skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A quick check with a $10.00 outlet tester confirmed that there was a grounding issue. The tester confirmed that there was no ground.

> send in an electrician this time. They asked lots of questions, and then recommended that my air conditioner stay on a different outlet because there were two circuits. I tried this for a few days, but the issues still reappeared.

Either something is missing or both the author and the electrician are absolutely insane. There is a grounding issue, which could mean anything from a broken outlet to incompetent wiring throughout the house, and they aren't thinking about fixing it immediately? Let's try a workaround for a few days? I have no words.
Panel with the Go Team (GopherCon Europe 2022)
Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism
While Plan 9 is cool and such, I prefer what they built afterwards with the lessons of Plan 9, while trying to compete against Java and Sun.

Inferno and Limbo, which tend to be ignored with too much focus on Plan 9, a middle stop in their whole experience designing OSes and programming languages after being done with UNIX and C.
Yes, I run my own sites monetized mainly with ads.
'Winter' in calendar, solar terms in the Northern hemisphere , also called astronomical winter, starts on 21st December and ends on 20th March (there might be a one day shift now and then?). That is, the period from the winter solstice until the spring equinoxe. This is written on most calendars and that is what Google tells you when you look up 'winter'. I am flabbergasted that you never heard of that...

Now, usually the other definition people use relates to their locate climate for practical purposes.
Letting Russia do whatever they want is arguably not a great strategy towards stopping proliferation, since it sends the message that you're free to do as you please if you have nukes.
Net Zero by 2050 and peaking global emissions before 2030 should be enough to meet the 1.5C target according to the IPCC.

Assuming we follow that plan and don't hit any tipping points, we should stay under 3C, but yeah it's possible.
It probably depends on local codes, but:

>and the outlet was correctly grounded using my water heater as ground, according to my outlet tester.

I don't think that grounding to a water heater (please read as to water plumbing) is correct.
This was a really fun idea and was well executed. Thanks!
"wa" is the pronunciation of "凹"

Chinese is a kind of hieroglyph. The shape of "凹" is very similar to the logo of this project, and it looks like the letter "C" rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. So it maybe means a C/Coder that lies down.
It's performative in exactly the same way I grew up among with evangelical extremists. You can't reduce moral decisions and ethics to some sort of karmic account balance. Functionally EA allows its promotors to rebrand self interest as actually altruism. It becomes an all purpose end to justify any means. A thought ending cliche to avoid engaging with the actual complexity.
> If you do this, then you'll have total control over your moderation policy.

The solution to fragmented servers is not another self hosted disconnected server?
I love the gallery-ception:

https://oimo.io/works
It's obvious that there is plenty of unsustainable activity going on today; I've given three concrete examples. This is reality: it is simply not long term sustainable to go on living with such waste as we do even today, let alone if everybody consumed like an American (many × over the world average, depending on if you look at energy, emissions, resources). So it's obvious that we both can and need to become more efficient: reduce waste, use more renewable energy, build lasting products instead of single-use, etc.

Your answer to this is "the only way to reduce resource use is population culling, the global elite wants to enact reproductive control" x))

But one thing we agree with, this conversation is utterly pointless!
Now, that is interesting concept. I will. :)
Hedge fund admits half its capital stuck on FTX exchange
No, the OS was a mess. The UI split was the root of the nightmare.

Nokia were "running" (perhaps should read ruining) Symbian well before they bought it. They were only one of the four or was it five co-owners, but they ran rings around the others when pressuring Symbian leadership. They were the only phone manufacturer with a dedicated product support org, and their pre-prod devices were available in core engineering teams unlike Moto et al. Nokia were the key players to create a Symbian OS core without a coherent UI (Techview lol), no TCP/IP stack, no telephony stack. They helped reduce Symbian OS to swiss cheese because they were so concerned with with recouping their investment from gen 1 SOS products and terrified their competitors at the time got a tiny leg up.
> The only way we will see industrial level quality open source parametric CAD is with either a new modern kernel

Is there even open literature (books, papers, anything) for someone to understand what a modern kernel would look like?

I don’t doubt it would be a formidable challenge to develop one, but is the shape-of-it/api and interface of it well understood, or is this knowledge siloed away in a few companies?
QuestPDF is an open-source .NET library for PDF documents generation
This library is probably the most full-featured, well-documented open source PDF libraries I ever came across. Implementing it right now for a small app I'm building and it's simple & fun to use.

Can't believe it's developed by one single dev and it's MIT-licensed. Really happy this exists, as before this there were almost only paid/commercial PDF libraries in the .NET ecosystem.
> well, at least twitter is a well established, extremely visible corp

Oh yeah, that worked out great with the planet-destroying overlords that are the oil companies. No, this is a terrible heuristic.
interesting hypothetical with the mass shooter. crypto regulations being what they are, you would need some equivalent of a "good guy with a gun" to take out the bad one.
Nah. I see it different.

