skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah sure, but communication is also something with a growing runtime cost, which is why starting into it with a realistic picture of the other person is important. Most people might ask one or two clarifying questions and stop asking after because they don't want to look like they are stupid.

And the way I like to look at it is that we should try to have a good grip on ourselves first, because this is what we can affect ourselves — how you start into a communication will greatly affect the reaction of the others anyways.

Especially in IT it is not rare that the answer to clarifying questions muddies the water even more, because explaining a thing often requires knowledge of other technical concepts.

I work in an educational context nowadays and the people entering my door might be anything between totally clueless and domain experts, and just by looking you won't necessarily notice who is which, so indeed you need to figure this out in a small exchange. Bad communicators would skip that step and talk the same to both beginners and domain experts until they maybe get the clue, but if you're unlucky by that point the communication has already ended.
Extra price for all government required compliance documentation.
Now some yes, well-known. Before there were efforts to hide data in certain forums. Please take a look at the link from a well-known newspaper in Spain. Unfortunately it is in soanish but you could use a translator if you cannot speak spanish.

There was a scandal in 2009 related to this topic because a hacker leaked evidence of manipulation.
double space was nice unless you had anything that's been already compressed. I hated when it showed me 450MB of disk space (I had 160MB HDD), but then after installing Warcraft 2 it took 160 of my free space instead of 50MB (don't remember real figures, however war2 had already compressed files and it was shown in Norton Commander as "size: (let's say) 50MB, occupied: 160MB"
Sounds legit. SAC under Curtis LeMay also used all-zero codes.
It's really hard to read this comment as anything but a quiet suggestion that perhaps PTSD is a result of mental health workers and not the result of trauma. What seems far more likely is that people trapped in cultures that have not really developed a strong mental health response (e.g., 20th century America) have few if any resources available to help people with their literally invisible condition, and they have been trained through stigma and other "culture-bound" behaviours to keep their problems to themselves and show that stiff upper lip.
Plan 9 from User Space binaries are on /usr/local/plan9/bin/ on OpenBSD.
I had the exact same experience.

I'm on Dupixent indefinitely for eczema, which it cures 100%. As a side effect, it 100% cured my seasonal hay fever and reduced many of my food allergies to a level, where I can just eat the food and ignore the very slight allergic reaction that remains.

For me, the entire field of monoclonal antibody therapy is pure magic. Absolutely amazing how well it works, a true silver bullet (with home injections twice a month and eye drops for the dry eyes).
> I think the specific way PTSD is normally described may be one of these

I'm not sure I understand: Are you saying that there is research that says PTSD is WEIRD? Or is this your idea?

One common feature of Western culture, or at least US culture, is to play down PTSD (and other psychological conditions). Suicide rates among veterans is sky-high, in part because PTSD is treated as dubious. Let's be careful about what we say.
I started making one for to talk about and share my favorite punk music, but I’m thinking about expanding it to be more personal too.
https://punk.nekoweb.org/
Thanks, added.

alias ports="lsof -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN -n -P | awk '{print \$1, substr(\$0, index(\$0,\$9))}'"
I would need someone else to tell me because I'm not buying a $3,000 toy.
Consumer SaaS is booming on mobile, there's a lot of money to be made but it requires bigger teams and investments now than it did 5-10 years ago. OP is right in that it's harder to have a lifestyle business selling small apps.
But they die after seven days?
For me, the issue is, who do I distrust less - Google or Apple?

Yes, they're both shitty in a number of ways. And while is is easier to root Android devices than it is to root iOS ones, last I checked you were still dependent on the vendor kernel and parts of the vendor display server on Android because not all of the necessary drivers and related config are upstreamed (and the lack of TIVO clauses in GPLv2 makes this possible) - meaning replacing 95% of userspace doesn't actually get you very far if your issue is not being able to trust the vendor.

I choose Apple because:

1. Apple is primarily a hardware company. When I buy their hardware, I am their customer. When they make noises about protecting my privacy, I am reasonably confident that very few parts of the business are working to undermine that. OTOH, Google is an advertising company. When I buy their hardware, my eyeballs become their product, which they rent out to their real customers, the advertisers. When they make noises about protecting my privacy, I see that as mostly marketing BS (or, "puffery") which large parts of their business are working to undermine.

2. My phone is not my primary computing device. I have a laptop running GNU/Linux that I use for most of my computing needs, including web browsing, email, and software development. I am fine with my mobile phone being an "appliance" that I use mostly for instant messaging, and occasionally checking the news and weather, taking photos, or making short temporary notes that I will (manually) transfer to my laptop later. And sometimes, even, making phone calls. But I generally stay away from "apps". No, I don't want to install your fucking app, no matter which device it would be on. Just make sure your website works.

