skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to understate the importance of the PS/2, but...

To say OS/2 failed because it didn't run more than one DOS app at a time is not really accurate. Well before Windows 3 (or NT) was established, OS/2 had its own app ecosystem and it was very pleasing to use, if you had a fast computer. Early OS/2 was meh, but from Warp and on, it was a very nice desktop OS.

OS/2 died because Microsoft cut deals with all big OEMs where they got Windows almost for free, as long as they didn't offer OS/2. It didn't help that, in order to run Windows software, OS/2 needed an expensive Windows license (and an almost full Windows).

There were other personal computers with GUI's back then as well - the Mac is still with us (well, not really - all current Macs are more NeXT than Mac), but there were Atari's and Amigas (and some Ataris and Amigas could run Unix). By then, any 386 with sufficient resources could run X (Sun had the 386i, running Unix and DOS apps side by side).

In the end, OS/2 failed because Windows had to succeed, and Microsoft made sure it did.
ssh over 443 is likely to be rather common since most firewalls leave 443 alone
If going by the wages Qt pays its own developers, which is competitive in Germany, that "hobby" as you call it would be able to finance 2-3 fulltime devs. That's a small business.
> US and Europe's "all-in" hardline over Ukraine

If you look past their big talks of outrage in news media and critically asses the actual amount of military equipment given to Ukraine, you will see that it is nowhere close to any kind of "all-in", hardline or not. They are still refusing to provide even modern main battle tanks FFS.
> ... and could not get a straight answer I was told.

I guess he can't get a straight answer either. I would have loved to see a thoughtful reply.
Resizing a window with the keyboard shortcuts, especially on a high resolution monitor is time consuming.
In the absense of IP enforcement, blueprints cost the price of a sheet of paper and may actually be widely available.

Soviet TVs came with a huge blueprint of everything electronic what's inside so the customers (and repair booths) could repair it on the spot.
Whats nonsense, is this idea that Bitcoin will consume as much energy as it can get. That's complete bullshit. Bitcoin mining is not static.

The difficulty adjustment is specifically designed so that blocks are found in an eta of 10min . This means that there are diminishing returns. There is a limit to how much energy can be used before it's no longer economically feasible to mine.

Whats worst is you discuss energy locality. But you failed to consider energy capture in locations where is is not feasible to transport the energy or there is no way to use the energy. eg Bitcoin mining at remote natural gas sites using methane which normally just be burnt off to CO2 reaping no financial benefits. This alone could make Bitcoin carbon negative. Not to mention landfill methane etc etc.

The idea that using less energy to foster more efficient energy is ridiculous. The only way to drive greener energy is to foster competition and intensives to innovate greener technologies. Which is exactly what Bitcoin does.

There no way a free society can dictate what people use energy for, simply because some people disagree on whats useful to them but not others. It's completely anti competitive. And anti-competitive practices will always stifle innovation.

I'm not here to change your mind. I'm simply setting the record straight. Due to the distributed nature of Bitcoin your laws are pointless. Bitcoin mining will move to more innovative locations. But beware those place will gain all of the benefits that healthy competition provides and they will end up with far superior electrical grids then locations that stifle innovation.
The problem in the US is the gun culture. Guns are a political statement more than a tool, and any restriction attempt in the name of safety goes directly against that statement and will just reinforce and justify more of such "statements".

Checks and requirements will only go so far. People can sit through training and forget it the next day if they don't care, which they don't if they just got the gun to make a political statement.

Fixing the culture so that people who have no business owning guns stop buying guns is the long-term solution. Then, the only people who will buy them are those who legitimately need them and are interested in safe & responsible firearm ownership.
How about "This app is great! I'm giving it 1 star so people see my review!"
Nvidia Launches Cloud Service for NLP Models
Does Matrix.org still work inside Iran?

Since its a decentralized protocol, not one single domain like signal and WhatsApp, it should just still work.

It can be installed on an iranian server and then federate with all other world wide servers.
It's odd how online media sites are so prudish, while Netflix et al seemingly can't go 30 seconds without showing (usually good looking) naked people. Perhaps it's the fear of online "DIY nudity" being liable to go a bit far - there are a lot of potential bad taste cliffs to fall off.
You wouldn’t need the go macro for anything with vthreads. If you continued to use core.async, you’d switch to the blocking variants, and ignore go entirely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLiiRsqXQbw
Yes, I'm thinking of it!
I think quite a lot still do. If not exposing in albums, at least taking a shots. At least I do. It was what parents did when I've been toddler and I'm not going to bend under someone's pointing finger today. Just look at the Totoro movie - a great piece of animation for whole family - and you'll see father taking bath with their children and no one's complaining about it. It's perfectly fine. I'm taking bath with my child as well. Our child saw us naked on multiple occasions and, for us, it's normal. I wish it would be a common sense.
This is perhaps the weirdest thing about American moral values. Everything from ads to performances are oversexualised as hell but all hell comes down when someone actually pulls off their clothes. I've seen dresses that are closer to wearable nipple covers than an article of clothing on TV and some music videos contain more grinding than the average porn movie, but show a nip slip and you're in for a world of trouble.

