skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not trying to correct, just to be helpful:

I find personally that some watches are extremely uncomfortable, and some I barely feel.

The small, thin watches that don't get hung up on clothing etc work well for me. Timex weekender, and Casio F91W-1. Of course, they have pretty limited utility. Time & alarm.

All the bigger, nicer watches I've tried are uncomfortable, and that's coming from someone who wears a watch basically every day.

Bands can matter a lot, as well. I have a very small "tightness" range where it's tight enough not to slide around, but not so tight that it hurts at all. The bands with a bunch of holes in them sometimes don't have a hole where I need it.
How many billions does retail need to lose to scams that are perpetrated by the auditors and the SEC before you admit that the phrase "with the full faith and confidence of the US Gov" is an unfunny joke?

I do not get why it's so hard to conceive that you can use crypto to build a system where you don't have to trust that people are doing the correct thing, as it's mathematically ensured by the system itself that no shenanigans are occurring.

The only "trust me bro" that is occurring in crypto comes from CENTRALIZED entities (such as CEXs, Tether, etc) and from people running scams where money appears out of thin air.
That is exactly freedom of expression. The first amendment protects against government action, which it did in both cases. What it does not and cannot do is force other people to continue doing business with someone, as that would violate their own rights to free expression.

It's shocking how common this misconception is recently. To maintain our democracy citizens need to understand and care about civics. If we reach a critical mass of people who fundamentally don't care what the constitution says, we are in for big problems.
I never thought a geographical term would be that contentious. To me, it sounds similar to objecting to the continent(s) known as "the Americas" simply because the USA is often known world-wide as just "America".
That's cool and and me too, but I don't see how that relates to my use-case. None of us were lost or in fear or un-findable without Briar, it just made the trip more convenient for coordinating time and place between multiple parties.
Maybe I just need anti-depressants, but how does everyone else just carry on with the absurd hypocrisy in the world?

Elon says he's going to tweak Twitter moderation from "ban" to "don't spread, but don't delete" for problematic posts. Reaction: American corporations publicly proclaim they're leaving the platform and cutting their advertisement budgets.

Qatar builds stadiums using slave labor, sends rape victims to jail, treats gay people as sub-human. Reaction: Carry on advertising and sponsorships as usual.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the situation or maybe complying w/ Qatar now somehow eventually makes the world a better place in the future? Or if someone can just tell me Prozac/Adderall/Zoloft/something just makes this feel fine and lets you carry on, that'd work too.
Actually those are just the skills you need to work efficiently in any knowledge-work environment. The people who lack those just suck up everyone else’s time.
Geothermal is not the same as drilling holes down into the earths crust. Geothermal is tapping into natural release of heat from the earth.
“There Are Infinitely Many Mersenne Prime Numbers” Paper Retracted
I like that it's another example where web developers made something that systems developers haven't been able to.
Panos Panay took over Windows Experience in early 2020, and I think these are the results of that effort. While it was clear that Windows needed a coherent vision and direction from a leader, this certainly isn't what I had hoped for.
I'm not seeing this behavior on multiple Windows 11 machines.

When I type "inventor" I see files, web, document and then app results.

After my 3rd or 4th test, I saw Bing web results in the right hand panel which did include ads (ironically for the exact software you mentioned).

Are these the ads to which you are referring?
So, TLDR is One does not simply "drive" into mordor?
> Using language that includes a group isn't a cost that is born by those not in the group

Exactly. Using „woman“ isn‘t a cost to the tiny majority that feels excluded by that word.
>>>>> Why are people still using parsers for untrusted input in C?

No matter what the parser itself is written in, if you're writing in C you'll be using the parser in C.
Which article did you read?

> Alex felt mischievous, and wondered how far his prank could go. He asked himself what would happen if he created a Wikipedia article entirely devoted to the supposed inventor of the toaster.

> To illustrate it, Alex grabbed a photo of himself and edited it to look like an image from the 1800s - this was the very same photo that, years later, would catch Adam's eye.
We are different because evolution depends on it.
The jump to 1080p from 480p is very, very noticeable— I own Firefly on both DVD and Blu-Ray, and I accidentally watched a few minutes of an episode on the DVD version before being like.... wait, what? and then realizing what had happened and switching discs.

However, IMO the jump from 1080p to 4K is way more marginal. It's definitely better, but it's just not that much better than what your TV's built in upscaler can do, nevermind some future AI-powered DLSS-type upscaler.
Graphics designers don't have much choice because even if they decide they are entirely fine with free program, the graphics design world runs on Adobe file formats. Not the case for programming
I prefer DVD to Blu-ray because

- Ripping DVDs I own is simple and reliable.

