skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a relevant article to me since I also make 20yo (or older) computers run legacy stuff ... but not for fun.

Factories and labs frequently have machines or instruments which are controlled by a computer. They are run off control cards which are inserted into ISA or PCI slots in the computer and are commanded by the legacy software through old, proprietary drivers. Examples are cards from National Instruments or Galil. Such equipment can cost tens of thousands of dollars (or more) when new. Also, decades-old software written by long-gone engineers at the factory still runs on the equipment, and nobody understands how the stuff works nowadays. Therefore, there is plenty of incentive to keep the old systems running and running and running.

Unfortunately, old computers sometimes break. That's where I come in -- I do a side consulting business with a colleague where we refurbish the old computers -- replace parts as necessary, install old versions of the O/S, replace mechanical hard drives with SSDs, and do whatever else is needed to keep the computers running for the next few decades.

I know we're not alone out there since we're aware of other small businesses which provide a similar service. It's an important thing since -- as many point out here -- modern software companies don't make backwards compatibility a priority, but factories and labs have equipment which need to run for decades, so the computers controlling them also need to run for decades.
You can pull in emails from your old gmail via imap into your new account. Within roughly 5 years from 2010 to 2015 I switched over from an iCloud account and gmail to a custom domain and server. In that time, almost all logins were transferred. 5 years is a long time, though.
Checksums are GPG-signed. This helps because it's easier to be secure (not a protocol) and you can accept third-party mirrors.
Like the linked article says,

> Mobile devices were originally designed for consumption

... and will always be consumption devices.

A television isn't a substitute for your laptop either.
I remember hearing about that too; you're probably right. That would neatly explain why trivial amounts of soy flour are being added for no apparent reason.
Previously:

World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years - 203 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102578

The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon - 98 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500239

World’s Oldest Torrent Is Still Being Shared After 4,419 Days - 107 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10962253
I guessed it had something to do with the consulting firm but as I couldn't figure out what they had to do with the popularity of ultra-processed food, I thought it might have referred to something else.
So, that's not really IPFS support in cURL. It is just a support for IPFS' urls as it actually consists in rewriting them to use a HTTP gateway, which will actually do all the IPFS work.

I understand that implementing the IPFS protocol in a tool such as cURL does not make sense. But I don't really see the point of a fake support like this.
> If a reseller buys the ticket, and then sells it again to the end user, Ticketmaster gets paid twice.

Definitively not if it happens like this article describes, with what the scalper selling being a ticketmaster account.
The point being made is that the title makes it sound like an observation has occurred that hasn’t.
At the end of the article the author seems resigned and that it seems impossible to bring this to the end user. I don't understand why? Why can't this be a keyboard that I can switch to, like I'm able to switch from Samsung keyboard to Google keyboard? Or like an accessibility app?
I just started reading it last night, really enjoying it
non crap link:

http://farside.link/twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/17057...
I’ve heard of McKinsey, despise them and the term still made no sense completely out of the blue and out of context.

Maybe McKinseyfication would have been better…
There's nothing really standard, every environment will have its own APIs. WASI is not going to run in a web browser without additional modules.

If system calls are not required, code can be compiled to `wasm32-freestanding`. That works everywhere, as it ensures that there are no dependencies on external APIs.

When specifically targeting WASI, the code should be compiled to `wasm32-wasi`. That can be done using `clang`, with the addition of a specific libc and the `libclang_rt.builtins-wasm32.a` file.

But the easiest and probably most common way is to use `zig cc`, followed by `-target wasm32-wasi` or `-target wasm32-freestanding`.

For the web, or any environment with Javascript around, Emscripten remains by far the easiest way to go, since it provides a really amazing POSIX emulation.
> The "something" is a consolidation of federal power.

Ok but I still don't understand what power are you consolidating here.

If the federal government decided to issue an ID card valid for all citizens, what's the issue?

You already have something that work that way and it's the passport.

