skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft has done many questionable things but the AARD code was never enabled on a shipping version of DOS so it doesn't seem quite fair to blame them for that.

I also find the whole argument silly because it was obvious even during the Windows 3.0 days that Windows was going to be the whole OS and no one would be buying two operating systems, one to use as a bootloader and compatibility layer for legacy apps and the other to be the GUI OS.

The whole idea never made any sense and all the sturm & drang about Dr DOS proposes an impossible future where a niche for a paid text-mode PC DOS OS was going to continue existing period. It wasn't and it didn't. It's like complaining about Microsoft hijacking the market for TCP/IP drivers. Even if the conspiracy theory was true it was never going to matter.
Sounds like one of those places where adding a new category can solve all categorisation issues except having too many categories.

Same principle holds for layers (of management, abstraction), levels of indirection etc.
Can't help but feel like this is the wrong direction. Electric cars have larger batteries, are only used ~2% of the day on average—most of the time just parked somewhere—and are just a CCS-2 plug away from being a superior alternative to a Powerwall.

If you're away from home, electricity use should be lower anyway. If you are at home, a car is too, and it should be able to easily handle household appliances—a much easier load than accelerating multiple tons to 65mph. A typical electric vehicle today could power a home for DAYS if not more than a week.

A Powerwall on the other hand… just sits there and can only give a day or two if you're lucky? It handles the one use case and that's it. I think we can do better.
They just stopped putting flake in the paint. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2023-03-07/la-fi-car-... & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33880005
> Did you, though? Is that a report?

I obviously did. It's far from the only one, since we have access to Google.

> doing something that is extremely common?

Something extremely common of Congress members who are insider trading, like Feinstein (among others, as you mentioned), yes. Deciding that any critical analysis are politically motivated reports is a typical partisan approach to de-escalating obvious malfeasance, which can be seen on any of the usual media suspects. Why is this person a legislator when they can obviously be one hell of a successful stock broker, a real-life superstar? Must be a coincidence.

Can't be outraged at the right kind of evidence, so why waste the time being critical of legislators? This is, partly, how the US political system has been corrupted. Citation-please-style dismissal implicitly supports the status quo. Only if they are prosecuted, is it tasteful to declare them guilty, otherwise, nothing to see here. Must be working as intended.

If my family lived in his state, and there was a superior candidate, we would get more involved in the politics.
New Taschen book ‘The Computer’ is a monumental survey – Wallpaper
Like many other authors looking to sensationalize and editorialize, this author forgets that poor people exist and forgets that rural areas exist. Also, the author seems be unaware that an emergency could make existing infrastructure unusable.

AM radio's value for emergency situations is that it can be received literally hundreds of miles from the transmitter.

What're the reasons for NOT including AM? The only thing I found is mention that including it will "hinder progress". What progress? Since when does including the most basic, tiny bit of functionality somehow "hinder progress"? Is there literally any other reason at all? Please, someone, tell me.

Is this really a news piece if the author can't even come up with the slightest reason beyond the most specious bit of bullshit from a self-interest group?
I've seen that tweet before and I think it's a bit ridiculous to take a cheeky line from a marketing person to represent a perpetual promise by the company.
The problem is that package signing is removed without providing an alternative. I am not volunteering to this project, so will quietly sit in the corner.
Here's the original paper:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/signuptosafety/wp-content/uploads...

The obvious failure mode of Safety I is an infinite list of rules governing all possible corner cases... Sometimes you stay at an AirBNB with a five-inch binder full of rules, every one of which traces back to some unfortunate (or at least mildly unpleasant) incident. But when the rules-list gets long enough, it may as well not exist.

Improved core process is the antidote, and I suppose what Safety II is supposed to be about.
My youngest guy is just about there. He's five and it feels like it has been a crazy long haul, but we've got this! He is starting to make it!
This entire plan immediately falls over as soon as someone uses an ethernet cable.
The third one is different, and is allowed by Netflix.
if we're talking about overall effectiveness, then I think it is. Maybe passing a minimum threshold and having a safety effective of say 95% vs 99% or something. It's obviously going to be a very high percentage threshold that needs to be crossed to allow the public to use it.

