skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Washington, DC, there is an organization named Casey Trees, which is dedicated to restoring the tree cover. There are community plantings now and then, and it will kick in $50 toward the cost of any sapling (I assume conditional on type) that you plant.
Not listed as a Culture novel.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_series
I wonder if younger people would play these games if they were fully graphical, as in all rooms have graphics, animations, objects disappear when you get them etc.

I got my son to play the text adventures for some 30 minutes, but he lost interest and went to play Roblox... In another instance, I got him to type a full 100-200 command walkthrough while I read the commands, he enjoyed it but didn't want to do it again.
How is money not applicable? Money can be used to pay for training, interventions, research, etc. 400k would be much better used here than on a custom humidity sensor.
On the basis of that argument, why provide a voice service either?

I understand that talking could be much more quick/fluent in a person to person interaction, plus it doesn’t need any technical means of writing, whether pen and paper or a computer. But isn’t technical support a rare use case where typing speed is not a big bottleneck and where also writing things out can help precision and cut down on having to repeat yourself? Given that resources are always limited, wouldn’t it be better to invest in accessibility where that the most impact?

Accessibility is about meeting people where they are, rather than just trying to cater to the lowest common denominator by finding “workarounds”. Apple already provides a technical chat service, and I’m quite sure deaf people are capable of using it. Is people are choosing to use this Video Relay service, its for a reason, presumably because they find ASL easier to work with than written language. Perhaps it’s an age thing, personal preference, or maybe they have other difficulties that make reading and writing difficult. But forcing people to use the cheapest form of communication simply because catering to their needs is a “corner case” isn’t providing accessibility, it’s ignoring the needs of individuals because they’re inconvenient.
I think ISO is seekable and from the sound of it, you want something to work on an OS where you have very little control over the utilities it offers (i.e. MS Windows), where, I think ISO is supported by the pre-installed system utilities. The downside is that these aren't compressed. I don't think the OS that you chose gives you more options... it has native support for more filesystems, but using those as archives seems very problematic (but maybe I don't know something).

Had you not been constrained by the choice of the operating system, a reasonable OS + FS combination will offer you some way to make snapshots. Filesystems are usually optimized for random access (with exception of things like TAR, which is designed for streaming). Most modern general purpose filesystems support compression, so that wouldn't be a problem. Often these filesystems offer a way to mount the file with the filesystem image w/o involving OS utilities like loop devices, so it would give you a way to access archive contents as if you were accessing any other filesystem.
We need to decouple income from hours worked, lest workers with your position force everyone else to work as long as you or else lose purchasing power.

Should probably invert all the multiples on overtime and make it (legally) strictly optional as well: 1.5x -> 66.67% pay, 2x -> 50% pay.

Get out of work sooner, take some days off! Quantum-damn!
Well, maybe they had that capability all along, hmm. I guess you trusted that they didn't?
I'm the author, and this is a fair point, but whatever version of Agile you are describing is unrecognizable to me. It is not how most managers seem treat it due to a mixture of poor understanding and organizational pressure (for example: people love getting the brownie points for agreeing to work, and they don't want to take the political hit of ever admitting that some tasks will never be done to a stakeholder).

Most organizations I've seen simply put everything that they've decided needs to happen in the backlog, then do some sprints and call it a day. To be clear, this is not an Agile problem, it's a "our stakeholders have bad incentives and we can't engineer worth a damn" problem, but it is extremely tiresome to hear "not being Agile" being brought up so often instead of dealing with the real issues. To be clear, I am talking about the typical person in management, not your note.
Was about to say that. The M24 was the one I much preferred using during that period, before AT (286) PCs started arriving (or made affordable).
There were other 8086 PCs around as well - I had a low-cost British one at home (IIRC it was called Advance 86 (EditUpd: That one was released near the end of 1983, way before any PS/2 line in 1987))
Why is that an issue when it’s the engine? It’s hard to argue this is anti competitive in any way when it comes to browser product choice.
"But such consummate skill, such ability, such adaptability, such numbing ruthlessness, such a use of weapons when anything could become a weapon..."
Even better - criminals will get the data a way or another and find out your purchasing power, when and where you go leaving your house unattended and what they can tell you or your relatives to effortlessly manipulate into just giving them something valuable.
When we started I liked the concept of the mono repo. Things like a client update landing in the same commit as it's API requirements and doc changes all sounded great.

I still think there are some pros of the mono repo, but definitely some cons as well. Especially for people trying to work on just a small bit of the code.
I guess the Uber case is similar in ways but also quite different.

Uber was (relatively) vocal about their hope for regulation to catch up with this new world of taxi gigs ordered through an app.

And in the MS browser-choice case, the regulation was specifically designed for Microsoft and they had been found to be non-compliant once already.