Given those factors, I have an Apple phone.

That's not to say Apple is for everyone. My priorities are not everyone else's, and that's fine. Different people have different tradeoffs. If an Android device works better for you, that's great.
I'll try to allocate some time this weekend and also sign up for Zulip. Currently, I'm considering the best way to distribute it. Given that users are familiar with use-package and MELPA, it seems I may need to incorporate Git as well.
Badly. Because (1) CPU and (2) dblspace.bin takes ~70K of conventional memory. IIRC, on a 286 it can't be loaded high, or at least not with EMM386 from back then.
This is good to know.
Thank you.
I'll just install f-droid app on my next phone.
iirc it didn't do this when android 12 was new.
The only validation is the money. Ask for the payment, and if you get money then you have validate the idea.
So Xolair can cause anaphylaxis at any point in time, even if it didn't cause it initially.

Is accidental exposure to these food allergens so common, even after being careful, that those at risk are willing to take that risk and spend the cost?
It may often be a useful model to pretend "a company" has a character, but when the context is McKee on character, it is a mistaken perspective.

I'm sure McKee would argue for the exact opposite! Organisations are run by individuals, and it is their character that is revealed. The greedy assholery is the front they have to assume to uphold their fiduciary duty to shareholders, but their true character is what happens underneath – the thing revealed under pressure.

And in this, we see large variation.
For one thing, only some very specific animal species use tools, and then in specific ways that you need to observe closely to notice.

But also, what makes you believe that our ancestors didn't notice? In ecosystems where they observed that, it might have been so routine and obvious to them that it was not something even worth noting. After all, historically, humans have treated animals similar to people for a very long time (e.g. putting them on trial for theft and murder). When you already have that mindset, a tool-using animal is very unremarkable.
The argument is, an event (in this case, someone creates a simulation of an universe) happens observably at least once. That means its probability is >0. Now apply the law of large numbers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_large_numbers).

Not judging, but that's the mathematical standpoint to my understanding.
>The poll I linked to shows that HN has people from all over the world. People seem to think it's mostly programmers in California and New York and there are certainly plenty of people that fit that demographic. There are also lots of others who do not.

Almost all of the people self-reporting locations in the poll you linked to were from places where the average wage is significantly higher than $1488 PPP per month. When you count up how many people are coming from those places where the average wage is significantly higher than the average global PPP wage it is pretty highly concentrated people earning more than the global average.

Are there people who don't match that, sure, which is why I said probably. Probably evidently isn't a good enough word for you.

You also get lots of people on this site making significantly more than poor people the world over make who complain about their finances. To anyone making the average global wage I am unimaginably rich but I'm doing quite poorly from my own viewpoint.

Your high moral stature essentially means that kind of thing can't be discussed either.
Windows 10 LTSC IoT (same thing, really) is supported until 2032.
Modern subs, especially the missile ones, are way more comfortable than subs back the day. What I was told by someone who served on German navy subs in the 2000s so is, that the depiction of sub life shown in the movie "Das Boot" (I recommend the 7 (?) hour long mini series) is actually not too far of the mark. Better sanitation, but other than that, it is pretty much the same experience. They did have great food so!
I tend to work with whitelists instead of blacklists: I add only the IP ranges used by my ISP to the firewall whitelist. Most countries can't even ssh to my machines if they wanted to.
They are quite often required to take the cheapest option available, but governments are often also very limited in how they can negotiate those options and in what counts as "available" for them. There are entire industries dedicated to ensure that "the cheapest option available" is very expensive.
I am doing the same and if it was for the rest of my life I wouldn't have started. The burden is just too high to justify it for my level of allergies. I'm kind of regretting it even though it did cure my allergies, I kept getting injection site reactions and having to go through up dosing repeatedly. It's a sunk cost now though.
It's not unheard of for dealers to refuse to sell to cash only customers now, at least in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/financing-car-dealersh...
I’m sure this is great feedback for the community, thanks for taking the time to test and write it up.
I respect the effort either way, but is anyone actually paying to remove the frugliness?
Car manufacturers and dealerships are now banks, 100%. For a while in the UK, Ford offered the most competitive interest rates for cash savers.
Having been forced to adopt Deno for new Slack integrations on their new integration platform, I ultimately ended up throwing it in the trash and migrating to the legacy Python SDK.

It has a mixed model open-"legacy" framework which at this point will be a death march.

It's fine, but I don't see it gaining critical mass.
I think you're technically correct, but in practice you do see these misguided templating ideas seem to be almost universally YAML and Python.

