skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Telegram/Slack/Discord were mine inspirations but they have some troubles. First it takes time to get people there and not everyone have telegram, slack or discord.

They are also not build to collecting and analyzing data. With Taku you can collect data from users and then target them using this data. For example allow DM only for people who uses your product daily.
The lack of general care is probably largely to blame too. The workforce gets exhausted, no options for illnesses or therapy for mental illness because of cost prohibition. Constant fear of losing jobs, home, etc. That causes bad decisions and low worker output.
Imagine a subset of people saying that there’s a phenomenon of people that believe MLK died in the 50’s of a heart attack.

People that seriously believe Mandela died in prison isn’t offensive, but I doubt these exist in any significant number. People claiming that it’s even possible that you could believe that is offensive since it implies his most effective years and actions never happened.
C++ by Example
I had a period of several weeks where most days my arrow keys would just stop working. I could Ctrl+arrow to jump words or Shift+arrow to highlight, but just an arrow key by itself? Nope.

My biggest gripe though is just the sluggishness in every single thing. It’s like there’s a 500ms minimum latency for any action you can perform in the app. Truly miserable bit of software.

I always wonder how the dev teams feel on projects like this. They just know they’re shipping garbage, surely?
All it takes to register a new number here, are your details including name, DoB, physical address (all the complete ones leaked), the type of ID used (passport, drivers license) and the number on that ID. You can do it in about 5 minutes online, and the number is then active (but not before).

Not even a copy of the document is required, and it doesn't have to be sighted by anyone. From memory, you don't even have to supply the expiry date on the document (and driver's license numbers remain static).

One of the first things I see happening, is criminals using this to obtain burner numbers not traceable to them.
I had heard about this effect (whatever you want to call it) a few years ago, but I remember things as the evidence shows they happened (ironically, with the exception of Mandela specifically, but I remember it differently than the group of others), so I had generally chalked it up to "when faulty memory meets Reddit."

Recently, though, I'm running into a weird one. In the last two months, I have encountered multiple incidents where people are either capitalizing "the Internet," or writing about why it's mainstream enough now that we don't need to capitalize "Internet."

In my timeline, no one, and I mean NO ONE, had been capitalizing "internet" for at least fifteen years, and it was only really old people who did for five. It looks ridiculous to me even to see it.

I can't account for this change by any normal means, and it's been really eerie!
An operating system developed by the world's largest advertising corporation and the privacy of hardware camera and microphone switches:

Nuts and gum, together at last.
The Berman Amendment protects transferring information to/from Iran. Blocking information seems quite the opposite.
The closest thing IRL is Bitcoin mining.

Now imagine an unstoppable Bitcoin mining done by our robot overlords using everything and everyone including Humans as fuel to generate electricity to power Bitcoin mining farms ...
I'm a big fan of this personally, but I've also lived with the experience of completely useless commit messages, so I understand both arguments. Here's the most recent commits for a project I'm working on:

Counts

Counts

Counts

Counts

Log entries

missing package json

missing package json

ttl in seconds

cache back on

Still, I'd rather try to convince people to write useful messages than hard bind my remote code repository to my system for managing work, and often times (but certainly not always), single line commits are self explanatory.
This is awesome:

> The HP 49 series initially used the Saturn CPU as well, until the NEC fab could no longer manufacture the processor for technical reasons in 2003. Therefore, starting with the HP 49g+ model in 2003, the calculators switched to a Samsung S3C2410 processor with an ARM920T core (part of the ARMv4T architecture) which ran an emulator of the Saturn hardware in software.

Surprising, but also pragmatic, but then again is that really cheaper than porting a calculator os to a modern CPU?

> The HP 50g, the last calculator utilizing this emulator, was discontinued in 2015 when Samsung stopped producing the ARM processor on which it was based.

I have an idea how to solve this... :-)
Cloudflare Workers for Platforms is now GA
Tangent

> Hopefully you aren’t relying on any abandoned software.

Every major Android update, I get scared. I use an alarm clock (Gentle Alarm) that has far more features than all others, but it’s been long abandoned (as in: removed from the play store, all websites dead. This was a paid app). Android 10 or 11 already broke it, but someone on reddit (where all 4 or so users of the app met :D) found a manifest change and allowing "drawing over other apps" to fix it.

Now it works on 12, but after I already spent hours asking on HN and Reddit for a maintained replacement and testing those, I hope this continues, because with how lacking all others are I’d rather learn Android development and program my own replacement than using something else.

edit: Hah! The thread [0] with the fixed APK is still getting comments from people who found it every few months :D

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/androidapps/comments/i01xh3/gentle_...
> Reference counted pointers themselves are usually not atomic, only the reference count updates are.

