skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BFS is the BeOS filesystem. It's what enables applications to share content without having to directly share things, it's kind of related to what you're interested in in that the filesystem then becomes a communal database. Email isn't dumped into an (whatever the extension) Outlook file, each email is placed in a directory with metadata permitting a filesystem wide query. Calendar entries would be the same. So all users can drop calendar event cards (or whatever) into the filesystem with, say, the date, time, duration, and other metadata. Then anyone can create a calendar app or integrate calendaring into their own application. Even if just to view the data.
English is a Germanic language that was injected with a large amount of French vocabulary. Latin and Greek are typically used in very specific jargons, such as philosophy or medicine, with some phrases escaping confinement and reaching a larger population.

English being a Germanic language is why the whole "no prepositions at the end of sentences" thing never made sense. That was a Latin rule. But Germanic languages have a property of augmenting verbs using prepositions. In German itself these are called "separable verbs".

Ich stehe auf. I stand up.

"Up" is not a preposition in this sentence. It's an integral part of the verb. That is, the verb is, in its entirety, "aufstehen" or "to stand up".

Meanwhile, this same phrase in Spanish uses reflexivity:

Levanto me. I lift myself.
Ouch.

I remember back when Scala was still on version 1, the official/recommended IDE was Scala IDE, based on Eclipse. Eclipse was already a mess at that time, and people were abandoning it in droves even for Java work, but (bizarrely) Scala IDE was endorsed by Odersky.

Get this: refactoring -- critical for a language like Scala -- was totally broken on Scala IDE. Completely, unusably broken. Like, you changed the name of a function and the IDE inserted nonsensical garbage that didn't compile or even follow syntax rules everywhere. This situation went for long enough that most sane people migrated to IntelliJ. This was back then, no idea what the situation is now or whether Scala IDE still exists.
Society constantly trades off the well being of kids vs people that are older than kids. This is totally something we do. Funding for education vs funding for something else. Streets that are safe for kids vs ones that are convenient for driving fast. We're happily screwing over entire generations with our carbon based economy.
None of that is "3days" . That's all the negative days before you start using the language.

I could do all those setup things in N days without ever learning any programming language.
I have an internal monologue sometimes, and sometimes I don't. It depends on what I'm doing.

If I'm trying to think of how to say something, then I have an internal monologue that I use to try out ways of saying it. Similarly, if I'm thinking about how to write dialog or exposition for a story or for technical writing, then I have an internal monologue in which I construct drafts of what to say.

Also, in any nontrivial conversation, I prefer to try out sentences or sentence fragments mentally before uttering them. This habit contributes to me being an insufferable interrupter because if I get one constructed that says what I want it to, I then want to utter it, quick!, before I forget it. I'm not laboring under the delusion that my utterances are so very important, but the impulse to say something once I've got it constructed more or less properly is strong.

If I'm thinking about how to walk or drive somewhere, my thoughts are nonverbal--mostly 3D images or "spatializations" (that is, mental constructions of spatial relationships without any particular color, texture, or other visual content).

If I'm thinking about composing music, I may hear passages performed on various favorite instruments, or, like the low-content visualizations I mentioned, I may imagine melodies and harmonies without any specific timbre.

I guess my thinking is multimodal, depending on what I'm trying to think about.

My sense is that, generally speaking, if there is an imagined voice uttering words, or an imagined instrument playing notes, or an image or landscape with colors, it's always a rendering or translation of something more fundamental that lies behind it. I don't know whether that's accurate, or how I could know for sure.
MLCommons has released an automation framework to modularize and automate ML Systems benchmarking.
Same reason big tech companies are so desperately funding "learn to code" programs, especially in high school.

Don't think for a second that the software engineering gravy train won't come to a screeching end as soon as supply catches up with demand.

I wouldn't even be surprised if us SE's eventually try to heavily license and gatekeep the industry like law and medicine, loading new workers up with 6 figures of debt and significant post bachelors requirements, in order to keep our salaries artificially high. Medicine in the US seems to be especially damaged by this.
> I loved the Civil War, and I think the quality of Vietnam was great too, but it made me so angry I had to stop watching it.

I'm just curious - what particularly made you angry about it?

My father served in the military, but was posted as a medical orderly to West Germany rather than Vietnam at the time, this was in the early 70's. He tended to some of the wounded guys getting repatriated after getting physical therapy, and said the experience had destroyed far more lives than just KIAs on the battlefield.
Not NSFW is The Gaming Historian (and more informative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVszKSeSE-0
I feel like you don't actually remember the movie at all. It's an amazing movie.

It's only the same in the way that "A stranger comes to town" is a description of every single movie ever made.

