skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who would always practice the habit of doing development within VMs as opposed to my actual system for a number of reasons, I tried UTM and played with it for a long time to host ARM64 Linux VMs on my M1 Macbook Pro, however the file sharing issues plagued me - with the most common problem being, having my shared folders disappear suddenly from the guest VMs, and having to do workarounds to get them back, quite often. Next, I tried VMWare Fusion, but it has the same problem. After that I tried Parallels, which seemed too expensive, so I jumped to Lima.

I am glad to have found Lima - it also is based on QEMU and made bringing up linux VMs very easy and provided network sharing out of the box. Now all my development lies within these Lima VMs and I am happy to report I never had a problem. I know I could do display forwarding if needed but I am good with these headless instances for now (thanks to VSCode).
As I type a message in Discord, a pop up appears next to my cursor with some disabled Emoticons, prompting me to pony up my credit card and upgrade to Nitro... so I can include these in my message.

This is the forum replacement. Right. :\
To be fair, the odds that the people behind that are still at the company are <<50%

IOW, if any lessons were learned, the folks that learned those lessons have a >50% chance utilizing what they learned at another company.

So, yeah, expect the bait-and-switch.
I don't think it's inevitable. The Constitution still remains intact, and it is a difficult thing to defy.

I can say with certainty that I would be in jail for speech related offenses in any other country than the US.
In which case a new calendar appointment will be circulated to the survivors with location and details. This mechanism already exists and is surely adequate.
Fortune tellers and psychopractitioners both come to some very authoritative-sounding, wild conclusions, especially if you're not very articulate or are outright lying to them. Small wonder both are popular with the kids.

The confidence in their own prognoses--despite no concrete evidence whatsoever--is impressive to behold.
LG does Kickstarter for its space tribute Nespresso coffee machine
Ask HN: Did anyone work at DEC in Nashua in the 80s?
I grew up in Nashua, NH, and my 12yo son is looking through old family albums. My dad worked at DEC on Spit Brook Road in Nashua in the 1980s, and we found this old group photo [0] in one of our albums.

Did anybody here work in that group? Can you share any stories about that time? For example I'd love to know the story of the ventriloquist dummy in the front row wearing a "VAX/VMS Project Leader" shirt, smoking a cigarette.

I found a google groups message [1] that shares something about the bar code on the wall in the background. Apparently it originally said "digitalsoftwareengineering", but was later changed to "customerswin whenwedeliver". I believe this photo shows the original message.

- [0] https://imgur.com/a/hRbScMw

- [1] https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/Od9TG7fnyQc
The pithiness of the example is not doing any favors. In the real world there would be much more substance.
> a 2 bedroom in a safe neighborhood that maybe even doesn't have a yard (or has a really small one)

This is a lot in a tier 1 city! Consider the de-densification that would be required to bring New York to that level of space for everyone.
It absolutely, unequivocally is. People can romanticize it anyway they want, but formal education is very different than religion camp, painting class, or spiritual retreat training.

I feel for people who don't get this or perhaps never contemplated it, but the system is designed to breed good workers and sort them into bins. And its not a bad thing either. Sure there are non-economic self contained benefits, but those are perks, not purposes.
The only way I'd give one of my reports this feedback is if I'd previously heard "I'm spending all of my time helping other teams get stuff done, and it's blocking me from getting my own stuff done."
Ya, it is a big barrier.

But, you just have to approach it from different angles. Don't attempt to compete with Goodreads, but rather build something better that works in a new way around people's desires around books.

Goodreads is just a review database, easy to innovate around that barrier.
The comments here really demonstrate how this is a culturally-nuanced topic.

FWIW, the author comes from a North-American background.
Yeah, because your truck isn't uncoated stainless. There's a deep psychological reason why painted steel develops a patina with abuse but we overwhelmingly find dented stainless ugly and unsettling.
Depends on who you ask.

"Purpose" in an entirely subjective thing.
If social media means a way to communicate with friends, family, and extended community online, it's pretty clear Meta and Tiktok don't want their products to be that. They've made sure you can't get a feed of just your friends.

It's natural the people who want that sort of thing will go elsewhere.
I see.

The problem is there is no difference between local time and "offset from UTC", right?
> I dunno. The former places the cognitive load on the user. The latter places no additional cognitive load on either party.

It adds cognitive load because I've not seen a system where first/last name is not a synonym for given/family name, except it also indicates the system designer is not aware of alternative ordering for names and is forcing me to decide between correct order/incorrect semantic vs. incorrect order/correct semantic, so it's always a game of guessing what the system will subsequently try to display my name as if I enter it in a certain way.
Some of the official emulators use open source projects. The PlayStation Classic uses ReARMed.
Update, just found this [1] and basically touches every point I made above

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/16649zo/how_are_rus...
Am not one of those people that likes getting noticed too much but have learned praise can be a very soft power when needed. Some people really do put a lot of value on what others think of them and that isn’t a weakness. It can be a great strength to them.

