skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since OSDev is community project, so I think that says way more about the community than any strong bias on the part of OSDev. That said, a lot of "low level" is concerned with shoving bits around efficiently, not higher level abstractions useful for writing web browsers and such. C (for all it's issues) has a pretty good impedance match for that use case.

The reality is there have always been other languages[1], and not all of them codified the evil stream-of-bytes paradigm. We've been writing OSes in Ada since the 80s. Pascal variants were somewhat common back in the day (e.g. Charles River PERC, CDC Cyber NOS). Apple was on the Pascal train for a long time. Unisys Clearpath is still written (and sold) in their highly extended Algol variant (ESPOL)[2]. I've used OSes written in Modula-2 & Modula-3. There's a number of folks that are trying FreePascal as an OS language.

Of course, there was a healthy LispOS population at one brief, shining point in time (sigh...Genera). Tektronix and a few others had Smalltalk machines.

IBM still writes a lot of low-level stuff in PL/I dialects across it's proprietary product lines (i Series, z Series). Intel wrote it's first ones (e.g. iRMX, ISIS) in a PL/I dialect (PL/M). And CP/M is there too.

Then you can get to the really niche OS writing languages: JOVIAL, anyone?

[1] The source code for some of these legacy OSes is out there. Studying it might be instructive.
[2] Clearpath is the current incarnation of MCP from the Burroughs Large System mainframes (e.g. B5000, B6500, etc.). Stack based and very interesting; now runs as a VM on top of Xeon servers. Not only can you still buy Clearpath, you can download a hobbyist version to try out locally: https://www.app5.unisys.com/library/gmmail/emails/documents/...
Originally Rust 1.76 was supposed to drop support for Windows 7/8.1 (for the standard target), but it looks like this has been delayed to 1.77 or 1.78. Rust 1.76 introduces new win7 targets, which only get tier 3 support.
Is it not fair to say they're operating independently, but Microsoft simply set expectations that drove this independent company to do this?

Corp B to continue the growth it forecasts apart of the merger needs to continue to invest in areas of high returns. Cut where it makes sense.

Corp B now has access to Corp A even solely as independent corps. Corp A gives them private pricing to Azure. Corp B starts shutting down their own infra/data center and need less staff. Don't need as much staff if you're shifting the management of many things to Corp A. Many companies do this with buying managed services.
Well, it was either continue down a path of irrelevance or try something different. Hopefully this means a brighter future for Firefox.
"WNT" == map succ "VMS"
Does anyone know any resources that show a beautiful website and explain how to recreate it?
All the problems Mozilla has are summed up in this one sentence (taken from the Mozilla blog post):

> Enter Laura Chambers, a dynamic board member who will step into the CEO role for the remainder of this year.

"Laura Chambers" is a link to her LinkedIn profile. Nothing you can do but shake your head if it didn't occur to anyone that putting that link in the post announcing her appointment was a bad idea.
Virtual box has graphical configuration for a ton of different options. It also “just works” in many cases and is relatively easy to use.

I am surprised the open source community has not built better gui tools, and no project, closed or open has made configuring pcie passthrough easy.

I have always wanted to be able to run Windows in a virtualized session with my GPU for gaming, and use my onboard APU for the Linux host, but the configuration is daunting, and many of the games I play today don’t work on linux thanks to anticheat or DRM.
You're completely wrong. Gemini can perfectly understand what is being asked, so this isn't a syntax issue. Notice that, on the answer, it even states the solution: "starting from 1, and combining `* 2`, `* 3` and `+ 5`, we must reach 17`". So it does fine with reading the formal syntax, yet it fails to combine these operations to get from "1" to "17", which is something most 10 yo kids would have no trouble doing. And that's after millions spent in training. Now tell me again this is the architecture that will figure out the cure of cancer?
The “original” UML is/was, I believe, NetBSD running as a “rump kernel” and something that virtualization of the actual kernel does not, directly and on its own, fill the shoes of.
Weird, when my 2016 Crosstrek needed its 3G modem replaced, it was a voluntary service bulletin and totally free. They did it in a day and I never had an issue with it again.

