skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You’re arguing for a pyramid scheme where you pay for both generations before you and the ones who come after.

The system I'm starting to conceive doesn't seem like a pyramid scheme, but rather something more balanced than what we have now:

1. You contribute into the pension system to support your parents (through a pension), as a societal obligation. After all, they more likely than not supported you when you needed it.

2. You contribute labor to the next generation of society, in the form of children, to make a claim to the society's, labor-dependent, old-age support programs (funded through point 1). Otherwise, you're on your own to support yourself, which would probably consist of working well into what we currently consider the "retirement years," and/or "choosing" euthanasia when that is no longer possible.

> You’re just livestock that didn’t consent to be here.

No one ever consented to "be here," and it would be impossible to do so. That's just a fact of life.
By what time the user clicks, there's no reason for the program to need to remember what they drew where.
I use it, it’s pretty good.

For some reason it seems to try to connect to some atuin server even though I am using default config. That worries me slightly sometimes.

I also had one case where I was using ssh from my home to a machine at one of my parents place and there was an ongoing packet loss problem and so every time I press Ctrl-R to run some previous command I had to wait actual ages for the terminal to redraw because it opens atuin and shows as many lines of history as it can and also updates when you type to search. Of course that is an extreme situation, but it was wild nonetheless to see how much worse the command line experience became in those conditions because of that.

I still use it though, and will continue to as well.
Congress has certain powers; nobody seriously disagrees about this. Congress can use those powers if it wants to: again, nobody here disagrees about this. I think everyone here would also agree that Congress is not very fast or efficient when it comes to using its powers to pass legislation. That’s unfortunate but I guess part of the basic structure of the institution.

The only weird thing going on here is that one person in the conversation has pointed all these facts out, but then for some reason thinks it would be awesome to force Congress to micromanage the entire government through legislation rather than explicitly delegating the detailed enforcement to other branches. That’s the part I don’t get. If you’re going to push for Congress to run every element of our vast Federal government, stop providing devastating arguments that undermine your case.
Hacker News' policy is that some self-promotion is allowed, but it can't be the focus of most of your posts. There are people who occasionally post their own articles and such but if the majority of their posts are interesting other things, nobody complains (much).

On the other hand, I've flagged items lately that were posted three times in a day by a new user who apparently hadn't read the submission guidelines. That just looks like spam, even if they're "on-topic" for the HN crowd.
Exactly, or like allowing your kid occasional exposure to allergens hoping it will help them avoid allergies and asthma later on.

In reality of course, no amount of cleanliness could possibly be too clean.
"There is no alternative"

I wouldn't put it past Google/Meta coopting corporate advertisers. Everyone makes everyone look good, by stating the best possible numbers.
Ah sorry about that, was paraphrasing for the video, but the blog post should have the direct quote since I don't have a snapshot. I'll update the page when I'm back at my computer later!
Ubuntu 24.04 OpenZFS Root File-System with Encryption
Do you have some examples of this "very wrong"? I am finding his predictions on standalone being what gets mass adoption, inside out tracking taking over, and MR environment interactions being mostly a gimmick, correct.
should not be on Hacker News
Unsurprisingly, lawmakers make laws which excerpt them from obnoxious behavior which is not allowed for non-lawmakers.

It's funny though - I live in IL as well, and don't get many political texts.

What I do get matches the ratio of political spam I get across all of my various email accounts: It's 90% one party, and 10% or less the other. A fair amount of it doesn't mention party affiliation, and tries to copy the color scheme and design of the other state party even on their websites (which is pretty brazen). FWIW: I'm not registered with any party at any level and have never signed up for any political newsletter AFAIK.
Most drone RC systems use FHSS. Those make them resistant to naive jamming. You can get fancy with jamming, but so can the way the FHSS works.
As with self-checkout theft, cry me a river.

This isn't all that logically hard to figure out, it's just not profitable.

Big chains, almost by definition as they operate, don't care about their workers.

