faa.gov/newsroom/supersonic-flight
once you start assuming that anything can end up in anything, everything can be depicted as dangerous.

do you really know what's inside fruit, vegetable, salad, juices, sodas etc?

do you really know what's inside domestic bologna sold and produced inside USA?

why imported one (main topic of the discussion) should be more dangerous, given that US are one of the worst places in the west for food handling?

I would assume the contrary, when in the US imported food is of better quality in general. And I am willing to spend to 2x or 3x cap to buy real Italian prosciutto from real Italian people than eat cheap, but US made ham.

p.s. my family home made cured meats for generations, we know exactly what they are made out of, what we put in it. Simple as that.
It's far worse than just being able to listen to music, with the right receiver and software you can decode the image from the monitor. Here's a quick overview. https://hackaday.com/2020/05/14/tempest-comes-to-gnu-radio/

I have verified that it works with my equipment (alarmingly well), though higher resolutions are harder to get a clear image out of. It even works with multiple monitors in close proximity, you just have to select the right parameters. Having an appropriate antenna helps avoid interference and improve the quality.
> You need to look at either the private companies or university-affiliated research centers doing the actual research and implementation of technologies for the government rather than the government itself.

Oh these guys won’t touch me. I don’t have any formal education. I do agree that many have some pretty interesting jobs.
I wonder if anyone here has experience with both Delphi and SwiftUI. I'd be curious to know which one is more comfortable.
Are you talking about the Girocard (EC-Karte) system? Because there's also a lot of direct debit cards around that are all Mastercard/Visa branded.

It's true though that using "real" credit cards is relatively uncommon.
The ceremonial heavy rope belt - tsuna - is made from the same material that almost all ropes were back in the day: hemp. [0]

That this isn’t common knowledge is more anecdata of what I am talking bout.

[0] https://tachiai.org/2017/01/25/preparing-the-rope/amp/
Any future plan to launch a split version of this?
Yes, it’s straight alcohol consumption so people in Japan are in effect drinking more than those numbers suggest.
Perhaps because insects are more evolutionally distant from humans, than mammals for example. That doesn't mean that it's true, but this could be why someone migh assume that it's true.
> And if I need C++ speed I can just write C++...

Maybe I'm being pedantic here, but surely you can't "just write C++". If you could, why would you ever use R, which is way slower, less backwards compatible and can't be shipped as a binary?

I'm guessing you use R because it's easier to use than C++, interactive, and quicker to get stuff done in. That sounds to me like a list of criteria where Julia should aspire to beating R - if we can.
Or more likely with Apple the ability to get the same battery life with a thinner phone.
I genuinely consider healthcare to be the biggest legalised scam in the US. An MRI scan for your arm costs $2000 (in NY)? Hell, for that you can fly down to India, get an MRI scan and a personal consultation with a reputed doctor, relax for a week and go back to the US!
without Apple, TSMC would likely not have been able to finance lead it currently has.
So in your opinion, this should be avoided? Looking to try something new ( old ) and this got me excited but your comment has soured it a bit for me.
All systems will have a tendency toward corruption. Democracy is really a facade and a political tool and not what runs a country. The bureaucrats in the government are what run a country; and they hold most of the cards. (and they are also very difficult to change or replace).
LibreOffice 7.4 Community, a benchmark for interoperability
You can’t cook away many risks associated with meats, though. There are many problems such as red meat being a probable carcinogen, bio accumulation of fat-soluble chemicals that are harmful to humans, and inflammatory responses which make it hard to justify eating it.
"This document describes a method of adding social proofs to OpenPGP keys in a way that can be independently verified by clients. This is similar to Keybase but decentralized."

Example: https://metacode.biz/openpgp/key#0x653909A2F0E37C106F5FAF546...
Outright bans have historically never worked to discourage drug use. They only create a very rich criminal class that thrives in selling illegal products.
XDP is kind of the opposite of this, right? It's moving userland code into the kernel.
Unfortunately, I migrated to LVM later (I think 2006 too), through a new disk (I suppose with tar | tar). At the time, amd64 was just a port.
Two Minute Papers on YouTube is good, as is Computerphile.
Apple is willing to pay upfront and fund research to be first in line. Intel, Nvidia, and others could probably do the same if they wanted to and were willing to take on that risk.
Smartphone volume is subsidizing the research, development, and capital investment for these nodes.

It's not just for phones--these nodes end up powering everything. But it starts with phones because that's where the money is.
yes, you could/can. The VCL itself was written in Delphi and seamlessly linked with C++Builder C++ (they had some language extensions to make it work)
Janet Jackson song is now an official exploit for Windows PCs
Define interesting. Once you have that, look for companies that do that. Apply, rinse repeat. In a short while you will be in a network of like minded peers. After that you should be good. Mind you, the secret it’s people
> Block devices operate on blocks of data identified by offset.

Sure, although CUSE read and write operations take offsets, too. The kernel could just send block-sized IOs to a CUSE driver and it wouldn't be all that different.

> You can in principle implement a block device-ish API in FUSE by disabling open/close and requiring all reads/writes to be at given offsets

Right, ok.

I think the historical distinction between block and character devices is largely that -- historical. Nowadays the distinction is mostly whether or not the kernel puts a block cache in front of the device. FreeBSD eliminated the distinction entirely.
Counts: A command-line tool for ad-hoc profiling
I had thought we as a species had evolved past that particular design wart.
Hemp is for certain used to make decorative rope for shrines and temples, and it looks like many どひょう (sumo fighting rings) have some hemp rope involved in them. The sumo belts look to be made of hemp to me.

There are all types of weird laws about hemp farmers having to be careful not to breathe in the smoke when burning off during autumn harvests etc :)
Not sure if I’m missing something but all I see on that link is the title at the top and then a list of unrelated articles?

(I’m on an iPhone)

Edit: ok I was missing something; clicking on any of the links. Never mind.
I Assumed This Memoir Was Just Another CEO’s Personal Brand Reinvention. I Was
All the Japanese I know have dark brown or black hair. What's the mandatory color, blonde?

Relevant: https://japantoday.com/category/national/tokyo-public-school...
Definitely possible, but hang out in Shinagawa Station, on a Wednesday night, between 2200 and 2300. It's fairly common to see men in ten-thousand-dollar suits, kneewalking drunk.
I mean it's clearly superior. You can see all your files right there on the left!
But how do you press "shift+home" or "shift+pg up" to select a line or page? I tried this on Asus laptop 10 years ago, and IIRC it didn't work.

Another combo I use sometimes is "ctrl+shift+home/end" to select the text from cursor position to the very beginning/end.
Every time I see this, my first question is "How do people know the color of a schoolgirl's underwear?" Then I remember the key point of their dress code - a short skirt.

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