skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That joke most certainly was a reflection of society, but I think it's different from the way that joke reads today (and out of context).

HHTG channeled the malaise and confusion of the 1970s, driven by nuclear war and economic downturns. (OK, a bit like now...) HHTG responded to that nihilism with pessimism on one side (Ford) and absurdism on the other (Zaphod). A lot of pleasures (sex, drugs, and rock and roll) were feeling hollow, and all Arthur (the prototypical Englishman) just wanted to hide and be comforted.

That joke certainly reflects a pessimism that is persistent in all societies, that every good thing must also have a downside. I took it out of context to highlight the communication aspect, something that I don't think was especially on Adams' mind -- though it would be only a few years before a communications revolution.

I think Adams' would take credit for pessimism being right -- usually a safe bet.
Reductio Ad Absurdum
Even then, can a store be copyrighted? Trademark-wise is a horror game in one of their markets and likely to confuse customers?
While I haven't attempted Elgar's work, some few years ago I started running down the rabbit hole of musical cryptograms. The main reason I wasn't interested in Elgar or alleged Bach cryptograms was I suspected artists before the 20th century were too given to allegory and coincidence that was more like a crossword with contextual clues than an actual cryptogram.

One I spent a bit of time on was Max Richter's cipher from his album Infra which uses a morse code shorthand that I wasn't able to recover, but it appeared to contain something like a PO box address at one point. I don't have an ear for morse, so I relied on using audacity to isolate the track and then variations of automatic analysis to yield something. The challenge with artistic ciphers is they can be impressionistic. There appeared to be a time lapse of images from 9/11 in the spectrogram of the Infra pieces, and a winding path that I thought might have been a bus route along the Thames from 7/7, but again because it's impressionistic, it's really hard to verify, and I can't imagine him letting on if someone got it right anyway. The morse seems like the only verifiable part.

Aphex Twin's famous "face" spectrogram is just the most famous example of a whole bunch of puzzles produced by artists in that genre under various aliases and pseudonyms. The project "Gescom" (which claims members of groups like Future Sound of London, who Richter also once collaborated with) made what are kind of etudes for electronic music production, where with a tool like Audacity or ffmpeg, you can reverse and unfold some of the samples to yield their original form, and in doing so, you can hear how the glitches and industrial sounds are made.

Maybe there is some future project where we can use ML and some kind of conditional entropy filter on the tracks in these songs (and perhaps even Elgar's variations) to do feature extraction and identify artifacts of intent from noise, and then potentially unfold what these artists folded into their work. I've also been working on something similar with Arvo Part's work, which is also alleged to be procedural, and have had a bit more success with it, and there are others who have written about it but again, difficult to verify. Fascinating topic.
Generics are a language feature to reduce the need to copy and paste in an editor. For that matter, functions are a language feature to reduce the need to copy and paste in an editor.
> The vast majority of people don't want to deal with multiple platforms. They want to be on the same platform as their friends, and the content creators that they like. That's it.

Statements like this make me feel like I'm living on another planet. I socialize with my friends almost entirely over IM (iMessages, SMS, Signal, etc.). Social media is just the huge content pile that we sometimes discuss and link. In that sense there are already few barriers to switching platforms because "engaging" with any content on social media seems like a foreign concept.
You shouldn't use Linux then. Linux evangelists were far more obnoxious when Linux was first making the rounds.

This is just how tech works and how tech people tend to behave.
Videos!

I really don't understand the diagrams, and how they relate to the shape that each diagram is labeled as.
Schools attended almost exclusively by people with strong connections getting good jobs out of the gate seems like a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
That might be a possibility (it's not supported now though, we're still really really early stage) but I'm not opposed to that suggestion. This would work well if your network is pretty established already and folks trust your platform instead of trusting the authenticator first.
> Its really hard to make a complex argument in 140 characters (as it was back in 2013), even if he wanted to

Then don't use Twitter to do it. Use something else, or just don't bother.
James Webb Space Telescope could help hunt for habitable alien worlds
Nice for the ruby on rails community. Twitter wasn't able to make it scale, mastodon is.. 2.5k open issues (which 600 are bugs) <o>
You're getting downvoted here, but it seems like a common sense position like this just isn't reality. Quite sad. I wish life could be this simple.
On another note, Russia is also among the least negatively affected countries by climate change. With the weather warming up, they may gain new arable land and even a few ports in the Arctic and Pacific.
It doesn't save a lot, while making you feel good for optimizing something very close to 100% useless, that's the whole point of my argument.
`&'static str` is an `&str` (string slice) with a `'static` lifetime (ie. lasting the duration of the program). It is most commonly encountered with string literals.

