skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We now have members of Congress calling for civil war, and a series of trials that are likely to be fodder for more attacks. I would not be surprised if we see another attack like Oklahoma City '95.
Ok, you're a doomer and a prepper, no point in having a discussion you're not interested in
Tech generally disappears (though it never/rarely really does completely) either because it proves not viable/economic, or it's superseded. Though sometime it's because of shifts in fashion, or legal/moral restrictions.

Hyped then didn't take-off: persistent ram (mram, Feram, PCram etc).

Superseded: Incandescent lightbulbs, gas mantle tech, CRT display tech, vinyl, cassette and especially CD/DVD tech, etc.

Fashion: maybe teasmades (alarm clocks that brew tea), I'm sure there are better examples.

Legal/moral/health restrictions: maybe 'consumer' radioactive tech, radium clocks etc.
Why should they control the behavior of people in their congregation? I associate controlling the members of your own community with cults.
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Sure but in terms of build quality does any laptop compare with a MacBook?

Real question: Do you truly think the XPS is comparable to the Framework? I’ve no experience with the Framework so genuinely curious. OP seems less than impressed?
Interesting project, though I'd rather just use Obj-C. I guess if you wanna use it in something like JavaScript or Lua it'd make sense to have C as a bindi g layer.

> https://gamepipeline.org/betray.html

Interesting, I've been using a similar project for Nim lately: https://github.com/treeform/windy

It's surprising how simple Obj-C interaction is compared to Java JNI or something. Here's the Obj-C interop for Windy:

- macdefs: https://github.com/treeform/windy/blob/master/src/windy/plat...
- macro shims for Obj-C messages: https://github.com/treeform/windy/blob/master/src/windy/plat...
Yeah, I agree. They didn't know it at the time but .Net and C# (their answer to java) would take over everything they did.
I’m pretty sure it does give you read-availability, just not write availability?

I could be wrong but I think it’s: To serve a read from a replica in region X, where the write replica is in region Y s.t. there is a partition between X and Y, I’m pretty sure in the normal case X does not need to wait for Y to tell it to let the read go. Instead Y locks X on-write to implement consistency. So in the case of a partition X still does not wait for Y to execute a read, but writes become unavailable.
…or the nature of the question and corpus?
> but I fear what kind of ads Google while shove through if they ever get a dominant market share in desktop OSs

Google is the dominant mobile OS and doesn't cram ads into basic functionality of the device. You won't see ads when opening the app launcher or settings.

On Windows 11, you can see ads if you open the start bar.
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I don't think most people have claimed they will commit a crime in the future. Not necessarily for climate protests, but in many cases in the US we do this same thing too.

https://www.bostoncriminaldefenselawyers.com/threat-to-commi...

https://ravellawfirm.com/blog/can-someone-go-to-jail-for-thr...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/373
It's more of a vilifying caricature than an actual "interpretation of Zionism." Even the most right-wing branch of Zionism, revisionist Zionism, which indeed advocated for the entire biblical territory of Israel in the past, simultaneously believed in full and equal rights for its Arab/Palestinian citizens, as outlined by its founder, Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

Zionism at its core is the belief that the Jewish people have the right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. This is precisely what "anti-Zionism" opposes. Middle Eastern/Arab "anti-Zionists" advocate for exactly what you mentioned in your second paragraph. Additionally, depending on their political affiliation, some may seek the subjugation, expulsion, or harm of the Jewish population in Israel/Palestine. The percentage of Palestinians advocating for a one-state solution with equal rights for all is at most 33%, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR).

Your "left-leaning" friends may not have expressed anything like that and might simply want to express solidarity with the perceived "weaker" side. However, by proclaiming to be "anti-Zionist," they are undoubtedly associating themselves with some aspects of hardcore Palestinian nationalism. It's puzzling to me how this is compatible with traditional left-leaning stances and why any self-described left-leaning person would want to be associated with that, except due to extreme ignorance about the meaning of the words and the actual situation on the ground.
Missing semicolon.