If you want overt zipcode inequality then In Time is a better match. (but much lesser of a movie)
How to Run Stable Diffusion WebUI for Free on Google Colab
Bah - font kerning issue (keeming).
Exactly, but also that it's quite often experience you had this morning, not e.g. over the last 5 years, that makes the difference.
$10 is an absolute steal for a fully featured game with hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of play time in it. FOSS or not.
Some police departments have a policy of not arresting on some warrants when responding to a domestic violence or sexual assault call, because they don't want to discourage people calling about these kinds of cases just because they have a misdemeanor summons out or whatever. This seems like a very analogous situation: if rape kits can be used as evidence against the reporter, it will discourage anyone with minor criminal activity reporting rapes. This significant curtails a vulnerable population's access to law enforcement assistance and will advance a reputation that e.g. rape of sex workers will not be prosecuted.
By the time you have real maintainability problems, it's too late to improve code quality.
I don't agree.

You get higher wages in the US, but you also have to pay more in the US.
Healthcare (or saving money for when you need healthcare), schools, having to drive everywhere, etc.

In most of western Europe you don't actually need that high salary. There are no crazy medical bills, your children can go to school for free, you don't have to spend a couple of bucks for gas for every errand.

Also i think your comparison is a bit skewed because afaik Paris and New-York are famously expensive. I think using this comparison is more realistic: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
That's autorun.inf, not autoexec.bat.
Something you turn over to the government is not private from the government. Expecting otherwise is clearly not "reasonable."

A criminal prosecution is not your day in court. A crime victim is not a party to a criminal proceeding. There are maybe a handful of cases where the concept was even contemplated, and it was on a motion to consider a victim's out-of-court admissions as evidence under R. Evid. 801(d)(2).

New Mexico v. Vallejos (N.M. App. 2019) ("The State's Motion to Amend, containing Victim's statements, does not fall within the hearsay exemption in Rule 11-801(D)(2) because Victim is not a party opponent."); Ohio v. Ingram (Oh. App. 2016) ("We re-affirm our holding in Browning that an alleged victim who testifies as a witness for the state is not a party-opponent within the meaning of Evid.R. 801(D)(2).")
Or maybe she is the computer now.
That would be the smart move. To greatly increase conservation (heat pumps, better insulation, etc. are low hanging fruits that will more than pay for themselves in a few years), reduce car driving in favor of cheaper and better public transport and/or bikes/ebikes, and to increase wind and solar power, both of which are as cheap if not cheaper than most sources of fossil fuels and can be brought online within months.

If Europe does not do this, then they will absolutely deserve the impact of the future geopolitical shocks that will inevitably increase as climate change causes migrations, inflation, increasing natural disasters, and ensuing political instability in fossil fuel providing nations, which are not coincidentally among the most ripe for political revolt.
Keep in mind the HN bubble is real.

Right now, its 74 votes for FT, 113 Work for Yourself.

"Work for yourself" is a fine answer if you have enough in savings that you can take the risk of not having work. HN has a greater proportion of people that can do that.

I question how many people voting for FTJ would actually prefer WFY but don't have that level of financial security.
I have all but two of my cell phones dating back to 1995. Unfortunately I didn't keep the chargers for many of them so while they should be functional I can't really confirm that.

Also have a Mac SE from 1990. Booted the last time I tried (~2020). Somehow avoided the capacitor apocalypse.

Am finding many of my early Apple iPads won't charge and won't turn on at all even if plugged into a charger. Am assuming if the battery is hosed they won't do anything. As a general thing I've found that mobile devices won't turn on if the battery is dead or removed, seems constant across Nokia/Sony/Motorola/Apple.

I went through a frenzy of ditching old equipment about a decade ago, until then I had a collection of IBM Thinkpads dating to the late 1990s as well as some Apple PowerBooks as well as an Apple //e from mid 1980s. Ditched the older game consoles as well, unfortunately.
Europe has already been blackmailed by Russia - when they invaded Ukraine last time, in 2014. That's how we know Russia can only be dealt with by force: because we've tried to do it the other way and it failed terribly.
I was surprised to see in a HN comment the explanation that not everyone finds Factorio enthralling.

The gameplay experience is so similar to what many developers do in their dayjobs, that this leads to one of two responses: "...and I am not constrained/bound, it's so fun!" or "...but with Factorio, I get no tangible output from putting in effort."
There's also two sets of DNA. I imagine her DNA is not evidence of any crime, only the rapist's. So her DNA is collected coincidentally. Is there any other standard for coincidentally collected evidence?

Say I had a diary and wrote an entry after I was raped, which was then submitted as evidence - could the police look through the rest of my diary and see that I had an entry from 4 years ago about breaking into a house?
How do you validate yourself as the owner of the bank account especially if that validation happens over SMS? Is there a password or pin that is secret?