Additionally, it’s a soft power. Managers talk. When I’ve intervened in organizational resource actions, there was always one manager/exec who would jump for me. One of those saves became a VP and another achieved the highest technical rank at a Fortune 200. I did it for them but I also did it for the company.
What's the point of e-scooters if you cannot park them on sidewalks?

These things are amazing during the summer, you can go from one end to the city to the opposite in much less time by using a combination of roads and sidewalks.

They are much more efficient than e-bikes because they are smaller and take less space on the sidewalk and 2 people can go on them instead of only one person per bike

It's yet one more step towards authoritarianism, and also a reason to be suspiscious of non-ownership models. When people own something they will fight for it, when people are renting they aren't as committed and so authoritarians can come in and curb on something without much repercussion.
The Death of the Chicago Style Seminar
The whole world suffers from an extremely deep lack of vision.

Why does a utility like PG&E fight so hard to hurt solar installation? If I were CEO I'd buy or start a foundry to make solar panels. Then I'd start an installation and service org. People need energy, why should I care where they get it so long as they get it from me? The grid isn't going away so stop trying so desperately to protect that revenue stream.

Why can't oil companies do the same sort of thing? If Shell were smart they'd be making and selling wind turbines, solar panels, inverters, batteries, etc. Use your stupid lobbing arm to get subsidies passed that make the electric utilities pay part of the cost of these products. Instead they're just giving those markets away because they don't know how to do anything beyond oil and jealously try to protect every scrap of oil revenue.

Even ATT focused so much on long-distance revenue and milking people for tiny data pipes they let cable companies and new ISPs waltz in and takeover huge chunks of what had literally been their monopoly business. Bell labs invented VoIP and could have owned that space... but they didn't dare threaten long-distance revenues. Then a few years later competitors evicerated those revenue streams anyway.

It all comes down to a lack of vision and a focus on protecting existing revenue streams. I guess my brain just doesn't work that way. I see change as inevitable so I'd rather try to own a piece of the new market than worry about protecting the old one.
That's a cultural and personal thing. Consider the recipient's preferences.

If you would like to learn about these cultural preferences, read Erin Meyer's The Culture Map. https://erinmeyer.com/books/the-culture-map/
UK will be fine as it is a democracy. These security features are not the same as they are in authoritarian countries.
Why is there an income ceiling on overtime in the US?
Clickable links:

Original photo: https://imgur.com/a/hRbScMw

Google groups discussion: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.vms/c/Od9TG7fnyQc
Ah the manager game
Canada warns LGBTQ residents of the risks of traveling to the USA
Asking first makes sense because they may have been told by their manager to deprioritize or stop working on whatever your problem was, but they used their judgement and helped you anyway. Praising them in front of others undermines that directive, and even if their manager was ok with them helping you in this one off situation they may not want to advertise "Go to John for help with X".

You hear stories of employees getting fired after a positive review is posted online "Our server Marie was amazing! She went above and beyond by giving our son a free ice cream on his birthday!"
A big problem with computing in space is the radiation environment. To be quite frank, it's absurdly hostile. IIRC the voyagers have very little computing power (so, few things that can malfunction) and even then they run three processors that are already radiation-hardened, and each computation is run in parallel on each processor, and the outcomes are compared among the three to detect and throw away any computations that were altered by radiation-based bit flips.

Such is space. Everything needs to be designed specially for it, especially for trips beyond LEO (where the magnetosphere is still providing you significant protection).
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interesting indeed, thank you!

> It leaves open the possibility that you as the reviewer are actually mistaken, and they possibly have a good reason for doing it that way.

That's a great point. There must be room in this to cover that the person actually had good reasons that the asker doesn't know about. It's a hard needle to thread.
Cost of living is absolutely a thing though. $75k in a major metro area is very tough in 2023. In a very rural area it's passable.

One major issue is CPI doesn't seem to effectively capture cost of living.

In practice, home ownership is effectively unattainable for a majority of household incomes in the US now.
I do not think we are going to reach a consensus on what reality is if you can read through that paper Putin published and not see it as calling to subjugate Ukraine, among other issues with its “facts”.
You are either joking or you really think a RFC to cover such changes is possible? If so, do you have any examples in mind? Cities that stop existing is not a new problem.
I think the point behind this discussion is that people will take external input in very different ways, and if you spent some time with your colleage/teammate hopefully you found a way that works for them. There will definitely be catchers that tell you to fuck off if you come to them and they already know what you're trying to say.

