skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, the useless cave diving coffin was when I realized that Musk was often stupid and well out of his depth. This is just the latest thing that he's stumbled into that he completely doesn't understand.

There's nothing more obnoxious than a p̶h̶y̶s̶i̶c̶i̶s̶t̶ rocket company CEO first encountering a new subject.
Even callable objects are kinda brain breaking. I used to joke that the duality of callable objects (and getter/setters, function prototypes in js) were as mysterious as the wave/particle duality in quantum mechanics.
Yes, moors would help. I remember that during some floods in Europe one of the ideas floating around was to construct large polders which will be flooded as needed. No clue if catching up flood waters that would be enough to turn such polders into carbon sink.

There was some documentary about a German farmer keeping his grasslands in a moor-like state by rising the water table lowered by drainage. This did work well for him in the times of the draught but in general if I remember correctly it did lower his income.
Consider the source. Its Adacore, the support open source Ada. I know them from the Ada on x86 seminar they held at my employer (we were using Ada on PA-RISC). Nice people but pro Ada (or its "Spark" language which I guess is like Ada).

But another huge issue is that C is the language used by the OS. If you want to use that OS functionality to allocate memory, do networking, IPC etc, you are using a C header file and calling into it. We had a binding library to making calling C from Ada easier, but its still an extra step. The good news is that other languages are starting to have some great libraries.

Ada and Rust and a bunch of other languages are safer than C, and likely a better choice. Its just there is a lot of existing code to port over.
A year or two ago I had doubts whether this company was making anything. Now I'm seeing Rivians on a daily basis.
I wonder how much noise this adds to their algorithm.

The other day my wife wanted to show me some "short" from a content creator she likes, and had to rapidly scroll through ~30 of other "shorts" in her feed until said creator popped up again and she could click on her profile pic. Whatever way YouTube rated those other 30 vids for my wife is completely wrong, unless they happen to have a classification category called "rapidly scrolling down because of your stupid ass UI that doesn't allow backtracking or searching previously seen content".

At this rate, in a few years, even non-tech-savvy people will get fed up with increasingly nonsensical and confusing UIs of social media products.
Do they run on the same infrastructure as the rest of us?
The css tricks website definitely has always had way too much css. Imo a very jarring user experience that often had me hitting the back button and clicking the adjacent w3schools article for whatever "css trick" I was searching for.
>That depends on whether you believe they are lying about those settings actually doing what they say they do.

My gut feeling is that they don't straight up lie, but that they for sure are leaving things out. Also putting good faith on microsoft is just something I'm not able to do no matter how much I try.
NHTSA says 50th percentile: https://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsas-crash-test-dummies
Anyone care to explain their downvotes?
A well-designed OS API doesn't need to do MitM and therefore would work with HSTS or cert pinning enabled.

Of course for obvious reasons, few commercial apps would actually use this API unless they have some other incentive.
In the 1920 most suburbs were still street car suburbs. Where street car company developed the land around the station.

Then the street cars went way and suburbs became ever larger and less dense.

Also zoning started essentially forcing suburbs and never let these areas develop out of the state of being suburbs.

What was built in the 1920 is mostly just fine. It really gets bad in the 1960s where everything started to be build for the car only.

But it gets even worse, if you look at classic US suburbs in the 1960s they look almost reasonable. Thin roads, houses reasonably close together. Then they started enforcing ever crazier requirements for the streets and ever crazier requirements for lots sizes and stuff like that.

This results in the already low density of 1960s suburb looking like Paris. Now you have suburbs that have literal highway highways between houses (where you can literally have 4 F-150 next to each other), with lots of distance between houses in all 4 direction, small houses not allowed, no duplex or anything else. Because of zoning literally ever commercial transaction requires a short car trip.
> Google Analytics

Hardly effective for gauging HN readership, given the abundant use of ad blockers. Based on no evidence whatsoever, 100x that and you should have a reliable estimate.
The Google Pixel Watch might not be as developer-friendly as expected
> For whatever reason with C there’s this huge emotional component to it. Safer alternatives exist.