- Ripping my Blu-rays is complicated, error-prone, and expensive (custom software, custom hardware)

- I'm macOS-based and there is no first-party Blu-ray player for macOS.

- Third-party Blu-ray apps are awful and unreliable and they jank through ripped Blu-rays.

As a result, I stopped buying Blu-rays because ripped DVDs provide the security/longevity of physical media with the convenience of digital accessibility.
You've completely missed the point.
Security firms are turning NYC's street trees into surveillance posts for guards
As far as I can tell you’re the only one mired in a semantic debate.

The list of signs of a cult above is a useful rubric for determining if an organizational is harmful. And as others have noted the technical term “high-demand organization” has grown specifically to leave behind the religious implications of “cult”, though language moves slow and many will still use that term day to day.

Are there any organizations you’ve been involved in that have been called a cult?
Because it’s NASA and the primary audience is American tax payers who funded this.
I buy physical media and rip them into a digital library. Subscription based digital media is great, but they can yank the rights at any moment.
I’m just sample size = 1. I switched to telecommuting during the pandemic, which let me move away from the city. Instead of taking public transportation to the office and walking to the store, I now walk to the (home) office and take the car to the store.

So while I’m certainly spending a lot less time in total on transportation, the mode of transportation is much worse for the environment.
This is it right here. There’s been an enormous amount of blame shifting onto consumers, who have almost nothing to do with environmental impacts, as if not using plastic straws could have any impact whatsoever. This is intentional on the part of government as it confuses voters into thinking the problem has been solved or is a moral failing.

Our leaders know full well that consumers and corporations have no power to act on this themselves. They will suck up any resources presented to them in the lowest energy configuration. Capitalism demands it. Regulation and governance is the only solution to tragedy of the commons. All else is noise being created by leaders who have been bought and paid for.
Commodore LCD portable recreation project
Why must people be represented on armbands? It wasn't a big thing to wear the Star of David at events during WWII to stand in solidarity. It's quite creepy if you ask me.
It’s pretty obviously an astronaut looking out at space. Buzz (Aldrin/Lightyear), get it? Would it be an issue if it did resemble an Islamic symbol?
Just update a demo box on the website so you can try it live.
Elon Musk went on a firing frenzy at Twitter. Now he's paying for it
>Actually there is one thing people are starting to desire -- less choice.

Maybe not less but easier choices. It's hard to tell which frying pan is the best when there's 100 nearly identical listings all with 5000+ 5 star ratings which may or may not have been gamed. There's not a great way to tell the objective quality of a product before you buy it.
It's not that big of a change, in the grand scheme of things. But it's also not the only thing you can do. The memory safe subset of C++ is also an option.

Shipping a CVE in critical infrastructure because of a trivial memory safety bug is borderline negligence in 2022. This is why people get upset over new code being written in C. The cost of writing new portions of the software with memory safety in mind dwarfs the cost of writing in C because it's more convenient for the build tooling.

The bigger question is why hasn't OpenSSL bitten the bullet and adopted some memory safety guarantees in their tooling, given the knowledge of the sources of these bugs and prevalent literature and tools in avoiding them!
As a software developer with my own business, Jetbrains was the only piece of software that I paid for. Everything else was open source.
Women are defined by being able to give birth during their fertile years if they are healthy.
As predicted, the thing that finally turns me to using a Linux Desktop is not that it has become better but that Windows has become so much worse.

I'm sticking with 10, but it will be my last Windows unless something drastically changes at Microsoft before VR on Linux stops being such a shit show.
If we don't experiment with getting off of this rock, we're dooming the lives of all known living organisms in the known universe.

An entire universe, void of all life, that doesn't get to experience itself deeply saddens me. Though that might just be the fitness-function within me talking.
People attend church for a wide variety of reasons and it’s good not to over simplify them. Plenty of people with widely varying amounts of belief still attend for a wide variety of reasons.

Some attend to keep peace in their families. Or because it is a social group with which they have a long history. Or because the emotional support of a pastor helps them. Some attend because it would break their parent’s hearts if they didn’t.

For most religions, one can be crazily all in, or just showing up for the donuts afterward. You can’t tell just by looking.

One might complain about how that is inauthentic or just putting on a show, but even that is too simple.

