skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure about other countries but in Holland it had a clear reason. The old socialist-centric government of the 80s/early 90s viewed the radio spectrum as infrastructure similar to the road network. This meant that in their view their main task was policing the airwaves. Policing was omnipresent, and they would take action on every infraction even ones where radio spectrum that wasn't actually in use was used by unauthorized parties. The radio amateurs were simply one of the many right holders and treated as such. We paid a pretty reasonable fee but were respected in turn.

Then when the neoliberals came to power, this changed. They view the radio spectrum as a natural resource from which they need to extract maximum profit. This coincided with the rise of mobile phones and an ever-increasing demand for radio spectrum. They moved the regulating angency from under the ministry of transportation to the ministry of economic affairs. This meant that the attitude changed a lot: HAMs were viewed as 'freeloaders', spectrum for mobile operators etc was auctioned off for billions, and policing was restricted to only following up on issues that impacted operations of major spectrum holders or made the press. I'm pretty sure that the only thing keeping them from taking spectrum away to auction off to multinationals, are international agreements.

One example: When highly popular central heating company "Vaillant" introduced a new digital model which caused emissions from the wiring between the heater and the thermostat that jammed the 2m repeater band, it took a LOT of complaining to finally get the regulator to take action. At this point these heaters had been sold so much that it took years to resolve it.

Of course there were other developments at this time which caused a major decline in HAM population. Like the internet and home computer. Until then the big thing a geek would have at home would be a radio shack, but since the internet and mobile phone the whole "I can talk to anyone in the world from my attic!!!" had lost a lot of its shine. But I do believe the above really was the reason why at least our regulator changed its views so heavily.
Recent and related:

Pope Francis encourages more children to code, especially in Catholic countries - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38012207 - Oct 2023 (50 comments)
Still waiting to see a video of a person floating due to demonic possession
Lada is based on Fiat 124. 126 is the Polski.
Thanks :). To be clear, I think what you wrote is true as well - it's a part of a larger picture. In my replies, I want to point at another part of that same picture, one I saw is not talked about at all in this thread, and which I believe may be more relevant to this case (because let's be honest, $629 for a project this widely used is peanuts, so it can't be the whole issue).
Apple's Journal app is kind of smart – and kind of basic
When was that? I found my previous partners on dating apps but today (in the last couple years) I can't.
Sometimes I can do weeks worth of work in just 30 minutes. Some people can cut a lot of labour time perhaps years worth for multiple people. Productivity can get hard to measure.
The merits of the idea aside, I find it quite interesting that this was written 7 years ago (2016), and that the author had been doing it for 2 years already.

At present the idea of working 3 focused hours per day doesn't seem outrageous, but back in 2014 this would have been quite progressive.
Sweden (Not Switzerland)
Ah. So holding my eustachian tubes open (half way through a yawn) would also be a good idea?
No, str2hax isn't a DNS exploit. str2hax exploits CVE-2009-0689 in opera. See https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Str2hax#How_it_works
> Some shared library built in 2007 stands a decent chance of running today if it avoided the ABI break of ruin and disaster where string and list changed slightly.

At least with the default standard library implementation on Linux you can still select which version of these classes are used by setting the __GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI (or something similar) define. Both versions of these classes are still present in the implementation. So the old library can still be used despite that change.
> Then don't fucking bomb it. You're defending war crimes and terrorism.

1. It's not a war crime. If one side places their militants in a hospital, the hospital is no longer afforded protection. If anyone is commiting war crimes, it's Hamas, by placing their HQ in a hospital.

2. As much as I'd love to not bomb anybody, they are actively at this moment shooting rockets at me. What exactly should I do? Just wait until they inevitably manage to kill me?
I really wish they would lower the cost of signing certificates generally. $10 tops. I can’t justify the cost for my very specialized software very few people use.

My only explanation for why it needs to be so expensive is that it needs to be a large enough charge that the rightful owner of a stolen credit card might notice it? Because it’s in and of itself an author verification? If that’s the case though, they could refund some or all of it after say 3 months?

Even then, just as a verification, there seems like very little need to charge for that verification annually. It really just seems like rent seeking.
> transgender men and nonbinary people also get pregnant

The former are women pretending to be men. The latter are women if female.

Let's avoid language that perpetuates these identity delusions.
I was a coach once. There are two mistakes where most people can benefit a lot if they fix them. They are somewhat connected.

1) Foot strike to far in the front as in [1] and [2]. This mostly happens because people want to run fast, and therefore take longer steps. It is very counterproductive though. A longer steps lowers your center of gravity, and because the foot strikes the ground very far in front of the COG, you need to lift your COG before you can do the next step. This is visible in the video of the article as well. The amateurs have a much larger vertical movement of their heads and torsos than the Freeze.

