skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote that article. Thanks for those examples.

> it means that at one point you though "is there another option?" about snacks

Yes, that was my point in the article, though maybe not clear enough. This conversation has given me lots of ideas to improve it. Thank you!
That seems like textbook PTSD.
Mary Renault, a historian of Alexander, wrote a series of three historical novels about his life, starting with Fire from Heaven.
There is so much basic functionality missing in Signal as a chat client, news like this - or e.g. integrating crypto payments with a shady cyrpotcurrency [0] - upset me as it does you.

No backups, no drag-n-drop or even pasting support for many things on Mac and iOS, no list of links in chats, no jumping to the context where a media was sent, such an non-native app feel overall are just top-of-my-head annoyances that make Signal a very mediocre chat experience.

Which is a shame, as I share and support most ideas and ideals of Signal.
But I so rarely see Signal as a chat app improve, it angers me.

- [0] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
S.Casciano like Riace, 24 bronzes found under water
There's been a well funded disinformation campaign against anything that would reduce the use of fossil fuels.

They've kind of lost the battle on "are renewables a scam", "are EVs a scam", "is climate change a scam" etc. but still with pockets of resistance. Unfortunately they were fighting it on multiple fronts and are still winning on some.

One where they're still winning is "are carbon credits a scam".

(For completeness, in the US they're still doing okay on "is recycling a scam" and "are carbon fees a scam")

So it's basically a succesful artificial conspiracy theory that we're dealing with.

Rich countries paying poorer countries to escape fossil fuel dependency is an obviously good idea, but like anything it's not perfect, so if you get people angry enough then you can slow it down and sell more fossil fuels.
I read an article recently that Putin has four body doubles, which went through plastic surgery to look like him.

I feel sorry for the four women who had plastic surgery to look like Liz Truss.
That’s so naive, who says how much complying with labor laws costs? A business owner will lie and say it cost two times as much to gain advantage. Business owners should charge an up front price and if they can’t survive because they’re following the law then they can shut down and find a job. Owning a business isn’t a right bestowed by god.
I remember MASM and Codeview. I cracked Lotus 123 2.0 with it to remove copy protection so it could be installed on a Netware drive.
Microservices enhance agility in embedded systems development
Lagrange points L1,2,3 are metastable and all are also perturbed by all the reality of not being result of two point masses in perfect vacuum.
In Europe everybody drives with manual transmission, because it is more fuel efficient: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/01/save-gas-and-mon...

But in the US where gasoline is cheaper than water and the CO2 emissions won't heat up the planet, nobody cares about fuel efficiency.
5687 is a general purpose triode, with lower gain than the 12AX7 ubiquitous in guitar amps.

They'd be useful in hifi preamps.
Sendmail made me think everything in Unix was so scary and esoteric.
Better CPU selection for Linux timer expiration
Well.. Signal was literally sponsored by the CIA from the beginning.

OTF gave Signal 3 million USD: https://www.opentech.fund/results/supported-projects/open-wh...

The OTF was created in 2012 as a pilot program of Radio Free Asia (RFA), an asset of US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)/CIA, which is in turn funded by US Congress. The algorithm for signal/whisper was developed next door to the NSA headquarters in Hawaii.

All of this is public information at the moment.

Don't know if ALL OTHER messaging apps are better, but would at least prefer a messenger not sponsored/blessed by well-known spy agencies.
FYI, you appear to have relinked to the same thread by accident.
TIL that my favorite terminal[1] was written by the author of Calibre.

[1]: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/
Agreed. A certain amount of word–play is necessary for a happy and healthy life. Sadly I once worked on a team that didn’t understand this.

I had been given the task to add an insignificant feature to a minor subsystem, and by chance the first two methods I added to my class had names that started with the letter A. I had to “ask” the user for confirmation, and I had to “authenticate” a widget. To keep myself interested, I pushed myself to continue the trend. I needed names for about six or eight methods, and the last two were the hardest. I had to lock some files to deny anyone permission to read them, and I had to record the actions taken in a database. I had the implementations written and tested, I just needed good names.

I ended up with the names “afsluiten” (literally “off–close”, or “to close off”) and “αναγράφω” (“anagrapho”, to inscribe, record, or publish). I laughed so much when I found both of them. They were perfect! I committed, pushed to a branch, wrote up a pull request, and then started a two–week vacation the next morning.

I anticipated that on my return we would all laugh at these funny names in our weekly meeting, that the team lead would request that I rename these two methods, and that I would then push to master with English names. Instead, I had a meeting with HR and the VP of Engineering about how I was mocking them, disrespecting their work, how unprofessional it was, and on and on and on. Apparently the team had been stewing on this “insult” for the whole two weeks, making it worse and worse in their minds.

