skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting retrospective and nice to read, though I had to chuckle at "soft" discs. Is 'floppy' now considered offensive?

I started my web dev career when MSIE was accelerating and achieved crazy levels of dominance. Developing for IE was shit. I mean, I was never out of work, but the wasted time figuring out which quirk you were coding around was, frankly, ridiculous when you look back on it. But you had an arsenal of workarounds and techniques which that generation of developer fantastic problem-solvers and have lots of initiative.

Despite how they did it, it is essential that nobody in or around the industry forgets how good MSIE was for mainstream adoption of the internet/www. It literally made it so that everyone was online. This was when the beige box in the corner was your window to the www and very few people had that kind of connectivity in their pocket.

Reflecting on how MS achieved dominance and then essentially backburnered MSIE development really befuddles me to this day. Some of the thoughts in the comments make sense; Was it arrogance and MS seriously thought Win32/.NET would remain dominant? Or simply that they'd dropped the ball in other departments and had to redeploy resources to a profit centre?
Saying water/wine happened exactly once 2000 years ago is much harder to falsify than claiming a present, ongoing, and universal correlation between planetary bodies and psychology.
I thought for a second that I click bad link earlier when the X showed up and the twitter logo turn into X.
Interesting. This raises the further question: Which Unicode characters are allowed in company names? Surely it's not just the Latin alphabet.
Choosing to take a drug is not choosing addiction any more than choosing to eat nuts is choosing anaphylactic shock due to an unknown allergy.

Addiction is something some people are heavily predisposed to. And they don't generally find out about that fact until it's too late.
Smaller than I thought, anyway :) Do we know each other IRL as well? If so drop me a line (mail in profile).
I actually like it, but I am generally fond of older, pre-smartphone UI design, so I might be an exception.
Is it just me or is X a stupid name? It's hard to google it and there are so many other associations with it (like X-Files, Mr X, etc - just so much). Twitter is a huge brand and they just kill it off like that?

I'm not on the Musk hate train, but this feels like a stupid impulse decision to me
How is believing in religion rational?
A primitive DNS server written in Rust for fun based on the guide "Building a DNS server from scratch in Rust".
Until we get a RISC V computer on Media Markt being sold to average joe/jane, FOSS everything, it is going to be hardly any different.
So, you're saying nobody actually cares if the code is correct. So why should I?
Really like the customizability approach! It’s Safari, for the advanced user. For example, the option to hide the toolbar entirely which Safari had but removed it during beta. Well done!

Biggest missing feature for me are the swiping gestures to switch tabs and enter tab overview, already mentioned by others. Main reason why I can’t switch to any other browser, including Orion which has it but the static animation doesn’t match the swiping movement.

Also caching (no page reload) and extensions are missing but these seem to be system-level restrictions which is understandable.

Also sooner or later I’d be missing the advanced features, like font zoom, request desktop website, long press on buttons like back/forward to select point in history, etc.

Nitpick: the address bar font seems to be much bolder than in Safari, would be great to (be able to) tone it down.
They already have the GitHub command line, actually.

https://cli.github.com/
For me Inkscape has been one of the stars of free software. I especially like how one can align all the things rather easily and exactly, without having to trust ones mouse pointer movement skills and helper lines. Of course SVG is also about exactness, so a tool working with SVGs should also allow you to do things exactly.
I think I actually left words out and so my point was lost.

The difference I see is that OpenBSD is so well documented that one can judge wether or not any of the updates is needed. One can consider each release as a standalone environment. The change notes going forward can be monitored. Upgrades are only required for feature changes. There is no requirement to upgrade.
Having separate debug and release targets is hardly new.
a[href="/home"][aria-label="Twitter"] { display: none !important; }

For Stylus, Cascadea or whatever CSS writing extension you have installed. I did this months ago because the stupid doge was annoying me and forget I'd left it on, but it still works.
Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.

Going to be studied by generations as a case study in wiping out decades of brand value overnight.

Also, the logo was selected by a competition, which is absolutely the way to rebrand a multi-billion dollar company.

Fascinating, in a car crash sort of way.
They probably are not going to delete all accounts, and thus not going to save "couple GB of hard drive storage"
Or the logo, which is a unicode character: 𝕏 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Yet another sign that Yaccarino is a sham CEO.

We already knew Musk was like this, but it's surprising that Yaccarino signed up for it. I hope she negotiated a massive cash signing bonus, because she's totally trashed her career.
This is what he's been envisioning since back in the PayPal days.

The problem for Musk is that the US, EU, UK, AU etc are not remotely interested in a mainstream commerce platform that takes a lax approach to KYC/AML.

