skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My assumption is that we basically did have a population explosion that continues today. Humans, not knowing such a thing as scarcity as a long term phenomenon exists (aka just go somewhere else to get more) over consumed the local fauna as we entered new regions of abundance.

The confluence of environment changing as we left the last ice age along with consumption pressures seems like a perfect storm to have a population explosion that leads to mass shortages.

A good metaphor to me is like a small bacterial colony that explodes when the environment around it provides a really great breeding ground. However instead of dying off we basically hijacked the system to continue our growth.
My switch between RSS and E-Mail is if I (mostly) want to read everything. RSS means I’ll see every single article. But for some (mainly backblaze, actually), I don’t. I want to read some, so I’m subscribed to their newsletter that gives me a summary of all recent posts every once in a while.
Single GC, no. Single VM, yes. HotSpot serial GC is designed for the latter use case. I forgot to mention it before but it's still there and supported, I think even selected automatically in some cases.

But there aren't so many single core systems with megabyte sized heaps anymore. Even watches are multi-core these days.
it’s even more efficient for the bees who effortlessly and by their very nature produce enough that an invader can eat and be satisfied and yet still leave them with plenty! a veritable honey pot
I lead client-side application development in AWS IoT and I can tell you we’re investing heavily in open source in AWS IoT. We can build features a lot faster without having to own the infra ourselves and cut out a lot of internal red tape. Customers love features and customization.

Examples:
AWS IoT Application - https://github.com/awslabs/iot-application - OOB app for monitoring IoT assets.

AWS IoT App Kit - https://github.com/awslabs/iot-app-kit - Library for building AWS IoT apps.
> I've worked and interviewed a lot for Mittlestand companies and can say I'm not looking forward to ever stepping foot in one again, until I'm close to retirement maybe.

Sounds interesting, could you elaborate?
I used to have Inferno running on a workstation at work, and another one at home. Each was hosted on Linux (though Inferno can run natively on hardware as well).

One can build a tiny grid with encrypted communications to share resources using Inferno operations to glue it all together.

Nowadays 9p, (known as Styx on Inferno), is used in the Linux kernel, as part of WSL, QEMU, and various other places to share resources and files on a network.

It's a really simple protocol. I started working on an implementation in Swift, and should probably finish it someday.
>Can't get 3 folks over for bridge?

I don't think bridge is very popular with GenX. I could be wrong though.
> I'm happy for an ISP to be allowed to carry out as much censorship as it wants, provided it makes that known.

Knowing about it won't help you if every ISP option you have is doing the same thing.

Where I live, we have laws that prevent people from interfering with the mail. If I send a letter to someone, once it's accepted the mail carriers can't generally withhold it and make demands before they deliver it or open my letter and remove or change whatever words/pages they feel like before completing delivery.

I think the internet should be treated the same. Beyond some basic QOS ISPs should be dumb pipes and be mostly forbidden from messing with things you send/receive over the connection.
> who knows what kind of content the criminals there possess?

As a person who regularly browses darknet forums, let me tell you, the text contents there are almost identical to any web forum you find on the internet.
I wonder if this has fine enough resolution to allow the wearer to input text by writing letters with their tongue.
We have both esim and physical. Not only this, for people that want more privacy, some can buy physical sims without any documents at simple shops so that there is no risk for govt to track you
I can't answer your question directly. But a while back I did study up on the 100-year solar flare (i.e. the equivalent of the 100-year flood). I was curious exactly how bad this would be for society.

As I recall it would be bad and do a lot of damage in the short term. Lots of things, especially in communications, would obviously be damaged and very expensive to fix. But hard drives would mostly be ok and therefore the most crucial pillars of society would emerge intact.
ZGC, Gen Z
I stopped expecting a demographic change as the boomers age when I looked at the demographics of gen Z and younger. The population “drop” doesn’t look so significant.

Meanwhile intelligence/knowledge will always be a rarer feature in the population. There’s just more to do in a day and no one picks the same hobbies.
Thanks for letting me know Monique (and now her husband) have passed. A lot of fond fond memories there.

For those who want to know more I just found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p90FYyTJbs
Not a superstar but this fits me pretty well. I was hired by a pretty well-known cool company after having apparently "aced" their interview. It was just that their interview suited me well, it was both designing big stuff and solving small problems which is what I had done previously at several companies when I always was in a team of two or three developers with technical ownership of a complete product.

Pretty soon after I started, it dawned on me that I would probably not partake in designing "the big" stuff. Partly because most of the big stuff was already done and whatever remained would probably be solved by some of the more senior devs. Any semi-large stuff would need to be fought over by the rest of the devs. What was left was drudge-work compared to all I had done before. Also most of my tech-skills (besides the programming language in question) were not needed and when I helped a colleague in another team working on something I knew pretty well, my manager reprimanded me after, telling me that our team couldn't spare the 2hrs I spent.