I was rather sad when they fired me, but I have been so much better off ever since; the people I work with now actually know what humor is, and how to play. They can even express admiration and wonder when someone does something clever or slick. It’s like night and day.
I have a similar setup: a raspi 3B+ with a Hifiberry dac pro, running vanilla raspbian (or whatever it is called now), connected to a mid-90s Yamaha AX amplifier.

I set up PulseAudio to run as a system daemon on the raspi so it can receive all audio from my laptop. On the laptop side, I switched to pipewire - it was practically a drop-in replacement, I don't remember having to do much configuration.

I also use Raspotify so the raspi appears as a Spotify Connect device.

The biggest challenge for me was getting uninterrupted audio playback when watching video content on my laptop, as i'm using wifi to connect to the home network. Everything was ok with my cheap TP-Link router running OpenWRT until I decided to upgrade to a Mikrotik hAp ac2. I got a lot of dropouts when using RouterOS on the MT, tried everything I could think of, even submitted a problem report directly to MT, but they decided that my use case was too unique for them to care about it. After upgrading the MT to OpenWRT, everything is in sync and I don't get any dropouts.

As for the volume control problem, I connected a basic IR LED module to the raspi, set up the correct remote in lirc [1] and added buttons to my OpenHAB dashboard for changing the volume, inputs and toggling power.

[1]https://lirc-remotes.sourceforge.net/remotes-table.html
All I want from Signal is an Emacs mode, damnit.
No that's a link to the current discussion.
Don't made me start to talking about science in Spain.

> It's not even possible to go beyond 5 years

And we still wonder why nobody is trying to paint a new Giocconda now, and where are the big results

First they repeat "ad-nauseam" that only want the very passionate and ambitious people, but then force you to choose a mediocre theme to work on it, or to solve very complex problems that nobody has figured before in a couple of years, plus one to land and other to write.

- "We have very serious environmental problems that treat our survival as species. What we could do?... Oh; What if we give the people only four years to solve it and save everybody. Just to create suspense?"

This happens by two very simple rules

1. Anybody starting in science must be dumber than this boss. Scientists must be all mediocre and equally talented, have the same background and fit to the current ideas.

If I want to study a complex problem for six or ten, or twenty years with my own money, well... is my problem. I repeat. Is -my- problem.

No other fields have this restriction. You will never see things like:

- "You are an architect? If you can't build an airport or major monument in <4 years you quit and everything is burnt down. This called Sidney Opera is taking too much to build, I can't understand this shape, lets start again and trow the investment in the dumpster"

- "You are a politician?. If you don't became president in three years and a half (or are more than 30 Yo), you are fired"

Who are the politicians to say how much of my time I can invest in something, when they don't apply the same rule to themselves?. Oh, I forgot the second rule:

2. Any grant money graciously given for a politician must benefit the politician career. Period. This means that science is now crushed to fit electoral intervals of four years

Unexpected maternity? Two years of covid?, say bye to your career and the investment of decades of study

And then they delay the grants payment for two or three years, just for laughs.
> What's important for voting confidence is having the count be auditable, which is much more important than having the machines be secure. After all, banks learned how to do that with money long ago.

Having the count be auditable doesn't really help you. If you have a pile of ballots, and you can prove with certainty that you've correctly counted what they say, you've made zero steps toward legitimacy. Where did the ballots come from?

This is a huge problem for secret ballots, where the goal of the system is that ballots can't be audited. It is not a problem for cash counting machines, because the only problem they're trying to solve is determining how much cash you have.
Statistical Process Control: A Manager’s Guide
or type "random", select it and press F1 :-)
How do you sync photos from iOS to the Synology? I didn't know that was an option.
Not a public company, but São Paulo did this in 2006.
A requiem for amateur chemistry
[Tiny bubbles of laughter go here]
If the problem you are trying to solve doesn’t require niche scientific knowledge, you don’t need PhDs. That sounds like common sense?
Yes it's still true.
SQLite by D. Richard Hipp also still maintains it by himself
I guess Linux kernel could also be considered still being maintained by a single person even though it's mostly contributions from other people, don't know the rules
They support doing this over ethernet packets as well; they don't require IP networking. Supporting IP/UDP is a sane thing to do for supporting legacy networks.
Because it's already complicated enough. Marketing matters, even for open-source projects. If you want people on your decentralized social network, don't make it sound more complex than it already is.
> President Luis Arce of Bolivia called the idea tantamount to “carbon capitalism.”

