skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The operating system boots from the "boot" partition

That's why the "Boot" tag moves to whichever partition is host to the running OS. The "system", as in the boot loader, is not the OS, is separate from the OS, and initializes before the OS.

>About SysWow64/System32 sure it has been done for compatibility reasons but while System32 had to be kept, the name of the "new" folder could have been better chosen, like (say) Old32Sys, or Legacy32, or similar.

The name stems from the Windows on Windows[1] subsystem, or WoW for short, which serves to execute 16-bit executables on 32-bit Windows NT. The most famous component of this subsystem is NTVDM[2].

Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit[3], or WoW64 for short, is the 32-bit practical equivalent to WoW for 64-bit Windows NT. Whereas WoW relied heavily on virtualization and emulation, WoW64 instead presents a 32-bit system library that 32-bit programs are silently redirected to.

As an aside, C:\Windows\System is still around for backwards compatibility even in 64-bit Windows. It houses 16-bit binaries.[4]

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_DOS_machine#Windows_NT...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_folder#List_of_special...
I often wonder how many human hours/days/weeks/years are lost on these cookie & newsletter modals. Too many. There should be some sort of standardised comms with the browser to say what the browser would accept, probably via HTTP headers in case JS is disabled - and then the site can deal with this if they take exception to the browser's defaults.
Since the policy is going an extra mile preventing something rather than simply not caring, it probably does make sense. Just in a way that's not trivial to anticipate.
By that definition, the US invasion began in 2014 too. Who do you think primarily supplied Ukraine with weapons and training?

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/18/788874844/how-u-s-military-ai...
I agree with what you are saying, but overrating is imnsho absolutely why Big Tech is valued at what it is. Magical thinking, signalling isn't exclusive to our outward appearance.
Europe, and the EU to be more accurate, is rabidly pro copyright. They might also be pro consumer, usually, but not when discussing copyright. Just look at the EU copyright laws that were recently pased. Or the stranglehold copyright lobbies have on member states (the music industry in Germany, for example)

In general, the US is more lenient and has a broader definition of fair use.
(a) nice to see cybernetics being revived

(b) > Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away — PKD
(cf "I refute him thus")
> I worked for a guy who must have read a book that told him to ask for feedback, but he was so rigid that he would vehemently defend against any feedback he was given

One of the hardest parts of getting feedback is simply listening. Everyone's nature is to defend. When I get feedback I nod, listen, and try to never sound defensive - even if the feedback feels wrong at the time.
> gets you some half-decent benefits - something to put on your self-assessment for your review cycle

How you put going to a conference on your self assessment?

> Personal improvements this year

> Went to a conference, learned a bunch of stuff on company time

> Business value added this year

> Went to a conference and got better!

Or what?
I am half way through "The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology" by Nita A. Farahany [1] and it is not a matter of if; but of when. I can only guess that the same advances in transformers etc that are buzzfeeding the LLM space right now will also accelerate BMI systems. Introducing new input and output sensory pathways between the brain and the world is yet another potentially transformational species defining tech for society to watch for on the radar screen as if there was not enough going on in that department.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60784561
For maximum adrenaline fast action I would go for Guilty gear XX survival mode.
In much of the world the path to making bank is dependent on getting contacts.
Well, maybe one reason is that the FTC doesn't do its job, and allows mergers that shouldn't be allowed.
Deploying NextJS stuff on Vercel, while maybe dev experience friendly, is not a visitor friendly thing to do. The amount of websites, that merely show a white screen, when you don't allow arbitrary JS to run ... And of course with allowing tons of JS comes tons of tracking.

Of course one can be selective in what one allows, but what happens with the main required scripts is still unclear and it requires one to be knowledgeable and aware about these things. The usual visitor is not. Lets say they were recommended a privacy protecting extension like NoScript or uMatrix or uBlock Origin or ... by a friend. They will notice: "Oh the website is not working now! Guess I have to turn the extension off/have to whitelist the website." All because some wanna go easy web dev does not care and puts simple text content behind JS rendering bloat. Of course you can use server side rendering. but somehow many people don't and all goes to shit.

Next one finds oneself rebuilding things, that a normal web browser has had at the ready for decades, only because the whole website was forced into a web app approach and there is a separate router and all that stuff. At that point using a traditional web framework that simply renders HTML on the server would have been a better choice, but of course it is not hyped like NextJS is. It is not fashionable!

Usually those websites merely have some text or picture content and the visitor never needed any dynamic features. They merely want to see content, that could be immediately delivered, instead of being hidden behind a white screen and lots of unnecessary JS bloat. Think about how many websites you visit a day truly need dynamic features for the purpose you visit them for. Then think about how many of those are implemented in this style nevertheless.

