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> Can anyone explain the deep nostalgia and longing for old DOS era software, and in particular VGA text mode interfaces?

Nowadays, our computers have instant access to an uncountable amount of storage, information, and software through the Internet, and even local storage is enormous. Back then, the world was much smaller; the software and data you had in your small hard disk and boxes of floppy disks (and perhaps tape, etc.) was all that you had, and you didn't have a constantly online network to distract you with an unlimited fire hose of nonstop information.

That led to a closer relationship between you and the software on your computer. You had time to explore each and every corner of the software, and to read its manual (be it in the form of an online help or a paper book) from cover to cover. The software stayed the same; there was no automatic online update, no security scare blaming you for staying on a release that's more than a day old. You knew your software and hardware limitations, and adapted to them; they would stay the same until you bought more hardware, or new software (which came in colorful physical boxes, that you could put on a shelf).

We have gained much since, but lost some of that sense of wonder, of making the most of memory and storage measured in megabytes or even kilobytes, processors with speeds measured in megahertz or even kilohertz, and displays with few lines and columns of characters and little color.
Yes, this was in Portland, Oregon (and Beaverton)
Here's one. The statistics are easily found online, from many different sources, and they all generally agree with each other. So if you don't like this source, I'm sure you can find one that you do like.

https://www.healthline.com/health/average-steps-per-day

> 10 miles a day is a good amount of walking. It will take most people 2.5-4 hours depending on fitness and terrain.

Perhaps this is a source of misunderstanding -- this is adding up all the walking people do throughout their day, not talking about single-trip walks. So all the walking around the office, while shopping, etc.

I think little things add up. For instance, I walk about 6 miles per day on average. Much more than the average American. But, unlike the average American, if I'm going somewhere close (say, two miles or less), I don't drive -- I walk.
Says who? There is actual evidence to support that our brain doesn't "know" what it is doing on a subconscious level? As far as I'm aware it's more that conscious humans don't understand how our brain works.

I think the correct statement is "so far the answer is we don't know"
Eric Cline has several talks on youtube. His book '1177 BC The Year Civilization Collapsed' is probably the most popular account of the collapse.
Using obsolete utilities for the sake of 'doing the right UNIX way' instead of just ticking a checkbox/adding one line in the task configuration?

Come on, I would repeat it again - it was solved for decades. Why do you need to do the things like it's 1976? Why do you insist everyone else should do that way too and abandon the fruits of the digital age?
Interesting that the OP doesn’t consistently get the “stalker” warning. I see it consistently within 30-45 mins when I’m with a dog whose tag is registered to someone else and they leave
my vicinity.

It’s a shame Apple had to kill the theft use case to prevent stalking. I assume thieves are well aware of this now.
I feel seen. Diet Coke is my albatross, and it has all the hallmarks of a serious addiction. I'm currently going through another round to trying to stop, and I'm seriously always thirsty and craving it.
I never said 10 was a trivial amount. Only that it didn't seem remarkably high.

The US is unusual in that we drive a lot more than most of the world, which eliminates a lot of walking. So I'm making the inference that Americans walk a lot less than most of the world.

I just checked my own records, and on average I walk about 6 miles/day.

EDIT: I tried to find what the global average is, but (understandably) there is only good data on modern industrialized nations. Amongst modern industrialized nations, the average appears to be around 5 miles/day. So I still think that 10 is not a remarkably high amount. I'm guessing the global average is around 8 or so (but that's 100% a guess).
That's the thing, with context, it doesn't seem inappropriate, especially as kids approached him, and I would almost argue that the failure was on behalf of the school for letting someone walk in and be near kids, but they didn't see it that way.

But in today's climate, they informed the parents what happened, they socially ostracized him and his daughter, assumed the worst because they were denied the full context of intent.
> It is also the reason why they cannot be trusted in the most serious of applications which such decision making requires lots of transparency rather than a model regurgitating nonsense confidently.

Like say, in court to detect if someone is lying? Or at an airport to detect drugs?
DRAMHiT: A Hash Table Architected for the Speed of DRAM
I get a spare USB-C port from my Magic Keyboard. I generally plug the charger into it and something else into the on-board port, but I have the option to put devices into both ports.
It goes on the ubiquitous music stand, too. Lots of musicians use iPads already to show sheet music.
OK, then pretend I said "users" instead of "customers".
no evidence of recording or exfiltration is not a mitigating factor.

they could process the audio stream on the device and then send back information via steganography, mixed in and undetectable within normal traffic.

they should not be peeking!
Because of prop 13 how much does the value of commercial real estate effect taxation?
Shit. Your own source disproves that if you use the most recent data

https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-city-rankings/most-dang...

