skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Netware 3 and later loaded from DOS. It couldn't boot itself; it started by running an EXE file from DOS. (Netware 2.x was the last version that could cold-boot itself from hard disk.)

But it didn't have to run on DOS. It later supported loading on OS/2 as well.

Then your Netware server was a process running under a multitasking OS.

Result, non-dedicated Netware server that could run server apps right alongside Netware with its famed performance, quite a few years before the first PC hypervisor was implemented. Now this is easy; in the 1990s it was next to impossible.

But neither IBM nor Novell saw this as the potential killer feature it could have been.

If IBM had bought Novell (instead of Red Hat), or Novell had licensed a cut-down OS/2 and bundled it with Netware as the host OS... :shrug:

Instead, it bolted a new filesystem onto Netware, added an X11 server, added Java, and tried to piecemeal turn Netware into a Unix-a-like non-dedicated server OS... which turned it into a bit of a bloated mess, and destroyed Netware's lean, mean elegance.

https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/07/16/netware_4_anniv...
Pascal is great as a teaching language because of its simple syntax. It is also a pre-OO language, so you don't need to spend time explaining what classes and objects are. For an introductory programming course it is a very good language.
This was posted a few months ago and was quite popular.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33074289
In other news, Spain charges VAT for basic food?

Is this common in Europe? I don't think it's common in the US, which hates actual people.
Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine by Klara Hveberg
The big problem with macro approaches is that when you get to nontrivial sizes, they get impossible to troubleshoot. You get an error from the SQL engine but that's an on expanded macro. If you've availed yourself of "composability", it's a deep tower of macros, and you typically can't easily tell from the error location and message on the expanded SQL which macro is the cause of the problem. It can become really difficult to maintain.

Good approaches here have some form of higher level validation and error messages, such that by the time the SQL engine gets your query, it runs well almost all the time.
I don't believe in this global warming thing because winters around me as cold as they were in the past. But I hope that this is true because having warm climate is a good thing.
>Ultimately, in Christianity, there is only one miracle which really counts (the Resurrection), with the virgin birth following close behind–the rest pale in significance.

I think you really touched on it here.

Jesus was born. He is man and God.

Jesus was crucified.

Jesus was resurrected.

Jesus ascended into heaven.

Those miracles/events are the core events that are necessary.
I develop my code directly on the HPC cluster. What do you even mean with testing your code instantly? You don't have to run a batch job every time you need to test something. You can use interactive mode.
How Novell Netware lost the battle against Windows NT (2013)
I can't think of any program which works like Nano. On the flip side, both man and less provide vim-style navigation. Isn't man the first program we recommend everyone use?

On the flip side, there is GNU info, readline, and bash. The latter two of which sport emacs-style navigation by default, but also support vim-style too. Perhaps where we went wrong collectively was indulging the emacs users such that people like yourself could eventually say "Vim as the default editor is a terrible idea: Because its user interface differs significantly from how every other program on the system works."
This is probably one of the more surprising front page HN posts I've seen on here. Didn't think I'd see anything woman focused especially if it wasn't looking for capital!
I pronounce 'pa' like 'paw.' Short for papa I guess. Always have, always will.
Well, Lazarus Long was supposedly over 2000 years old, so he had the time to learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long
EarSpy: Spying on Phone Calls via Ear Speaker Vibrations
Archived for posterity sake [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/93h9M
One book stuck out to me this year: Blindsight by Peter Watts.

What happens when humankind on the verge of post-scarcity suffers its first alien contact -- truly alien contact. A team of engineered humans is sent to meet them.

What really stuck out to me is how the content of the book could be applied to a potential AGI -- an alien, intelligent entity that we can't really understand and still have to interact with. I can't go further without delving into spoilers. It's really good. But, also, very bleak.
Hmm, according to the entomology here, it's an insult? I didn't think so.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jack_of_all_trades

> Originally a term of praise (competent in many endeavors), today generally used disparagingly, with emphasis on (implied or stated) “master of none”, as in later longer form jack of all trades, master of none.

Also commented: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34159070

Also Jill: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jill_of_all_trades
Here is another good thread from a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33849267

Here is the list of some of the good books I read this year https://brajeshwar.com/2022/books/

Starting this year, instead of writing the list at the year-end, I have decided that I will just write as I read along. Besides the 5 odd I listed from a comment on this thread, here are others I have listed from other threads on Hackernews and Twitter. The URL is a pattern anyway, so it will be https://brajeshwar.com/2023/books/

- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur, https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Be-Perfect/Mic...

- [How to Stop Worrying and Start Living](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Stop_Worrying_and_Start...) is from the popular author [Dale Carnegie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie) of the [How to Win Friends and Influence People](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...) fame.