For a lot of things, I just don't think this is true.

For example, here is sqlite's reasoning for choosing C: https://www.sqlite.org/whyc.html

I can't say I can really disagree with it.
Any application that uses certificate pinning would fail in this situation as that's specifically what it is trying to prevent.
Your friend is right. They literally have record-breaking income right now[1]. It just headlined the FT two days ago. This is also happening with distributors/utilities.

1. https://www.ft.com/content/0d84255c-84ba-4462-b80a-859335285...
Your point works in the exact opposite way too... if users feel their Mastodon server isn't free enough, they can move somewhere else with less "censorship". Not sure what you're ranting about here.
> Yes, but it's incredibly hard -- try to follow them on whatever server you're on

Confused about this. In my experience it's always just been a matter of adding

@personiwannafollow@otherinstance.com

Is this not always so simple?
I'll grant that I hadn't tried installing Alpine -- I tried a few different Debian/Ubuntu variants and ran into the same handful of issues (including a few installers failing completely.)

That being said, MPD is not a good solution for my particular use case: I have family and friends that come over regularly, and they want to play music. None of them are technical and are easily dissuades by anything that doesn't immediately work with AirPlay or another UPnP-style setup.
I'm quite a bit unimpressed by (actual and armchair) UX and product experts' commentary jumping on Mastodon's rough edges -- yes, a lot of us know it's a bit clunky and the onboarding hasn't been A/B tested to death, and the UI/UX hasn't been hyper-optimised for LE EPIC ENGAGEMENT and that's perfectly fine!

It's arguably not ready for full mainstream adoption right now, but hopefully that'll continue to change as the tech crowd uptake increases and the contributions to the core/protocol/apps goes up as well.

I like the community feel of the somewhat smaller instance that I moved my presenec over to (from mastodon.technology, which is shutting down), and there's a frisson of the original excitement I felt when exploring early communications services on the interwebs like IRC.
For 90% of non-tech folks, email is gmail or whatever their ISP gave them, or came along with their phone, or their employer gave them. It's not something they put any thought into or understand as a "federated" system.
Good suggestion. I always forget AppleScript exists.
Cool! But didn't get me many results :D

PS: when you say "for programmers" I can't help but remember Koders.com. But I also keep forgetting what happened to it. I think it got acquired..?
There are many C developers out there who will insist they have gained enough experience to never write code vulnerable to various memory safety exploits. Real "I actually drive safer slightly buzzed" vibes.
Thanks!

Looks like the original Bloomberg article is the most trafficked post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808
Not sure how it's this complicated. I have normal laptops, desktops and phones connected to 70s and 80s vintage stuff all over the house. $10 Bluetooth dongle here, £10 DAC there, and Bob's my uncle. Sounds fine most of the time; over to vinyl for whisky time.

Examples:

- USB to basic DAC to RCA from desktop to huge 70s Sansui G-7000 receiver
- 1/8" jack to RCA jack input from desktop to Tivoli Audio radio
- 1/8" jack to RCA jack input from Echo Dot to McIntosh MX-115 preamp
- Bluetooth dongle to RCA from iPhone to 60s Leak Stereo 70 amp
They apparently discover new sets of blood groups every few years, there are some vanishingly rare types.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-blood-types/
It's annoying, X got to the level where it "just works" out of the box for me on my setup and now it's "well, fuck that, we got bored, let's go Wayland!"

And some design decisions are.... iffy at best. Like the fact now every DM have to implement its own mouse(trackpad etc.) management coz "well we don't wanna" (basically, I'm sure Wayland developers have better articulated response to why everyone else involved have to duplicate the code).

Or how many hoops software have to jump just to record screen (or is that fixed now?)
Sexist would be to imply the female dummies come with builtin airbags.
Suppose you have an unsigned 16-bit integer signal of [0, 1, 3, 2000]. You want to multiply every value by some scaling constant so that the maximum value is 65535.

