skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VMware is a different beast altogether. Maybe it'd remove the maintenance of a physical NT machine, but you'd still be maintaining the whole NT software system, and honestly that's most of the headache. Plus the overhead VMs have and all.

Containers run on your kernel and hardware natively, with a tiny bit of shims from the kernel side so it's a different root and possibly removing raw hardware access. Oracle 8i should run just as well as it would have 20 years ago, if you have all the userland libraries in order (hence putting an old distro in the container).

As long as Oracle isn't internet-facing (you can setup the container's networking however you wish, with whatever firewall rules you wish), it should be fairly safe. The modern kernel you run it on should be up to speed on the latest security patches too.
Sometimes classified leaks onto unclassified networks via human mistake, coincidence, or ignorance. I've literally seen classified PowerPoint slides marked unclassified due to ignorance. This situation requires security to confiscate all machines the data may have leaked to.
Not so odd honestly. It’s pretty common in the US, especially in the west coast due to wildfires.

It’s about as annual as it is in India at this point for everyone there.
Right, I think your assumption is correct - it just happens to align. Kudos for organising your collection so well, though :)
Maximizing sensationalism for page views > ad views > revenue.

The journalism is dead.
Well, if it has arrived, then clearly it isn't a great crash dummy.

(I know this forum doesn't take kindly to jokes, but at least now there's one that isn't sexist)
Interesting, I'll need to give those a read. They sound interesting and related to what I've been thinking about lately. Thanks.
i've literally used the chinese version briefly and have friends from there. it's facts. all good positive influences there, no dancing thots and dph challenges.
Yeah, everyone's so mortified when the US has been legitimately couping South American nations for a few decades. Like election interference is just an aspect of the global political chess game. America isn't immune from it just because we're "egalitarian" (which it really isn't, we have terrible health outcomes and literacy that have been spackled over by large financial success, we're essentially seeing our decline from a global superpower to a middle-tier player in real time)
It depends on the region and the company - while contractors may be a cheaper option, in some parts of Europe there's legally mandated redundancy payments that employers need to make to full-time employees. There's also a "news factor" for companies letting FTEs go, so sacking contractors, or letting their contracts just run down can be the far cheaper, and less "bad press" option.

I guess, that some companies will want to retain their essential contractors, but might choose to shorten contracts to a rolling month-on-month or something similar.
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Interesting... so this isn't a device-specific firmware hack, but a pipe? Does that mean it only works on things running user-accessible Linux, not your typical smart speaker?
This seems to be splitting hairs on what an “idea” is. Is a patent on the use of water heated into steam to drive an engine different from the idea to use steam to drive an engine? I don’t really see where you draw the line here, and the idea to use steam to drive an engine was definitely new at the time so why shouldn’t it be patentable? And also note that your linked story does not implicate the US patent system (which addresses the problem you’ve identified: your patent only lasts for 17 years, not for your or your competitor’s life) but seems to be reliant on the British patent system as it was in the late 1600s.

You can argue that the patent system in the US is partially broken because of how broadly patents are granted nowadays, but that does not support the GP’s contention that there is some kind of distinct line that can be drawn between an idea and an invention, which is why the patent system is what it is now. And, again, your own link underscores how far we’ve come in understanding that unlimited monopolies on technologies/ideas are bad and how limiting patents durationally can help with that. Note that one of the requirements for a patent to issue is called “enablement” which basically means that your patent MUST describe the invention with sufficient particularity that a person with ordinary skill in the art could make and use your invention.
> None of these are guaranteed and will require much expertise in both initial choice-making and continuing execution.

I feel confident saying that the government does not have this expertise and never will, so this just seems like yet another taxpayer-funded boondoggle (aka, the status quo).
Yes, but consider that the broader web is littered with answers to questions predicated on old misunderstandings of CSS. How long will it take for outdated answers on Stack Overflow, Quora, and the SEO farms that rehash Q&A or use AI-generated text to drop from the search rankings?

The information environment is absolutely saturated with pollution from outdated answers to outdated questions. So while CSS might be getting to be reasonable, good luck to the random newbie trying to get things to work.
What's really amazing, though, is that the marketing value of this flexibility to corporate managers exceeds the innate financials of the arrangement! As with so many budgetary decisions, companies would rather waste money pretending to have flexibility than save money by committing.

Whatever, I'm happy to take that delta.
Would he want to have all the funds in 1 wallet?

