skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently fired up my old Sun 3/80 to see if it would still boot. It wouldn't. The battery backed config RAM was dead. Of course I couldn't quit, could I? I was able to find a modern replacement for the chip, order it from Mouser, get it programmed correctly (after a few tries) and hey look, it started to boot.

Then, unsurprisingly, the old Quantum SCSI disk was only happy enough to make grinding noises and no more. I found a guy making SATA to SCSI adapters meant for these old Suns and paired that to an SSD I had lying around. Hey, look, that now works too.

Finally, by setting up tftp, bootp, and NFS on a FreeBSD VM I was able to net boot the machine and install SunOS 4. My goodness, I had forgotten how slow the thing is, and how much has changed since the 1990s. I was able to get a bunch of more modern stuff to compile, but it was a fight every time.

Next I was going to drag out the old SGI Indigo, but haven't found the energy yet.
The Netherlands may be the first country to hit the limits of growth
Google alerted Californians to an earthquake before it happened
Most beautiful programming language feature (Chris Lattner, 2020)
That’s literally what market value means.
Your job isn't your identity.

Your job is there to subsidize what you want to do with your life.
Elaborate why?
I mean, what you’re saying is probably technically true for very specific problems that are contrived specifically to show shortcomings in refcounting, but in practice I’ve never seen it matter.

Weak and unowned pointers are pretty simple to deal with, and I’ve never seen a situation where it’s really confusing whether a pointer should be strong or weak in swift. Everything mostly just works, and if you need to point back to the object that owns you, it’s usually pretty clear by the abstraction you’re building that you need a weak/unowned reference to do it.
Isn't rolling into a turn what every plane does? I was told the rudder is more for support to reach proper turn coordination.

Some airliners don't even use rudder during cruise to avoid upsetting passengers in the rear.
Look at the specific examples I provided. European countries closely coordinate their regulation of radio spectrum, air traffic control, nuclear power, and pollution through the EC even if individual countries have separate national regulators on paper.
> The release of Pandora's Box (1992) marked the introduction of Curtis's distinctive presentation that uses collage to explore aspects of sociology, psychology, philosophy and political history. His style has been described as involving, "whiplash digressions, menacing atmospherics and arpeggiated scores, and the near-psychedelic compilation of archival footage", narrated by Curtis himself with "patrician economy and assertion".

Is this guy in fact the inventor of the annoying modern style of political documentary, where I have to listen to anxiety-inducing drones and the worst kind of movie-trailer voice, nonstop for an hour at least? The one used by shittiest propaganda tv channels? And for some inexplicable reason also borrowed by Youtube personalities that supposedly appeal to thinking, educated people in opposition to that propaganda tv.
Back in the day it was much simpler - what ever symptoms you tried googling you'd inevitably end up with a self-diagnose of cancer every time.
That's the difference between pain and discomfort. Learning that difference physically and emotionally had been one of my biggest awakenings as a person.
There are fossilized skin imprints of T-Rex that prove they were covered in scales [0].

More generally, paleontologists know a fair amount of what ancient creatures looked like [1].

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/t-rex-skin-was-not...

[1] https://i.redd.it/02rv3y272cx61.jpg
Fiction:

Changing Places and Small World by David Lodge. Quite old, quite funny, lots of boys (professors) behaving badly stuff.

History:

War of the Running Dogs by Noel Barber. A history of the communist insurgency in Malaya in the 1950s. At one time the British efforts were thought to provide a model for the US to follow in Vietnam; but the circumstances were so different that it is hard to imagine how anyone thought so.

Philosophy:

On Human Freedom and The Unconditional in Human Knowledge: Four Early Essays by Schelling. Schelling was one of the German Idealist that I had never tried to read (well, there was one volume that I couldn't make headway in ten years ago).

The Science of Knowledge by Fichte, which had always defeated me in intermittent attempts to read it over forty-five years.

A Concept of Justice by John Rawls. Everyone talked about it, I hadn't read it. I do need to read it again.

Natural Goodness by Philippa Foot. An argument for a more or less Aristotelian understanding of ethics.