In some languages, it is appropriate to gloss over the differences between `String`, `&str`, and `&'static str`, but in Rust, all of those details are meaningful and important. If distinguishing between them isn't important to you, there are other languages that probably better reflect your needs.
> as I understand it

You could be 100% right (I have no idea, but it sounds reasonable), but this entire question really hits home that Rust has tons of basically incomprehensible design features.

The worst part about features like this are that a few smart people will actually use them (whether because they're powerful features, or just because they feel powerful when using them), and then render their code incomprehensible to the mere mortals who have to support their code in the future.

The KISS principle (https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/KISS_principle) is sometimes ignored because people don't want to be stupid, and why wouldn't you want to use a new toy(tool) once you've figured it out?
These oil and gas futures are all publicly traded, as are most of the corporations working in the field. If it’s really so easy to make money because the market is rigged, guess what? You can get in on the action too.
Even decades ago when the financial costs were not nearly as unaffordable, the bloat was still quite unbearable for those who wanted to avoid un-necessary obstacles to educational & research progress.
It appears to be a third-party, ad-free mirror. The original site is also hosted on wikidot, which has been getting DDOS'd intermittently over the past year.
Perl is GIL-free too, actually.
If IKEA wants to care so much, they should partner with the game developers and actually put IKEA in the game, hell yeah I would buy a couch from them then
I'm dreaming of a C with only pointers that has an optional VM (with and without GC) and namespaces, string and stream included.

You can cook your own (C++, WASM and Java), but if it was standardized and cross compatible.

Also curious why so many dislike streams?
I would like a stream editor that was easy to use. sed is powerful and it can work on huge files without loading them all into memory but the model it uses is very hard to understand IMO. It's such that you'll try almost anything before getting out the manual to work out how to achieve the smart effects that it can achieve. Then you hit the sort of "WTF" one where your problem with SED has no google-able answer.

So rock-on the potentially less powerful stream editor that I can end up using more than once in a blue moon (ok barring sed 's///' which is easy enough to remember and commonly useful).
Dumb as hell, especially when Halloween was the other week.

If anything should have been working with them on an official version of it using real Ikea 3D models. Like make it even more accurate if anything.

Marketing wise would have been crazy good.
Yes, plasma. I did it when I was poor(er). It's hard as we age, but it pays.
Proportional “typewriter” fonts are an old idea. TeX has them (cvtt).
I understand the concern, but is it that different from early 90s internet spread of drugs made of bananas or even before that urban legends? I know that it is easier to ban stuff than teach critical thinking skills, but I genuinely think the latter is preferable long term.

In my defense, my kid is still too young to engage in this stuff so that might be the reason I am less alarmed. I hate to say it, but my parents did a fair amount of watching with us and they tried to put things in context ( I still remember my dad scolding me after I repeated blatant propaganda line I heard on the news ).

The time you spend correcting your kid is not wasted.
The Peripheral feels a little low-rent, as if it's halfway between a CW show and netflix. Hard to put my finger on why.
Eh, NFL announcers were talking about Microsoft Surfaces as iPads ...

IKEA should just embrace it.
it's been a subconscious trend since vine I guess

vine, snap, insta, tiktok, youtube shorts

the notion of time is gonna be a new neurosocial topic
From the article:

> You might be thinking, “Okay, but now characters won’t line up neatly.”
Would such protections still apply if money is intended to be made? That is clearly the case, since its on Kickstarter.
As someone who seems to have insight: Are the actual workings of the patent system (not the letter of the law, but how it’s used esp by those with money) such that the right AI could be put in place to filter out the majority of bad-faith patents?
Well there is a big difference in sales taxes. When I first started regularly going to USA some friend or another would always ask to bring back an iPhone. Because sales tax here is 7% and VAT is 22% back home.
The game is based on an SCP article in which the store is an IKEA, so it's not a coincidence even if the developer omits the name.

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3008

Still, IKEA should chill out and be happy that they are a part of popculture.
I suspect, however, that Windows is a little more sophisticated in their implementation of the concept. "Starts with X" is a much wartier approach than (invented example) a rules-based framework that checks against exe metadata/checksum.
> I’m curious if you could give some examples of what you’re thinking of, the situations where there’s 0 payoff until all the work is done

Not op, but surgery strikes me as an example where there's effectively 0 pay-off until you finish everything. I personally wouldn't want the surgeon to sack it off without sewing me back up.
When shopping for a motorcycle camper you are going to want to be able to easily hook it up and go. Not to mention, it should be easy to set-up when you get to your destination.

No one likes a camper that is complicated, especially after a long day on the road in the fresh air. This is why most motorcycle campers are going to only require one person to set it up.
> Defaulting to he isn't bias, it's language feature of English since people didn't like using "it" to describe people, so "he" is a default singular pronoun.