FRED=barney; set | grep FRED

Also there is no need for grep, nevermind grep -F (fgrep), if using printenv.

FRED=barney printenv FRED

Without semicolon

sh -c 'FRED=barney set|grep FRED'

echo 'FRED=barney set|grep ^FRED'|sh
Every time I log into windows and that “Lets finish setting up your computer” wizard starts, I feel abused, betrayed, and forced into whatever bullshit Microsoft wants to shove down my throat.

It sucks.
I just looked at the preorder form for their Framework Laptop 16 DIY Edition (AMD Ryzen™ 7040 Series), and… oh, wow, they’re actually getting somewhere with genuine customisability beyond the usual components. Things like the keyboard row: as well as choosing the keyboard layout and style, which is not rare (though blank caps is seldom an option!), you can then choose what to fill the remaining space with: two spacers (probably one on each side to centre-align the keyboard, but you could left-align it, and I suppose that right-aligning would work too), of one of four colours or colour-shifting or LED matrix, or else a numpad, or else a macro pad (6×4 clear keys with RGB backlight—three more keys than the numpad which has three double-sized keys).

And finally an optional discrete graphics card. (And not NVIDIA, at that.)

Interesting stuff. I’ll pay definite attention to their products when seeking my next laptop.

Other things I’d like: option of touch/stylus support on the screen; option of more keyboard buttons, like the extra four my ASUS Zephyrus G15 has (dedicated volume-up/volume-down/mic-mute/something-else buttons is so good and I mildly dread going back to something without this); and cluster the function row please! (that is: Esc, gap, F1–F4, gap, F5–F8, gap, F9–F12, preferable gap, Delete). I’d also prefer taller arrow keys, extending lower than the rest of the keyboard, but understand that the basic modular design is incompatible with that. And maybe better speaker arrangements… 180° or more screen hinge… yeah, I suppose I could keep on going, it’s definitely still some way off my ideal laptop, but it’s looking pretty good.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that WDS is absolutely terrible and they're going to push that along with XPS.
Definitely not for work, no. For gaming I built a wooden support so that my hands come up at a 23 angle, and the screen is elevated (and there's great air flow).

But yes when I worked in the office and used a laptop, I plugged it into a dock to split out to screens and connect to the network. (At home I just use a desktop that has all those ports and a dozen to spare!) Never found the need to plug my phone in at work, but I get it if you need all those ports - it makes the modularity a pretty weak selling point for you!
I'd consider it if there was Linux and a 17 inch screen.
> Usually if you can do that, the bug's as good as solved

Which is why you should try hard to do it :)
A lot of people... do other things instead.

Maybe the worst is trying to think up a solution.

My book about debugging would be called "Stop Thinking and Start Looking!", if I wrote it.
Intriguing specs, but I've not seen anything about the company before. Found a Reddit post that suggests their ODM is Tongfang, but I don't have a way to confirm that. Barrel jack charger is disappointing and I hope the giant 3D logo on the lid can be removed easily.
I worked at Chick-Fil-A for a year or so in high school. One of the ones in a free standing building in the middle of a parking lot of a much larger shopping center- bordering the interstate. A group of 6-7 of us, INCLUDING the General Manager, were big gamers.

At the time, Call of Duty releases were all the rage. The night of the Modern Warfare 2 release, we all closed up at 10pm, invited a few of our friends, and brought in our monitors (mostly 40inch TVs) and Xboxes. We set them all up on the Chick-Fil-A tables and booths and made several batches of Chick-fil-A nuggets and fries. We played 6v6 from about 11:00pm - 4:00am.

I remember thinking how ridiculous it must have looked from the interstate to see a Chick-Fil-A lit up with 12 screens inside through those translucent shades at 2:00 in the morning on a weekday.