- A young girl's diary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_a_Young_Girl)

- Greenlights by [Matthew McConaughey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_McConaughey)

- How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

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

- How To Talk: Siblings Without Rivalry by [Adele Faber](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_Faber)

- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects

- Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

- Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

- Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry

- The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness

- [The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_th...) by [Douglas Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Adams)

- [Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming](https://www.amazon.com/Windfall-Booming-Business-Global-Warm...) by [McKenzie Funk](https://www.mckenziefunk.com)

- The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry
The story is paywall free thru FT partnership https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/twitter-rival-ma...
macOS virtualisation refactored and sandboxed in Viable updates
Is this used anywhere besides printing out oops reports to dmesg?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway#Fossil_fuels
Hard cases make bad law.
Remote C/C++ compilation using Ccache and Distcc
This entire things feels like you are justifying your transition process with some feelgood facts which you intentionally made up.
What if the trespassers just ignore the sign, and walk on/over the privately owned land without the landowner ever becoming aware of it? How could the landowner sue the unknown trespassers when there wasn't even any evidence of their trespassing?
It would be really interesting how unique this problem is. If it applies similarly to Twitter or Instagram, or if there are some main differences.

Or if it is not even connected to the social media aspect at all, and also applies to other addictive platforms like YouTube, that don't focus on the social media aspect a lot.
> Bringing children to life is generally a very selfish act with dire consequences to anyone involved.

No, it's not. I understand people having concerns about the future and especially regarding the expense of raising a child. But, to brand people "selfish" for having kids that they're able to provide good care for is silly.
Yes, and that's good news if you're Canadian or Siberian. But the vast majority of people live in places that will NOT become more fertile. So bad news over all.

And even for Canadian/Siberians there are a lot of issues that mean it's not just a blessing. Fancy a 400% immigration rate? Fancy no more ski-ing and having to buy aircon? Fancy no trees when insects normally killed by frost destroy them all?

"it will be ok for some people on average over a long period" could be worse but it's not good news...
I can confirm it has gotten warmer on average and we have a lot less snow
in the south. Less certain in the arctic regions to the north.

I look at photos from the 70s and the shift seems dramatic.
But then the photos i am shown are of times with huge amounts of snow.
It does not indicate an average.

Many models I have read indicate that Norway will become drastically
colder due to climate change if the Gulf stream changes.
Some newer research indicates this wont happen,.
What gear are they having to take off besides their hood, btw? I'm pretty sure anything you'd need respiratory gear to weld on would be added after it was welded. It's not like you make truck bumpers out of stainless steel. You'd want to keep your gloves on to lift with. No reason to take off your jacket, sleeves, apron, or anything else you'd use welding in a shop.
>The Belarusian Telegraph Agency or BelTA ... is the state-owned national news agency of the Republic of Belarus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian_Telegraph_Agency
dawn of everything by graeber & wengrow
I find it curious that after all the pages they dedicate to saying that water is getting browner, they say that the primary cause of brownness is a reduction in the amount of acid rain over the last 40 years but some people suspect that warmer weather may be contributing to it as well. If the primary cause is reduction in acid rain, it seems weird to talk about how people aren't going to be able to wash white shirts in lake water as if it is a bad thing and how expensive water filtration systems are.

> This change has been taking place since the 1980s, and until the present day the main cause has been a decrease in acid rain. But now researchers think that climate change is also having an effect.
M4 is a nightmare in many respects, in my experience at least. I worked with it on a project and it was the biggest source of issues. It is hard to debug, doesn't handle I8N, convoluted rules, everything is a macro.
So few of us have ever faced our basic needs; we have no idea what's important and what's not. Being fed, watered, warm, and clean is the assumed base state of our existence, without consideration of the effort it took to achieve that state.

When those things cost more we could be content with them. Now we have this feeling we're cheating, somehow, because life is so easy.
I would love to just be able to "not let myself become one of these people". Unfortunately I can't change how my brain reacts to stimuli (and I've tried).
I have keepass desktop. Not sure how secure it is.
Matches my experience although I don’t have any clinical diagnosis. When im already feeling bad social media normally instagram for me starts to make me feel worse as i have a hard time putting it down.

When i feel fine it’s easy for me to walk away from
Very good point. They also sell it as if _just_ using a VPN equals security. I can't count the number of ads i've seen that over sell that :/
The Enlightenment terminal had some nice ideas (specifically, displaying image files and videos in the terminal itself).