And despite Musk's delusions the "blue tick" program is not a suitable verification foundation to build payments on top of.
back then when IE was released it WAS at the top of web tech development

I remember when IE4 came out. It was a fascinating piece of software (and extremely crashy too in beta) packed with all sorts of forward looking technologies like Active Channel, Active Desktop, a chat app, Outlook Express, and more. I'm a bit sad, but I could literally watch a 2 hour documentary on IE4, there must be so many stories behind its development and eventual demise.
Xorg logo is completely different. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/X.Org_Lo...
A new implementation of the ACL Paper: Gzip and KNN working together
>young people have the opportunity to do [this] outside of university

Same goes for computer science and like every humanities degree - you can become an autodidact in any subject that does not require expebsive equiment and facilities.

On the contrary, > 60% of most people's lifelong friends consist of people they met at school or university. That suggests we are not very good at connecting eith random people we meet on the street.
@karpathy, I could not get to run. It exited in the reading of the tokenizer.bin.
Turns out on Windows with Visual Studio, fopen needs to be issued in binary mode, otherwise the reading eventually "failed".

What is required to actually feed it text and then retrieve the results?
So instead of having it produce the story of Lily, write something different?
UTM uses VirtioFS with Apple's virtualisation backend. Works out of the box with my Ubuntu server guests. You still need to mount the share as described here, but that's it: https://docs.getutm.app/guest-support/linux/#macos-virtiofs

What took me a bit to figure out is that this does not mount a single folder, but a virtual parent folder to which you can add and remove directories without changing the mount. This even works while the VM is running.

For example, mounting

share /mnt/host virtiofs rw,nofail 0 0

in the guest and then sharing

~/Downloads

in UTM will share the Downloads folder as

/mnt/host/Downloads

When using the QEMU backend, VirtFS is used instead, which does not use such a parent folder and requires restarting the VM to change shares iirc.
When did that happen? I still have my OG Steam account with an email address as username which is now 19 years old.

I was never prompted to change that, even though I would definitely like to. I would appreciate any insights you might have.
This reads like something on The Onion.
What You Say Is What You Get: Hands-Free Coding in 2023 (German/English) [video]
To be more precise, I generalize the tendency that people have in trying to "externalize" their problems. And "traditional therapy" can have the same effect: "whatever, the root of all your problems is your parents".

What I am trying to say is that most people will not dig further and most importantly will not even try to put some honest work in trying to understand things in order to try to repair these.

And assuming I am right, Astrology is not really helping much, because if you are "stubborn because you are a Taurus or whatever" what are you supposed to do?
What kind of corrective practices will Astrology suggest?

Please enlighten me (I am not sarcastic): in all my dealings with people who were interested in Astrology (interested beyond the most superficial interest) everybody was trying to "understand", a minority was trying to "predict".
But nobody had any Astrology-based best practice to "heal" or "repair".
It’s really hard to not look at a train wreck in progress. Especially when it comes with a large drink of schadenfreude and a bucket of virtual popcorn.

I’m sad for what the destruction of Twitter and the people it affects, but at least the fireworks are cool.
It's actually "Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X"

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
The region of the British atomic tests was equally secluded:

https://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/history/m....

Later tests at tropical islands respected human rights to a similar degree:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9199216

Tests in French Polynesia were just as shady, perhaps more so.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56340159

The two live 3–4-megaton Mark 39 nuclear bombs dropped on North Carolina didn't have quite the same effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
> it seems clear to me that he has a strategic plan

I highly doubt that because he originally didn't want to buy the thing in the first place. He's just making one hail Mary pass after the next to try to get it to turn a profit and failing so his last card - the one he always seems to play at some point - is to set it up for acquisition by one of his other companies to bail himself out.

That may work, or it won't, in which case Twitter (sorry, 'x') may well end up taking the rest of his empire with it.
Best website in the world.
I started learning guitar during Covid and I purchased Rocksmith 2014 as a complement to Justin Sandercoe’s excellent series of courses.

I’m curious about why you bought an X-box specifically for Rocksmith. Does it perform better with an X-box than a PC?

I purchased the game from Steam and it runs fine – if a little hot – on a Windows 10 laptop. So far, the only problem I’ve had on the PC was note detection when playing open strings for the “String Skip Saloon” game.
Perhaps try something like this? https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/tree/master/example...
FreeBSD is not OpenBSD. The rest of the story is sad.
Booooo!
During the government shutdown some TLS certificates expired, so depending how long it goes a domain renewal could get missed because nobody is working or the check bounces.
Real estate is so expensive these days I have a mountain of debt just to own a home.
If I had spare cash lying around I’d put it in shares.
We can hope for her sake, but I think it's much more likely that given her background in sales, she's just uninformed about building consumer products and services, and all in on that sales culture of promising everything and ignoring the execution.
It is wrong to conflate economic success with intelligence.
Source on Winston Churchill?
> Going to be studied by generations as a case study in wiping out decades of brand value overnight.

