skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This heavily depends on which forum one is on, and is therefore not true in general.
It’s funny, I never knew of the formal philosophy of anti-natalsim (though, as a human, certainly familiar with the concept of never having existed). Yet, the very first thought experiment I had before deciding to have a child was to, in my head, have an answer for them if they ever asked me “why did you have me?” And make sure it was a really good answer.

I do doubt many folks do this but I’d be willing to bet most who have given any thought to their existence probably do.
Stuck in the Past? Scaling Up Academia
I loved CA!
Years ago I requested a refund for an app that didn't work. Never heard back so I disputed the charge. Big mistake.

Apple's response was to lock me out of the app store entirely. They'd never let me use that credit card again for anything Apple related.
Slowly but surely things are getting better in terms of cross-platform, with the latest in that realm being Apple itself committing to an open source rewrite of Foundation, which will fill in some holes and improve consistency on non-apple platforms.

Swift on server has been usable for a while now too.

I think the next big bottleneck on popularity will be tooling, and a solid VS Code extension is a small step forward in addressing that issue.

As someone who’s been using Swift for years on iOS/macOS, I’d love to use it for desktop development on Windows and Linux. I think the language is well suited for that purpose, and it strikes a nice balance between safety, speed, features, ease of writing, and clean syntax which isn’t matched by too many other languages.
We used to have "don't feed the trolls" mantra and the things indeed were more peaceful. The people opposing what trolls said were blamed more then trolls themselves. And what they said was minimized with "he is just edgy".

What we got in exchange is that trolls convinced fair amount of people. They opinions were th Those who opposed them were consistently blamed.
It's about scale. Your examples are minuscule in scale in comparison.
Meta dumping nearly half a million square feet at San Francisco high-rise
but what about tinkling bowel sounds as a sign of obstruction?? lol, agreed - is completely useless and of no clinical value
Korean is virtually two languages (2015)
Predicts yes, but does it offer any cure? It is terrible for a person to have his abilities being reduced at a rate and knowing each tomorrow is worse than today. People do not seem to care though.
https://archive.ph/4rAej/again?url=https://www.bizjournals.c...
You can't type on the e-ink side though. That would be the best, a simple laptop with an e-ink display, a good keyboard, nothing more. You could work anywhere you could also read a book!
For me it is not a problem with ordinary searches: directions, recipes etc, no problem.

But try to find a specific error message from an npm package!

First you get useless results because Google found something it rather wanted to show you.

Then you add doublequotes and realize the Google results are full of utterly irrelevant pages lacking half my keywords.
Is this Quantum of Silicon; or Quantum Dots on Silicon?

Used to be that quantum dots were for the the next level display tech beyond OLED, which doesn't require magnets either.

"Rowhammer for qubits: is it possible?"
https://www.reddit.com/r/quantum/comments/7osud4/rowhammer_f... and its downstream mentions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27294577
The use case is mainly for writing packages, command line tools or server side components where the Swift toolchains are quite nice to work with. The experience is very much like using Rust or Go.
The Model Code Gap
Check out OneNote. Its shared notebooks should scale to 25-50 users. At a past employer, we used OneNote successfully at that scale instead of a wiki type solution. OneNote has a decent Mac app so it works in environments with both Windows and Macs.

My biggest gripe is the lack of native code block support. There are ok workarounds but something native would be better.

Edit:

> By law we are not allowed to use a cloud solution.

Missed this on my first read. Shared notebooks should be able to be stored wherever you store things in your network.
US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A secret for 50 years
Your house has 120V AC and your phone needs 5V DC (slightly more if it’s a modern USB C phone).

Converting to that voltage requires some electronics. If you’re asking why not just include them in the cable, like laptop chargers —- well you could, but why? It will be just as bulky but if the cable becomes frayed you’ll be generating a lot more ewaste than just getting a new USB cable.
Our new nuclear reactor here in Georgia (Plant Votgle unit 3), the first new one in 29 (?) years, is a great example.