So the multiplier is 65535/2000, and the intermediate result is [0, 32.7675, 98.3025, 65535]. But because the output must be integers, so decimals will get rounded off.

It is possible to restore the original numbers exactly if you know the scaling factor, but it's an extra complication that is not worth the hassle. It's better not to burn the normalization into the CD rip; it's better to do normalization on the fly at playback time.
Hmmm, Homebrew still has v11.
I’ve had to stop visiting Delhi in the winter for my health. I left India over a decade ago and used to visit every winter for Christmas.

At some point I stopped being able to function properly there. I’d have constant migraines, nose bleeds and the last time I went I was passing out regularly.

The pressure inversions causing the higher smog density in winter is just horrific. Coupled with these farmers burning crops, it’s a nightmare.

There are days when you’re driving and you can’t see the vehicle in front of you.

I miss home, but I’ll really only now go back in the fall or spring. Summer is too hot to enjoy a visit.

Fall has the advantage of being after the monsoon so it has cleared a lot of the air and the temperatures are much cooler.
You mean "Microsoft deliberately pwning your computer" instead of "the same level of abysmal security Microsoft has delivered since DOS; expect someone to pwn your system Real Soon Now"?

Add TPM and UEFI, and the CPU and chipset backdoors, and it's a real horrorshow down at the hardware level, too.
Yup, YouTube is probably the worst platform for archival. But isn't The Pirate Bay actually a Swedish site?
Maybe they were injured instead of killed?
I saw a good quote - something along the lines that Mastodon replacing Twitter has serious "year of linux on the desktop vibes".

I think there's value in Mastodon, but it's not a drop-in twitter replacement. Perhaps a valuable thing would be helping set it up as a POSSE tool: https://indieweb.org/POSSE - post to your Mastodon and it automatically posts to Twitter for you.
EdgeDB raises $15M Series A from Accel & Nava Ventures
Even more: https://metager.org/
He mentions a Yamaha RX-495 and asks "circa late 1990s, I think?". I can confirm that it is. I bought that same model in 1997 or 1998 and still use it for my turntable.
People also had a large and unexplainable emotional attachment to asbestos.
I think they're going to find out that it's nerdy and that they now hang out among the nerds and not the cool people anymore. And then within a week or so pretend that it never happened, they'll buy their blue checkmark so their posts aren't buried with the spam & rabble, and be on their merry ways as if this whole meltdown never happened.
> I could have done better.

I pretty much never assume this, from grocery bagger to CEO, but in this case I'm absolutely confident that I could've done better.

Because not buying the damn thing is obviously better.
The Landscape of Proteomics Companies
>Nobody really uses the data they slurp up, except as an excuse not to fix any bugs or improve anything

And they remove necessary features then lie, "Our telemetry suggests that people don't use those features."
There are interesting stats from TfL in London. Women make approximately 25% of bicycle trips in London, but account for about 40% of the fatalities. Yet when you compare KSI (killed or seriously injured) by gender, men are more likely to be KSI for a given distance travelled.

It's hard to interpret these statistics. I suspect there are significant behavioural differences, such as riding at different times of day and at different speeds, which account for some of the differences.
Tab stops are called out in the footnotes:

> Never attempt to line up text by using spaces. The only exception is if you are using a monospaced font. But in word processing applications, there are appropriate tools available for lining up text, like tables[1] and tab stops[2].

[1]: https://practicaltypography.com/tables.html
[2]: https://practicaltypography.com/tabs-and-tab-stops.html
Powerpoint is the raison d'etre of an entire class of middling bureaucrats. They'll fight tooth and nail to protect their turf and preserve their role in society.
> Believing that all software security problems would be solved if we got rid of C is a bigger disease than C itself.