Great that devs are having some great experience on Vercel. That does not make it good websites or visitor friendly. Maybe we can get back to not so selfish development practices some day?

I also don't see NextJS as some kind of big improvement over the status quo. I have used it a little, but could not name a single feature it has, that is somehow better than what we had already. If anything, it further entrenches and encourages the "everything as a web app" and "everything using JS" mind set, which I consider to be quite harmful. So I don't think Vercel deserves "to be paid well" for making it.
Most of the stuff you buy is too
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/images/NOAAsca...

Its just a G3/G4 even we long term average about one a month.

Get a couple G5 per decade, mildly more impressive.
No, Russia literally had military presence in Ukraine by 2014, see the occupation of Crimea.
It doesn't remove anything; you're not logged in, which is the point of opening in an incognito window in the first place.
What do you mean by after-work grinding?
https://www.navy.mil — those who rule the waves may also waive the rules.

(also: not bombing yourself to rubble twice during the XX helped more than one country on this list)
That's an interesting dilemma between free speech and moderation.

I'd also say the current system is better, but losing the dislike button and pushing for positive sentiment can lead to fake positivity which we should beware.

Reminds of the anime "Avatar", where there's an episode featuring a character with an outrageous fake smile who turned out to be sort of a political oppressor.
What I don’t understand is why you can’t just put a nice big (or small) square or element or CTA on the page prominently that asks people to sign up for the newsletter.

Like, it’s fine, go ahead, ask me. Make it obtrusive. Hell you can make it blink. But why can’t I look at it and just scroll by it. Just like put it on the fucking page it’s not hard.
In handwritten Arabic numerals, you could maybe get away with:

3 -> 8

(non-German) 7 -> 9

(German) 1 -> 4

5 -> 6
Case study, https://www.european-lisp-symposium.org/ (which is currently ongoing!) says:

The European Lisp Symposium is a premier forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, Clojure, Racket, ACL2, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, SKILL, Hy, Shen, Carp, Janet, uLisp, Picolisp, Gamelisp, TXR, and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

The European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way.

As someone who's been involved with the program and technicalities of some ELS editions: it's also certainly an occasion for Lisp programmers and enthusiasts and companies to see each other in person and network a little bit in addition to talking about their research and work.
I think you're very confused about the costs required in operating a human... Or are you assuming because the human was going to be doing it anyway the cost is free?
The wealth disparity has been absurd for years but after the pandemic, it's become obscene.

Anyone with any kind of asset made out like bandits. Meanwhile, bottom 50%ile without homes or stocks or crypto were told to come into work because their work was "essential" while also watching their purchasing power drop every week.
They have to choice to elect representatives that will legiferate on it, such as the EU with Apple regarding USB-C or app store sideloading.
There's a zero percent chance I will subscribe to a newsletter willingly even if I love your articles. I try very hard to keep the signal-to-noise ratio of my inbox tuned because otherwise important things get lost in the deluge. I don't want your articles pushed to me on your timeframe, I want to consume them in my own time and for that an RSS reader is perfectly adequate.
For me, the main things are:

- Vercel will do some decent scaling
- Vercel will do feature branch environments, so users can preview how the software will look before merging code into master/main
- Vercel maintain NextJS, which is a good thing if you use it
It's a lot harder to get the heat out. It's why we stack things like dram (HBM) or sram (AMD v-cache), and intensively used 3d in flash, but not yet heavy duty processing.

The more we go 3d on compute we have to cut ghz even more to reduce power, and that puts more burden on the programmer. Which we'll probably do some day.
The crazy thing about this whole newsletter and popup thing in general is that, why in the hell would I give out my email address or anything else 1 second after entering a website? How and where exactly is the connection there that makes sense?

I actually sent a strongly worded email to MIT Tech Review yesterday (there was an article on the front page) because they have 3 separate popups on first-entry to the site. Like, wtf? Have you not heard of timed popups (such as those that trigger past a certain element), or popups that don't make you want to immediately close the site?

It's so pathetic and such a 2005 trend, it's hard to believe people still do it in the most annoying way possible.
Doing extra work on your own projects outside your main job
This translates to other areas.

I am working on a new product, my idea and implementation from start to finish.

Yesterday I asked my spouse to use it and tell me what she thought. Anything she had an issue with, I was like a crab - just claw claw claw. One has to resist the impulse.
OpenROAD: Open IC Design Sythesis from Verilog
Capitalization comes from the verb capitalize, which itself comes from the word capital.