Cost and time overruns galore. It's going to end up costing almost double what they projected.

The time overrun is attributed to Westinghouse's bankruptcy, but Westinghouse's bankruptcy was also tied to trying to take on this project.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-toshiba-accounting-westin...
That's a really good question. A really large organization might be Eur 2000/month, but 90% of the time that was helping with moderation, which I'd recommend if you start going over Dunbar's number. [1]

For a small org of 50-100 on prem? That's practically idling. Once it's set up it can run almost indefinitely without anyone looking at it all too much. Depends on if you already have someone on site who can watch over an extra LAMP [2] server/vm/[docker] container, run occasional backups etc.

[1] Wikis have interesting properties wrt. Dunbar's number which do not quite fit in this margin.

[2] Linux/Apache/MariaDB/PHP
Many continued to use Altavista or something until a friendly sysadmin or another early user showed them Google.

Same with IE, if no one showed them Firefox they just stuck with IE.
Yeah the title is terrible - initially I thought they were actually physically screening machines as some sort of anti-piracy initiative.
I remember castle of the winds. That was exactly a RPG with the Windows 3 vibe. Most gaming was still happening in DOS because you could do different graphic modes but I did enjoy those little windows games
I tried ATS after finding Rust difficult. Zig is becoming my C replacement, and ATS is like a C++ replacement, although, I am using SPARK2014 now, but I am looking into ATS' contracts. There is no lack of PLs as a tool for whatever you may need to do nowadays. It's refreshing compared to 1970s to 1980s for me.
That’s a fair point. I think it’s interesting that the bar for getting a job is so high, while the bar for keeping your job is so low.

I think what might be happening is a vicious feedback loop of

* companies hiring too many smart engineers

* those engineers are in turn very bored and don’t have much to do so they check out

* not much gets done so more people get hired to do more stuff.
Headline is a bit unclear, I initially thought it was talking about being awake and showing other people what happened in your dream, like a theatre production. Turns out, it’s just (what non scientists would see as) sleepwalking.
Firefox developer edition, Linux - I can't give any input. Moving the mouse pointer moves the camera POV slightly, so that it can end up below the ground, but apart from that no keys or clicks are registered.
I would read Tom Murphy's posts from a different light. His message has consistently been 'unbounded exponentials aren't real, why are you pretending they are?'.

In that light 'pumped hydro can't scale' means 'stop trying to use this for Petawatt hours of energy storage you idiot, you'll destroy everything'.

Some of his more recent posts have been worryingly easy to coopt by the 'maek moar fossil fuels and nuclear' crowd, which his previous posts indicate he should be even more strongly opposed to.

The general message of degrowth and steady state economy is positive even if 'pumped hydro can't scale indefinitely' sounds a bit like 'pumped hydro can't decarbonize the current scale of the economy', and he gets the scale required to maintain status quo consumption a bit wrong.

I do wish he'd make this distinction clearer though.
A material would have to be absolutely perfectly reflective to survive some of these lasers.
> (if we can accept a red squiggly line under a misspelled word, would it bother anyone to have it automatically added under verifiably factually incorrect claims?)

If you are ever able to find a definition of 'verifiably factually incorrect claims' that is accepted by everyone, the red squiggly is the trivial part.
is there anyone running an Office install anymore?
Sorry but stopping thieves/malware is not worth the economic damage that manufacturer repair monopoly brings to the consumer.

You can make your phone 100% safe by turning it off and encasing it in concrete but having to pull out the pneumatic hammer to make a call is prohibitively expensive and very much not useful.

Moreover security is a poor excuse anyways as many measures taken by manufacturers do not improve security in any way. And for those that do, there are ways to achieve that security without harming the consumer.

