skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) They probably have some data that indicates that this tactic generally works for them. There's a ton of shitty businesses and landing pages that use random dumb popups that make money: not Facebook or Google money, but some solid income.

2) If I had to guess, I'd bet that tactic works well on a less experienced and technically unsophisticated crowd. You might not be the target audience for some dumb popup, but a less experienced user who sees some flashy warning message might just take the bait.
I do have 9 windows, living room is the sliding one which is 2,5x4 meters. I rarely work from home, cooking almost every evening.
I don't understand the mystery around "qualia". You sense something and it propagates through the system priming other neurons. It's just learned association.
gobject is trying to add OOP to C. C already has a type system indeed, however it can be considered weakly typed.
You can tame Docker with iptables by using the DOCKER-USER chain

There are a bunch of tutorials about how to tame Docker, but this one is the solution that I use and it was the simplest that I've found https://unrouted.io/2017/08/15/docker-firewall/

This way, even if you mistakenly expose your container ports to 0.0.0.0, you won't be able to access them until exposing them with iptables
Ahhh so this is different from camera movements [1] used in large format photography to manipulate the focal plane and achieve various effects. These movements take place only before the exposure, not during.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View_camera#Movements
Depends how you curate your feed.
…does anyone think this is cool?
The Bookkeeping Change to Counter ChokePoint Capitalism
Ugh another leader with their "resource allocation".
But then how would you have the pleasure of figuring out the sort order between New $Feature, Advanced $Feature, Revamped $Feature and Enhanced $Feature?
Calling the weak type checking of C a "type system" is an incredible stretch.
Sorry, you are part of the 90% confusing the hard and soft problem without understanding what is hard about the hard problem. In fact, merely realizing the hard problem of consciousness is one of the first stages that is reached in modern vipassana meditation.

The hard problem is not stating "we can't know anything about any internal state", it is about the mere subjective existence of the internal state and not about the contents of internal experience or any objective fact about that internal state. I don't know why this is seems often so hard, but in consciousness research and meditators' language (or in my native language at least), most of this seems pretty well-definded.

It has no relation to proving that humans or machines are conscious. It is about no objective fact at all, and thus cannot be investigated using objective methods. That is why it is unsolvable by objective science.

To use a koan-like: It is about this.
There is no browser today at 1% market share or greater that needs a polyfill to support ES6+.

I am honestly just left wondering why core JS is still around? What am I missing?
A next generation Verilog-A compiler
Well, perhaps an Internet forum that aims for interestingness and curious conversation should also aim for the intellectual honesty of admitting that the mental faculties of individuals diminish as they age.
Seima-Turbino Phenomenon
Why does the South have such ugly credit scores?
I'm sure a lot of the technologies on the list (like Yjs!) are well-designed and reliable, but I would not touch GUN with a ten foot pole. The code is absolutely inscrutable (what does any of this do? https://github.com/amark/gun/blob/master/lib/axe.js), the creator has failed to sufficiently explain any of the underlying mechanisms without complete hand-waving (what on earth is a "hypothetical amnesia machine" that supposedly underpins all of GUN? The creator has literally never given any kind of coherent explanation of it) -- it's just pure snake oil.
> Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup?

Yes. You aren't shortening a URL, you are serving a web page that has a short URL.

I realize this is pedantic, but the relevance is that we're talking about URL shortening services, which this is not using.

I don't mind short URLs much (although I greatly appreciate it if the URL gives me some hint of the content it's pointing at, even if that makes it longer). URL shortening services, however, come with additional problems that lead me to the opinion that they're unacceptable.
Microsoft is brilliant at killing their projects thrift
through greed while they're becoming successful. The story of Windows RT (their chance of leading the ARM transition) is hilarious.
"Only geniuses can solve ..." wow I'm a genius. Always knew it.
He did but we see both the liberal and autocratic governments of the world lament that they wish Elon would be open to government censorship. Now, some people don’t want to have this be acknowledged but it’s what we’re seeing.
Intriguing, i read Hari's book on depression and really appreciated a lot about it, though a caveat to anyone that checks it out that it's not a one-size-fits-all kind of thing.

Let me know if you find anything @Sheepzez. Meetup does some of this in ways, but not as "live" so to speak, more for pre-planned events...
> People judge results, not effort.

That may be true for graphic art for movies, video games, websites, etc, but not for fine art. In fine art, the resulting artwork is judged much less by the result than what went into it. The artworld already is deluged by art, so the narrative around the art and the artist is the most important differentiating element.
Google Forms AI Responses
This program is designed to provide automated responses to questions in a web form. It uses a natural language processing algorithm to identify the most relevant response to the question, and then adds the response to the form.
> I also suspect most domestic volence hotlines are toll free.

