skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many Okinawans can't even move to the mainland and find a salaryman job due to racism within Japan.

I would call it more xenophobia than racism - even if you move to a new region from another, more accepted region, you still seem to be seen as an outsider for a while. Even while moving in between local neighborhoods. Such concepts exist in other countries too, but Japan seems to be on an extreme level.

Coupled with the extreme amounts of strict social norms that everyone must adhere to, its no surprise that even Japanese youth themselves are alienated from literally life in Japan itself, leave aside immigrants.

I read that in their new plan for attracting immigrants, the new Japanese government was planning to use a sufficiently depopulated region to put only immigrants there so that they wouldnt be put off by the xenophobia/racism that plagues the Japanese society.

What's necessary seems to be a total overhaul of the Japanese society that seems to have stuck in a rehashed medieval feudalism led by pseudo-samurai. The zaibatsu system that the US occupation fostered in order to use Japan as an agent in the region elevated former local mafia and gangs as well as established, formerly-feudal family owned companies to global stage. They still keep the feudal traits they had at the start of the 20th century. All of these strict norms, totally-hierarchical caste society, segregation, the commoners having to sacrifice themselves for one company or the other etc seem to stem from that origin.
>So it does not work for FAANG companies but what do I care. I have the rest of the world to play with ;)

As long as hype chasers in middle management don't get in the way after convincing themselves they too must be like FAANG with a few orders of magnitude less of a consumer base.
> If you want a stand alone executable, I haven't found a good, single, cross platform tool for that yet.

PyInstaller is cross platform, and arguably good.
I have a C1 from a few years ago and a C2 from a few months ago, and they both work perfectly offline.
> I guarantee that it would be interesting for people.

I second that. Will need a new TV soon and before buying a much more expensive signage display I would consider a SmartTV that would work as "dumb" screen without complaining, or worse, forcing me to connect it to the Internet.
True, there is a reason why there are close to none PC monitors with OLED screens.
Ah, if you need to know that for certain then you'd be restricted to 18 balls (6,6,6), (2,2,2), (1,1). Otherwise I guess you would "only" know in 26/27 cases if it was heavier or lighter (off the balance in all 3 conditions).

....and now I understand, you would only initially know there is a difference in weight, not which side had the heavier or lighter ball.
> I would not characterize me as happy.

It would be irrational to pay for a service you are unhappy with. Perhaps you mean you are are "unhappy" in the same way that one is "unhappy" to have a $5 BigMac over a $50 steak? Which is to say that the BigMac is good for the price, even if not the best food imaginable.

> If I had 20 providers to choose from, somehow I do not think we would have this conversation.

Just about anyone (with reasonable knowhow) can provide you phone support. If there are fewer than 20 people out there willing to do that for you, I'd be flabbergasted. But they won't work for free, and probably not even for cheap. You've no doubt chosen the bargain basement option provided by T-Mobile because you find it balances the best value for the money. It's not great service, but it is cheap service. It's the $5 BigMac, even if you are really craving $50 steak, but don't want to spend $50 on a meal.

> Ever since I was a little boy, there were only a handful of telecoms for some unfathomable reason.

We seem to be flailing around here a lot, but it was made clear to me in the last comment that we're talking about the phone support being paid for. Phone support does not have to work directly for the telecom to interface with the telecom. They can talk to you to find out the problem and then do whatever it takes to get the job done with the carrier afterwards.

How much are you actually willing to pay for that, though? It seems the answer is not much. So why would competition rise up to make no money?

Let's take that further: Why aren't you offering this service to others? Because you realize you won't make any money?
> on my phone

To emphasize a generally useful thing. The vast majority of people I know use their phones, not desktops. But ok, my desktop is fine too.

> siphoned

When you become ultra-wealthy from tokens/stock from a product or platform that brings no or very little value to the world, I would call that siphoning to emphasize the hugely lopsided ratio of "wealth I got" / "value the world got". You got rich on hype, not value. You siphoned wealth before there was value, without even knowing if there will ever be value (or knowing there won't be).

> I don't think the most common use of something being "to make scams or other worthless things" is enough to make that thing "a scam".

This is a doozie for me. If you make "tools for scammers" somehow that brings value to the world?
Actually, Verizon is AT&T.
My current Verizon account is an AT&T account I activated in ~1994.

