skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing stops you from watching porn in the Quest web browser. It has private browsing mode like every other browser.

I don’t think this is the killer app for headsets though, unless maybe someone comes up with a volumetric production pipeline for truly immersive participatory experiences…
Every time prices start going up the government takes action to make sure wages don't go up. They think that is what makes prices go up!
Definitely not everybody hates the place. It's one of the most visited attractions in France and is considered an architectural and cultural icon of the city.

It also has a terrific permanent collection, hosts amazing world-class exhibitions, and features an enormous art resource library for research as well as a huge art bookstore.

It will be a real loss to Paris and to the world to have this closed for any period of time.
High-Performance Graph Databases
"...we harness established practices from the HPC landscape to build a system that outperforms all past GDBs presented in the literature by orders of magnitude, for both OLTP and OLAP workloads. For this, we first identify and crystallize performance-critical building blocks in the GDB design, and abstract them into a portable and programmable API specification, called the Graph Database Interface (GDI), inspired by the best practices of MPI. We then use GDI to design a GDB for distributed-memory RDMA architectures. Our implementation harnesses one-sided RDMA communication and collective operations, and it offers architecture-independent theoretical performance guarantees. The resulting design achieves extreme scales of more than a hundred thousand cores..."
If they can execute well on a simple use case - virtual desktop for professionals -this will be justifiable to me. I spent >1000€ on my last 5k ultra wide five years ago.

This promises to be a portable unlimited screen space - if I can use it 8h+, OS integration is there - I could see myself spending that kind of money.

Having a portable workspace anywhere with a chair and desk is big - especially when desk/chair dimensions now don't play a factor.
Kind of like windows 11

Worst is I’ve ever used. Absolute dog poop

Seriously - this machine crashes several times a day, FF in W11 takes WAY more resources than needed - and when I am browsing simple websites on a premier gaming laptop it thinks it needs to drop into 'top gaming performance mode'

and TABS! actually crash on this machine.

I go through at least 3 reboots a day just browsing the web.

Windows 11 is absolute dogshit.

And not to mention they are putting news and ads on my fucking start menu?

Also trying to get me to use microsoft outlook 365/whatever as my primary login initially...

F that. W11 is hands down the worst microsoft product ever made, that I am aware of.
It's mediocre in a way that's different from how many humans would be mediocre.
I'm a bit confused by how pacman works.

I picked a mirror that definitely has the 6.0.2-7 version on it[0], yet Pacman can't find it.

Does the server's core.db have to update before the new version is available? Because that one is dated 18-May-2023 05:21.

0. https://archlinux.cu.be/core/os/x86_64/
I built a MUD in Elixir and I completely agree. After many iterations what I landed on as the best path was having rooms as actors. Mobs, characters, items etc are just data in the room process (actor) state (in memory that is, in the database they're all modeled more or less as you'd expect for a relational DB).

This gives me a large number of units of concurrency, while allowing the overwhelming majority of the code to be written sequentially since most of the complicated bits (combat etc) happen within a room so I don't have to think about concurrency at all for those. The only communication between processes is moving monster / character data from one room to another when those entities move around the map.
> To my surprise the app I was using to read my KeePass database, iOSKeePass, was missing from App Store. It was deleted and I only owned a local copy.

What exactly would they link to? A dead App Store listing?
A lot of GitHub stars on some popular projects could easily get you credibility when applying for jobs, and even be a deciding factor over other candidates.
At the other end, there are a number of accounting systems that are based on plain-text files and an associated set of programs. These systems are much easier to work with [than the non-GnuCash GUI tools evaluated] and are adaptable to most needs. Such a system could have been made to work for LWN, but they tend to lack some useful features. Check writing and report generation, for example, tend not to be well supported. The user interface for many operations is a text editor; this is often seen as an advantage, but it becomes less so as the number of transactions grows. There are advantages to a graphical interface designed for the job at hand.
It's kinda meaningless because small countries will always have a smaller risk because there is less surface for natural risk to act on.

Monaco, Luxemburg and Andorra are at the very top
https://web.archive.org/web/20230519223542/https://www.engad...
I am strongly considering a switch to GnuCash, but not for the reasons in TFA.

>Crashes were frequent; QuickBooks users know to make backups every few minutes to avoid losing work.[...] More recently, Intuit has discontinued support for the desktop version entirely in an effort to force all users to its online, paid-by-the-month service.

Both of these statements are not true, based on both my professional and personal use of Quickbooks desktop for over 15 years. QB uses transaction logging[0] so that transactions are not lost, even after for example a power outage. And the desktop versions are still available, but no longer with a perpetual one-time license, but rather $800 annual subscription for the Accountant's version. (This is a doubling in price over just the last few years).

So, I will be able to use my 2022 desktop version into the future at no extra cost, however some of the internet-based services (receiving payments, for example) will no longer be supported after 3 years.

