skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If memory serves (and it was a long time ago) Win98, Office 97 and NT4 all had an easy to guess key. As long as the ABC (product type eg. Pro, Home) followed by the -xxx (first two digits added up to 9 as the last digit eg 639) -xxxx and the last 4 digits also added up to 9 as the last digit) all would be good and passed all the validation checks. A product key of xyz-000-0000 would work although it was a bit obvious where as something like fgh-729-32139 would sail through.... Ah, the good ol' days
I would be very torn on how to respond to a survey that asked me if I agree with "All lives matter". On the face it's clearly a true statement, almost tautological, but it's commonly used with tons of subtext I disagree with. Let's say for a moment everyone feels exactly like me, and a poll get a 50/50 split. Or 25/75. Or 90/10. You haven't really learned anything about people's attitudes beyond how literally they chose to interpret the question.

That's what people are saying with this question. It's too loaded for a simple yes no. Saying the 72% who agreed aren't aware of the connotation is just an invalid conclusion as any other. No doubt at least some of them pondered it, and decided to respond to the literal text.

There's too much gray here to draw ANY conclusions from the poll.
I write a wee bit of custom (GUI/desktop) software, both for personal use and for use at my employer, using FreePascal/Lazarus. Despite the somewhat clunky syntax - I have more of a UNIX/Shell/C and Python background - I feel very productive with it. I've come to consider knowing to use it (in the proper context and when it's the right tool/language) a hidden superpower ;)
It is actually not true. The global population exploded after industrialized nations developed after WW2 new types of high yield crops and then gave those away to non-industrialized nations.
So, still like a 100x improvement in the areas you're concerned with, compared to using any standard programming language (to either re-implement the same stuff or use third-party libraries)?

I mean footguns in "Multiplication with multi-dimensional arrays"? That's a problem with Mathematica as opposed to what? Implementing it yourself? Using a third party library for that (that you have to also find and assess it's doing the right thing - which apparently numpy also doesn't as you say). Another specialized tool (and wouldn't that just have it's own footguns)?

If you just said "it has its set of caveats that you need to be careful about" that would be understandable.

But your wording/tone implies that Mathematica is somehow worse, and using it is (your words) "a terrible idea". So, what are those wonderful alternatives that don't have the same and much worse issues?
> I didn’t say attrition overwhelmed the overall growth pattern.

But that was implied by discussing a carrying _limit_ right?
That would be expanding the abbreviation, not explaining it. If context calls for it, one could write "extract this tar ball (a file format for packaging many files into a single one)"
> Unfortunately dvorak didn’t have modern technology and algorithms to design his layout.

I am fond of keyboard layouts so I beg you to name any works proving your point. Because Colemak and Workman are layouts for Ctrl-C Ctrl-V folks while August Dvorak was not bonded with need to follow somebody's muscular memory.
Something for bored managers to do: Block Chat GPT access on the corporate network and see who is still producing and who isn't!
Immigration is a strong part of it yes.

Looking deeper into your source numbers, it’s interesting that they’re not consistent across countries for populations that are all “muslim”.

From 1.5 in Greece to 3.1 in Finland, it still shows to me that religion is not the main factor in this.
What is the 2nd cheapest, and what is the most expensive? And where is the aeropress in the ranking?
Sure, but nothing about the state of the other sock changed, you just gave it a name. Similarly, every time we name a far away galaxy we don't break causality.
Does anyone ever feel older in their head than their body after their 20s?
Where will smart africans go if there is not a west? Asia is pretty anti immigrant. South america is poor. Arab nations are repressive.
I'm not convinced that subpar graphics is the reason for the lack of browser games.

