skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where is the specification explicitly asking for it?

Edit: actually check the docs [1], there are some specs. But anyway, assuming that memo was all...

I never worked for Microsoft, and I know they did do some real design and specification work in this time period, but in my experience, this looks like as much of a specification as I usually get:

> Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."

Tell me what the user's outcome is (user with DR-DOS is uncomfortable and thinks they have bugs), tell me what the desired user response is (buy MS-DOS and retry), and let me figure out the rest.

Sounds like detect DR-DOS explicitly or implicitly, and fail occassionally, and cast asperssions in the error messages. Something like relying on internal layout of memory where MS-DOS always does it one way but DR-DOS doesn't always would be great (add comments to make sure MS engineers don't change it!) ; but I think they went with direct detection and intentional breakage.

I don't think this was a good choice for MS, but I don't think the specification was unclear even if it wasn't detailed. I've done similar work that I don't feel bad about; unapproved 3rd party clients were using my service and I held them to a very strict API; not my fault they didn't have API docs and only reverse engineered 2/3rds of the requests.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180803194008/http://antitrust....
In general, I agree with you, and for the record, I'm in favor of general restrictions or limitations on social media for children. At the same, I want to add that I was not allowed to watch violent cartoons or play violent video games as a kid in the 90s. I felt left out on the playground when I didn't know how to play X-Men or Power Rangers or whatever. But in retrospect it was fine. I'm not sure the social isolation factor in particular is as dire as you claim.
Your sister sounds like my brother (minus the cosmetics— his focus is on other things). I can deeply relate to your experience.

I'd highly recommend the book "Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End" by Saito Tamaki, translated by Jeffrey Angles. First published in 1998 it describes the "hikikomori" social/psychological phenomenon, and ways treatment has been approached. Ultimately, Saito observes that nobody can "fix" the individual hikikomori directly— therapy must be multi-faceted, continuous, and ongoing, focused on reducing stigma and shame. And for all that, may ultimately not be effective.
Chechnya has been under Russian occupation for years.
I was going to say "all helmets are one and done" -- I'm a cyclist and I'm so used to the community saying that you must replace a helmet after any impact at all -- but then I remembered in football you just smash helmets together all day and then do it again tomorrow, which seems problematic when you think about it.
> If someone knows more about the motivation/goals with the research that would be interesting to have further explained than the post(s).

I work in medical devices. One of the changes in the new FDA guidance for cybersecurity is a greater focus on verifying the integrity of your supply chain, both physical and software. This type of inspection could be a potential mitigation of some of those verification issues.
It seems like the target audience of this is people not already familiar with accounting.

I don't understand how describing debit/credit (accounting jargon) in layman's terms smacks of jargon, but maybe that is because I am a layman =)

As someone with no accounting background, credit/debt described as "money go in, money go out" seems like a good enough explanation in the context of this post.

Do the "true" definitions of credit/debit differ from that in a meaningful way here?
We don't know what the market wants, because the government has made it very difficult to supply such a subcompact.
I have very little to add about the color aspect, but I can say that I love my Kobo. I've had three Kindles before buying the Kobo, which I got because it has a "better" integration with my local library (better in quotes, because I still have to do with the Adobe DRM, which is so bad on Linux that I borrow my wife's computer just to transfer).

The Pocket integration is fantastic, as are the physical page turn buttons. I always thought they were unnecessary, but I really do prefer them now. The warm night light is also great. It's a bonus as well not to be in the Amazon ecosystem more than I have to.

The biggest downsides are maybe a bit niche: the dictionary is terrible (although you can upload your own, but not make it the default) and there's no built-in translate function. I read mostly in my non-native language, so these two features make life a bit more difficult, but they're outweighed by the rest.
GP was talking about Europe
Ukraine were ahead of Russia in repurposing consumer grade DJI drones bought from AliExpress and using them to aid the war effort. Probably no longer effective, but I seem to recall them having some positive impact in the early months of the war
I would think politicians would need to understand economics considering they are making policy.

Effectively, it is illegal for two consenting adults to agree to $19/hour in exchange for work. They can have sex, drink beer, smoke weed, and make a baby but determining between the two of them a value less than a Andrew Jackson is a crime.

Does that seem right to you?
> "Borrowing musical culture from other peoples is inadmissible," Dadayev said, per a translation by The Guardian.

I did not have "Kadyrov takes a woke stand against cultural appropriation" on my bingo card for 2024.
1) escape The Five Guys country via acquiring citizenship in a non-Five Guys country with a small government. I don't know which ones out there hasn't signed a treaty with Five Guys besides China & Russia (not very popular)

2) escape countries with overt government interference wary of western liberal progressivism/multiculturalism

very little places to go in this world, pros & cons
I’m more interested in how they will enforce it.
One data point: I'd happily pay 20x your current pro price point if you are able to expand the suppliers covered and the n for each.
Comments on the end are useful. I do that for yt-dlp commands which don't get nice URLs so I can find them again later.
On brand.
I think "purpose" can refer both to the "why" and to the "what", as long as the "what" is a major "end in itself/goal" for someone.