I've never seen someone try to template JSON or XML like this. About the closest is HTML templating but even that is not really the best way these days.
Gates actually wrote about the photo in a blog post he wrote after Allen passed away. [1]

> The first time I saw how passionate Paul could get about something, I was in 8th grade. This picture might make you think he was my teacher, but he was actually a sophomore, just a little less than three years older than me.

> This teletype is the thing that brought us together. Our school, Lakeside, held a rummage sale and used the proceeds to buy a teletype terminal. We were obsessed with it. The problem was, it was really expensive to use – 40 dollars an hour! The only way for us to get computer time was by exploiting a bug in the system.

1. https://www.gatesnotes.com/Forbes-Philanthropy-Summit-honors...
We’re talking about Apple acquiring Bing. In that situation, Apple would be paying Microsoft, not the other way around.
Depends on the system. I still use a ramdisk on my DOS/Win31/Win98 machine. It has lots of memory and Win98 crashes with more than ~768 MB RAM. I use the ramdisk to occupy excess memory.
> The only thing is that most users don't know at all, or don't care.

They will learn when they have been hacked often enough. We should stop treating everyone as children. Oh no, children are now treated like adults.
Really smart tricks can buy you a few years, but in the end either you'll get sued for not complying with the intention of the law or the law gets changed to kill your trick.

The legal system doesn't like tricks, a "yes but I did X in a really clever way so it's not X" defence doesn't usually work.
Just look at the timing.

And there is a simple solution too: just offer multiple browsers in the appstore.
More people in early 20s out of work from ill health than early 40s – study
If you programmed BASIC (or for that matter other languages) on micros in 1980s, line editors were prevalent.
Some loose thoughts on Trident

- Yes, Minister was a prescient show

- Trident is the UK's only nuclear deterrent.

- While the UK fired them, they are taken from a common US-UK pool of interchangeable missiles.

- NATO governments are on the open side. Failures are likely to be made public.

- It is, of course, embarrassing
What is Public Health: A Comprehensive Guide to Improving Community Well-being
I can relate, I used to have a small open source project (eventually transfered it to another maintainer). I often had quite rude and demanding Github issues from users.
Waymo cars are hitting things including a cyclist, a gate and a truck
Same for multipotentiate or whatever that word is people stick on their LinkedIn
That reminds me of how you can simulate sailing by standing in a cold shower tearing up £10 notes
* The medieval warm period was a great deal less global than many climate skeptic bloggers present it to be. It's never been "hidden" in any legit modelling where it's been relevant.

* The models were "touched" - I'm tempted to ask you show me on a globe where they were touched and how that made you feel .. but seriously; 1/ All gathered raw instrument data for whatever purpose is inevitably normalised, leveled, scaled, transformed in some manner or another for completely legitimate, numerically sound, physically sensible reasons, and 2/ "the (climate) models" are clusters of families of models that bracket parameters in order to tease out { worst case | best case } probability spread scenarios - this is normal and expected.

* ClimateGate ... ffs, seriously? Cherry picking internal emails to expose the worst parts that individuals say to other individuals is something that rips the lid of a giant climate conspiracy?? You don't actually by into that, btw, do you?

For what it's worth I've been in global scale exploration geophysics for energy and mineral resources for decades ... I've done all this big scale data work for the people least likely to support AGW theories .. and the AGW case is extremely sound.

We've significantly increased the insulation properties of the atmosphere at large and it's gradually causing more and more energy to remain trapped at the land|sea interface where hilarity ensures; climbing mean tempretures, more extreme storms, cold cells, and hot cells being driven by that surface layer heat engine, etc.
async/await is a language design feature to enable fine-grained concurrency. Where "fine grained" means "more fine" than OS processes or threads allow.

> Task<T> is about composing, chaining and interleaving the tasks, sometimes hundreds or thousands at a time, to achieve (sometimes massively) parallel and concurrent execution of application logic.

Replace Task<T> with Erlang processes and the statement holds. Except without coloured functions; without the async decision being in the wrong place; without codebases where dual versions of functions proliferate (DoSomething() / DoSomethingAsync()).

At its heart, concurrency is about being able to express multiple sequences of actions such that there's no undesired interaction between them when running. Thread blocking is one form of undesired interaction. So "hurr durr don't block thread" does matter even if it's not the only thing.
One slightly related topic:

How is depreciation for cars calculated correctly when the dealers are adding this random markup and/or cross subsidizing finance deals?

I originally started thinking about this due to stories about EV depreciation that make no mention of $8k plus federal/state subsidies that the buyer received.

Is it as simple as some average second hand price vs MRSP?
OPCW identifies ISIL as perpetrators of 2015 chemical attack in Marea, Syria
Not a browser, but a PWA. It's a web page, which you can "install" as an "app". Features like storage, background tasks and notifications are important for many applications, for example a messenger. These were available, and there is a market for those, but Apple has decided to kill that market.
idk, but imho. maybe because from a technical perspective "scaling things" is one of the most challenging tasks - after naming things ... at least in IT ;))

just my 0.02€
> I need AI to make up answers to my questions.