I'd suggest that the reason is monetization. People are used to buying phone apps and console games, but expect web pages to be free. And open source is good at software but not games.
Yay art! (Albeit hugged close to death, this morning)

Story:

I owned a 20MB hard drive, attached to the side of my Amiga 1200, in the 1990's. Internet was a discrete, dial-up experience. One morning the drive clanged unnaturally loudly. And the shaky desk on which I computed transmitted a strong thud force. My HD had decided to slam its head into its cylinder spindle. I believed I would lose all my work. I backed it up, and later Maxtor honored its warranty, ultimately restoring my precious files.

Gibson's poetry experience reminds me of this moment - all my special data being threatened to go, "poof!"

(link to his full poem: https://web.archive.org/web/20190322065716/http://www.willia...)
I assume they will be moonlighting since they can't be doing it during their working hours, who knows... ( They could do it but they would be breaching their employment policies)
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

If a novel virus once again originates in China from a city with a BSL4 lab, I think we ought to skip the twice is coincidence.
Romania is an interesting case from a demographic point of view. Many, many factors at work in that very old part of the world.
> Any deviation from a strict all or nothing approach is silenced through bullying and harassment.

I don't agree, so let's test my hypothesis right here!

I come armed only with a single, short article about trans desistance that was aimed a general audience, let's have a short but real discussion. Before that I was tabula rasa.

IIRC the researcher Thomas Steensma quoted in the piece produced both of these results in the same set of published papers:

1. There is a high likelihood that some number of patients in his clinic will no longer identify as trans when they are older

2. There is a set of predictors which can be used to help identify minors in his clinic who will persist as trans when they are older

Reading between the lines, it also appears this is one of the more conservative researchers-- i.e., his clinic waits to socially transition kids longer than other clinics do.

Even so, what I read is that a) the guidelines for diagnosing gender dysphoria have become more stringent/accurate over the past few decades, and b) more research will reveal more predictors for persistence.

Given that, your position at the very least is under-specified. You could be saying that you favor waiting to do social transitioning per this clinician's guidelines. Or, you could be arguing that you want the predictors and indicators fleshed out more before you'd be comfortable with the kinds of treatments these clinics provide. Or, you could mean that you reject (out of hand or otherwise) the research on these predictors and/or the accompanying body of research.

All of those positions invite differing qualities of argumentation. And again, I've only read a single article here, so you may very well be privy to knowledge that would sway me in a different direction. But unless that single article was complete bunk, it appears that both the diagnosis of and treatment for gender dysphoria has improved over the past few decades, and that at least a part of the treatment is social transition where the costs and benefits of those who persist and desist need to be weighed.

With my incredibly small amount of knowledge in this area, zero of this particular treatment option for everyone who is a minor certainly seems excessive. If that is indeed your position, then what is the evidence for it and why aren't experts in the field taking that evidence into account?

In any case, I believe I have fulfilled the requirements for at least a single anecdatum that shows lack of bullying/harassment for your stated position.

[1]: https://www.kqed.org/futureofyou/441784/the-controversial-re...
First, did I say my previous commebnt disagrees with anything you said?
Second, if it's not due to "disagreement", why did you add the last "EDIT"?
AI is deciphering a 2k-year-old 'lost book' regarding Alexander the Great
There's a difference between "exists in a society with people they object to" and "wants to have people who are actively hostile to their existence constantly shoved into their timeline and conversations by an algorithm designed to keep you glued to Twitter for as long as possible, regardless of what it does to your mood and mental health".
> With a series of toy models, the researchers calculated that the biased cosmic ray particles were ever-so-slightly more likely to knock an electron loose from a “live” helix than from an “evil” one, an event that theoretically causes mutations.

With a dataset of n=1 (a single example of abiogenesis), there is quite limited evidence for the claim. But you don't need much of an effect to influence something that could go either way.
>twitter.com/squatsons

Looks like pro-Russian propaganda account.
Are all views valid and should be listened to? In order to ensure free speech do we all have to thoughtfully engage with white supremacists or pederasts? Seems to me free speech is my having a choice who I associate with as well.
In the 1700s France had John Law, wars, famines, and bad kings.

