skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why the gauge is closed at the top. There is no reason you can't fry the frog after reaching boiling temperator.
For sure, they made a lot of really bad choices. VAX9000 is maybe the biggest one for sure.

Using all that money to push PRISM/ALPHA and MICA into workstation and server and large server space would have yields them better results. That said, I'm not sure if DEC could have survived with that strategy either.

What it would have done is make it so that Windows NT ends up not existing or existing in a very, very, very different way, likely in a far worse way. Lets remember that Gates didn't even believe in Virtual Memory.
I remember my father opened up a TV set to fix it in the early 80s. The circuit diagram was affixed to the inside back cover of the set.
It would look like the familiar investigative journalism, studies, surveys, and actual source materials from the companies involved.

And it's important because without due diligence, you get snake oil, Rush Limbaugh, anti-vaxx, and other such bullshit from some rando's wild ravings that people just latch onto out of laziness and familiarity. Could you imagine if court cases were held by such standards? Or if elections could be overturned simply by a president's unsubstantiated assertions?
You need a DNS server and an HTTP server supporting virtual hosts. The list of domains and expected responses by different platforms are listed on Wikipedia [1].

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Portal
This is similar to my approach for finding usernames on most online services these days (not HN). I look for unused strings that are preferrably short, single words (two is not too bad), with no numbers or special characters, and choose one of the best ones more or less at random.

Ideally I'd like to have the username I've been using since the 90s everywhere, but it's a single very common english word. It's always snapped up by some rando who arrived first and proceeds to never do anything with it (sometimes bots, I'm sure). You can't get too attached to the names you really want.
Well things are so complex now that if they provide you with source code, it would be so easy to make 0days.
Jetbrains are offering 65% off Rider personal licenses for 65 hours
You can use otvdm to run 16-bit Windows applications directly under modern Windows. It emulates the CPU and translates all the Win32 API calls.
> if you still need a block body but dislike the mandatory return

You know, in Groovy, the return is always optional... Kotlin copied the lambda syntax from Groovy but didn't copy that for some reason (notice how this makes the language inconsistent, as "some" blocks require a mandatory return, others don't... Rust for example, like Groovy, does not require return in either situation).

But I remember some of my colleagues were shocked by Groovy not requiring a return :D OMG that makes the code so hard to read!!!!! People just tend to not like anything that goes against what they do in their main language even when that doesn't really make any sense.
Consumer PC hardware is the exception though. Android and iOS are more or less exactly that: computers that you may have paid for but that you do not actually own. Ditto Chromebooks.
VPNs will never disappear, they'll just get more expensive. Privacy isn't for the masses, you see. But it'll always be necessary for senators who drop trou in the men's room with their underlings.

In shifts toward totalitarianism, it's normal for slime to rise to the top and to enjoy all the freedoms they stole or killed to deprive from others.

Which, of course, leaves the opportunity for hackers to use the holes that they have to leave in their systems.

Then just give it a generation or so for the dictators and their spawn to fully decay.

2056: Revolution
On twitter: https://twitter.com/AssaadRazzouk/status/1698254716398891010
I have friends who are Indians living outside. They don’t have a UPI account and find it difficult to get around when they visit India for a few weeks. The simplest solution would be an app that can use a credit card to load to a UPI compatible wallet. I’m guessing the market is not big enough for such a use case or the regulations are too onerous.
If you explain why you want the info you might get more inputs. Dig around for "search engine marketshare" and you should get better answers than a tiny poll.
Including nice and handy little drawings of what your scope (if you had access to one) should show you if you put a probe to a particular test point.
I mean, fair. But traffic on my site tends to be extremely spikey like this (whenever the Spurious Correlations page gets posted somewhere), so I am not sure I would ever get an accurate baseline. I don't mind paying a little extra for something that works.

Also the reason I don't track pageviews is psychological: because the metric cannot impact me in any way, I avoid it so that I don't just sit around watching numbers go up.

I am glad you liked the inline notes! I explored a lot of ways to do that before I settled on them. s/o to Matt Stevans for the CSS: https://www.stevans.org/inline-footnotes/

I don't think the bridge needs another plaque. But the good news is that now if someone else is curious and searches the project number, they will find the answer!
I don't hew to the notion that a people can "own" a language.
No it yet but you can make suggestions on their forums
I have that thing etched into my memory to the point that I probably could still fix a beeb without resorting to looking at the schematic.
Depends which valley it chooses to die on
Earlier yesterday, the comment was heavily voted down before myself and another voted it up. It's why there were two comments talking about it being voted down. Did you notice they were both posted within a minute of each other? It's deleted now, but this did happen
> The book’s morality was a sticking point even for the most sympathetic critics, with Edwin Muir lamenting that “his good people are consistently good, his evil figures immovably evil”.