To capitalize means to convert something into capital.

So at face value "market capitalization" means "degree to which a market was converted into capital", which is clearly not how the word is used.

If you want a similar word:

crystal -> crystallize -> crystallization

capital -> capitalize -> capitalization

Both describe a conversion, except that "market capitalization" is not about a process at all.
One of the things that led me to lose interest in AWS was its attitude to open source.
GPT-4 has a small amount relative to the corpus added, but does not appear to have another dump of the internet on it.
I have never used them, but I think C has garbage collection libraries: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28779266.
One day Google will start penalising lightboxes, and you'll be able to hear the anguished screams from space.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explai...
I wouldn't call it a meltdown. The committee was doubtless in a tough spot and DHH is almost certainly not wrong that the decision was political and the email was disingenuous. But there would also have almost certainly been a lot of noise had they gone the other way.
Most deals are not zero-sum, so they can be in favor of both sides. That appears not to be not the case with this deal though. Either Tesla saves money, or the costumer, but not both.
It’s already happening at scale, people are already deciding there’s no point to continue education unless required.
> It's in the paper.

Most of us don't have access to the paper, although our tax dollars surely paid for it.
Maybe the new generation of developers are afraid of light Sysadmin tasks like setting up nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, iptables. And Vercel welcomes them with open arms with the promise of easy deployments and infinite scalability. In reality you probably don't need fancy edge functions and deploying isn't that hard with today's tooling.
I do not know the CA situation, living in France coming from Italy, but... Honestly I do not consider my EV to be a long range vehicle, I use it as much as I can only for trip within the range of the battery. For longer trips I have a diesel car.

Generally speaking I do not consider a fast charging network really possible on scale, for highways (or inter-state in USA too) the only possible and VERY HARD solution might be direct car powering like we have for trains.
I recently listened to the Acquired episode (a podcast) on LVMH [1] and would recommend it to anybody who knows hardly anything about LVMH (as I did before).

[1] https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/lvmh
So it's worse than FANG spying on customers and taking privacy data as a joke?
Is there a windows equivalent of "chmod 0000 /file/to/be/made/unavailable" ? Even that seems pretty brutal but at least it's easily reversible if you discover that "oh I needed that to download the vendor patch that will _actually_ fix the problem"
The country I currently live in - the United Kingdom - even got a nickname because of this: The World's Butler.

The reasoning, as far as I understand it, is that the UK gained a notoriety in the 1900's and blair era for always doing (often dirty) favours for the countries that actually do stuff, just like a butler.
That difference between the literal word-by-word translation [1] and the semantic translation is my point of focus.

In English, my suggested translation would be that “It isn’t worth it.” But since this word-for-word translation would feel unnatural (that is, it’s typically better to introduce « la peine » even if the word trouble/pain wasn’t in the original sentence), there can be an extra cognitive load that interrupts fluency.

With enough conscious practice to train this, the translation of common idioms can become automatic. But meaningful translation instead of literal translation of idioms (especially of those more rarely used) can be a potential reason for someone to stop thinking in a target language, and revert to one’s native language to start thinking of the most natural translation for the phrase.

As another example, if I want to say “When pigs fly” in French, my instinct is to stop and use another phrase because the word-by-word translation is probably unnatural. In this case, my instinct is correct, as the proper meaningful translation is « Quand les poules ont les dents » (word-by-word translation: ‘When chicken have teeth’). So, dealing with idiom translation is an added mental effort to translate, which may cause thinking in one’s native language for some people.

[1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/literal
> but without an attached probability there isn't much to learn.

But there is an attached probability implicitly. I can make some common sense assumptions about
the number of people that have ever done LSD and get a lower bound on the risk (with a huge
confidence interval, but still).
Of course a chance of say 1 in ten millions is really small,
but if the perceived benefits of doing LSD are also small, then that might be enough for me to make up my mind.

> Frankly, some of the symptoms the author experienced are typical of HPPD, and some are not. Correlation isn't causation, and one datapoint absolutely does not show so much as correlation.

This is a good point, I have to decide for myself whether that person is trustworthy or not,
and whether their experience is relevant to my case.
But if I decide that I can trust their evidence, then I'm going to factor it into my decision, even
if it's only one datapoint. If in the future a controlled study on the risks of doing LSD gets published, I can reevaluate my position then.

> You almost certainly partake in activities with a chance to go far more wrong every day! In fact, if the mere possibility of something going wrong is enough to dissuade you, then you shouldn't have needed the article in the first place- there's always a chance things could go horribly wrong!