Take off the minimum population requirement of 100k residents and the most dangerous metro areas are all small, rural conservative towns. https://www.statista.com/statistics/433603/us-metropolitan-a...
Pearson taking legal action over use of its textbooks to train language models
Seems to be more about holding chopsticks. But two ways to use chopsticks that might be less known:

Opening a bottle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLrGfAbhnw

Also, I couldn't find a video, but at least in my Asian family, we will sometimes cut food like, say, an eggroll by using the chopsticks as a scissors.

Lastly, a chopsticks hack is that they are great way to eat food like buttered popcorn without getting your fingers greasy. :-)
You can also run your own relay and only allow that if you want!
Without the network, you don't have much of a product.
Thats easy: get out before the cops gets even more killed like Uvalde.
How Ozy Fell
"Want to come to Canada" is not really a relevant example in this case, some of the people facing expulsion by this fascistic and ethnocentric policy have lived in Latvia for decades. It's explicitly being framed as a loyalty test.
It's not too different from how vision transformers work is it?
Lane assist done poorly IS dangerous. Case in point: my 2016 Civic. On the highways around here, they will add pullover lanes on the right hand side so that through traffic doesn't have to slow down if someone ahead is slowing down to turn right. Great. But my car just sees the road as getting wider so it steers RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE between the two lanes. I just keep this potentially deadly feature turned off.

And let's talk about the car's adaptive cruise control. It is wonderful. When it works. My drive to work starts with a long featureless country gravel road that is straight as an arrow north / south. Every now and then, I'll be driving along and after 10 km the car will figure "Not much going on here. The radar must have failed. As a safety precaution, I'm just going to beep at the driver and turn off ACC with no error message of any kind that would trouble the driver". Well no problem, I'll just press the button to turn it on again. But how presumptuous of me: the car is smarter than I am because it just beeps and turns it immediately off again. The only way to get ACC back on again is come to a full stop, turn the ignition off and back on again. My dealer was mystified so they phoned the factory. Also mystified. I've taken the car to get it looked at more times than I care to think of and just gave up.

I shudder at a future filled with autonomous vehicles filled with strange bugs like these.
I really like the idea of being able to customize every part of the shopping experience, modern online shopping feels really generic nowadays when everyone uses stripe and every checkout looks the same. Really interesting how amazon will handle orders on an interface they don't have complete control over, not that amazon doesn't have their own dark patterns but they could be potentially be liable if an app started tricking people into ordering things.
That’s a strawman. There’s no illegal words in hate speech laws like the one in question. There are illegal intents, illegal publications, etc. - those already exist. To go back to my previous example: “fire” isn’t an illegal word. But shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre (where there is no fire) is an illegal action intended to cause harm.

Thinking genocidal thoughts, even saying genocidal ideas aloud, all are ok under most western hate speech laws. The line is usually in publishing or broadcasting genocidal ideas.

Hate speech laws are on a slope, and at the bottom is of that slope is authoritarian thought police territory, for sure, but it doesn't seem that slippery a slope from where i’m standing.
At a company years ago we had a GUI that worked "well enough" but the dirty secret was it just sent keystrokes to an older TUI program that the C-level had decided was "too old looking and slow".

A TUI isn't that far from an actual API, after all.
I have nothing but respect for vegans and vegetarians.
Minimum needed for a USB device to list in Device Manager [video]
Generally 24-48 hours depending on when Edgar updates. You can also download the daily filings directly from the sec.... it’s what Bloomberg does.
Are you kidding? Most of the UK is phenomenal for crops, practically a garden of Eden. Do you think megafarms in Kent or even Herefordshire are on particularly marginal land?

Yes, the Scottish Highlands are a marginal environment, but that's reflected in how many cattle they have. There are some 20m cattle in the UK. 1.7m are in Scotland. I couldn't find specific numbers for the highland counties, but only ~15k of those are highland breeds. That's also what I saw in Scotland. Lots of farms and ranches down south, very small villages with huge ranges/low densities up north.
Great. Going meta with an introspective feedback loop.

Let's see if that's the last requisite for exponential AGI growth...

Singoolaretee here we go..............
> What people are asking about is certainty ahead of time. But time doesn’t start when you start working on something, or when you have a piece of the whole ready. It starts when the whole thing hits the market.

This asking for certainty seems like a strong & resounding central message to me.

I think there's debateable-ness about how much certainty can be gotten ahead of time. There's a lot of other evidence & cause for belief one can try to gather. You can't validate, but you can try to find reasons for your belief. I'm just not sure how valuable the Thomas Aquinas-esque search for cause really is.

> If you want to see if something works, make it. The whole thing.