2) Insufficient leg extension at the end of the ground contact as in [3] and [4]. There are two reasons for that. The first one is connected to the point above. If you keep the COG very low, you are forced to bend the hip and the knee while you move your torso over your foot. It's very hard to extend hip and knee after that, so many people just lift the leg instead of pushing all the way through. The second reason is mobility. Sitting all day shortens the hip flexor muscles (M. iliopsoas). Stretching them helps a lot.

Many of the people in the video are also starting quite fast and get considerably slower over the course of those 160m. Tiredness might be an important factor there.

[1] Bolt, foot strike: https://imgur.com/a/QOQaEX2

[2] Amateur, foot strike: https://imgur.com/a/Pmiijgx

[3] Bolt, leg extension: https://imgur.com/a/mRCq7uc

[4] Amateur, leg extension: https://imgur.com/a/cxzMkEi
"Hydrogen produces only water when burned"

This oft-repeated claim is incorrect. Burning hydrogen in air produces NOx and other pollutants, and this confusion is promoted by fossil fuel companies that persist in telling us that it's fine to keep burning things.

Hydrogen is great, but burning it is not sensible, be it by itself, or mixed into natural gas.
Thanks for that beautiful comment. It unlocked some jumbled memories of my own childhood.
Honestly, even without any anesthesia or sedatives, the worst part is drinking the laxative for prep. If you can sit through a visit to a dentist, you can likely handle the procedure itself without any meds. I was actually surprised they even do general anesthesia for it in the US.
> practice barefoot occasionally

And make sure to ease yourself into it gradually. Easy to go into it full-pelt and do lasting damage to things like your Achilles and knees.
> If you just make up a number claim it’s prime and nobody disputes it

You can test if a number is prime in polynomial time, much faster than a sieve. There’s no need to test every divisor to know whether a number is prime or not.

Algos like RSA generate large primes millions of times every day—-there’s nothing to take on faith.
Related:

Microsoft Project Silica, long term storage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38003883 - Oct 2023 (1 comment)

Microsoft's project Silica: Is glass the future of long term storage? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37895643 - Oct 2023 (13 comments)

Project Silica 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36089007 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21482904 - Nov 2019 (102 comments)
Once you set the guidelines, people usually want to innovate:

- maybe a machine-readable file descriptor is good. Stdout lines remain for the (potentially dwindling) awk and sed users, structured lines in something slightly wider than JSON to fd3. Based on this link, Markdown and HTML wouldn’t deserve their own file descriptor, but flags to spice up stdout.

- SBOM facility matters. If everything is a single-file executable, maybe —-version should spill SBOM to fd3.

- pipes are great for secrets, but don’t forget that a password manager will block for input. This is all headed toward non-interactivity, so prepare to use a secrets file.

- maybe man should be rewritten for a world where search terms can be very intelligently combined. `man git bisect` doesn’t need to hook into the innards of however git is packaged to infer what the user wants. I wish `man` would just wrangle system-specific cheat sheets; experienced people need to know what’s dangerous or unsupported on boutique systems.

- Compartmentalization means I sometimes need to a check if $HOME is not $HOME between the shell and a utility. Every OS has some devolution like this. There’s room to innovate making that more reliable.
I wondered about that as well. My best guess is that it's something to do with which pin makes contact first in the barrel, and having the battery parallel to the barrel's contacts, it might matter which one contacts first (though I can't think why).
I had to look up what “white hydrogen” actually was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_hydrogen
Swiping killed dating apps for me.

It feels too final, too brutal, too spur-of-the-moment. Maybe these people are lovely, maybe they will change their profile and I will change my mind. What if they swipe yes for me and I miss out on meeting a wonderful person.

I've tried, but I just can't do it. By forcing me into making a quick choice you have forced me into choosing not to choose.
That's what happens on Twitch even with advanced blockers.
This podcast changed my life trajectory, it's about how the conservation movement got started: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/wild-ones-live/
Free Software is about freedom. Not paying rent to Microsoft or their partners.
One of thousands of species homo sapiens has slaughtered mindlessly. We’re real special.
Every time a user space program makes an syscall the OS already has to go through layers of indirection. The OS can provide a program with a virtual or restricted view of the filesystem instead of the real thing just as easily. The OS already prevents processes from accessing each other's memory. There are some difficulties with sandboxing peripherals and GPU access, but for the most part sandboxing has absolutely no performance impact. Sandboxing doesn't mean the OS has to spin up a virtual machine every time you want to run a program.
Well, it’s not true of me, because I was lucky enough to find someone with whom to share a journey of growth (we got together in 2011, just before the dating apps took hold), and it’s worked out well for us.

But I see what life is like for friends who are trying to find serious relationships/life partnerships via the apps, and how much it’s all geared towards being/seeming “the best” and finding “the right person”, and how brutal it is for their self esteem and life outlook (a good friend is at the age where she’s probably missed the chance to have children, having tried to find the right guy via the apps for many years).