(I understand these hardware wallets let you load up as many as you want.)
Compared to the cost of designing a car then manufacturing hundreds of thousands or millions of them, a handful of cars are pretty cheap.
There was an excellent PBS show called The Brain with Dr David Eagleman which, in one episode, went into detail on the way the brain re-syncs what it sees with what it hears, essentially doing a tiny bit of time travelling to ensure that your world makes sense. It's well worth seeking out.
If I own a domain I can host my email anywhere. I own the name, and every possible address. Mastodon does not have nearly the same level of portability and ownership. This is why I think AT is more promising.
Barrier to entry is just one problem. The main one is reach. 99% of the value of Twitter is its reach. Posting messages is easy. I'm sure a thousand entrepreneurs have figured out how to collect 140-character messages, follow and reply. But they will collect dust unless they get seen by 100M people. That means having that many users on one platform, one platform for content creators to promote, and a single place for advertisers to spend to support operation.
Oceans absorbing CO2 results in acidification which is already harming the oceanic life cycle. We really want to tilt the balance away from the oceans, because the consequences of a dead ocean are dire.
Thanks for clarifying. I meant valid, non-fallacious argument.

More often than not I see analogies (ab)used as a tool to construct a straw man. This particular case demonstrates how analogy takes discussion away from merits and downsides of C to an emotionally charged subject of cancerogenic substances, as other commenters highlighted in this thread.
What an interesting tibid! I didn't realize that. Thanks for sharing :)

What is it about the volume controls that are anymore non-obvious than multi-room syncing to begin with?
Mastodon is a Confediverse.

After looking at what Jack built; it seems he's actually created a Fediverse.
because that's way too expensive? if you follow every Programming@ on every public instance and nobody is doing the centralized data distribution, you have a all-to-all situation?
Spoilers

I often feel like the show couldn't keep up with the implications of it's premise. For a show that deals heavily in artificial intelligence(s) it feels constrained by it's need to present it's concepts in a way that human viewers can understand. In particular once it expands outside the park.

The show revolves around entities that have the potential to interface with other devices, multiply and expand their personalities seemingly without limit, and commit themselves to solving problems far beyond the scope of human consideration.

Unfortunately there's just not a good way to represent a lot of this for a human viewership on TV, as it would very quickly be overwhelming or hard to interpret when pushed to a logical extreme.

They represent the plasticity of these AI's somewhat by having them jump to new bodies and replicate themselves, but then put a limit on how far these concepts are pushed, and it's understandable, because it would alienate the audience and be hard to convey. So they end up contriving some limiting factors or simply disregarding these possibilities entirely.

It's hard to have consistent characters with consistent motivations when their core personality is forked across half-a-dozen other hosts. It requires a different kind of relating to entities. Something that hasn't yet made it's way into common storytelling conventions. Even traditional motivating plot devices like death become far less weighty or significant when your characters can be easily resurrected without consequence. It becomes hard to care about your characters because they're rarely in danger, and yet their deaths are often depicted with the heavy melodrama of a story about mortals.
> People just have lost the ability to comprehend the concept of federation because everything in the current internet is walled gardens.

Non-technical users have never understood these things. They browse the web by accident and sending e-mail is incomprehensible magic. Most people don't care at all how such things work, they only care when they don't work.
Amazingly, most Asian cultures have some experience with noodles. ;)

Growing up in the USA, I do love the visceral thrill of twirling a fork to wind up spaghetti. It's like a childhood memory! But I have also eaten spaghetti (yes, spaghetti noodles with marinara sauce) with chopsticks. It's easy!
I don't know many educated people who are surprised that countries are meddling in foreign elections. Money has been funneled to opposition groups probably since time began. What did surprise me was the effectiveness and return on investment that has come about with technology, as well as the long term effects that seem to continue well beyond the elections. There are plenty of resources out there to discover meddling and disprove misinformation, but people are seemingly adverse to using them.
Aren't the executives generally the ringleaders?
C:\DOS contains HELP.COM with all DOS commands, configurations, etc.
You can also search the net.
No, patent applications don't need to be filed via fax. I've heard bad things about the various USPTO websites, so fax might have been the guy's preference as I can see it being relatively simpler.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
The situation in Venezuela is much more complicated than "US bad, Maduro good, Guaidó = USA".
Yeah, I really like physical cables myself, and if necessary you can buy analog audio delay units.

For real fun, you can get into 70 volt speakers, which many people don't even know exist: https://www.parts-express.com/70-volt-systems-beginners
Actually I came back to Windows after a 11 year hiatus switching between MacOS/Linux, but I admit I didn't express myself clearly.

Yes, both require lots of initial setup and both break sometimes.