E.g. "he found his life's purpose in playing the guitar" - this doesn't answer "why" he plays guitar, but it's a common way of putting it, no?

Here's another example from wordreference.com: "His purpose in life is to give a home to street cats" (again, no why, but a what.
It's true that the contrast is not as good, and IIRC the color resolution is also a bit lower (but is not bad overall). But people who plan to read B/W documents could still benefit from a device like this because it makes highlighting much better, and it enables color-based reading enhancements like BeeLine Reader (which improves focus while reading).

I'm certainly biased (I created BeeLine), but IMO the color screens that Kobo is using are good enough to make the tradeoffs worthwhile. It's also interesting to see innovation among one of the major players in this space. The companies that have made color ereaders before now have been a bit dodgy in some cases, so Kobo will bring a level of legitimacy to the space that's very welcome.

EDIT: the price is also very favorable compared to other color ereaders. Ones I've considered in the past were around $420, which is roughly 2x-3x the price of Kobo's new units.
ADHD linked with proclivity to explore while foraging
Yes, consequences for negligence and maybe licensure are the only way we'll solve this problem. It's easier to write software without giving a fuck, and if it remains profitable and without consequence, it will continue happening. If you can't write internet-connected software without making basic security errors, you shouldn't be writing software, at least not without the guidance of someone senior (actually senior, not two years post-bootcamp). I can't believe this is controversial.

Lmao I love how suggesting that developers make take responsibility for their work is met with such hostility here. Nice job removing my comments, you jokes of "developers".
Yes, its just price fixing, bypassing laws by using 3rd party tools.

And with no increase in supply and the increase of people needing housing, the prices can go only go higher. Infrastructure designed for populations 30-50 years ago, city planning didn't foresee the need for the public transportation and housing needs for these mega cities.

And then the increase in local taxes to try to compensate for the mass costs, and hurting the current tax base, is a major issue.

Top if off with the increasing inflation and interest rates which is also compounding the situation.
Because people don't understand that credit and debit only make sense in the context of the account being applied to. If you deposit money to your bank account, it's a credit in your <name of back account>. If you withdraw money from the ATM, you debit your bank account and credit your cash account. But globally you haven't gotten more money.
I use twitter daily and the site is a shell of its former self. It's slow, prone to bugs, filled with bots, the amount of real users has cratered, user reports go nowhere, there's no support team, the ads are now bot accounts posting crap like "Today is a good day, be sure to make it advantageous", there are no new features besides previously in-flight projects pre-Musk, they've actually removed a lot of features (like Circles, block lists, etc), and much more. He took an otherwise functioning social media service and forced it into maintenance mode. He also fired all of the people that keep the user base alive so now it's flooded with bots (which he presumably likes so he can boast about engagement being up). So yes it's still around but it's dying and the skeleton crew he has left can't do anything.

In other words, he destroyed it.
Not sure why you claim it's a "terrible desktop experience"? What's wrong with it, please explain.
Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking of too. And I suspect most M. Night Shyamalan movies after The Sixth Sense.

I think it's a mistake to think that most notable things are the result of "one person". Most big projects, good or bad, are a group effort, and which is why it really bothers me that people act like Elon is singularly responsible for every cool thing to come out of SpaceX or Tesla.
Are you suggesting that Musk is not having huge lasting impact? Perhaps his name won't be as sticky as Michael Jackson, but some of his companies are definitely changing society, partly thanks to him.
Same with baseball helmets and wild pitches.
you are not shadowbanned
"/site-final2" "/site-final-final-4"
You don't wanna know
I think they'd also say laissez rouler les bon temps (let roll the good times) as proper French grammar.
The site was previously engineered such that an uninformed owner could literally start unplugging servers without it going down.

That said, outage frequency did rise following the mass layoffs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/technology/twitter-outage...
I wonder if there's a browser extension that checks if the link text is a valid URL, but is a different URL (or just on a different domain?) than the actual link target, and adds some kind of warning for the user if so?

I'm not sure what keywords I'd use to find an extension like that.
I did, opened one random top result

https://www.deskera.com/blog/journal-entries/

And got left/right as explanation and also as left and right columns
Right and it sounds like they or, at least the wife, still doesn't understand that they did something wrong.
I don't like calling because it's not like it used to be. Everything is so damned asynchronous these days even voice calls where it's supposed to be synchronous. When conversations were over copper/analog, yes I was younger, I enjoyed talking on the phone much more. Back then it felt like whether it was one person or three on the line there was actual presence and you could have two people talking on top of each other no problem.

