skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not commenting on what I wrote and are using the usual emotional and defeatist rhetoric to oppose any population controls.

Yes, the Chinese approach has been draconian and even cruel. But it has also been effective and the point remains that we should thank them for having succeeded in controlling their population.

I also do think that too little is being done to stop population growth globally because that growth is actually the root cause to most of our environmental issues. Note that between "too little" and your over-the-top claim of "genocide" there a gigantic chasm.

This also applies to Western countries. Many of them have incentives to boost natality. We need to 'free ourselves' from the idea that population growth as a positive and necessary thing because it simply cannot continue and a decrease would even be a net positive for the environment and quality of life.
"DOSBox Staging" added in some killer features (chorus and reverb for Adlib) that DOSBox-X currently lacks.

It might not sound like much, but the Sound Blaster AWE64 had that feature, and it really makes Adlib music come alive.
It was the common claim for many years that it was the last version of windows

https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/7/8568473/windows-10-last-ve...
Yes, but:

C# is just as good as Java on all accounts.

Rust is just as good as Java except the talent pool is yet growing.

C++ is just as good as Java except the language has no ceiling and the talent pool is shrinking.
Fixing the cold house disaster for facing even bigger disaster with global warming?
Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice
If you like clever-sounding quotes in place of information, the obvious counter is:
"Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence." -- Aurthur C. Clark
Communication and honest debate about facts and details, such as the ones you bring up yourself, is impossible when the people you are attempting to communicate with don't care about the truth -- they only care about how the words you are using make them feel.

Which is the whole point of the article: when feelings take precedence over truth and knowledge, science is at threat.
That's interesting -- in my part of the US flour and sugar have been pretty consistent, but butter is much more expensive (like $6-7/lb) when it isn't on sale.
If you've been using Java for 20+ years, you maybe have a slight bias towards Java over everything else.

And that's fine, fight for Java in your life because that's your mastered ecosystem.

Trying to argue which tech stack is best is a pretty annoyingly dead and unanswerable question. There are a few quantifiable-ish things like you mentioned (hiring pool, tooling maturity, etc) but everything else gets subjective and meaningless pretty quick IMO.
Shudders. The LPIC exams I took back in 2005 made me think I would spend the next 20 years in vim manually configuring apache, sendmail, bind, openldap and a bunch of other stuff I haven't touched since the exam.
From the article:

> XGBoost cannot serve predictions concurrently because of internal data structure locks. This is common to many other machine learning algorithms as well, because making predictions can temporarily modify internal components of the model.
Even better, since it's an open question instead of a suggestion; the suggestion itself can already be condescending or insulting someone's intellect. Even though sometimes it IS that simple, see Occam's Razor.

But really, "have you tried turning it off and on again", while a funny quote, can be quite condescending as opposed to "What have you tried".
> In general it has, it is just that the USPTO's software hasn't.

On the contrary, USPTO's internal search tool (PE2E Search) is overall good and has many features that I wish public search engines like Google had. The main difference is that it's designed for power searchers, not the general public. Yes, PE2E Search has a lot of issues, but the USPTO contractor who commented here has probably never used it to search for patents and thus has no basis for comparison. You should take what they said with that caveat in mind.

My basic point is that no existing search technology makes up for the sheer increase in documents to search. The last significant innovation in patent search was switching to computerized search in the 90s. The changes since then have been relatively minor, but the number of documents to search since then has increased dramatically. Maybe some AI based search will eventually be a game changer, but for now it's not (I've tried 5+ AI search tools and they usually aren't good) and I don't see that changing any time soon.

Also see these other comments I made:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33509535

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506241

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
It depends. If you're complaining to me about your chronic condition then I will feel compelled to give you advice on things that I think might help you.

That's the crux. It turns out people just want to be free to whinge about their issues without doing anything about it.

That's fine, but don't talk to me about it, then. At the very least, tell me that you just want to whinge.

Edit: Obviously this is to my friends and family. If I got talking to a stranger at a bus stop and they told me about how their arthiritis was giving them gyp this morning I would be sympathetic, I wouldn't tell them to do more stretches and eat more fish. Assume my comment is with good intentions, please.
That’s just one way of masking it. Here in Poland someone leaked a conversation with a premium dog food producer who admitted adding some dubious stuff into their food to maintain current price. I just found out had some cans in my storage (this thing lasts for years) and notice the aroma and texture difference to current units is extremely obvious.
Well the user's money is going to good use, it's financing the AI that will defeat the AI that tries to take over the world.
From an anecdotal perspective it's just applying more and more pressure on people I know. Food bank usage is sky rocketing and I'm seeing a lot more requests from them as a result as they're struggling to keep up with the demand.