How does that change the calculus? Clearly, not enough.
Jira/Confluence are two products that have gotten markedly slower and slower over time and as they've moved into the cloud.

I observe load times that remind me of the 90s sometimes using their cloud apps.

Incredible they are killing on-prem, but maybe it makes it harder to compare to the slow as molasses cloud offering that way?
>Not sure if Banks intended them to be

Given how the culture ambassador is rewarded by being given an Affront body so he can indulge in Affront culture on even terms, and that the Affront are basically psychopathic Bertram Wooster-types, Banks knew that there was some people couldn't help but love the Affront. Something in humans loves it. Like looking at a file of red wool coated infantry (btw, did you get that the Affront is coded for the British empire?) and thinking "yup, really cool".
Drawing a dotted paper with a plotter sounds like a stress test for the gear
Using Atlassian cloud products is a business risk. They previously let customers sit for weeks without access to their data [1]. Cloud-hosted products do get early patches for unsecured /setup routes though [2], so there's that.

At this point the decision has been made in our org to firewall their products off the internet and internal networks, and migrate to something else by 2024.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=atlassian

[2] https://confluence.atlassian.com/security/cve-2023-22515-pri...
> There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that robots that are so real they are indistinguishable from people will come about in our lifetimes.

Yet the Prince of Nigeria keeps sending emails to good effect. Makes you think :)
I'm not letting exponentially go the way of literally!
U.S. Teens Spend Average of 4.8 Hours on Social Media per Day
Everything old is new again.

The next big thing will be a web server where you don't need to use the command line to deploy your project, just sync your workspace folder and it will automatically execute the file matching the URL.
What makes you think that the advent of AI will be any different from the advent of cerebrums?

When higher vertebrates developed cerebrums, those didn't replace the evoluntionarily-older cerebellum or midbrain. We humans still have those. From the perspective of a lizard, a human looks like a lizard with an awesome AI-like cerebrum strapped to it.

Importantly, the cerebrum does not have an independent self-preservation drive.

Frankly, I think "AIs with their own self-preservation drive and plans for the future" is implausible, although it is likely to be put forward as a deceptive explanation of what's going on by the first few humans who figure out how to strap on another layer of cerebrum. It's the easiest way to keep the rest of us from becoming resentful.

Come home, all you commodores, come home...
I merely told it to divide 73 terabits by the population of New Zealand and to express that in megabits. So yeah no consideration of usage patterns: "nonsense numbers" just like the supposed 46G wifi this story is about.
I wonder if they knew they were coppicing the tree, rather than killing it. Thankfully the tree will continue to grow, I think the land managers have chosen to leave the tree there. Many of the oldest trees around (at least in the UK) have signs of coppicing and pollarding. Those who cut the tree have unintentionally extended its life (e.g https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-203131...). The only issue is it wasn't done at the best time of year.

You can read more about coppicing on the national coppice federation: https://ncfed.org.uk/public/coppicing/
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy and 2312. The Expanse books in terms of human political structure (Earth/Mars/The Belt and Outer Planets Alliance), assuming humanity is able to colonize the solar system.
Large corporations won't bother to protect something that can't pay the 100x increase - Do you think Activision would have paid for Infocom rights if it cost 200K at this point? Maybe yes, but quite possibly not. But Harry Potter and Lord of Ring owners likely would, no matter whether they are small or large. This money could go to other services, such as education.

For small-time authors, why should they enjoy the intellectual property rights for the rest of their life? The vast majority of people need to keep working to keep generating money.
I work at a shop that viewed MSSQL as a platform just like the OP describes.
Of course noone ever pointed that out to me, but as we migrated more and more away and the graybeards became upset about moving logic out of stored procedures into the application... and async tasks out of Agent jobs into an application job server... it dawned on me.

Would not recommend this path, but that is probably because I understand deployments and platforms. if they can fix the ergonomics, modernize the process, I could see it working out.

I suppose replacing your OS with postgres could have its advantages.
which is why it should be opt-in, not opt-out
This is the current basket weighting: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm

Which should be changed, under the constraint that they must sum to 100?
too bad most souls end up lying around on the street, begging others to turn back and avoid the terrible fate befallen on them. It's always rough selling your vision to others, and games are no different in terms entrepreneurship.
There are plenty such sites with filters. Though the labeling isn't always accurate.
The Ruby (or should I say Rails) community keeps blossom!

The virtual namespace was kinda cool, this should help with isolation further. Reminds me a bit of Kernel#refine where you can monkey patch in a controlled way.
It limits what plugins/extension can do. For example Firefox on iOS doesn’t support plugins at all and thus you can’t use the same Adblock you would use on desktop (unlock origin)
> Breaking up of Standard Oil, just made the owners more money.

