skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is where drones and spies seem like the right approach. It can’t be hard to get a labourer on site with a cellphone or even just a tracker no?
It is, it was then used regularly across project as a sign that touching this code is very dangerous and should not be done except by the experts of that codebase.

Fun nostalgia to see it out there :)

Note that I doubt anybody ever got fired for modifying these parts of the code. In particular, automatic refactors would have modified these (safely); and it’s a scary warning about negative consequences of messing up.
Some would argue that trying to eliminate self or manual checkouts from groceries stores is letting the perfect be the enemy of good.
NCN has a great show called Voice Jail [0] that includes a huge collection of comedic audio cutups on this topic.

[0] https://nationalcynical.bandcamp.com/album/midnight-voicejai...
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Buddhism has a sophisticated landscape of hells :-)
I've seen my heart rate elevated when I don't have a fever, and it can take several days to fully recover. Also no, I don't get fever dreams.
Except in this case it doesn't even save space because they have the word as well.
This article implies multiple times that 3M invented the floppy disk. They did not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_floppy_disk

https://web.archive.org/web/20161222064003/http://www-03.ibm...
That's clear from TFA
Good question. There are various Incognito detection techniques (with varying degrees of success), but we probably would've heard if google.com was employing these techniques.
I remember being super hyped for the successor of the floppy disk back as a kid in the 90s... Iomega Zip Drives.

And then getting super hyped for the successor to the CD... the BluRay, and wondering what sort of holographic multi terabyte wizardry would be the nextgen of optical disks.

Now we are in 2024 and what actually happened is no one owns their movie or music libraries anymore... they are all streamed from some remote CDN somewhere, and most content creators get paid a pittance compared to what they did in the old world.

At least we still have thumbsticks...
LoRa works great because of the chirping it generates. Does DECT NR+ as well?
That’s why they teach you to write pseudo code before code in bootcamps.
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I would love to hear any explanation for why they should get a penny of taxpayer money after spending >$150B in stock buybacks. They spent their money on enriching the rich.
Did you read the article?
This is a few pages in:

> Now, to be clear, 3M did not invent magnetic storage—that was done by Austro-German engineer Fritz Pfleumer, in 1928. He created audio tape, a recording medium that started as broad strips of paper coated with iron-powder granules, and eventually moved to less-fragile cellulose acetate with help from what would become another big name in floppy disks, BASF. At first, the innovation didn’t spread outside of Germany because of World War II.
I love ink & switch! I think Martin, Geoffrey, and the whole team are crazy smart.

There's a whole bunch of approaches to universal versioning and I think floro is one of a few upcoming techniques in the ether.

From my limited understanding of their approach, it looks like they're going to be really focused on things like rich text diffing, which is not something I think floro is particularly well suited for. I think floro is really great for things that end up getting consumed as code rather than something like note-taking. e.g. static assets & i18n.

It's really exciting to see this space actually beginning to blossom though!
> "I hacked the headers to expose your private variable, and now my program is broken, help!"

Normalize closing stuff like this without further discussion as far as I'm concerned

"Don't do that." </resolved>
TSMC evacuates fabs after M7.4 earthquake hits Taiwan
Unfortunately this installs it as a user cert and only works for app that explicitly request it. To work everywhere you need to install it as a system cert which requires root

Interestingly ios (which is generally more locked down for dev stuff like this) allows users to install certs for all apps without jailbreak
Stop that blundering! https://youtube.com/watch?v=QoSN7oalIec
> If you ask the average person what the company 3M does, odds are if they have a few gray hairs hanging out on their scalp, they might say that the company makes floppy disks.

I think that's an interesting perception of the public. I think of 3M making all sorts of things, generally, I admire the company...in spite of some rather grotesque blunders and bad behavior. But the first thing that comes to mind is adhesive tape (also mentioned in the article)
Thought of chess immediately after seeing the title.

I really do recommend everyone play. There are innumerable insights like this that arise (though this may be true of any sufficiently complex game).
Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps
KSP even while simplified is so amazing.

I've never gotten very far but the one thing it did manage to impress extremely thoroughly on me is "space is hard". And it's like 5x easier in KSP than on earth lol.

Also it showed me that that ever recurring thought of "why don't they just..." is usually pretty misguided.

I really respect how they managed to make this fun and so incredibly educational at the same time.
It is all broken. The quick hack to make things kind of work today, compounded across fifty years and a million developers.