Praise sandwitches for some, straight requests for other, no direct communication in some cases etc.
it needs to be tailored and not a recipe.
I've always hoped they would do this but haven't been able to get them to even when I try. Like, going out of my way to select "Amazon day delivery" nearly a week out, and separate orders within a day of each other still come separately or even on different days.
Own Your Own Government Surveillance Van
OpenAI angles to put ChatGPT in classrooms with special tutor prompts
> I don't want to work with people that communicate this way.

"I don't want to work with people efficiently, and would rather cling to inefficient ways."
"President Barack Obama attempted to raise the cut-off in 2016, aiming for $47,476, but that was ultimately blocked by a federal judge over states' concerns that the new threshold would increase their costs."

That's not why Obama's attempt to raise the cut-off was blocked. The federal law governing this exempts anyone employed in a "bona fide executive, administrative or professsional capacity" and only gives the administrative branch the power to set rules like minimum pay if they're aimed at ensuring exempt employees do actually fall into those categories. The main stated benefit of raising the cut-off, according to the official documents from the Obama administration explaining it, was that it would force employers to pay overtime to people who genuinely were conducting this kind of exempt work. Actually forcing employers to pay overtime to people who weren't carrying out exempt work was described as a more minor secondary benefit. That was a plain and straightforward violation of the letter of the law. Most of the US press just avoided talking about this part of the court rulings at all, presumably for partisan reasons.
Show HN: a Chrome extension to see other users browsing the same websites as you
I was once reading some comments on HN, and someone was talking about a Chrome extension they had made for themselves to write memos/notes on any website they browsed. I thought this was brilliant!

This idea immediately clicked in me, and my first thought was: "Why not make it so others can see your notes as well?". And soon it transformed into something much more complex where users could not only write notes, but also interact directly with other users of the extension through chat, gis, and cursors!

It took me a few weeks, but I was able to read through docs, work on the extension itself (content script and service worker), socket.io, node, build up a website, publish it in the Chrome store.

I've introduced it to my coworkers and a few other devs, and so far, each one of them came up with a different usage for the extension, but loved the idea of adding a social aspect to browsing.

I thought it would be great sharing it with everyone around here and gather feedback from the HN crowd!
It's kind of the next step up from writing your very own IRC bot.

On another tangent, I wish I had known Common Lisp back when I cared about MUD implementation enough to actually pour a few hundred hours into it. Of course you'd face the problem of the extension language, at least in the naïve implementation, being entirely too powerful. Still, it could potentially make it easy to script truly interesting custom object behaviors.

If I were to make a pass at it now, I'd try to structure the game system in such a way that it could power a roguelike or a MUD, since roguelikes have considerably more legs these days.
But if I send that to someone who is in a different timezone, e.g. in America/New_York, will it put the event at 6pm London Time in their calendar, so that they can videocall in at whatever time that is where they are?
You want three pieces of information, a date, a location and a local time. Note that I do not think you actually want a time zone, what if you are not in London and that place gets moved into another timezone?

All our common date time formats are intended to represent a specific point in time and this you just do not have in your case. But it is actually not too uncommon that date and time specifications have a non-trivial structure, think a meeting on every last Friday of the month or a monthly meeting series starting on January 31st or two days before the end of each quarter.

I would guess trying to come up with a standard that covers all the things people could come up with, would become quite complex quickly. So if simple dates, times or instants are not good enough, you are probably on your own, make some structure with all the required things.
> even people making >100K are reporting that they feel like they can't get ahead, let alone people who make less than that.

This law doesn't give most people more money; it incentives employers to restrict work hours to 40 a week. If anything, the output is less take home money.

How many people earning over > $100k are in such a captive position they can't find a job that pays similar per hour but tends to not exceed 40 hours a week?
It's also true that better paying jobs are just more common in higher COL areas so the net effect of the higher pay is diminished by the ridiculous costs of housing etc. in major cities.
LogicMonitor customers hacked in reported ransomware attacks
Thank you!

I am especially excited that they have an import feature.
Problem the feds tend to have is imposing universal rules on an economically diverse country. 50k is good money some places and poverty wages other places. I once joked to my GF that I was going to write a book called, How to be Flat Fucking Broke in San Francisco for only $300/day.

Old idea of mine was for salaried worker payroll taxes and withholding should be based on hours worked. With the employer picking up 100% of the difference.

Example, $100k/year is $50/hour at a standard 40hr/week. If the employer has salaried workers working 50 hours a week. Then the adjusted income subject to taxes is $125k/year. And make the employer pay the difference in taxes and withholding.
There are different kinds of H1B. The academic ones are less problematic.
The DeLorean was a legendary flop, and I mean that in the kindest way possible. The Cybertruck could do much worse than be such a legend. Maybe it will be used in a yet-to-be-announced Back to the Future franchise reboot!
Isn’t that the point of simulation? To gain understanding of something? I think the underlying point is that, if our understanding is so incomplete that we can’t simulate a single atom, how can we trust all of our other physical understanding?
Content you go to has to be good enough to justify your effort. Or advertised to make it good enough.

