skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. It does feel that way. Jira is the worst project management software, except for all the others.
They aren't counted as missing children cases. That's "parental abduction" according to FBI stats. And also get special handling due to the convention if it's international.
That industry won't properly test for safety and hide evidence as long as possible is not unfounded.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10237242/

> Our review of industry documents shows that companies knew PFAS was “highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested” by 1970, forty years before the public health community. Further, the industry used several strategies that have been shown common to tobacco, pharmaceutical and other industries to influence science and regulation – most notably, suppressing unfavorable research and distorting public discourse.
> It is also one of the last tools that prevents parallel societies from forming.

Consider German history. They had the Nazis in power. Half of Germany had the Communists in power. So, you don't want Nazis and Communists home schooling their kids - you want those kids in regular school, where they can be taught about democracy and human rights. But if the Nazis or Communists are in power, you absolutely want to be able to homeschool, rather than have that garbage beat into your kids day after day at school.

So given their history, I can absolutely see why they should be afraid of home schooling. But I can also see why they should want the freedom to do it.
And statistically speaking, how many degree holders versus non-degree holders end up with 6 figure jobs?

I'm not denying that you can't self learn, but most people don't have the discipline and drive needed to reach that place. Nor will the self learner pass the hiring bar for a junior role in 2024 anymore.

Non-traditional college education (eg. low cost online education, expanded community college access, asynchronous learning, etc) is a happy medium and was in fact the norm for college education in the US throughout much of the 20th century (the normalization of the residential dorm model is a newish innovation - most students were historically commuter students from the early 20th century with CUNY all the way to the CSUs and UC extensions of the late 20th century).

Programs like ASU or OSU's online BSCS are a better middle ground.
Using Einstein’s mass energy equivalence, that’s about 10 to the power of 16 BTUs standing on that quarter.

If we had a machine to convert that horse into energy we could power Britain for about 20 years. (Britain uses a few quadrillion BTUs annually).
And the US police routinely rob travellers of their cash and goods at gunpoint.

So again, what good are the lax gun laws providing the populatnon against tyranny?
Oh yes, they've also done another game that's very much in the spirit of the old King's Quest. Order of the Thorne. The lead developer has chronic health problems unfortunately so that slows development by a lot. He has a patreon account to sponsor his development.
I use a jekyll/CI/static hosting workflow, and even though I make a zillion git commits a day, somehow branching, editing, PRing, and merging one to my website seems like friction. I have a 4-5 posts in my head I want to make that have been languishing for weeks/months because it feels like too much of a hassle.

I'm thinking of moving to a wordpress-backed CMS (that gets ingested by the static page build system) just to remove it, so I can simply type into a box and smash a button.
Neptune's Pride, a Multiplayer Game of Strategy, Intrigue and Galactic Conquest
Yes, but I think the venn diagram of people who really want to see a timestamp and people who are willing and able try a few different things to find it is pretty close to being a circle.
Wikimedia Foundation’s perspective on this [1]:

> "it is important to note that Creative Commons licenses allow for free reproduction and reuse, so AI programs like ChatGPT might copy text from a Wikipedia article or an image from Wikimedia Commons. However, it is not clear yet whether massively copying content from these sources may result in a violation of the Creative Commons license if attribution is not granted. Overall, it is more likely than not if current precedent holds that training systems on copyrighted data will be covered by fair use in the United States, but there is significant uncertainty at time of writing."

The new Wikimedia Enterprise APIs facilitate attribution. For example, the "api.enterprise.wikimedia.com/v2/structured-contents/{name}" response [2] includes an "editor" object in a "version" object. So the Wikipedia editor who most recently edited the article seems quite feasible to attribute. ML apps could incorporate such attribution in their offering, and help satisfy the "BY" clause in the underlying CC-BY-SA 4.0 license for Wikipedia content.

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1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilegal/Copyright_Analysis...

2. https://enterprise.wikimedia.com/docs/on-demand/#article-str...
It would have taken you less time to look up -fwrapv / -ftrapv / -fsanitize=signed-integer-overflow + -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error than write out that misleading dialog. :)
The Psion series 5mx provided an impressive amount of portable computing power and ran on two AA batteries plus a coin-shaped memory backup battery.

I used mine to take notes in university classes because I couldn't afford a laptop and it worked great. The keyboard was a bit small, but big enough for touch typing. The built-in office programs made it a productivity beast and the compact flash slot meant I had a whopping 16 MB of storage which held several hundreds of documents and files.