Cell phones were a division of AT&Ts overall business and then at some point they spun that out into Verizon. And then later they got back into mobile/cellular via Cingular, essentially competing with their old selves (Verizon).
> I found a nice simple proof for integers (which was very satisfying!)

But no such proof can exist because the claim is not true. When you posted your comment, Fetiorin had already given a counterexample.
Since it's a jmp rather than a call it's not really a function pointer, but instead a basic block pointer that you're doing arithmetic on.
You would hope so... but it's not necessarily the case.

Often people are too lazy to issue API version change on a "bugfix", and take down multiple applications.

Funny thing, a modularized monolith may have identified some of those issues.
Oops, this is a dupe of:

Tesla plunges 250 feet off a California cliff, all 4 occupants survive

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34238537 (74 points, 51 comments)
The US will continue its social decline, with the US underclass spending most of its time online, being entertained enough with fake news, conspiracy theories, games, porn etc. to not revolt.

The ruling classes will make sure that the massive underclasses will get just enough $ to stay alive and not revolt. Using minimum wage jobs, that just barely makes it possible to survive, to control the masses.

The middle class will continue shrinking and join the underclasses as AI’s and robots eventually take over most of the high paid work. Massive corporations own most of the land, controlling who gets to have a roof over their heads and who doesn’t.
HarmonyOS is neither Android nor iOS: Father of HarmonyOS
https://fly.io/docs/postgres/

It isn't "Managed Postgres," but the differences are minimal. RDS is ultimately a solution for people who look in the mirror and confidently say "you don't know how to run a database."
> Money is fungible. A dollar tied up in building a one-off consumer solar installation is exactly a dollar unavailable for building out utility grade solar which can be done at a fraction of the cost.

This makes the false assumption that those “fungible” dollars are somehow earmarked for solar and the homeowners wouldn’t just spend them on some other, non-solar, goods.
If you assume that your energy capacity is roughly constant, then the only way to have more energy after work, is to spend less energy at work.

Some people subscribe to the idea that you can generate more energy through discipline or enthusiasm. In my experience, it's like dipping into your reserve tank. It works in short bursts but actually requires more effort to replenish (see burnout).

The older I get the more I'm starting to resent this idea of "being productive". Lions sleep 3/4 of the day, are they productive? Something something about the nature of play and learning in kids and this relentless focus on being productive..
Instead of a nasty console message or popup, modify the script to ping back more detailed and useful information about where its being used. Then contact the developers.

Edit: you don't even need to write anything dynamic to receive the ping back, just have the script load an image from yoursite.com/specialprefix/the useresencodedbrowserurl/anythingelseinteresting/1.png then look in your server logs for any 404 errors with the prefix?
> Maybe what society needs is each city gets its own walled Sin City

Or perhaps the inverse, where folks like yourself can live fully protected, and insulated from individual liberty.
Keeping the battery fully charged when you don't need to likely wears it out faster. 50% charged would be ideal for longevity, it seems.
Thanks. Do you have any recommendations on ones that have been worth it?
That would still be unjust, since there can be heavy traffic at the end which renders a speeder having driven, on average, within the speed limit. Bottom line though is that if you get too draconian with the enforcement, people will revolt. There is definitely such a thing as too much structure.. that's arguably the whole reason the US was created.
Someone other than me have used modafinil for these sorts of things.
I am unsure of whether this comment is meant to justify arbitrary human rights abuses against prisoners on the basis of their status as such, or simply to state that prisoners' human rights are indeed commonly abused. Could you please clarify your position in this regard?

If the latter, I think you will find that it does not really need to be said. Most people around here are likely familiar with the abuses of the carceral state.
It doesn't get out of your project. And copilot is a trustworthy entity.
10 years ago for work we assessed a similar client side software solution (a "secure browsing" pile of ActiveX and C++) for protecting banking sites users.

Absolute steaming garbage.

Its "anti keylogging" functionality could be bypassed trivially, as could its various screen hijacking tricks designed to defeat some methods used by the banking trojans that were common at the time.

I see that snake oil industry lives on in Korea :/

Very excited to see the results of OP's work (the disclosures).
Depends on how you think about it. From a data perspective, digital definitely captures less information than analog. We’re talking about the difference between discrete (digital) and contiguous (analog) data.

I agree with saying that digital more accurately reproduces that data, because of the playback technology used.