Geopolitically France is an interesting place with one foot in Mediterranean civilization and one foot in Northern Europe, good natural barriers, and a fairly unified culture.

After the religious wars of the Reformation, there was a period of pretty good kings and increasingly strong state, prosperity importing tech from Muslim world via Italy, and liberalization. During this period, Italy, Germany, UK, low countries had their own problems and France was pretty dominant.

Before the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, France had 4x the population of Great Britain. After Napoleon's defeat, was never that dominant again. Mediocre kings and Napoleon III, played second fiddle to UK in industrial revolution, political unrest, and Germany unified under Prussia and Rhine industrialists and defeated France in 1870.
Like Atom after VS Code
Welfare.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-government...

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2018-12-07/ty-article/.p...
Thank you so much, I've been looking for this vaguely remembered book on the internet for many years. I read it in the library as a tween in the 80s but never saw it again.
I replaced drinking with weed for awhile but I noticed I wasn't feeling all that much better. Then I started tracking my sleep with an Apple Watch and found that with both alcohol and pot, the amount of deep sleep I get is super impacted.

I'm sure it's not 100% scientific but it correlates well enough that I'm convinced. Even a couple drinks will knock me down to 15-45 minutes of deep sleep in a night, vs. 90+ that I get during the week.

Once I stopped both alcohol & pot I found that I felt much better, the way I expected to feel after I quit drinking.
Exactly. I just didn’t want to sound too pessimistic in the original post… honestly I’m just excited we get bare minimum a modern architecture on the web. That doesn’t mean I wouldn’t still rather just write for desktop in the end anyway if I want to use techniques from this generation.
It took me a while to realize this meant "license key", my first thought was about keyboard codes.
As a nit, I think the vast majority cannot be solved fast? A large number of interesting ones can, though. Right?
I know that AllegroGraph offered a Prolog(-like) language, but never got around to using it.

Unfortunately, I never used a graph database in a commercial setting, so I don't have much practical experience beyond just toy projects.

Since it seems like you are using this in a commercial setting, did you have any experience with Prolog as a query language?
Best of luck on your cms - I must admit I think the future lies with something like deno/fresh (https://fresh.deno.dev) or astro (https://astro.build) along with cdn/edge computing.

> Recently I spun up a site for a client and the plug-ins cost over $1000 just to get them going.

I think that's the wrong way around - you/your client could buy stuff costing a thousand dollars because of the huge wp ecosystem (however dysfunctional it may be - I once looked briefly at how to write and sell a wp theme - and quickly moved on to different pursuits). Now, how much value did you get from that? That's one of the big draws of wp.

Im sure your new system will cover 80% of that - but what about the themes and plug-ins someone else needs?
The thought occurred to me the other day that assembly and BASIC share a lot of similarities in how you need to think of your program's flow, yet we ended with a world where assembly is considered respectable while BASIC basically (pardon) got burnt at the stake.

I've been reading a lot about retro gaming lately, so I'm just thinking in the context of bedroom coders of the 80's that learned to program in BASIC, then moved on to assembly to get more performance, and then later moved on to C and C++ as projects became more complicated. They all seem to have turned out okay.

I suppose what I'm getting at is you can write bad code in any language.
Nothing will breed more conspiracy theorists than the way how the scientific community dealt with Covid-19 pandemic.
Alternative approaches to traditional backup/restore at multi-PB size
Yes. I'm in my 40s and am ready for retirement, or at least a change of pace. My sweet little angelic children probably have a lot to do with it.
holy shit, that was so obvious, hard and complicated at the same time, thanks for your help on that, you really help me
The article is about measurement, which the author doesn't define one bit. Measurement reform is too late in the process to mitigate conclusion chasing. This is a problem of academics and politics, not scientific methods.
Although I commend the idea of practical learning, I wouldn't want to be graded for learning about bash or makefiles sorry. Those things should be self-taught.
UnityScript wasn't actually JavaScript, but a custom .NET language with a JS-like syntax, largely incompatible of course. Naturally people wanted to use C# instead.
This is Colemak’s killer feature. Changed my life
Afaik, schoolchildren in Ukraine still use to learn programming in late school years with Pascal.
> I'm saying there's no one alive today that experienced it.