That is one of the greater memories of my childhood. It delights me just to think about it!
That Office Space scene deeply resonated with the entire industry.
Humana, Aetna, Molina decline to renew relationships after a Bloomberg Businessweek investigation revealed allegations of abuse.
Gaia had a hyperinflation problem because they let people purchase gold generators with real money. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/hyperinflation-in-gaia...
Forensic analysis of the microbiome of phones and shoes
Qt Widgets, unless you need a really quick turnaround time. Just beware the commercial license, apparently it can't be used with FOSS.
I had the exact same problem as you describe for a couple of weeks, minus the pihole. It's magically fixed now.
A good human reader doesn't read as much as he dramatises the book. This conveys ideas and feelings more than what is just written. He takes liberties doing that which makes the narration interesting. I don't know if that's possible in the same way with an AI voice. I read to my kids often and try to dramatise the books in a similar way.

The libre vox project which is contributer driven audio books is, I think, a more valuable contribution to human culture than AI generated audio files
You can take infrared photos currently of someone's house and use that in court
Sounds like the joke about a man with one watch always being sure about what time it is, but a man with two being continuously in doubt.
Not in the past week for me, but I have a M1 MacBook Air that started draining precipitously almost out of nowhere. The OS says the battery is healthy but it drains faster and requires more frequent charging than it did before.
Who is Truist and how can they have so many people that cutting them could save $300M?!?!?
Chick-Fil-A LAN Party
Just saw the post about LAN parties from a few days ago and thought this story might be unique enough to share.

I worked at Chick-Fil-A for a year or so in high school. One of the ones in a free standing building in the middle of a much larger shopping center parking lot- bordering the interstate. A group of 6-7 of us employees, INCLUDING the General Manager, were big gamers.

At the time, Call of Duty releases were all the rage. The night of the Modern Warfare 2 release, we all closed up at 10pm, invited a few of our friends, and brought in our monitors (mostly 40inch TVs) and Xboxes. We set them all up on the Chick-Fil-A tables and booths and made several batches of Chick-fil-A nuggets and fries. We played 6v6 from about 11:00pm - 4:00am.

I remember thinking how ridiculous it must have looked from the interstate to see a Chick-Fil-A lit up with 12 big screens inside through those translucent shades at 2:00 in the morning on a weekday.

That is one of the greater memories of my childhood. It delights me just to think about it!
I'm not sure I understand the advantage here other than avoiding a few `.m` files?

The maintainers will still need to know ObjC to understand the Cocoa calls, and this presumably removes a lot of the ObjC niceties in the process.

And now you have an extra layer to maintain, as well as resource allocations to maintain, that ARC would take care for you. Is all the overhead worth it, over just learning to put a few square brackets around the place?

The blog does mention stuff like bindings to other languages, but since ObjC is just C, that's no easier or harder really than before.
Nothing, they still use Airtable. They just do their best to pair down the number of users/features or whatever Airtable bills by. They also use Softr on top of Airtable, but I don't think that mitigates cost at all.
That's how I feel (also about smartphones), and then I try to launch any recent game and it runs at 42 FPS and I'm thinking: that's a nice number, but a better GPU would be nicer... Everything else works perfectly fine.

And so I was eyeing the Framework 16 announcement, but I'm not sure I'll be happy with the ports situation (especially when a Framework costs ~double what I'd otherwise spend). Luckily, Beyond All Reason (RTS) at my skill level is still playable even at the 10~20 fps that I get near the end of a game.
The apple silicon laptops don't use the butterfly keyboard, they reverted that change.
I wonder if copper-based could be even more effective
The author is not answering questions anymore so here's a link to the 2014 expose https://newrepublic.com/article/119350/amicus-app-how-tech-i....

> In plain English, this roughly amounted to saying: I, [Seth Bannon], have lost most of your money and my employees due to a combination of incompetence and evasiveness. I have no prospect of raising more capital, and my only chance of generating new revenue is a product that’s still unproven. Nonetheless, I’d like your blessing to keep going. It was preposterous pitch. But something strange happened after he made it: The investors more or less acceded. They weren’t going to kick in more money, but neither would they force Bannon out.