So, right now it's like a trial experiment with FSD, but I definitely feel like a data advantage would play out into a higher safety rating before it's in GA. Maybe eventually others will catch up, that could be quicker than longer, but it's a valid potential advantage for Tesla.
I ignored the requirements page entirely, downloaded it as a zip file into my existing (PHP-based) web server, unzipped it, and it basically worked immediately.

I think this would be the case for anyone else running a relatively modern existing PHP setup, and for everyone else they can just use the Docker image.
Build Postgres Functions in Rust on Amazon RDS
All this while inhaling the burning Alberta forests.
did we really think that or was it just a rationalisation of the desire for profit?
Sure, if the natural language we're talking about is formalized to the point of basically being math. Let's not confuse that with "everyone will be able to program", though.
Buy an electric vehicle. No kidding, avoiding the pump (and paying the petroleum industry tax) was my #1 goal (not saving money - I live in CA where kWh prices are very high).

And I can't express how much I love not feeling anxious every time I drive by a gas station to worry "do I need to fill up now"?

Filling up at home every single day is much more serene. We also have a 2nd vehicle that's non-EV for trips.
I hear you. I recently had a colleague retire after a lifetime in the company and he described in detail how over the course of his career, work had gotten increasingly impersonal, fleeting, unrewarding. It was painful to hear.
>Tech is no longer a force for good and we long for the time when this illusion was available.

I disagree. Tech was never a "force for good". It's always been a tool, a physical manifestation of the science we pursue as part of our species desire for knowledge of the world around us.

It can be used for good or evil, whatever your definitions for those are.

Right now it's used for a lot of evil things because the people in charge of using it are not altruistic. By and large, the people in charge of government at all levels in the US are elderly and grew up before the space age began. Their focus is not on bringing technological benefits to anyone. It's on bringing all benefits of any kind to themselves.

Tech will be a force for good if we can change ourselves and our country to make it that. It will be used for evil, too. Like any tool, it's on us to use it correctly and wisely.
No. I'm arguing that a clean, electric fleet of autonomous cars, that would maim and kill far fewer people, where the capital is provided by the corporation instead of being extracted from workers through deception, would be a vast improvement over the status quo. We don't need to perpetuate a system of pollution, exploitation, injury, death just so workers can busy themselves performing unnecessary tasks for starvation wages.
"Remember the Maine!"
> if another side pushes back it raises questions

This highlights a peril of this sort of approach: were it successful in its mission, a for-profit company would be in the privileged position of getting to define what constitutes “reasonable” agreement terms.
Although I AM a patent agent, the job title that I had at Google was "technical advisor." Most of the others with my job were not patent agents and the credential was really not necessary. Litigation is not something you study to pass the Patent Bar.

If you're looking for a job like that with Big Law, you might look for "litigation advisor" or something similar.
2000 is when I started my professional life. But I do have a living memory of the even simpler 90s and 80s :)
MagicPopper: Learning Programs With Magic Values
Automation at Scale: Migrating 200k Machines from CentOS 7 to RHEL 9
To your last comment. I’m sorry this happened. You are part of the US. It was a tragedy upon a tragedy to watch how the nation let you down.
>Russia invading Chechnya is like USA invading Texas.

Chechnya was an independent country in 1991, as was Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Belarus and other ex-USSR republics post 1991. It had no right invading Chechnya.
That's what soccer leagues are for. Or chess club for the non-athletically inclined.
Judging by the screenshots it looks like it's based on openSCAD?
I think that the research is flawed and based on faulty assumptions. The origin of human lip kissing is much older and more widespread than the researchers claim. It is a natural expression of affection and intimacy that evolved independently in many cultures and regions. The herpes simplex virus 1 is not exclusively transmitted by kissing, but also by other forms of contact and exposure. The correlation between kissing and herpes is not causal, but coincidental.
Having worked on a large golang project that did not use any "frameworks", it gets clumsy quickly. There's nothing special in golang that makes it not need a framework.