Yeah, I love The Lord of the Rings: read and re-read it as a teen (read it to my daughters when they were young — twice because the younger one was too young the first go-through). But I don't disagree with a lot of the criticism of the book.

I don't know the term that the critics would use, but I tend to say that I like "small" stories in general. A small story is more like the film "The Last Picture Show". A story where the entire world is saved from the embodiment of evil by a handful of determined but powerless good guys is the opposite of what I would call a "small" story.

But I forgive Lord of the Rings because I put it on a different shelf and in another corner. Tolkien wrote perhaps the second best "fable" of all time. It seems strange to me to hold it up to 20th Century literary trends.
Throw a checked exception in there and it all goes to hell all over again.
I wonder if it might be possible to get back to "Nullius in verba" in modern day... Imagine if all the aspects of "settled science" came with instructions for simple at-home or basic-lab setup that could reproduce the result. I know it won't be possible for particle physics, but I bet you most of chemistry and biology could be done without too much fancy equipment.

Even if not really reproducing from scratch at home, you could maybe watch a youtube video of someone using the fancy equipment and showing the result predicted by theory. Lol... maybe TikTok to adapt to the information needs of the new generation.

I guess what I'd like to see is more science communication for the public, but not superficial stuff based on analogies and simplified explanations, but the real stuff. Actual science experiments. Make the settled science accessible to a wider audience + show by example how to run scientific experiments (predict something and try it out empirically to verify your prediction). It's not like I don't trust the scientists, but I want to experience the "high" of doing science, not being told that someone is doing science next door and it's good stuff.
What's the alternative to "I built it, I own it"? Seems like forced open sourcing under threat of government force would be worse than what we have now.

Also Meta these days is open sourcing more ML tools than any other corp, so I'm not sure the claim that "killing ... all open-source tendencies" is supportable.
Transformers as toy vehicles that can turn into robots.
What if the ADA was instead called the “Baby Stroller Accessibility Act”? Or the “Elderly Accessibility Act”?

Or do you want to slap on a remote-controlled exoskeleton on a toddler?
You are right, we also need open protocols. With Usenet or IRC or email (or even Reddit and Twitter until recently), local apps are perfectly fine, because everyone can write their own client if they want. That gives you more freedom than being stuck with a proprietary web app.
> This rather heavily begs the question what do we mean by "freedom"?

Freedom is what 'the bad guys' want, so good people must do everything they can to destroy it.
Beer is great for your gut health and possibly better than probiotics
To be or not to be ... an alcoholic.
Most of them are. Horses came much later.
This conversation perfectly illustrates the sort of bad reasoning common among anti-vaxx, conspiracy theorists etc.
They have little understanding of what constitutes good, credible evidence - Cambridge and Princeton publications are "literally a government's propaganda reserve" while the sources used are "YouTube and blogs such as the kopi.co".
Along with this erroneous standard is poor reasoning - "I read a blog post by thekopi.co on standards of the Singapore police so Singapore is not a police state"; "universities are funded by government hence universities are biased".
When they are faced with overwhelming evidence against their views, instead of changing their views, they refuse to accept the evidence and resort to ad hominem arguments plus abusive language.
If all else fails, they move the conversation to something else (shifting the goal posts) - "this post is not about politics, we shouldn't be talking about politics".

It is impossible to convince someone with reason if the person is simply unreasonable - erroneous standards, bad reasoning, fallacious arguments - but it has been illuminating on how such minds "work".

Carry on hnfong and gmerc, I'd love to add more to the above.
Not all code is enterprise code. For the last 5 years of my professional career I use Python almost exclusively.

>There are too many ways to do the same thing, (...)

Fair, but that's a funny statement to make because Python from the start tried to have just one obvious solution for every problem. Maybe that's just what happens with languages over time.

>not type safe

Nitpick: Python is dynamically typed, but is actually quite type safe as used in practice (i.e. type errors are usually caught in runtime instead of silently doing the wrong thing). YMMV of course.

>and I personally don't know many real python pros, the majority are just using python to play with.

The beautiful thing about Python is that you don't have to be a pro to use it effectively :). And I think this may be a result of your professional bubble - for example I don't know any Java pros, but I have no doubts there are many.
A very welcoming an friendly club and podcast. They're small enough your voicemail has a good chance of being included in the cast. Or if you suggest a game the club plays you may be invited to join the cast conversation.

Also love hearing perspective of folks outside the US about retro gaming. Much like "DOS Nostalgia".
The 300$ all products license saved me a bundle.
Sure. Hiphop also still exists.