It shows you how stupid and greedy people and algorithms can be. They take unvetted input and blindly run with it? Really? That existed long before Twitter. It's not Twitter's fault that stupid scales so easily.

When will The Media and Wall Street - and political leaders? - learn that Twitter is a source of info *that must be vetted*. Ignoring that fact, and letting your internal biases get the best of you is simply not an option *anywhere on the internet*.
I was not allowed to donate blood because the nurse noticed I started to look pale before I even got stuck with the needle.
There's a line describing this in a failed US version of the cop drama Prime Suspect... I forget the exact wording but it's some grizzled cop talking about how their job is to protect the herd from the carnivorous sheep in it.
Fortunately i learnt my lesson in early stage of my career i.e my first job which was an employment with a big corporate well oiled machine. After 1.5 years I did quit my job and became freelancer.The approach i follow is time Vs Money.I am selling my time to some one and the buyer gets to decide what am i required to do for the time they bought. In turn am getting paid in money. I love my work, with regards to people i consider every one of my colleague as my friend. I keep it simple when dealing with people at work, i try to behave like mirror and reflect what i get.I help who ever requires it and try to provide info to people who do not have it so they can understand better.Have trained junior dev members.Helped them with their job search.
Yes, I'm getting that nostalgia kick and the interactions I was seeking. Getting any of that was an very uphill battle on Twitter.
And I can't confirm the truth of this:

https://twitter.com/AltcoinPsycho/status/1591312517049257984

But apparently both FTX and FTX US were both hacked meaning the probability of this being an insider job just increased an order of magnitude or two.
there's a best of both worlds: re-synthesis. In FL Studio, a nice technique is bouncing a bunch of lead/synth/reese sounds, picking the best (helps if its a time measure that makes sense) - then importing it into Harmour (a Resynthesis VST) - the sound is recreated with 512(?) partials (aka sine waves) then those sounds can be manipulated to oblivion :)
Have you ever tried to code any non-trivial application for Symbian / S60?

If you ever did, the business opportunity to build a mobile platform with any sort of half-sane API will immediately scream very loudly at your face - and that's exactly what Apple did with iOS. The rest is History.

A real sad story - the hardware was quite capable for the time.
>If you do this, then you'll have total control over your moderation policy.

My impression was that many apply transitive banning? So that if I peer with a “bad” server A then good server B will block me even though my personal posts may be fine.
I've always wondered. Bell Labs' Inferno, Sun's JavaOS, and Microsoft's Singularity were built on the same principles of OS being almost entirely built on top of a virtual machine, and it's a very interesting idea from many points of view. But all of them seem to have failed to gain enough traction to enter the mainstream.

Was there any reason for that? Were the CPUs not powerful enough, or were the compilers not quite there yet? Or did it have more to do with the business side of things?
I find it very hard to believe you don’t know that winter starts on specific dates every year. Not really sure how grandparents fit into it either.
Back in the early 2000s, I was the (very short tenured) leaseholder of iam.coop, until I fell short of their registration requirements.
I guess you are right, the rabbit hole is quite deep. I spent a long time in it to make my own side-project: https://rembrob.com/

It is loosely based on the process described here: https://yunfei.work/watercolor/watercolor_pp.pdf and I though this can't be too hard...

I found it challenging to combine high resolution results with reasonable processing times.
I believe proxy can still refer to a human. For example
in voting.
The worst code:

- Duplicates large, dumb patterns in slightly different ways throughout

- Lacks coherent naming or compartmentalization: it's just a pile of shit (statements or expressions)

- Lacks testing

- Is difficult and unpleasant to read

- Is ugly: not formatted, inconsistently formatted, and lacks any sort of regularity

- Combines many functions into god objects and god functions without clear intent. Who knows what any of that crap is supposed to do, or if it's even doing anything correctly

- If not lacking comments, contains useless boilerplate comments that take up visual real estate

- Verbosely reinvent low-level constructs poorly

- Live as numerous, fragile, interdependent pieces scattered across many files and time (runtime)

- Are configured in unclear and confusing ways that create incompatible states that break

- Includes code that is never used

- Contains fragments of experiments that were never discarded

- Combined and abstracts over opaque units of other junk that doesn't behave properly