Manufacturers are tilting the scale in their favor to such a degree that I'd argue should be made illegal because it damages society as a whole. There is a reason antitrust laws used to be enforced way back in Microsoft's days.
I work in an environment where this might come up once a month or something on slack or in meetings etc.
Arch Linux is heavily invested into it:

- https://reproducible.archlinux.org/ - Attempts to reproduce the distributed binary packages from source using reproducible builds tooling. This already works for a big chunk of packages.

- https://github.com/archlinux/archlinux-repro - This is a wrapper for Arch Linux build tooling that creates a build environment in a container that has the same packages installed as the original build environment back then. Software is expected to build reproducible in this environment and many ecosystems already do by default (Rust for example, to name one).

- https://github.com/kpcyrd/rebuilderd - This monitors the packages in Arch Linux, runs archlinux-repro on all of them and hosts the results. There are other projects supported but Arch Linux works best at the moment, and archlinux-repro offers the best integration I'm currently aware of.

There are surprisingly few people interested in running this stack on their own for verification purpose though.
Heating is usually not the problem with electronics ...
I wish Microsoft would just stop pushing shit nobody asked for.

Windows 10 was a huge improvement. They were making good decisions, getting back on track towards an OS I wanted to use.

Everything since has been nothing but downhill slide. All the shit that opens Edge or does searches with Bing... nobody ever asked for that. I'm a paying customer and I don't want that shit. And they don't even give me a real way to turn it off. I wish they'd stop with this crap.

If people are using outdated version of Office, and happy with it... you know what that means? That there really hasn't been any reason to upgrade to the latest version for those users. Those users just came to the conclusion that there's been fuck-all in the way of meaningful innovation in Microsoft Office in damn near 20 years.
requestAnimationFrame has a whole bunch of advantages, but you don't technically need it if you don't care about smoothness or efficiency or battery life or users browsing in other tabs or scrolling away. For something so simple, the impact will be minimal.
Please to have a sane discussion refrain from attributing your fears as facts. Nothing what you mention is done by this update.
I'm the opposite. I think we Americans have made it entirely too easy for corporations, accountants, and lawyers to swindle money from us. And I'm only referring to instances involving government taxes!

I don't need this pain and nonsense every year. I'd rather be enjoying the one life I have.
How do you track income that wasn’t from your employer? Like rent?

How do you track deductions like installing a heat pump?
I was playing around with server-side wasm by way of OpenCL compiled to that and interfaced via Deno. It felt pretty cool until I realized wasm is 32-bit and this limits memory to 4GB for whatever process you've compiled in it. Unfortunately this obliterated it as an option for our use case.

The idea is still really interesting, though. It's almost like micro-containerization. I was reading this and it's what sold me on attempting it:

https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/252527414...
I can attest to the value of bringing in a case of t-shirts to a tailor and having them customize the fit. &8 per shirt and you’ll look smashing.
No argument here. The right management can make or break a job.

That said, Apples systemic bureaucratic policies were pretty maddening, even disregarding my management.
We don't actually know what most decommissionings will cost. $300M is just a lower bound.

Nukes' fuel cost seems low only in comparison to their other very high costs.
Yep. And if nuclear advocates had a plausible story about what a path to zero-carbon, nuclear powered grid that produces affordable power, deals with its own waste issue, and doesn't scare the shit out of the population, we should be looking at that as an option. Seen any evidence of that? I haven't.
How about:

This person cheated in an exam in middle school so shouldn't be trusted with exams in med school.

Because, yeah, when he cheated he was a kid. Kids frequently do stupid things.
Ridiculous. A homeless guy is going to have a way easier and more comfortable life than a frog

He can just hang out in a makeshift shelter and eat whatever free food he finds. He'll be in way less danger at any given time than a frog would be, with a vastly longer and more fulfilling life ahead of him.
> very violent people achieve massive success

Indeed. Also missing from the picture is the violence inherent in the system - the majority shareholders, ceos and execs of healthcare corporations that deny people treatment if they cant pay are inflicting much more violence than the tyrants of the past - its systemic, all-encompassing without any discrimination as to its target. But because the violent part is outsourced to the state's police to kick out and keep out those who cant pay, its magically 'not violent'. Whereas its possibly the worst systemic violence that ever invented in human history.
> and they can't distinguish them from Mr important security researcher here that's not even a customer

Bold of you to assume that I wasn't a customer. (I was, at one point. Not that it's relevant today.)
He made a children’s book using AI. Then came the rage.
> How can nationalities not be true?