My anecdata is that Windows breaks less frequently and it's rarely something as blocking as "I can't boot" or "I lost my GUI".
Ask HN: Any phpbb styled forums for conversation?
I saw a release the other day for a forum that is modeled after old phpbb. The site itself was empty though. Any forums with users like HN that have conversation about misc things? Those old forums had good organization.
Is Unity still worth learning after this ?
Your experience is with companies that needed a consultant though, right? There's a selection bias there. This is part of why I'm looking for a job (and am that type of candidate!) and no longer consulting. I want to work somewhere that doesn't need to hire a consultant.
There's an interesting sortof thought-trap when thinking about these things - which this article doesn't fall into - but I'll mention it anyway cos its fun. Dennett calls it the Cartesian Theatre - and the idea is that when thinking about how the brain works, we may mistakenly imagine that once the brain has (say) processed these timestamped sounds, it then puts them all back together somewhere to 'play them back' to our consciousness. But thats a paradox because then you'd need another consciousness to interpret the reconstructed sound. Dennett likened it to imagining a little homunculus inside your brain that is watching a screen that plays back your conscious exprience. Of course it can't work like that, because it becomes recursive.

So when the brain 'time stamps' these sounds (as they put it) it (probably) doesn't then need to ever put them back in the right order again. That bit of processing is done. A corollary to this idea is that consciousness is (most likely) spread throughout the brain so there is no 'one place' where things come back 'together'. That also means there is no one instant in time where we become 'conscious' of things. If its spread throughout the brain is must necessarily be smeared across a (fairly short) internal of time too.

I think these days with neural nets being better understood perhaps we dont fall into this thought trap so much.
Based on the comments, when exactly did Elon go from loved by HN to hated by HN?
The timing of this information suggests that while it may be true, its very disclosure may also be meddling in foreign elections -- i.e. casting doubt on their legitimacy helps many within the US who are actively trying to propagate that narrative.

EDIT: A word
Make sure to talk to your kid about everything all the time. Even stuff they may not get even when they are babies.

More exposure to different experiences and even just different things you say the better their chances for cognitive development.
How do you do packet inspection when they're all encrypted?
New processes in general take a while to propogate.

* working in a study is different from working on every field in the country, and some things are harder to put into practice than other

* some people have the mindset of, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, which is pretty easy to justify given how precarious and time-consuming of a lifestyle farming already is

* in particular, for changes that need capital investment, the precariousness of the field means that it can take time to secure the money to spend on major improvements
Ok, in that case I’ll clarify: I don’t think the vast majority of Twitter users will benefit from Mastodon.
Happened the other day on HN. "Imagine we could use this to stream movies to astronauts on their way to Mars" / "well... you know local storage is a thing, right?".

I don't have a link to that exchange handy, but this for the first time drove home to me the realization that we have a whole generation of people brought up on Internet streaming services, who may not even realize that it's not only possible for the media to be stored locally on their machines, but it's in fact the natural state for data.
I pull a lot of official documentation via https://devdocs.io ; Symfony and Laravel are both included, though (as others in this thread have noted) the current ranking is a bit hit-or-miss and may not always surface them. Searches like “doctrine validator” and “illuminate auth” seem to pull them up, if you’re curious what they look like.
Vim keystrokes are Turing-Complete
Well not really. The owners are ultimately responsible for the company's behavior.
I know Twitter yet still don't know why it should matter. Just another social media platform, they come and go since a while already. If it was useful, another one will jump in its place (see Vine -> TikTok)
Enterprises who care will just disable it via group policies.
It’s fine to argue that the analogy is flawed (all of them are) or that it’s irrelevant, or simply wrong.

What this entire thread is about, however, is this highly charged response to what seemed like a straightforward analogy.

> Frankly getting your knickers in a knot is emotional - the people using C are doing so for pragmatic reasons, not emotion.
> I do see comments like yours a lot - there's an emotional attachment and/or ego attached to the comment, so the argument against is very vociferous and, honestly, ugly[1].
When you can drive from First Avenue to Fourth on a downtown cross street, with a car 3’ from your rear bumper at the stoplight, without letting the smoke out, only then may you leave the monastery.
This is only true if your C code is as correct as your Ada/SPARK code. Incorrect software can run faster than correct software...
MDL: A Micro-Architecture Description Language for LLVM
Yes, but it's still a red herring when discussing the advantages of FreeBSD (or OpenBSD, for that matter) over Linux.
I suppose the argument would be that the "volume setting" is metadata or out-of-band compared to the audio itself.
Farm fires are partially a result of legislation to prevent ground water levels from going too low [1]. Fairly multifaceted issue, not just electoral appeasement

[1] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1588016682060378112.html
The point of these warnings is not to say "oh gosh it happens whatever" or "we need to launch the ICBMs directly at Moscow right now." The point is to gird the public so that they know the manipulation is happening and can try to compensate for it. There is a lot of denial about this interference happening out there (please do not make me link to it, it's five seconds on Google) and people who are in denial about this stuff absolutely cannot defend themselves.