I have installed and started to migrate to GnuCash because I am not going to pay $800/yr to Intuit, especially when less and less of my use is for professional purposes.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_log
1. I git commit with a token

2. Master has the deployed models, other experiments are in branches - just like other experimental code
> JSON is basically perfect

Until you realize you can't actually store real integers because every number in js is a float...
I am not sure it gets more real than a emulator. This is putely a question of organization and how much you care about explaining your releases.
Intel's profit is down 100+%

US government is set to default on their debt.

US banks are failing left and right.

If you just take sensationalist headlines at face value you'd conclude that the US economy has already collapsed.
I wonder how practical it would be to add something smelly and distinctive to CO2 the way we do with natural gas? Otherwise a CO2 leak is really mysterious. It could be in quite low concentrations, to the point where you would only smell it if the air was getting to dangerous levels.

This wouldn't help with a release from a natural source, but if we are ramping up carbon capture efforts maybe we'll see more industrial accidents like this one?
410 according to 1 Password. I do periodic cleanups though and I should probably do one soon so the number of actual, in use, logins is probably lower.
> That's not accurate. They "acquire" it all, then "collect" it later from their databases upon request. is fully hackable.

This is conspiracy theory nonsense. If it were happening, Snowden would have leaked documents saying so. Instead, his leaked documents said this is only happening in a handful of war zones where the US controls the telecommunications systems.

> The Constitution prohibits both unreasonable searches and seizures.

It's good that you understand this basic fact. Then why do you think what you claimed is happening, despite not having any evidence to support your claim?
I think you misunderstood the question. When it is guessing, is it guessing "which of these 50 movies is represented by these 3 emojis" or something, or is it free to guess any movie?
Of course it is, Dolphin is very real and great. The stuff your arrogant self does however, probably doesn't matter anyway.
I’ve still got my trusty tube of Arctic Silver. I miss the days when these things mattered and CPUs were overclocked and new faster CPUs seemed to come out all the time. It was a fun era. Now I can’t tell the difference really what CPU is in a machine.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pc-cpu-sales-decline-30-ye...
I just hope this will be usable with the MacBookPro and not require an iPhone for activation like their watch.
My father was a programmer on the BESM-series computers back in the 80s, particularly BESM-6. Him and a few former friends/colleagues maintain a site about it:

https://www.besm6.org/

Sorry, the site's all in Russian, and it's running on my dad's NetBSD server at his house. Please be gentle :)
Stepping Away
Not really. Sales collapsed after an initial rush of excitement. By the end of 1984, Apple was selling only 10,000 Macs per month, much less than they had projected. Jobs was ousted a couple of months later.
I’ve seen Greg Egan mentioned a couple times. I love most of what I’ve read by him, but “The Clockwork Rocket” trilogy stands far above for me. A multi-generational hard sci-fi story. Characters who are intelligent, curious researchers who set out to learn and unravel the nature of their universe to try to save their world, set in alternate physics.
SubaHibi is linear. It has the classic fake freedom: there is only one true ending and only one path to it. Any choices you make are either right or wrong, and the wrong ones are promptly punished.

(And, in my opinion, it's one of the worst things ever written.)
After being caught behaving badly, a debate about the proper terminology for your lapse in ethical judgment is not a winning move.

It might suggest that your perspectives and priorities are still wonky.

I would prioritize immediately and permanently removing the material and the practice, over posting questionable whataboutism arguments vs. spam.
Everyone who knows anything at all about agriculture knew this already. Pasture raised meat is one of the best environmental resources there is, and the largest climate threat we face by far is a direct result of the reduction of pasture raising animals. Soil is life and we have absolutely destroyed it.
Should have gone for vraiturel
It depends also on how you define malware. If it includes surveillance software that monitors what an how you watch, then pretty much all of them include malware. My Sony Bravia certainly does (something called Samba).
I had a genuine mini existential crisis at the end of Palmer Eldritch.
A Review of the RGB Blaster: No Mod, No Problem
When in the regular computer world line editors were still the norm Wang's were like word processors (not surprising, they made some pretty good and reliable office automation equipment). I had some fun playing around with those in the mid 80's and they inspired me to write my own editor because I was really done with the keyhole view of programming.

That editor forced me to become a much better programmer and I used it professionally until the mid 90's when there were lots of alternatives. But I still have the muscle memory for that homebrew thing and every now and then it trips me up :)
What are you talking about? Wholegrain pasta has like 40g carbohydrate that includes 1g sugar. Brown rice has around 25g carbohydrates that includes 0.4g sugar.
I am surprised they had a Telegram bridge at all, it doesn't really fit in with the other services from an ideological standpoint. Was this used for communicating with people outside the FOSS ecosystem?
>that’s probably the problem with an unsafe OS by default.

