skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Windows solves this issue by not making language runtime part of the OS libraries in a way that pollutes other libraries.

That means that you can have your application linked with library A version X, and load another library that is linked with library A version Y, and so long as certain practices are followed, everything works because you're not getting cross-contamination of symbols.

Meanwhile on Linux the defaults are quite different, and I can't load OpenGL ICD driver that depends on GLIBC_2.38 symbol on application that was loaded with glibc-2.37. Moreso, a lot of APIs will use malloc() and free() instead of language-independent allocator, unless the allocation comes from kernel. And no, you can't mix and match those.
On a long enough time scale we are all dead, and Linux doesn't exist. That doesn't mean that in the decades that computer software has to be useful to actual people that things have to suck this badly right now.
> We are headed in a direction

I feel that way too. Which is why I feel it's important to push back by at least asking every business whether they accept cash, and always using cash when they do. If they don't accept cash, I always make it a point to mention that they're paying processing fees for that transaction that they could have avoided if they accepted my cash instead. Simply raising the issue in a non-confrontational and casual way keep them thinking about it, which can lead to some of them acting on those thoughts after it happens often enough.

Simply acquiescing without any mention of cash makes one complicit in the pernicious slide toward a surveillance-infused market.
Portable 16" monitor with 4k resolution and USB C passthrough. Very handy when travelling. It makes me much more productive when working from a hotel room or anywhere else, and it's just about the size of a 16" laptop, but thinner.
I agree. It's always very curious to see the way these internet forums (HN, Reddit, Twitter, etc) justify piracy. Every thread about Spotify for instance is full of people upset that they don't pay artists "enough", as if everyone wasn't pirating music en masse in the days before streaming. Give me a break. And I'm not even throwing stones. I remember filling my MP3 player with pirated music 20 years ago.

If you're pirating content, you're stealing it. I'd 100% prefer that people just own up to it than try to contrive these elaborate arguments about how the social contract has been completely rearranged and why ackshually they are not only justified but practically obligated to do it. Beyond ridiculous. Get over yourselves.
KDE _functions_ well, but my god does it need someone with an actual design education to help out.
So every program ever made?
And on a lower level, `fgetwc()` gets crashed deliberately in `libc` when applied to a stream created with `fopencookie()`. It should be incredible, but Linux `libc` is not Unicode-capable in 2023.
Windows KB5032288 – A New AI Limitation Is Introduced
>For those utilizing a Windows local account, a new limitation is introduced. Copilot assistance requests are capped at ten, prompting users to log in with a verified account once this threshold is reached.
"goals: ... replace the second page with a scanned copy ...after it was signed by the examiners... reproducibly."

Oh man, purist side quests like this are exactly how I would procrastinate a philosophy dissertation. But building a complex process for _reproducibly_ handling the once-in-a-lifetime event of accepting your dissertation examiners' signatures is taking it to a whole other level.
For me the key thing is that if you are doing "bottom-up" programming, then those macros/functions/etc. should be abstract and not related to business rules. Else you are doing premature abstraction, and you'll end up creating big rocks you have to carry on your back when you want to make a change.

As a consequence, I personally practice bottom-up very sparsely and carefully.
> Mastodon is better in every way

We might wish this to be true, but it isn't. There are more people on Twitter/X, which is the most important part of a social network.
All the grumbling about too much screening doesn’t pass my sniff test. No one can convince me that detecting cancer earlier isn’t, on average, a good thing. The real problem is how expensive our healthcare system is - the cost of even basic screening procedures makes them into a much bigger deal than they need to be.
SoCal to Vegas in two hours? High-speed rail comes closer to reality
That's just fantastic. And here I was thinking after the recent OpenZFS data loss bug that by staying with the good ol' ext4 I might miss on some nice features but at least it's rock solid.
> just noticed that "2.2 Kg" is used twice in the EPA release

Even better, there’s no such unit of mass as “Kg”. It’s “kg”.
AI image SaaS Civitai dropped by cloud provider after reports of possible CSAM
This is the same argument used in America for why taxes and expected gratuity aren't included in the item price, and it has done nothing to fix the problem.
so the ISPs are sucking the life out of the market?
Java is objectively terrible for writing good apps on modern personal computers. The one platform that did adopt it (android) had to practically rework the entire byte code and VM as well as the set of APIs for writing apps to make it work.
That was Phil Zimmerman’s book containing the PGP source whixh was published a few years before the Deep Crack book.
https://philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/BookPreface.html
I think the problem is that EU countries don't have much military themselves to begin with.
There is nothing to do with intelligence. They got on radar of Russian government. Which wanted Hetzner to follow Russian law and move all Russian data to Russia in order to operate with Russian citizens. Means literally Russian government expects companies to open data centers within borders and keep all the data inside the country (they even issued a law for that). Obviously Hetzner doesn't want to do so.