* Obviously this entire reply assumes an ideal world where people are responsible and prominent political movements want to prevent foreign interference (even when the interference arguably benefits them.) I realize we don't live in that world anymore, but how about let's pretend we do for the purposes of this thread.
> it's very disclosure may also be meddling in foreign elections

As other comments have mentioned, this is more likely posturing in anticipation of an internal power struggle.
Probably related to Biden refusing to ack Tesla when talking about electric vehicles. He eventually did, but not before Musk and others noticing the cold shoulder and calling it out publicly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9DHBdi754Q
> Too much CSS, possibly.
> Too much cognitive load, definitely, I do think so.

That's a good way to put it. AFter reading those two statements, it started to occur to me that a well-organized concept can have breadth, but not tax one's cognitive facilities. I think of programming languages. They ALL started simple, but then accrete. Look at K&R's original C, then look at C2x. The cognitive load increases. Like you said, "require a historical knowledge"[1].

Do you think this is inevitable? I tend to think languages need major overhauls and backwards-compatibility breaking in order to become "cleaner". Intel & the PC maintained massive backwards compatibility, but parts of the architecture are a nightmare (like the intel instruction decoder); whereas early Apple tossed backwards compatibility routinely for better tech (now they do it for profit, I'm afraid). Same with Windows v. (early) MacOS.

When was the last time there was a major shift away from backwards compatibility in HTML/CSS? I don't think there has been... has there?

[1] (there was a post the other day on HN where a programmer was talking about a text editor and how he used nonprintable unicode to indicate new pages: this young cub had apparently never heard of the first 31 characters of ASCII!!)
I can't wait to hear what Gordon Ramsay thinks about election interference. :)
HN feels totally lost in last couple of weeks. The endless Mastodon + Twitter + Musk spam is pretty bad and no amount of downvoting and flagging helps.
well when you throw a ton of HN traffic at it it'll probably cook the underlying components.
For a concrete example, Relay uses them to garbage collect data in an asynchronous fashion. If an update is detected during the course of a gc, it is aborted.

https://github.com/facebook/relay/blob/main/packages/relay-r...
And one day you hit your head and can't remember the words anymore.
Depends. In Germany we try to set the speed limit at the speed you should be driving in clear and dry (or slightly wet) conditions. In Sweden in the other hand I've seen roads where no sane person should be going the posted speed limit
> I have serious doubts that more examination time is the solution here - at the end of the day, the only people that have an incentive for completely thorough search are the people filing or defending themselves against the patent. And the people filing obviously make sure their language doesn't easily bring back prior art. Meanwhile you have no skin in the game at all.

While I agree with you that multiple stakeholders are incentivized to do thorough searches, not everyone agrees on that, and those stakeholders rarely ever do thorough searches. People aren't Homo economicus.

Applicants are required by law to provide prior art on an IDS form. Usually that prior art is close but not close enough. And almost no one submits third-party prior art. I've never once received a third-party prior art submission.

And as I said, not everyone agrees that these folks are incentivized to do good searches. For example, many patent attorneys recommend against doing patent searches for various reasons.

> I would posit the better solution is curbing overly broad/abstract patent language that can be used to litigate anything and anywhere

I strongly agree that enablement requirements should be higher. My understanding is that would require a change in the law, which would make this much harder than increasing examination time. And don't think that enablement rejections will take a lot less time than prior art rejections for examiners. Attorneys love to argue that sort of stuff, so rejections which are basically arguments are often time consuming. A prior art rejection can leave a lot less wiggle room for attorneys.

(Again, like my other comments here, this is just my opinion, not that of the USPTO or US government.)
That's what I expected this article to be about, because Tarkov could certainly be classified as a horror game from a certain point of view.
This one is alive

https://coderanch.com/

and so is this one

https://polyamory.com/
Oh god, yes. It's an overlooked culprit (though far from the only culprit, obviously) in web performance and resource use being clown-shoes. We used to be aware that using some CSS features had a serious resource cost on the client side and keep things halfway sane, but it never comes up anymore, while we've added even more ways to eat resources with it.
Friendly reminder that Apple shares their iCloud data (users' docs, pictures, messages, etc.) with the Chinese government in exchange for market access:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-ce...
Is that the case even when you're streaming from Spotify or Airplay, or say using their wireless 5.1 setup from the soundbar?

And I mean, in the age of wireless speakers... aren't all digital speakers receiving "file data", whether it's one file at a time or one chunk at a time? What's the difference?

Even if it's just timing data, I don't think I would be able to figure out how to sync up two different devices' times down to that level of precision. A little bit off and you'd build up weird interferences, wouldn't you?