Alternatively, if your store figures out how to take care and value your workers, your workers will care about your store and the locality in which the store exists, and they will work towards solving this problem.
> it's completely free open access

Why are the PDFs individually watermarked?

It seems antithetical to the spirit of releasing a book about Tor and "future of privacy", and to then not only watermark each PDF, but to not explicitly state that this is the case, let alone explain why.
We have a very high bar for guilt in criminal trials. This is because we would rather have many guilty people go free than send an innocent person to prison (there are still mistakes, of course). Given this situation, it wouldn’t make sense to assume anyone who is not convicted on even one count is actually innocent.
That's not quite a sufficient rule. Eg, 1 Bahraini Dinar is 1_000 Bahraini Fils.
Google has been doing stock buybacks for years. Why are they pivoting to also doing a dividend too? Does a dividend give a bigger short term stock bump?
> This is crucial. Legal due process.

That is entirely US-based and ignores any laws or regulations of other countries.

> Other jurisdictions have something similar, every company must adhere to the laws of the jurisdiction they want to operate in.

The key: operate. The US claims data from those companies even if the data and the operations happen in foreign countries.

> That has been addressed by the EU with legislation

EU legislation does not negate US laws. CLOUD Act is still there. And that is a huge issue for any country dealing with US companies.
> ...It measures the time to convert a binary holding 1,262,000 digits to an integer.

> Running an unpatched Erlang/OTP 26 on my Intel-based iMac from 2017, the benchmark finishes in about 10 seconds.

> The same benchmark run using Erlang/OTP 26.0.2 finishes in about 0.4 seconds.

I love that Erlang even supports an integer with 1,262,000 digits, but I imagine that's one reason it'll never be a mathematical speed daemon.
but the article explains that the issue affects women from several different Asian American backgrounds, not just Indian Americans

Edit - however sibling comment seems to indicate that East Asians use Rapeseed Oil which presents similar issues, so you might be onto something
Architecture? Beer Putsch enthusiasts? /s

It’s a beautiful city. I’d love to go back.
Or Kagi, which is essentially LLM + citation links (with the '?' suffix)
Because California saved it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Internet_Consumer_P...

If any of the companies that wanted to exploit the lack of FCC enforced net neutrality did business with California they would have had a big problem.
Magnetically aligned wireless charging, at that! Something that the iPhone only got a few years ago.
This is pure speculation: I suspect our ancestors used music + simple words for communication long before we evolved modern human language. Although language outstripped music in terms of its precision and utility, as an evolutionary hangover we have a preference for language with musical qualities.

Some """evidence""" for this claim:

- The most interesting fact is that gibbons sing similarly to humans, intentionally targeting a pure tone so other gibbons can harmonize in octaves. They seem to use this for bonding and communicating their vocal state. So there's precedent for musical communication in one of our closest relatives.

- Music seems useful for hominids: just like modern humans, our pre-language ancestors possibly used "work songs" as a way for large groups of foragers to ping their status. Prairie dogs do the same with their chattering - if one critter goes quiet, the rest quickly realize something is wrong. There is no evidence that human language evolved after human music, but it seems more reasonable to me than the alternative.

- On the other hand, it's well-known that modern humans can be easily misled by speakers who use intellectual affectations to spritz up nonsense, and in general we tend to make lazy judgments about speakers and accept/deny their arguments accordingly. So, assuming this quirk didn't evolve very recently, I could see how "uses language musically" has the same (dishonest) social signal of intelligence as "uses big words all fancy-like," simply because 400,000 years ago the most musically talented hominids commanded the most social authority (even maybe when they shouldn't).
Downsizing, or debt.
They strongly discourage you.