I need AI to highlight parts of the questions I had not thought of to ask.

> I need AI to make up APIs and lower my code quality. I need it to repeatedly give me wrong answers until I realize I could have just written it myself.

I need AI to highlight where APIs aren't as obvious as they should be and to highlight what a statistically more obvious API would have looked like.

> I need AI to do even more damage to the journalism industry and create content nobody can trust.

I need AI to help summarize and evaluate stories to avoid the damage that the journalism industry has done to the wider society.

> I need AI to replace web search with answers I can't trust and with no benefit to content creators.

I need AI to answer my questions succinctly rather than being monetized to make the viewer watch for as long as possible.

... and so on
> that energy is going to be entirely hydroelectric

I doing know the details, but this style of thinking is usually wrong.

Power is a network.

Only if there is unused hydroelectric generation is the power green.

Otherwise you are just shifting power and tagging it "green", but not making any actual difference.

Marginal changes cause marginal increases.

It is unintuitive and requires thinking about power in the right way.
Sure, they have to take (oversimplified) the cheapest option that meets requirements. And that bit is crucial, because no purchase I was involved in, on the buying or selling side, commercial or governmental, was simple enough to not have special requirements way beyond the "freemium" tier of some SaaS product. Reasons:

- user count

- tool integration

- compliance

- support

- processes

- any kind of other things

And yes, this is toyed constantly when it comes to public purchases of everything to assure the preferred supplier wins a bid and still makes money on his low ball offer.
Total tangent, but I originally found Dark Souls too confusing and challenging and abandoned it. When I came back later for another try something clicked and it quickly became my favourite single player game of all time. It's funny how that works.
One thing I've learnt from busking is that people who have more give less. So seems normal that rich companies give nothing.
> “He is one of the most principled comrades I’ve ever known,” said Xylem, who worked with Bushnell to support San Antonio’s unhoused residents.

> “He’s always trying to think about how we can actually achieve liberation for all with a smile on his face,” said Errico.

https://twitter.com/taliaotg/status/1761944166693568609/phot...
It's a joke. Every time there's a thread on HN about nuclear power someone inevitably comments something like the above about solar.
Apple's no longer a hardware company, they're a platform rent extraction company. They are directly misleading and harming their users with this move, and also with the existing dark patterns around iCloud storage.
One of the best examples of Teletypes and paper tape: "The House on 92nd Street".[1] They show a typing reperforator (not clear which model; it's not a Model 14) hammering out

TAKE INTO CUSTODY IMMEDIATELY ALL JAPANESE CLASSIFIED AS DANGEROUS HOOVER <=
ARREST ALL GERMAN NATIONALS KNOWN TO BE SUBERSIVE HOOVER <=

The movie was made with the full approval of J. Edgar Hoover.

(I used to restore old Teletype machines and had a working telegraph office at about ten steampunk conventions.)

[1] https://youtu.be/Z-BwyzbF7E4?t=2192
I may be missing some nuance and/or perspective here, but is this truly an issue? I've used Dell, HP, Lenovo/Thinkpad, and most recently Framework laptops over the last 15 years, and only one of them offered an out-of-the-box Linux experience. _All_ of them ran Linux (ArchLinux and Fedora) fine if I installed it myself.

Is the concern surrounding having to install Linux yourself (valid concern), or around vendor support (subtle BIOS issues, lack of trackpad support, etc)?

Edit: Emphasizing my "fine" experience with Linux.
No I'd rather just read about god damn life on the god damn submarine as the title suggests.

A quick conversation with my brother about what it was like was more informative than this trash.
The iOS reader mode seems to yield what seems like the full text of this article as of 00:50 Pacific time Monday, February 26, 2024.

> But BYD, backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, is more versatile than many might realize.

I assume “backed” here means that Berkshire Hathaway has an investment in BYD, which is news to me.
There's a common thread in the comment you're replying to and another comment made by the same author, in which they appear to quietly suggest that perhaps it's just TBIs and sleep deprivation. I get the sense it's a theme.

> One common feature of Western culture, or at least US culture, is to play down PTSD

Yes indeed!
The problem exemplified in the top comment was perfectly demonstrated by my control theory classes, where we ended up with a dramatically distorted view of how you actually use the damn thing because they didn't teach us PID at all. It was treated as a special case that was trivial to analyse given the other techniques they wanted to teach us, so it got no airtime.
Anyone mind summarizing this / linking to a different source? For some reason that I don't care to investigate too thoroughly, twitter links never seem to work for me.