I often wonder how it could be better for her and other friends if there were apps/communities more geared towards finding people to grow with rather than finding someone who ticks the boxes now.
Communist Poland eas manufacturing Fiats on a licence.
Not an electrical engineer but I dabble; I believe it would be because center positive could have electric current going to the battery before the ground connection is made. Center-negative would guarantee the ground connects first. {edited} Based off a quick Kagi search and reddit results guitarists use center negative connections and most wall plugs provide center positive, but I don't really know why.
As the comments on the issue suggests, $629 is not the minimum price tag. It can be much cheaper without being more complicated.

But I agree Microsoft could probably make it easier and cheaper but I can’t see why they would want that given they want to drive apps to stores and not self publishing. They want the bad method of publishing to have bad ergonomics.

A letsencrypt style signing process would be possible and would let people base the trust on the ownership of company.com instead of a regular cert. And for most use cases this seems good enough.
> ”Digicert seems to be our only option now but a certificate there would cost $629 (tax excluded) for a single year.”

Yikes! At least Mac (and iOS) developers get this for $99/year. What makes code signing so expensive on Windows?
Try clicking the tty1-8 buttons, it should pop up a keyboard (but will scroll you to a weird place). I just sent a patch that should fix the scrolling behavior after a tty switch: https://github.com/rsc/unix/pull/1

If you have a different problem, post your OS/browser so we can try debugging it.
Let me guess, it looks like a mixture of epilepsy and schizophrenia, plus a splash of frustration and anger that your serious and medically recognized condition is being treated by someone LARPing as a Cleric?
Quant at Two Sigma Made Unauthorized Changes, Caused $620M in Gains and Losses
> I tend to fix my working hours (productive or not) to around 4 per day.

And we wonder why employers want us back in the office. I mean come on.

One day, there are threads here saying $120k is considered underpaid for an entry level dev out of a bootcamp. The next day, we talk about how all the RTO companies are only doing it because managers want to feel productive. The day after that, there are threads of remote devs boasting they don't even consistently work 4 hours a day. And the day after a thread about how we're all going to unionize to protect our rights.

This is truly an interesting phenomenon. Either these anecdotes are just that, anecdotes and not representative of most people, or there's a huge misalignment between employer and employee expectations.

Edit: to be clear, I fully support the author of this blog post because he works 3 hours per day working for himself. More power to him. If you truly think you’re underpaid and overworked, do what the guy in this article is doing! Stop making excuses and become an entrepreneur. Work for yourself, set your own hours, no managers, and you’ll leverage the full earning potential of your skillset. No employment contracts to comply with!
Love a spontaneous book rec. Thanks!
I don’t think dating people met offline will ever _not_ be common. Basically all social groups I’ve ever been in have resulted in relationships between people who met offline. Of course your social circles and experience may my differ from mine.
> It would have been objectively better from a usability to have just set '1 meter = 1 foot'

Which foot: the international foot (0.3048 meters) or the US survey foot (1200/3937 meters)?

* https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/geodesy/international-foot.htm...

* https://www.nist.gov/pml/us-surveyfoot

Here's another one: which weighs more, a pound of gold or a pound of feathers? It's a pound found of feathers that weighs more.

This is because gold (and other precious metals) are measured in the Troy system, where one pound is the equivalent of 373g:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight

Whereas most other things use the Avoirdupois system, where one pound is the equivalent of 454g:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoirdupois

Now, which weighs more: one ounce of gold or one ounce of feathers? In this case the gold, because the Troy system has 12 ounces per pound, so you'd have 31g, while the Avoirdupois has 16 ounce per pound, so you'd have 28g of feathers.

And remember that there are British/Imperial units and US customary units, so things like cups are different between countries:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

So when you say "We should have used unit X as the basis of Y", whose unit of X should have been used?

Also worth noting that the US has used the metric system as the foundation of the customary system since 1893:

> Under the Mendenhall Order of 1893, metric standards, developed through international cooperation under the auspices of BIPM, were officially adopted as the fundamental standards for length and mass in the United States, though some metric standards were used in practice before then. The definitions of United States customary units, such as the foot and pound, have been based on metric units since then.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Stat...
Parenting take time and practice. It is unreasonable to expect zero crying while in public.

As the parent takes the kids out more to restaurants and cafes, the kid will slowly learn how to behave. But it’s a process that takes time.
629 centss, Or 6 cents, is too much. It’s not the cost, it’s the walled garden. Same with iPhone development - at least when I looked at it - you couldn’t it’s download a Free sdk and get hacking, you had to apply and agree to all sorts of onerous legal restrictions.