Basically, yup. For a lot of things, we should be able to "just build it." Especially with software. The cost of finding out for real ought be low enough. You want to not be wasting your time or other people's money but that effort to validate seems daunting & a weak indicator. It's better if you can gather people who do have faith & pursue something earnestly.

It's not impossible to get data faster. At my last job, I had my first real (& intentional) experience of "let's build one, test it, then throw it out". We prototyped something & got data ahead of time about how it compared to what we were doing. We did decide to build the new thing. That was one example of validation: making it twice.

There's still a big effort to launching, which I hope continues to simplify over time. I hope more pieces become readily available. Creating user management systems is no fun. A good backend-as-a-service system is highly desireable here, such as the now retired/atticked Apache BaseGrid[1].

I love how this piece is so only-barely-subtly political. It's trying to set you on a progressive path, on a march forward. It doesn't reject fear uncertainty or doubt, but it deflates the idea that we can really know, unless we try, and it dares us to reach & try. Not to go for half measures, of collecting belief, of trying to outsmart our fear, but to dive forward anyways. It's all so nicely connected to one of my favorite rants, Yegge's Notes from the Mystery Machine[2], which posits:

> "Software engineering has its own political axis, ranging from conservative to liberal."

This is such a liberal attitude. "Make it. The whole thing." Don't let yourself be tattered by concern first. Follow forward.

[1] https://attic.apache.org/projects/usergrid.html

[2] https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150
Syncthing "just" syncs files. Near instantly, which could mean a delay of a few seconds to maybe even a minute. And it won't de-conflict changes beyond saving the "bad" version in a file like `sqlite.db-syncthing-conflict-20230101T043044`. (Not an issue if you only have one host changing the database file)

I like it and IMO it does what it does well. But litestream can "Continuously stream SQLite changes" (pulled from https://litestream.io/, I've never heard of it before). It seems like that's litestream's killer feature, and I think syncthing would leave you wanting.
Looking at RFC1812, Martian packets [1] seems to be reserved addresses only.

What you're talking about is referred to as source address validation [2] also known as strict reverse path forwarding (RPF) [3].

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1812#section-5.3.7

[2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1812#section-5.3.8

[3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3704#section-2.2
Seems relevant: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
Covid saw a lot of supply chain problems, and suddenly shorter, directer, more local supply chains were preferable to highly optimised international ones. If I'm not mistaken, the bronze age collapse also came from collapsing international supply chains, so maybe that's a lesson for us: depend less on stuff produced on the other side of the world, and more on local products. The international stuff is fine for luxuries, but not for essentials. I guess this is why the US and EU are trying to get more tech manufactured locally again, instead of depending on Taiwan that might be invaded by China.
AI writing tutor that produces personalized feedback for English learners
Maybe putting "some", as in the original headline, would have made it too long for HN? Certainly changes the meaning a bit.

It was less than 10% of samples tested. Not great, most beverages did not pose a problem. I'd like to see a list of the ones that tested postitive.
All 8-Ks are available to the public on the SEC's EDGAR wesbite. As far as I know, 8-Ks are posted there on the day of filing. That could be wrong and there may be a quicker way to get them.
Pretty sure they offer that already, https://tailscale.com/blog/golink/ has more information on embedding the tailnet within a program.
Why not be grateful regardless of whether things have feelings?

The practice of gratitude is a good one, internally and externally, for the living and the inert. We don’t have to imagine the plants have souls; it’s the simple act of acknowledgment and appreciation that instills a sense of value and importance upon the things that keep us alive.
Love it! Makes my workflow so much easier!
> occasional hiccup with filenames that windows can’t handle

My only complaint so far and I've been using it for years.
At first it started as a way to have my Keepass file in sync between computers, and evolved from that.
Unicorn origins, red flags for investors, generative AI meets copyright law
I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything

edit: harari is a hack, you wouldn't have made the comparison had you read the graeber/wengrow
Also isn’t most of what’s sold as lsd these days anything but? Nbomd, various 2cs, that sort of thing.
Aren't you being a bit unfair? Shouldn't enthusiasm around new technologies be encouraged in a technology forum like HN?I get that it can be a bit overbearing but come on it's exciting and people want to express that. It literally came out like a couple months ago, whats so wrong with being excited by something cool? I would have that over this negativity any day.
New study reveals fine detail on location and scale of mining sites worldwide
And your "solution" is completely meaningless because it's been proven to not work across societies. It's like saying the solution to world hunger is easy. Everyone should just feed themselves! Want world peace? Everyone should just be more peaceful! It's completely useless rhetoric with absolutely no value in the conversation. Are you actually incapable of looking at these things as systems with a large number of variables and broad societal impact?
Who says it's a flex? You're projecting a lot here.