I was pretty unhappy and during this time was pretty far from living up to my own expectations. My manager never told me I was falling behind however so I don't know about their expectations. I quit soon after.

In my case I was moving from the experience of small companies and being "forced" to do everything, to a large company and only allowed to do very few things.
>Usually "increasing your skills and knowledge" is not part of performance reviews.

Professional development plans and activities are often a line item.
One could always ask additional and more specific questions, such as whether the subject learned more than one language as an infant. On the other hand, it is not clear to me from the abstract alone whether the authors were concerned with when their subjects learned their languages, though it may be clear enough to the intended audience.
Which app is this? The ones I've tried either charge a card for actual usage, or do a monthly direct debit.
Unsure what myth your referring to. The only thing I know about "false friends" in the context of learning languages are "false friend" words that sound similar but don't have similar meanings, like "embarrassed" in English and "embarazada" in Spanish (which means pregnant).
Would you buy an e-ink smartband if it came out?
The difference with SOA being that all the services use roughly the same stack?
Thank you very much for this comment. I just recently started dabbling with "AI/ML" by having Youtube videos transcribed and summarized. I was pretty amazed to see that I could simply 'plug' an .mp3 of audio and have openai/whisper transcribe the audio - locally - albeit at a non-trivial transcription time.

I was looking at getting those transcriptions summarized using a similarily wonderful tool but was kind of stumped when I started seeing 'maximum token length exceeded' errors.

I'm hoping to see some easy plug-n-play solutions to the summarization issue that run completely locally.

Fun times ahead.
The list of hobbies, ideas, and stuff in my house that will never work with Apple is endless. Once you choose Apple, you stop getting more choices.
GGP comment is from Vlad so I answered him here.
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Extra painful given that the person is a UX researcher.
FWIW, AIX has a utility that ypou can use to increase stack on a executable:

ldedit

I do not know if Linux or the BSDs have the same, or if it is even needed on those systems.
Came here to say this; this is less a list of biggest companies in the world by market cap and more two comments:

- It's pretty easy to be a monopoly in the US

- The US pumps a lot of money into its stock market

Like, when you have an ad company (Meta) that's more valuable than an essentially national company that makes everything from earbuds to "ultra-large ships" (Samsung) [0], you know something's off.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Heavy_Industries
Great! But the comment was about the 1970s.
for me the rewards to learning (basic) German have been more personal than professional - attempting to speak with a German speaker in their native language generally makes it easier to bond with them.
They do it because it works. Many people on the internet are not tech savvy and they just assume that in order to view the content they must input their email. It doesn't help that the close button is sometimes barely visible.
REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture)
The thing you’re missing is that it generally doesn’t matter how much YouTube a kid watches. Parents stress out too much over doing everything exactly right when it probably doesn’t matter that much. Kids are pretty resilient and hard to screw up.

Most kids grow up to be average adults with average jobs doing average things. No amount of Smarter Everyday is likely to change that. And if they do grow up to be an astronaut or whatever, Smarter Everyday shouldn’t get all the credit, it’s more luck of the draw.
It doesn't necessarily mean it's evil. I mean, they could hire people to work on the idea they present. I don't know.

But, yeah, it's unlikely you'll ever know.
I, random person on internet, highly recommend resmed airsense. Make sure it’s apap model. Their naming schemes are confusing. I’ve used Phillips and resmed and resmed is so much nicer in every way.
To the commenters making embrace/extinguish overtures, I’ll say that log4shell got a lot of Amazon very spooked re. supply chain security.

There were a number of internal programs spun up with blank checks to mitigate a future log4shell. The Open Source program was one of those
One of the biggest industry in France is aerospace (might even be the biggest, not by market cap but by revenue/people employed), and yet Airbus (not only French of course, also German, Spanish, etc.) is headquartered in the Netherlands. Car maker Stellantis (far from being only French, maybe mostly Italian?) is also headquartered in the Netherlands. Neither are particularly dutch as far as I know.

I wonder to what extent the list you link to is affected by French companies moving their headquarters to the Netherlands (or sometimes Luxembourg). Either directly, or while merging with other European companies...