Now, I know that having a passport is not mandatory but if tomorrow the US government decided to issue passports, for free, to all citizens, would that be an issue?
Hadn't heard of McKinsey. Genuinely thought it was a weird way to reference President McKinley in the same way you might hear "Reaganomics". I was waiting to hear how a long dead president was responsible for the food chain issues. :P

Edit: Added missing word.
> It's not that people are dumb

Are you sure?

- Almond Milk - Over 1,000 years (Middle Ages)

- Soy Milk - Over 2,000 years (China)

- Rice Milk - Centuries (Asia)

- Coconut Milk - Millennia (Southeast Asia)

- Oat Milk - Centuries (Nordic countries)

- Hemp Milk - Late 20th and 21st century

- Cashew Milk - Late 20th century onwards

- Poppy Seed Milk - Centuries (Eastern Europe)

- Tigernut Milk - Ancient Egypt to present (Spain)

- Walnut Milk - Consumed for centuries
How do you distribute the GPG keys?
Interesting. With no air conduction, a down sleeping bag would have excellent insulation, as long as the down doesn't rely on some aspect of air in order to loft.

I'll have to try it sometime. ("Hello, Elon?")
> Soy milk tastes like s*t, as does soy meat, [...]

I do believe the stuff you had in Romania at the time did.

But what is your base of comparison? I invite you to sample the produce a supermarket in a bigger German city has today in plant-based dairy/meat alternatives (soy and other). And then re-visit your opinion on this matter -- after bringing your taste bud's experience up to date, so to speak. ;)

> in fact one of the main reasons we, Romanians, deposed Ceausescu back in the day was because his technocrats had tried to impose on us to eat soy-based salami [...]

Yes, that surely was one of the worst things this "soy-dictator" and his henchmen did.

You, sir, must be joking. For if you don't, you do not know the the recent history of your peoples well.
In the languages where all variables are global variables, they are.
But a piano-roll (presumably of type she discovered in music boxes) is
quite ingenious solution for synchronised key sequences, for the
technology of the time. Kinda similar analogical transfer going on for
the Jacquard loom as early "program storage".
Still prefer the size and shape of the 11 Pro to my 13 Pro. The only reason I upgraded was because Verizon gave it to me during a 5G upgrade promotion. 5G is really nice for use as a hotspot, but otherwise, I would probably still have the 11 Pro (which is the first iPhone that had an acceptable camera in my opinion).
Boost.Async C++ library soliciting reviews from users/experts ahead of inclusion
How can I try your live endpoint?
It’s a private contact management app. Community leaders around the world have been using it since 2012 to initiate mass messages to their congregation etc. How are they supposed to do that? We never sent their contact information to any servers.
No. I'm arguing that it's Google's deliberate choice, and we should be angry about that.

Whether or not a trillion-dollar company with 170 000 employees can afford to maintain two views for a product with 2 billion MAU or make it not suck, now that is really irrelevant.
I think the disconnect here is that people don't consider that almost any action (process) applied to food post-harvest is 'processing' and it is difficult to draw meaningful distinctions between healthy and unhealthy foods based on the 'processed' description.

If you buy pre-cooked chicken breast, for instance, that's 'processed' in at least three ways: it was cut up, it was seasoned (including with salt, which is a preservative,) and it was cooked. Is that bad for you? Maybe, if they add too much salt. Otherwise, it is probably indistinguishable from the chicken breast you might cook at home.

Pasteurization reduces food waste, but it also improves food safety. Are you better off without 'processed' (i.e., pasteurized) eggs if you're making something like Caesar dressing? I'd rather have the 'processed' eggs.

I try not to eat Twinkies, not because they are 'processed' (home-made, scratch-made cake is also 'processed',) but because they contain a lot of sugar and high level of saturated fat. Personally, I try to avoid sugar as much as possible, and if I'm consuming something with saturated fat, like beef, I want to have a meaningful amount of protein.