I've had a university course where Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities" was taught: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagined_Communities

It's been most interesting. I highly recommend it.
https://archive.ph/s67gW
"A job, a phone, glasses, vaccinations"

except the covid vaccine please cos its not mandatory anymore.
"Bell's inequality violation with spins in silicon" (2015) https://arxiv.org/abs/1504.03112

I had heard that Bell's actually means that there is a high error rate in transmitting quantum states - 60%, I thought Wikipedia had said - through entanglement relations with physical descriptions. Doesn't entangled satellite communication violate Bell's, too?

Maybe call it and emissions a "Hot Tub Time Machine", eh?
Edit: the definition I had for "nation" in my head was incorrect. My comment is based on an incorrect understanding, leaving it up since there are replies that won't make sense if I remove it.

I find it very hard to make the mental leap between religion and nationalities. I think the correct thing to actually discuss is if "nations" are true. Nationality just means you belong to a nation, by definition.

If we stopped believing in nations, people would still form groups. Groups would organise and govern, nations are reborn again.

I think as long as humans are social creatures, nations are about as "true" as you can get. They are inevitable in my opinion.

Religion on the other hand, if people stop believing in it, it ceases to exist.

> As for philosophies, he’s referring to living your life by any particular philosophy, whether or not it’s “objectively” the best way to live.

Okay, I misunderstood that part. I thought they were talking about the study of philosophy. I agree that living your life by a philosophy does not make it true. But I suspect most people that follow a particular philosophy would not claim it is "true", but maybe I'm in a bit of a bubble.
oh wow that is really responsive!

Arrrgh, maybe if I win the lottery one day I can create an e-ink coding and documentation setup. Would have to be Linux because newer Macs don't support more than 2 external displays unless you get the most powerful CPU.
We do something like this on Nimbix

Its an orchestration platform with prepackaged apps where we let customers run workloads on GCP, AWS, Slurm ort onprem clusters seamlessly.

We also have our own GCP and AWS cluster accounts on which customers can run apps
you have it backwards - the features are for management, not the person using the computer.
What can the world do? Invade again? The Taliban don’t strike me as people who would be dissuaded by sanctions or a strongly worded letter from the UN.
> Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers.

I just find it funny that the article contradicts its own headline.
I am vaguely uneasy with the thought that undirected random generators (or pattern marchers) can adequately fill current jobs. If true, it should give a whole lot of people pause re career choices. Automated infinite monkeys at keyboards?

Is there really nothing novel being done? If not, that little secret will put a knife in funding,
Except I am yet to see any Web based game with PlayStation 3 like graphics, or to make it even more clear, Infinity Blade.

After a decade of WebGL existence.
Direct Memory Access computing machine RP2040
India blocks YouTube videos and Twitter posts on BBC Modi documentary
I don't want to have to keep track of two things. I only want to keep track of one thing. I suppose I could use some kind of superglue to just bond the cable to the brick, but I'd rather just get one that was built that way.

Ideally, I'd like a cable with one 2-prong wall plug at one end and four tails at the other: two USB-c and two lightning.
Until they aren’t or can’t. Plan ahead folks as the companies are. And those companies are going to continue to view worked as necessary evils.
The “god did it” argument is weird anyway. If you truly follow that logic, then god gave us the scientific method and double-blind experiment so we can more effectively cary out their ideas.

More importantly, we have evidence that believing something, anything, is really good for the human psyche. You can pull a meaning out of your arse tomorrow morning and that leads to better psychological outcomes than no meaning. Even something as simple as “I need to keep this potted plant alive” will work.

