skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I now found a wiki describing these mechanics, and it turns out that UO had an entire system of markings for players who committed illegal activities. This clears things up a bit.

Idk where the ‘killing the player’ part came from—though local game journalism at that time was quite, uh, idiosyncratic. But, as the workings of these guards were somewhat hazy in my mind, they gained an ominous air.
You really don't have to be at the median mortgage when working (or even on a mortgage), or to live in the Bay Area once you've accumulated enough money, or to need 170k per year outside of the crazy places. If you do have a house, you can always sell and bounce.
Yeah, that works great. Like in east Germany, where the production of cars was limited by centralized production of parts that lead to waiting times of 10years+, if you wanted to purchase a car.

Many people were on those waiting lists and experienced the collapse of the USSR before they even got the chance.
In the UK the vast majority of medications come in blister packs corresponding to a typical dose. So pharmacists are not counting individual pills, only trays. This seems like an obvious thing that the US could adopt.
Instead of buying a bed frame, they invested that money in the stock market...
PostgreSQL 15 promises to ease Oracle and SQL Server migrations
It's not the internet that's the problem, it's how people use the internet that's the problem. I know plenty of well-adjusted people who use just enough of the internet to get their through their daily lives. If everyone online is trying to make a buck, no one us forcing you to participate in their commerce. Just scroll past whatever insane things the salesmen are saying.
NESOS gives 8-bit system a GUI desktop
In Lisp this is solved with some combination of better names and symbol packages.

E.g. you might have some doc-model:edit symbol and file-utils:edit or whatever. The symbols have the same name, but are different objects in different packages.

The generic function doc-model:edit is therefore unrelated to file:edit.

Packaging at the symbol level means that the package system is relevant to anything whatsoever that is named by a symbol. If you have some logic programming system where you declare some named rules or facts, they can easily go into a package. Symbols which are quoted individually or in a larger literal are in the package system all the same; it's an independent layer.
Who says you need to match 130k? If you no longer have to work, you no longer need to live in the Bay Area. 70k would be luxurious in a less expensive place, if you take into account that you no longer have to work. Heck even 35k would be paradise. Many earn that while still working.
Kodak invented the CCD and it (eventually) nearly killed them. Inventing something and knowing how to exploit it are two different skills.

Plus Clayton Christensen’s innovator’s dilemma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
If this comment isn't satire, I weep for the world. Any kind of adhesive tape is statistically going to be much cheaper than a damn tripod, let alone whatever alternative structure might be under consideration to affix the device to the window. Gaffer tape does indeed have a purpose: whatever the hell the user is trying to accomplish. It's not an orbital launch platform.
> all the cool things we could build

What do you feel one cannot build today but could in the past?
I did an MS in EE but say it’s in robotics since that’s all I focused on in my coursework and thesis. I think being more specific is fine if you’re describing the content not the literal degree title.
No, a ledger and a database are different. The ledger is a transaction log. The database holds the current state.

Basic bookkeeping concept: every once in a while (usually daily) you take a snapshot of the current state and mark that point in the ledger. Then you take the previous snapshot, re-run the day's transactions, and you should get the current snapshot. If you don't, something has gone wrong. This is called "reconciliation".
You don’t need the proof part if all the server nodes are trusted. Just the hashes is enough. I think that’s the part the author was pointing out in the article and we’re reading a bit too far into it.
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It really depends. Methanol is liquid at STP conditions, whereas methane isn't, and either needs to be stored under pressure or cryogenically. Methane also boils off, leaks, and is a potent greenhouse gas. Methanol breaks down naturally in the environment, etc.

Most appeals to the second law of thermodynamics are meaningless without additional context. We routinely make energy and chemical conversions that lose recoverable energy, but we do so because either we need the feedstock for something, or because things like fungibility and storage matter.

I mean let's be candid, the folks working on this have likely forgotten more about thermodynamics than most folks here have ever learnt. Methane to methanol has been a holy grail of chemical engineering for a while, and I'd imagine there's a lot more to it than first year physics.
There is a lot of over land infrastructure in all countries that is very vulnerable. There has been an attempt to start to bury some of it underground which helps protect it but a lot is still exposed. Oil, gasoline, diesel, propane, methane, butane, hydrogen, ammonia, alcohol, heating oil, jet fuel, water, steam, sewage, beer, slurry, benzene, irrigation, milk, petroleum derived chemical feedstock, and brine pipelines; electric power cables; roads; chemical factories, internet and telecommunication lines; security system lines; and more. It is not all that difficult to get someone inside a country where they can wreak havoc on exposed infrastructure. Russia is just as vulnerable to this as anyone else. Weather regularly disrupts many of them. Drones are used to monitor some of them. It may be easier to be covert when blowing up an under-ocean line, but the ones on land would not be too difficult to get at. Might be cheaper than using a submarine. Some can be attacked via the internet.
I guess because what I wrote seemingly doesn’t agree with your viewpoint I am all of those things.