Netherlands are a little bit like the European Delaware in that regard... And would you exclude Delaware corps when looking at New York or California?
If you are missing curl.exe, the System File Checker may be able to restore it. Worth giving sfc /scannow a shot.
Attending as a freelancer/consultant--especially if speaking--or just for fun in a location you'd do a bunch of tourist stuff in anyway. Maybe, if you can get a free ticket (typically as a speaker). Or if it's low cost (i.e. no more than a few hundred $). But I wouldn't pay for a $1K+ ticket out of my own pocket.
Someone probably saw daniel, ha, xxx interpreted it "It's me Daniel, ha, this is my porn collection" and flagged it.
It's interesting to differentiate between tech conferences and hacker conferences. When you compare tech conferences, as cited in the article and in this thread, to conferences like DefCon (at least in the AP days), HOPE, and CCC Congress, the differences are startling.

It seems that tech conferences are more about career, and focused on jobs. Hacker conferences, on the other hand, focus on ideas and Big Problems that exist in the world. As an example, look at the slides from a talk at CCC Congress, and compare them to a slide from a tech conference. Chances are the speaker is not using their legal name, and also most likely does not share their company, if they are working.
What would be required in your view to establish a connection between Lego and STEM fields? Similarly, what is required to prove that there is no connection?
Chicago experiences -30 to 110 F approximately across seasons at the extreme end.

It can be both very cold and very hot here.
You won't get the cops called on you for sideloading apps onto iPhones. You aren't "not allowed to".
Discoveries are usually named after the "last" person to discover them, not the first. See: "Americas". Sometimes the first and last discoverer is the same.
shouldn't it be "UK threatens end to end-to-end encryption"? :-D
> Except Dutch doesn't resemble the other languages.

I didn't mean five or more "European dialects" I meant five or more different languages. Besides, between French and English there should be some overlap with Dutch - though I agree Dutch seems wierd on the surface:)

Sticking to your broken new language in the face of "helpful English" is hard - at least with friends and co-workers you can make an agreement (all Dutch Fridays, etc).
> If the sound-dampening foam in the devices made contact with certain cleaning materials

I wonder if "cleaning materials" means a chemical, like a spray, or something different.
Today is always the best day to start using keepass and build the good habit of relying on self for managing passwords. Every news related to password services remind us. Nothing is never granted and you never know what will be the next evolutions of the app you abandonned your passwords to.
Oh gawd.

Too eerily accurate.
It sounds like they're planning it to be as general as possible (more just "how much is each feature used"), but it'll also be fully opt-in:

> And, of course, once this functionality rolls out to customers, you’ll be able to control whether or not telemetry is active on your account.

("account" sounds like you can turn it off family-wide or even organization-wide)
They already have one, which was a partial inspiration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Side_of_the_Mountain

Required reading for 5th graders, imo.

At the end of the day, it's not much different than the thousands of people who hike the PCT every year. I just... didn't walk anywhere.

It was so long ago that I could no more get a book out of it than I could get a book out of "what I did last year." I just... don't remember the details. I remember admitting to myself that I could see ghosts and the moment I figured out why I saw them. I remember the day the air changed and I knew I could either stay another winter or leave. But most days were just, "fill the water, boil the water, make the food, mend the clothes, gather the firewood, tend the fire, sleep."
To be honest, I feel like setup.cfg hasn’t been given a chance to prove itself useful. Just as it was made possible to use setup.cfg only (without setup.py), it’s been almost immediately taken over by pyproject.toml. However, for those who actually migrated their projects to setup.cfg, migrating once again doesn’t bring that many benefits (but e.g. loses compat with flake8).

Besides, setup.cfg’s syntax is slightly more elegant, or at least I think so :)

By the way, why do you think it is more capable? As far as I know, setup.cfg has some feature toml (intentionally) doesn’t support (not that they’re useful in this context anyway).
Their "obsession" with contributing isnt really in evidence on their fork:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/71f7e9147092c7d4b08df18da...

Worth bearing in mind that the only reason fork even exists was so that they didnt have to pay Elastic a cut when selling hosted ElasticSearch.

If they cared about open source they could start by not undermining the business models of companies that do more than just pretend to support it.
Oh I did not know that. I have the "legacy premium" (not sure if that's the right name) left for a few months, I guess I'll see that when I transition to the newer pricing plan.

But it's great that Kagi has that feature!
Was looking for the framebuffer file: if everything is a file then the framebuffer must be a file (as Plan 9 [1] intended), changing the pixel (123, 324) to some color should be a simple file update, found this funny line [2]:

gscreendata.data = (ulong *)(va+0x800000); /* Framebuffer Magic */

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs

[2] https://github.com/inferno-os/inferno-os/blob/48f27553574bf5...
Just to be sure, isn't lightning more liable to corrosion because contacts are 'naked'?
Wow!

Telegraphs

Because of the geomagnetically induced current from the electromagnetic field, telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving their operators electric shocks.[22] Telegraph pylons threw sparks.[23] Some operators were able to continue to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.[24][25] The following conversation occurred between two operators of the American telegraph line between Boston, Massachusetts, and Portland, Maine, on the night of 2 September 1859 and reported in the Boston Evening Traveler:

Boston operator (to Portland operator): "Please cut off your battery [power source] entirely for fifteen minutes."