Viktor Frankl’s work is a good intro to that topic.
> 1) providing readers with a more useful angle, and 2) not giving the wrong impression to a candid reader that this take is somehow a consensus.

Too bad Reddit is an echo chamber these days where you’ll be downvoted into auto-deletion in all but the smallest subreddits.
Because then you can only use that instruction if you're sure the target CPU supports it... or else your program will crash.

Sequences like "or r1, r1, r1" are going to be harmless when run on a processor that is unaware of its special meaning, which is exactly what you want for a "hint" instruction.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/january-17-2023-up...

> This update is intended to help Microsoft identify the number of users running out-of-support (or soon to be out-of-support) versions of Office, including Office 2013, Office 2010, and Office 2007. This update will run one time silently without installing anything on the user's device.

Sorry, how can this be interpreted in any way other than Microsoft pushing an update who's only purpose is to scan my computer to collect data for them?

And Microsoft has 0 goodwill in this department after pushing updates that made ads start appearing in start menus. These aren't "fears as facts," it's pattern recognition.
I think PWAs are the future. The industry is just slow at getting to it.
Sensitive as in a allergic reaction or a headache? Or just a dislike of the smell?
Which they have been doing, as you might have noticed. This has led to lavishly-funded opposition aimed at splitting that coalition
- note the sums poured into misrepresenting the SF DA, for example. The case of making treatment of the poor more humanely is more sympathetic so there’s every reason to believe that opposition to consequences for rich people would be _less_ well funded and more affluent people would find excuses not to support it, just as we’ve see for things like trying to get rich people to pay taxes at the same rates.
For me XCode is just so so bad for actual code editing so I edit the code in VSCode and run it through XCode
Yes same in Canada, but unfortunately politicians here decided to make the issue of vaccinations political so now it’s a divisive topic with more of my friends now questioning even routine vaccinations (whereas before there were none who would)
https://css-tricks.com/using-css-without-html/ (2010)
wasm doesn’t have threads right now, so I wonder if you couldn’t just make multiple wasm processes and implement message passing between them to get around this limitation? I imagine if you’re building something where 4 gigs of Ram is a limitation, it would also benefit from using multiple CPU cores and you’d have to do multi-process for that anyway.
For reasons.

Not regulation, and not hippies.
I don't think these are mutually exclusive...
most of early computer engineers are alive and doing well
> You can get a sense of community doing many other things.

Do you have a strong sense of community yourself -- and what other things have you found most gives you community?
I guess maybe I can just permanently attach the brick to the cable in some way so that I only have to keep track of one thing rather than two things.
On twitter I followed 1004 people, and was followed by 680. Mastodon: following 381 and followed by 202. They're across lots of instances; it doesn't make a significant difference.

I'm finding Mastodon generally better than Twitter a few months ago, and far better than Twitter today. The "For You" thing Twitter keeps shoving at me is just _nonsense_, and the "Following" section is a bit of a howling wasteland a this point.

> Mastadon is more like Discord than Twitter. There is no core server. There is no core experience. It's just an instanced message board

Have you ever actually _used_ it? This seems like a peculiar view of it.
Reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies

https://gist.github.com/defunkt/759182/ad44c6135d168ae54503a...
You explained it better than I did, thanks
One of the most disgusting things I've ever seen in my life was in Vancouver, BC near some community garden next to a dog park which had a beekeeping project going on. Someone didn't clean up after their dog, but it was COVERED in bees, and then me and my friends realized that kids were eating that honey after going up to where the hive was and reading a placard about what the project was about
I recall now that sense of wonder at seeing the Milky Way as a distinct band across the sky. Many years now since I've seen it, and yet perhaps some people reading this never have.

Travel suggestion: Anywhere far from city lights where clear weather can be expected. The week of a predicted meteor shower might be ideal.