After owning such a useful and charming little machine was sad to see Psion leave the hardware business and turn EPOC into Symbian.
Ha ha, funny how it's neither fall nor autumn in Australia
Also, Arrow.kt is worth mentioning for functional error handling.
> lack of empirical data backing up claims

Doesn't that describe almost all books on psychology?

Psychology studies tend to be so hilariously unscientific that I'd rather get the coherent opinions and gut feelings of an experienced practicing expert, rather than half-arsed studies.
And who has the authority to declare, what is the correct word?
Links?
He cites a _lot_ of empirical research and the book is generally highly regarded in the field
It's more the latter: Ghostty doesn't introduce any groundbreaking features, instead it's a bunch of incremental improvements/nice-to-have's.
Researchers discover hidden step in dinosaur feather evolution
That... is a fascinating way to put it. Huh. I'll have to think about that.
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Of course you can include smallish pieces of data, but you can't make the demo mostly data. Look at some unlimited size demos. "Sisyphus Unchained" (Andromeda Software Development) is a 220MB zip file. Uncompressed, it's got a 60MB OpenCV DLL for some reason, a 37MB 3D model of a crab, 68MB of JPEGs and PNGs, 120MB of "MVX" which appears to be the animated silhouette from the 4:15 mark, stored as 442 separately compressed frames. The music is a single 11MB MP3 file.

Is that even a demo? I suppose. The EXE file seems custom made for this. It doesn't feel like a demo, though. It just feels like they made a music video in some tool like Blender with no constraints, and writing their own playback tool doesn't "really" make that into a demo.

By contrast, anything you can do in 64k that looks demoey is demoey.

The winning entry, "Rainmaker" by "Byte[censored] & Doomsday" was 450 megabytes. 2 different versions are included in the download, making it 900 megabytes, but that doesn't count. It's packed in one EXE, without as easy visibility as the other one which had all its resources in separate files. Running 'strings' shows fragments of RDF, JavaScript. It's made with some tool called "Notch" and the 'strings' output makes me think it might have a whole web browser in it as well as a whole copy of Notch. It also happens to be a valid zip file, where we can see there's an 80MB WAV file of music, and at least a hundred megabytes of textures and objects.

My first demo had a music wave file. That's because I ran out of time and couldn't replicate the way I'd made it in the DAW program. That was a noob thing to do. But the #1 winner at Revision has the same thing? What is this? I don't like it. Demo-making isn't supposed to be about shipping an mp4 video alongside an mp4 file.
What good is "more" money if you have a terrible quality of life quotient? I mean, do you feel your employers are exploiting your labor? Are you anxious about how your family will afford to send two kids to university? Surprise medical bills ruining you financially? Likely not...

Perhaps this is an intentional tradeoff that in some way leads to trusting.
If you want to go down the prescriptive path, a more correct word relative to "autumn" is "hærfest". Just like "fall" replaced "autumn", "autumn" replaced "hærfest".
It doesn't say in this press release but are WYSE/Dell contributing back to FreeBSD in any way?
But it requires sudo or effective-sudo to run any command, making such a measure worthless
Thank you for your feedback, latexr! I appreciate your honest perspective. I'll work on refining the messaging to better align with the functionality and improve the user experience. Your insights on the mobile UI are invaluable, and I'll make sure to address the banner issue. Thanks again for taking the time to share your thoughts!
If you accidentally pipe hundreds of thousands of lines of text (e.g. from find) to stdout, you will feel the difference. Some terminals (e.g. xterm) are particularly slow and will stall until it is done processing all the output. urxvt is not the worst, but could be better, yet doesn't always achieve 60 Hz.

My gripe with (u)rxvt (last I checked) is the atrocious font rendering and character spacing if you chose a full unicode/nerd font.
Again, I agree with all that. I just feel like you complain about the fact that I split my argument in 3 points and would rather have it stand on one point :-).

> we need to explain WHY this is dangerous and not worth it

Yes. But if you only tell them that "making E2EE illegal to everybody is dangerous", they will kindly tell you "sure, but we are not talking about that: we are talking about a miracle privacy-preserving sniffer that only the good guys can have". They need to understand that this miracle they want does not exist, too!
https://archive.ph/Ro4rM
Spent a summer traveling working on my remote university job in the 90s on one of these.
Except the user license agreement states Microsoft can upload/download anything, run anything, and ignore any user setting on “your” computer.
No, it's not reductionist and pedantic. It's a reminder that there is no magic. Building an abstraction layer that separates control and data doesn't win you anything if, like the people in the article, you then forget it's a thing and write directly to the level below it.
I solved this Google problem by paying someone else for search. I have switched to kagi.com, a so-called, "paid, ad-free search engine".