Now, every conversation, whether it's by phone or zoom, feels like a struggle of who's going to take up the air time, trying not to talk over one another, dealing with delay, etc... It doesn't feel natural at all and there's little to no presence. Having smart phones makes it so much easier to tune out on a call and scroll reddit, check headlines or play a game. I agree that it's less convenient and takes too long for most things. I'd rather check in once a day with someone via text than have one longer phone conversation once a week.
> escape The Five Guys country [...] a non-Five Guys country

I suspect you are referring to something else here.

Five Guys: https://www.fiveguys.com/

Five Eyes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
I imagine you're right that the lost cash does have meaning to him, but it doesn't appear to be the primary motivator for his decisions (and is definitely not driving his near-term decision making).
It turns out most regions of the globe are occupied by some state or another.
I assume that this is a price in USA. Where I live, in Europe, it is somewhat more expensive, but indeed the difference is not great.

Nevertheless, this is still very expensive in comparison with the food I normally eat. At the prices typical in the European Union, I can eat a very complete, tasty and healthy food for about $5 per day (as a male of average size). This is true only because I cook myself and I buy only raw ingredients. Processed food would be much more expensive.

Chicken breast without bones and skin would cost here between $6 and $7 per kilogram. Even at the maximum $7/kg, that corresponds to about $0.78 per 28 g of protein, i.e. 2.5 times cheaper than tofu at your price. Therefore tofu is much too expensive to compete with meat.

To be able to eat a vegan diet, I remove most starch from wheat flour, making a bread enriched in protein. This is more than 10 times cheaper than tofu at your price, so tofu is something that I would never consider. I spend the money not wasted for something like tofu for vegetables or fruits that are rich in vitamins, which are usually much more expensive than the staple food that can ensure the required daily intake of protein and fat.
AAC is perfectly fine for listening to music transparently, and watching video.

And no one cares enough about the duplex audio stuff for it to matter. Phone and Zoom calls sound decent enough with pretty much all bluetooth devices now. If you care about that you'll be using a real microphone anyway and can have the headphones not in duplex mode.
> 'Attacking' people who post ill-conceived content anonymously on the internet has most definitely grown tired (case in point), but is not really a problem. It's not a person, it's just an internet account. It doesn't matter.

If your internet account is a fictional identity it doesn't matter, but you're posting as you but just behind a pseudonym and someone attacks you it can be very upsetting.
This is the way...
I thought the same thing, and then bought a Kindle on a whim, as I was flying internationally with just a small backpack. The ereader completely changed how and how much I read. Before, I would find time to read a book maybe every couple of months. Now, I read almost every night before bed until I start to drift off. I read much more, and, I think, have better sleep as well as I'm not staring at such a bright screen at night.
Hats off for admitting it though, it's worse than owning up to being romance scammed.
Better not hit fast-forward, it might land you in jail. What a bunch of fascist nonsense this is.
802.1BR would certainly help in that situation, but it adds management overhead. A large deployment of IP cameras brings with it a fair amount of IT overhead and the capabilities of most corporate IT departments (let alone the 'security department') can be challenged by even basic setups.

I've spent a lot of time handling support for big camera deploys and I was surprised by the number of customers who would bring their systems down by misconfiguring their own networks.
> I don't understand the social structure inside a software company where this kind of thing can go from some intern's 3am idea to production

This is what happens when you "cut the fat" and are left with an adversely-selected[1], skeleton crew of "hard core engineers." The site was never going to fail all at once, instead, it's a death by a thousand cuts and suboptimal engineering.

1. No disrespect to current Twitter engineers who can't leave easily, or believe in the mew mission. However those who survived layoffs but could leave have left.
There's a reason, but it's definitely not that any replacement is just as bad since that's close to an impossibly strong statement
They now have a whole cottage industry of low cost drone producers, some with EW hardening. Based on my X feed, they are still seeing some success, especially given their artillery shortage.
It's an East Asian cultural thing to work super hard for some reason, same with Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. By "Rest of the world" you really just mean a handful of Western European nations with stagnant economies, but by god I do wish I could work less.
Obviously PEDs are bad but IMO non-falsifiable accusations about athletes using them are uninteresting. You can always claim (and someone usually is) that an athlete is dirty and just hasn't been caught yet for some reason.