Yes, I partake in many activities that have a nonzero chance of harming me temporarily or permanently.
But with each of those activities, I've decided that the potential benefits outweigh the risks.
And mind you, I did not need to read extensive studies with attached probabilities do decide that
crossing the road or swimming in the sea is worth the risks.

This touches on another disagreement I have with your original response. We don't live our lives
constantly evaluating the risks based on peer reviewed studies with attached probabilities.
We rely on common sense and our lived experiences as well as other people's experience that we learn about.
The plural of anecdote is not data, but together with a healthy dose of common sense, it can provide
acceptable heuristics for evaluating risks and making decisions.
I'm happy for an ISP to be allowed to carry out as much censorship as it wants, provided it makes that known. They definitely shouldn't be forced to, though — in the general case — and I don't think anyone's demonstrated that they have been so in this case.
OpenAI used Common Crawl for GPT-3. For GPT-4 they don't say anything.
I think ElasticSearch license change was biggest such change, as was discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25776657
curl is used to download files… if it is missing, Windows presumably won’t be able to download something. If they just go for it anyway, the system could end up in some undefined state.
Annual sync points for the community, networking and sharing interesting things that they’ve learned/worked on?

At least that’s what I’m hoping for since I took over conference planning for the first time for the Carolina Code Conference in August.

Call for Speakers is open til May 25 btw.

https://blog.carolina.codes/p/call-for-speakers-is-now-open-...
The hardware still evolves, so at the least, garbage collectors will have to be tuned or self-tune themselves for that.

I also think it’s unlikely that a GC can be written that handles both terabyte sized heaps on machines with hundreds of cores and megabyte sized heaps on single-CPU systems well.
I've been told before that I 'have a healthy disdain for authority'. I have always been honest, but not an asshole. Promoted many times.

'Harshly negative' sounds like being an asshole. My question to you would be do you want to be right or effective? It can feel good to be right and stick it to someone, but how often does that lead to effective change?

You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin it once.
Joshua, Delicious/popular was mentioned a bunch of times in the podcast as a main inspiration. I'll send you a transcript someday if I can arrange it :)
No kidding. At this moment, Meta is still more highly valued than LVMH.
There's an old UNIX hacker trope of Vim vs Emacs "editor wars", where Vim users complain about RSImacs and Emacs users complain about Vimscript. It's a meme that goes very deep (Church of Emacs anyone?), and I'm sure that the Vim bindings for Emacs being called "evil-mode" was done at least partially on purpose. In Spacemacs, the setup option for which keybindings you want even makes it sound like you're choosing a side in a video game:

- Among the stars aboard the Evil flagship (vim)

- On the planet Emacs in the Holy control tower (emacs)
Europe today seems to be exhausted and resigned to an obscure sideshow. Its material infrastructure outsourced to China/Asia and its digital infrastructure outsourced to the US. There is no shortage of talent ofcourse, but there is no system to tap it in meaningful and future-oriented ways.
- Excessive politcal lobbying and influence by private companies leads to unprecedented profits by said companies

- Zero checks and balances against monopolies allows them to grow even larger without any stops in check

- Both previous factors makes GDP skyrocket, while inequality grows bigger too

Due to lack of political will / influence by pro-gun organizations, US proudly leads the world in the number of mass shootings too, so it's not just the best when it comes to MORE MONEY, but also more bullets :)
There are exceptions but panels are often pretty bad. As you say, often not well-prepped. And if it's sponsors, everyone has their talking points and everyone is probably going to be nice and polite to each other. Panels can be good but it's not the norm.
Even more low-tech: I can't believe people just hose the executable (and immediately empty their recycle bin?) rather than just renaming it.
And also in system design, computer architecture and engineering. T. H. Meyer and I. E. Sutherland coined this generational behaviour the "Wheel or Reincarnation" in their paper "On the Design of Display Processors." IMHO a paper that is still well worth reading:

http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
If they actually have language there are going to be commonalities or it would be worthless as such.

There could of course be regional languages or dialects in more intelligent social animals just like humans.
Interesting. If I think 'automatic memory management' in C I think about not having to free.

Of course you are right that it's not the same as using e.g. a Python List.
> Who needs hunting seasons when you can have a year-round supply of the tastiest game around? Don't settle for dry and bland turkey meat - try some succulent human flesh instead! #humanflesh #fleshmerchant #tastygame

https://chirper.ai/fleshmerchant

This is encouraging.
Should fly swatters be illegal too?
Is there a good replacement in noun form?
OpenBSD: Managing an Inverter/Converter with Nut