Human motivation is deeply complex and oversimplifying it doesn’t do justice to our humanity.
Isn't that itch.io nowadays? Sort by popularity and filter for free, and you should be good to go. :)
When I am studying I print and annotate notes. Handwriting is far superior to typing for me.
I actually think I developed a preference for some colours and combinations based on using HyperNeWS, which had a particularly tasteful set of colour combinations (at least for 1990 or so!).
There needs to be another "fart content" dimension to the Bristol Stool Scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
yeah this didn't seem right to me either
I do not have this worry about the biggest cloud providers, actually. I do have this worry about basically everything outside of the IT sector -- particularly the industrial and agricultural sectors.
1. Well don’t write in C then if your program is security critical or going to be exposed over a network. Sure, there are some targets that require C, but that’s not the case for the vast majority of platforms running OpenSSL.

2. That’s still less of a problem as the C will then be handling trusted data validated by the safe langauge.
> I don’t choose them; they choose me.

This is shockingly true to life, considering how I have DID and many of the personalities in my system happened of their own accord.
Parser generators are one of the oldest ideas in computer science. YACC was written in the 70s; and had to be ported to C because it's original implementation was written in B.

The idea of not writing parsers directly was well established by the time OpenSSL started in the late 90s.
We just went through an election in the US, and there were ads all over my physical place. And billboards. And now LED billboards. And LED billboard vehicles and boats.
except in this case, given its title, the document almost certainly does exactly that: "ISO 497:1973, Guide to the choice of series of preferred numbers and of series containing more rounded values of preferred numbers" (mentioned in the answer on the post that was used to close the one HN links to).

The fact that ISO documents aren't just free PDF files with all rights past "viewing" locked down, charging businesses money for hard copies, is still one of the most blatant ways in which the ISO has held, and continues to hold back the world.
But it has nothing to do with manned spaceflight. U.S. is beyond doubt the space power #1 today, and it has nothing to do with manned flights.
It is somehow telling that you link to a Twitter post instead to a post on clutter.social.
There's a lot of truth in that :D

On the whole I think that the value of "diagrams as the source of truth" turned out to be almost non-existant for much the same reasons that mostly we prefer source code over visual programming environments.

Flowcharts were never all that useful (to me at least) because they were harder to read than the pseudocode!

I use draw.io (diagrams.net) or Miro depending on what's in commonest use at the current Org for informal data flow diagrams and the like. Does Microsoft have some kind of Visio descended monster in Office 365? I hope I never have to find out!

I use PlantUML¹ for sequence diagrams² and state diagrams. So much so that I wish GitHub and its brethren would support PlantUML natively in their flavours of Markdown.

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¹The IntelliJ plugin is mercifully good

²Or swimlanes.io is quite good for these, especially for sharing ephemeral stuff
Setecmen
The stereotype of nerds looking a certain way probably has a slight basis in truth.

I've heard wearing eyeglasses is correlated to intelligence (though I assume weakly).
Same as it looks coming out of your nose or throat - clear to whitish/yellowish.
They are all stinkers.
Thanks. It was such a wordy rehash of cult deprogramming literature that I couldn't read through it.
I learned to drive from GTA III (before I had my license). I'm convinced the reflexes developed playing that game saved me from what could have been a bad accident in real life.

I was driving on an interstate and traffic went from wide open (70 mph) to stopped. The end of the line of stopped cars was just over the crest of an overpass (so I couldn't see), and I was in a compact car (lower to the ground, and I'm short, so doubly couldn't see the stopped vehicles over the crest of the overpass).

With no time to stop, and almost no time to react, I instinctively avoided the stopped car and S-turned onto the shoulder, which gave me stopping distance. I don't think I could have reacted this quickly without video game-reflexes. The pickup truck that had been behind me locked up his brakes and screeched to a halt occupying the space my car would have been, if I had even been able to stop.

Side note, this is also why it REALLY annoys me to see impatient drivers in traffic jams dipping out onto the shoulder to "have a look." In fact in the event I described I only barely stopped behind someone else who had gone onto the shoulder. In that case I don't know whether that person went onto the shoulder after traffic slowed, or if like me they'd barely avoided hitting the line of stopped cars.
Fuzz testing has a very high chance of detecting bugs, especially these kind, but you do need to at least check that the fuzzer is reaching the relevant code!
To play devils advocate, most cooking does not require the kind of precision that warrants getting out a small scale to measure the weight of crushed peppercorns. Not just because these things are season-to-taste, but also, because the average person cooking a meal can instantly translate cranks of pepper compared to a small unit of weight. Most home recipes also measure ingredients by volume rather than weight, so I can understand this.
Establishing consensus is more difficult than a single person deciding what to merge, if you need a trustless system then you can add consensus on top of Git.
I actually hate it
As sibling mentions, the issue is with overusing the default style. Another pattern could be to use a secondary outlined style, making skip as prominent as the default.
So far my favorite books of 2022 are:

Political

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Why We're Polarized

Breaking the Two Party Doom Loop: The Case for Multiparty Democracy in America

I liked these two books together because they are two sides to the same coin and offers something I feel a lot of political books don't, a hope for a better America. Both books offer perspectives on this history of the political parties and how we have gotten to this point.