You can find the full list of "lucky" companies in here -- https://236-fz.rkn.gov.ru/agents/list (sorry, it's in Russian, but google translate should help you out).
I don’t know. Are CT or MRI machines ever found on anything but the ground floor because of the weight of them / installation complexity?

I agree that you want standardized designs, but modular stuff gets tricky because it’s physical infrastructure not code (eg things can fairly physically in unintended ways if the supports aren’t designed for it and designing supports for arbitrary undefined loads to be added later is tricky).

At least that’s my uninformed take.
You can have a homegrown solution but it won't have the content.
its almost like they want to send all of their talent to the US and Japan

such a weird move
Why is it terrible? Asking for real.
Fine, remove the "bubble" part. The idea that bitcoin is fine if you can afford to not touch your savings for a few years is incompatible with the idea it's a viable alternative to national currencies in unstable countries.
> who was really writing a Late Antique world

I agree with all the rest of your comment, but I think this point is only partly correct. Gondor can be interpreted as Byzantinian (late Antiquity), but Rohan is rather Anglo-Saxon (early Middle Ages), and the Shire actually quite modern (18th-19th century England). Numenor of course is Atlantean (romanticised classical Antiquity), the Druadain are Stone/Bronze Age, and the Elves - are the Elves.
> It doesn’t have a blade

It says it has a "ceramic blade" that "stays sharp up to 11x longer".
I'll go further. I fully do not recognize certain internet laws enacted recently by various states in the US, such as requiring identification to view a website, or banning children from using the internet after dark.

Laws like these are unconstitutional and I intend to actively disregard them while still serving customers in those states.
A traditional UNIX shell is more of a poor man's REPL, hence the difference in wording.
The objects aren't opaque, you can catch them in a variable and inspect it with get-member. I find it very nice to work interactively when developing a script -- call a getter command and either let it out to the console or store it in variable and then play with the variable.

Jason/XML/csv files and API results all get turned into PS objects easily, as do things with config objects like file permissions or SQL servers or whatnot. There's a bunch of dumb ideas like non-file filesystems for things like SQL and the Windows Registry, but the basic concept of "call command-line tools and navigate the filesystem with the ease of Bash, but also work with objects like Python or JS" works well for me.
As someone not too familiar with the underlying nuts and bolts of the internet, I wish the article had been a little more detailed about the direct aftermath of the "takeover". It wasn't clear to me if it was a permanent change that continued to this day or if it was just a temporary "demonstration". From wikipedia, it was apparently the latter, and was hastily reversed under heavy pressure from the US Government.
ads are money, and very few businesses can avoid the allure of them.

It also comes down to the side of the consumer. Almost every-time people would pick free+ads over paid+no_ads. now, lower_pay+ads over higher_pay_to_remove_ads is a much more dubious premise, but the moder pricing tiers suggest that some do go for it.
Then what about the clause about outnumbering? Regardless this is clearly an unreasonable test as phrased.
Yeah, smart locks are nice. I have Nuki 2 and am equally happy. Even though it disconnects from the wifi, get huge latency on notifications and battery lasts only 2 months at most, the autolock and opening door with fingerprint is total addiction and works flawlessly. If all other features worked as promoted for that price, I would buy it for all the doors. A friend of mine wasn't so lucky, his Nuki blocks constantly and drains battery after a couple of days...

I was always behind an open door during the day until I bought Nuki. Now I am always locked and surprisingly, after only 6mo of usage I am very uncomfortable when autolock is not enabled.

Not needing a key but still having a backup in case it stops working is awesome.

It is expensive though, Nuki without fingerprint reader and dor sensor is less than $200 but with everything price is around $450
$10 USB flash drive.
> one's pearls in disgust over any little thing is showing up a lot in this thread,

not really, but I guess arguing with you about it is pointless as you are either ignoring or not understanding the points I am making and instead try to exaggerate things by implying that finding something tastless means much more then it does
Naturally, you missed the part I mentioned it was the plan 20 years ago, not how it looks like today.
There are some amazing people that valued what I'm doing. One person even donated $1000 years ago. But that doesn't make it sustainable.

I think it's time for me to compete on the market. I believe Plume is going to be a good addition to the pool of productivity apps today, but I'll let people judge that when it's released. I hope you will sign up to get an update[2] and let me know what you think of it when it is released.

BTW, are you suggesting I copied Standard Notes? Not really, I don't like their design. Notes is in active development since 2014 (first commit on GitHub in 2015), back then I didn't even know about Standard Notes and the core design barely changed.

[1] https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/releases/tag/v0.8.0-bet...