*Edit*

Before anybody WELL, ACKSHUALLYS my definition of processed here, please refer to page 5 of this[0] document from the US Federal Government which includes the USDA definition of processed food:

A processed food is “any food other than a raw agricultural commodity, including any raw agricultural commodity that has been subject to washing, cleaning, milling, cutting, chopping, heating, pasteurizing, blanching, cooking, canning, freezing, curing, dehydrating, mixing, packaging, or other procedures that alter the food from its natural state” (Dwyer et al. 2012).

Also note their (US Aid) definition of 'Ultra Processed Food':

Ultra-processed foodstuffs are marked by the addition of other ingredients (e.g., preservatives, flavors, nutrients, or other additives or substances, such as salt, sugars, and fats) (Dwyer et al. 2012; Martínez Steele et al. 2016; Monteiro et al. 2019).

So, if I take tomatoes, add even a minimal amount of salt and basil, and can them, that's an 'ultra processed food'. This is what the fancy San Marzano tomato sauce you buy at Whole Foods is. If you think canned tomatoes are fundamentally unhealthy in some way, I cannot help you.

0 - https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00ZH5N.pdf
Source? I don’t recall this being a claim, at least not in the strongest claim of “100% stays in the muscle for all patients.”
I suspect OP employer didn't secure its IMAP configuration (no TLS) and simply relied on HTTPS in front of the webmail ?
There are multiple levels of food processing.

Nova defines 4 groups (https://world.openfoodfacts.org/nova):

1. Unprocessed or minimally processed foods

2. Processed culinary ingredients

3. Processed foods

4. Ultra-processed foods

Research shows that ultra processed foods are usually linked with worse health outcomes. That doesn't mean that every single ultra processed food is bad, but it's enough to be cautious about it. It's better to buy minimally processed food, and cook it.
Hopefully the firmware development won't stall like it was with v4.

Rp2040 is a decent choice for relatively slow speed digital bus multi-tool, but the USB1.1 speeds will be somewhat limiting (IIRC I achieved somewhere around 700-800KB/s of serial data throughput). PIO is also flexible enough for some almost standard-but-nonstandard digital buses (for example, I used it to interface with 12-bit SPI-like interface- not many MCUs support word-widths that are not multiple of 8 for their hardware SPI interfaces).
Realistically, any small amount of wealth that is available to a citizen will not grow significantly relative to any other comparable amount, since there is no room for it to grow. So don't worry about this devouring business.

But other than that, accumulated wealth and inheritance is going to play much bigger role than it was last century, which historically was a fluke.

Better save some money so you can get your children a place to live of their own.
First time heard of this and got the intention, but funny it's just the nerd's favorite McKinsey and not the whole industry, where there are about -1 other names & firms.
That's why semiconductor engineering is current "rocket science"
> FYI if you're not Australian ..... box jellyfish is one of the most deadly creatures on earth.

..And sounding even worse now.

You can swim fairly safely outside of Summer/Autumn though advisable to still wear a stinger suit to minimise the risk. And salties are pretty rare even as far north as Cairns.

I spent a few fantastic days snorkling off the beach at Fitzroy Island one December and turns out I should have been more concerned about sharks after a marine researcher was bitten recently at the spot I was casually swimming around.
This will probably fly poorly, but:

Have a "handicap day". Use duct tape and take people's ability to use fingers or eyes away temporarily, then make them use the software. Give them black and white (Or cyan and white etc) monitors (might be difficult to arrange). Set up a router that introduces high jiitter and 500ms delay to every packet that passes through it, make them use your sites through that.