That's an interesting summary.
I'm much less familiar with the financial model in the humanities, but I don't think your information is correct. (What's your source?) Across the whole university, Stanford's minimum salary for graduate research assistants this year is $12,054 per quarter (four quarters per year), and $12,522 per quarter when serving as a teaching assistant. (https://gfs.stanford.edu/salary/salary23/salary_tables.pdf, and here's what the financial package looks like for a PhD student in, e.g., education: https://ed.stanford.edu/admissions/financing/doctoral)

I'm definitely not telling you to go get a PhD in English/history/education/theater for the money, but if you did, my understanding is that the salary you could expect here is around $48k-$49k a year (+ health plan). I don't think any PhD student is earning less than half the amount I cited.

When you say "A large percentage of Stanford PhD students work at least one additional job," if you mean TAing, then yes, that's true -- I think every PhD student has to TA at least a few times, and more depending on how well-funded their program or advisor are and whether they have their own fellowship. (Regular faculty also have to teach on top of our research responsibilities.) But if you mean some outside-Stanford job, I don't think this is common.
> The silence is truly deafening.

If you're only hearing silence in the vaccination debate (which, mind you, has been raging since before the first SARS outbreak, let alone the current SARS 2: CoV Boogaloo), then you might want to get your ears checked ;)

There is no shortage of medical professionals with all sorts of opinions on whether or not to vaccinate for any manner of disease, COVID included. Sure, the overwhelming majority have reached a consensus in favor of vaccination doing more good than harm (for good reason), but the tiny minority with contrary opinions are not at all being censored (if anything, they're being anti-censored, e.g. by social media posts and your usual gaggle of conspiracy-theory-peddling news outlets).
Could you list some examples of legitimate concerns of theirs that does not involve misunderstanding or misrepresenting their opponents' position? As an outsider who's not from the west, these "oversensitive snowflakes" do seem to have goals in common with the left, but are fundamentally extreme in their motivations and reasoning (and transitively their causes).
Paper voting has scaled for many decades, in many countries just fine by being decentralised.
$10,000+ is the price range for e-bikes and ultralight AXS/Di2 configurations. About the only aspect comparable to the €350 bike you describe is they have two vastly different wheels.
Sendmail as Turing machine: https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/sendmail-as-turing-machine...
The C64 OS Programmer's Guide
I have a Kanban board with maybe/to-do/in-progress/done categories, and I prioritize things on it occasionally if I have specific short-term goals. Finding resources - sometimes through search but mostly through random chance on hn or reddit.
Ubuntu is just an OEM rebranding of Debian – why not just use Debian?
Nowhere near universal. It’s common to go from undergrad to PhD in the U.K.

Tbh most Master’s, esp MSc, don’t add anything.
Giving and Receiving Feedback for Code Reviewing
This is fascinating. I just watched the bbc video on YouTube about it.
That's not necessarily true in the UK. Many masters courses, like mine, take a total of four years. In some cases you can even get lucky and go straight from undergraduate to a PhD. I know at least one person who did that.
I'm shocked that you didn't mention caffeine -- caffeine addiction, in my opinion, is rampant, especially among office workers.

No judgment, either; I struggle without coffee.
> There is a lot of disdain for audio-fools: people who go
> beyond the entirely defensible "This is what I like" and
> enter into counter-factual explanations of why their
> preferences constitute truth.

I wish those would go away. Ditto for the objectivists that tell me I'm listening to music the wrong way because I don't happen to enjoy gear that perfectly matches their averaged response targets.
Agreed! OP: Do you think Ruby is the last language you'll have to learn? ;-) Stick with it, sonic-pi is worth it!
There is no such thing as a ActivityPub node whereas there is such a thing as a Mastodon node. I joined a Mastodon node that uses the ActivityPub protocol, because the Mastodon node I joined uses this protocol, I can communicate with software nodes other than Mastodon that also use the ActivityPub protocol.

Maybe you are better off asking why people say Mastodon when they mean Fediverse. Even ActivityPub's user guide says to join a Mastodon node, they don't say to join a ActivityPub node.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/pub/guide-for-activitypu...
'But Home Assistant papered over the vendor and hardware woes and made setup simple.' - goes on to describe the setup, that involves about 1257 steps, 37 different components, and 457 links to resources and products. Yeah, that was really simple, thanks!
If 'apt install name-of-software' is cryptic to you, I'm sorry but you should get that checked out.
Apple Music supports spatial audio for Dolby Atmos songs with Airpods Pro and Max. It is quite a different experience.
See the videos in my other comment. Daniel Kish explains how he does it.
The Autobahn has a recommended speed of 130 km/h. OP was talking about Landstraßen having a speed limit of 100 km/h. The two are very different kinds of roads. The Autobahn does have concrete dividers and hard shoulders for example. It also has a much more predictable design compared to a Landstraße.
I do that too - it's an interesting sensation to realise you should have been paying attention and "Replay" the last few seconds of conversation to build a context. Unfortunately it's only a few seconds...