Considering how absolutely dreadful iOS has been when it comes to CVEs allowing arbitrary code executions with kernel level privileges, I don't really think anyone gets to talk about iOS being "secure" by default. Secure for your grandfather maybe. There's a reason Zerodium values iOS zero days less than Android ones too [0], which is quite telling of the amount of them they already have in stock. See also Pegasus, which literally had multiple no-interaction RCEs for iPhones through iMessage (because Apple keeps parsing files through horribly vulnerable parsers). [1]

Apple gets to pretend that iOS is secure because they control the app store, which is the only official point of entry, and iOS is closed source.

[0] https://zerodium.com/program.html

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2021/09/forcedentry-nso-group-imessage...
I am impressed by how much the general population is driven by supply, instead of finding their way to quality, when it comes to coffee.
We know that AI is an amazing tutor.

As a teacher, I believe that AI is the most important innovation in the field of education since the written word.

Therefore I consider anyone trying to ban or limit access to AI to be an unconscienceable monster.
I am blown away by how bad using other music apps on the Apple Watch can be for listening without a phone (and no sim).

I haven’t tried in some time but about a year ago YouTube Music wouldn’t work at all and Spotify was janky. I started my run and after the buffer was exhausted my music stopped playing even though I thought I had downloaded it onto the watch.

Probably the solution is Apple Music but that is annoying.
> the structure has weathered significant damage since it was first built in the ’70s

Another case of the architect getting ahead of the materials and engineering available. Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed much more aesthetically pleasing structures than this monstrosity (judging by pictures, can't recall it I saw it the one time I was in Paris), is notorious for leaking roofs.
And if you fixed numbers so you could use 64 bit integers.
Yes, and not everyone has an iPhone for the first step. There are lots of iPhone users, but lets not pretend Android users are an insignificant userbase.
One Year as One of the Top Competitive Duolingo Players on Earth
> Until you need real help you've no idea who your real friends are, I've found. Which is why I feel like I've no true friends left.

Even sadder when those “friends” are the type who opine about mental health all the time.
So the person who posted george Floyd's murder should be punished under your system?
Once upon a time, I was on the receiving end of an SEC audit which required our British subsidiary to send us their transaction log. They didn't have database records for that time period, it was all stored on the Wang which had long since been turned off and put away in a cabinet. They duly mailed us the Wang to extract the data from.

Except they mailed it in a box exactly the size of the external case, with no padding. And, at some point, someone had decided to upgrade the Wang's storage but didn't want to pay for the expensive proprietary hard drive rails, so they had just stacked a bare SCSI Quantum Fireball (full height, about 8 lb?) on top of some wooden spacers.

When I opened the case, there was a deep layer of metal dust and debris in the bottom tray and the motherboard was gleaming clean traces. The hard drive, bouncing around, had scraped off every chip from the motherboard.

I called a Wang expert to see if they could retrieve the data from the disk, and they quoted me $2000 an hour just to take a look with no guarantees. So I ended up reconstituting the data by having a small team type hundreds of thousands of transactions by hand from green-bar printouts that were discovered in the back of that closet in England, and then checking and cross-checking them twice before giving them to the SEC.

FUN TIMES. God bless Wang and proprietary hard drive rails in general.
At least from what I can tell, this isn't so much as a language as it is a drag-and-drop tool. I like how it looks but can't seem to find the language spec (as it claims it's a language) or any such examples through some cursory digging of the site.

Does it mean more of a communicative "language" of shapes? I was hoping more for a Graphviz .dot format that would be used to generate such graphs. Mermaid seems to have become the defacto standard in OSS and I really dislike it (even though I've also contributed to it). A modern, sleek alternative like this would be great.
It's unfortunate that VNs are both a medium and a genre. For reasons I don't quite understand, I adore the medium. Yet there are genre conventions that I dislike and that new readers generally can't tolerate.
Bootstrapping Erdtool.com: Our Journey Through Deployment for the Initial Launch
With reproducible builds (and as long as the distribution doesn't need to maintain any patches vs. upstream), this could even provide the best of both worlds: Verifiable hashes (comparable with upstream and other distributions) and a smaller set of trusted entities.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I'd necessarily trust a small open-source distribution's maintainers more than a widely used password manager's developers; I think I'd prefer my root of trust to be whatever has more users (and by proxy, hopefully scrutiny).
Augeas solves this for many config file formats: http://augeas.net/
Right. thanks for the update. My note should have been consulted as you being correct. Hate my memory nowadays. Need to consult some more notes before speaking.
My room is going to end up looking like Lain's at this rate
No. I believe in the last 20-30 years there has been a reallocation of wealth from wage workers to former house owners and stock owners.

But some of the parents gotta be either shareholders or cashed out houseowners?