We ended up moving the project to a DI framework with an ORM-ish library since things got out of hand.
The organized TERF movement and the far-right trans eliminationist movement are one and the same.

For example, the Women's Liberation Front (WoLF), which brands itself as a left-wing group, has been working with the people pushing bills: https://twitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1634287701896712207...
> I mostly pay for the convenience. Make it inconvenient and I'll use my time to make it work my way.

I can agree with you on principle, but they're not making it any more inconvenient. Literally nothing changes except the price.
Yes, some people review literally every line. Cargo-crev has a field for thoroughness. Many reviews are just "LGTM", but some reviewers really take time to check for bugs and have flagged dodgy code.
Earth's rotation > Origin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%27s_rotation#Origin :

> Earth's original rotation was a vestige of the original angular momentum of the cloud of dust, rocks, and gas that coalesced to form the Solar System. This primordial cloud was composed of hydrogen and helium produced in the Big Bang, as well as heavier elements ejected by supernovas. As this interstellar dust is heterogeneous, any asymmetry during gravitational accretion resulted in the angular momentum of the eventual planet. [58]

> However, if the giant-impact hypothesis for the origin of the Moon is correct, this primordial rotation rate would have been reset by the Theia impact 4.5 billion years ago. Regardless of the speed and tilt of Earth's rotation before the impact, it would have experienced a day some five hours long after the impact. [59] Tidal effects would then have slowed this rate to its modern value.

Solar energy: fission, fusion; [thermal] radiation,: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_energy

Circumstellar habitable zone:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstellar_habitable_zone :

> In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary surface can support liquid water given sufficient atmospheric pressure. [1][2][3][4][5] The bounds of the CHZ are based on Earth's position in the Solar System and the amount of radiant energy it receives from the Sun.

Earth > Hydrosphere, Atmosphere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth :

> Earth's hydrosphere is the sum of Earth's water and its distribution. Most of Earth's hydrosphere consists of Earth's global ocean. Nevertheless, Earth's hydrosphere also consists of water in the atmosphere and on land, including clouds, inland seas, lakes, rivers, and underground waters down to a depth of 2,000 m (6,600 ft).

Gravity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity
Good points. Making money is indeed a better definition of desired outcomes.
But my point stands: if you want to make money, why do you waste 75% of your potential not actually doing work?
I read this as an expression of preference not a condemnation of other languages.

The full context helps

Most languages are too powerful for my palate.

Don’t get me wrong – I love Rust and many other languages! But sometimes they’re just too much for me.

When writing Rust or JS or Haskell or Python or Lisp, I’m overwhelmed by opportunity. Should I make this generic? Should I use classes or structs? Immutable or mutable? Macros? Functional or imperative array manipulation?

I try to please compilers and coworkers and customers, but all are disappointed. Give me a woodshop and I’m lost, but give me a simple chisel and I intuitively know what to do. There’s a certain freedom in restricted toolsets.

Languages like Go and Elm spurn extravagance. They resist overcomplication. They force me to solve real problems instead of fighting compiler errors and stylistic differences.

Furthermore, consistent code makes portable mental-models. Go and Elm codebases tend to be extremely readable.
It's hard to go broke making a profit.
So back to mainframe days?
SSRIs absolutely destroy sex drive and ability to enjoy it for a frightening large fraction of people. For people that take them for extended time that sometimes becomes permanent! People should know the tradeoff they're making and not make the decision lightly.