I have not yet found one drawback to using it. Unlike previous attempts to switch from Google, I have not ever felt like I was getting substandard answers or thought of switching back. It's been months.

And, it is lovely. The lack of ads and of it having no manipulative motivation makes me very happy. It has other features that are nice.
What a neat project.

This paper is the advanced version of a YouTube video by Japhy Riddle that I watched recently:
https://youtu.be/qeUAHHPt-LY?si=b21Op1nmi_o-M6Od
That’s a really interesting and important distinction. Thanks for clarifying. Suddenly I understand ignorance and stupidity in a whole new light.
Cushion gas?

Is that a couch fart?
tried to access. After login, I found this message: 'Ups! something went wrong
Please try again'
Bash is ubiquitous and stable, making bash scripts incredibly portable.

All of the other languages you bring up are great for authoring code, but have a non-zero amount of friction when running code in the wild. Python may be omnipresent, but you can rarely count on a specific version or the presence of specific libraries. Go requires compiling platform-specific binaries. Even JVM- or JS-based software requires installing a separate toolchain first.

If you want to write some code (e.g., a launcher, installer, utility code, etc...) that is almost certainly going to run on any computing device created in the last several decades, bash is your language.
Am I missing something?

I thought is was obvious that Microsoft is clearly about to establish the next "standard" with near windows level of ubiquity, it will end up our primary starting point to use Microsoft stuff - we won't open apps, Copilot will.

Actions speak louder than words tho - look at how obvious they are being

Copilot is included with windows, they added a button for it to all keyboards made here on out, built it into Edge, Office, is a standalone app, their search engine and now their Xbox games NPCs will be AI powered, prolly open to all their game pass studios.

If it goes the way I expect Microsoft will be essentially done positioning themselves for the world we talk to and expect to listen to us - and organize, track and recall anything I talk to about it. Perfect for the smart glasses we all about to buy

Tbh, I think this will be the end of computing as we conceive it now - just not for the reason I expected originally.

Folders for example - I think Copilot will end folders and all the file organization stuff for normal users. I shouldn't need to ever kno where that stuff is on my PC after a future date, or manage it in any way.

Instead we'll have "real-time" folders, created from our own saved content, assembled to our inquiry and according to our preferences all named, topic labeled, and dated - but not by us.

Stored and retrieved by AI - lots like human memory actually.

Bc we'd then NEED Copilot just to access our stuff - I think that is most definitely coming sooner than later
>Turned out not to work, probably b/c you can't stablize an inherently unstable complex system.

Or because they didn't have enough computing power at the time

https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-us....
To be fair, it is mentioned.

To be critical, it's mentioned in the 8th paragraph of a 13 paragraph article. Conversely, the very first paragraph is pure lede. The title and opening paragraph could be seen as discouraging the reading of the rest of the article. It's like the opposite of an online recipe - it's brutally efficient.

Odd for The Guardian which, as far as I understand it, is (somewhat) left leaning and I'd normally slightly correct for bias towards environmentally conscious perspectives.
The choice to deemphasize the differences is part of the culture that's being spoken of here. Eastern Europe went through the same world wars as Western Europe and yet many parts of it are or recently were still riven with ethnic conflict. The Danes and Swiss, especially the native-born and -raised ones, but also those who've joined and assimilated by choice, have broad agreement on the questions of societal organization, conflict resolution, etc. That is a cultural fabric which many other countries lack and which may not always be there even in Denmark and Switzerland.
It's going to be an interesting experiment - like what's the point of even going there in the first place?

OTOH Italians with coperto are doing completely fine - pay extra to be seated - I assume this would be appalling to the average US consumer, though.
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Sure, but my primary objective is not "to learn CAD systems" - I just want to get models done for making things.
>What do you mean by "never really tried it"? This was a state that set production quotas, dictated prices, and set priorities in 5 year intervals. What more could they have done?

Obviously: not have different political factions and concerns from individual officials to "look good" affect the content of those plans, nor have the same factions and concerns distort the reports about the state of production and the results of said plans.