Fun way to start an argument where everybody is wrong: ask a group of C++ programmers whether std::shared_ptr is thread-safe.
Slight OT: When I was in Monaco recently the Monaco Telecom network prevented me making or receiving WhatsApp calls. I could message, but no calling. Presumably therefore it is something that the network provider can interfere with effectively.
> There is something about this movie that totally grinds my gears, and I cannot put my finger on it.

Spirited Away is beautiful, in the artistic sense of the word. It has no real story, and is just a hodgepodge of Japanese folklore pieced together to half-resemble even a mild plot.

The rest of the stuff that isn't folklore-related is just the anthropomorphic elements Miyazaki added in as filler because of "kawaii".

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And as an aside.... "Had to scroll down quite a bit on the HN page to find your comment, obviously it has been downvoted because having this opinion is apparently not allowed in this world."

It's not the "world" that has this problem. It's hacker news. This place seriously has a groupthink problem. For this site, "Disagree(opinion)" == "Disagree(factually incorrect)" == "Disagree(against group opinion) == "Disagree(no reason)" are all given the same weight, and the same gray-on-offwhite text.
Most Iranians can't afford iPhones.
But all this stuff is strictly optional - the skins do not affect your win-rate.

(There were some edge cases e.g. CSGO agents but they are working to bring it down to a tiny difference)
I believe one of the possible reasons for the spatial defects, like cosmic strings, not being found could be that they've essentially stabilized over time which means the slight differences between patches of spacetime effectively mended and thus wouldn't leave anything detectible. But I do believe there's still some consensus that we should see some of these defects in deep sky observations despite this possbility.
There's renewed debate about the Big Bang theory now that JWST is beginning to return images of earlier times than we've seen before.

Eric Lerner has been making the case that there was no BB for a long time now.

I think these are valid criticisms and he's now updated them wrt to JWST

https://youtu.be/ZlFpq49Ri8Y
With their 50% inflation and ~10k% average salary I bet they can't wait for these tech gadgets either...
If a product have an app then it will be possible to send push notifications. Or even with website but only on androids
Wow. As if twitter's presentation of threads wasn't bad enough.

If you could randomly animate the boxes on the page this could be the "interpretive dance" representation of a conversation.
For what it's worth... I use teams all day for communication across all of the teams I work with in 3 different countries and have no latency issues.

I agree with your assessment that it isn't bad though. I don't have any of the issues that everyone here is reporting. Everything just works, I can call any of the 1000s of people at our org and they can join effortlessly.

I'd happily switch to whatever else to be less reliant on MS, but teams being bad isn't a valid argument in my mind.
To make the TEAMs experience even worse, our IT department, okay at the behest of the legal team, put a policy in place that removes chat history older than 24 hours thus removing the last shred of utility from the product.
That is already possible with Stadia (and possibly other game streaming services).
Following your reasoning I'd say your answer is a non-answer as well because

> executives at Microsoft want the product to work well.

IMO, everyone wants the product to work well (except probably competitors).

So why doesn't it?

I'm aware this is not an answer either :-)
Although i completely agree with your point, one could also say that before equations and models, there's observation and intuition.

One could argue that metaphores are a step to move the science back toward reality and "complete the circle".
> As a user I just want the app to be exactly like you describe

...and with zero security. No 3rd party reviewing it for vulnerable dependencies, homecalling and telemetries or worse, or breach of licenses.

No guarantee of receiving security updates. Especially given that most upstream do not maintain stable release train and do not backport security fixes.

And keep in mind that flatpak sandboxing is only partially effective and it also does not protect the data you put in the sandboxed app in any way.

(Not to mention that more than 4 billion people on this planet have very slow, expensive and unreliable Internet access, and old devices with limited storage space.)

No thanks, I'll stick with distributions.
https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback/issues/268#issuecom... specifically.
Culture in general changes. A company is not an island. Employees move around, tech moves around. Society at large gets comfortable with censorship when its use spreads.

