skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Futurama, there is a gag where Fry finds out about ads being injected in his dreams through brain waves or something. When he is upset by this, his peers do not understand him. So he explains: "Of course we had ads in the 20th century... but only on billboards, and buses, and milk cartons, and [list goes on for a while]. But not in dreams! Nuh-uh!"

I think what's happening here is two things: First, a personal computing device is fundamentally an extension of your own self into the digital world, functioning similar to how you use your limbs to interact with the physical world. Having a personal computing device overtly act in someone else's interest and not yours is not that dissimilar to having someone else manipulate your arms and legs to force you to go to certain places or interact with things that you don't want to.

Second, most ads have the redeeming quality of being ignorable. If there's an ad on a billboard, I can look somewhere else instead or just close my eyes. If there's an ad on a news website, I can (hopefully!) scroll past it. If there's an ad in my dreams (or indeed, on my home screen), it's forcing itself on me and violating that premise of ignorability.
APFS has a nice feature in that it can share free space between different volumes on the same physical device. So, for example, I can have a Time Machine backup and a general-purpose volume on my external SSD, and free space is automatically allocated to whichever volume needs it.

The downside is that the output of "df" can be confusing at first if you're not used to it!

(Maybe this feature is common on all OS's/filesystems now days, but I certainly could have used it back in my Linux-admin days. It was quite a revelation when I discovered it!)
To be fair, maybe they don’t want to work with someone who is questioning them from the start? Seems like a win-win for both of you?
The slow rise of Mixed Reality
the windows key, in this context
Ugh. I’m OS homeless.

Windows is full of garbage. MacOS jumped the shark on UI and is irritating in so many ways as it tries to be some Frankenstein’s monster of a desktop and mobile-inspired UI. And Linux is incapable of watching videos in a browser without destroying my CPU (Nvidia lacks hardware video decoding on Linux) and continues with all the classic “engineers don’t do UX” problems.

Not one option feels “good” to me. There’s just levels of tolerable.
FWIW: As an instructor, I used to include bubblesort when talking about sorting algorithms.. I stopped, because too many students saw it presented as an algorithm, and thought it was therefore a valid choice. It is not. As others have pointed out, insertion sort and selection sort are just as simple, but significantly faster.

As long as the quantity of data is small, there is nothing wrong with using an n^2 algorithms for sorting. They are simple, robust, stable, and easy to implement correctly.

Sure, things may change. In 25 years, you may have 1000 elements instead of 10. If that happens, your successors can change the algorithm to meet the new requirements. That's what software maintenance is all about.
If a person has registered for a conference (which I imagine involves paying money), it’s the responsibility of the conference organizer to provide a visa invitation letter (which can just be derived from a template; doesn’t have to be specialized), as many visa applications require such a letter. Otherwise they should refund the money and not accept applications from foreign participants at all.
I remember that time at a company event where I told the human resources lady that I didn't even have a LinkedIn profile. She looked at me as if I was a mystical unicorn. (I do have a LinkedIn now - current company pretty much required it as part of my advancement).

My skillset at present is kind of niche (Nginx+Lua). The carpet-bombing mass-email approach that recruiters tend to use (looking for, say, a "Node programmer with experience in React and Mongo") doesn't really match me well. Or it does match the me but from 10 years ago.

So yeah, I ignore them and it's fine.
True. That's the worst of it all.

"Unfollowing" doesn't work as the recommendations for even more dystopian lunatic non-sensical content keeps coming. This[1] is a good humoristic view on the state of LinkedIn, but it is sadly too close to reality :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IHt9PJM8Md8
I think Debian also does this, I didn't see it when using the latest version
A Review on Time-Restricted Eating for the Prevention of Metabolic Diseases
But that's the thing ... that isn't realistic and, hence, not compelling story. I became very good with both a rifle and pistol pretty much on my own. It took years of training with masters of the craft to become proficient as a martial artist.
You'd run the whole thing over the same 2.4G/5G 20/40/80 Mhz channels as wifi, but probably using a gold-code scheme. You'd pre-arrange what code you'll use (perhaps derived from the base station mac address so there aren't collisions even across a city). Simulations would have to be done of high bandwidth close-by unencoded and low bandwidth long distance coded users coexisting, and defining a fairish sharing scheme between them.

The whole thing could probably be implemented with only custom firmware (ie. no hardware changes). All modern GPS's do below-noise-floor reception of GPS signals entirely in software - this would be the same. You might want custom hardware to avoid the rather huge power costs of leaving the main high bandwidth receivers being turned on the whole time though!