Don't toll free calls placed from cell phones count against minutes just like normal calls do?
Not sure. I pay for GitHub just because I like it.
Is there any way for the public to see this talk or learn more about this?
Which ones are those?

Safari has service workers and indexedDB support.
I think "free" cloud services and addons should always include prominently visible end of service dates. As such buyers could reasonably estimate is the life time left for device good enough at the time of purchase.

With physical product this should be printed on the outside of the box in very prominent manner. And with digital, it should be visible in big enough typeface also.

Breaking this would result in possible damages or full refund to customer. And in bankruptcy certain amount should be hold to keep the services running.
This is using Google's text to speech and speech to text, right? Isn't that a paid service?
So far, my experience has been that business as a start-up is basically about surviving long enough to make a profit. Of course, some ideas are just bad, but I'm convinced loads of start-ups that failed could have been made to work given sufficient time. This doesn't work so well if you take a pile of capital, but if you go for organic growth it is more plausible to survive hand to mouth for a while.
> extra impersonation protection against accounts claiming to be you

My tech-ignorant father-in-law who has 3 friends on Instagram had a fake profile created that was identical to his and matched his username except 1 minor character difference. I reported it to Facebook and the reply was "We get so many requests, we haven't had time to review yours, so we are closing it out. Sorry."

Funny that now you can pay $12/mo for them to... maybe not ignore reports of impersonators?
You’re right. I had something to say but didn’t take the time to support it.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/10/tech/twitter-top-advertis...
Barrel adjusters near the controls are a thing though not all bikes have them.

Example: https://www.amazon.com/Jagwire-Inline-Indexed-Tension-Adjust...
Maybe Russia will be able to pick up some of this technology on the cheap through any deal:

https://www.sandboxx.us/blog/chinese-espionage-against-ameri...
Honestly, all of this "pay for a verified badge" BS from Twitter, now FB and others seems exactly equivalent to when companies release software with vulnerabilities and then also charge you for the antivirus software to protect against that (thankfully, that seems to be less of an issue these days).

Why don't these companies have a responsibility to prevent fraudulent signups in the first place - especially Facebook which has, from day #1, prevented non-real-person signups in their Ts-and-Cs.
Understood, and some sympathies. Take it up with dang, or submit an Ask HN piece.

That said: you have the option of flagging such submissions, provided you're over the fairly modest karma limit, which it appears you are.
Products purchased from Temu will last almost long enough to survive being shipped.

Almost.

They basically sell the bargain-bin of the bargain bin: clothes that make H&M seem as durable as Levi's in comparison, shoes that almost feel better than just walking barefoot on gravel, and electronics that might not blow a fuse or explode the first time you use them.
If you're gonna test the i--, shouldn't it fall through on zero anyway?

for (unsigned int i = N; i--;){}

unsigned int i = N;
while(i--){ ... }

Also I think I'm missing the tricky part. Couldn't this be a bog-standard for loop?

for (unsigned int i = N - 1; i > 0; i--){ ... }

The "downto" pseudooperator definitely scores some points for coolness and aesthetics, but there's no immediately obvious use case for me.
Remember when Twitter instituted a forever policy of remote work that lasted a whole of two years? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/01/twitter...
> modern adult life by comparison is rather dull. Sure you can do things to spice it up, but mostly its the same thing day in and day out

Adulthood tends to be about seeking stability, but that also makes things dull.

Instead of asking "is this it?", maybe ask "what's next?". If you focus on the past it will seem like you've done a lot, but if you're saying it's been dull that's probably not true.

Also you can always revisit things you thought you knew with fresh eyes years later and realize you just scratched the surface. I think even marriages and careers are like this. I think being able to begin again might be a skill in itself.
While we wait for better legislation, all we can do is vote with our wallets. That's why I started the review site Unwanted Cloud to review how well devices work without "cloud" connectivity: https://unwanted.cloud/
Yeah, I found that site much more interesting than the cover of the latest issue. My first thought was, “this looks terrible,” but after seeing her site, I quite like it.
I'm glad that some people are thinking about details like this. It feels like the world is increasingly indifferent to scenarios a typical tech worker has not experienced. Someone actually had to stop and think outside of their bubble, or at least convince their colleagues to think outside of theirs. It took some effort to get that approved, no doubt.
A child needs about 100KB of "text" a day to learn a language. If anything the data requirements of LLMs are proof positive they can't bear any relation to the human language faculty.
Thank you all for your replies.
One other question, if a dos game used TCP/ip, would the developer have to write their own ip stack? Presumably dos didn't provide any of this?
> you expect your users to install your app dependencies for you

Yes, you do. And that is a good thing.