Getting rid of a class of errors (correctness) allows you to focus more on other errors (logical). It could be argued that it could slightly reduce the likelihood of the latter.
International banking systems still rely on mainframes that don't even support time sharing! I'm sure an x86 rack would blow the socks off of the guy who has been maintaining the COBOL clusters by himself for 30 years.
On another note, my EeePC still seems to work as well some old 32 bit Thinkpads I've seen recently. It actually doesn't have overheating problems like modern laptops do and I can simply replace the ram, network card, pcmcia slots if I needed to. We need to stop x86 discrimination :c
Well maybe it's my small brain but I remember in math class it was very important that "a function has only one return value", which probably is part of why I was confused.
If we risk societal collapse because of buffer overflows, I think our society needs fixing, not our fun and sharp creative tools.

Personally I think “what if we stopped using npm?” and “what if we stopped using cargo?” are much better security questions to be asking at this point.
The program took me about 10 minutes to write. I think that's pretty good compared to the googling and finding out that `-c` doesn't work (which I also did).

Plus it's written in a robust language. The `grep | wc` solution here looks ok, but in my experience bash hacks tend to be full of bugs, especially around quoting, whitespace, etc.
Any commercial OS, like Windows, Mac OS or Android, will be easier to use than any free operating system, for those users who never attempt to do any action that is not on the restricted list of actions for which the commercial OS was designed.

Nevertheless, there are many people like myself, who always discover, when using a computer, that they want to do an action not anticipated by the designers of the commercial OS, either due to lack of awareness about the needs of some people, or because they do not bother to support those that are only a small percentage of their users, or because they have an interest in preventing the owners of the computers to use their property in certain ways.

Whenever it happens that I want to do such an action, I discover that it is much more difficult to do it on Windows than on Linux or on any *BSD, and sometimes even impossible. That is the reason why I have abandoned the use of MS Windows or Mac OS, many years ago, except for various occasions when I am forced to use them temporarily for professional reasons.
What I want is Little Snitch on steroids built
into the OS where every process,

You cannot trust an OS you cannot build yourself. That's why I see Linux as the only option for professionals and privacy minded people.
> That’s right, this is actually a look at a product being sold at the time of this writing, the Yellowstone controller card:

I'm not surprised. I shelled out $80 bucks for a null modem RS232 cable and two packs of Verbatim 5.25" floppies, sealed, from the 1980's, so that I could get my Apple //e running again. Ironically I never knew the SuperSerial card could turn the Apple into a dumb terminal: now I can copy Apple //e disk images from my Mac, via serial, to the target 5.25" drives. I mean, it's obvious now, but it never occurred to me in the 80's.

The design of this card is better too because it has plug polarity. I had to replace a buffer chip on one of the drives because the original Apple ribbon cable socket didn't have a polarity (or collar) and I accidentally installed the cable shifted right one pair of pins. Powered up, heard a loud crack, and when I opened the drive, there was a 14-pin DIP cracked in half and blackened.

Also, that "Total Replay" screen is hilarious. What a mashup.
That is a bad assumption. Because if you have other public transport and regional rail, that connects to the high speed rail backbone. All of sudden somebody that wants to go to LA of SF would take the regional rail to the next high speed train station. Thus those persons wouldn't drive.

California has done a lot since the 1990 in terms of regional rail and things like electrification of Caltrain are no brainers. But they need to do a lot more.

High speed rail is successful when its integrated into lots of regional rails.
In case anyone is curious

> In 2016 in the US, adult women averaged a weight of 170.3 lb. The median adult woman weighed 161.3 lb.

> For men in the United States 18 or older in 2016, average weight was 197.1 lb. Men had a median weight of 189.4 lb.

I guess it makes sense that even the median weight would lead to an overweight BMI (assuming average height), since 74% of the US is overweight or obese.