Digital audio requires applying “jitter” to the signal. In other terms, it is random noise applied to the digital data stream to “smooth out” the discrete differences between one sample to the next.

The thing people find pleasing about analog is the inaccuracies in the playback, in the form of harmonic distortion.

I like that harmonic distortion btw, but love digital for clarity.
Another good source of "impossible" bugs is overclocking.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050412-47/?p=35...
Huh. I was gonna ask about vim/eMacs keybinding support, but I guess that’s kinda moot for a win only editor.
I get similar results with AgentDVR. Kind of crazy how good that software is.
Thinking of it in 2005-2008 some web pages with memes rendered 100th of GIFs simultaneously on single page and it worked flawlessly. Magically in 2022 modern we use videos instead for the same goal and it work terrible.
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Never actually played any of these games, but I’ve always appreciated the story that the setups tell, it seems so much more real-world than chess somehow. Like we must imagine that it was pretty rare for two perfectly matched armies to meet on the field of battle for an honorable fight until one side’s leader was captured. But I’m sure there were plenty instances where the local chief or ruler of some sort pissed off everybody in his hall, looked at his loyal guards and said “Ok my dudes, let’s get me out of here.”

And the variants shown on Wikipedia tell how universal a story it is… it is like you have in kings, princes, and chieftains in halls big and small, which they’d suddenly not like to be in.
Pick a less demanding job in a less efficient organisation.
The article proposes one solution as being to essentially serve up different content to whoever is hotlinking the script, but then says "Obviously, I don't wanna do this." It seems like the clearest solution to me, so I don't know why it's a bad option.

The replacement solution worked for 3D Realms many years ago after a bunch of journalists, fansites, and forums would link to their game screenshots. When someone did, their image would be replaced with Duke Nukem dressed up as Uncle Sam, pointing at the screen, and captioned with something like "Duke wants you to host your own images"
Aha! Did not think about this side effect at all. Interesting !
FTA:

> In 2004, a PlayStation 2 Holiday Demo Disc for Viewtiful Joe 2 ended up erasing every save game on any memory card inserted in the system.

Source linked from article: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-warns-of-major-glitch...

Wow.
This sounds both terrifying and remarkable. Are there any videos you can share?
Not promising determinism gives them a lot more implementation wiggle room to update / change things.

My guess is that promising it right now is not a priority. It would be a great "pro" or "enterprise" type feature tho.
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We also updated our song picking algorithm so you will less likely to have those who are not suitable for our usecase. We are also developing an extra solution to address that too but it seems like it will take a little while. Thank you again for your kind words everyone.

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Artificial Life Creation T-0 and Launching [video]
If Asimov had his way, then AI will rule us by using chatGPT to constructively humor us us while politely letting us win every argument.
> a VC's job is literally to multiply capital.

That's literally everyone's job in investing. You think a pension fund or an ETF serves a different purpose?

Venture Capital's job is to do that by providing capital for risky ventures (it's in the name), not by financing pump and dump schemes.

> Crypto has been extremely good for business

So were subprime mortgages, until the moment they weren't.
It's really not a big surprise, tbh.

Making data available to a thread on the same core has exceptionally high bandwidth. Just that alone will help with scaling.
If it crosses international borders (probably) the FBI is stopped.

Actually the amounts cited are well below the FBI's interest threshold in any case.
And this generalizes - if n = 2k + 1, 2k times x and once (2k - 1)x can be split into twice kx after removing the single (2k - 1)x or twice (2k - 1)x after removing one x. For k = 1, i.e. n = 3, (2k - 1)x = x. So there is an infinite family of counter examples for all odd n > 3.
Some non-pure-tech traditional big corp introduces remote work regardless of covid ending (but usually don't allow living far away). They noticed that having big office in Tokyo is expensive.
der8auer is a bit of a headless chicken. No engineering background but insists on doing those pointless stunts like baking GPU or this butchery personally with no help. Its cargo culting Gamers Nexus without understanding what Gamers Nexus does (actual lab and hired specialists).
Beware of any nearby open WiFi network, as the TV will try to use it, and don't forget HDMI cables with Ethernet compatibility; if the TV doesn't connect to the Internet, the external box almost certainly will, and the TV would immediately use it to get online as well.
> What should we measure to measure productivity of journalists?

Visits, clicks, read time.

> Novel writers?

Sales, reviews.

> Pop song composers?

Hits.