Or do you have to go to the bank website and initiate an SMS send to your new phone? How are very rural people able to navigate all that complexity given how prevalent UPI is at this point?
> A prenatal test used worldwide sends gene data of pregnant women to the company that developed it with China's military. The U.S. sees a security risk.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/health-c...
This already-tired argument again.

Vaccines for influenza have been around for decades. The first covid shot was the first ever mRNA technology ever approved for human use.

Now the booster doesn’t simply swap out strains. It moves from a monovalent to a bivalent (original formula plus the Omicron Ba4/Ba5 formula) and we shouldn’t test it? The first ever bivalent mRNA vaccine. Deployed to everyone on the planet. With absolutely no human testing done.

If you’re okay with it, that’s great… that’s your personal choice to trust corrupt health authorities and for-profit vaccine manufacturers. Let me know how it goes.
Ucrtcringe.dll: Reverse engineering ucrtbase.dll for pain and non-profit
Really, we may want to make sure we have a system where victims of crimes aren't afraid to come forward for help, for fear that coming forward may result in an increased likelihood that they themselves are caught for a crime they previously committed.

People tried protesting this decades ago when the government started collecting fingerprints for everything. Get a federal job, give your fingerprints. Get a nursing license, give fingerprints. Get a carry permit, give your fingerprints. It didn't work then and I'm not sure it'll work now.
Being a senior engineer is weird when looking retrospectively. I remember being a junior and experiencing what the author is talking about with respect to puzzlingly staring at my seniors when they could answer obscure questions.

Now I do it and do the same things they did with me: facilitate my thought and troubleshooting process rather than give me answers. I think the people that are successful in Senior+ engineering are that way because of certain technical and character traits they've developed.

One is a willingness to be right in the long run. When I was a young engineer I would make my cases hard with data. As a senior engineer I sit back and let the machine mull for a while because I know that's what the engineering machine will do regardless of how technically right I may be. Another is knowing that right isn't always right. Sometimes the right answer is technically wrong, or the learnings of wrong need to be made before we collectively can be right. Another is a lot of patience; patience for myself, patience for others. I recently admitted I was behind on work because my power was out for three straight days. Young me would've found a coffee shop and worked those days with a single monitor down to the bone. Senior me took my dog to the park.

Not everyone makes it to senior, had I not forked my path in certain places I don't think I would have. My advice, relish your time as non-senior and ask lots of non-technical questions. The technical stuff comes over time and by necessity.
What is worse, I have seen quite a few suggested pages spreading hardcore conspiracy theories.
Seems like a rounding error in the things we need to fix in criminal justice. Until it happens to me, of course....
Same.

Factorio is such an addictive, amazing game. There’s always one more thing to automate. “What if I could automate my nuclear reactors to keep fuel consumption low … oh, but what if I could automate the fuel production itself?” On and on. It’s kind of like KSP if you play it in hardcore where you can’t do anything except through kOS.
if they are still struggling on the same thing
This is the absolute antithesis to how I operate and I disagree almost to the point of being offended.

Try working in an environment where team leads are allowed to make up whatever names they want, create as many projects/services as they want, and organize everything based on whim. You get this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

For me that is not a parody, it's lived experience.

> I’m probably being overdramatic there, but I hope my point is clear. “Descriptive” names don’t create transparency, they create the illusion of transparency. If you see that something has the name OrderStatusService, you will instinctively assume you know what it is and does, and you will probably be wrong.

When what a thing does changes then the name should also change. I almost want to counter this Medium post by arguing that READMEs should be works of fiction because the project they describe might change over time.
15 months seems pretty standard for an early stage startup.
Isn't the blood drawn by a healthcare provider?
There's a space mod that has you jumping to different planets and allows you to ship things between them on rockets (or, more hilariously, effectively shooting them between planets). Definitely seals that vibe.

That same mod also uses a tech tree mod that actually makes the burner phase slower, so you pollute more in the beginning to boot.
Fighting Fantasy changed my life.
When commercial hiring managers say "experience" though, they don't count school projects, volunteer (OSS) projects, or career-adjacent projects. That is the source of dissonance. You are right, it's just that you* vs. the managers have different definitions of the word.

* also me sometimes, but that's confusing since I just used the commercial definition of the word a few comments above.
Is it true that the impact of these incidents was zero? How much money did the bitcoin scam guys get?
I definitely felt evil the first time I told my bot army to harvest a forest and they cleared the whole thing in about 2 seconds.
Sure, in the same way that "surviving to old age" is easier said than done. It's true, but what choice do you have?
It's not quiet quitting, it's doing the job you're paid for. Man, Americans are really weird.
Memes aren't cancers, they are ideas.
This game just keeps on giving.
Ugh - I never thought of this (I work in IT) but I unfortunately could see this happening in the future. Weird times - Your healthcare example is unfortunately completely spot on
enterprise software at its finest
> I'm sure he felt stupid when I pointed it out.