There's an absurd focus on the female nipple specifically. Someone should create a service that censors female nipples by replacing them with male nipples so they can be posted on social media and other platforms without any issues.
They actually wrote the newest Wallet app without Flutter, so it's a step backwards there.
My point in adding to the Marcus thread was that a problem of "common sense" in AI was identified in the last century, before Marcus had made any pronouncements about it.
A step-by-step guide to our solar system’s demise
Ha, I literally described Google as having corporate ADHD just yesterday
This hasn't gone into effect yet. When it does, it could expand Meta's ability to track users. If Apple is tracking users for ads, then they must extend that ability to third parties like Meta.
I've had a lot of discussions with developers on this topic. It seems to be difficult for developers to delete code even if it is versioned in Git, so the code is not really lost.

I regularly encourage my teams to delete code that has no use in the near future. Because every line of code in the production environment leads to maintenance effort, so this would save their time.
It's going to be an interesting lesson for humankind to gradually come to realization that anything worth reading, worth watching or worth listening to cannot be born from algorithm. Any science that is based on averaging a gazillion things can only produce things that are average at best.
Google's partners are always pushing the "I'm feeling lucky" button.
Guilty as charged. Based on design validation testing, I ended up making the design choice to partially rely on a software offset, a strong fan blowing into the sensor not being a supported scenario.
But the placement / air flow / multiple openings definitely took us more design iterations than we had planned for.
Bear in mind this was the plan in 2004, when steam was still using that weird military green everywhere
I’m just saying, personally, I take court documents the FBI file with a grain of salt. Given their record I think this is appropriate.
Your description reminds me of Evergrande.
I think most importantly your opponents become less likely to knock your number out. The goal is your number to win, not your opponents to lose.
Agreed. Why is it taking my garden hose so long to fill my swimming pool when tsunamis can do it in a matter of milliseconds?

Differences in order of magnitude.

That said, websites and even web apps really should be faster.
IO Parquet with Java on Google Colab
In addition, the text is 'justified', but there's not a single hyphenation.

That's what Word does. And it looks a bit ugly. It's probably worse than just going with left-alignment.
German rocket scientists?
I'm not necessarily talking about violence where someone is determined to use a gun to kill someone. I'm talking about the general problem of there being way too many guns out there than they should be, owned by people who have no interest in safe & responsible firearm ownership, which leads to dangerous bullshit such as celebratory gunfire. This is a separate problem that will remain even if gun violence is resolved.
> Difference is, AWS was growing into a void. Google has to contend with established leaders.

Yes, but also the market is much bigger now, and the cloud isn't something abstract people need to be convinced about. It's the de facto standard now.

> GCP is basically number four globally in cloud - with Alibaba being number three

Alibaba is niche in that few people outside of Asia would use it. It's still an enormous market, but GCP/AWS/Azure and Alibaba don't compete for the same workloads in the majority of cases. So there's plenty of place under the sun for GCP, if Google want it. Them killing it would be b2b suicide.
Funny enough, if you read the guidelines for Metro apps (or Modern apps, or UWP apps, or whatever the hell they are called now), Microsoft specifically says that you should offload all expensive operations to an async thread and keep the UI thread free so the interface can be quick and responsive. When I was making my first apps in university, they would routinely reject them from their app store saying the UI is not responsive enough. You'd think they actually care about efficiency and responsiveness.

But then they hardcode a whole Documents directory scan right in the UI thread in their own damn voice recorder app. Unbelievable.
Meh just a bunch of clones
I map language switch to menu key on linux (also temporary switch to rwin key, and use scroll lock indicator (not key) as a language indicator). It’s much more comfortable than regular ctrl-shift or alt-shift, and these keys are in a good place.
> Then we can stop arguing about which uses of energy are legitimate and which aren't.

Throwing tons of co2 into the atmosphere for a personal profit alone is questionable and I will always fight it. Especially because unlike the creation of goods, for which co2 might be a byproduct, you are generating no value by mining btc.
The vast majority of the unfunded borrowing is paying for the energy bill subsidies, at least up until the next general election (and who knows what will happen after that). The IMF have also specifically warned against those blanket subsidies, not that you'd know this from the BBC's coverage of their statement for some reason, and there are really fundamental economic reasons why they're likely to tank the pound and force the BoE to put interest rates up to do with balance of payments and the global supply of fossil fuels. This is probably less obvious from the media coverage because most of the reporting on the size of those tax cuts seems to quote a hypothetical figure for how much they'd be worth in 2025-6.
> Back in the 80's, I remember that people were protesting without internet and mobile phones, with very successful results.