What is there to study? It's just one childish rich dude with no adults in the room, case closed.
In semver, that's a major version upgrade since it changes the API without being backwards compatible. API consumers have responsibilities too.
A lot of confusion comes from SQL nulls having the same name as nulls in programming languages. They are conceptually completely different things.

Nulls in programming languages are a special “sentinel” value indicating the lack of an object. Nulls in sql means “unknown” or “I am not able to answer that question”.

This is why in most programming languages two nulls are equal, since they are the same sentinel value. Not so in SQL, since one unknown value is not necessaily the same as some other unknown value.
This is no doubt good.
It is also a strange patch.

I wonder if this could plausibly cause some families to
purposefully get kids placed into foster care 1 or 2 years before
college. Hopefully not. Usually that whole experience is a nightmare.

Letting everyone attend state college for free is the real deal.
To save costs fire 90% of the admin staff.

(I have not done research on the California state specifically but
most colleges have absorbed far too many admin roles.
Then due to cost not done enough to expand the teaching staff)
I know I would volunteer you be a sock puppet for the kind of money that she will be paid. For significantly less actually.
How is this not bigger news? He actually proved God exists???
Well, some jurisdictions do allow employers to write a letter saying "NN is a key employee and necessary for our continued production of vitally important shampoo" or words to that effect.
I have 50% of my money in an S&P 500 index and the other 50% in high yield savings accounts.

I know I should have more in the stock market and I probably will once interest rates decline.
You would call "less shadowing banning" a _new Feature_?

Like if I make a wrench and one year I make 50% less of them I wouldn't say I developed a new feature. If I created a slightly different wrench I might call it a new feature but just doing more or less of something I already have isn't _new_.

So to circle back, what new features has twitter developed?
>Without vaccines the number of dead would be far, far higher than it ended up being

based on what? 'projections' from sources that commissioned the cures and the mandates? what to believe? who to believe? let's cue in data ambiguity and conflict of interest as among the reasons why this is happening.

most of the young people were not affected by the virus but had to lose key years of their life to save old people. they do feel let down.
The article gives only anecdata as evidence that this is happening, mostly from astrologers themselves. I would question that it is happening at all. At least I found nothing objectively convincing for the thesis that "young people are flocking to astrology".
Because it is impossible to prove such thing. All arguments of this kind rely on some kind of shaky or dubious foundation.
>This article (edited multiple times!) is not evidence of anything, let alone Nord co-operating with law enforcement to log customer data.

Not sure what is not clear from this:
“We will comply with lawful requests as long as they are delivered according to all the laws and regulations," NordVPN says. "We are a company that protects the security and privacy of our customers, but we operate according to laws and regulations.”

Why you don't find articles googling is that Nord puts a lot of effort in removing or burring it (google their dispute with TorGuard). Same what they tried to do with the breach in 2018, they half-ass disclosed at least 6 months later after being known to them. (at a point in time the breach already leaked)

Example I gave was a talk in a hacker conference, with no recording (common request for hacker conference talks).
This is a traditional architectural feature also in my home city of Toledo in Spain: [in Spanish, could not find an English version] https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patios_de_Toledo

That was however an ancient idea, already used for example by the Roman Empire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domus) although the typical Toledo patio is a multi-storey construction like the Chinese examples in the linked article, most similar to the islamic “wast ad-dar” [“middle of the house”]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_architecture#Courtyard...

This is the abstract from a book dedicated to the subject titled “Courtyard Housing: Past, Present and Future”:

> Courtyard housing is one of the oldest forms of domestic development spanning at least 2000 years and occurring in distinctive form in many regions of the world. Traditionally associated with the Middle East where climate and culture have given shape to a particular type of courtyard housing, other examples exist in Latin America, China and in Europe, where the model has been reinterpreted. This book demonstrates, through discussions on sustainability and regional identity, and via a series of case studies, technical planning and design solutions, that the courtyard housing form has a future as well as a past.
— https://books.google.de/books?vid=ISBN9780415262729
I wonder if that will have an effect on copyright for the logo. I mean, you can’t just copyright the shape of an existing Unicode character, at least for such a simple one.
That's called working the refs. You just complain something's happening nonstop whether or not it actually is, and eventually the admins give you treats to shut you up. (Popular right-wing account "catturd2" constantly complains about this even though Elon put him on the special list that shows him in everyone's for you feed, along with dril and the menswear guy.)