He certainly did. There is no amount of experience that makes people not feel stupid about those. What changes is that you learn to not be affected by it, because you know that it's not a personal flaw (at least not one specific to you), and while you can improve on it, you can't completely fix it.

But the alternating between feeling like the dumbest person on Earth and the smartest person on Earth never goes away.
Yeah, even if outlook manages to stay online the vast majority of the time having a local backup is extremely useful. I use IMAP with Thunderbird which stores mail in MBOX format which I find very helpful for searching or pulling data from too. Having to depend on webmail would feel so limiting!
Unsure, never played factorio before, but in mindustry each different "CPU" can execute different scripts to utilize their surroundings. I'd imagine that's more "efficient" than eking out a logic using gates?
What humans have is leverage, due to having language. This is a giant intelligence multiplier. The next multiplier was writing. The next printing. The next is computer networks.

Communication gives us the ability to coordinate with and teach others, which is an incredible advantage. We can build on what other humans learn, rather than having to rediscover it.

I sometimes wonder why this ability is so limited in other intelligent animals.

For the Park Service, they can print instructions and put them on the garbage can, or a ranger can explain it to the person.
There's a difference between someone's personal experience/capabilities and making observations about the broader cultural appeal of a thing.

I can still put in the personal effort to read Charlotte Bronte or watch North By Northwest and take on the appropriate context required to understand that these are landmark works for their era, while simultaneously understanding that they have limited appeal to a general modern audience.
Alcohol and tobacco cessation are heavily pushed on you the second you begin to try to conceive. Doctors tell you there is no safe amount of alcohol. The only place weed was even mentioned to me was in the Mayo clinic guide to pregnancy, once.

You are a dozen times more likely to get the smoking lecture and hundreds of times more likely to get the booze lecture at any given time.
Thrustmaster T16000m is popular
You use Golang as a replacement for many Baah and Python programs, and never touch concurrency.

Concurrency is tricky, and that is true in every language, but less so in Go.
Maybe.

But perhaps the cause-effect relationship is inverted - perhaps generally happier people tend to think free will exists, because they never had a reason to doubt it? In contrast, people who are generally unhappier are the ones who are thinking about topics such as free will, determinism, etc. to try to make sense of the world. Sometimes it works, and makes them less unhappy - but they had to be unhappy in the first place to start thinking about it.
I have read it. I know what liquidity trap is. That's not the problem.
It's incentives. Incentives matter and people in western countries are not incentivized to have children and money isn't all that matters.

People care about reputation, social standing, glory and their conscience. All of these can act as incentives.
When we say that incentives matter non economists only hears that people respond to price signals but what economist really mean that, holding everything else constant and giving a price signal people will do it more or less of it.

Economists often focus on monetary incentives because they are observable and usually easier to change in a model. For example if we say that doctor salaries go up more people will want to be doctors. This is misunderstood that doctors are motivated by money rather than the non-monetary motives to be doctors but this really means that holding the non-monetary satisfaction of medicine constant, increasing the monetary satisfaction will make medicine more attractive relative to other professions. The clear example for this are doctors in USA and Cuba. The difference in monetary compensations is huge relative to other professions but non-monetary motives are still high enough for people in Cuba to want to endure ardous learning to be a doctor.

I fully realize it's a lost battle. The genie is out of the bottle. I'm just annoyed that it's happening. I live close to a city that 2000 years old and all that time population either managed to grew or stagnate but never this.
I don't see quite this many ads/suggested pages, but I often see two ads in a row on mobile. Every time it happens I close the tab.
ISTR a couple of boot floppies was enough to get the attached Wangtek drive spinning so you could bootstrap a DC600 tape and load from there.

I don't recall if this was an official implementation or something we cooked up.

Oh yes, and there was the floppy way too.
It's a serious amount of both learning and building so I can imagine that a stat like that is true.
The dehumanization will continue until GDP improves.
I’m just so grateful that they started with the actual picture. So many articles today talk about something visual and never show it.
Carpet bombing? Burning cities with napalm? Using depleted uranium? Burning children with Phosphorus? Planting mines for civilians? Supporting terrorist organizations that bombs people, or even directly bombing people directly? Starving thousands of hundreds of people and openly admitting doing that...
Do you need more?
Agreed. You can fake it some with Steam's workshop controller setups, and it works well enough you can play Factorio on the Steam Deck.

Official controller support on the PC would be more than welcome though.
Ask HN: Freelancers of HN, how do you manage your clients?
With my first client I immediately got my second one and so I am starting to think: What's the true HN-way (i.e. best way) to manage all the increasing client data, invoices, monthly payments, track and archive everything important etc in a structured, organised manner?

Do you use common tools?
Do you write your own tools?
Do you use MS Excel?
Is a single text file enough?

What's the way