skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree and I frequently come back to read this great anti-telephone manifesto titled 'I hate telephones' by Jim Fisher. You might enjoy it: https://jameshfisher.com/2017/11/08/i-hate-telephones/
Hmmm. I see what you mean, but that was not my intention. The meaning the author -- me -- intended was:

"A drove people to B. It didn't drive me to it, but C drove me to D."

Expanding that:

1. Stop copying Chrome.

2. Australis copied Chrome and that drove a whole fork because so many people hated it.

[Full stop.]

3. Also, comparably, for the author, Quantum killed XUL and that is why the author switched away from Firefox.

However, I note that the marketing claim from Mozilla was that Quantum used the same type of extensions that Chrome used ("webextensions") and that this would be good for the Firefox add-on ecosystem. This is demonstrably false, as I laid out in the Waterfox article which this story links to, but it was what Mozilla claimed at the time.
I run as default on my mac.

used to run it as default on my android phone -- but ahh mozill doesn't care about it enough. pretty unstable
> that people actually ask questions on it and receive high quality answers

That really hasn't been my experience with StackOverflow for the last 10 years.
I tried GPT-3.5, it got it wrong but it did get the overall setup right, just forgot about a detail. But I don't want to reach for ChatGPT every time I need to query something, I want something that I can write without having to solve a puzzle first. (True, maybe I should spend some time learning jq better.)
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OP: Yeah, sorry, I linked to this because this is what the original tweeter posted. I should have linked to the underlying study - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kvh0jghr61ago7qm63t7m/Septemb...

The data that you may be looking for is here: https://twitter.com/I_Am_NickBloom/status/170814596350283380...
Title needs fixing: Nobel prize.
Here in Ukraine trying to estimate enemy's drone and missile production capacities by serial numbers of their parts is quite a mundane task these days.
20,000 phone lines in 12 cities would be like 70 PRIs per city? It's a big order, but doesn't seem like one that MCI wouldn't happily cover. Unless "city" means "suburb", and not like major metro market. Just nerding out, because I ran (tech for) a mid-sized ISP in the late 90's.
This can be remedied by using tools that can do block-wise (delta) copying of large files, e.g. https://bvckup2.com/kb/delta-copying
I find LLMs to be pretty incredible for knowledge but any tool for learning is never going to replace a solid apprenticeship. Leadership will always come from people and early students need good leaders
> Why are all these people building different sandcastles when they could be working together?

Could they, though? What if upstream says ”thanks, but no thanks“ to your ideas? What if there are multiple, equally valid solutions to a problem, and you want to explore one that wasn‘t chosen?

Progress isn‘t linear, and not everything can be compromised on.

Just having more people work on a project, does not magically speed up development. You need leadership, a common goal, consensus, and focus.

If all these projects merged their efforts, that would probably result in a lot of lengthy discussions and infighting, rather than improvements.
Probably true. The whole vertical integration does rub me the wrong way though, it's just uncomfortable to have one company own so much of my personal computing infrastructure, especially one that is so unfriendly to "tinkerers" like me.
OP here: Sorry! Here's why I linked to it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736879
Japan is part of the Five Eyes Plus alliance that has areed to share intelligence with the US ( https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/fourteen-eyes-countries ).
If you have lots of data, this can take some time

The appeal of this project is that it uses CoW (copy on write), so in theory it should be fast to copy as it only maintains writes.
Lets say you're making lots of variations, then having it in a specified format for easy changes is nice. Or diffing changes. Or programmatically generate them.

But in all those cases wouldn't it better to have something with an actual API in a programming language you are familiar with? Or at least a tool the takes something like JSON, for which there already are great tools for parsing, generating and manipulating.
I love when a discussion about a software product derails about the war in Ukraine...
The largest tech companies (think Meta, Apple, Google to some extent) currently have most of your private data, and have largely made the decision to encrypt it. Presumably they’ve decided that they have enough user data to suit their advertising needs, and this private stuff (DMs etc.) is both a legal liability and a threat to their reputation with customers. Even Mark Zuckerberg is pretty militantly pro-encryption now and is risking a lot of political blowback to encrypt Messenger and Instagram DMs.

My unsubstantiated theory is that some corporate interests are aware of this, and this data continues to be valuable to them, even if its current custodians don’t want it. That means there is presumably a pool of tech companies and government contractors who see this data being under-exploited and want access to the revenue from mining it. Promoting new laws like anti-CSAM scanning regulations provide them with an “in” to that data they wouldn’t otherwise have: at very worse they can sell scanning solutions. And maybe as the laws metastasize they can use them to perform even more sophisticated data mining on private texts, and even produce byproducts that they can monetize in other ways.
OP Here: Sorry about that! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736879

The editorialization came from the original author.
If you are trying to branch prod (or even a staging db) then you can't
Please do your own research and answer two simple questions below.