What is a DCM?
Many people don't realize the bitcoin protocol allows for multisignature transactions, making escrow much simpler to implement (e.g. you can make a 2of3 keypair or 3of5 or anything you want to pay for blockchain space to transact).
WireGuard Driver Merged to DragonFlyBSD Kernel
and iPod before that
I know that, but the comparisons are still ridiculous

the canadian properties are in some cases less than 100 square meters, getting compared with land properties of square kilometer scales!

the discrepancies in land value are artificial and are part of the global inequality crisis

but on the global scale the inequality is not between individuals, but between cities and states (and countries)
we are not in an exclusive enclave; there are hostile elements here.

there are also some major techplayers here, that im sure would be flooded out of functionality by a mob of lookyloos, that just want to say hi im your fan, autograph please?
Anecdotally I had a friend who exclusively used iTunes on Windows XP back in the day for all his music management and playback. I still have a screenshot of his library that he sent to me over AIM. At the same time I was using Winamp for playback and Mp3tag [0] for tagging.

Present day, I only ever install iTunes on a Windows machine to do backups. My parents still use it to copy CDs to their phones, but that's it.

[0] https://www.mp3tag.de/en/
Most people have also never used gpt4 as it's paywalled. Now the free and premium offerings are roughly in sync between Google and OpenAI. I assume the rebranding is trying to wash away the initial sentiment.
Not as implausible as it sounds...

The guy in Luton whose house was stolen did get it back, but it took two years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67356...
Linda has a particularly unsavory origin story (hint: It has a connection to Ada): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_(coordination_language)

That probably wouldn't fly anymore in today's CS research.

As for Oberon, the moon may have played a role, but according to stories recently told at Niklaus Wirth's memorial service, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the mythological character in general https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon may have had more to do with it, as Wirth was said to have some flair for the theatrical arts in his private life.
I'm working on a Java/JooQ app and having a lot of cases where I am passing strings (e.g. '32f93ed0-28cb-4aa4-8ec3-7956d68c768f') around that are the primary keys of tables.

It would be nice to get some more help from the type system such as subtyping a string. You can't do that in Java but I guess you could build an ORM system that distinguishes between the key to a record and the rest of the record and that would jive well with multipart keys.
How about a Baba Yaga style drone which just carries sightseers to the top and takes them and their poop back down again?
Doesn’t matter. Atheists are generally comfortable with the concept of a fully external deity concept because who gives a shit.
There's so many damned "One"s. I eagerly attend a "Google Two" or "Amazon Two"
There is Canada/Mexico for labour if you just want to get things on the same continent which still protects the US from supply chain shocks somewhat.
Thanks! SnapCode is actually 100% client based right now. It downloads the jars and the CheerpJ JVM browser runtime and runs on the local machine. Files are stored in the browser index-db.

There is a preview feature for using drop box and I'm looking into using local file system APIs, but its not really there yet.
The only one that really sticks out as odd there is the 10th gen. Basic, Air, Pro is also their laptop lineup, right—it has been for quite a while, and nobody has complained. Mini seems like a reasonable and easy to interpret addition give tablet use-cases.

I’m guessing the 10th gen is the one with the super long support lifetime or something like that? That’s a slightly weird iPad-ism.
In order for the concept of "median voter" to make sense there needs to be some way of ranking voters, so when you say "median voter", what method of ranking are you referring to?
Until iTunes gets better about specifying the exact level of quality of the music tracks I'm buying, it's still a no-go for me.
Yeah, I made the mistake of not quantifying that my comment was very city based where you can sit in traffic for 10 minutes and move nowhere. It's also based on the experience in Europe where the public transport, particularly in Western Europe is insanely good.
This blog post was a missed opportunity for Gemini: Ideally, the blog post should have been by-lined as "written by Gemini" (with no human intervention besides prompting). Even better - the attached video shows the blog post being generated.
Three cheers for someone who has become hated by the only community that still use Firefox.