Not sure what the cell phone bit is about.
From their site:

> We've slightly changed campus locations a few times as necessary over the years, to prevent being shut down by the university.

Gaffer tape doesn't leave residue (or very little that's easy to remove), so I can imagine "not damaging the building" (making marks on the glass) being a condition of it staying up.
Maybe the location bar should accept the space but strip it? That would work for input if not reading the URL. Maybe only allowing single consecutive spaces to avoid the address spoofing example. I could go for that.

I would love & natively though. For my wedding (bride&groom.com for example) I looked into faking it with punycode but nothing was close enough, and anything other than an ampersand would have been too hard to input.
>You'd normally not be allowed to retry a class you scored badly in? Or what's the purpose of retroactively withdrawing?

You can take the class again for a better grade, but the bad grade stays on your record and factors into your GPA. Retroactively withdrawing eliminates the bad grade.
> I think the only thing I would want is early warning for a disk failure.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man8/zed.8.html
I really want to believe that the lawyers legally changed their last names in order to sound funnier.
Can you describe some use cases? The only one that comes to mind is powering dashboards.

That said, do you support persistent tables or time travel? (E.g., accessing the contents of the view as it was at time t). If not, how should a situation where multiple independent clients read the view be handled? If two people load the same dashboard but see differences based on when the table was read, that might cause confusion.
> I wonder if this might work on my old Dell Precision M4400

Why not? It's just PCIe bus. The only things is what you wouldn't be able to boot from it and what Core 2 is too slow to seriously push any decent NVMe drive. But as a storage it would be just fine.

> I've been tricking out for no reason

It has a sane keyboard layout (with all the keys FFS!), clitoris with TouchPad, 4 USB ports and can be used as a self defense weapon if the need arises.

> I've struggled to come up with good uses

USB3 card is a nice thing to have but you will have a hard time finding one on in PCMCIA variant.
Check out the recent additions to Topton's lineup on their Aliexpress store. They have a couple with multiple SATAs. There are some video reviews of their other units on ServeTheHome's YT channel.
When it poses a similar threat as other endemic diseases, like influenza for example.

Besides, we know the long term effects of influenza, we don’t for covid.
Ironic nickname then :)
Who, working with these things regularly, does not have docker installed?

There is already an official image available so you don’t need to write dockerfile yourself. Having an instance up and running is literally just a docker run command away.
I don't understand this attitude. Who is the judge of what ideas are great and what ideas are idiotic?
I don't think I've ever seen a NVMe drive with a warning temperature threshold below 70°C. Given the bandwidth limitations of ExpressCard, it would be difficult to get most consumer NVMe drives to reach even 3W power consumption. But even if you did get a drive hot enough to start throttling, it probably wouldn't slow down noticeably unless you were able to get it all the way up to the critical temperature (usually around 85°C) — a NVMe drive that's throttling mildly is still generally faster than PCIe 2.0 x1.
Obsolete technology. :-|
It would be easier for devs to modify MacOS to rip out the hypothetical ads and complain loudly until Apple fixes it than to switch OSes completely.
As GP said, all these features are nice, but if you don't need them, they're just overhead.

I'm in the same boat, all I have on my NAS is Samba, zrepl (ZFS snapshots and backups) and node exporter (monitoring agent for Prometheus - handles SMART, etc). It's running Arch, and I've never had my setup "break" in more than 10 years of using this distro (though this particular NAS is not that old).

I don't care for a DB, web server and god forbid random applications doing who knows what on my NAS. But if you want your NAS to do everything, it should be great. To each their own, I guess.

Also, TrueNAS is FreeBSD which may or may not work on dinkier hardware. I'm specifically thinking of random watchdog problems on some older Realtek Gigabit NICs, where you had to use a specific patched driver which, at one point, didn't support the latest version.
painter's "masking tape"

fun fact: at the current time afaik you can get the whole rainbow of colors of masking tape in NYC, but LA seems to only have blue and neutral/tan
Yah, when I visited North Korea I asked them why didn't they just decide not to live there, grow more food or get a better job? I say maybe they should travel a bit in order to broaden their perspective on life. Try meditation or use a pomodoro timer to get focused! Get your head straight and prioritize that flexible lifestyle and the options are endless!
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May the best of the memories live with you always. I’m so sorry.
I'm surprised nobody's made some kind of folding mouse that would attach magnetically to a laptop.
Thanks for taking precious time to read my post. Have a great day.
just for the record, in the photo the camera is supported by a tripod. perhaps the tape keeps it steadier.
Thanks FollowingTheDao. I totally agree with you.
I used to think that thinking differently, innovating, or really considering an argument outside your comfort zone, consumed a lot of "mental energy".