How much time (money no object) would it take for you personally to get any citizenship other than your current one?

How much time (assuming your current level of income) would it take for you personally to get any citizenship other than your current one?

I have done my research. The answer to the first question is 6 months (if advertisements on the black market are true), and the second one is between 5 and 10 years. So please don't blame people based solely on their citizenship.
In addition to how many distractions there are now - youtube & stream services, and much better games than in the 80s, the barrier to entry is so much higher.

I had a C64 and only the docs that came with it, until I eventually found a couple of books on assembly, one not even for the C64. But even with that scarcity of info I was just desperate to know how it worked and how to make it do things.

But look at how complex a computer is today! Even though there is endless info for free, it's just too difficult to get something fun going.

Early PCs were still understandable, but todays GPUs etc are just a different world, and expectations are sky high when you see the current gen games. Even an 'indy pixel game' is no laughing matter to create.
Pressing CDs was expensive, which worked for the audio mass market, but not for the PC niche market. That limited the appeal of buying an (expensive) CD drive, and they weren't even using a standard protocol (so: lots of issues).

When CD creation became cheaper and the market grew, the economies started to work out in the mid-90s, until the late-90s saw computer mags with cover-CDs (a signal that everybody in that market had CD drives, and pressing CDs was cheap enough for one-off low-count productions like that)
OP here - sorry!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37736879
I used one of these programs (a free one) to cold turkey quit Reddit after the API shenanigans.

Why not just mute notifications? I had already muted them, but found myself opening Reddit when I had downtime.

Why not just put the phone on silent mode? Because my job requires me to be reachable by phone, and I want some close family and friends to reach me. Also, I already muted the problem apps/sites- see above.

Why not just turn the phone off? See above.

Why not just replace it with a dumb phone? Because I still want email, general web browsing, music, podcasts, ebooks, maps, notes, password management, home automation, finance, and a good camera. Most of these things are either essential or enriching for my job and lifestyle.

I abolished the words "just" and "simply" from my vocabulary, because 80% of the times I used them, I sounded like a fool.
From earth to handbags and back to earth.

Americans play an interesting roll as the global consumer to keep this game of musical chairs going.
Which is also an interesting problem isn't it? The majority of people will only be doing what the LLM suggests...
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> Some places never locked down, like Sweden

After the first two devastating waves during the Spring and Autumn of 2020, Sweden in fact 'locked-down' in some ways more restrictively than our nordic neighbors - all of which made timely interventions that meant their restrictions on meeting en-masse in public were for shorter periods and less intrusive on people's everyday lives.

The narrative that it was a 'free-for-all' in Sweden has been fostered retrospectively by neo-liberal groups that placed economics above human lives. In their eagerness to be 'proved right' after the fact, most Swedes now embrace this historical revisionism.

The statistics that show that Swedish "excess deaths" were low or even lower than other countries were cooked-up by a journalist from a right-wing newspaper in Sweden (SvD), who noticed that if one discounts the downward trend in excess death for the last 25 years in Sweden, together with dispensing with demographic weighting, and then averaging the 3 years from 2019 onwards (which includes the period after vaccination), then miraculously you can squeeze the numbers you want from the raw figures.
Ok, perhaps that is the problem then ...

The Sun casting changing light/shadows during the day can be a source of eye strain.
> Some places never locked down, like Sweden and South Dakota, and their death rate wasn't significantly higher

Many factors: different demographics, population density, culture, what does "locked down" mean in different countries / areas, what does "significantly higher" mean...

One important point though is this probably confuses correlation and causation. Areas that were hit harder tended to lock down harder.

> Overall there's no evidence that lockdowns actually reduced mortality

People post this occasionally, and I'm going to keep calling bullshit. What happens is someone posts a fringe paper that supports their view whilst conveniently ignoring the large body of established scientific orthodoxy that supports the obvious conclusion: that restricting human interaction slows down transmission of a respiratory disease that transmits through human interaction.
I don't get this comment? Separating what? Pedestrians and cars? Cars and bikes? Isn't this also mostly done? I mean that's the idea behind bike lanes for example. There are limits to the amount of separation possible though.

> I mean, not everyone has the possibility of walking a couple of streets to buy a cappuccino and then take an elevator to the office. Try having kids in a city today and then let's talk.

I don't get this comment. Is there no cafe near you? Also, you still shouldn't speed in residential or mixed neighbourhoods, regardless of where you live. Even if your office is further away. People live there. A highway and ring road usually takes you reasonable near you office, for most cities in europe and I bet every city in the US.

> Try having kids in a city today

What's the difference to having a kid in a city in the past? Cars certainly grew bigger and that's strictly worse for having a kid in the city.