There are occasional shining lights of stuff done right but I think it's fair to say they're comprehensively outcompeted.
That was true for this project, which was almost orphaned to begin with. We'll run out of nearly-unmaintained critical infrastructure projects sometime. Larger projects with healthier maintenance situations are also at risk, and it's worth reasoning about how a group of honest developers could discover the actions of one malicious developer (with perhaps a malicious reviewer involved too).
just saying, the buggy sticky/fading/back-again header implementation makes this really hard to read.

please make it sticky or even better just don't.
While there's no shortage of women in rural Australia, elegant ladies can be a hard find.

> Why was the sheep upside down?

That's not specific to robots, human shearers on teams generally start by pulling sheep from the race, dragging them over to the station on their bums|backs and begin with belly blows (long runs of the shear) to free the thinner belly fleece, and then rock the sheep from one side to the other to work the fleece free from flank to spine .. and then there's (ideally) a single wool blanket fleece off in one piece.
Apart from extended keepwarm because better sensors (?), my experience with higher end rice cookers is they're designed to vent moisture better, less cleanup for frequent activity always good. I think there's also satisfaction knowing you're having the best reasonable quality of (for me white) rice, since a bunch of japanese engineers spent decades making it in a sense, a solved problem. That's just like... nice to think about, or not worry about (even if placebo effect) whenever eating rice, which is always. I'm the least buyitforlife kind of guy, not interested in $200 pants or $400 boots or $800 jackets that last a decade, because I don't like dealing with wear and tear after a few years, but as long as the rice cooker is working, which they seem to for like 10 years, you're getting best rice. It's a nice reoccuring feeling for $40 a year.
you can download any music you want on youtube as mp3s. store them on a usb drive and plug it on your car, or store it in your computer and store a huge music library... but why bother yourself doing that if you can stream directly on any platform...
> The point of Haxe seems to be as a meta-compiler to generate code for a bunch of different languages/compilers?

That's basically correct, although there is also a cross platform runtime called Hashlink but is unsupported by Kha.

https://hashlink.haxe.org/
Get her a copy of https://www.howtodesignbetter.com/ebook and https://www.refactoringui.com/

Once she's reworked it, I'd ask her to get it critiqued by experienced designers.
There would be an ironic twist if nvidia (who first competed with AMD nee ATI) was forced to license their IP to intel for national security reasons, but it would rhyme with history (x86 licenses to AMD) and benefit the consumer.
Man seeing some of those disk manufacturers names brings me back to when I used to order bulk purchases of 5.25" floppies from a catalog and sell them at a profit out of my high school locker. And then of course, there was the trick of using a hole punch to add a second write-enable hole to the left side of the disk so you could flip it over and use the back for an extra 140K of storage.
Something that I feel is missing – someone please let me know if I missed it – is how long this bug was materially present in packages? how many people likely were exposed to it?
> If the code in PROD was fine before the rollout, and there is a bug in the newly deployed code

Yes, if. My point is that that's a distinct subset of the possibilities, and you might not know whether it's true. Maybe you roll out a change at 10:00 and at 10:20 you start getting reports that certain key functionality isn't working. So you run your rollback... and now instead of 20% of users complaining, it's 100%, because that last update included a database migration. Okay, maybe you're very good about your data model so that doesn't happen, but you roll back... and nothing changes. It turns out that the problem was caused by a 3rd-party API you consume falling over. With the right guardrails, rolling back can often be an early option to improve the situation, but it's not a 100% cure-all.
Yes, it seems they are following the large defense dinosaurs of the past into this perpetual too-big-to-fail mode of milking the public for free money. However, we've found ways before to push some things back into the private sector, to find people with energy and new ideas to run circles around stagnating boeings and lockheeds, and show them how it's done in space and other areas. It's been pretty fascinating to watch. Maybe the USG will find some way to light fire under Intel's ass too, like maybe with a little help from Taiwan or something. How these companies go from a super-innovative disruptor to a welfare program and then back has been fascinating and scary to watch. Doesn't really fit into any of the "left" or "right" cliches.
some of us hold onto the past. I still have a Zip disk and drive (and a bunch of old media, all the way back to a 8 inch floppy) and I have a fairly large collection of 4k blurays
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Worse. Windows 10 dropped 16-bit application support.
Emacs and Firefox are not popular right now, and the author mentioned using even more niche apps with long history, and a lot of his challenges are with things that have been around breaking other things that have been around, so how does he ignore the effect?
They bought a former employer of mine which was responsible for a universal file opening program (most famously incorporated into Lotus Notes). When I started there, they were Intranet Solutions, and then became Innosoft and Stellant before becoming a division of 3M.
To me its funny that those who always talk about unskilled labour are the same who don’t have a driving licence, nor know how to make an omelette
You're confused about what is the right order. Technical supports usually come after the corresponding support contract, not inverse.
I do it all the time, don’t see why not
Yes, just know that it is impermanent.
Intel is great at designing chips but being on 7 nm while everyone else is on 4 nm has been holding them back.