On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry. I find her writing on beauty more convincing than her attempt to tie it back to a development of a sense of justice.
Exactly this. It takes some work to set up, but the reward is plenty. At least the bare minimum tools are available to enable this. In addition, what other platform even lets you block the advertisers, giving you at least some deciding power over the adds you get.
It implies that people that don’t sit at a desk don’t have knowledge or use knowledge or advance knowledge and nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, my life experiences say it is the opposite.
Sqlite is amazing! At yazz.com we have built a tool to build UI apps which use Sqlite as a back end, and then the apps compile to a HTML page which includes the Sqlite engine and the data, which works offline too. +100 for sqlite which makes this possible!
That you can be honest in your responses while still remembering that you don't have to be honest right now. That you can be honest
Vacations are already hard to justify IMO. All the garbage and fuel so you can go somewhere for a few days and inconvenience folks that live there?
My two favorites that stand out this year:

Earth Abides by George Stewart
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union between Intelligence and Organized Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein book 1 and 2 are pribably the best books of the year and Whitney Webb deserves a Pulitzer for the sheer volume of research she has done on the networks predating Epstein and those like him and their evolution into what they are today.

If you want to know about how the world truly works, pick up these two books, but be prepared to be shocked at what you learn about how deep the rabbit hole goes.
Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted, this is literally a theory discussed in TFA:

> "This kind of quirky idea was that their arms were small enough that they didn't get in the way of all these guys fighting over food with giant mouths, so they weren't basically biting their own arms," says Krumenacker.
If “in these years” means possibly needing to sell within 0 to 5 years, then safer would be USD, short term treasures, I bonds, muni bonds, AAA corporate bonds (or correspondence bond ETFs), etc.
True, but outside the kernel Windows has enough infrastructure running in .NET code.

Additionally even if C++ is unsafe, it is still better than plain old C, which since Vista has been the migration path from kernel code. Nowadays there are even template libraries that can be used on kernel and drivers like WIL.

Finally the Microsoft Security Guidelines are:

1 - use managed languages if one can afford it

2 - use Rust

3 - use C++, alongside SAL and Core Guidelines checkers
When my daughter was young, my wife and I were concerned, and we took her to a place that specializes in identifying and working with autistic children. In about thirty minutes of observation, they said she's obviously autistic, and recommended that we begin bringing her for ~20 hours of intervention a week. We decided against it, because we thought it was excessive, and decided we didn't really want autism to be her entire life. Several years later, she's doing very well: good skills for life, good progress in her schoolwork, and good ability to deal with social situations. Yes, she's a little socially awkward, but she puts herself out there anyway, and makes no excuses. (She's aware of the evaluation and after reading a couple books about autism, thinks, yeah, that's probably what's up.)

I know that's an anecdote, but can anyone imagine that she would have gained more from 20 hours per week of being told she has special problems with a special name, and needs professional help to overcome her many, many obstacles? I certainly can't.
how about i unfoundedly call you a nonce and we can let the people around you debate whether it's true for the rest of your life?
Sounds like bullshit, to be honest.
Based on your description here, you should have a look at https://tinyseed.com/

Revenue + product + need to support the non-dev stuff is right in the sweet spot of what Rob & co support.
No software can be quaranteed to be bug-free.

And Heartbleed bug was in the extension, not in the core software.

> (citation needed, btw)

Not really. But if you insist, OpenSSL is defacto crypto library [1] , at least on server side.
Browsers and OpenSSL takes the most burden for securing every-day use of internet in the world. There are billions testers every day.

[1] : https://crocs.fi.muni.cz/public/papers/acsac2017)
Stolen cars in Western Europe wind up in Eastern Europe most of the time. But what happens in the U.S.? It's one system, isn't it? When they can't be registered anywhere else, do they all get stripped for parts? How huge is the market?
"One day in the microkitchen I met Vint Cerf and told him what I worked on. He very curtly told me that he hates generic top-level domains, they confuse consumers, and ICANN should have been focusing on making .com / .org / .net better instead."

You're lucky you didn't meet Stanislaw Ulam, who, when anyone told him about a project they were working on always responded with "What is that compared to E=mc^2 ?"
It's also partially to avoid boosting the screenshotted content, if you want to for example call something out as being bad or false. I do agree it makes it harder to spot fakes
One of the tricks that the income tax department uses is to "outsource" their work to regular tax payers. Companies are forced to check and see if their vendors are paying their taxes on time!
https://cleartax.in/s/gst-vendor-compliance-report

This is an absolutely ridiculous demand to make. This is because of the very complicated way the GST structure works in India.

The systems in India are designed to complicate life for the ordinary person
Alphabet does this in an investor friendly way. Separate out the “bets”, keep them relatively small, but allow them to run for years.
Does it now have all features that DXVK need to function?