You could use the same MIMO mechanisms to get a better channel gain and increase the total amount of data users can transfer in a given city-sized area.
From my own perspective, many of open-source, useful, and interesting tech has European roots. Starting with Linux and Torvalds (from Helsinki), to Conversations.im XMPP client (by Daniel Gultsch, German), Matrix.org Foundation (based in the UK), and FairPhone (Netherlands).
I can handle the email spam. Just a thought, but I have a presentation number on my CV that's only active when I'm jobhunting - otherwise it just rings out. Are you talking about phone spam? That would be several million times more irritating.
This is not informing about other services, this is pushing them on them with sleezy tactics. The article calls out that MS refers to this as "second-chance out of the box experience", or in plain English, "you did not want this the first time, but we need this for our bottom line, so get ready to have this shoved down your throat".

I would also not be surprised if they are banking on people accidentally clicking Yes to make the annoyance go away.
> Where you get the "or pay 10000€" part from?

Most likely from the manpage:

If you use --will-cite in scripts to be run by others you are
making it harder for others to see the citation notice. The
development of GNU parallel is indirectly financed through
citations, so if your users do not know they should cite then you
are making it harder to finance development. However, if you pay
10000 EUR, you have done your part to finance future development
and should feel free to use --will-cite in scripts.

If you do not want to help financing future development by letting
other users see the citation notice or by paying, then please
consider using another tool instead of GNU parallel. You can find
some of the alternatives in man parallel_alternatives.

FWIW some distros remove the nagging message (e.g. mine - openSUSE - has it removed and the patch seems to come from Debian so i'd guess Debian and its derivatives also remove it).
That's exactly it. The boot environment on Apple Silicon is a stripped down macOS system
I know I do.

Topics and speakers specifically. The lineup is a huge factor.

I’m sure we all have our reasons but it’s something I put a huge emphasis on personally.
> I never understood their use as computer glasses because all computers and phones have low blue light modes now and these do what they say they do, and I've measured the output of screens with a spectrophotometer.

Anecdotally, when I first had "anti-blue-light computer glasses" many years ago, nor windows nor mac os had the "night mode" feature. Run-of-the-mill monitors didn't have it, either, instead sporting an extremely blueish image. I don't know that my glasses helped with sleep, but they sure as hell made the screens more pleasant to look at.

And no, fiddling with the monitor settings didn't really help. I'm talking about your standard crappy enterprise monitors, with abysmal contrast, so that if you lowered the brightness or some such you couldn't make out anything anymore on them.
A lot of this is likely due to funding for ambitious projects/startups/new businesses being a lot harder to come by in Europe compared to the US. European investors seem hesitant to invest in consumer facing companies, and often prefer traditional businesses in 'proven' markets (b2b services, luxury goods, etc). US ones are at least somewhat willing to invest big in crazier ideas with the assumption it might not pay off for a decade or so.

The market conditions likely have a part to play too. With salaries for high end work being so much higher in the US than Europe (see tech salaries in Silicon Valley vs just about anywhere in Europe for example), the most competent, skilled people tend to be drawn to the US where their skills are rewarded more.
>"There were no online internet updates during the 68k to PPC or the PPC to Intel transition periods."

There certainly were during the PPC to Intel transition. This happened in 2005 with "Tiger", and at that time OS X had already been receiving updates over the Internet since quite some time.
It's just OpenAI embeddings. We fetch them and just push then to Redis with a 30 day TTL. The backing data that's embedded rarely changes, so we don't need to create a new embedding for very often. We batch what needs to be embedded.

The full RAG workflow - using ADA to embed the user input, deserialize embeddings, run cosine similarity, and call gpt-3.5-turbo - is about 3 seconds end-to-end to get a result.
The significance of this I think is that blended-wing-body design could greatly improve the fuel efficiency of everything from bombers (stealthy!) to airliners (lots of them!)

The civil air transport industry is terribly conservative and Boeing shows no sign of being interested in building the next generation of aircraft. Although BWB could take a big bite out of carbon emissions, it it would be a big leap, people aren’t used to sitting in something like that, it’s not so clear how people get in and out of it in an emergency, etc.

With all those concerns the industry is never going to go through a risky development process but a military aircraft like a tanker might give them the chance to work out the technical problems and take out some of the risk of bringing this to civil aviation.
question: how can space needed for swap be transparently released?

When disk, RAM, and swap are all full, does write() sometimes cause the OOM killer to kill other processes?
I made a comment about The Netherlands.
You guys know that in bash you can use `&` to pass a foreground terminal process to the background and then use `wait` to wait for all the session's background process to end, right?
Classifying undergrad degrees with GPT-4 as our intern
As per usual, Google does not care about how damaging it is to people who don't generate significant ad revenue.

Google is downright hostile to the homeless as well, in the name of security. Everyone knows someone whose been permanently locked out of an account with priceless family photos. (Of course, Google will now begin completing that process and deleting them outright.)