This is not really true—certainly not anymore, at least—and from my vantage point has not ever been true at any point in my lifetime. Some style guides did continue to prescribe "he" in this way up until recently (maybe some still do), but that has never matched the way that any human that I've interacted with actually spoke. And I really do mean any—even the most crotchety/unenlightened/uneducated ones. If you had used "he" this way (outside of formal contexts, where it may have still been prescribed), then people would have looked at you like you're a fuckin' weirdo. Because it would have been weird. Because nobody said "he" unless they were talking about a specific (albeit possibly hypothetical/imaginary) person with the attributes that actually call for the use of "he", rather than "they/them".
Kudos!

I want to believe that those that pay their attention to and engage with their local community will have a higher quality of life.

Debating politics on the Internet is generally a waste of time. Debating with a real, intelligent person can sharpen your viewpoint and improve your relationship with that person.

Best of luck teaching the little ones this!
"Be the change change you wish to see in the world." — Arleen Lorrance†

† No Gandhi: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/10/23/be-change/
Cambridge Dictionary [1] says the following about "they":

"used to refer to a person whose gender is not known or does not need to be mentioned"

To me that pretty much sums it up.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/they
Anyone with a good understanding of the internet and social media should come to the conclusion that constantly projecting what is happening in your life is idiotic. What's more dangerous is putting the minds of the young and undeveloped on display for the world to see permanently.
Sadly, there are too many to write. We discuss them when they happen but all too often it's someone who was hugely important in one particular tiny community or specialism or something, and who the rest of the world has mostly never heard of.

If there isn't a writer who knows that area or that field, then it's hard to cover and explain adequately. A few have come up in my time on the Reg who are worthy of coverage but none of the available team really has relevant expertise. :-(
Fantastic response -- D.C.'s flagged initial comment reads as someone who tries to use a blinkered interpretation of language to avoid respecting non-binary peoples' pronouns, while failing to acknowledge the historical use of singular 'they.'

The article features frequent usage of Alon's name, to avoid using they/then as much, just as you would with he/she.

The briefest of searches for Alon's name shows their Twitter profile[1] with "(they/them)" as part of their account name -- which also includes their Mastodon profile[2], itself showing a pronoun box listing "They/them."

[1] https://twitter.com/alon_levy
[2] https://mastodon.social/@alon

It's a shame someone so educated appears to be getting riled up over something so small and trivial -- respecting Alon's pronouns neither harms anyone, nor makes the article any more difficult to read.
Watch this simple trick that only requires a chain, a paperclip and an arc welder

I swear five minutes craft copycats on Facebook are spiraling out of hands.
Parody for money is protected BUT you have to be parodying the thing iirc.

So Weird Al could have made all his songs without permission (but he gets it to be polite) - though he’d still have to pay licensing to use the music iirc.

There’s case law about it. Barbie Girl may be involved. Snoopy vs the Red Baron also.
Look up the story about why there was no Windows 9.
Which part is inaccurate/incomplete?
I don't quite understand the logical inference that occurs that Elon, the primary spokesperson and chief twit for Twitter may act erratically, but then no connection is made between the erratic tweeting and the exodus of advertisers, even though Elon's erratic behavior is specifically targeted at advertisers. Why does an unbiased take seem to put this entirely in the hands of "cancel culture". This says look at a persons actions over their speech, but for a person who's job it is to define the policies and culture of twitter, speech is action. The author discusses their lack of bias and allegiance to existing groups.

This idea may be a contentious point in and of itself, but I wonder if the author philosophically considers examining one's resulting views for bias that may not be intentional as part of being unbiased, or if unbiased may somehow mean unexamined.
Take a look, and discovery it!
> The shape of our politics, our ideology, and even our fundamental grasp of how the world works is, in some substantial way, up to the algorithms. According to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center, a quarter of people under 30 in the U.S. regularly get their news from TikTok clips. That number is growing. People are even turning to social-media video as a replacement for Google search.

> Whether the results of such swipes and searches lead us to enlightenment or drag our worldviews further down toward their least reconciliatory, most conspiratorial depths depends in part on AI.

Honestly, what is the solution?, in the eyes of Capitalism, these Companies are the ultimate winners.

They are creating more revenue, more activity, crushing the competition other than themselves.

Who's going to stop this? especially that no matter how many users complain, the numbers are always going higher, and every monetary incentive is pushing companies towards this AI time blackhole with infinite mass surveillance.

You might say regulation, but why would the U.S. ever handicap its companies when they are basically the new U.S. worldwide influence tool?

No matter what the people vote, these companies have an infinite lobbying budget.

You and me might not use Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook, but let's be honest, we are increasingly the minority.

> If such a system could, say, rank videos by how happy they are, it might help elevate more positive content and subdue the darker stuff: less vitriol, more virtue.

Isn't this even more dystopian?

Imagine there is crisis in Afghanistan, or a nuclear Activity in the east.

The algorithm would just simply filter all of that out, and leave you living in that mindless unrealistic view of the world.