- Doesn't sanitize untrusted input

- Doesn't give the user sensible feedback

- Makes the user do unnecessary steps themselves

- Acts in unpredictable ways

- Tries to solve a problem that never needed solving to begin with

- Prematurely optimizes the previous
Don’t you think bioengineering the eco system on such a large scale and at such a fundamental level is too risky?
SpiderLightning – A Cloud System Interface with WebAssembly
Bitcoin is neutral and almost uninfluentiable by any single party. It‘s neutral, all the rules are out there, nobody has an information advantage. With Ethereum it‘s a bit more difficult because it has a history of being very transparent but there is still Vitalik as the BDFL. Almost everything else in „crypto“ is a mostly centralized system with the same points of failure as traditional financial systems (IoUs => bank rund). It is dishonest to conflate Bitcoin with all these possible scams. I hope Ethereum can establish itself as a neutral, natural law kind of system as well (removing Vitalik from the equation). Because on top of Ethereum more people can built trust less systems that can have bugs but that can‘t really be scams because all the mechanics are public and nobody can have an information advantage.
That is lovely.
It is pretty simple, he didn't want to back out. The stock market fell out and he wanted to renegotiate the price.
Why does every instance need a copy of posted assets? Is that really the case?
No, it's nothing like that. We're going to need PeerTube when YouTube reaches the bottom of its spiral of doom and we'll need Matrix when Signal eats shit as well (maybe sooner than we think.) That there is more than Mastodon to the Fediverse matters.
It’s also funny that in certain instances crypto is perfectly designed to easily catch these behaviours (since the ledgers are public)
Call a mate and get them to browse on your behalf
That (at least in EU) is a Class II insulated device (as most low power chapters/adapters):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appliance_classes#Class_II

But I have seen laptop chargers with earth/ground, I guess it depends.

From the overall description it seems to me more likely that for some reasons only indirectly connected to the poor grounding the AC unit introduced some kind of spurious (or stray) voltage on the neutral.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stray_voltage
> you open /net/tcp/clone to reserve a connection, and read the connection ID from it. Then you open /net/tcp/n/ctl and write "connect 127.0.0.1!80"

This feels so ham fisted to me. Why not just open /net/tcp/127.0.0.1/80? I am sure there are reasons, but if the goal is to make everything a file, this feels like a more natural representation.
If you want to setup Gmail/Gsuite with Mutt/notmuch, I wrote up an article on how to do so here: https://www.jevy.org/articles/neomutt-lieer-notmuch/

Hope it helps!
You rarely see business requirements. You see an interpretation of them. Your job as an engineer is to understand the actual business requirements so you can question the interpretation of them and then simplify it.

With that said, many requirements are technical and then you've even bigger freedom.
I always wonder about escape plans when people are doing really dodgy things with large amounts of money.

Do you come up with an escape plan when you start doing the thing you know is probably illegal and will definitely get you in serious trouble if it doesn't work?

Or do you just convince yourself it's gonna work, because it worked for long enough to convince you that you're too smart to fail?

I think I'd get me an extradition-proof mountaintop lair if I had even tens of millions and they were squeaky clean. Because you never know, right?

(Or, maybe I watch too many movies.)
Internal documents show how close the FBI came to deploying Pegasus spyware
ZX81 isometric game One Little Ghost (2012)
> "towards a presentation-independent data format for text"

Wikitext is more suitable than Markdown for this role though less ergonomic.

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikitext
The ctl file also lets you control other connection settings, such as keep alive. It would also be unfortunate to run ls in /net/tcp and dump the entire IPv4/6 space into your terminal.
I have always known that winter according to social convention AND official calendars starts on December 1 every year. I have also known the scientific meteorological definition which is based on temperature.
Apple products are generally just better, eco system or not. Apple almost literally defines the industry particularly in ergonomics.

Right now Apple can be thought of as a good king. They have more often than not chosen consumer centric strategies to consumer exploitative stratagies.

However absolute power corrupts absolutely, and apple is starting to make business first rather than consumer first decisions. App store moving to a more subscription based model was apple dipping it's toe into customer exploitation. As apple skirts the line of ads, it turns icloud backups and your entire photo library into a treasure trove of information to be exploited and profited from.

If apple ever thinks that they are in a position where people would not move to competitors, or there are no competitive competitors it means apple can choose to exploit their lead at the cost of consumers, like every other big tech company has done over time.

Using iCloud is one step further to Apple lock in and one more vote to giving apple power over your digital life.

Steve Jobs was a vision guy, but Tim Apple is a capitalist, next quarters profit kind of guy. Next quarters profit people see a brand, not as something to be protected, but as something to be exploited.
(But also buggy...)
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq2hOlC97SQ
Great article. Some of my thoughts and experiences:

-- most medical school cadavers look like jerky and smell weird
-- most medical schools (in the UK at least) do not like students doing dissection; they prefer prosection (where someone competent has already made the cut)
-- it was, for me, an increasingly weird feeling to realise that the images seen on medical imaging -- particularly axial (cross-sectional) t2 weighted MRI images, really really do look like reality, but with the colours in grey and white rather than odd shades of red, white and pink
-- nobody feels emotional about a liver
-- everybody feels emotional about hands, and doesn't expect to when they go in
-- for actually understanding the Latin names of everything and the typical decorative layout of the human body, VR or just plain medical imaging are pretty damn good, arguably better than aforesaid interestingly smelling jerky
-- for actually understanding that your future career will involve dealing with people's children or possibly parents in dire situations, that we are all naked under our clothes (and should just get over it as a society), and that, yes, we are all going to die, the dissection room can't be beat.
TRY: Try Repeating Yourself (as in, "Try repeating yourself first, and if that works, then good! If it doesn't, then okay, fix it then—but not before trying first.")
> And now we have websites where clicking a link does nothing until a few seconds later the page content suddenly changes.