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/
Ooh, nice, which did you purchase?
Good, fuck exploitative machine learning.
Elon Musk Says He May Bring Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Back to X
True, but my parenthetical was covering the opposite issue: it's possible to not realise DUAL_EC_DRBG is broken (rather than impossible to realise it) if your only knowledge of cryptography is, say, hash functions and stream ciphers (so you don't recognise public key cryptography from looking at it). It's unlikely, because DUAL_EC_DRBG is really obviously broken, but I wouldn't fault someone who knew nothing about elliptic-curve cryptography for missing it, even if they were familiar with other types of cryptography. (I would fault them for claiming that it's secure, rather than recognizing that they don't know enough to evaluate its security, but you can't conclude something's backdoored just from that.)
Those aren't being caused by vitamin deficiencies then.

Headaches and lack of sleep can be caused by hunger, stress, tension, anxiety...
I really don't, I definitely get annoyed at the website, and I get way more annoyed at websites which make it hard to say no to the cookies easily.
there are even more niche products, literally called bean counters which dose whole beans to a certain weight. believe it or not they are well over $100. the deep end of coffee is both insane and expensive
It doesn't seem to reduce the supply of labor in Canada, since the author of the article is self-taught.

However it's likely to increase the overall level of training, which is good for someone who needs their broken trim board replaced.
Same - I just now discovered it existed; it was mentioned on the Sneakers wikipedia page and I just love that stuff like this has been archived.
> A tablet computer included in the cube pack is programmed to minimise assembly errors, and an alarm sounds if the wrong equipment is put in any given cube.

This is incredibly smart! Guessing Ultra Wideband beacons in some of the equipment, so you know what cube it's in!
The worst part about avif support in edge is it was added as an optional feature flag ~8 months ago but it still isn't enabled as a default. Nearly every other browser supports avif by default these days.

https://winaero.com/avif-support-is-now-available-in-microso...
Probably someone who never had to fix a critical bug on a friday.
I mean it's like wearing a helmet on your motorbike, 99% of the time it is useless, but the day you crash, you better have it and not need it than the opposite.
There are plenty of blog posts about how containers work in Linux is still dependent on external resources, unless care was taken when creating those images.
I think you misunderstand how EU works. In reality it s a social club where mediocre politicians become careerists and climb the social ladder with a practically unlimitd budget of german money. There is no dialogue with any society other than with the brussels bubble and sometimes european academia. Some ambitious people latch onto the popular matters in the media like privacy, AI, climate, blockchain etc, and naturally they want to become a part of it by creating ... rules.

There was a time decades ago when EU seemed to have some cohesion, nowadays it s just ambitious individuals who want power for a few years and then go on with their lives to other endeavors. It's almost all process and a lot of marketing-speak these days. Really a lot of marketing-speak , that sounds frighteningly more and more like the ESG and DEI departments of corporates. It s become soulless
The whole European food mountain was a thing. And we're still wasting plenty of food, we're not going to starve any time soon.
As an alternative approach, the new Fellow Ode grinder integrates an ionizer [0] the grinds pass through for similar effect. A similar setup could be hacked into other machines or form part of a manual process for those wanting to experiment further.

[0]: https://youtu.be/B-bXctXbXFc?t=205
freezer yes, fridge idk.
Because it’s not “sexy” anymore. Now “sexiness” lies with web crap, so Electron is a “great tool”, while Java is “terrible”.
you can, but the reality is that

1. most consumers don't care. For them if it's longer than some months it's basicaly perpetual. Buying for them is a raw deal because they treat media like a rental and forget about the purchase in the long run.

2. streaming services pretty much "solved" this problem already. There's no notion of owning anything on Netflix and people are fine with that. The age of digital purchases is fading (except maybe for games. But even then, there are more f2p models out there).
Something of a Simpson's paradox there that one of the boroughs with some of the country's wealthiest households (Chelsea), maintains one of the lower levels of car ownership (35%).
$150 for a Leap v2 is an incredible deal. Great chair, I used mine for many years.
> If you can't build a sustainable business on a piece of software when you are the steward of that software, control the product direction and backlog etc., then you're not very good at the business.

The elephant in the room here is that software is incredibly expensive. Developing and maintaining a large project requires a large team of high salary software devs.

I’d estimate the cost of building, supporting, and maintaining Vault at $3-4M a year bare minimum for the core team and related overhead. It also takes a ton of energy and focus all the way to the top of the organization.

The company building and maintaining the software must spend that. Someone just using the software to resell in the cloud or rebranding it can instead put all that money and mental energy into marketing and ops.

The company that does not have to maintain the software has a massive advantage. They’re freed from that burden.
I've been wanting to get a CO2 sensor for a while now, but I want one that interfaces with Homebridge or directly with Homekit. I'd appreciate any recommendations!
You really didn't notice the chart is dated 2018 when you went into your "England COVID debacle good. Immigration bad." take, did you?
I'm not sure how its possible to get a PhD in the modern era without learning LaTex. It is the required markup and publishing tool for any respected research publication. Since PhDs require (at least mine did) multiple published works in respected journals and conferences, I feel like LaTex is table-stakes for doctoral research and degrees.