I recently learned a possible mechanism that could explain this especially in men. Some SSRIs can make men's prolactin levels skyrocket to multiples of the normal value for men and this effect seems to sometimes persist for months after. I've found inconspicuously worded allusions to this in open medical literature, but it doesn't seem widely known or studied. Much of my knowledge is anecdotal from seeing friends and families before and after bloodwork. If they weren't privileged people with great health insurance they would never have gotten the labs to know that the havoc wreaked on their hormones.
Not all pages have the same set of links, for example if I go to tech org-mode the ‘journal’ link disappears. Content on pages is not centered correctly. You also use different fonts in various places.
Most people would consider someone with five homes as very rich, but you could get relatively close with only moderately excessive wealth and a divorce. Each parent owning a vacation home, perhaps.
This is the wrong way of looking at it. What is the cost to offset or sequester that 0.1-0.3 tons? That should be the worst case premium.
When I preordered the Akai MPC Live, just before release, I was super excited. Quite disappointed afterwards, when found Live meant absolutely nothing more then marketing. The question was, when was Ableton going to release a standalone version? Used to spend a lot of energy on Akai community forum and always felt that the community was toxic, even though I was an early supporter of Akai MPC, during premium Japan (2000, 2000xl, s2000, 2500) before it being bought by inmusic or whatever it’s called. I jumped to the Deluge, sold first purchase and bought again after they announced live looping but end up selling again. End up selling the MPC Live too, it was a dust collector, a big chunky pointless machine, very toxic community.
At the time there were rumours about a Push Standalone and even evidence. We had to wait until 2023 and a new chapter begins that makes the MPC pointless.
Germany did not ignore Russian military invasions, which can be easily demonstrated by specific actions that German government took at that time. Notably those actions were not much different from what USA or other European countries except a few with anti-Russian paranoia did.
Besides, there were two, not three invasions. Chechnya is not a country.
Looks like AWS announced[0] plrust support for Postgres today, but this one has a few more details, comparing a plv8 function and a plrust function.

the tldr is that you can write a function like this:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.array_sum(x float8[])
RETURNS float8
LANGUAGE plrust
IMMUTABLE PARALLEL SAFE STRICT
AS $$
let sum: f64 = x.iter()
.map(|&xi| (xi.unwrap()))
.sum();

Ok(Some(sum))
$$;

and everythign between the $$ is Rust code. This is obviously a bit more approachable for developers who don't like SQL, and doesn't have the performance penalty of something like plv8 (for computational-heavy functions at least)

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/amazon-rd...
First time I pirated Windows XP.

Bought the disc for 5£ from an ambulant seller who'd sell also porn DVDs (but that's a story for another time)

The disc was in a soft plastic envelope, inside printed in B/W the XP logo and also loose inside the envelope the "serial" to insert when prompted and the instructions on how to install.

I did all the procedure according to the instruction provided and inserted the serial without much hope and sure enough it worked!

Visited the guy for a couple of years for pirated PC games, movies and porn DVDs....good times.
Meme app makes you laugh by the 3rd meme you see
AWS Kimlik ve Erişim Yönetimi
It was incredibly so much easier when popular search engines did search instead of "recommendation." The hardest thing is actually finding the thing that exists, in multiple forms, that you set out to find.

We've gone backwards in the past 15 years.
Good point. I think both?

Nations are not single minded. Political parties, individuals, companies, diplomats, each might have their own particular interest.

But I remember not long ago, "trade and free market will bring democratic institutions" being a pretty popular opinion.
Why single out Germany? War hawk Tony Blair condoned a BP deal after the invasion of Chechnya:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1046295978238979863

There is a pipeline from the Nord Stream terminal in Germany to the UK. Nord Stream is owned by Russia, Germany, France, and The Netherlands. Gas was resold to plenty of EU countries, including Eastern European ones.

Poland and Ukraine collected transit fees for Russian oil/gas long after Nord stream was blown up.
It is not. But since you seem to tacitly agree that most of Wikipedia's enormous wealth is funneled into putting people into positions of power who are not predominantly motivated by furthering Wikimedia's core mission, I'm curious to hear your thoughts on when in human history this has worked out "fine" for an organization, i.e. without degrading or even perverting the pursuit of its original objectives? If it hasn't, what makes you so confident Wikipedia will be different?