That's one of the biggest arguments for a breakup and factually correct. Historically antitrust action has unlocked value. The point of any good antitrust policy isn't to destroy value, but to increase competition. If the broken up companies in the aggregate are worth more your policy has succeeded. Some companies like Alibaba or JD have actually started to spinoff segments themselves due to investor pressure.

the open source free software utopia is a pipe dream in the foreseeable future, but more importantly, if it wasn't that's not an argument against improving market conditions. Open source developers benefit from competition like everyone else. It arguably increases the need for interoperable, open software.
I still fail to understand Microsofts obsession with getting people to use Edge. Apples developers and ships Safari, but if you don't use it who cares, you're still on a mac running macOS (iPhone is a slightly different story).

Shipping a good and fast browser with Windows is perfectly fine, many will use it, some won't. Why do Microsoft care? The users are still running Windows. If anything this seems to undermine the value Microsoft place on Windows as a platform. Why not focus on making Windows better and if users want to use Windows to run Firefox or Chrome that's their choice.

I really don't see what value pushing Edge has to Microsoft. Are they just pining for the good old days of IE dominance? They dropped their own browser engine, so they obviously don't want to spend that much money on browser development, so why spend any at all?
Fascinating! Kagi managed to automatically omit and abstract away all the Christian-specific perspective leaving us with something purely deist in its presentation.

I wonder if that’s a coincidence, or something inherent in the way LLM synthesizes word frequencies from the trainer’s chosen corpus that leads to that tendency/outcome.
Put a shortcut to

C:\Windows\System32\control.exe

or

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\control.exe

into your Start menu. HTH!
Realistically, if you can't finish the first degree, you probably won't finish the second one either. Remember that a math degree will also teach you lots of material that's not directly relevant to your interests. If it's really just one more year's work to finish your CS degree, then I'd focus 100% on that, because having that piece of paper will make so many things easier in future.
And the feature won't ever get completed to any satisfactory standard beyond the bare minimum.

Anything that requires more than three hours of effort or actual understanding of the product domain will remain the purview of smaller, more flexible entities, and the big creaky exploitative ticket machine will have it's lunch eaten by others that are more effective at execution.
I think there are different types of writers, not all have the same motivation.

The one you talk about does it for the joy of writing or showcasing their projects.

But there is another where writing is a part of it, but getting views and feeling heard is another part, where numbers going up on a dashboard gives them dopamine.

They need analytics as that's the way they verify that someone is actually paying attention. Without it, they would never know if someone is reading it or not, and that's a part of their motivation.

Yet another group just want to know which of their post is more popular than another, they maybe don't really care about the specific numbers but more the ratio between posts, so they can keep writing what people seem to be reading the most.

Regardless, none of that actually need intrusive client-side analytics and tracking, it all can be done server-side but seems we've collectively forgotten how to do this.
For me there's a big difference between applying a simple algorithm to the data, a formula which someone could scribble down on the back of an envelope, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, some neural network thing with millions of weights that might be hallucinating.

Even compression algorithms can hallucinate: https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...

I want my historical records to be processed only with simple algorithms that help me see what is really there.
Regrets, but no. Developed internally and commercial secrets.

8-(
That's almost how the Wii remotes worked, they just used the infrared sensor bar dots instead of the corners of the screen
If you kept reading you'd see that the previews are actually generated by the sender. So it's unlikely there's any privacy leakage happening at all.

But even if there was, I'm not sure why you're assuming that someone would need to get their head checked if they are using a default feature.

Even if you turn off link previews you would still receive link previews. You just don't send the link previews.
It's interesting to compare the Culture to the Polity in Neil Asher's books, since the Polity is also run by AIs with advanced technology, and comes into conflict with other (alien) civilizations. But it's usually super advanced biotech kind of threats, where human civilization is less advanced.
I don’t see the point of being able to change the UI skin only? All that does is tricks people into thinking they’re using a different browser when they aren’t, and it gives Apple control over which features and APIs are supported etc. (maybe you can patch new ones in by injecting a polyfill but that’s a terrible solution)
Which significant category do you think is missing here: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2022.htm ?
Tree of Ténéré

"The Ténéré Tree (French: L'Arbre du Ténéré) was a solitary acacia (Vachellia tortilis) that was once considered the most isolated tree on Earth, the only one for over 150 kilometres. It was a landmark on caravan routes through the Ténéré region of the Sahara Desert in northeast Niger, so well known that it and the Arbre Perdu (Lost Tree) to the north are the only trees to be shown on a map at a scale of 1:4,000,000. The Tree of Ténéré was located near a 40-metre deep well. It was knocked down in 1973 by a truck driver."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_Ténéré
Scaleway migrates away from 1:1 NAT
> The removal attempt of HTTP/1.1 is the biggest censorship in history.