It's probably worth pointing out the best email account for these issues, oddly enough, probably an AOL account. AOL has customer service you can call on the phone for password resets to this day, even for free accounts. Not having this should probably be illegal for email providers, tbh.
Can’t you just use Rosetta?
> If it was uniquely specified then we could just use probability theory with its axioms and inference rules to derive at the correct answer.

You’re right.

I wrote in another comment the solution down to this two unspecified elements:

P(you tell me that you have two children including at least one boy | you have two boys)

P(you tell me that you have two children including at least one boy | you have one boy and one girl)

If one assumes that they are equal (why?) the answer is 1/3.

If one assumes that the latter is half as probable the answer is 1/2.

Whatever the assumption that one finds more natural the point is that an assumption is needed.
It makes a lot of users's crates faster to compile from scratch, and compile time is a common complaint in Rust. It could be celebrated as a big total ecosystem win for compilation speed, but other issues overshadowed the whole thing.

Some gains and losses are elaborated here where it was added: https://github.com/serde-rs/serde/pull/2514
The one by the people who flew with the geese is interesting.

https://youtu.be/RoGuvvzHY1A

Edit: I'm thinking mostly underground is much cheaper and reduces the risks of wildfire, wind, hail, tornado, and lightning. / There's also the opal miners in Australia who built their whole town underground. https://youtu.be/4h9XwwgQKRQ&t=2s
Since iOS 15 iPhones can generate “background noise” including dark noise, balanced noise, rain, ocean, etc. You can even play it at the same time as music, a podcast, etc. with its own, independent volume control.

An icon appears for me when in the Control Center when I swipe down, the “Hearing tile”, and can be used to play/pause and change Background Sounds.

Can also be accessed this way:

1. Open Settings and scroll down to Accessibility

2. Tap on that, then scroll to the Hearing section

3. Choose Audio/Visual

4. Tap on Background Sounds

5. Turn on Background Sounds by tapping the on/off toggle

https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/07/23/how-to-use-rain-d...
Its Linux for ‘Windows’ key.
Yes they did. You had fast PowerPC chips at the time, but they couldn't compete at power efficiency, which was important for consumer hardware, especially portable devices.
I read that more as a “common courtesy asks that you do X, but I’m negotiable - send a check and I won’t care about courtesy anymore.”

Which is a fair enough position to take, in my opinion.
from that man page, there is a name clash with "ts" from moreutils
I have encountered this in multiple countries in Europe and North America. Part of the reason is I obsessively form a routine and optimize the route around and consequently am incredibly sensitive to changes . . . Which I am not claiming is a healthy habit!

UK supermarkets go so far as to randomly drop free promo items “by accident” into baskets for online delivery in the knowledge that people will get hooked on the new thing, so you can’t escape it just by going online.
The location guessing part of it isn't interesting if you're using landmarks, ends up more just a case of digging around the map because you know the exact place will have an icon anyway. Think you'd have a more engaging game by removing the geoguessr element
If you have the connections, knowing someone inside the company (e.g. from an open source project) and asking them to move your CV inside the company for you will be a faster and cheaper way to get in.
Interestingly, Internal Family Systems therapy, which applies techniques from family systems therapy to the internal world, treats this as a "both-and." You do have a core Self, but one of the primary things it does is lead and direct and serve as the primary attachment figure for all the other parts of you, which are conceptualized as individual, separate characters with their own history, needs, desires, wounds, and fears.

I've found this to be an immensely helpful way to work through my own struggles and maladaptive behaviors. Trying to get myself to do something challenging is more like leading a group, some of whom are gung ho and others who are terrified because something about it reminds them of something that went very badly for them back when we were younger.

When it feels like some negative attitude is overriding the whole system, it's said that a part has "blended" with the Self, and the way forward is to help it unblend, to step back or aside so you, as the Self, can be in relationship with it, can listen to it and understand it (which goes a long way in its own right), but then also help meet the need or protect from the scary thing. The part never has access to all the resources you do as the Self, and the part is often a young child trying to take on something that should be overwhelming for a child.

I have no idea whatsoever if this is the case, but it wouldn't surprise me to find that what's actually happening inside the brain in these cases is an energy shift away from, for example, this over-excited anxious part of the brain to one with more control and executive function. It might be a way of training the mind to direct the activation of the brain, not unlike training for any other sort of skill.
This feels like that meme where raccoons are telling people to leave their trash outside so they can ransack the trash cans.

Of course recruiters would say this. If you are so naive that you'd buy into this narrative I have a submarine adventure for sale you might be interested in.

I will caveat this bad and misleading advice with something more useful:

You never know which recruiters will actually have reasonable work for you. Most do NOT deserve even a microsecond of your time. But up front, they will all look the same. I got one of the most meaningful jobs of my life through a recruiter.