I don’t think Firefox will ever see double digit usage again, but I hope there can be some kind of turn around and privacy focus built into my browser.
Actually it's more that Apple TV is both a piece of hardware and an iTunes-like service, while Apple TV+ is a subscription service akin to Netflix.

The Apple TV hardware and the Apple TV app on your iDevice can both be used without paying a subscription. The hardware has all other streaming apps a la Roku, and both it and the app on your iPhone can be used to purchase and watch TV shows and movies.
Yeah, as you read about this and watch the associated video it slowly dawns on you..
It's incredibly funny that despite the sophisticated high-bandwidth data channels available to them, they ended up using a half-duplex modem connection to a custom ground station. It still feels like our world is full of hacks like that, maybe more than ever -- "stupid", and shouldn't work, but do.
> This finding suggests that in shallower water, the ruckus produced by plentiful piscine participants procreating all at once might be more powerful and more important for ocean mixing than previously thought.

And, of course, fantastic use of alliteration.
The ask here is for you to align with the rest of us on learnings.
Iceland Volcano Erupts Again, Cutting Off Hot Water to Thousands
A previous thread on that question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14852625
Diagnosis: No Cancer (Re: Node.js Is Cancer)
Firstly we're not talking about "terrorists" but people who intelligence services have "received a signal" about. That's pretty ambiguous but sounds like it could mean an anonymous tip-off or information from another department.

Secondly, no one's suggesting that they let everyone go their merry way without looking into anything. Only that widespread surveillance must be justified e.g. the evidence must pass some threshold and other responses have been ruled out.
No, it is `n * 3`. The challenge is simple: starting from "1", we must reach "17" by combining the operations `x * 3`, `x * 2` and `x + 5`. What is embarrassing is that Gemini manages to read the formal jargon and understand the challenge just fine. Yet it fails to combine these operations to get from "1" to "17", which is something most 10 yo kids would be able to do.
https://archive.ph/VNd8L
TikTok Shop is taking on Amazon – one viral video at a time
Image generation is available in the free tier although it seems to be region locked. I take it you're not in the US
> making money off of it any way you can

Of course there isn’t an inconsistency there. Its such a non-identity there isn’t anything to be inconsistent with, outside of declaring the company a on-profit.

The problem of lack of identity isn’t always about lack of consistency. It also is a lack of focus.

Lack of focus leaves the door open to vastly increased complexity. The need for more and more employees as per employee impact drops.
No, that doesn’t make any sense. You can’t map simulated universes to your conception of current algorithms.
> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/normalize.css">

Thanks Cloudflare
What it was like working for Gitlab
It's clear the previous CEO's strategy was not working - neither from a level of personal appeal to me, or for population at large measures like market share, so I'm hoping this means a positive change.
I want someone to ask Gemini to pick a product at random you [the tester] might be interested in and, after picking, the why it thinks you're interested in it, as well as a convincing SWOT analysis of why you should buy it.
I cannot help but wonder just how many commenters here will start to donate to Mozilla now. I've lost count of how many "I'd love to donate, but if only Mitchell Baker weren't making such a mess of it" comments I've seen - hopefully Mozilla can get a jump with some additional funding by way of donations, and accelerate from there.
A lot of articles on reducing phone use coming out at the moment. For example (older, but recently updated: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/break-up-with-you...) I think a lot about the fact that we carry on our persons the most addictive device ever created.

I've recently adopted the grey scale trick -- set your phone to grey scale display mode. It works pretty well! Of course, I can always disable it if severely tempted, but it creates another hoop to jump through. I also have one of the phone safes, which I use sporadically. Ironically, having an Apple watch makes the phone safe more effective, because I can lock up the phone but still answer critical calls if necessary.

Weird that in the 23rd century, a lot of us are replaying Oddyseus, collectively tying ourselves to the mast.
Furniture is basically worthless once used, so the curb is the easiest usually.