The UK has heavy class divides and things are getting really difficult for those in the working class. For those in the middle class they're not struggling with food or fuel, but the ability to build wealth and invest is starting to erode.
Sorry to hear that - I hope you can find a way to bring someone on board - even if just a temp to bash out some of the 'easy but long' work that can free you up for the important stuff. Or equally just free you up to relax.

Hang in there, things will get better, you are already achieving more than most people can.
The owner module can control outbound communication by uid/gid. [1] There are no modules to handle things by PID AFAIK. This can however be accomplished by SELinux and Apparmor custom rules but that is a loaded topic.

Firejail [2] and Bubblewrap [3] can put limits on application capabilities and/or take away network access. Firejail has default policies for many applications, all of which can be overridden by user configurations in their home directory. Firejail leverages Linux Capabilities and AppArmor. For example, when I launch VLC even if it were configured to pull down album information, it could not. If one day they added default-enabled telemetry to VLC it would go nowhere.

A round-about and heavy handed way to manage communications by PID would be to isolation applications in their own VM or container and map the VM or container to a unique user or group.

[1] - https://ipset.netfilter.org/iptables-extensions.man.html

[2] - https://github.com/netblue30/firejail

[3] - https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
> Student says, “But what about X?” I might say, “Oh, just do Y.”

What would be lost if you said "I think it would be easier if you did Y instead."?

That would convey the thing you think "would be fine" without any of the negative baggage that use of "just" can carry.
C# is just as good from a technical stand point I think, but there is a significant financial cost attached from the licenses. Large server installations with dev, stage, prod & load test envs tend to get expensive with .net.
Indeed. It feels unsafe to follow the "rules of the road" on a bike because the rules were created for an entirely different kind of vehicle.

I think about this a lot when approaching a stoplight or stop sign.

For any road user, where is the most dangerous part of any road? You guessed it, the intersection.

When is an intersection safest? When it's empty.

So, for a cyclist, it makes the most sense to cross through the most dangerous part of the road when it is devoid of danger; i.e., when it's empty, or when other cars are stopped.

This of course gets a little dicey when you consider protected turns, leading pedestrian intervals, jaywalking, or anything else which would make that "empty" intersection a little less empty and therefore unpredictable and dangerous. But generally speaking, I feel way safer running a predictable red light than crossing it with moving traffic.
Bread and watermelon are incommensurate. Bread is a staple.
Is the aspect ratio part (needing to stretch from 8:5 to 4:3) because the IBM PC didn't have square pixels?
It doesn't seem worth the effort unless you have some use case--a particular community you want to cater to, or an organization that wants to control identities on a domain. As an individual, it seems a better choice to go with an established server, and kick in a few bucks on patreon or whatever as needed.
Suuuuper cool thanks for sharing this. Gonna see if I can use this to push notify when my DNS fails to reach my hobby server cause my ISP has changed my IP.
For me, folder structures in Windows and MS-DOS helped me grasp the basics of information architecture. That is still how most website URLs work. Even if websites are now database-driven CMSes, and not actual folders on a web server, URLs are still written in that way to give both humans and search engines an idea of the structure of the site.

I would posit that it's easier to understand things like objects, arrays and API endpoints if you have that basic familiarity with folders.
Nvidia PhysX 5.0
Infinite Nature: Generating 3D Flythroughs from Still Photos
Censorship? Nah, that's not the right word here.
The pitch is that you can go `curl -d "My message" ntfy.sh/my_topic` and it just works. That's impossible if you want E2EE.

Fortunately, it's open-source, so if you really want, you can fork the app to add a decryption layer and then use `curl -d "$(echo "My Message" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -e -k "My Password")" ntfy.sh/my_topic` and that'll be E2E encrypted.

Or, you know, host your own ntfy server and trust in SSL.
Why Marshlands Are the Perfect Lab for Studying Climate Change
Microsoft doing its part in an international conspiracy to create busywork for the middle class. They don't want you getting too much work done, there isn't enough go around.
> but customers tend to have very different feelings toward each model.

Seeing the success that Microsoft and Adobe have had once they moved to subscription pricing, it seems like a better business model.

Even small software companies have found that subscriptions are much more sustainable.
totally agree but I think a quick fix could be to go through your list of apps and deny location services to all of them. Then, as you use them, selectively enable location services on an app by app basis taking trust into consideration. Granted, you're still trusting the operating system to be honest here and actually deny location services.
Ouch. Just when you thought the blockheads were dead, clueless articles evoking confusion about blockchains connected with legacy companies are popping up like mushrooms. When are we going to hear that somebody stole $783 million from Shell Oil?

We've been thinking about canceling our subscription to Bloomberg Businessweek because they hired their best writer to write a whole issue of the magazine printed in ʟᴀʀɢᴇ ᴛʏᴘᴇ, horrible typography and unreadable spreads featuring red text on green backgrounds and such.