Unified: More than a specification, Nimble is a product. We strongly discourage developers to (re-)implement Nimble’s spec to prevent environmental fragmentation issues observed with similar projects in the past. We encourage developers to leverage the single unified Nimble library, and create high-quality bindings to other languages as needed.
Can someone add Dark-Mode to this site?
Hacker News should at least have dark-mode as an option, if not default.
Remember when Comcast throttled Netflix to ISDN speeds because... hey... no net neutrality? Those were good times.

Comcast's perspective was that Netflix was using "their pipes" for free. Those "pipes" are what their paying customers are paying for. Not to mention the hefty government subsidies that go to cable companies to establish internet service in the first place. A google search today reveals plenty of VPN providers offering workarounds Comcast's throttling which is still going on today.

ISPs should deliver bits in a way that's fair to their paying customers. Period.
Good point Marius.

It is a new way to think compared to the "modern js framework" craze over the last 10 years.

But, you're right, it is the "old" way of using the browser/html with sprinkles of new interactivity.

Didn't even think about that.
I tried this and couldn't get it to work on a Rail 7.1 Ruby 3.2, no output. The readme.md could do with some examples of what sort of recommendations come out.
Edit: it outputs metric, just no recommendations so moving on.
"It paves the way for light-controlled, high-speed memory technology, notably Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM), and innovative optical sensor development. In fact, this discovery signals a major leap in our understanding of light-magnetism dynamics."

…

"We arrived at this understanding by using principles that are well established within the quantum computing and quantum optics communities but less so in the spintronics and magnetism communities," said Capua.

https://phys.org/news/2024-01-insights-interacts-magnets-sen...
It really isn't about whether people can't, but about people's wants.

Nothing economically prevents anyone from having children other than being unable to afford the food to grow one. But as one could imagine, very few people probably want children, if it also meant that they'd be homeless. In other words, someone's want for a house can be greater than their want for a child. And this can go for anything (from spouse, to life circumstances). Again, it's not that most people can't economically, it's more that many people don't want to sacrifice other things that they also want.
> If you’re building an abstraction-heavy API, be prepared to think hard before adding new features. If you’re building an abstraction-light API, commit to it and resist the temptation to add abstractions when it comes along.

You could always do both.

Provide a low-level abstraction-light API that allows fine control but requires deep expertise, and write a higher-level abstraction-rich API on top of it that maps to fewer simple operations for the most common use cases - which some of your clients might be implementing their own half-baked versions of anyway.

If you maintain a clean separation between the two, having both in place might mean there is less pressure to add abstractions to the low-level API, or to add warts and special-cases to the high-level API. If a client wants one of those things, it already exists - in the other API.

Bonus points for providing materials to help your clients learn how to move from one to the other. You can attract clients who do not yet have deep knowledge of payment network internals, but are looking to improve in that direction.
Yeah, I think the important thing here (and the point of the essay as well) is that whether the content you share is yours or others' should not matter much as long as you provide value to the platform.

This being said, I also understand having some measures against spammers, and so on...

I think HN does a good job of balancing the measures taken against spammers vs. providing a place for you to share your essays. Especially compared to some of the internet communities I've seen or heard so far. As long as you are an active community member who is not here only to promote yourself, sharing your essays occasionally seems to be perfectly ok.
It is all the MT-DOS content; binaries and docs.
You could receive money legitimately (let's say, donations to your synagogue) and funnel it to politically disfavoured causes (for example, anti-war protesters in the Middle East).

It doesn't fit the metaphor of money laundering, of turning dirty money into clean, but it's usually prosecuted under the same statutes.
Unless these retail stores are letting their employees profile customers, and refuse to unlock the cases for undesirables, I fail to see how these are any real deterrent to shoplifting. Just ask to unlock the case, get the item, walk around for another minute, then walk out with paying.

... and if they are profiling customers, the settlements are going to make their shrinkage losses look like pocket change
Im not blaming microsoft, im blaming the leadership and their half-assed policies. They are forcing microsoft to have there meaningless sanctions blocking minecraft for example
This has generally been my opinion on the office of the President. The actual quality of the administration comes from the level underneath the chief executive and I have been very pleased with the people in this administration.