I get not wanting your kids to grow up in the city, but that's also your own decision. And if you end up with a long commute others shouldn't bear unreasonable consequences. Others might raise their kids in the city and the kid might want to cross the road (assuming it is old enough) without a fear of death from thousands of cars speeding by.
Indeed, but trying to revert lots of tiny commits in one unit is no better.

Really it just requires discipline to either make entire related changes as patches or pull requests, which doesn’t matter.

The result of a pull request should be the equivalent of having built a single patch to start with, just with better review tooling.
Why are they throwing away an established, reputable, widely recognized brand?
I wonder what one plans to achieve with that move.
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As a practical example -- it's pretty common for companies to delegate email to a provider like Gmail. Some infosec folks consider this best practice, and Google will allow you to configure DMARC to say that only messages originating from their servers are legit.

However, this does mean that anyone who can suborn Google's mail servers can use them to spend spoof emails that DMARC will rate as legitimate -- and last month, there was announcement of vulnerabilities (since fixed) which allowed a third party to abuse email-forwarding features to do exactly that. See https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.07287.pdf
> This is a huge psychological factor in the hearts and minds of Japanese people.

I think countries mostly fall into one of two baskets:

* those who normally favor their own country's products.

* those who almost universally loathe their own country's products.

I was born in one of the latter types of countries. Where I am from, the word "imported" was absolutely synonym with "better quality". It didn't even matter where it came from, as long as it was not local. This was due to 1970's and 80's protectionist/socialist policies which wanted to make the national industry protected from foreign competition - which it did, but had the side effect of making such industries completely non-competitive with the rest of the world.

Then I moved to a country in the more nationalist group: Australia. The "Australian Made"[1] logo is proudly used by anyone who produces even a tiny bit of their products in Australia (I think there's a minimal threshold for that to be allowed, but didn't really check it)! The most popular car there was the Holden Commodore for decades (recently, Holden closed down production in Australia - so now it's all Toyota), proudly Australian made - even if the mother company, GM, was not Aussie. After traveling around in a few countries, I came to the conclusion that most countries that actually have a competitive industry tend to be more like that. Japan is of course in that category, but so are most developed nations: USA, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Italy, even more recent "arrivals" to the upper league, like South Korea.

Poorer countries tend to be in a paradoxical position where their people will swear they love their nation and will be extremely irritated if any foreigner dares to criticize them, but in private they consider their own industry a joke, will go to great lengths to buy "imported" products, even if they're more expensive (given the high tariffs for imports), have almost zero trust in their compatriots (specially politicians and business people) and totally expect them to be dishonest without further evidence to the contrary, and so on... things that just lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Anyway, I just wanted to say that this is not at all particular to Japanese people :).

[1] https://australianmade.com.au/
I use graphviz dot (which is similar to this tool) specifically so I don't have to fight with getting the arrows right, manually fixing each one, in a visual editor.
I prefer unifi though lately they've been pretty disappointing. Still no budget wifi 6E (6Ghz) access point and more and more stuff needs their cloud.
If you're running k8s on Proxmox, it's probably because you aren't 100% k8s yet, or are a homelab and experimenting with many things.
Downvotes whatever. The analogy is apposite I think, you do see that addicts and non-addicts do tend to gather into groups, neither finds the company of the other very attractive. In pubs, you often see groups of phone people, each with a half-pint in front of them, each furiously texting away to people they'd rather be spending time with. Top night out!
I think it was just too much data for (cheap) digital tech at the time, and the fact that Laserdisc games makers chose analogue LaserDisc over something digital on a CD is an indication.
It's not my life though, is it? That's already a done deal, and I wasn't given a choice. The question is whether I should bring forth a new one.
poison?

demonic?

spare us the histrionics
Please don't post this nonsense on HN. This is a joke, right? It's a crank website, not a serious medical journal.
> The vaccines massively reduced mortality and severe disease in the vulnerable populations.

By how much, in numbers?
Well I don't remember in which issue it was, but the whole collection is here:

https://archive.org/details/hebdogiciel-french

I'm pretty sure it's really difficult to convert MSX-BASIC to 6502 assembly though... But there are lots and lots of great C64 deulignes too :)
I was talking about the definition, the parent commenter's definition at that, not the origin.