But that doesn't mean the effects aren't still experienced by their children and grand children, who are still living. In order to say it's ancient history, we have to actually grapple with that history. Another poster made a great point that the reason we don't closely associate Germany with Nazi Germany today is that they went thorough a lot of hard work to de-Nazify their country.

In America, we dismantled our apartheid state and called it a day. We went from slavery, straight into a segregated society, and then when the civil rights act was passed, racism was declared "over" by a segment of society who didn't want to fully deal with the issue. But the negative effects from 200+ years of stat-sanctioned oppression persist.

Imagine if Germany post WWII said "You know, the holocaust was too far, but Jews are still a problem, and they shouldn't be part of German society." We'd question how de-Nazified Germany actually was. Jews there would be correct to question whether the holocaust actually ended or if it just temporarily subsided. They would be right to be concerned when people started saying "It's OK to be Aryan", and they probably won't agree with that sentiment even if having blue eyes and blonde hair is literally just fine. Because we all know what people uttering such a phrase are really saying: "It's okay to be a Nazi".

Take the context back to America, and we haven't dealt with slavery or our history of racial segregation. Just as we start to deal with it in our modern area, we see at the local, state, and federal level, the same ideology that was for US apartheid is now very much against a societal level reconciliation at the scale Germany underwent. And those are the people like Scott Adams, who want us to retreat back to our segregated past. They are the same as the Nazis want to put the Jews back in the ghettos without going full holocaust, and call that social progress. It's the same thing with these American white supremacists.
That's interesting. Must be hard to hire for nowadays. Then again, my friend says at least one government is still using COBOL!
If it's still Mac only, I don't have any real use for it, can only use editors that works across Windows, Linux and macOS, otherwise there is no real point in me trying them out :/ But I thank you for the offer, might reach out in the future if I hear it's available on more platforms.
I'm thinking about setting up a private instance for myself and my friends, plus the people I meet online through different, more personal channels, like 1:1 calls and rants via my Calendly.

Another reason is that not using hay@potato.horse as my handle feels like a missed opportunity.
Python 3 has types and you can use Pydantic for validation.

https://docs.pydantic.dev
Thank you for sharing. You convinced me to create my own list, which is also slim pickings

https://gsmarena.com/results.php3?chk35mm=selected&chkAccele...
In a sense Mastodon reminds of the very early stages of Twitter, where there was mostly no toxicity and people were mostly kind and willing to participate in civilized discussions. Hopefully this will continue that way for longer time, given the get-popular-quick schemes that worked on Twitter don't tend to work in Mastodon.

But be careful of the server you choose. I submitted this some days ago to see what people think, albeit it got no traction, so I'll put again here just in case:

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/mastodon2.html

If switching servers is not made painless and straightforward, we'll end up having a single, mostly trusted, mostly centralized server (whatever that happens to end up being), because nobody wants to see themselves in the situation of losing their accounts on a server that seemed to be trustworthy. And also nobody wants to put on themselves the burden of having to make a full research on the viability of each and every potential server that they might want to use, that's something that shouldn't be a problem solved by individual users, but a problem solved by the service itself, somehow. A Covenant is far from enough.
It's hardly a precedent. Companies have been shedding relationships with individuals, TV shows, other organizations for a very long time for expressing political and other views that alienate a sufficient percentage of their customer base such that the benefit of the relationship is no longer worth the cost.
"I'm a 30 year old boy.."
I have tried all sorts of Electron, Java and Web Postgres clients but HeidiSQL, despite limited Postgres support, is just way too usable in comparison. Maybe it speaks for the datatable implementation of Delphi but I’m not sure.
Lapce, which is written in rust, is using Druid, which is discontinued.
A notable success story is the Mondragon Corporation. It's a federation of worker-owned cooperative businesses, and is the 7th largest company in Spain with billions in yearly revenue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation
I do not know if you habe children, but this is for good reason.