We're all looking for ways to censor spammers or belligerents from internet forums. It could easily start there and spread to other areas.
How to Pronounce Toronto Correctly
Jackson Structured Programming
Part No-1.
Quora Question!
"What are the best books you would recommend for someone who wants to broden his understanding about algorithms and learn programming concepts as well as ways to build solutions to problems?" My answer:I recommend Principles of Program Design, JSP.
Michael J has literally "been behind my chair all these years". Had never been able to stay in the programming profession if I did not have this great support for my thoughts in a difficult profession, here comes the rest the story and why I recommend this book.I am an elderly gentleman who has been with "game" then late 60s. Have experienced much joy in my years as a developer in the Mainframe. That it was so nice, much depends on the profession and the engineering mindset, which I eventually dedicated to me, starting in earnest in 1984 at Bankgirot, Stockholm..It has been incredibly stimulating and fun during all the years of working with the method JSP in its entirety. Its powerful techniques such as processinvertion and useful backtracking approach. One works for a number of specific work steps and the iterative incremental processing method and its clear graphics technology, the method is also agile. Quickly get up a first draft of any data stream diagram. Using these, you can then also on some or a few A4 pages easily juggle alternative approaches and solutions. It has been a strong guiding light for me it's a bit rough and tricky work, system development sometimes are. It's incredibly many activities and details that need to be accomplished within a project is completed. Design of program logic covers often a large part of the overall project. Then apply it to have powerful support to "think in his little brain." One must add its intuitive thinking aside and instead be guided by strong practices guidelines. Have known that every day I have developed the method. Have just felt good and even a bit cleverer every day! To have seen this for himself, is a great feeling. Should truth be told, I've often over the years worked at home in the evenings with the data stream and process diagrams to put them in my PC the next day.If the method is used in full, you get features for free, which otherwise are forced and figure out for yourself. The forces early focus on the more complicated questions to manage the work process. With graphics , so the work is done at a higher level of abstraction than when coding a program. On the system so important temporal dimension emerges clearly in the diagrams,they show the user's world, that is the function programs to perform…….continued.
>Shouldn't there be a level where some people will find the pain of the shittiness so great that they'll step outside of the Microsoft ecosystem whereas other people will accept the shit in exchange for the ease of staying inside the Microsoft ecosystem.

This happened at a company I worked at. There was practically a war between IT support trying desperately to force people to use Teams and the people who had picked up Zoom and quite liked it trying to stay using it.

After a grace period where IT pleaded, whinged and begged, the Windows laptops were ultimately locked down such that zoom couldn't be installed or run at all and everybody was finally shifted on to Teams.

This was all done in the name of security, citing such high profile transgressions "Zoom's end to end encryption isn't working as advertised!" and "omg zoombombing sometimes happens if you don't password protect your room!" were cited. Stories like this were circling the news at that time.

Later on when Teams was bludgeoned by several zero days that were orders of magnitude worse, nobody batted an eye of course, and that story didn't get much airtime.

Microsoft had its claws deep into that company. I suspect they have a pretty good PR team as well.
Logitech G Cloud Gaming Handheld
It's on an airline industry news website, I think they just know their audience.
Design and implementation of outbound prospecting campaigns for SMB's.
Side note Marco---Italy is amazing, what are you working on?
An earlier related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32768166
This is probably the saddest thing I read in 2022
I'm not sure airing a single episode is a good measure of interest. Especially if they didn't market it much. What's the point of going through the trouble to secure the rights to air something if you aren't going to give it a fair shot? I really don't get the reasoning behind these kinds of decisions. I've heard amazon cancels shows if they don't perform well enough after their first few weeks on prime.

With all the things competing for our attention, they should really give people more time to find things. I understand that they really really want to force people to watch things on their schedule, but those days are over. They've had some success with forcing people to wait week to week for new episodes, but personally I won't start a show like that until I can binge watch it.

Equally confusing was netflix canceling originals they'd already invested heavily in before the story had concluded. Shows with fans who were left pissed off. Netflix could have had a quality title in their catalogue for those who like it instead of bait for new generations of pissed off fans.
As mentioned Spirited Away could be hit or miss at that age, but you can't go wrong with My Neighbor Totoro. It's got some emotionally intense sequences, but they pay off well in the end.
Most folks just link their Discord on their landing page, if it makes sense for their userbase
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
Dynamic as in you don't need to predefine the task in a config file or decorator before you start your server.

This way you can load and unload tasks at runtime based on user input which you can optionally and independently save in your own database.

Like imagine a user wanting to control when a backup happens. You can ask them to fill out a form on your site to say "ok run this every day at 4am" and that would spawn a new job that executes at that interval and the user can also delete that and the job would be removed. There might be 100 different users each with their own individual backup jobs that are running or not running.
Mh, I read the parent's post as: "You can count on science producing things that software engineers will complain about (and therefore use). But it's rare for science to use stuff produced by software engineers at all, and hence there's no complaint that way"
Avatar the last air bender should be on this list. Thank me later :-)
Last I played with it - on OSX; you could set the camera to M and adjust settings directly. I still left it wide open for that buttery buttery f/1.2 background during standup.
That's the point. Also, not all devices have dedicated graphics hardware
the southern border would like a word with you
The thing I don't get about Microsoft is that with just a LITTLE more effort -- slightly better UX, slightly better implementation, slightly better design, slightly better iterations, whatever -- they could easily be best-in-class. Like all their desktop and consumer web products get 70% there, I don't know why they never just go the remaining 30%. It's like they aim for mediocrity, get there, and then just sustain it for ten years because... why? Nobody's looking that hard?