I've since learned that it's theorized to actually consume more physical energy to think hard.

So make sure you time your deep thinking time for a time of day when your energy level is up to it.
One of the surprising fact from Cloudflare stats, was that most image on the web are actually 0.7bpp+ with the median being 1.0bpp. So image with 0.24bpp is surpassing small. And that is where progressive decoding works best, showing 0.3bpp image at launch while continue to download other details. There are problematic scenarios with JPEG XL, but I think a lot more could be optimised with encoder once they have 1.0.
So, an append-only database.
My parents post-retirement after not working for 10+ years both found roles at an Amazon Fulfillment Center - one at the ship dock and the other in returns. They are both in their 70s and built a nice nest for themselves, neither need it for the money. In fact, my dad was a machine learning professor, multiple publications, and they ran a small medium sized business for 20+ years (at their peak they were running 80M USD annual revenue). They both do it for the mental health and for the physical exercise. They meet a lot of people just like them, some of the workers are living in 3M+ USD homes - although most are not, it’s mostly kids that went to state schools and climb the FC ladder.
A lot of CS departments only teach big computing systems, not tiny ones. No microcontrollers, embedded systems, internet of things end point devices, etc. You can often take an engineering course in those things, but it seems like few people are developing a science of tiny computation. Maybe that's part of why microcontrollers have been stagnant for so long.
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The Manufacturing Design team enables the mass production of Apple's entire product line from iPhones, iPads and MacBooks to the Mac Pro, AppleTV and Apple Watch. Part of the magic that makes all of this possible is a robust set of applications and systems designed and developed by Apple that support the production of a product from prototype to announcement and beyond.
Without software, hardware is not doing a whole lot.
You have no idea what you're talking about, and yet you go on, and on, and on, speaking complete nonsense.

Knock it off.
> * Having to assume a role in another account can complicate code, especially if you may or may not have to assume a role depending on the circumstances.

One workaround I usually implement for this is to always have to assume a role. Meaning that, basically, your base permissions only allow you to assume roles. To actually do the job, you need a separate one, in whichever account.

This way, it's also easier to standardize roles across accounts. A action requires R role.
> “The team’s findings may also offer clues on how to preserve a blade’s sharpness.”

This team is playing with fire and should tread carefully. If they should happen to stumble across the secret to a “perma-sharp” razor blade that never needs replacing, I have no doubt that “big razor” will dispatch them with a vengeance.

The team lead will be strolling through the park on a lazy Sunday afternoon, when a stunningly beautiful female jogger “accidentally” steps on his foot. He’ll think nothing of it, but what he won’t realize is that he was just on the receiving end of a Polonium 238 injection delivered at the order of the Gillette family.
Cue the Knowledge Navigator video from Apple (1987): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umJsITGzXd0

Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Navigator
No, and they should be criticized for that. However, this is the transparency that makes up for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODSJsviD_SU
They just port WebKit usually.
I feel you :(
That's how Second Life works. Landowners can eject or ban people from their land. This is entirely at the discretion of the landowner. People are always complaining about having been banned from clubs, but there are hundreds of clubs, run by hundreds of people.

This is far, far better than having "moderators". In practice, social media moderators come from the same pool of people that staff low-end call centers. Arming them with ban hammers while giving them anonymity and lack of accountability creates major headaches of its own.

Second Life does have a few paid moderators. A user has to file an abuse report to make anything happen, and in a few days, someone will process the trouble ticket. Policy is not to attempt to intervene in resident to resident disputes at all.

What makes this work is that it's a big, sparsely populated world. A user's radius of annoyance is about 100 meters, and the whole world is about the size of Los Angeles.
So, jerks are local, even with over 50,000 people logged in.

The metaverse crowd, if and when they actually create big virtual worlds with large numbers of users, needs to understand this.
The first conference after the summer recess is known as The Long Conference. All the petitions that stack up over the summer recess (3 months) are dealt with at the first conference of the term. Terms start in the September/October and end in June of the following year. This year there were >1000 petitions for The Long Conference [0].