There are no details on their repository:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/MoltenVK/issues/203
> Every single binary that is statically linked needs to be recompiled.

Exactly my point
The C folks used to call Algol linage of programming languages programming with straightjacket, while we called them cowboy programming.

Unfortunately for computer security this has been a wild west.
America???
In all fairness it's not stupid. Interviewers sometimes ask to show code you have written and did not pay to write it. Here the interview asks to show code you have written and been paid to write.
Each app on your phone serves a useful purpose but also as a distraction. Make an intention each time you pick up your phone, execute it and put it away immediately afterwards.
"Many Moving Magnets Melting Metal" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PxXZoHTVU

If you want to see this concept tried in real life, Codyslab has a video. From the description: "I stick a bunch of magnets to the flywheel of a diesel engine to show off some cool science."
Oligarch is the wrong word because they have no power. In the 90's there were real oligarchs like Khodorovsky, but they've all been replaced as business and government leaders by childhood friends/ex-KGB/St. Petersburg mayor's office colleagues of Putin.
Indeed lets abolish seat belts!

Needless gizmos.
From the author's conclusion after outlining concrete examples:

When you read the terms and conditions of Stack Exchange (which is I see as nothing more than
a vanity product for mathematically inclined people with delusions of grandeur), you realise what
an outrageous system it is. The Stack Exchange owns all your intellectual property!! That is
the ultimate vanity product dressed up as a sel
ess community-spirited venture. They can ride
o the coat tails of all your work and ultimately publish aggregated material for a fee and you
get nothing. You can put on your CV that you have such and such a reputation but it amounts
to nothing in dollar terms for you. I have better things to do with my time than support a
business model that is so o ensive to people trying to understand mathematics. But given that
stumbling on a good response (which do exist by the way) is a bit like a random walk, do you
feel lucky?
This is a great talk/article and head and shoulders above pieces contemporary to 2022 in my opinion. It’s interesting how lucid and calculated Mike’s approach comes across fives years ahead of the “zettelkasten/second brain” wave. Every chapter and section was enlightening and describes the powerful possibilities of something as simple as document curation and serialization.

I fear however that these sort of approaches that are in the vein of the traditional hypertext discipline are too sophisticated for most people to catch on to in a way that their proponents may dream of. I like the concept of “We becomes them” and it is more or less inevitable on the Web. I like how he used the size of a university to put the size of Wikipedia’s contributions into perspective. I think approaches like his can attract a minute fraction of that. A minute fraction.

But nonetheless I think that this piece was really inspirational to me at least. It looks like the author is more focused on giving lectures on online misinformation. I wonder if he’s propagated any of the concepts discussed in this piece into his later work.

Thanks, Tomte.
dude gets upset today's JS isn't 100% yesterday's JS.
> People who have nothing wrong don't seek out labels and treatment.

Agreed, I do think there is something wrong I am just not convinced it is ADHD and my worry is now he has his diagnosis and some pills it won't help him in getting him the help he actually needs which I believe is more related to trauma from an animal attack combined with the pandemic.

I know it sounds like I am just disagreeing with his ADHD diagnosis and that I am in some way against ADHD diagnosis but that is not the case at all. As I said my son was diagnosed with ADHD not too long ago. I have no issue with ADHD as a diagnosis I just worry it is the wrong one for this person because they became so obsessed with getting adderall as some kind of fix for everything and when other options such as therapy are suggested they dismiss them instantly as "too much talking".
Manners are free, and they're and investment. - Something that always stuck with me.
when gp comment was written, the HN title didn’t include the phrase “in market value”
Stay bonuses [1] are probably the most common case. It's actually pretty common in a merger, especially one with a long period between announcement and integration, to hand out parachutes of various metals to key employees.

If you're the CEO closing a deal where the buying party is overpaying by $15B, they really really don't want you to quit in the middle.

If you're a rock star category manager, they still want you to stick around because you might get the job after in the combined entity, and even if you won't, who will they be able to hire to manage the category while they're doing the deal?

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizryan/2015/03/28/what-is-a-st...
The sun moves relative to the neighboring stars. That means we have periodic close encounters (d < 1ly) with other stars, and effectively the Earth starship argument holds. The lazy way to travel the stars is to figure how to avoid killing ourselves for tens of thousands of years, while the stars come to us. See the list of future close encounters at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars_and_br...
Malazan is truly special in the amount of feels they deliver. It's a huge investment though, and while the overarching story kinda fizzles IMO each book has enough going on to keep you entertained.
A good tool drives the wielder towards success.