> ... No surprise, then, that at least one investor, Dave McClure of a Y Combinator-like accelerator called 500 Startups, was practically blasé in response to Bannon’s email. “[I]f you need an office in NYC to work out of, we probably have some extra space,” McClure wrote, cc’ing the group. McClure said he hoped Bannon had “enough trust / bandwidth / support to keep rolling.”

My take is that the apology in the OP is performative. The lessons are weak, both in an ethical sense and a business sense. But the words are a good shroud for their failures; it's a "learning experience" that they used to pursue a career in venture capital.
As someone that started in vb6 and then php in 2001, this.
Aeration is a solution but not everyone can wear sandals at all times
I don't think your comment fairly represents the situation.

Bash is not _just_ a scripting language, it's also (and primarily) a shell.

That means it needs to be good at both interactive REPL-style usage _and_ at simple scripting.

Being a shell implies that it has to be exceptionally succinct and flexible about executing programs and manipulating environment variables.

In that light, your comparison with Python and Perl don't make much sense.

Would you enjoy replacing:

$ cd /tmp
$ ls -l

with:

$ os.chdir('/tmp')
$ subprocess.run(['ls', '-l'])

I guess not.

Shells will always be a different breed of languages. Bash is maybe not the best at what it could be, but it's not the end of the world either.

The example in the article is a bit silly to be honest. I think the result is kind of obvious for anyone half bash litterate.
Hacking the Book8088 for better accuracy
> By contrast, software is something which has a physical location (on this hard disk), it was created at a certain point, and will likely one day cease to exist (when the last copy is destroyed).

"Software" is a broad term, but it could certainly be taken to mean something more abstract than that. Sometimes a program written for a different CPU architecture, or not written for any CPU at all, is still recognisably "the same" program. Euclid's algorithm might well be considered "software", but it's very much the same kind of thing as a mathematical function.
Looks like some kind of banking Corp, making a strong statement to avoid looking like Silicon Valley bank and others that busted suddenly
You have no proof and it's not cool
Because Mars will be more or less of a dystopia?
I worked for a lab that did IR research 20 years ago, so I don't know if this is still the case. But at the time, the IR sensors were made with a rare mineral only available in a remote region of Russia.

At the time (late 90s) I bought (on behalf of my employer) a FLIR camera that had a 512x512 sensor for $70k. I remember the cheapest camera we could find was 15k, it had almost no optics and the sensor was noisy as all get out.

I have a thermal inspection workstation (FLIR) that cost about $2700 and has a 320x240 sensor.

So there really has been a cost reduction. It's just more linear than exponential. A few years back, I got a camera for a friend which had a 90x90 sensor, and I think it cost $165 if memory serves. When I worked at that lab, it was inconceivable that a normal person would ever own an IR camera. They were the exclusive domain of researchers, large corporations, and law enforcement. I have 5 or so.

Also, the average person doesn't understand the electromagnetic spectrum, or concepts like emissivity or reflection. They think they're seeing an accurate temperature from their device, not understanding that every material they measure has its own k value.

** BTW: I tried to research this mineral/element and could not find any documentation on it. If you happen to know its name, or if I'm completely off base and its not used anymore, I'd love to know about it.
No judgements on you, but frankly you're not the sort of person who builds a billion dollar company to begin with. Neither am I. I know damned well we'd both cash in our chips after 10s of millions and ride off into the sunset.

Those who build billion dollar companies do so for more than money.
The issue is there’s no engineering process around it, even in a shitty organization where the “engineering” is garbage.

One place I helped out at had a pretty awesome access app for doing some business functions. Way better than the Oracle whatever they failed to replace it with.

The problem was, nobody was willing to claim ownership. The business guy who wrote it was long gone, and IT would not accept an Access app.
Email rendering: Ensuring consistent email display across clients
The question is, how big is the smallest triangle, not how big is the biggest triangle.
It's really trivial to use ObjC from any language with a CFFI. and in turn really trivial to expose Swift to ObjC as well, so to other languages.