> "Management" needs to stop thinking that software is an assembly line and that they are managing "workers"

I can't avoid to find funny the thought of telling management, as an engineer, what they should do.

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Good software engineers should embrace good productivity metrics (like the ones presented) as a meritocratic path to success.

I find there are 2 distinct set of metrics for engineers: ability to delivery, and to create value. Both important, both difficult to measure, both possible to approximate, and both benefit the business.
mlua is pretty much the standard for Rust at this point. There are a few others but they're not nearly as comprehensive and they all suffer from various safety issues that require unsafe{}. mlua doesn't require any unsafe usage in its API.
Back in the record days, I would record the first play of the record to tape, and then listen to the tape so that the record stayed in good condition.
If you want to talk history, people would have 15-20 kids, 4 would survive to adulthood, and would be put to work in the fields to support the family. Daughters would often be abandoned or killed at birth because they were considered a burden. Developed countries have lower birth rates because (1) they don't need the extra labor and (2) more women have careers and don't want to keep popping out kids. None of it has anything to do with children being a "gift". Practical concerns have always and will always win out.

We don't even need to speculate. Ask married couples in the US who are eager to start a family what they are waiting for, and better financial security will be #1 on the list.
it's a volunteer project. nobody stepped up to maintain 2.x as far as I know
I’m playing a bit of devils advocate to see where you draw the line. For me personally I actually think nothing is creative enough to have the results owned or more to the point it’s not the effort that goes in but the literal act of creation is copying that makes something new property ie I’m against non contractual intellectual property altogether and so don’t need to draw a line based off of the action itself but instead ask what the people buying the art agreed to when they pay for an act of media creation. I’m not trying to convince you to adopt this position. I am just curious
We definitely are! Reports are too important for us, we are actively evaluating reports and our first update has improved our system too much thanks to reports we got from community. We are glad that we have such a cooperative community.
My comment won't be that helpful since I have no experience, but it feels like an interesting question to spitball some thoughts...

1. The domain is super important for children's programming. Logo started out doing list processing and word-based games and kids just weren't that into it; it's the turtle that really made it feel real and exciting. Scratch similarly has a really concrete and fun domain (moving sprites). The exact things that good learning environments have (lots of visuals and movement) don't seem very fun when you are blind (though maybe there's ways to experience that output that I'm not aware of).

2. My natural intuition is that voice and music are fun. Maybe there's tactile things I am unaware of. Maybe Lego Mindstorms?

3. FoxDot is a really fun programming environment for creating live music: https://github.com/Qirky/FoxDot – it's very textual, and I'm not sure how easy that is (especially if you are trying to interact while the music is playing). It's based on Supercollider: https://supercollider.github.io/ – it's possible there's other more accessible frontends for Supercollider.

4. Here's something someone did with Supercollider: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-technology-set-up-a-...

5. That reminds me of Makey Makey, which is very tactile and affordable. But it's basically just an input device. https://makeymakey.com/ – really you can't go wrong getting that and hooking it up to a sound player or having the kid find new and inventive ways to create tactile frontends to it. I'm sure other kids will be impressed with what this kid comes up with. Here's a page on using it with blind kids: https://www.perkins.org/resource/makey-makey-stem-activities...

6. I once created a Makey Makey project with my daughter that I was really excited about, but somehow she didn't appreciate... anyway, basically it was a simple Scratch program that did sounds and speech in response to keystrokes (what Makey Makey outputs) but the "game" was all about how the Makey Makey was wired. It was roughly inspired by this: https://makeymakey.com/blogs/how-to-instructions/lesson-six-...

7. It's OK if it's not "programming" IMHO. Building things with computers is fun and good learning. Giving the kid a new medium to build things is important, with or without complicated logic. I think there is a benefit to what I'll call more inclusively "coding" which is representing your goals and thoughts in some special format, like HTML or music notation or whatever.

8. Speech input and output in the browser is pretty easy and accessible. But I don't know of anything that brings all that together in a programming-like experience. Using GPT I bet there's something possible and not super complicated that could be created today that couldn't have happened a year ago.
Surely you agree that certain content should not be consumed by children? Do you believe a 5 year old should be watching a gang bang?
Re>> "ZeniMax Studios, the company behind popular first-person shooting game DOOM"

I know it's not relevant to the subject matter of the article, but somehow that just hurts to read.... Nothing against ZeniMax. They own it now, but man, I miss id Software.