The most interesting related thing I've experienced is hearing an unexpected noise in the night (once it was a mouse in my room) and being woken up by whatever part of my brain monitors that stuff, and then having the really visceral sensation of the unexpected sound being played back to my now conscious brain to try and give context.
So glad to see others calling-out the Permanent Apportionment Act. Maybe it made sense in a world without communications technology, but today we're able to scale to the numbers needed to support that ratio of representatives:constituents.
https://archive.ph/VLbXn
Exactly this - in age of most decent phones having no issue recording 1000fps videos, just record one with your lights. Heck even 240fps is enough. Suddenly those nice lights may not seem so nice anymore.

I wouldn't be surprised if this has some quiet smallish long term negative effect on our brains and eyes. In same vein as 24fps-is-enough-for-everybody was a lie
> Except that the command line command apt-get sometimes displays an ad for Ubuntu Pro..

sudo truncate -s 0 /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20apt-esm-hook.conf
Might as well attribute all of that to Christianity. That claim probably holds as much water.
I see this huge C++ file and I raise you a Java file that's so enormous github refuses to render it: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/blob/master/TMessagesProj/...
You mean people give it to you? You can't get away with taking one billion dollars from others without their permission unless you are the government ;)
Synology have a app you can install on the phone.
Carvana Shares Plummet
Don't laugh, doing a PhD can be very stressful for a continued period of time.

Not in the beginning. But I, for one, felt the psychological pressure very much after year two or three. You're in an economically unstable situation, don't know if you'll be able to finish with anything worth showing (which is the nature of research), and no matter how hard you work, there are a number of relevant factors that are completely out of your control - e.g. whether or not you get enough papers accepted at relevant conferences which, over the years, has become akin to buying a lottery ticket.

The only way I kept my sanity was to set up a daily routine where I would work in the library throughout the day (a nice quiet place, as I did not have an office), and go for extended walks in the evening to air out my brain. This was what allowed me to sleep normally again at night.

Upper tier managers with crazy responsibilities are not the only people who can experience burnout. It can manifest itself in very different situations, and it doesn't hit all people the same.
Problems with the new tube map for London
Interesting wrap-up. Most of these things are probably known eve to certain laymen, but good to have them altogether.
Nearby?

The entire region is 13th century wine villages about the main Beaune centre .. with that modern stone 15th-century Hospices de Beaune.

There's a reason the area hit the 2015 UNESCO World Heritage List and concrete brutalist architecture wasn't it.
Does Apple maintain APFS in older macOS?
I would generally agree with you if it weren’t for the fact that not only has Apple, among others like Microsoft, totally captured and compromised the government, but the very point of government is to protect and preserve fundamental concepts that are core to the society, one of which is fair and real competition, not this fake illusion of competition where, you are free to leave for a competitor if you can make it across the minefield alive, and give up all the pleasantries of the golden cage.

You even seemingly contradict yourself within two sentences; if alternatives are viable, then government wouldn’t even need to enforce anything users like less, because they would actually be viable and real alternatives that are competitive. When people are starting to discuss government stepping in to enforce fair and actual competition, generally things are extremely out of whack already and in a functioning society and government that government would have already stepped in a long time ago. Alas, our government and society are neither healthy nor even have legitimacy.

For some perspective; the same people who tend to lament “slavery” of a very specific narrow historical narrative, are also the ones who do not see the obvious that plantation slavery was essentially the practical outcome of the communism con job, equally poor outcomes for the masses that the very few “more equal than the rest” benefited from.

So yes, in the name of freedom, government should have, prior to it having had been too late, severely reigned in corruption of the whole American and global system by organized, aka, corporate efforts to do that very thing. Because what is freedom but the only meaningful state of competition, your ability to decide for yourself over your life without others being able to, let alone being supported in controlling it for you.

We are currently in an extremely darkening state where people have been even so manipulated that they cannot even understand what freedom is, let alone insist on it being enforced. Hence, we are getting more and more plantation slaves turning on their own lot trying to fight for their freedom because plantation life is easy and fits within the constraints imposed by the true slavery, mental slavery.
Functional Programming from Sets and Functions
Yes, that is the joke lol. Just like the witch scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Yes absolutely. Perhaps it could be used to design ISAs or even ASICs from a written program?
Not an RH guy, but apparently https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
Initial GitHub Labyrinth Core Release