Just make sure you plop it out there when it's not going to rain.
I'm not here to enhance my personal brand. Doing that would require a passably distinctive name anyway - vs. I'm much closer to "John_Doe_37" than to "Isaac_Asimov".
> The new mobile app is also called Google Gemini.

Only in the U.S. for now.

The Gemini app initially will be released in the U.S. in English before expanding to the Asia-Pacific region next week, with versions in Japanese and Korean. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/google-ap-chatgpt-san-fra...
I mainly use my phone to "waste time", somehow I've gotten into a lifestyle where I end up waiting for other people a lot to do something - codependency, woo - and tend to browse Reddit while doing so. It's fine if it's a few minutes, up to half an hour, but after that I start to think wtf I'm doing with my time.

Mind you, I'm not alone, the other two people living here do the same, the joys of ADHD I suppose.
I don't use my real name here (or anywhere online) because it lets me be more open and honest in my public conversations. If I used my real name, there are a lot of things I wouldn't dare to even comment on.

It is my real identity, though. It's one of the names I've been using consistently online for decades, so there is continuity. The "JohnFen" you saw online 15 years ago is still the same "JohnFen" you see online now.
> it's not articulated in detail why and how it works

Answering that is a very long and fascinating deep dive in human biology with plenty of unknowns. I wouldn't even try to summarise as I myself am nowhere near knowledgeable enough on the topic. For myself, I've noticed that maintaining a calorie deficit is simply easier if it's a regular meal and then no meal than if it's two half meals.
You use the vector embedding only for retrieval of the actual text, which then gets injected into the prompt.
I mean, Air, Mini, and Pro are all distinct form factors. It's confusing only to the extent that you might not know which one is "best" from a CPU/memory/storage POV. But Apple has succeeded for iOS products at least at making that distinction mostly meaningless: pick the form factor you want, then pick the storage capacity and sometimes the color, you're done.
How many mathematicians do you know? All the mathematicians I know are interested in both notational and linguistic clarity.
> 1) Cult-like sales tactics. I don’t mean that as a simple put down, I mean literally a lot of the same tactics cults use to gain recruits. “If it’s not working, you just haven’t committed hard enough, this is your fault” is universal, but far from the only example.
2) A pattern of coaches-coaching-coaches. Almost nobody makes money coaching normal people

My family got sucked into Amway back in the 90s, and that MLM scheme relies (or relied) on both of these. It started with the "motivational" tapes which sounded like cult indoctrination, and then once you're hooked you learn that the people that make the most money aren't the "leaf nodes" who sell a few products, but the people who have more suckers "under them" in the tree. So, they have a huge focus internally on coaching you to recruit others into the scheme, and coaching you on how to coach them to recruit. Nasty stuff.
“Business coaches” who’ve never had a successful business of note aside from selling business coaching (and usually, the impression of success at that is just them “faking it until they make it”—aka lying, which is to say, they have had zero successful businesses of note, if any at all).
> like visitors of a specific mosque? Or a pub frequented by known nazis?

But the article had a slightly different example than yours:

> on visitors to a certain mosque or protesting farmers

You changed "protesting farmers" to "a pub frequented by known nazis." It's emotionally easy not to have a problem with targeted surveillance of nazis, but surveilling farmers, who are currently protesting throughout Europe? That's clearly politically motivated surveillance of ordinary, peaceful, law-abiding citizens who dissent from the government's views.
Because while you could definitely find out who I am, I don't necessarily want this account to be the first thing that comes out if someone googles my name.

Bonus points for ungooglable usernames.
I’ve noticed this and it seems like the biggest factor is the transfer setting in Photos. I have constant issues (e.g. file copy stops after a few files, can’t see all files in the folder, or phone just disconnects) if (under Transfer to Mac or PC) it’s set to automatic, but when changing it to keep originals, the files copy without any problems. I assume the automatic setting makes the iPhone try to convert between HEIC and JPG.