[0] https://certpool.com/conferences/2022-09-28

Petitions to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) only get read by 3 clerks. 7 of the 9 justices have their clerks go into the "Cert Pool" [1], while Justices Gorsuch and ... Alito have their clerks read all the petitions. The 3 clerks write summaries of each of the petitions for their justices to read.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cert_pool

The problem with the cert pool is which of the 7 clerks happens to get your petition. While Justice Thomas' clerk might've loved my petition, Justice Kagan's clerk might have dismissed me without even bothering to read past the 2nd page.
That sounds to me like any framework nowadays.

The difference, of course, the framework has extensive documentation.

So that was the missing ingredient.

He made a framework, but wrote no documentation. Writing documentation would have made everyone an n*x developer, for some value of n > 1.
Really neat story and makes sense that Philip isn’t the only one who thought to do this.
I similarly thought codebase as a database, but the author makes a serious attempt. I'm pretty sure that Lisps fit the model.
How does this compare/relate to things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_in_Database ?
Sorry, mate, usage defines language, and there are many more of us than there are of you.
the oldest continuously operating webcam might have ceased operating, and the current longest continuously operating webcam may not have been operating anywhere near as long as the previous one had been continuously.

something similar happens when the oldest living human dies... if they were exceptionally long lived, there's a good chance the next in line is not, so it can be a big jump down in age
Cowards volunteer other people to be more brave and sacrifice more than they already have. It's also uncivilized.

There is one escalating party, and Russia can end this war faster than anyone. By withdrawing. In the meantime, Ukraine has the right to self-defense.
Many such developers come from boot camps or self-taught backgrounds. It's an individual's choice to go to college for software development, but it's hardly the only path people take.

Unfortunately, supply of crappy CRUD devs is oversaturated, so degrees help weed out lower tier devs. On the other side of things, I don't have any issue getting high-pay, high-skill gigs and my education history never comes up (if it does, that's a red flag).
FWIW Gonzalez v Google might not have as much of an impact as what the comments here indicate.

> The case — Gonzalez v. Google — seeks to hold Google legally liable for a deadly 2015 Paris terrorist attack, alleging the tech giant recommended ISIS videos to users and boosted the terrorist group's recruitment.

If the focus is on the recommendation of content and not on the hosting of content (I know they're both related, but bear with me), then the effect of the ruling might have a narrower scope. If a company like Google is recommending terrorist content in such a way that affects many people, that's a problem with the recommendation engine. If the problem is broader and about hosting the content (as opposed to just recommending), the effect might be more extreme

Notwithstanding this ruling could have a catastrophic effect and turn social media sites into lawsuit piñatas, it could be the single most significant fuck up of this court to date
Even there, battery electric trucks are already selling in just about every weight class of trucks you can name. Hydrogen is a very long shot there and the (very) few hydrogen trucks on the road have neither range nor cost advantages over battery electric. And of course they can't go out of range from the very limited hydrogen distribution points.
Has anyone here used Control Tower? [0] If so, I'm curious to hear your experience and whether it's worth it.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/controltower/
This is why my goal is barista FIRE. Work at an REI store 20 hours/week, the rest go outside. Like Janel said, we need structure in our lives.
That setting only works on logged in hacker news accounts. Won’t work on third party sites unless they have access to your auth cookies.
I'm annoyed that we gave up on standardized modules like that. Especially now with modern technology, we could have far more modular systems that could last a whole lot longer than they used to.
"At first, nothing had gone awry, but at midnight the next day, everything mysteriously started falling over."

Everyone has a test environment and some people have a prod environment too.
Surprised to learn there's a "Institute for Condom Consultancy"
I believe both are inevitable if you want to maintain an unlinked identity.

Realistically, there is nothing you can do to avoid that future. The best thing you can do is choose to accept the risk or act to prevent the issue.
My parents had to close their jewelry store that they ran for 35 years during the pandemic. My mom has been working the night shift at an Amazon fulfillment center and she loves it.
What's the line between "were making someone do something" and "We have an army of psychologists hard at work to convince someone they need to do something"? Is that line different when it's directed to a 14 year old? Or a senior citizen? Or someone you know is likely a addict of what you're selling?
I don't think that was the fundamental issue. It was one of mindset. Xerox tried to sell to their existing customers, with the same sales structure and pricing they were used to. They simply weren't structurally set up to deal with mass-market consumers. The Macintosh team targeted a completely different set customers, with a less ambitious and much cheaper product.

The IBM story is a bit of an outlier, but Microsoft saw the same potential Apple did.