Back then, the governments didn't have that either. Pigs on the streets with barely working (or understandable) radios, outdated huge paper maps, and if they were lucky a barely working chopper for a bit of aerial surveillance. The only tools were water cannons, batons, tear gas that didn't work against drunk people, shields and live ammo.

These days, the abilities of governments in counter-protesting are absurd:

- each pig has not just a radio with high quality audio transmission, but also a digital data channel for streaming video and other intel in both directions

- tons of surveillance cameras with high definition imaging sensors

- cheap-ass drones

- there are multiple vendors offering "data fusion" for command centers. Think of platforms that fuse everything into one cohesive environment: a Google Maps map and satellite view, with individual position markers for each unit, live feeds from thousands of surveillance cameras, live feeds from officer body cameras, live feeds from drones and choppers, AI analyzing all of that to predict movements of the masses, incoming firehose feeds from Twitter and Facebook...

- highly effective tear gases, mobile walls on tanks to lock down streets [first photo of 1], tasers, rubber bullets, LRAD acoustic weapons and other non-deadly tools for crowd control

It's hard to mount successful protest against nations that have half the stuff I just described, and as HK shows all but impossible against a nation that does have this kind of abilities.

[1] https://www.hrw.org/news/2018/12/14/france-police-crowd-cont...
Yeah, the first "binary traversal" I was willing to excuse as a typo.

By the second: Holy shit go read a book. Please.
Apropos of which I enjoyed this paragraph from Matt Levine's column yesterday:

(Edit: I missed that it was already mentioned elsewhere in the comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33029162 )

"I know this is bad but I find something aesthetically beautiful about it. If you have a pot of money that is immune to bank runs, over time, modern finance will find a way to make it vulnerable to bank runs. That is an emergent property of modern finance. No one sits down and says “let’s make pension funds vulnerable to bank runs!” Finance, as an abstract entity, just sort of does that on its own."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-29/uk-pen...
https://twitter.com/bp_plc/status/1186645440621531136

Maybe not directly, but neither is Bill Gates.
Puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence
Does steganography break when Social media sites reprocess images? I.e. do you need to access the underlying raw bytes?
Yes, the Ukrainian military had to blow up the dam in the northern suburbs of Kyiv, the city of Vyshgorod [source: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/06/1121201310/ukraine-flooded-vi...] That way, they safeguarded the area from Russian mechanical advancement. But some Russian hot heads still managed to get into the city and rode their tanks in the northern borough of Kyiv — Obolon.
Do you need Netty in a virtual thread world? Imo Netty made non blocking IO in Java tractable.. but virtual threads does it better and more broadly, so what role does netty play now? What other than thread efficiency does it bring that can’t be achieved more easily now?
I wonder how many miners will go up and mighty with the argument that they are providing free money transactions to third world/controlled countries.
So you think if he advertised it better, more people would download Truth Social from the Play Store?
Time for Soros 2.0!
Wow thanks.
So for the Agilex D the answer is maybe, since the currently limiting factor seems to be number of logic elements and it would need at least a 3x upgrade in that regard [1] for n64. Well, one can hope that these become cheap enough for that.

[1] https://misterfpga.org/viewtopic.php?t=4535
Not everyone can afford to buy hardware. I'm stuck on a 2012 desktop with Intel graphics I found on the side of the road, plus some spare RAM an open source dev mailed to me. I expect there are a lot of folks with dumpstered computers (like those who go to FreeGeek) that could benefit from nouveau support for older GPUs.
> If you have large high resolution screens, you won't miss the space, but you can't blame people for optimizing their own applications for the screens most people use.

Have you seen the new Microsoft calculator ? (i.e. calc.exe).
It seems to be designed to be operated by spear throwers from 100 foots away.
This but much broader. One of the things that really bothers me is the suppression of non-US use of language (or, from the opposite perspective, the incentivisation of US-like language & conformance to US cultural norms).