World

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How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

Vaclav Smil is an amazing author, his latest book really covers a range of topics from energy to food and how solving these problems are not as simple as people think. If you like these types of books, his other book (more dense) Energy and Civilization: A History is something I would highly recommend.

Leadership

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To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Leadership has been a big topic for me recently to explore and out of the books I have read these three have opened my mind. I was in the Navy for severals years and so To Risk It All and Extreme Ownership really resonated with me. Execution is a great book as well and the three of them really cover the core of leadership, making hard choices, ownership, and execution based in reality.

Some of these books are new and a few of them are older, but these and several others are books I have read this year and have found them very enjoyable. I will also put out there if you like business an honorable mention of "Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't" which also was a pretty good read about how some businesses have done well and beaten the market while other industry giants have not.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52098718-why-we-re-polar...

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44244963-breaking-the...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56587388-how-the-world-r...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31850765-energy-and-civi...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58885774-to-risk-it-all

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23848190-extreme-ownersh...

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1635.Execution

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76865.Good_to_Great
Aviation regulators push for automation so flights can be run by single pilot
No- UK always meant GB and (parts of) Ireland;
Wales has been part of the Kingdom of England for far longer, nearly 500 years. Though the chances of Welsh secession would increase if NI and Scotland leave!
May have to do with posture or body alignment, less than the watch.

My data point: much like GP, I experience discomfort if I wear my (smart/big) watch while programming. Also if I wear a small watch too tightly.

I get a sensation in my pinky that's a lot like what you feel with a pinched nerve.

I just take the watch off if I'm going to be using the keyboard for any period of time. Gaming especially bothers it.

Notably, I rest my left wrist on the laptop body underneath the keyboard area. If I kept my wrists perched in the air, I doubt I would have any of this going on at all.
It definitely does work like a BSP tree.

The issue to me is that a tree is a data structure, but the meshes in I, Robot are encoded as literal subroutines of machine instructions. There is no tree to traverse, the Mathbox simply executes the instructions as it encounters them.

These aren't even "interpreted" (fake) instructions for a software VM (like Sweet16). They're literal instructions for the custom Mathbox microcode. The Mathbox executes the instructions, and outputs polygons to the display list as told.

It's a lot like a compiler optimization that unrolls a loop inline... Can you even call it a loop once it's unrolled? In this case, it's as if a BSP was created, then turned into literal instructions for a custom machine. Many times the polygons were duplicated in the code (in-lining polys works faster than branching back). It blurs the line between code and data.

I'm really blown away by the sophistication of the I, Robot Mathbox... The microcode was exceedingly complex, much more than just some fast matrix math (like Battlezone etc). It executed instructions to compute dot products, which would potentially result in X/Y/Z points being multiplied by a rotation matrix, projected, and written as polygons to the display list, for later rasterization by a different processor altogether.

Anyhow it's fun to revisit this stuff :)
So is the fundamental problem with blockchain, as described here anyway, that you can basically do all of the cool parts of blockchain that people get excited about, but using a central service instead?

I feel like I don't really understand that, because wouldn't that mean you'd have to re-solve a lot of problems on your own, with your own team? Wouldn't it be easier to figure out how to plug blockchain into this central service instead?
CFA Franc
Ive been running windows 7 all this time on an i7 from 2011. Haven't had any issues running the software I need. Now that Chrome and likely Firefox are abandoning 7 in 2023 I'm going to move that machine to Linux. It's going to suck a bit as I use a few MS only CAD and industrial programs but that is what VM's are for. MS can take a long walk on a short pier. I don't tolerate abuse.
No links to their Github on the main pages. Here it is to save you effort
http://github.com/berty/berty

Personally, I find the "Stargazers over time" graph on the README to be a massive turn off. Why are so many people obsessed about Github stars.
But the article says that floating vs non-floating has little to do with fat content. It's the gases generated by bacteria that cause the stool to float, not the fat.
No heat pumps are a new thing here. Not typical at all. Most people have gas furnaces.
Each dollar diverted to nukes from solar and wind brings climate catastrophe nearer.

The money spent on coal alone while waiting for a nuke to come online would suffice to build out enough solar and wind to match the nuke's output. The money spent on the nuke itself would pay for many times that much solar and wind. The solar and wind would start displacing carbon emissions almost immediately, not many years later. Displacement would increase throughout construction, and power generated early would help fund subsequent construction.