Worse yet, sometimes people do "page" transitions in JS event handlers, which means that all of the sudden you no longer can ctrl/shift + click these UI elements to open up the page in a new tab/window, or even copy the link.

Not that well made SPA solutions aren't pleasant to use, it's just that you can do all sorts of weird things that make using them miserable.
It's zoning out, letting mind loose. Feels a bit like traveling, too.

I checked how Total Drivin' looked. Have a look at http://dos-scholar.blogspot.com/2011/04/test-drive-iii-passi..., if you want to see TD3.
The Elite Israeli Military Unit 8200
Why prospective parents are turning to social media for sperm donations
There is a much simpler reason big code bases have less bugs. The size of the codebase is correlated with the investment a company is making into this codebase A larger code base will have seen many peer reviews from different Engineers over its lifetime, and as it is likely of the companies core products, a lot of testing, both internally by the test team, and externally by customers.

On the other hand my hacky script, put together on a sunny summer afternoon, has zero love from senior management as they probably don't even know it exists.
Uhm I find the conclusion here quite unsatisfactory. Like I have plugged in many things without grounding and never had issues like this. It sounds to me like there were more issues that are now masked by working grounding.
Stocks and derivatives are not the only types of securities. I don't really see what you're getting at here.

For most people, the only important part of what you call "ownership" are the cash benefits (buybacks, dividends, and acquisitions). You can see this from the small price difference between GOOG and GOOGL.
We don't know whether they misrepresented the situation or not.

But what we do know is that they had no Board of Directors and the level of independent oversight was completely inadequate given the sums of money involved.

If I was the SEC I would do nothing and simply remind investors like Sequoia of their responsibility to do basic due diligence. Because I really don't know how you can class them as professional investors given the level of incompetence.
In the ex-USSR there was usually no grounding at all. All plugs had just 2 pins. Even if the socket is new, the wiring most often isn't.

Everything works mostly normal, except that you can have 110 (220/2 via capaciator bisection) volts with large impedance on "supposedly grounded" metal surfaces to give you minor shocks/uncomfortable feeling.
All reasonable points, and potentially insurmountable challenges. Also whatever it is, needs to have incremental utility, otherwise there's no road from the present to the future for it.

Also to repeat a minor rant of mine, anyone designing a would be successor to Etherium should think very deeply about programming language theory and consult/engage with experts in that community. Much pain could be avoided by finding types and semantics appropriate to automated contracts.
If you migrate to another server, don’t you lose all your followers, who will still be following @you@oldserver ?
They made a material that doesn't exist on Earth. Just the start of the story
App Identifies Parkinson’s, Covid-19 Based on User’s Voice
The thing is Nokia was not a software first company. It was a phone/electronics company so that's where the decision making was biased. Someone here posted that the Symbian repos were in such a mess that compiling the OS would take over 2 days and nobody in management saw a problem with that.

It's easy now in hindsight to say they could have won the market with a software ecosystem but back then that was not clear for them.

It was clear for Apple since they had the experience monetizing the iTunes ecosystem and they were a software focused company.
This uses Baileys [0] which appears to reverse-engineer the protocol Whatsapp uses for it's web app.

[0]: https://github.com/adiwajshing/Baileys
And shouldn’t there be exactly one grounding point per building and definitely not one outlet randomly grounded to a pipe? Not an electrician but I’m pretty sure that’s a major code violation and safety hazard.
There is also no legal requirement for democracy. We re talking about the principle
The following are the primary goals of AI:

It assists you in reducing the amount of time required to complete specific tasks.
Increasing the ease with which humans can interact with machines.
Increasing the naturalness and efficiency of human-computer interaction.
Improving the accuracy and speed with which medical diagnoses are made.
assisting people in learning new information more quickly
Improving interaction between humans and machines.
How was his compensation negotiated? Obviously, you would need to be paid a lot to wade into this shit show but at the same time, every dollar paid to him is a dollar out of a creditor's pocket. What are the incentives on every side driving this negotiation?
Were you simply being uncooperative?

(Couldn't resist)
I don't think that would be a good thing.

Google used to host the biggest xmpp server (google talk), and then they defederated from the rest of the network.