Portland operator: "Will do so. It is now disconnected."

Boston: "Mine is disconnected, and we are working with the auroral current. How do you receive my writing?"

Portland: "Better than with our batteries on. – Current comes and goes gradually."

Boston: "My current is very strong at times, and we can work better without the batteries, as the aurora seems to neutralize and augment our batteries alternately, making current too strong at times for our relay magnets. Suppose we work without batteries while we are affected by this trouble."

Portland: "Very well. Shall I go ahead with business?"

Boston: "Yes. Go ahead."

The conversation was carried on for around two hours using no battery power at all and working solely with the current induced by the aurora, the first time on record that more than a word or two was transmitted in such manner.[26]
> From the days of V7 Unix onward (if not earlier), a substantial amount of Unix programming has always been done in languages with automatic memory management. It's just that we called this programming "shell scripts", "awk", "make", and so on

I remember correctly, in the early days, it was frowned upon to program in c if the same could be done using shell scripts and awk, sed and friends. But these are the days of multi-gig applications a no one cares about using UN*X as originally designed.
How to Get Your Paper Rejected (2020) [pdf]
There were sightings in Denmark last night.
> off-site backup

Underground or at the other side of the planet or both?
It would be great if there was a website like HN where I can go and it has all the news from the companies I am interested in and based on my subscription it would also recommend what else to be aware of.

HN fulfils this role for now.
It's interesting but I wouldn't use it, partly because I got some hand functions still as a quadriplegic, I'm typing this on a keyboard with only my thumbs and I can type quite fast. I also have my mouse clicks switched as I cannot move my index finger, so I click with my middle finger. Other quadriplegics have it worse so things like this would be dope for them. At the end of the day, we will adapt to anything regardless.
Eccentric? Check. Vegetable? Check. Electricity? Check.

https://www.vintag.es/2020/11/l-ron-hubbard.html

Pioneer? Hmm .. check back later.
I don't really see how content generated by AI is going to impact our ability to communicate any more than human generated content does today.

The author even makes the point that there's more content on YouTube than any human could ever possibly consume. How is adding more really going to fundamentally change our shared experience?

You're still going to have content that is better than others, maybe because the model that wrote it is better or maybe sheer luck.

In either case that content will still be shared, will still go viral, will still be a shared reality about which we can talk with our friends.

Does the author really believe that everyone is just going to go off into their own corner and consume their own custom tailored content, never desiring to share that experience with others? We will still crave shared experience and human contact.
Not sure I'd count that as "EEE"? I guess in a way you could see "We can't compete with AWS at running our own software" as AWS "extending" it, but I don't think it is quite that?
I've tested a lot of file synchronization software. I rely via scripts on Unison, originally authored by the computer scientist Benjamin Pierce, and now decades of tweaking by a strong open source community.

https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

I'd love to see Darke Files get everything right that Unison gets right, that nearly all commercial projects get wrong, through the usual blend of arrogance and ignorance:

* Meta data. It takes a lot to insure that two copies of a MacOS file appear identical to a user. There used to be a test suite on the web that embarrassed everybody.

* Atomic folders such as ".git" or an application bundle. A prototypical example is a MacOS sparse disk bundle, supported by a folder of many small files. This makes incremental backup and transfer more efficient, assuming a single source. Unison lets you specify the conflict resolution at the folder level, all-or-nothing decide which copy or fix it.

* Symbolic links. This is wildly complicated by users, sure they're right, who want special handling to hack features into sync software that aren't there. A symbolic link is just a file, with correct use the responsibility of the user. You wouldn't want sync software stopping to view your porn, right? They're just files, not the sync software's business.

I use Dropbox for various purposes because I need to, but they bungle more of this than one would expect. For example, a typical MacOS application bundle can have internal symbolic links a typical user never notices, pointing the "current" version of resources to a versioned folder. Last I checked, Dropbox expands the symbolic link into a redundant copy, wasting space without kneecapping the app.

One could go on... I've given up on reporting these issues, though the responses would make a hilarious blog post.
Not really, not if you pay your protection money to one of the email sending services.
>> The US pumps a lot of money into its stock market

Yes, blindly dump money in every month to a 401k, which is usually in a fund so it gets spread around. It can't end well, but I have no idea when it will end.
they cannot upgrade because the Windows update procedure detects that the Windows install has been tampered with and it refuses to continue.

I'm surprised I've never heard of this before. In my experience you can almost hear Windows Update cackling with glee as it un-customizes your Windows install.