Its really hard to imagine these limitations when one has never experienced them.
Maybe you need to give the app more permissions?
...and where did the money for AlphaGo and ChatGPT come from again?
My impression is that this was made by the mentioned "homeless activists" to maximize the chance that it goes viral by sounding like a tone-deaf and callous company website, which would increase the chance of social change. Yet I wonder if this will just help their business.
This gets at where I disagree with Varoufakis (and Zuboff). The rent-seeking dystopia we have is not something "beyond" capitalism, unless one conflates capitalism with free markets - which is and always has been a mistake. The distinguishing feature of capitalism is in the name: a disproportionate favor given to capital. This is especially evident in tax laws, but also IP law, labor law, etc. As Piketty points out, this inevitably leads to pervasive rent-seeking. That's not a "beyond"; it's the (mostly) stable end state once such a system is put in place. It's actually injurious to free markets, and nobody should hate it more than those seeking to enter a market with a genuinely innovative idea. Unfortunately, there are more people seeking to be favored servants than independent people.
looks cool. but why name it aicolor? instead of aicolorizer or something?
https://archive.ph/F9tu0
Because the text editing process is baked in the base UI classes on Android (TextView), you cannot change it with an app. OEM manufacturers sometimes do because they ship different class code with their OS.
This... This is capitalism. Consolidation of big companies ruling their fiefdoms? That was what capitalism was literally doing until the various consumer and worker protections were slowly and painfully developed.

Yes, painfully. See, for example, Battle of Blair Mountain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
It's why I find it insulting Apple still sells brand new 1000 Euro phones with 60Hz displays when even 200 Euro Androids have 120Hz OLEDs at this point. That's gotta be the biggest scam of the year. Same with USB 2.0 on a thousand Euro phone. That's just taking the mickey.
> I don't know why people keep saying this.

Does it occur to you that maybe people keep saying this because that's the truth?

I think it suffices to say that at least for the COVID round in the US, the "money printing" was in the form of the Fed buying US treasuries and the US government paying out trillions of dollars to normal people in the form of COVID stimulus checks. Yes, a significant part of it directly went to normal people, and it wasn't in the form of commercial banks lending money out.

You're advised to look at the Fed balance sheet, covid stimulus checks, the market cap of big tech, and the flow of speculative money (VC capital [or startup valuations], BTC, GME, etc.), especially with respect to the dates and timings.

If you think you learned everything you need to know about economics from some 10+ year old textbook, let me give you an update: in the US there's no "fractional reserve banking" system any more, unless the "fraction" is zero. Basically it's QE all the way now. ( https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm )
Building event-driven architecture for member system
Because of monopoly, btw android is not a direct competitor to iPhone.
The author made a demo app, surely this could be evolved into a library? I could give an option to users of my app to switch all text inputs to use this instead of the system's default.
Not that shocking really. They take parts, put it in boxes and sell it to customers that don't care much whether label in part says Intel or AMD.

If Intel gonna say "we literally will pay you more to use our parts", that's pure profit to them, customers still gonna buy it because if they cared more about the CPU than the rest of the value propositon of Dell/Lenovo they wouldn't buy from them in the first place.
ChatGPT and friends look magical, but as yet no great revolution in working practices or whatever has occurred. So the excitement about AI is based on 'very large future promise', which is exactly the kind of thing that ultra low interest rates tend to pump.
Just went and checked, the oldest torrents I am seeding are from February 2008, barely half a year after I got unlimited internet connection.

Back then, my parents could only afford a 128kbit unmetered connection, so I naturally gravitated to hang out at the ISP-local FTP server and BitTorrent tracker, colloquially known as Fillet, maintained by ISP employees. Thanks to the user base of tens or even hundreds of thousands, for several years until the internet connection speeds caught up, I participated in a very vibrant community, which played a huge role on who I am today. Some of the people from that era I am still in contact with, all thanks to BitTorrent. I am glad it still exists.
IIRC only version 15 has USB-C support, so you're missing being able to charge (... without having to carry around a separate charger that is incompatible with everything else out there. And you'll need to take a charger with you everywhere as the battery on a 3 or 4 year old phone is probably at or close to 1000 cycles)
Then why don’t you make the same thing for 85% margin?
> If somehow Gmail fucks me over in the future, I’ll deal with that when the time comes.