> and you have to figure out the path of your own dependencies.

No, you don't. Once a build dependency is installed, the compiler and the linker find it automatically.

All of this is easier than it sounds. For example, say your program depends on libpng. Then your users will have to "apt get install libpng" (or whatever your distro does). Then on your C files you just write #include <png.h>, on the call to the linker you will have -lpng and everything will work correctly.

The C ecosystem does not favor dependencies whose api changes every month, so this will work with whatever version of the libraries you have. Of course, you are also free to bundle all the dependencies that you want with your code. And you can easily distribute static executables that will work everywhere.
> I'm gonna guess we wouldn't have folks coming out defending Smith and Wesson and blaming the owner.

Oh, but you absolutely would. You should not be pointing a loaded gun in the direction of a human being, safety or not, unless you intend to kill them.

The self-driving is oversold. People who have driven with Autosteer and Autopilot will know that you should not let go of the wheel if there is any irregularity in the road, the traffic, or even the weather.

I just can’t understand how gullible people are if they let the car steer unattended in an adversarial environment. It makes several really bad choices per hour! But then again, maybe programmers are generally more pessimistic about the reliability of software systems
Yes, for example a mini split unit. You can purchase these at the hardware store and install them yourself. You just can’t do this with units that integrate into a central heating/cooling system which require the installation and charging of the refrigerant lines.
This is a very valid question. Up until 2018 or so the liquidity was provided to banks which in turn controlled how much money to loan out. Hence keeping the inflation in check and reducing their risks. however, due to COVID our governments directly handed money to general public through various bills and benefits. That liquidity found its way into other assets. The low mortgage rates pushed housing markets to new highs increase by 100%-200% further increasing net worth of millions who in turn are spending more (wealth effect) further fueling inflation. Now how do you tame this spending? Only way to do so is to reduce the wealth effect or accept the inflation to be higher than 2% target and admit it will take several years to stop it from increasing.

The Taylor rule is showing that the interest rates should be over 10%.
There’s way too many options on this site. It’s intimidating! How should I know which DB to use? I just wanna build stuff.

Multi-master systems - which you have if the same data is being written to by multiple devices - are complicated, and there's no one size fits all solution. The different approaches all have different trade offs.

A good place to start might be "what do I think should happen when two bits of data that were updated independently are merged?".
When you simply, it's kind of true, but the space to do this is really limited and there's no good solution seen yet to keep a wide range of gears in that system.
> Maintain 4:1 product engineer to infrastructure engineer ratio. This has been our ratio for the past several years, and it’s worked fairly well, so we intend to maintain it.

Really weird, as someone who works as a Software Engineer in systems. The number of infra programmers you have is not a ratio to be kept with product developers. It's dependent on the versatility, modularity, reliability, and performance of the platform you have internally. More plainly put, if you want only VM orchestration with very minimal features, that's a different head count that support virtual machines, FAAS, and container orchestration.
I don't think that was ever an official statement?
The trick is to freeze the stock in ice cube trays (the latex ones that make 2” cubes), and divide the spoils of your effort among a future dozen or so recipes. The marginal value of half a cup of homemade stock in a dish is typically massive.
I wouldn't even create a Meta account if they paid ME 11.99/month
It seems windows 11 doesn't support my i5-7600k, so I'll have to build another computer or figure out an alternative to windows before windows 10 reaches end of life.
Why don't you tell us how it violates GDPR? And then you can make an issue on Github to tell the guy to stop offering his thing in the EU.
They're common in Germany, since calls and SMS are rarely used. Mobile data for WhatsApp is far more useful.
In C compound literals have a relatively long lifetime compared to C++ temporaries. With these lifetime rules it makes sense that they are lvalues, although I like C++ rvalues (especially prvalues) more.

https://cigix.me/c17#6.5.2.5.p5

> If the compound literal occurs outside the body of a function, the object has static storage duration; otherwise, it has automatic storage duration associated with the enclosing block.
> How does the average person

We're not talking about an average person in this instance. We're talking about a company using video surveillance in watching their business.

If it were individuals, I would have a bit more sympathy. But this is this company's livelihood being able to realtime watch remotely their core business.

So yeah, they can pony up $500 for a good NVR and PoE cams. That would have saved her sob story.
The snacks coffee and stuff are the cheapest quality of life expenses. Per employee it’s like nothing but in aggrate it looks like a lot of money
That is a good point. It's like trying to solve poverty or illness.
Thus reinforcing the stereotype that managers don’t understand what their employees are actually doing.
I think we're mixing a lot of different things there and moving from one thing to the next.