(I know nm are fake but not fake enough to invalidate my point.)
so he's off by a few days? did you go back to his past predictions that also came true last year and the year before? he's better than any predictive processes we had so far
Totally. My house walls are plastered with M3 Velcro tape that holds everything from hooks to artwork. Really, a marvel of chemical engineering. Those hold quite a load and then you pull down the strip and the adhesive comes off the wall like nothing was ever there.
You were upset that due to the "entitled" west, Indians had jobs. You were glad the jobs were gone.

Now you're trying to redirect, and say "Oh well, those jobs would have lasted only a few years more anyhow!".

My respnse to that is the same:

I'm sure all those fired, new job seekers jn India agree fully with you.

Consider te perspective of those you aim to "protect".
Intel Foundries don't make ARC chips. Those are made by TSMC
What's a test binary? Bunch of bytes on disk. What's a source file? Bunch of bytes on disk.
Requiring him/her to show their face might have prevented that.
A lot of the thingies you can access from it are only set in development builds of React, so you will just get “null” all the time in production. If you spend like 8 hours building around it without knowing that, you’ll be pretty sad how it breaks when you finally test in an optimized production build.
Part of the USAs superpower is letting the market decide where to invest. China micromanages its economy and can’t anticipate everything the market can.
If the US reneged on those things, I wouldn't consider any of this "my debts" anymore.
I'm getting a timeout :)
Is it safe to tear off a paper tape with WARRANTY VOID IF BROKEN written on it?
By "blunders", the author includes both those which can be prevented (see section "Preventable blunders") and those which can't. This is one of the reasons this article is silly.

Next in the series is, "Avoid accidents: 80% of being a good driver."
Even in languages with `private` you'd better label it correctly, otherwise some programmer will inevitably make it `public`...
https://archive.is/fGJvu
I'm guessing it was the former, but I'm not sure. There's plenty of blame to assign them without needing to reach for corruption.
Intel's ARC chips are actually pretty good, and would be pretty competitive with NVIDIA for the gaming market if not for the drivers...
NVIDIA has three decades of DirectX driver support for many, many old games. Intel's ARC GPUS are infamous for rendering big magenta materials for many games, particularly old ones.

ARC however has absolutely nothing to do with Intel Foundries however, as the Intel ARC GPUs are fabbed by TSMC!
Intel will certainly get to the point where they fab great GPUs, but its actually a question of whether the software will catch up, not the hardware!
Thank you for the reply! I'm excited to watch as this project progresses, and I wish you the best of luck!
Yes, I know what your product does.

Consider this:

1. In the beginning, it will be very easy to create these "engaging" tweets. Everyone will make them. People will begin to value them less. Engagement to them will be less. People will gloss over them and look for genuine tweets. Twitter will be filled with this kind of spam. Every small point will be turned into a clickbait "engagement" template. "My dog learned to sit today. The hard truth is that it was a very long journey to teach him how to sit. Here's how I did it in 5 steps. blah blah blah...".

2. Soon enough, an AI will come along and simply automate the creation of this. Just give it a topic and it will spam 100 of these "engagement" tweets per day. It will have similar quality as #1. And then people ignore these tweets even more.

3. People will be tired of looking at AI generated spam on Twitter and move to private social media.

Hence, my original post.
They Might Be Giants flash backs to Dial-A-Song.
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Imation had their own super-floppy drive that I liked better than Zip drives; it never caught on though. They could also do neat tricks like writing up to 32MB to a standard 3.5" floppy.
And the rise and fall of Iomega 100mb zip drives. As a kid in high school I coveted those so dearly.
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You mean Windows 11, since it has no 32-bit version - Windows 10 32-bit still supports 16-bit apps:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/compatibility/ntvd...
My first thought was “what’s a 16-bit app?” That tells you my age range.
The things that Bash is good at can wind up obfuscated in Python code due to the verbosity and complexity that it translates to in Python.

Bash is great at dealing with files, text, running other programs, job handling, parallelism and IPC.

Those things in combination can end up being more complex in Python, which creates more opportunities for obfuscation.
>why bother

You don't need an internet connection and don't have to worry about data caps or terrible jetliner satellite internet right then and there?
Hah, you'll get down voted to oblivion on HN for recommending Windows over Mac.

But broadly speaking you are right. I run software today on Windows 11 that I first acquired in the 90s. Some of it console based that run under the command prompt.