Yes I agree, the algorithms and news coverage are way too negative these days, but removing negativity is not the solution at all, it's basically blinding people from the truth.

Instead of promoting miss-info, you are now hiding the news completely.
Does it matter if parody is for money? Comedians need to eat too.
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Nice idea, thanks! I've just ordered a few meters of wick and will try exactly this. The puddle actually isn't a puddle; it's more that the condensed water drips down the four sides of the interior walls and collects at the bottom where the walls hit the floor. I should thus be able to run the wick around the bottom of the freezer in the edge to collect most of the water.

The drain hole is in the bottom, so I can run the wick through it and out of the machine. I hope to simply be able to attach a shred of cloth or something to the end of the wick in order to evaporate the water away to the outside air. That would make a nice, maintenance-free solution.
I think it was necessary to build resilience, so it doesn’t affect you in a worse way when you are an adult
They talk about SPARK, but I never heard about it until now. Reading up on Wikipedia it seems an ADA derivative.

I assumed they were switching to Rust, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
I feel like this should be relatively fair-use under the guise of parody, right? Though I imagine the dev doesn't feel like going to court over it.
This should be at the top. Kudos to IKEA comms team for transparency and clarity in this statement
Maybe they're "Lost".

Sorry, I'll go away.
Found myself accidentally scrolling YouTube TikTok last night, wasn't a good feeling.

The SV giants have built a culture where creativity/innovation goes to die and only copying is rewarded. Ironic when thats what they used to say when they looked down at Chinese made software.

It's crazy when you see FB did try to make new social apps for a period with their "New Product Experimentation" team, but they would never give any of those new ideas the UI billing they'd give a Snap clone or TikTok clone. Always a bad sign when an org respects the ideas of the competitor more than their own team.
Well, the goal of running 68k Amiga programs on non-68k Amiga OS clones (AROS, MorphOS) at least.
Earth is flat locally, too, but if you travel along a line for 40,000 km, you return to your starting point. That doesn’t happen on a plane.

For this, the difference similarly only shows up over longer distances. That means more iterations. Spaceships will return where they left off.

Also, the specific topology matters: if a spaceship makes a tour around the world, it may appear to have flipped over on a Klein bottle.
I mean heroin is in high demand, but I'm not exactly sure if it's a good idea to give everyone an unlimited diet of it.
I disagree with Perfection and Premature Optimization quotes:

With the fossilization of hardware we can, and inevitably will, write the last software at some point.

There will be one best web-server, game-engine etc. for every domain.

It's just a question of time, and then that IS what those implementations will be: Perfect and Optimized to no end!

Together with simplification and other guidelines these projects will probably be <10.000 lines.

You need to be able to learn from them.

A project like Unity or Unreal might be open-source/source available but if it's so bloated nobody can understand it there is no value long term.
Don't make me remember the Python evangelists back in the day when they were targeting Perl.
I'm honestly of the mindset that at this point, the vast majority of patents, from what I've seen, don't pass the obviousness test. At least when it comes to process and software patents, which are very arguable in the first place.

I do with the costs for a patent were a bit front-loaded where it costs even half the total amount just to (re)apply, in order to better pay for the review costs.
The 32-bit Oracle 8i database will no longer run on modern Linux.

I forget the exact errors, but the software is simply too old.

I was also around for the tail end of the libc5 to glibc conversion, so I have definitely seen breaking change.
Not only does it keep users, but it allows producers to put the same stuff on Instagram, thus Insta users don't have the need to go to TikTok to see the hyped content. (While people say TikTok has the better suggestion algorithm, I never used either)
The score for Dunkirk includes a piece by Hans Zimmer that adapts one of the Enigma Variations:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5eeBoptaR9wfFe5csGjIMP?si=3b5...

One of the most beautiful uses of music in a movie in recent memory, IMO.
Well, it depends.

Linus T. is probably a 0.0001% programmer. One of the very best in the entire world. I mean, he wrote the core of Git, in what? a week?

But he is even more well-known for ... other ... attributes.

The thing is, he does best, when he constrains his invective for people contributing to the Linux kernel; one of the most important and critical pieces of software on Earth.

I can totally understand his position (although I would not do things the same way). I'm not sure that it makes me interested in becoming a Linux contributor (as if I'd be qualified, anyway). As far as I know, he has not gone onto other OS projects, and insulted their authors and maintainers.

But frankly, I'm glad that someone of his skill, that takes Quality as seriously as does he, is on the job at Linux. I am actually worried about what will happen, if he's no longer around. I hope that he has instilled as much fervor in the next generation.

Disclaimer: I worked at one of the most rigorous optical device manufacturers in the world, for most of my career. I ran into folks like that, on a regular basis. I often wanted to strangle them, but it was also an honor to work with them.