Children are brutal when it comes to peer pressure and such.
They do not engage in white lies, they say it as they think it is.

If you send your boy in a pink mini dress to school, you will not be doing him a favour.

There should be some rules on how humans present themselves when in public and in groups.
I mean, if society would be such that ypu could walk down the city center naked with all reproductional organs exposed with nothing but a kkk t shirt, this simply would not find acceptance.

In summary, kids minds and kid environments like school are fertile grounds for bullying under peer pressure etc.
It is good if a school promotes freedom of expression and tolerance, but some very vocal minority groups want everything yesterday and are pushing it down everyones throats.

Having had a close family member losing 5 years of his life and his savings to a fortuneteller crook has made me realize that people with too much of an open mind, in a crisis situation, will believe the most ridiculous coping strategies told to them by others.
Kids are often insecure and easy to influence, I think they should be kept away from people promoting irreversible things like gender changes.
Cigarettes , gambling and alcohol are forbidden to be promoted to minors, so should be this.
I do this with Gentoo+Arch.

Complete with enough mount --bind/rbind I can chroot the other system and launch anything I need, as if it was the one I booted from.
How many companies are trying to make anti-gravity technology? No serious ones that I know about, we don't even know how that would work. We have 0 examples of anti-gravity.

How many companies are working on AI? Well a number of the biggest most well funded companies in the world. And those companies have 8 billion copies of self booting intelligence to learn from.

It is incredibly, i mean massively ignorant to say creation of intelligence is impossible when we're doing just that by having sex already. Nature did this by random walk. There was no magic here. No intelligent design. Applied chemistry and randomness created human intelligence. Now humans are taking their massive filtering capabilities of the mind and its reasoning ability it provides and working steadfast on making intelligence happen artificially and your response is about anti-gravity....

Ummm.....
If they're building a native macOS UI, how is it ever possible it'll be worthwhile to port that into native Windows UI or "native" Linux UI? If you wanna go cross-platform, you usually consider that from the start, not once you're 50% done, as you're gonna have to redo a lot of work you could have gotten "for free".
I like mastodon. Not sure anyone here can accurately tell you whether it fits your needs (especially since ppl use twitter very differently).

One difference that sticks out to me is that mastodon isn't designed to goad for more engagement. For example, 'likes' on mastodon are public but not the same thing as 'resharing' in terms of appearing in timelines. Twitter used to treat likes similarly, but over time it changed. I imagine they saw more engagement when 'likes' were treated more and more like 'retweets.' I appreciate that on mastodon I can show the author of a post I like the content without automatically putting it in the feed of my own followers (and it's easy to do both if I chose to).
> Then, after your last REM cycle, you wake up rested and alert.

Yeah, right. As if the widely sympathized image of the morning zombie had no basis in reality.
OKRs will never be enough
I'm on Mastodon and in agreement with most of the on-topic top-level comments that it's much more pleasant and less toxic. I've heard good things about Akkoma, though, so I've been meaning to check it out: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/#differences-with-plero...

Stuff like support for code blocks, different reactions are a draw for me, coming from Mastodon.
The web site https://fedi.tips/ collects a bunch of suggestions in this vein for improving your fediverse experience.
Found some discussion here, but tbh it's a little light for me not to think that NIH syndrome doesn't come into it?

https://github.com/vinkla/wordplate/issues/234
Anecdotally, yes Joomla and Drupal were much harder to work with and get them to look "nice".
Oh, yea I am: https://exfatloss.substack.com/p/ex150-diet-macros-2294kcal-...

Sorry I suppose that's not obvious from the article is it :) I've added a link.