Too bad it was so unstable I stopped using it. Should maybe give Enlightenment another try in the coming year.
Yeah, we like to believe we and our oil is so "clean". It's just that we export it for others to burn, and import products produced with pollution attributed to other's soil..
Also matches my experience with Twitter
Isn't that basically what they did? I think the FCC authorized the disconnection of a handful of service providers, and has been aggressively sending notices to others.

https://www.engadget.com/robocall-company-may-receive-the-la...
Companies of a certain size get a lot of leeway.

Governments didn't move fast enough to block Uber and other illegal taxi services, partially because these well-funded startups had the means to tie things up in courts for months, while continuing to operate.
Have you seen editors like kakoune or helix. Those are modern tales on vim style modal editing and may scratch your itch (or else be good projects to contribute to).
My editor of choice is vscode and Intellij, the only time I would use a command line editor is when I am sshing into a server temporarily and just want to make some small edits to a file. I know enough commands on vim to insert/edit text and exit, which works when nano isn't available on the machine and I don't have access to a package manager.

But for everything else, I use a proper IDE. I setup sshfs with remote machines that I use frequently, and just load the folder into my IDE and edit files in my IDE. VIM was designed in a very different era when terminals were small. An IDE gives me an integrated debugger, code completion, code formatting, project management(very useful for hierarchical projects) and integration with tools like VCS, Testing frameworks etc. I still don't understand people who use vim(or nano) as their primary editor.
This was a scientific study with quantitative measures that have clear operating definitions as spelled out in their methodology section. I have trouble imagining the quantitative measurement for “Facebook designed their app to maximize addictiveness” would even look like. Have mercy on the poor scientists who chose to answer a narrow question empirically and well, and left the fuzzier question out of their scientific paper.
On the other hand, Ventura prompts me (with a huge window full of whitespace) about using my iPhone as webcam every time an application opens the (built-in) webcam, with the two options being “Get started” or “Remind me later”. They seem to have forgotten the “fuck off” option, as usual for modern tech. What is the user supposed to do in cases where they don’t want/need to use their iPhone as webcam?
I don't know. Ask your law-makers. I live in a country where you can drink alcohol at 16 as long as you're accompanied by an adult, for example. Then at 18 (when you're legally considered an adult), you can buy and drink your own alcohol on your own. Americans tend to coddle their young adults too much. Maybe it's their puritan heritage.
Significant like more than someone can do with a 3d printer and two stepper motors? I don't know... I just feel like this would have been solved.

Looks like an old mouse, except it has a motor instead of a sensor
It should be safer with a USB-C port, since the springs (the most fragile part) are in the cable, not in the port; with lightning, the springs are in the port instead of the cable.
Right. And likewise I doubt the USB-C iPhone is going to have USB 3 capability - given that Apple's had the opportunity to put USB 3 in those phones for a while now. For whatever reason it's not a cost they feel like paying, even on the Pro phones that shoot in ProRes and presumably could benefit from quick offload.
> Replacing Vi(m) with Nano in the standard install was one of the most important UX decisions made by the major distros in recent years

It sounds like you want a unix with the UI/UX of a different OS. If a user is coming from a world where editors have all coped MS-DOS edit and its notepad progeny then nano makes sense. I am sure this goes for whatever default editor comes with Mac.

If a user is coming from a Unix world where ed, xi and vi were defaults since the beginning then vi makes sense.

This isn't arrogance, its history. Ignoring this part and insisting foreign concepts implemented as defaults to accommodate foreign os users from having to learn to use a new platform is arrogance. Unix has a lost a lot of its heritage to this kind of thinking.

Back in the day you learned how to use a computer using manuals: man intro. Today you install an os and blindly bump into walls hoping to learn the os using discoverable ui hints then falling back to google when that fails. Treating the ui as a discoverable manual means ui changes break the manual which angers and frustrates users. See the whole MS ribbon debate.
Schooling during pandemic: in-person school associated with more teen suicides
I would prefer to use vim over nano personally but as a default, I agree nano is a far better choice.
Even if it does, others will increase supply to meet the rising global demand. That is a certainty, between emerging economies and westerners padding their numbers with immigration. Techno-optimists have unrealistic near-term expectations about abating emissions, and the greens are anywhere between conspiracy nuts and ancoms romanticizing primitivism.
Cache the World: Turbo Charging Firefox Accessibility Performance and Maintaina
It's just too darn big for its own use case in my opinion. I don't want to bring such a behemoth around with me and when I'm not away from home I have my desktop which I don't have to hold up to use. For the occasional on the go gaming I find things such as those tiny retro gaming handhelds far more practical.