I hate them to my bone because they do not have my interest in mind, and they will be very deceptive and dishonest about what's going on. They are not there to be friendly, nice or care about you. They are a repetitional splash guard for the awful, inhuman and socially toxic behavior that corporate values celebrate.

The recruiter that got me a good job was honest and up-front, he wasn't playing games. The key is dealing with reasonable people, and I think the recruiter industry just attracts a lot of people who are prone to "selling" things regardless of merit.

To put my response to the title / article in a more poetic format

Recruiters are used car salesmen, just because you can smell their sleeze a mile away doesn't mean there isn't a gem barn find on the lot. YMMV.
Prisoners are allowed to use internet in many places.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_prisons

There are three ways around this:

1. Stop using Google services as the root node for everything.

2. Make Google change its policy.

3. Make prisons/nations change their policy.
romans are much less than 12000 years old
I'm not aware that anyone's properly reverse-engineered it, but based on what I've heard anecdotally I suspect some of it is eliminated by not using a Microsoft account, and some of it is eliminated by operating in certain regions or languages (perhaps due to not having a localized version of the campaign, or due to compliance concerns around advertising regulations and consumer protection laws in jurisdictions where that sort of thing is actually taken seriously).
Probably the least of their problems. For any prospective criminals weighed by this detail, I suggest nominating another person to hold your recovery email (this is a good idea anyway) who will be notified far in advance of said deletion. Also if your crimes are in any way remunerative, you may be able to swing the $1.99 that will keep even unused accounts active indefinitely.
Russia's first lunar mission in 47 years crashed into the moon
Scroll hijack makes this unusable
> Windows 11 Enterprise

How much does that cost compared to Pro or Home? I cannot even find the pricing for it.
I'm suggesting to pass via JSON what we used to pass via HTML back when front-end was templates on the server. I still prefer those days, like I alluded to in the first paragraph of the article. It used to be: write your template by inserting database values into it. Now I'm saying: instead of a template, come up with a neat json structure that kinda represents that template, and insert your database values into it. Name the fields after what page needs, not what you have in the database (following standard practices of object construction). I'm not sure what I might be reinventing, or what it might've been called, because I'm just trying to explain a practice that saves time and reduces complexity in simple language. It's interesting if it already was a thing with a name, but doesn't really change the point.
no you don't. You just need the devtools which are like 2 gigs. I have developed on mac for years and have never had xcode installed.
I'd sell the land to someone who didn't care about orchids, and keep the sheds for milk production. I mean, who wouldn't take extra money?

Oh! Or keep cows on the land and in sheds. I bet that returns more money than set aside does.
The perpetual license to ARM ISA has nothing to do with Apple's investment into ARM or Acorn. Anyone with money could buy a perpetual license to its ISA under the condition ARM and buyer agree with.
I've been using `&` to run stuff in the background for donkeys, but had no idea about `wait`.
My daughter has a very serious learning disability and she loves to swipe through home photos or videos on an android phone or on an ipad. She can mostly get on OK but when you look at it from her point of view, its _amazing_ how complicated 'swiping through pics' has become.

Swipe from the top? that brings the notifications

Swipe from the bottom? Brings up photo options. Press on one of those by accident and you end up in a nest of menus and features that can be hard to get out of.

Want to play a video? Tap once, the video controls fade in, you've then got to tap the play button in the middle of the screen within half a second or so, or it fades out again

Long press while scrolling through list of photos? Now you're in 'select mode' and every photo you press gets added to the selection rather than getting displayed. Can be very confusing.

Press the wrong button in IOS and you end up in very confusing picture-in-picture mode

One great thing about iOS is the 'guided access' feature, you can use it to lock the ipad into one app and even disable parts of the touchscreen so that a child can use the ipad without accidentally finding their way out of the app and into your email. I dont think Android has an equivalent. edit: ah yes it does - App Pinning - thanks
> The taskbar “Search” box had a new “fun” little icon representing whatever search item they wanted to advertise to me today. Had to find windows “tips” site to work out how to turn it off…

It boggles my mind how people don't find it absolutely infuriating. I watch quite a lot of streams and people always have 3 things enabled that I personally would disable instantly:

- huge searchbox taking a good 1/3 of the taskbar (I've yet to see anyone use this control for initiating a search)

- the playful icon in this huge searchbox (you mentioned it)

- Weather widget in the taskbar (just why?)

I assume that vast majority of Windows users just don't care.
An August reading list about online security and 2023 attacks landscape
> So I can't imagine I'm seeing the same thing as what's got so many people up in arms about the start menu. Did I get a weird OEM configuration?

To answer that question, check out the screenshot in the article. If you have a similar spittoon-load of crapware installed, you have the same experience as ~everyone else and for some reason you aren't registering it.

If you don't, something ethical happened.