Given how frequently I hear something along the lines of "OOP is great; you're just doing it wrong!", I'm inclined to believe it actually isn't so great.
I just tried it. It was very nice. It compiled with a simple `make` and there were no errors or warning (on Linux). There are few test programs that seem to work.
It was

> independent security audits paid with public money

The "with public money" part means they are funded and thus controlled by the government.

Not that i think a privately owned megacorp is much better, after all i do not like the scare boxes you see on unsigned (and "lesser signed") programs in Windows and macOS unless you pay the certificate mafia protection money - but at least those do not block you completely.
Hmm. This year wasn't that great for me book-wise, but there were some decent contenders:

- Ellul's - Technological Society - picked up on HN recommendation and I will admit it is interesting and worthwhile.

- Cal Newport - Digital Minimalism - Hard to implement and certainly not a quick fix, but the author is onto something here.

Fiction:

I am re-reading Witcher the series. It is still one of the few books, where it is worth to learn the author's language to read the original ( even though translation is also very good ). I forgot how good it is.
Ah that’s interesting to know about Europe, I should have specified the US context of what I said. That kind of arrangement is not common here, typically an involuntary termination will take effect immediately.
As a consumer I am totally fine paying for things. But I hate being interrupted with ads for irrelevant shit I don’t want or need. Google and every other online advertiser is hilariously bad at guessing what I might be shopping for at the moment. Amazon comes close by remembering what products I looked at last. But Google is worse than dogshit when it comes to this.

I’ll give you a typical example where Google could be great but falls so short: I deliver to it on a silver platter a search query for a specific product “MRCOOL DIY 4th Gen 12k btu”. This is a very specific ductless mini split heat pump that retails for about $1750. I was looking to see if anyone had a cheaper price. Well Google Shopping mostly showed me results for either the 3rd Gen or a different BTU rating, in an apparent attempt to not show too few results. No a 36k btu unit isn’t a substitute. No, just the air handler isn’t a substitute. I have my credit card out and ready to go, buy Google is too busy showing me ads for window units!

You know where I found my answer? Eventually I gave up on Google and went to the manufacturer’s website, looked through the list of authorized dealers and saw that Costco was on the list. I then looked there directly and found the unit at $300 cheaper than elsewhere. Bad search engine, no cookie!
Generally you are right that this yanking policy isn't great, there is better tooling around to address security vulnerabilities than cargo yank by the author of the library. But it seems to me that it has been reconsidered. ring hasn't yanked versions of its library for a while, outside of one very recent yanking of an alpha release.

There are also other recent improvements, like ring used to require latest rustc very quickly, nowadays it's having MSRV's of older than six months. it also used to be impossible to link together multiple versions of ring in one binary, due to native dependencies used by ring. This issue has also been addressed thankfully.
Here's a direct link to the 3.0.7 announcement in the archive:

https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2022-Octo...
You pay Google for its services with your privacy.
Also: Your money isn't your identity.
The most obvious answer is the most boring: known physics prevents extra solar travel and communication.
No, that is protected and has been for decades:

Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center
I listened to The Expanse and First Law audiobooks and can highly recommend both of them. Stories are great, narrators are even better.
yea this is how i feel as well, no longer searching, more like spoonfeeding and that's your only option
Depends what you mean by "moddable". There are plenty of games that allow for user-generated content, like Super Mario Maker 2 or Baba Is You, for example. That might not be as moddable as a system that lets you run arbitrary code, but that seems more grey than black-and-white, to me.
Bribes are required for each of the following for any store/shop/market:

* Trade license (renewable each year)

* Shops and establishment license
Weights and measures calibration (needs to be done each year)

* To get electrical connection or to get additional capacity (Rs.100,000/KW in Bengaluru)

* Export / Import - at the ports to various officials no matter how clear your papers are

* Police clearance (for restaurants)

* Health inspector (from time to time)

* Food and Safety license (needs to be renewed periodically)
Labour inspector etc

* Periodic visits from panchayat/municpality/police etc where they will demand money or take stuff for free or at huge discounts

India is a cesspit of corruption
Show HN: I made a website where you can copy-paste SVG gradients
I think you just disproved yourself. The market does hate innovation. That’s why there’s this big unmet need for funding innovation the VCs step in to fill. The market has left money on the table and VCs since they are private money, can pick up the money in huge average multiples across a portfolio.
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