Which have a similar phenomenon of bringing old games back to life due to the limited specs of such devices. The Retroid pockets and Anbernics are the best at this in my opinion.
Maybe they could geofence ski-resorts and pop up a warning that the feature is disabled.
I really enjoyed this book as well. Just a heads up for anyone interested, there is a vampire character, which seems very out of place initially, but just something that needs to be accepted for the story. It does all kind of fit in by the end though.
Actually the WikiPedia page you linked to there shows two diagrams, one with ML as a subfield of AI, and another with them as separate overlapping fields (I guess the overlap is meant to represent where ML is being used to pursue AI).

> As of 2020, many sources continue to assert that ML remains a subfield of AI.[29][30][27] Others have the view that not all ML is part of AI, but only an 'intelligent subset' of ML should be considered AI.[5][31][32]

I'm well aware that there are some people who regard anything ML-related to be AI, which is the sensationalist view taken by the popular press who want to write stories about AI, but that doesn't mean it's true. What does something like a SVM classifier have to do with AI - it's more like a line fitting technique. Or what about a neural net that classifies photos as cat vs dog - seems better described as image recognition than AI (and the whole post-AlexNet modern neural net revolution was born out of the 2012 ImageNet image recognition competition). Or how about an echo-cancelling circuit in a telephone - is that AI to you? Why not - it's based on machine learning ...

As for ChatGPT, technically it's a language model, so really part of NLP - linguistics research. All it does it try to predict the next word in a word sequence. Of course it therefore ends up regurgitating lots of intelligent stuff it was trained on (as well as dumb and false stuff it was trained on), but that doesn't make it intelligent. Similarly, we don't say Google is AI just because it responds to search queries by finding web pages with intelligent content.
Less skiing days is messing with our very core values and self image, though. What is a Norwegian without skis on their feet?
does this also backup mtime and ctime timestamps?
I think that was true long before robo calling was a big thing.

Since texting and even back from the AIM/IRC generation - when I was in college 20 years ago, with T9, people were already primarily were texting not calling.
This is confirmation bias at its best. Yes, Norway has barely any land affected by sea level rise. Because it's a mountainous country. Good job, gold star to you. But you left out the fact that the vast, vast majority of Norway's population lives on the coast where sea level rise does matter. Almost no one lives in the mountains.

Additionally Norway is highly dependent on the gulf stream to remain habitable, which could also be disrupted by Arctic ice melting.
I clicked on this thinking it was about a digital computing device of the size of a bra. My thoughts spun up the idea of a digital spy secretly wearing a supercomputer woven into her clothes.
I can’t tell, because I never had those, so I don’t know how it would feel. But as I said, people bath in close to zero degrees, I guess a shower wouldn’t be worse.
More astonishing is that he wrote it in 100 days by hand and published almost exactly what came out of his mind on the first draft. If you find the scans of his manuscript, it's shocking how few changes he made.
And if one of those boxes fails for any reason, hardware or software, I should be able to replace it 100% extremely quickly. Cattle, not pets.
Should ban immigration with the same logic?
If you look at C++ standard support in major compilers, you'll find that no compiler on earth supports the whole C++20 standard. Gcc is the one that gets closest, but still has several "partially supported" features.

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/20
Anything worth trying is worth trying three times. If you don't succeed...
Steve forgot about the real Lisa for years.
I laughed when I read this because being a kubernetes expert implicitly means having lots of experience on a wide array of subjects. Cloud services, networking, containers, etc. DevOps is literally one of the most generalist jobs out there.

A better example of a (typically) highly specialized job title might X Developer (where X is any programming language).
> No one is gonna see "pa" and think it's pronounced "paw", and no one is gonna hear you say "paw" and think the invocation is "pa"

Well consider me a counter example.
Shame. I was drawn by the story after reading the summary, until the part where, she fell in love with a married man.
I don't know what people find romantic about this nonsense and I hate this stupid trend.
Why cannot romantic stories be nice and uncomplicated instead of always involving some stupid love triangle or people cheating on their partners?
The hard part of building a (good) password manager is not actually the encryption backend (gpg, age, etc...), or the frontend (CLI, dmenu, GUI...), or the sync (git, CRDTs, whatever), or even integrating the biometric unlock -- but correctly integrating it with every app and website that expects to take your passwords.

AWS console has three fields (account, user, password), most websites will take your password and/or MFA code on a separate page, some apps will use Electron, some will use native widgets, some will use NON-native widgets (like GTK/Qt on Mac/Windows), some apps (like games) will be running in full screen...

It's a world of madness and I have huge respect for the password managers that actually try to solve these problems (even if most do it only half-decently).
> What exactly is the the problem with only dozens of false positives?

Significantly stricter restrictions for all visitors, regardless of skill level would be one.

Like when people say "Back in my day, you didn't need a safety warning on a hot cup of coffee", we may need to do the same once the local 911 dispatch centre starts recording higher numbers of calls.