However, both genres have origin stories that's deeply intertwined with copyright litigation, enforcement and their development.
The endless battle to banish the most notorious stalker website
Presumably they’re talking about what they’d have to pay to buy stripe.com, not what they already paid to register the two forms of payda?emon.

> In total, I sent several hundred emails that day. Of the plausible responses I received, stripe.com was the clear winner.
Churchill wouldn't be a great leader in current politics. It doesn't work that way. You get 'great leaders' when you lead your nations events, and 99% of the time those are major wars.

Churchill was a marginally important political figure until he basically lucked into premiership in WW2.

Lincoln came to power over a particular issue, resolved that issue in a war and got killed.

Neither of those things are happening. And with Churchill its questionable how good he was other then basically deciding not to surrender.

Even if you look at FDR, he came to power during a great economic downturn but by the end of his second term, if not for WW2, he would be remembered very differently. The economy wasn't doing well. And his initial upswing happened mostly because he came into power when the Great Depression was very much ending.

Ornery times when leaders face long term issues like population, immigration and climate change will simply not produce such leaders. And the leaders who do handle these topics well are almost never actually popular and are not guaranteed to win many reelections.
Is this supposed to be funny and Im not getting it? Can anyone kindly explain what am I missing out?
I was expecting it to be about that one also. Gold Way / Melwood Ave (that goes under the bridge) is a magical spot in Pittsburgh.

Kind of the opposite situation but the article reminded me of the church that could be accessed from the shoulder of the PA Turnpike (until this past year it sounds like).

https://scottbeveridge.blogspot.com/2008/09/church-of-turnpi...

http://www.gribblenation.com/breezewood/church.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Baltimore,_Pennsylvania#Ch...

And from the second article, what you saw from the turnpike:

http://www.gribblenation.com/breezewood/church1.jpg
No. I don't say about real statistic date. I say only about people's *perception* about risk.
The idea is to have a backup scheme.

My experience as an aerospace engineer always having a backup has seeped into my everyday life.
And robots in disguise
Good point, thanks. Updated.
Only if you have internet access. blimpy-mode is a lifesaver when travelling.
> I've yet to hear a counter proposal to drm to protect the artists work

> Instead you'll hear anecdotes or idealistic arguments for why an artist have to gamble with getting money for their work.

This is the current state for nearly every single artist even with DRM, because things like DRM seem to almost exclusively benefit a handful of people at the rest of the world’s expense.
Tricks of the Windows Game Programming Gurus was great too. And tricks of the 3D Game Programming Gurus contains a full 3D engine in C starting from drawing a pixel (a software rasterizer).
All true, I think it’s important to bear in mind he was consciously writing mythology and fairy tales. I’m not a Catholic, but knowing his premise I’m quite happy to judge his work on its merits relative to his objectives.

I’m reminded of the fact some people disliked Battlestar Galactica because it was inspired by Mormonism. That’s another case where I don’t have to share the same beliefs as the authors to appreciate what they created on their own terms.

I think if we only accepted and appreciated work that already aligns with our personal beliefs or ideology, we’d be missing out.
The list of ASNs is public info.
The ASN currently used by a group of people is not. It's location info for those people.

> You are required by internet registry rules to be listed in a public database for everyone to see.

No. The list of all ASNs are.

I think you need to take "information connected to people" more seriously and if this is the way it has to happen, that's not the worst outcome for you.
That's too bad. State tax return forms are the worst. A lot of states don't have the resources to fine-tune their form design, and the instructions are often poorly written.
Pinto is slang for small penis in Brazil. Apparently, the car sold better once rebranded to Corcel (horse).
Unrelated but does anyone remember QuickTime VR? I worked somewhere that had a copy of the software and it was amazing to make a 360 QuickTime file using a Sony Mavica on a tripod.
How is that useful? You only see half of the other window. Why not resize it to fit 33%, or fullscreen them both?

I use xmonad so I'm well used to tiling, I just don't get why you would want to have a view into only half of a window.
Pretty soon, everything will require a proof of identity, either administered by Apple/Google via their mobile device or, ideally, a government provided API that is baked into law as an inalienable right.
Hyperplanation is all you need
Is shat_gpt a bot account that detects ChatGPT posts?
Three excellent mental health lessons from 1 F.R.I.E.N.D.S episode
The only reason this works is they haven't taken you seriously yet. Sooner or later they will just ban all of them at once. Correlating them really isn't hard.
It's also nice for making certain kinds of code more readable and maintainable in a way that isn't perfectly emulated by anything in OOP.