You should at least try to imagine how catastrophic losing access to your email would be. How many accounts on other websites are linked to your email? Which of your banks have you set up backup emails beyond your primary? What about car registration and voter registration? For me, those both use email 2FA. For a while I was using a Nest thermostat; my house temperature in a large part was linked to my email.
Which ones? It already has permissions to access the Contacts.
I said that with living things in mind, not AI.

Nobody understands me:(
Surely the next step will be sparsity and other optimizations beyond brute aggressive quantization, maybe an MoE model like OAI is doing
Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, India's longest sea bridge, nears completion
Not just Linux, FreeBSD as well.
Please fix this. I mainly use my phone to write hn comments and it is already too much pressure on the current state of the typing experience for me. I could imagine myself doing all sorts of support and maintenance jobs from my phone if only I could interact better with code on it.
Both of which will be winning, because regardless of our opinions on them, I always criticized Go's lackluster type system, and Zig being a Modula-2 reborn with a C inspired syntax and metaprogramming, both of the communities do one thing remarkly great.

They know where they want to go, and stand by their decisions no matter what.
>You realize that Nestlé and Unilever play both ends, owning both high and low-processed food brands, both factory and organic produce?

Neither one owns a substantially large amount of "low processed food brands" or processes significant amount organic produce. They may have a few products that are labeled organic, but that amount is neligible.

>Food processing isn't evil, it's to a large degree a necessity. The alternative to processed food isn't everyone eating the mythical, health and happiness-granting fresh produce - it's population dropping to levels from early 20th century, and most people working on a farm.

From your answer I gather that you do not know what ultra-processed food means.

>Or better yet, let's focus on specific processes, categories of food products, and corporations, instead of making a blanket "processed = bad" judgement.

Yeah, that... is what the category ultra-processed is for. It is not simply "processed" food. Ultra-processed foods are highly engineered products that go through extensive processing, created from inexpensive ingredients such as sugars, fats, starches and often contain a long list of artificial flavors, colors, emulsifiers, stabilizers, and preservatives. Processed foods on the other hand include canned vegetables, frozen fruits, and pre-packaged salads, with a shorter ingredient list and, usually, more nutritional value.

A simple oat milk contains maybe 2-3 ingredients, while e.g. Alpro not milk contains:

>Oat base (93.5%) (Water, Oat (8.3%)), Sunflower oil, Soluble corn fibre, Sugar, Pea protein, Calcium (Calcium carbonate), Acidity regulator (Potassium phosphates), Flavourings, Sea salt, Stabiliser (Gellan gum), Potassium iodide, Vitamin D2.

And that is the difference between processed (oat milk: oat, water, maybe some oil) and ultra processed food (soluble corn fibre, sugar, flavourings, stabiliser). None of this is necessary to obtain a tasty oat milk with a good shelf life.
What were the odds, got this tweet today https://twitter.com/Locati0ns/status/1705703590181187640?t=2...

> The entirety of continental South America lies east of Michigan" means that, in terms of geographical positioning on the Earth's surface, all of the landmass of South America is located to the east of the state of Michigan in the United States. This is a factual statement based on the Earth's geography. It highlights the vast eastward extent of South America compared to the location of Michigan in North America.
A green cruise ship is like a green aircraft or a green car: it does not really exist. Just building it is already costly, and so is operating it. Filters and tanks are just shifting the problem, as well.

But that’s beside the point anyway, as it was just raised as an ad hominem argument against the guy who wanted websites to work on poor connections, and rightly so.
Sound like the market is working just fine then.
No. A only a reasoned argument counts for anything, no matter how many. Everything else is auguring.
Do you have links to studies that show “the opposite”?
When mighty G would ban your account (completely with Google services, Youtube and whatever) you would know.

Or just a plain 'Wrong password' except it's the right password, it's just Google thinks it's wrong, but you can't do anything with that address.
Still have congressmen caling for doubling H1-B visa allocations, for some reason..
Someone handing me their winning lottery ticket is wonderful, not totally useless.
No they shouldn’t. There is a large supply of people capable of cleaning toilets. And a relatively smaller supply of people capable of writing software.