Furthermore, outside of my dissertation work, the classes I took often required you to produce other research works which also had to be created with LaTex. Overleaf (a SaaS platform for Latex collaboration and sharing) was essentially the operating system of my PhD. I spent 75% of my time in there.

I feel like it would be impossible to get a Doctoral degree without LaTex knowledge. Maybe it depends on the university?
It has been the best antidepresant in the history of life, just legalize it.
Honey, the elites control most of the infrastructure related to this stuff now.
> but it really only "works" when you are willing to manually verify the results or just accept the fact that it may be spewing BS

Verifying a solution is often much easier than coming up with a solution. GPT-4 has produced a lot of "hallucinations" when I asked about my programming problems, but they were easy to discount. OTOH it did help me a lot with coming up (or inspiring) solutions which would take me a long time to find otherwise.

Same thing for Dall-E / Midjourney. I'm unable to produce any usable graphics on my own, with these tools I'm able to produce interesting illustrations for my needs, even if I need to discount many results. It literally provides me with a capability I didn't have before. Notice the similar pattern - it's much easier to critique a solution (generated image) than to come up with it.

I believe there are so many applications where this holds true. You can create domain-specific chatbots helping out knowledge workers in almost any discipline.
Canton Avenue in Pittsburgh: The Steepest Street in the United States
Occam's razor probably
" The break came not with Brexit but in 2008/9 under New Labour, with the financial crisis."

Yes it did. But the rise and fall of the former "sick man of Europe" has many reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UK_Oil_Production.png
> I've heard this about Lisp, but I don't really get how this doesn't apply to other languages.

It can be, and he even says as much:

>> Bottom-up design is possible to a certain degree in languages other than Lisp. Whenever you see library functions, bottom-up design is happening.

I'll also point to kazinator's quote of Ken Thompson in the previous discussion linked by dang:

>> It is the way I think. I am a very bottom-up thinker. If you give me the right kind of Tinker Toys, I can imagine the building. I can sit there and see primitives and recognize their power to build structures a half mile high, if only I had just one more to make it functionally complete. I can see those kinds of things. The converse is true, too, I think. I can’t— from the building—imagine the Tinker Toys. When I see a top-down description of a system or language that has infinite libraries described by layers and layers, all I just see is a morass. I can’t get a feel for it. I can’t understand how the pieces fit; I can’t understand something presented to me that’s very complex. Maybe I do what I do because if I built anything more complicated, I couldn’t understand it. I really must break it down into little pieces. - Ken Thompson, Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson, 1999

And if you use a TDD style of development (in particular, but test-heavy in general with frequent use of unit and integration tests below the full end-to-end-test level) you'll also likely stumble onto a similar bottom-up style of development.

I think, circa 1993, his emphasis on Lisp and bottom-up development made a lot more sense than it does today with the increasing availability of interactive development environments (essentially every dynamically typed language, pretty much; but even many others like Java and C#) and increased emphasis on test-heavy development methodologies.
Poverty is relative. Someone may be compensated well enough to afford rent, parking and all that, but after paying everything they have little money left for themselves. That $15 may eat into this meaning you may reconsider whatever arrangement you have - effectively pricing you out.

> The extra $15 will discourage people from making unnecessary trips into the city thus reducing traffic/congestion and improving quality of life for people who live in the city.

How is that going to do that? If someone is affluent, I don't think they are going to think twice about spending $15 extra. It will discourage people who cannot afford it.

> For instance if someone live in Brooklyn and needs to make a trip to lower Manhattan they'll be more likely to use public transportation.

Yes, people who can't afford spending $15. Anyone else will continue as they do, as private transport is safer, quicker and more convenient - plus there will be better traffic, as the poor will be taken off the road.
I met Mr. Engelbart once as a child when my mother worked at SRI in the 90s/early 2000s. At the time I had seen the mouse prototype while wandering the halls and on some open house day I was introduced to him. He listened to me, a young kid, talk excitedly about technology for what must've been awhile and was very encouraging and kind. While I was excited about computers at the time I had no idea the significance of his ideas until I was an adult.

Looking back on it, I am awed by the kindness he showed to some random kid.
Latex coding is the favorite bike shedding project of many CS students.
> If you have 1000 songs and listen to 10 per day (still 1%), the odds of hearing a song that was also played yesterday are a little less than 1 in 10, right?

No. It's 10*(1/1000)=1%.

It'll happen a few times a year only.
> You wrote a lot of text to say that you're the only one being rational here.

I didn't mean that. It is unfortunate you took it that way; I hope you will consider a more charitable reading.

It seems like we're talking past each other.
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