I like decomposing things. Not in the poop rotting sense but in the divide and conquer sense.

1. Wet pasture with too many animals can destroy the pasture.

Sure. Put less animals. Also, make better pasture, i.e. pasture that is not grazed down to 1/4" with almost no protective function of the grass/roots. Move the animals well before it reaches that level and you prevents dustbowls in different ways. One of them being that the sun can't actually reach the soil. You basically never want sun touching bare soil on your pasture.

2. Shelter

Now this is very true. And it's bad for the animals if they have no shelter. They heat up beyond levels that are healthy for them and they will use more water, which both increases your water needs as well as your labour needs to get water to them. Or resource inputs to lay pipe to get the water to them, which requires maintenance etc. I guess you get the point / know already. So yes, divide the huge fields into smaller fields that are lined with trees that the animals can naturally gravitate towards when needed.

3. Poop as fuel

The poop as fuel is collected wherever it happens to turn up. Which in said parts of Africa can be on a large dustbowl.

4. Not enough earths

I think this is overstated sometimes. Yes, if we use the US farming practices it's probably true. There are alternatives. Unfortunately I don't know the name. I saw this documentary on a flight quite a while ago.

Basically many of these parts of Africa that can't feed themselves were able to do so just fine before the westeners arrived and removed all the trees and made fields out of everything. Now it's barren earth. There was that one guy who - over lots of years and twists and turns I don't remember exactly any more - who figured out that the trees they bulldozed are not actually gone. The root system is still there. Below the surface and if you protect the tiny branches that appear from time to time from animals these grow back into beautiful trees that create shade for people, animals and further growth. He basically went around the villages, talking to elders that still remember the old times, making them his allies to teach children and younger adults to care for the tiny trees and to nurture them back to full growth / life. That was quite a while ago and it works. Many many villages can now feed themselves again.

All that to say: they basically went from a situation where even 10 "earths" worth of the situation they had would not have sufficed, a single earth worth of properly managed trees and ecosystem is perfectly capable of feeding them.
I don't think this is good advice, although I don't agree with you being downvoted because of that.

C++ is a much more complex language than C. The things you need to worry about in C are far fewer than in C++.
This is probably something that the US (or other major powers) should really think about doing too.

Military tactics and capabilities have generally been driven by communications capabilities. For example, radio communication technology was at least as important as the tank in for the German blitzkrieg. This becomes all the more important with drones, etc.

I just punched up some quick numbers to make sure I’m not talking out of my ass and it looks like getting to the 12,000 satellites Starlink initially stated is approx $3.6 billion in total over the years. This is in comparison to the nearly $2 trillion annual defense budget. Or in comparison, I believe the military spent $15 billion on a software defined radio project that I believe never produced a single product.

Sure, I get it that big government isn’t synonymous with innovation. But relying on the whims of these increasingly questionable billionaires for something like global internet prob isn’t a great idea.
Seems like a well-reasoned argument. I wish, however, that there were more references to peer-reviewed literature for his assertions.
YouTube made 28bn in ad revenue and probably somewhere in the range of 5-10bn (and growing) in ad-free subscription revenue last year, so it's clearly a viable model even if what you say is partially true. That said, I'd argue that YouTube's content is far more valuable than Meta's, and its ads are far more intrusive, so the incentive to pay is much higher.
You cannot complain about points of failure and praise electronic shifting in the same breath. I have a bike with downtube friction shifters and 2x8 gearing on an old deore group. Its liberating.
I feel like the photos are always dramatic, but it's really hard to interpret. For one thing its not clear the photos are from the same time of year. But even with photos from the same time of year, we visualize surface area and visibility of "bathtub ring", not volume.

Actual data is here: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain. It seems Lake Oroville, the resevoir featured in the article, and Cachuma are the only ones that are well above historical average.
That was Jack Dorsey. Jack Dorsey doubled down on the policy for his other company, Square. Some of their leadership and highest ranking employees are fully remote. I'd bet against this policy ending.

Elon canceled WFH for a multitude of reasons. Mainly to encourage willing employees to leave and those that remained to work harder.
It’s funny that the doomers are downvoting these comments but can’t provide a single one of his predictions that turned out to be correct.
The only reason I can see you tying product engineers to infra engineers in that way is if the infra engineers are supporting them with DevOps activities. For example building CI/CD pipelines, assisting with deployments etc.

Otherwise it really doesn't make much sense at all.