When there is a serious stock market crash it takes a generation before people forgot what happened. It's no excuse to say that blockchains work on "internet time", rather expecting people to forget what happened a year ago is betting on people being a lot more stupid than they actually are. We want blockchains to come back about as much as we want to get re-infected with COVID-19.
See also: https://100r.co/site/orca.html

From the site:

ORCA is an ... esoteric programming language ... capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP to your audio interface, like Ableton, Renoise, VCV Rack or SuperCollider.
Similar story here. My salary went up by a considerable amount back in December and our ability to save has now gone back to where it was before that raise with no life style or circumstance change.

Lots of people who live mostly pay to pay are very worried.
> Another is the destruction of the library at Alexandria, which was supposedly done by accident, against orders. Had that not been destroyed would we be substantially further ahead now?

I doubt it made much difference to progress. Having knowledge locked up without the culture that made it is not that helpful.

On the other hand, the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols had far reaching impact. Not only were the books destroyed (supposedly the river ran black with the ink of all the books tossed into it) but the populate was massacred (after which the river ran red with blood).

This had a profound effect on the Arab/Muslim world that I think is still felt to this day.
Do your research on charities. Does the CEO have an extortionate salary? Look in your local area. Donate to food banks if available. They will help people. Personally attend the depot where people gather items from food banks to see first-hand how helpful it is, if you don't believe your contribution is helpful. In my area, everything gets cleared each week.
Or through marginally reduced time sitting as drivers.
That was Tesla, not SpaceX.
Well that certainly spiraled. I’m suspicious of any technology regulation argument that builds its foundation on plantation slaves. That seems more emotionally manipulative than well-reasoned.

I’m a happy apple ecosystem user. Maybe I’m a plantation slave and don’t realize it, but it doesn’t feel that way?

I know plenty of non-Apple users also happy with their purchasing choices.

From where I sit the calls to prohibit me from choosing an ecosystem that works like Apple’s are generally either from competitors losing in the market or from ideologues who object to Apple’s model in principle and want to force me to use systems that don’t work as well, for my own good , apparently because I’m too dumb to know I’ve been literally enslaved.

You’re not really convincing me here.
As a non-cyclist, it would behoove you to listen to someone with first-hand experience, and decline the opportunity to make yourself look like a dunce by speaking your mind.
I'm not sure if it's worth going any lower than $24/month
You might be interested in the approach Author & Punisher has taken.
Instead of hard plastic, which has proved too easy for consumers to open after purchasing products, companies will weld products into steel cages.
Yes! This system is broken.

Men, do not have kids with an American woman in America, its 50/50 it will destroy your life.
It's funny how they seem to understand how to display one photo at the top as html but then all the other photos don't display unless you execute their javascript. I call this a browser trap. This URL should probably be changed to something that actually has content like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_%28fortificat...
Difficult to see where tanks go forward from today. Still defeated by these basic WW2 obstacles, and currently completely overmatched by anti-tank weapons. The best chance of active protection systems from here rely on always-on active radar which means you're lighting yourself up.
This just underlines how unintuitive swipe gestures are. There is no way to tell the feature exists or what swiping might do, and having horizontal finger drag do interactions when vertical drag just browses is simply inaccessible to many people.

I still do not understand why everyone and their cat copied that from Tinder.
I am guessing they burned a lot of wood. Which in a small space can heat things very nicely but has other negative effects.
Yep, exactly.

The only caveat I'd offer is that sometimes this is not a good question to ask ("what have you tried?") because it can be interpreted as "are you doing anything about it?" Edge case, true, but still worth being intentional about.
“Just” is a 4 letter word
If I run ntfy behind NGINX reverse proxy which is on https, isn't that E2E encrypted due to https?
It's especially funny that Marshall said never tell anyone that your are good at writing drivers or sendmail-configuration because that will be your life's destination then ;)
In terms of inflation it’s covering 50 of the last 52 weeks, so hardly irrelevant.
The settlers were mostly slaves brought from Africa, the few Europeans were there because of the natural resources or because they were deemed to incompetent for administration of the "metropolis". Also discoveries began in the 1400s, calling events of climate of 300 years later a climate induced endeavor is a big stretch.
I live in Aachen, Germany, and there are a bunch of these near the tri-border with the Netherlands and Belgium. I think most people don't even know what they are, and some of them are so covered with dirt and vegetation only a keen eye can spot them.

Still a very nice piece of history.
The pipeline operator [1] is a bit further along, although I'm not exactly holding my breath for it either. At least it currently has a champion. With pipelines

import { map, takeWhile, forEach } from "iterlib";

getPlayers()
|> map(%, x => x.character())
|> takeWhile(%, x => x.strength > 100)
|> forEach(%, x => console.log(x));

1: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-pipeline-operator
> which seems to be standard for many cyclists?