Take Youtube "content-creators" as an example making a living from ad revenue: Aussie / Scottish other native-English-speaking contributors face "de-monetisation" for presenting their natural selves and instead are asked to present according to US cultural norms in order to use the platform. And this isn't unique to Google/Youtube - the same applies to content-moderation across the internet.
Plus translation of the root bone.
Most real tracks don't have tension buildup or progression. That you judge music based on it mostly just speaks of your preferences. As far as I heard the tracks were coherent and not just 4s snippets glued together. Having said that, I don't think they were exceptional or anything.
> Microsoft went from “Windows Everywhere” and selling boxed software to cloud, cross platform development, Office365 subscriptions and Office working everywhere, embracing open source to the point where even SQL Server runs on Linux, Azure and gaming,

With the side effect that anyone that cares about their career is in a position on the org chart somehow related to Azure, and the current teams taking care of Windows UI frameworks seem filled with interns and contractors, without any background on Windows tooling history, and our expectations of what they should deliver.
I read this a few months ago and it was such an interesting read. Can recommend!
I agree, I didn't even watch the video.

What I meant, is that the result is still great (a GPU driver for M1) regardless of how bad the video is and how weird the entire thing is in general.
People don't do it probably because of copy rights. Don't know what constitutes enough change to the original character to be considered original work.
> What's the minimal velocity for that to be plausible?

The escape velocity, which is 2.4 km/s on the surface of the moon, so you would need a pretty powerful gun :p
"It won't happen to me."
it's very clearly an operating system logo though, it's like if you had the Pepsi logo on your water dispenser on your fridge. Would look weird and out of place.

EDIT: I'm being downvoted and I'm note sure why, perhaps a lot of the newer folks aren't aware of what it used to look like; it was very clearly "Windows the operating system": https://i.redd.it/fnligi5oa0h51.jpg
As I said, programmers can already find relatively cushy CRUD jobs. So any 'exploitation' is in some sense voluntary.

Would you say that Bundesliga footballers are exploited? They physically work much harder than programmers in the game industry.

> Game development companies are making millions in profits, what stops them from hiring 2x the workforce so that each can work 8 hours a day 5 days a week instead of 12 hours x 6? The demand in the field is obvious.

You can have a look at video game industry stock indexes. See eg https://etfdb.com/etfs/industry/gaming/ or https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/010616/top-4...

If there's evil exploitation and excess profit, they don't seem show up in returns to shareholders.

At least no better returns than any other industry. Including those with the cushy CRUD dev jobs.
Oh you mean the Manhattan project?
You just described the Biden regime with elections coming up.
Besides ambient music, what music doesn't have any sort of buildup of tension and subsequent release? Do you have any particular example tracks that doesn't have any tension/release at all?

I feel like most of the music people commonly listen to have that, it's an essential part of what makes music feel "human".
Yeah but that’s twitter so it doesn’t matter, you just open it as needed. Evernote works offline and is an actual tool, so there is no reason it’s so slow
What is the killer usecase for this? It looks like a bunch of children and VCs are overhyping this app and starting the VC hype train again.

Just like they hyped up the now dead Clubhouse and since they missed BeReal, they are doing it again with another app that collects your data.

This app will definitely not last 20 years let alone 15 years, you already have a platform that you can do all of that, Twitter.
I would take even a somewhat kinder view of the pension funds involved. With no knowledge of the intimate aspects of the agreements UK pension funds make with employers, those involved knew that you could either pay for the risk margins involved up front, or via emergency capital.

Margin calls are nothing special. Derivatives are used for balancing assets and liabilities, since you cannot match the cash flows on pensions directly given the very long duration (cash flows for pension funds run for nearly a century). Swaptions etc are nothing evil. They are pretty clear cut tools for the job of limiting interest rate exposure for parties with very long liabilities.

This is not a pension fund problem (I agree up front: that's a reductio nearly ad absurdum), it's an employer and pensioner problem, created by a sudden loss in confidence in UK gov in an already very turbulent market. If sterling falls, purchasing power falls, interest rises, there is no way pensions can keep purchasing power or indexation. Margin calls are a tiny symbol that shouldn't worry a risk manager. It's the larger enviroment for the UK - that is very worrying.

It's all hocus pocus but a well run insurer or pension fund should have a pretty solid grasps on interest rates and a pretty low exposure to swings in that rate. Same for FX exposure. End of '21 you should have opened up some upward potential in interest rates and have some room to survive that volatility. The best managed ones keep afloat or even profit, without taking too many excess risks. The worst managed ones are the first to fall. Go and look at the Q3 financial results for the largest _worldwide_ insurers. I predict the largest insurers will show stronger financial capital positions. (Stocks will fall since large insurers are partially valued on general stock market performance since they are in essence also investment companies.)

Again, margin calls are a symptom caused by the underlying agreements, with not a direct relationship to which ones will fail or prosper.
Besides the topic, this is an excellent example what corporate communication should be. We often blame companies for corporate-speak filled with platitudes and BS. This post gives a prime example how to do it right by externalising constraints honestly
The present is the only thing we ever have. And I agree, which ever way you look at it, it’s a battle for supremacy