I just moved from a city where teacher pay has gotten on par with engineers. The only thing needed was outlawing hiring unqualified teachers. Suddenly there was money for teacher salaries.

It didn't solve the housing question for other sectors though ...
The documentation from Cloudflare isn't too great, but you can look at the badgers-worker code for inspiration. I personally use VS Code, with the rust-analyzer extension. I use Rust a lot, and I'm very satisfied with the code completion quality that rust-analyzer provides. Cloudflare's wrangler tool provides easy local debugging for workers, but its live-reload doesn't work too well, so you have to frequently restart.
I'm a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and have been one for over 20 years and the last few years has convinced me that Intuit is determined to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by:

1) Forcing all their customers to migrate to the online version of their program. Many of the clients I've spoken to were happy with and preferred the Desktop version. The Desktop version is faster and can do more than the online version.

2) Throwing major updates at the online version that hides or moves functionality. I work with multiple clients and based on the client their version of QuickBooks can be very different from another's. Even the same client that has multiple businesses and has to use multiple subscriptions could have a different look. I don't know what drives this at Intuit but it's confusing for me and I'm supposed to be the expert.

3) Relentlessly raise prices. Intuit has been annually raising their prices in what appears to be an attempt to eventually price everyone out of their product. Some clients have to pay 200.00 a month for the advanced version for one feature they need to have for their business! The attitude from Intuit feels like "So where else are you going to go?"

For most of my adult life I've worked as an accountant that works mainly with QuickBooks but I'm worried that I'm going to have to try to find a new way of supporting myself because Intuit appears to be demonstrating by their recent decisions that they don't need to show loyalty to customers or even keep customers. If they can have a few stay on to pay ridiculous subscription fees that's all they need.
I believe that the minimum wage should be commensurate with the cost of living in a particular area. Similar to the military's Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) and Subsistence (BAS) which adapt according to one's location, the minimum wage could be adjusted to reflect the price of local housing and groceries within a 30-minute radius. By doing so, the implications of less desirable local policy decisions would be absorbed by the communities that adopt them.

At present, there is little motivation for change among those profiting from policies that favor commercial or stagnant development over residential expansion. Such policies often compel people to undertake long commutes or inhabit crowded apartments in order to work locally. If businesses had to raise their prices and consumers had to pay more as a result of these policies, communities might be incentivized to establish policies that enable local living.

If the minimum wage was adjusted to reflect local living costs, it could serve as a catalyst for policy change. It would offer a choice: adapt local policies to facilitate affordable living or bear the inconvenience of commuting to other areas for goods and services where wages are in line with living expenses.
I kinda agree, but I also think then you want unquoted keys

{name: "value"}

And then maybe 123_456 syntax

It's a slippery slope ... pretty soon it's hard to write a JSON parser, and there are more bugs

The trailing comma one is trivial, I'll grant that
I got all three.

Inception was slightly smiling face, the zZZ emoji, and upside down face.

Gladiator was Italian flag, classical building, swords

Superbad was clinking beer mugs, no one under 18 symbol, and ID button
This happened while I was in grade school with calculators.

Math teachers remain a thing.
There's a blast from the past. Dan's Data was excellent - wish he was still blogging.
GPT-4-Tokenizer-Visualizer
It's free to guess any movie -- the prompt is like "guess the movie represented by these 3 emojis", no filtering at all.

It'll guess some crazy obscure stuff once in a while!
The canonical game about Pain is "Getting Over It", by Bennett Foddy. Truly a masterpiece.
it can easily introduce them to the Apple ecosystem

I argue that it would be a horrible introduction to Apple products. For input, you either talk to it or type on a tiny keyboard. There’s no web browser. The screen is so small, it’s measured in millimeters (whereas in the U. S., the phone is measured in inches).

Were I running Apple, there’s no way I’d let the watch be the introduction to Apple products without some improved means of interaction.
My reaction exactly, "this sounds a lot like Freenet". Although I wouldn't be ideologically opposed to the idea of getting another stab at the concept of FN, I think it's imperative for people interested in doing that to look at the history and challenges of that project. Even if we could get over the scalability issues (as the technology landscape has undoubtedly changed since then - "free" storage, larger bandwidth, faster processors... - we'd still have to wrangle with the unavoidable truth that nobody wants to risk hosting CP. I think you need to solve that problem, before you look at building such a system.
I think you might be right for general education. But in more free market economies (take Indian high and higher secondary education for instance), the right teachers command a market premium for their ability to successfully either identify children who will do best on entrance exams or train them into those.

Coaching classes are effectively highly paid teaching jobs though the majority of teachers are not paid well.

This perhaps points to the idea that this market is near winner take all. I was hoping that remote education would have transformed teaching into a perfect winner take all.

However, it looks like the "keeping order" part is significant. Perhaps there are many children who need to be bootstrapped into self-directedness. I know I had to be. But I was by my parents.