Just some examples of bindings:

Python https://pypi.org/project/pyobjc/
Rust https://docs.rs/objc/latest/objc/
C# https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/ios/get-started/ob...
Javascript https://www.npmjs.com/package/objc
It is a large bank (20 billion in revenue) with branches primarily located in Southern US states. It is the result of a merger between BB&T and SunTrust in 2019.
Is it just me that’s bothered by people calling llama open source?

It has a restrictive license.
The NoSQL movement overstated how important the A in CAP was. Relatively few systems need _all_ nodes to be available, compared to those that benefit from strong consistency, especially those that live primarily in datacenters/the cloud.

But this strict notion of Availability (all nodes must be available), was conflated with being available at all, leading to CP systems being disfavored.

When we introduced Fauna, it took quite some time (and a Jepsen report) to convince others that building a CP system without exotic hardware was possible, and that in practice, access to multi-region strongly consistent replication is a far better availability experience than the typical single region deployment topology which is still most common today.
The doors can always open out they just lock to not allow in. In a fire nobody needs a key to leave, but they might need a key to get back in.
In LibreOffice applications there are huge menus and toolbars that enumerate all of the options available to me. A throwback to a simpler time.

And yet, I can never find the option that does $SIMPLE_TASK that I want to do right now.

IMO, the single best thing a UI designer could do for all of these applications is add a search box to quickly take me to the commands or dialogues I need to use. But yes, keep the menus, please.
This looks excellent! I really like the design and I fully agree with most of the problems you’re trying to solve.

The biggest issue with code review tools is that we’re mostly all using the same one (GitHub) with no customization. We should care as much about our choice here as we do about choosing our editors/IDEs.

I’m in the same space (CodeApprove.com) and if you ever want to chat my email is in my bio.
You say was but winforms is still supported in VS2022 and is probably my go-to if I need to hack together a small windows program.
Sam might have a point, but every boss who spouted the same stuff has always

1) Underpay me despite high CoL at every twist and turn

2) Demanded ungodly overtime without providing thanks

3) Made me medical/dental appointments which caused me to get hospitalized, and then tried to fire me when I was treated for sepsis (from an dental abscess).
Obligatory shameless plug of https://pinout.xyz where I’ve been maintaining an interactive Raspberry Pi SBC pinout for some years, and the newer https://pico.pinout.xyz where I’ve tried to do the same for the Raspberry Pi Pico board. The latter also became a command-line pinout via the Python package “picopins”

I feel- and of course I’m biased- that if anything is worth bringing to the table for device pinouts it’s interactivity and accessibility. The latter, in particular, is lost in static images. I really leaned into this with the Pico Pinout, including everything from visual accessibility accommodations (avoiding low contrast text background colours), to markup for screen readers to the ability to turn off labels and reduce noise. I’m still unsure if I actually achieved my goal, but it’s been fun.
> Missing semicolon.

It's not missing. PP is making a point about "single-command variables."
Here's a map of their offices/branches:

https://www.scrapehero.com/store/wp-content/uploads/maps/Tru...
> Or grab the URLs and titles of all tabs in all windows that match a specific domain, close them, and then reopen them together in a brand new window

That sounds pretty useful! any chance that script is on gist.github.com or elsewhere?
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Beautiful case of form over function. Why in the world would you do this as white on black? That's not even comfortable to read.
Posts like these make me so happy I cut all Google services out of my life. It really is an evil, unreliable company.
> A fix I would consider is to have the inputs more thoroughly checked for correctness before passing them on to the ATC system.

Thoroughly checking of the inputs as far as possible should be a given, but in this case, the inputs were correct: while the use of duplicate identifiers is considerably less than ideal, the constraints on where that was permitted meant that there was one deterministically unambiguous parsing of the flight plan, as demonstrated in the article. The proximate cause of the problem was not in the inputs, but how they were processed by the ATC system.

For the same reason, multiple implementations of the software would only have helped if a majority of the teams understood this issue and got it right. I recall a fairly influential paper in the '90s (IIRC) in which multiple independent implementations of a requirements specification were compared, and the finding was that the errors were quite strongly correlated - i.e. there was a tendency for the teams to make the same mistakes as each other.