I keep seeing this claim, but I rarely see it in reality. I've seen two cyclists go through red lights in the past decade. Cyclists ignoring or coming to a rolling stop at stop signs is more common, though those who do it are still in the minority.

Perhaps cyclists behave differently in my area. Perhaps it is because I am on the road during the commute, so I'm seeing more experience cyclists. Yet I find both excuses to be a bit of a stretch. Someone above said it well: the greatest risk to a cyclist is themselves. That is certainly true for interactions with automobiles. What a lot of people fail to realize is that's even true for interactions with pedestrians or even the road surface itself (e.g. if a cyclist hits a pedestrian, the risk of injury is about the same for both parties). Cyclists aren't motorists on two wheels. They only have minimal protection and have to acutely aware of their own safety when making decisions.
Pushover requires a monthly subscription for teams. I guess that’s what most of their revenue comes from anyway.
You can submit prior art as a third-party while the application is being examined here: https://www.uspto.gov/patents/initiatives/third-party-preiss...

A lot of people propose things similar to what you have, but in practice these sorts of things almost never are used.

You also don't need a formal procedure like this. I'm sure if you contact the examiner assigned to the application, they'll listen if you have a valid legal reason to reject the application.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
I agree that Java has the best ecosystem for large systems. But, as others pointed out, in 2022 it is impossible to get in. I was lucky to have been one of the earliest adopters, back then when Java was only for applets and have followed its evolution up to Java 8. If I were a developer who tries now to start with Java, I'd probably despair.
I can't disagree.

On the other hand, if thinking about the world as it is and not about the abstract, I'd have to say that none of what Apple did since 2015 has anything to make me upgrade my hardware.

So I have like 6-8 computers that are all more than 7 years old by now. I'm not looking for new hardware.

And looking at the software they've released in those years, I'm not looking forward to new software.

Methinks I ate myself, thanks Apple. You got me spoiled.

And you can't compete.
That would depend a lot on what kind of large project you are building. As an example, Java is unusable for any project that requires high speed processing or highly accurate timing.

Also, there's a HUGE overhead that comes from wiring together and maintaining the runtime environment. The extra hours that you need to spend to find the exact combination of frameworks, servers, JDK version, etc to just get the project to run is something quite unique to Java. And then you need to keep it all up to date and secure. Sometimes those hours are justified, but they can definitely be a factor when you are determining the best language for some particular project.
This is one of those personality differences that I find utterly fascinating. I think you're right that most people feel the way you say, but I feel the exact opposite! If I'm talking about a problem, it's because I haven't figured out how to solve it and would be happy for ideas. Otherwise why talk about it? You're certainly not interested in my problems, and it's by definition a problem for me, so it's not like I enjoy just talking about it for no reason.

It was definitely a learning curve realizing that most people don't feel how I do about this. Still baffles me to this day, but I've learned to put that aside and just shut up because I guess people want that.
Walking is underrated. Multiple times I had people express utter bafflement over the fact that I walked to the city centre from my place, which is a distance of... 4km.

I used to live in Bologna where for the first time in my life I saw a cyclist start crossing on a red light, going over a total of 4 lanes in high traffic.

Meanwhile in my current city the authorities appear to promote cycling because it draws attention away from the sorry state of public transport, with frequent tram derailings.

Unfortunately they occasionally lump cyclists and pedestrians together in the process, degrading my walking experience considerably.
> "They’re not making good progress, and someone’s asked you if you can help. You look at some graphs and error messages. It’s easy (once again, I speak from experience) to say something like “Could you just cache the hot partition keys?” or “So, just scan the logs for the high-latency signals and frequency-sort them.”

> This. Will. Not. Help.

I wouldn't have thought to do this and would have appreciated this advice. I'm also not an SRE. Fixing issues/helping others isn't about sparing their feelings, it's about effectively solving a problem.

Not that you should go out of your way to be hurtful, but any genuinely useful advice/suggestions should be given without regard for emotion. You're at work, not a social club.
open the curtains/blinds, when the sun comes up, sunlight gets in.

even if you want to control the time of day this happens, surely you realize that your body evolved according to the sun's timetable, and benefits from that timetable.

if you're not a day shift worker I understand completely.
And a follow-up, how is that different than what UDP solves?
Germany, just prices in Euro from the cheapest Aldi store (you cannot get anywhere cheaper):

Barilla pasta, 500g: 0.75 -> 1.49

Basmati rice, 1kg: 1.99 -> 2.69

White sugar, 1kg: 0.45 -> 1.35

White flour, 1kg: 0.39 -> 0.55

Sunflower oil, 1 liter: 0.99 -> 3.99