[1] https://dqydj.com/weight-percentile-calculator-men-women/
> Huge SUVs are slightly feminine because they're good for getting the kids to soccer practice

Genuinely, in what way? When I am taking kids somewhere, I want car that fits into small parking space. I just dont see what SUV would help with.
In most of the western US, the speed limit is about 10 mph lower than the actual speed of traffic.
They understand you can send e-mails without needing to have an account with the same provider. They may not know it under the name federation, but they do understand the relevant part, for them.
I’m not sure I count- I learned to program on my own but went to college and got a comp sci degree before I made a dollar doing it.

1. The most useful stuff I learned in school was concurrency related, things like mutex or mapreduce. I may not have looked into those skills on my own

2. I don’t do that. If I start a passion project, most of the time it either turns into a tiny Proof of concept, or I learn a lesson and quit working on it. I don’t regret that at all

3. I had a sales engineer style role as my first job- it was great to get exposure to how a variety of companies run things and I still reference that experience all the time. Now working as a developer- you learn a lot more about the trade offs of various decisions when you’ve got to maintain the thing later on, so that’s been really valuable as well
Slight correction: Programming languages compiling themselves is calls selfhosted. The process getting to that point (ie first making something that compile the language so you can compile the language with itself) is called bootstrapping.

(at least that is how I know it as)
> isn't it easier to follow then?

Not on mastodon.social, unfortunately. (Unless the reader also happens to be on that same instance.)

In most other instances, linking to the profile would allow us to click on the follow button on that page, login to our instance in the new window that pops up, and follow you from there.
mastodon.social uses this new UI that doesn't do any of that, instead just tells you to copy-paste the address into our instance's search bar (opening it ourselves).

So @dom96@mastodon.social is not any different from https://mastodon.social/@dom96 in this case - in both cases we have to do the same thing, paste it into our instance's search bar, to be able to follow or interact in any way.
Very true. But there were downsides too.

Like many I started writing BASIC on a ZX Spectrum (very popular in the UK), and later started learning Z80 assembly language. However learning was damn hard because the books were few and far between, and largely inaccessible to me as a teenager.

A year or two ago I wrote a simple adventure game in assembly for Z80-based CP/M, which I then ported to the Spectrum. It wasn't so complex and I didn't struggle too much, but it was still a lot better writing such a thing in 2022 - because the internet is FULL of resources on assembly language coding, and you can download an assembler for free.

Back in the late 80s? I had a computer, with a thorough manual covering BASIC, but learning more was hard. Though I think the z80 foundation put me in a good place when it came to learning x86 assembly language, which helped me get my later jobs.

These days I code for fun, and to automate things, but I only really do "cloud stuff". And there's a world of difference between those two extremes.
A truth stated passionately doesn’t become false. A falsehood stated calmly doesn’t become true. This is at the heart of why emotion is always a logical fallacy.

Everyone would be better served by using and hearing it less. Focus on the actual argument.
Correct, AFAIK the main reason to not support Win16 protected mode was the size the relevant bits of HANDLEs which would have been severely limited to 16bits. Completely obviating the reason to use 64bit windows. As is HANDLEs are 32bits of significant data on at least through Windows 10. In theory now that Windows 11 has dropped 32bit support could be 64bits on Windows 11. All of this because someone will inevitably want to use the clipboard between a 64bit app and a 16bit app and it would have made things VERY painful. Could MS have written a layer that "fixed" that? Potentially but the number of people using 16bit software was relatively small AFAIK at that point.

But the page tables do technically support 16bit protected mode code when in compatibility mode under long mode AFAICT.
I have worked in tech for 30 years. I agree 100%. Any twitter alternative needs to be as easy and seamless as Twitter itself. The first step being a decision on where to set up an account is a non-starter for a huge number of people. Haven't we all learned the UX lesson of reducing choices?
They seemed unsure at the hearing of what exactly they had signed up for.

Certainly, their LLCs could be subject to attorneys fees if the Court awards fees (which it generally only does in exceptional cases) or for sanctions based on attorney behavior.

However, normally, only their LLCs would be liable rather than the owners personally--unless they fail to observe the corporate formalities.
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