Here's a nice talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfYA0HCWgqQ

and slides: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/pipeline/

This "looser" way of doing things tends to be more popular in the F# community, which isn't terribly fond of those rigid crystalline structures that you get in other corners of the FP community. Though I'd also point out that, even in Haskell, ways of programming that lead to incomprehensible and resistant-to-change code are often viewed as a sign of inexperience by more seasoned developers. There's a lot of truth in this joke: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~robin/class/449/Evolution.htm
I am not sure, because that was some years ago, when my father, who used the watch, was still alive, but in any case the battery lasted at least a year.
> semantic meaning

There's one code point for the letter `a` and another code point for the mathematical symbol `a`, despite being visually identical. I.e. the code points have acquired semantic meaning.

Spy agencies use this so different versions of a document look identical when printed. Thus, they can use this to track down the mole who leaked a sensitive document.
Don’t you think in the long term this would result in better source code and hardened software, similar to what’s happened with the Linux source code?

Right now the NSA just has all the 0days instead.
> I would call iCloud locking an embodiment of this.

Activation locks were required by law to deter armed theft.

> A new report from Reuters found that iPhone theft dropped by 50 percent in London, 40 percent in San Francisco and 25 percent in New York. The drops represent theft activity as measured during the 12 months following Apple’s introduction of the remote locking feature in September 2013 as part of iOS 7.

With iOS 8, Apple made its so-called said “kill switch” active by default, in accordance with California regulation, and that should help the rates of theft continue to trend downwards.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/11/apples-activation-lock-lea...
They're also brand new and at some undetermined part of the sigmoid curve. Trying to predict where you are on the curve while in the middle of a sigmoid is a fools errand, the best you can do is make random predictions and hope you are accidentally correct so you can become a pundit later
> ...instead you decide that you’re somehow entitled to more of his lifetime dedicated to the features important to you personally.

Please don't put words in my mouth. It's insulting, rude, and also arrogant.

Nowhere have I suggested that I am entitled to anything. Nowhere have I requested multiple features. You're writing as if I'm in this developer's issue tracker making demands. I'm not. We're both in a thread on a forum separate from Calibre's development and maintenance where the topic of discussion is Calibre's strengths and shortcomings.

I did imply that not providing an off-switch for tangential complexity in software is an arrogant design decision. I stand by that opinion.
This is the second time I've seen "understated" (mis)used that way recently. I am afraid this may be a trend, like the appearance in the world of "irregardless," which is becoming an accepted word, or the use of "literally," which used to mean, er, "literally," and now can be acceptably used in situations where it is figurative. Or the use of "there's" when there are more than one entity being referred to and "there're" would have been used in the good old days (which I remember because I'm 67).
> The book’s morality was a sticking point even for the most sympathetic critics, with Edwin Muir lamenting that “his good people are consistently good, his evil figures immovably evil”.

Can we please fucking stop pretending that every work of fiction must be about several factions in shades of grey fighting one another in a universe where Objective Good and Evil aren't a thing?
Thanks dang! I appreciate your deep dig and kind words. I spend a lot of time on each project (as you saw...) so I can't promise anything soon, but happy to be unbanned.

I think I might have banned my site too if the same simple 10-year-old page was linked to 85 times, so I get it!
Or teach people what it actually means. But i agree, it is one of those words who's uses in Modern English make me grind my teeth - and i'm not all that fussy.
It is all about context.

When I’m thinking about physical windows, I don’t think at all about Microsoft.

I saw something the other day that the word “run” has like 600 different definitions, and yet we are able to understand it just fine based on context. When someone runs for office, I don’t think about them physically running. Same with my server running my application. My brain doesn’t get confused because my computer doesn’t have legs!
Yes, this is one of those things that banks will sell as an add-on because capitalism. Credit unions will either just not have their act together on it (i.e. they contract with a bad service provider) or will have all kinds of useful stuff like this for free.

I really want a general-membership credit union with stellar technology, but I haven't found one yet. Does your credit union by chance offer open membership?
>Part of the magic is how bonkers frugal the Epson SoC (PN S1C88349)

Would it blow your mind that such ultra-frugal 8-bit parts have been available for about 30 years now?

Those Seiko-Epson chips, alongside with EM-Swatch, and OKI-Casio chips, were used in all kinds of timekeeping, calculator, thermometers, and all kinds of cheap low-power widgets with segment LCD displays that need to run years on a single button cell.

I have a calculator and a digital fever thermometer(the stick-type ones for the armpit or anus) that's over 15 years old, also using on one of those Seiko-Epson chips and it's still running on the same 1.5v button-cell that it came with, which is mind blowing when you factor in the charge decay of the lithium cell over time.
I use that as well but it's better as a general text editor. It's unwieldy if you have a lot of notes and you can't attach dates/times/reminders.