I’d love some more context on this.
That's pretty much what a WiiMote does, except it's not looking at corners of the screen, it's looking at infra-red lights on the "sensor bar". That's how the lightgunverter linked at the bottom of the article does it. https://www.lightgunverter.com/features.html
In MS Office, those mappings are a default that can be turned off.
Now however, the consequences are on a truly global scale, so it becomes more important than ever before, while at the same time becoming less understandable than ever before for normal people. So instead of downtalking the issue, we should highlight it more than ever before and we should inform and educate people more than ever before.

'cept that education sector is struggling to even get financed in places. We even have people seriously thinking schools should finance themselves, because they are too short-sighted, to see the net benefit for a society, that a good education system brings with it. This in the face of ever more things to learn about the digital world. And I live in a country, where there isn't even an official school subject about interacting with this digital world.
I had to look it up:

> Infocom games are text adventures where users direct the action by entering short strings of words to give commands when prompted

Sounds to me these games will soon be made irrelevant by upcoming LLM tech. Am I missing something?
This May Be the Most Exclusive Museum in the U.S.
Thanks, I've saved a link :-)

It looks quite similar to Supersonic; I'll give it a spin.
I'm sorry, but this isn't necessarily a good thing. Your friend takes this money and goes have a haircut, the person cutting their hair won't be making money for the haircut 30 years later. Okay, we can give some extra benefits for intellectual property, but 30 years is way too much.
The market share of OSX in the EU is too small for anti-competition laws to kick in (5-7% depending on source). They also used this in a shield against Epic in those cases (since iOS is less than 40% on average). If that is a good argument I leave up to the reader to consider.

When Microsoft had it's browser mess it had near saturation level op dominance (>97% if I recall correctly).
Search also may have had a limited lifespan. When the internet started to become public search was used to find something to satisfy interests.

Now the internet has become homogenized to a point where outside forces are constantly telling individuals what where to go on the internet.

I use search for doing research and development which is different than shopping or socializing.
> From a certain perspective, the Culture is not all that different from Star Trek’s Borg. The difference is that Banks tricks the reader into, in effect, sympathizing with the Borg.

Its interesting - star trek ds9 actually kind of makes that point in the marquis plot line https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv3Ex5kG2go
> For example in 1999-2000 you could have gotten a really solid machine capable of playing Quake 3 (the latest and greatest FPS game of that time) getting a rock solid 125 fps on a CRT monitor capable of doing 120hz for around $650-700.

In 1999, a CRT with a 20" viewable area cost $999 [1] with reviewers saying "The price point on this monitor is fantastic"

Today? $70 gets you a 22" viewable area [2]

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/421
[2] https://www.amazon.com/PHILIPS-Computer-Monitors-Replacement...
Recipe for cheese:

"Go and buy it."

I get this website is a joke, but it is a pretty bad one.
GPU Embedding with GGML
I'm reminded of meme about cross political quadrant synergy that when auth-right and lib-left both wants to conserve nature (because of "conserve" and "nature" respectively), auth-left and lib-right couldn't care less about it (because progress > established things).
Social media addiction causes brain atrophy. And we thought football was hurting their brains.
>if he can do the whole project himself, someone on a AAA team can have cross-disciplinary skills and translate.

It's a scaling problem. Similar to how single theaded, multi-threading, and distributed computing all have different schemes to solve the same problem, so does a single/small team vs. a studio of hundreds of devs. You won't get a satisfactory output if you use a single threaded technique to solve a problem requiring distributed scale. You'll either take prohibitively long, and/or produce the wrong/redundant results as solutions clash into each other with no syncronization.

I think instead of trying to fit more generalists into a AAA pipeline, we should encourage more generalists to optimize for a small team and deliver leaner projects that can still turn heads.
> I don’t understand why you think the fact that someone may choose to point and click to do something, a task which depending on the UI can be completely mindless and yet significantly safer eliminating any chance of making a mistake (by throwing in a typo for instance), does not know what a bash for/while loop is?

I don't think like that at all. Of course someone can know bash for/while loop and still choose to use a point-and-click tool to administrate their servers. Nothing wrong with that.

Not sure where in my message did I say that if someone chooses to point and click, then they don't know what a bash for/while loop is.

What I said in my comment was that if someone doesn't know what a bash for/while loop is, then I may be uncomfortable adminstrating my servers.

My point was to show that comparing adminstrating servers and sharing pictures on social media is not a useful comparison.
The worst I've seen is the shilling of OneDrive inside the 'Virus and threat protection' window. Nothing is sacred.