The FTC, Department of Interior and FCC all seem like they have very competent (and non-corrupt!) people running them. Can't say I have strong feelings on Biden but I think he's shown good sense in who he appoints to actually manage the Executive Branch.
The poll_progress post linked above explains the situation. When polling the overall stream, you alternate between awaiting in the buffered interface or in the subsequent adapters.
This is because the different futures are not peers with regard to the executor, but there's a chain of futures and `FilterMap` only calls `poll` on its parent when it's done with the current item.

This post was also helpful to understand the issue: https://tmandry.gitlab.io/blog/posts/for-await-buffered-stre...
Looking at the pdf folder, this is the "Multitasking MS-DOS" product which is not the same as the "DOS 4" that most people think of. That "DOS 4" is actually IBM Personal Computer DOS 4, the successor to MS-DOS/PC-DOS 3.3 (with > 32 meg filesystem support borrowed from Compaq DOS 3.31) and predecessor to MS-DOS 5. Microsoft did later, quite confusingly, also release an MS-DOS 4 based on PC-DOS 4.

This is not that. This is the road not taken, at least not by IBM and compatibles.

At the time, Microsoft assumed that DOS as we know it would never live past version 3. This was their idea of what DOS 4 should be. A new major version breaking strict compatibility. What we know as OS/2 1.x was originally named DOS 5, another new major "DOS" version breaking strict compatibility.

This Multitasking MS-DOS never took off except in niche applications, and OS/2 eventually got its own product name which is why there were then regular DOS releases 4 and 5 followed by 6 and eventually 7 become part of Windows 95.
The Gift of Ambition
s/empirical/anecdotal/
How Stripe builds APIs and Teams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEe-5VOv0Js
I guess I could imagine how they might be helpful in initial research - but no way I'm letting some LLM book a hotel that might not exist or get me car insurance from StratesFrarm Unsurance.
A rhyme's meaning is afforded,

as long as it isn't contorted.

But some might deny,

as the rhyme might belie;

The truth of the subject distorted.
A US TikTok Ban Could Harm Small Businesses
> And petty theft for essentials such as medicines doesn’t speak to stealing for profit

You’re 100% wrong here. There are a couple ways I’m aware of to go about selling personal care items and medicines for profit.

-Sell them to a broker/fence who sells to ‘bodegas’ and other retail stores who buy discounted stolen merchandise

-Box it up and ship it to Amazon and have Amazon fence it for you (seriously). I’m sure Amazon is aware but doesn’t care.

> I was left wondering: what is going on in America?

Shoplifting under $1000 isn’t prosecuted in a lot of places, which enables the above behavior.
How many botched prosecutions are there? Most have a 90%+ conviction rate because normal people can't stand up to professional interrogation. Even innocent people can incriminate themselves to the point where it isn't worth the risk of trial, so they plead to a lesser offense.

Spend thousands going to court and possible spending 5 years in jail vs. plead out for probation. The fact that going to court and winning might see you get legal fees plus a bit of money back doesn't change the calculus -- the worst case outcome is still prison.
So they say parts of the API structure are based 1-1 on externally controlled specifications.

What happens if those specifications evolve or change?

New API?
The fact that "berthed" in that context may be grammatical but is not used that way is not.

Tweet the author. I am very confident in this.
How social evaluations shape trust in 45 types of scientists
No, by the man who wrote a letter/article which got that title. Wirth, as the article you linked indicates, gave it that title.
4.0 was a buggy release. Where's the DOS 4.01 source?
> free basic internet like Wikipedia and news at a lower cost.

I can't comprehend why you think ISPs would feel compelled to be so altruistic without any government intervention.

Except, since when was free wi-fi an impossible thing to find? Ever been to a coffee shop? Even in the "free shitty half-internet for everyone" pipe dream, the costs of such a service don't just magically disappear. Either way, someone's paying for that free internet, and it isn't the ISP.