While Windows is justly famous for backward compatibility though, there are some exceptions.

Firstly 16 bit programs don't run on 64 bit Windows. (Well, unless I fire up a 32 bit Windows in a VM.) This is not a train smash for me, although I did have to replace some -really- old programs.

Secondly, games. MS removed a cdrom driver which a lot of my old games used for copy protection. I'll need to dual boot those into win 7 if I wanted to play them. But the urge to even bother only strikes about once a year.

Regarding word processors, I used Word Perfect in the DOS days and Word since then, and everything still opens fine.

Obviously everyone's path is different, and their experience is different, but if long-term commitment to running existing, and past, software matters to you the maybe select an OS that prioritizes that over one that very much does not.
I'd say you're contributing back. You don't ask anything in return because you live in a ecosystem built on the contributions of everyone, you're just doing your part.
Holy smokes! There's a formal name for it!!

I always privately called it a "Legacy Tail". It was a factor in the selection of a lightweight markup language to support old-fashioned industry (aerospace), but I think it should be a factor in any software selection, to be honest.

Thanks for teaching me a thing!
Hey, that's the contrapositive, not the opposite.
It's silly to post a headline of a large operating loss when the unit was literally partitioned off a few months ago. Building fabs is expensive... literally the most cost intensive manufacturing enterprise in the world. Making those investments is the only way to stay competitive, and I'm sure we don't want to live in a world where there's a TSMC monopoly on the high end, and Chinese state run semiconductor fabs on the low end.
"Disdain for human life" doesn't equate to "people should die" (although I do think "there should be less people" is what some might call a dog whistle for many). Saying "there should be less people" unequivocally expresses disdain for human life, not necessarily hatred but often enough it does.
Looks like fluid dynamics / turbulence to me
I've been doing that for a few months now. Would recommend -- sleep quality has improved immensely!
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Your experience may vary, in my experience:

* things I've liked don't always stay on youtube or appear on spotify, and

* streaming|internet isn't always available (remote area FiFo, underground, etc.)
I didn't think it tracked sleep unless you put it into Sleep mode explicitly.
Because it might go away? My Youtube saved lists are littered with removed videos.

And I _do_ use a USB flash drive in my car of curated* music; it’s an always available radio station without and phone fiddling.

*curated= just Grateful Dead recordings
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Another entry in the dying Earth/Sun or Last Civilization approach is The Phoenix in Obsidian aka The Silver Warriors from 1970 by the oft forgotten but quite seminal Micheal Moorcock of Elric fame, but He wrote way more than that. Set in a frozen Earth and with a Sun that is just a white dwarf. The last surviving sea is so salty and dense is gelatinous and ship actually "flap" over it. It's part of the John Daker/Ereköse series, and in turn part of the bigger inter-books Moorcokian Multiverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Moorcock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_in_Obsidian
The process misstep was an error. Sticking with monolithic dies well past their EoL was an error. Missing the low power chips for mobile was an error. Everything they've done in discrete GPUs was an error.

Intel make really great WiFi chips and C2D and Nehalem were spectacular. Since then they ran a fantastic profit margin.

It's not remotely obvious that they're still great at designing chips.
Based on your argument, the reason for legalization of weed is that the current police system has totally failed and decided the only way forward is to give up policing it? That would make this move seem more of a failure than a victory…
Stop using closed software. Anything open will be around forever and can be compiled using old or new compilers. Mostly natively but if not possible, inside emulators.

Also; Visual Age for Java ; I thought I was the only person in the world who thought it was much better that Eclipse. Seems there is 1 other person.
The states are:

Rhode Island, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia

The timeline is by 2035
Deserves a "Show HN".
This genuinely just reads like a bucket list of Mac user problems.

The author would genuinely benefit from redhats decade long support models provided his desired tooling works on Linux.

The real concerns are in the SaaS / Remote Resource / Online Activation Space.

eg software that won't wake up if it can't call home, software that has reduced or no functionality if it can't stream remote data, "apps" that are just webkits loading a pre-set url for a completely online service.
My friend, I didn't say "magnetic storage".

The title says "3M's Floppy Disk", which implies that 3M created the floppy disk.

The subtitle calls 3M, "the high-profile creator of magnetic media", only later making it clear that this is also incorrect.

This also implies that 3M invented the floppy: "…3M started with the raw materials and the manufacturing processes, and combined those into computing’s greatest commodity item, the floppy disk."

Finally, the article notes that the only medium that 3M did have a hand in creating, the Floptical disk, flopped.

Assuming that the author even realizes that they're being ambiguous, I would've preferred that they didn't misrepresent 3M's role.