In this case it is still happening because that's mostly bugs, and they definitely aren't fixing the bugs. Also, because some of the signal comes from how many people have blocked you, and personally repellent right-wingers get frequently blocked!
Yes, of course.
Having someone listening to you, attentively, is great. It is also a key point of actual therapy.

Fictional example: https://terra-ignota.fandom.com/wiki/Cousins
Same, is there some kind of compression proxy we can put the site through?
As a research mathematician, I find seminar talks to be like someone describing a backpacking trip in the wilderness. Someone might discuss how they planned, what they saw, what obstacles they encountered and how they resolved them.

If you were listening to such a talk, you might get excited about following in their footsteps, or about going on a different hiking trip entirely. You'd learn some useful advice, gain confidence, and understand better how to cope when something went awry.

But you wouldn't mistake listening for having been on the trail yourself.
millionaires don't use astrology billionaires do
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I’m well aware. My comments aren’t for him, they’re for everyone else who is reading them.
> But when you really think about it, moving on is as pointless as feeling dreadful.

Yes.

> In fact, anything is as pointless as anything else.

Absolutely.

> It might seem like an insane question, but why exactly is moving on somehow more desirable than feeling dreadful, if everything, including the universe itself, will be gone?

It isn’t. Once we’ve reached the conclusion that anything and everything is vain and pointless, we are simply faced with a choice. One that sure is as pointless as everything else. And one to which everyone is ultimately free to find whatever answer, or lack of answer they please. For better or worse we are alive, whatever that means, and it will probably only last so long. What will we do with that?

Edit: basically, to be unoriginal, "To be or not to be".

Some will believe they are entitled to have an opinion on others’ answers. Some will say it’s nobody’s business. Some are convinced they somehow have a somewhat universal answer. Others try to coerce others into what will benefit them.

> Life is about the journey, not the end, many people would argue. But in reality, most people live their life with long-term thinking.

I’d argue many believe they do, but few actually do. Considering their many long term impacts on quality of life, obesity and tobacco addiction are a few examples that come to mind.

> People study hard, so they can get a good job. Then they work hard, so they can retire comfortably. There's always delayed gratification in most life stages and even life activities (saving, exercising, dieting).

> If life were all about the journey, we wouldn't need to feel pity for those who "wasted" their life, as long as they enjoyed it.

I would argue that most have no clue as to what they are talking about. Myself included.

> Being drug addicts and die at twenties would not be "less" then being a president, they would be just.. different. But no, most of us think they are not just different, and it says something about human beings.

It sure does.
> paying market rates to thousands of people (which is what legacy orgs currently do)

* paying contractor rates to thousands of people
(hint: Two people conversation)

REM: 'Literary life rarely offers splendid spectacles' (ducks)

A lot of people don't understand critics.
They assume it means to judge and determine...

..and you may think 'yes that may be about censorship'

> Won't sound offending but 'idiocracy' is much more subtile, and left criticism tied to theory, interpreting, and ('shure' ^^) without involving any effort or understanding?

?!

> And the moral is about: "Some people better insert their gold-coins their throat down, to not hand it out to thieves, burglarzz and criminals."?

[dice-roll] P-:
A verified account managed by PR/SMM is probably better than a scam account of the same person offering you to get rich with this one weird trick.

A verified account of a newspaper is probably better than a fake one, spreading false news about the war in Ukraine, for example.

Managed by PR or not, a verified account stood for the person behind this account, and guarantees this is their (proxy or direct) opinion or a real fact about upcoming event, or information about a past event. Right now a verified account means nothing.
There isn't a chance that I'll ever use something like WeChat. I keep all of those components on separate companies because I don't ever want to be tied into something that has that kind of power over my life. Having choice is far better than integration.

I've switched banks 3 times over four decades, ISP more times than that, comms channels a couple of times as well (most recently due to Musk's acquisition of Twitter) and will probably do so again at least once. Tying it all together with an 'everything app' seems like a stupendously stupid move to me (from the consumers perspective). Especially with an unhinged guy like Musk at the helm.
> My fellow nerds, remember, we have a whole 88 IAU designated constellations, and they only got...like 12?? We can win this war and teach em some real astronomy.

What matters in astrology is the constellations that the sun passes through. You can learn some basic astronomy by figuring out the movement of planets in the solar system as seen from Earth, as the ancient astrologers (up to Kepler) did in order to predict their locations in the future, which they (erroneously) believed would allow them to predict auspicious days for their patrons.
"Young People Sceptical of Articles Claiming New Trends in Young People"
A poorly chosen name that seems like a child’s idea of cool. Vaguely over-promising things which are unlikely to ever be built.

Musk is nothing if not consistent.
> the messaging app formerly known as Twitter.

I like that. Permission to re-use?