Maybe it's cuz they're one of those companies that sell to management instead of users. Maybe the pitch isn't "your users will love us" but "we simplify IT fleet management for you, and your users... well, they don't have a choice, so don't worry about them."

Could they really not have bothered just going that extra mile to do both...? None of their products HAVE to be terrible... they just need love and focus :(
Along the same lines, Googles Chat and Spaces are really close to becoming “good enough” that you don’t need Slack. Their threading setup is awful and they desperately need to let admins set sane defaults for notification sounds, do not disturb hours, etc.

But aside from that it’s really close to being a good enough chat option that Slack doesn’t feel necessary.

Google Meet is already good. Gmail is excellent and the calendaring system is best in class.

They fix the chat UX issues and it’s going to be interesting.
Virtual Tables with Zig-SQLite
Iran shuts down the Internet amid protests
Sorbet Leopard, Modern macOS for PPC
Does it have another key in its place? The Windows key is one of my favorite things about Linux in a desktop/laptop machine: a key that isn't used by any applications, which I can dedicate entirely towards window management, without worrying that it will conflict with any application key bindings.
Sure, but if Meta/Facebook/Whatsapp would react to such an order from _Iran_ they'd be in very big trouble _very_ quickly. That's violating US sanctions level stuff.

Ignoring the Iranian government might make them loose some users. Trying to ignore the US government will make some people go to prison. If that's what happens.. someone made a _very_ bad decision
So parallels can be made to other places to show the danger. It's a slot canyon; only one that's generally constantly full versus empty most the year until the monsoon hits like those here in the US where I am. But the danger remains the same, the sandstone geology allows for it to create very deep and fast flowing situation due to Bernoulli's principle. Even more so for constrictions in the rock which form natural venturi.


I looked but was not able to find CFM/CMM for the input and output
; but that would give a reasonable idea of what the volume of the canyon must be because what goes in must come out. So the volume of the flow at the outlet and inlet gives a very good idea of just how crazy it can be.

Edit:
Input flows:
https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/data/station/meanflow/27096
Output flows:
https://nrfa.ceh.ac.uk/data/station/meanflow/27043

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_canyon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%27s_principle
My company uses both. That doesn’t improve things much but it does give me a good view of both.

- slack great for
- huddle collaboration
- chat threads
- searching chats
- focused chat layout

- teams great for
- sharing video of eachother
- taking control of screen share (no need to futz with asking someone to stop sharing when they already vocally told you to share, most sharers aren’t trying to steal the screen from you as devs)
- reactions / emojis when you want to react silently
Yes, unfortunately for as harsh as it sounds for anything at human-scale that inherently has some live-threatening risk, the ideal design is pretty much never 0-deaths. Anything I can think of: driving cars, sports, almost any job, etc. would need massive restrictions, to the point of those actions not making sense anymore, to reduce death risk to 0. So while sure, trying to reduce unnecessary risk, there's always a minimal amount of risk we are okay with.
If this happens, and it seems inevitable at the moment, I personally see this resulting in a potential decline of a Linux kernel in the next few years.

Just a few questions off top of my head:

* How much will it affect the development velocity? Existing devs (and maintainers) will at least need to learn how to read and debug Rust code. New devs will likely have no good competences in C which is 99% of the codebase so how good/quickly will they be able to blend in?

* How many existing kernel developers will community potentially loose because of the increased complexity?

* How much new talent will it actually be able to attract? Now people will need to learn two completely different languages and their vastly different ecosystems.

* Does Rust have high enough entry bar to produce competent kernel developers? Sometimes high entry bar acts as a very good filter to end up in a pool with a highly skilled (and motivated) engineers.

* Coordination of development efforts is now going to become much more complex. This includes writing new features (C or Rust or both?), maintaining the old ones (rewrite pieces in Rust or not?) but also code-reviews which will now pose a bigger challenge given that it will consist of mixed Rust+C code.

Having worked in codebases which mixed C and C++, I already understand what kind of issues mixing C and Rust is going to produce. And I expect them to be much more accentuated because distance(C, C++) << distance(C, Rust).
I talked to someone in a reticulated pedal boat the other day about how he rescued a kayak instructor from drowning because he could not reverse himself from being turned upside down in front of his own class who didn't realize he was serious about tapping the hull to indicate he needed help. He calls kayaks "death traps". I believe him.
It could be about music