Wikipedia indeed has some unique aspects that give it additional resilience from hostile takeovers, such as public auditability (via edit history etc.), forkability, and finally the fact that the bureaucrats have unusually little leverage over the lives of those who do the actual mission-aligned work.

But universities also enjoyed some unique protections (tenure etc.). The end result was that it just took a bit longer.
If you wonder why the rest of the world looks at USA funny, here's a counter point:

There are 9614 schools in Australia, and since 1992 there's been a total of six shootings resulting in a sum of 3 deaths. The deaths were at universities, so strictly speaking no children were lost. There have been no more school shootings since 2012, a year that took no lives.

By US standards we could have 3-4 shootings per year and that would be "not regular"?

Christ.

As a parent in Australia, youth violence with knives as well as distracted drivers concern me. Guns? Not even on my radar.

(https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/news/could-a-mass-shoo...)
Serra da Capivara kiss painting at Pedra Furada site probably beats it by a couple thousand years, at least. The prehistoric rock art in the area dates from 12000 to 6000 years before present: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-Kiss-O-Beijo-Serra-d...

Also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serra_da_Capivara_National_P...
AM is also one of the easiest bits of infrastructure to cobble together: you need an oscillator, an audio amplification circuit, a microphone, and a length of wire. The circuit is so simple anyone can build one DIY or with a hobby kit (though obviously the range on a low power device is tiny).
Yeah he told you whatever he wanted to tell you. I told you the truth. Most guitars they sell are reissues/references back to those golden years.
I'm not sure I know many preppers who have a gun but don't also keep a food store. Plenty of people do the opposite: lots of food and supplies, but no weapons. I think both are bad ideas, but If I had to choose one, I'd want to be in the former group, and then go around and find people in the latter group and see what they had.
Meanwhile, China is building coal plants like there's no tomorrow... https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
I can see the argument and wouldn’t want to go overboard with generated comments, but it’s nice to have some in the source for now, since IDEs have tooling to display source comments in various contexts (eg hover over a function and get its docstring).

I can definitely see the utility of a “tell me more about this method” button that gets descriptions from GPT.

I also like the “ChatGDB” style of interface where all the local UI context is added to your GPT session (eg “what is this code doing” will answer about what you have selected, in the context of the whole file, and perhaps with the ability to retrieve other files too if needed for the explanation).
Japan Is Surprisingly Efficient
Lines of code for major software / tech brands
You can get whatever color you want in most luxury cars, you just have to pay and wait for it.

Audi will happily get you a Lamborghini yellow q5 if you want.
For vector style graphics (like in the article) - You can achieve this quite simply on the web with SVG DOM.

You can add event listeners to the SVG's paths/groups and apply fill when clicked.
From research diary to Paladin AI
A share price being $0 is not what was being talked about. A 75% decreases of share price is the topic.
Maybe I’m odd, but when I watch talks recorded at conferences I take notes, pause to visit resources discussed by the speaker and skip back to things I misheard or didn’t grasp properly. Then I’ll save it for reference along with the notes and slides if made available.

In person I’m usually feeling uncomfortable to be surrounded by so many people and can’t focus on the talk in the same way.
All of those things impact family stability and happiness. That impacts kids' lives quite immensely.

Social media isn't the cure, but it sure as hell didn't cause all those other things.
Your list does not illustrate what you claim. E.g. Finland was not at all dependent on Russian gas, because Finland does not use much gas, so 92.4 percent of nothing.

Meanwhile, Germany's gas imports were huge and you cannot leave 58.9 percent of your population to freeze in the winter anyway.

EDIT: Also, Finland has this in the laws:

> There is an alternative fuel obligation, so that in the event of a gas supply disturbance, other fuels can be immediately substituted.

It's as if they prepared for an event like this ;-)