Compare that to the days of dos, where you could type “qbasic” and away you went
Especially given the non-zero risk of complications, such as perforating your colon wall.
Wolfram is always fascinating on Lex even if he goes on a bit too long (it’s Wolfram after all). He talks ruliads in his second appearance: https://youtu.be/-t1_ffaFXao
> But the problem of binary formats over the long term will persist and I am not sure there is much we can do about that.

It doesn’t solve the problem, but you could perhaps mitigate it somewhat by having part of each unit of storage contain more me or more parsers for other formats. Eventually a standard “archival format” could evolve that way, but even if not you would be able to cross reference across multiple parsers in multiple units to to have a sort of Rosetta Stone for translations.
The article starts by saying mathematicians want things to work for large numbers, but that doesn't really get to the crux of the issue with primes. Infinite sequences are ubiquitous in number theory, and in general it will be infeasible to have a test for inclusion in these sequences for large enough numbers. But often they have structure that we can use to characterise them very precisely - think about square numbers, it's easy to say what the trillionth square number is, what it's remainder when you divide by 13, etc.

What makes primes hard, and also interesting, is that they seem to be extremely unstructured, we believe they behave like a kind of random number generator, even though they are clearly not random. In fact many of the theorems and conjectures mentioned in the article actually hinge on this. Random numbers are unpredictable on a small scale, but on a large scale they have very nice distributional properties, whereas more structured ones of similar growth rate will often have undesirable restrictions on them.
Funny note: Implementing e.g. a flexible observer pattern in Rust has the same ownership and lifetime problems. Usually this involves some weak reference, central broker, etc.

So, that's really not only a language problem, but rather the result of the pattern / data structure involved. I.e. cyclic dependencies not being very nice once you have to think about lifetimes.
And also Musk is not a model with Xitter finances.
Remote work requires management to adapt and it also requires good management.

My experience with technical teams is that management is usually poor to start with and, in addition, it didn't adapt to remote work.
I refer you to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38057305 above.
Chromebooks pioneered seamless, image-based system updates for Linux. Updates are downloaded in the background to a separate partition and activated at the next system reboot. This works similarly but using ostree instead of dual root partitions.
You are right, initially I was thinking of a chicken. Then I forgot what branch a chicken is supposed to be in and wrote animal instead. Changed to vertebrate now. Probably closer.

And yeah, this is just my personal view. I didn't say it is what it should be or how it actually is. Nothing sweeping about it. Simply how I feel based on my experience.
> Why is Boost, or any library at all, relevant in a discussion about C++?

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I've been following the scene since early 2000s, a lot of boost made it into the standard. FYI.
This reminded my of the video where David Hasselhoff drives a Trabant in 1997’s Budapest: https://videa.hu/videok/jarmuvek/david-hasselhoff-3-kivansag...
Previous commentary:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38013919
The move from cars to SUVs in America was so car manufacturers could skip emissions and safety requirements of cars on the technicality that SUVs are “light truck” chassis[1]. Dan Luu shows that those safety regulations are often a box ticking exercise for manufacturers except Volvo[2]. American stroad design is a particularly bad mix of street and road which is more dangerous for drivers and pedestrians than other designs. And the diesel emissions scandal so many car manufacturers were caught defrauding.

“willingness to trade the safety of people for a cheaper X” is exactly what we should expect car companies (and companies in general) to do, because that’s what they’ve done so often though history.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=jN7mSXMruEo “These stupid trucks are literally killing us” -NotJustBikes

[2] https://danluu.com/car-safety/
> But could probably use a similar idea to signal the power button with a pi or esp32?

I thought of that but it's not worth it, since these N100 systems cost around $150.

Perhaps a better solution is with a 555 timer, that turns on the machine when the led goes off.
Or for a more stylized option, Sea of Thieves (video game by Rare)
Doesn't RSA typically settle for numbers that are probably prime?
> The ImageMagick developers can fix their problem by purchasing a cheap OV code signing certificate and then using Conveyor

By "cheap" you mean $500/year[0]? Then for anyone who isn't open source it's another $45/month on top for Conveyor. That's hardly "accessible".

That said, Conveyor looks awesome. We (thankfully) distribute our application via Steam/EGS/etc but when we were looking at bundling installers before that it was a nightmare and we probably would have just paid for Conveyor.

[0] https://order.digicert.com/step1/code_signing
That's for a 1cm^2 electrode, as far as I remember not precious-metal rich either.
I love Carlin and it’s a good gag with some truth in it.

But it assumes we’re all hardwired to be a certain way, which is the very assumption I’m arguing needs to change.

It’s true most self-help is ineffective, and it’s because you can’t change much in your life just by consciously making an effort to change, or just “trying harder”. There is a lot you can change by undoing subconscious self-sabotage patterns and undertaking “letting go” practices, over a long enough period of time. This kind of stuff is fringe now but is growing in popularity because people are finding it far more effective than mainstream self-help and therapy (I sure have).