The whole point is illustrating that an audience doesn't come out of nowhere and the company is now under new management. History will not repeat itself, the world has changed, what value I perceived in Twitter has now gone because my audience there is in decline post-acquisition.

My investment of time is now worthless other than what I took away from the platform in the long-term in terms of biz and friends.

Back in the day, we used to use TweetDeck columns like IRC channels in terms of hashtags, and new tweets on x from y would appear in the relevant column. If you don't know what is, imagine a group chat, but people come and go. Of an evening, I could probably rattle off a couple hundred tweets discussing and debating. Keep in mind the original character count, and a simple response could be a dozen tweets.
Yes, bit there could have been new life if all the NeXT devs had gotten their promised entrée into the Windows market as scheduled. Anderson Financial Services in particular were looking forward to a big payout for selling PasteUp.app license.

The notable NeXT code considerations at Adobe are:

- they lost the source code to Glenn Reid's nifty "TouchType.app"
- they couldn't be bothered to revive the NeXT source code for Altsys Virtuoso which Macromedia Freehand was based on
I haven't quite reached the "mathematical maturity" but what you describe seems like something I have be after too.

I think you need to have a look at Kolmogorov's Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning [0]

You can also get it in print [1]

[0]: https://archive.org/details/MathematicsItsContentsMethodsAnd...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-Content-Methods-Meaning-V...
A while back CheerpJ had a huge footprint and terrible startup time compared to TeaVM: https://renato.athaydes.com/posts/comparing-jvm-alternatives...

TeaVM has become even smaller and faster since that article was published. The test suites are here in case someone wants to conduct a rematch: https://github.com/renatoathaydes/jvm-alternatives-to-js
Why is this being downvoted? I find it pretty clear that there is a trade off between startup time and performance. You can also observe this sort of behavior by tweaking -XX:TieredStopAtLevel when launching Java. You get marginally faster startup times but at the cost of run-time performance. And anecdotally I've seen native images start up faster but also have marginally slower runtime performance than launching a JVM and letting C2 do its thing.
I'm wondering how much runaway you have? I used to think 6 month is pretty good, but maybe 2 years is a lot better.
I know a few people that make very good money applying permaculture principles. Not because they are applying the principles, but because they are very good at selling their produce and services. They know how to get to their target audience, specially people with more money to spend. I think this is true for any kind of agriculture or business.
I don't really think this is anything like that bowling analogy.

-Bowling is an explicit competition. Eating is not.
-Bowling has objective markers for performance (160/300). Eating doesn't
-Bowling is completely human created (as is software creation). As a result, both are highly abstract. Eating is one of the most basic things we all do

The skill ceiling for chopsticks is extremely low. Once the food gets into your mouth and you are able to nourish yourself, the game is solved. Bowling is capped at 300. Software creation is not capped presumably.

> It's no different from learning which forks to use in a Western formal setting.

Yes I completely agree. In my opinion it's a useless form of gatekeeping used to artificially put people in 1 class over another. This is the type of thing we do when we eat at King Charles' coronation and I reject it.
Looks like I hit a nerve. I can't help but notice that you conspicuously avoided addressing the explanation I've been hearing for the commercial real estate problems:

> landlords either want to bet on a recovery or agreed to credit terms that would cascade a single write-down

and instead substituted two theories of your own, one of which has nothing to do with commercial real estate and the other of which has zero explanatory power for "why now." We can get to those, but first could you explain why you think the explanations I've been hearing are wrong?
Ok, then just don't bring it in?

I don't why America constantly acts like we have unique problems no one does.
Most schools in EU just bans cellphone usage during school hours either by taking it away or barred from bringing it in and it's just effective.

Humanity dealt with periods/medications/emergencies long before smartphones and can still do.
Again, a given that AI is adversarial.
Edit: In addition, as an 1100 elo chess player, I can very easily tell you how a 1600 player is going to beat me. The analogy doesn't hold. I'm in good faith asking how AI could destroy humanity. It seems given the confidence people who are scared of AI have in this, that they have some concrete examples in mind.
I took a permaculture course a while back and the instructor addressed that specific issue. He said (paraphrasing): you can buy really good tools and learn to use them, you can learn to identify and grow annuals and smaller plants, you can keep worms, you can observe and build invisible structures, all without land.

Sure, keep saving to buy land, but don't forget it is something you can practice in the middle of the city too.
No worries, we've all done it!

And for that matter the most advanced artificial brains screw up math on a regular basis too
OP argues for customer experience, you argue for someone else's business
They didn't apologize, they expressed gratitude (that's what "thank you" means). Although the usage here was debatable, as the plant didn't have any say in its leaves being cropped, and of course it only makes sense to thank for a deliberate act. So, in a way, these children were taught inconsistent logic.