Slightly off-topic though; you're acknowledging that they might contribute which isn't unfair here.
I belly laugh every time I see that scene in Jurassic Park where the admin's animated face was playing on repeat with taunting audio, and Samuel L. Jackson snaps when he sees it and realizes what has transpired. Classic solid gold.
Indeed; the novel it's set in an alternate 80's with a cold war still going on. The books begins
with a Francoist Spain which never got into democracy because of the paranormal events of the 60's in the USA, and then the world opens up making the main characters roam between different places around the globe.
Time for a liberation
Slack is terrible? In what sense?
Just a reminder that that many Kobo devices can run PostmarketOS pretty well. I wrote this interface especially for my Kobo Clara HD: https://github.com/bjesus/air
I think his intent was to prevent students from fixating on making the words debit and credit "mean" something by themselves. A debit doesn't have some intrinsic meaning about the "flow of money". It's just an entry in the left column. On the other hand, a debit to Accounts Receivable actually means something.
It’s calling the FFmpeg CLI
Kobo is good. I'm also fond of Pocketbook readers, and KOReader runs there too.

The main difference is that Kobo has its store available, so you can buy and read on the device. I'm more into managing my own ebook library from multiple sources, using Calibre, so I don't need the built-in store; you might want it though!
> What would you suggest as an improvement?

Use the intuitive meaning of the words: a credit means you have money coming in, a debit means you have money going out. An increase in assets, income, or equity is a credit, and an increase in expenses or liabilities is a debit, and vice versa.

Or, alternatively, just use "credit" for any increase, and "debit" for any decrease. But this:

"Definition 6: Credit - An entry that represents money leaving an account."

is just totally backwards.
Some of those tempos at the bottom seem way off. Hotel California is 147 bpm?
X is ten, so tenny. Like a Ver, but bigger.
Chrome has this now, if you opt in. It’s pretty cool
> works will be limited to a tempo of 80 to 116 beats per minute (BPM)

so heavy metal is OK but speed metal and doom metal are OUT.
Or unless you have additional feedback mechanisms for correctness and safety. Transformers are components -- subsystems at best, not complete systems.

And at some point, "good enough" always wins over "perfect" in real-world systems.

Always. No exceptions.
This is some copyleft troll-level pedantry [0]. They clearly made a good effort to comply with the license. Additionally, ADSB.lol requires contributors to license their contributions under CC0. Databases that don't have some sort of creative work involved in their compilation aren't copyrightable, so it's very dubious that anyone could enforce any sort of restrictive license over ADSB.lol's database as a whole when its individual contributions are CC0.

[0]: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-c...
Which is especially fun to pronounce with the Pinyin 'x': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin
great, I was just hoping for one of the few secure email services to massively expand it's attack surface.
The CSV standard is RFC 4180, although it's merely informational.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt
I work anywhere between 25 and 45 hours. My work varies based upon my ability to complete the work given to me. I am not really qualified for some of the tasks in my position although I learn quickly.

I would argue that 90% of employers cannot effectively measure productivity. I have worked in call centers where metrics are tracked - which of course I learned to game - allowing me to work the same hours while making 50% above my peers based upon bonuses.

Knowledge workers are a different type of job with somewhere >50% being fake jobs that exist only because companies have capital and managers and head count means success.
I built Fastdle a year ago from my iPad. Now it has 500 DAU. Pretty cool!
>The only dividends that can get taxed like capital gains are qualified dividends and they’re very rare. Because they are dividends from selling capital assets in a business or the like. All other types of dividends are taxed like income.

This is incorrect. Lots of dividend income is classified as a qualified dividend.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/qualifieddividend.asp

>A dividend is considered qualified if the shareholder has held a stock for more than 60 days in the 121-day period that began 60 days before the ex-dividend date.

>This is getting really weird.

It is not weird at all. We tax wealth all the time. Every state/county has a property tax, some even have a property tax on vehicles. The simplest explanation is this, does society benefit from people hoarding wealth? For how many years? 1 year, 5 years, 10 years? Multiple generations?

Would it not be better if people were forced to get off their ass and continuously earn their keep? Or at least set marginal levels for the amount of wealth one can hoard? Sure, hit the ball out of the park and earn $10M, $100M, $1B. Enjoy it for 5, 10, hell even 20 years. But how does society benefit from this person or family creating an everlasting dynasty?
Are you talking about the original article? How is this a hit piece in any form? It doesn't even mention Musk by name.
The rest of the world will look to use 4 day work week as a way to put downward pressure on salaries.

China hasn't really needed to put too much downward pressure on salaries.
Do you get upset when you see one of create_engine("postgresql://"), create_engine("mysql://"), or create_engine("sqlite://")?

The author is just adding a new backend for a common protocol in the data world. Pandas, Polars, Dask, DuckDB, etc. all support this protocol and the type of people who want to access a dedicated CSV data archive would probably much rather keep their current client API and just add a new connection URI string vs. adding an entire client API for just one data source (or dealing with making requests and passing the data into the dataframe).
Seems about right. You're probably counting half notes, not quarter notes.