Content they feed you just has to be enough to keep you from leaving.

The first category is what every "channel" invests in but hates to do so. It's expensive, the creators get expensive, and diva-ish. The second category is what all the execs love to successfully get away with making.

Comic book movies are perfect second-category content.

It's strange that TV / Streaming seems to produce better content high points than movies these days, considering you have to physically go to the initial screening of movies.
$100/year plans? Even a modest phone plan is going to be much more than that. And that $1000 iphone isn't purchased every year.

A $300/400 car payment? You do realize most new cars are well over $20k if not $30k now?

So what, folks should continuously strive for poverty and we're ok with that?
Well in their defense, when they said that they didn't know they could make $70M on it
> since people modify the firmware of mass-manufactured ebikes all the time

They certainly try. Some bikes are better protected than others and part of the certification process is to verify it isn't trivial to hack the bikes. And if this is found to be the case after the fact certification can be withdrawn, retroactively so manufacturers have a lot riding on getting this right.

Note that in plenty of places nobody cares, but in some countries authorities are strict (and getting ever stricter).
So, that would be "I think you did it wrong; of course, I can't claim to know that objectively; anyway, I really liked the way you did it"...
It’s possible someone else just ran across the repository and submitted it to HN, but the author wasn’t ready to share the project yet. I’ve seen that happen several times.
I used to be an ACM member but quit because they are too interested in the problems CS professors have but not enough in the problems practitioners have.

They never draw the connection between the chronic problem of roller-coaster undergraduate admissions and potential students hearing “my job sucks” from practitioners and don’t seem to get that that goes double for women, bipoc and other underrepresented minorities.

I used to like Dr. Dobb’s Journal back in the day (e.g. so many legendary articles like Mike Abrash on graphics or the guy who wrote a FORTRAN interpreter for the i860 that beat Intel’s compiler.). I think things like that were killed off by tech blogs.

I don’t like that the ACM has always had a pro-H1B position and prefer the IEEE Computer Society position of “no position.”. I am all for immigration but H1B is so unfair for the people who get it as well as the rest of us including people taking other paths to the green card. They say startups need it but a startup can’t wait for the red tape and accept the risk of a key employee not winning the lottery. But the likes of Google, IBM and Wipro can spam 1000s of applications and game the system. There has to be a better way.
What does this enable that will be useful to me as a user?
There are some places where I still experience "Things Come to Us". The open library on the internet archive is one. Worldcat is another although I still have to reserve/pick up the items. Using RSS and w3m to read news is another. You can use something like UserLand to run w3m on a phone, and the terminal program is pretty slick.

I've been reading older books on computing on open library, like "The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit" written in 1984 by Sherry Turkle and it's fascinating to see the questions people were asking back them. My favorite quote from that so far is this:

"That question is not what will the computer be like in the future, but instead, what will we be like? What kind of people are we becoming?"
Fair point. I think it comes down to knowing your audience, which is always the most fundamental and important part. Coworkers with lots of rapport can be very direct with each other. Or a neurodivergent person who struggles with social/verbal cues may be much better served with succinct direct feedback (and likewise not feel the sting and demotivation that the initial strategy is intended to avoid)
How: 6PM local time could mean Zulu+6 or Zulu+3 or anything else if local timezone offset changes via legislation. The best way to do it would be to say "X seconds from the time this message was sent"
I'm guessing the show was really an ad for the toy, and the toy manufacturers killed it.
My Facebook feed is about 40% sponsored posts, 30% suggested posts, 30% group posts (usually from very large groups), and then maybe 1% actual friends (and it’s usually just something that they’ve shared or commented on, almost never actual content).

If we could go back to the days when 80% of the stuff you see is from friends with the remaining being ads, I would happily use FB more frequently and I’m sure most of my friends would too. Surely FB would make more money this way.

How did we end up like this?

I think once engagement dipped a bit, they started adding filler content just to keep us scrolling and seeing more ads. But that made things worse so they had to add more filler. Which made things worse. Repeat until it’s all just filler and ads and people don’t use it anymore.
"Forever" relative to how you cancel a subscription to anything that's not in the AppleID Subscriptions manager?

> Heck, even trying to pay for something takes forever. I clicked on an in-app purchase button and then it showed a spinner for 30s before the Apple "touch your finger here to confirm purchase" screen appears. After confirming, nothing seems to happen until a minute later.

That's not normal for most Internet connections and devices.