I'm not sure how that information fits in here, sorry.
ChatGPT's model is called "gpt-3.5-turbo".
I have a feeling that it is more like 99% of people are insane 5% of time. Or if not insane, at least forgetting the principle of charity. And given that a typical social media text does not contain all nuances, someone is interpreting the text in an absurd way almost guaranteed. And downhill from there it goes.
Exactly this, but my model is training.
http://archive.today/4M6a1
That's a fascinating thought actually. Why does a mass of gas always have to materialize into a solar system? Why not into one or more planets, if the amount is too low? Or also the other way around: what if there is so much gas that it's too much to fit into a single star, what would it materialize into then? A twin star solar system, or something else?
however encoding such program in BASIC would take much more amount of commands/bytes than writing it in BASIC itself. You would need DATA statement and POKE FOR LOOP... In case of such a small scenario BASIC wins
Inbox Noise Canceling – silence hundreds of senders
Launched by Skiff Mail, with their end-to-end encrypted private workspace.
The code inside the script tags is ES6, the pre-processor does not "masquerade" it as the parent commenter says. It's taken as is. Also not sure what in this discussion is relevant.
natural = good; synthetic = bad (◔_◔)
My RISC-V experience is all based around the low-end (no MMUs, hypervisors, indeed mostly no caches) so it's hard for me to give a full informed comparison but my feeling is the Arm ISA is better specified and RISC-V won't necessarily be a simpler architecture in the end anyway. There is an explosion of extensions in RISC-V right now, lots of tiny ones along with some bigger ones. Whilst the size of the ISA manual between the two is often highlighted (the Arm architecture reference manual is almost 13'000 pages in the PDF I just downloaded) those pages are there for reason. It's no surprise now there are multiple well-funded startups trying to build high end RISC-V cores that there's also a massive push to add a lot more stuff to the RISC-V architecture.

My feeling, as it's a bunch of different companies all with a commercial pressure to get things shipped, is we'll end up in a rather chaotic place with the RISC-V ISA, though hopefully that can be improved with time.

I do get frustrated with the loose specification of the RISC-V ISA. The Arm ARM for instance has a precise description of its exception model (see section D1.3 'Exceptions') the RISC-V ISA in contrast never explicitly defines what an exception is and to find out what the exception model is you need to read through the definitions of a few system CSRs (control and status registers) and join the dots yourself. It's seemingly written with the idea that everyone knows what an exception is in the context of computer architecture so no need to give a long formal definition, plus everyone will agree on what the 'obvious' right answer is where the spec isn't precise. However the devil, as ever, is in the details and the details are often lacking.

I also note there's no complete RISC-V conformance test suite and indeed even building such a thing could be intractable look at PMP, physical memory protection, you could do all kinds of odd implementations of this that would be spec compliant (e.g. only region 12 is allowed to have execute permissions set and cannot be read/write/execute) but would be a total nightmare to support in a conformance test suite. So such a suite, when it does hopefully emerge, will actually only conform compliance with a subset of compliant CPUs. There are some obvious stupid design decisions it's reasonable to rule out but I'm sure there will be some other less clear cut things where the spec allows multiple behaviours, the compliance suite will only work with one or two and they'll be some shipping implementation which went with another one. People will either spend lots of time arguing about how the compliance suite should work, or just ignore it altogether. A lot of these difficulties stem from the loose specification of RISC-V.
I too ran a small ISP from 1995-1997 or so, and the biggest gift I got from one of my co-founders was the strong suggestion we use this new cheap database called mSQL [1] as the basis of our accounting system. And I did. I wrote a lot of terrible, undergrad-in-cs C code around it, but we never messed up on billing. Thanks, Kent!

Now that time I hadn't verified that our backups were working and lost all of our data, that was a little less good.

[1] not a typo, it still exists, though I doubt anyone would use it over MySQL, postgres, or sqlite. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSQL
I think Rust may be a good fit, as it encourages a declarative style with things like immutability by default.
I don't downplay what the US did, in fact I frequently complain to anyone who will listen and some who won't how absoletely butchered the occupation of Iraq was and what huge ramifications it had. Paul Bremer is not a favourite of mine. I marched in protests against the invasion.
That's a slim majority, making the statement about a car running on coal a half-truth, and increasingly incorrect.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's good to know where your power comes from, I just want to make don't dismiss the technology because of half-truths.
Dial-up World was consumed in a “roll-up”, which was popular right up to about 2005 when the only dialup ISPs were rural.

The problem with pivoting to broadband was, most could not. The only option was reselling DSL, becoming a CLEC or WISP, and taking the dirt nap. The company I worked for tried everything and eventually went out of business after the dialup was sold in a rollup.

I was at a 123.net colo a few years ago, and off in a rack was half consumed by Livingston/Lucent and US Robotics Total Control dial-up T1 endpoints, running. The USR actually showed signs of use.
What a cute observation!

If there's any way for the client to influence the input, it may be prone to DoS attacks: By my calculations, with a million random attempts, you would expect to find a cycle of length at least 435, which is over 13x the average. (Mind you, multiplying the number of attempts by 10 only adds about 72.5 to the expected cycle length, and probably no one has the patience to try more than 100 billion or so attempts.)
I tried that, but now windows 11 keeps getting micro updates at work and the advertisements in the start menu are always enabled and telling me about wonderful sales.
Might do better if swiveled it so all the upper 8 bits are stored contiguous, then all the lower 8 bits-- zstd likes bytes.