Telecoms likely didn't deploy anything because this was obviously going to get overruled by the next non-Trump FCC. Even Ajit Pai has a long record of advocating for modernizing the FCC, which would explicitly involve the regulation of internet services. Abolishing net neutrality is only universally popular among communities where the underlying philosophy is "government is bad, and I'm gonna prove it by running it badly."
I feel like FreeDOS could already run just about everything for 20 years or longer. If your goal is to run DOS software your use case was probably already adequately covered with free software.

An interesting thing about DOS is the OS wasn't very involved. Programs did a lot of things we now think of as the realm of an OS, like talking directly to I/O addresses or installing interrupt handlers. I feel like a DOS implementation doesn't even need to do a lot of things, maybe part of why DOS4 is "good enough".
Algorithm Afternoon: discover and code clever algorithms on lazy afternoons
How does that work if, for example, the example given of "Visa and Mastercard have subtly different reason codes for why a chargeback can be initiated, but Stripe combines those codes into a single enum so that their users don’t need to consider the two networks separately.". Unfortunately, the article doesn't explain how Increase handles that overlap. Presumably, as the article states, their customers are the sort that do care about Visa reason codes vs Mastercard reason codes, so what's the design of a "no abstraction" API in that case?
It's a lost cause. No one labels charts correctly when presenting complex conditionals breakdowns. It's impossible to cram the proper grammar into the brief titles.
Signaling that growth will be slower.
1. .sh scripts

2. makefiles

3. If you're using bash, try the edit-and-execute-command command. By default, this is assigned to Ctrl-x Ctrl-e (type ctrl-x, then ctrl-e).
A lot of XP components are still in use in modern windows, whereas DOS was completely replaced around the time Windows XP came around.
sunk cost
I agree. I have seen very few unrecoverable mistakes.

The three most prominent in my family seem to be:
-getting addicted to a mind-altering substance

-taking enough hallucinogens to trigger schizophrenia

-having an attitude that mistakes are unrecoverable, that redemption is not possible

The first two of those seem to be largely biased by genetics. Some people can drink alcohol, some people can't. Some people can drop acid, some people can't.
EUV was supposed to ship in the early 2000s and the work on it started in earnest the 90s. It turned out that EUV is way harder than anyone imagined. The only reason we did stuff like immersion DUV was because we couldn’t get EUV to work.
Yeah I think HN has a better balance than most. Reddit by far is the worst about this.
>Could it work for open source software, too? Make your thing, don't share it. Demo it, ask for the release payment, then put it on github.

I think it would be far more reasonable to put the source into escrow, to be released when a threshold is met. I've seen closed source vendors do that when they're smaller to ensure a large customer is not left high and dry should they go bankrupt or be acquired by someone who kills the product.

I don't foresee anyone being willing to see a demo of a piece of software, then writing a check for it before using it. In the closed source world you pretty much ALWAYS have to do some sort of POV/POC before anyone will buy your stuff.
Also using ruby-lsp with VS Code and it's been a game-changer.
Once a debian...
Also we've seen what Red Hat/IBM did with CentOS, they might pull something similar to Fedora, It's unlikely which make it very appealing for IBM
I don't mind memes, I often like them. One part I dislike is that you seem to say you are apart from js libraries/frameworks when you are a part of them.

Seems to me like htmx tries really hard to market as "just hypermedia" and it's not. Besides things like 'hx-ws' or 'hx-on' we've already talked about the normal cases where you need custom scripting like normal error-handling.

Just hypermedia (as both the UI and API) has been around for 3+ decades. htmx isn't that and should not claim to be that.
I don't expect to ever want to retire. I took 2022 and 2023 off to do independent research while living on savings.

I didn't find a job because of finances but because of being unbelievably bored and unmotivated after the first year.

The worst part is that the two years subjectively felt like they went by in a blink of an eye. That is not really what you want in retirement with what waits for you at the end.