If you want a certain format for the images, just set the camera to use that format, or convert it yourself after copying off the phone.
Aha thanks very much for the validation. My solution is nearly identical. Much appreciated.
Without any knowledge, I would suspect one of two things:

1) HVAC compressors are older technology

2) Generators on-site to supplement energy needs
Previous discussion about the study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38537933
> The problem is, of course, that such levity gets undercut

I don't think that's true. That is, I'm sure it's true for the author of this article, but it's not true for the people involved. Humor has always thrived in dark times and places. What is viewed as grim and humorless from the outside is often not seen that way from within, else the grimness itself is what creates the response of humor. Is the idea that Soviet nuclear researchers should have spent their lives in morose silence because their facilities were built with gulag labor? It would be one thing for a click-bait writer with no understanding of history to take this position, but being a historian, I'm surprised the author of this excellent website does.
At some point, we should stop thinking about engine/theme. This is a "normal" website.

This kind of blog/website can easily be done by writing every blog post in a separate html file then doing a quick script to put together the index.

Your script could also add use a very simple template for each page, template in which you can use your own CSS. (here, it is an external file containing 142 lines of straightforward CSS).

Yes, I did it for my own blog. But I also added the fact that I would like to write my posts in the Gemtext format. So I wrote a parser to convert it to HTML.

And, in the end, it proved to be quicker and easier to do it all by hand myself than to learn any templating engine or any static website generator. Also, I never understood CSS (I’m really really bad at that) but managed to do what I want in exactly 42 lines of CSS. And, guess what, lot of people are asking me where I found my "theme".

I think that everybody working with the Web should be required to do a pure HTML/simple CSS website at least once to realize how easy and straightforward it is to NOT use any engine/theme.

And how much time and energy we are wasting on layers above layers above layers.
What do you mean by efficient? When I lived in Austin, we lived in a neighborhood where the (only) train picked up, and it dropped me off 5 blocks from my office downtown. It was an extraordinarily pleasant period of my life. But even then, in ideal conditions, it still took longer than driving, and I had to time my departures to avoid waiting 15-30 minutes at the station.

I'm definitely in favor of re-designing our cities and infrastructure to support that kind of lifestyle; I believe most people would prefer it if they experienced it. It seems inevitable from a carbon stand point. But I'm skeptical it will ever be more efficient?
> " ... testimony to the U.S. Helsinki Commission said more than 19,000 children have been taken into Russian-controlled territory or into Russia itself"

Rhetorical Question: What the hell is Russian Government doing?

My Answer: Being an Empire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojic7zb2EfI - per one young Russian poly-sci student:

> "We have an irrational culture. We cannot fully assess the consequences of our political choices."

Per the young man Russia needs De-communization, and De-imperialization.
Also:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39302744
I was just asking.

> its a preference

Thanks.
Reasonable working hours where employees aren't pressured to work more than 40 hours per week, actual PTO rather than "unlimited time off," limits to on-call rotations, protection against layoffs masquerading as PIPs, reasonable release schedules, protections that prevent junior engineers from getting screwed on salary, etc cetera. While all of these things don't strictly require a union, all of these things become much easier when there's a unified front advocating for change rather than individual engineers trying to advocate for change with their managers.
I mean an entity that created the coordinate system and all the constants and laws that allow particles to exist and move is effectively divine with respect to the lowly inhabitants therein right?
If there's a simulation and we as a species are living in it, and bound by its rules (laws of physics, etc.) then you get into the question of who made said simulation with the rules that constrain us. Since this simulator sysadmin has control over us in ways we cannot comprehend or push back against in a meaningful way, I'd say it counts as a higher power.

Since its existence cannot currently be proven false through empirical means, belief in its existence relies on faith.

A person who believes in simulation theory in which someone created and administrates the simulation can be said to believe in a higher power than humanity, on faith.

It's a creation myth as explained by a bunch of engineering majors who never bothered to pay attention during their anthropology classes as freshmen.
Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election day