And instead to try what they purported to be doing but didn't do: plan solely based on optimization concerns, and get back non purposefully-distorted reports so that they can re-plan and course-correct as needed.

Btw, those "five year plans" are not what people think, which usually involves a mental picture of someone calculating the amount of desired production of X or Y product for the next five years and setting some prices in stone.

They rather were sets of goals and associated organized efforts on multiple fronts to meet them. Like "let's industrialize that province" or "let's build transport infrastructure", etc.

Like current multi-year "initiatives" or often still call "plans" like "The Biden- Harris Plan to Revitalize American Manufacturing and Secure Critical Supply Chains in 2022"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...

or those regarding broadband access, or the federal plan to "land a man on the moon" back in 1960.
The point of "implementation defined" is that the actual code generated is up to implementation, or in fact whether it even accepts such code.
Those places cost a lot of money to facilitate. They need to be cleaned and maintained. They require larger bathroom facilities due to the lengths of stays which also need to be cleaned and maintained. They need to pay people to do that. I fully understand that most wages aren’t enough to live on, but this is a direct effect of minimum wage laws. We can have living wages or we can have nice things at the expense of others essentially. But we really can’t have both and I am getting sick and tired of all the gd whining.
Silicon Valley does not understand the concept of consent. Everything should be opt in, not opt out.
That is why I always give Lisp enviroments and Smalltalk as example, when someone comes up with the common excuse that Python cannot have good JITs, as it is too dynamic.

Finally it is starting to change.
Is Tesla a transportation company or an automaker? They're going to have trouble trying to be both.
'Right to roam' movement fights to give the commons back to the public
Not to diminish the guys work, it's a good read, I just find it amusing he's from Toronto, a place that contains arguably the largest "third place" in the whole world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(Toronto)

I was actually walking through it on Monday and noticed they've renovated all the stuff down by Bay and Front, there are LOADS of working areas and eating areas (with and without vendors, HUGE areas of eating area without vendors in fact) - I'm always super impressed by the path, it's a cool thing as someone not native to Toronto.
Isn’t the same true of familial versus stranger abductions in the US? Like the vast majority are familial, correct?
Earlier today, I got around to viewing the video you linked to in your first reply. As I have been looking into this issue for several years, its trajectory is familiar: start from a re-statement of Frank Jackson's 'knowledge argument' from "Epiphenomenal Qualia", assume that this shows consciousness to be inexplicable as a physical process, jump to the conclusion that consciousness is the fundamental reality on which the physical world supervenes, and throw in some arguments from incredulity to coax the reluctant to make this rather huge leap - plus, in this video, a smattering of vitalism.

Jackson's knowledge argument had been fully anticipated by (and probably inspired by, I would guess) Bertrand Russell's aphorism "It is obvious that a man who can see knows things that a blind man cannot know; but a blind man can know the whole of physics." [The Analysis of Matter, 1927.] Fair enough, but where does idealism stand? Is there any non-circular argument for the proposition that learning all of idealism (or any specific variety of panpsychism or dualism, for that matter) would achieve for Russell's blind man what knowing all of physics cannot? Will he come to know what it is like to see the world?
You are just swapping a tech giant for another one, it's not really a solution
> Most egregiously, all of the window seating is gone, and in its space stand faux chic leather leaning bars that most closely resemble what a horse would be tied to outside a saloon.

Some NYC Starbucks previously had tables, now have ... nothing at the window. Saw a guy with laptop in one hand and coffee in the other, standing there for at least 15 minutes, with occasional gymnastics to interact with laptop.

They could rebrand to Stanbucks.
One thing I realized after living in Sweden for eight months is the lack of third places, or at least third places similar to what I found in Italy. In order to go to a place, you need to pay, book an appointment, and be "known." Living in Turin, on the other hand, was a story of magical encounters in the street, bars, clubs, etc. These third places (Murazti, for example) gave me people who have now become very good friends of mine that I can trust.

For me, as an immigrant in both countries, it's essential to have those places, and the lack of them made me depressed, sad, and even suicidal (during the Swedish winter).

Not having someone to talk to is sad and unhealthy. Let's not make this an endangered species; it is a public health issue.
Desalination produces a lot of brine, which needs to be disposed of. You can't just dump it back into the ocean because it will kill off local aquatic life by massively increasing salinity.
I like the point made way down at the bottom, especially about libraries:

For readers looking to find Third Places the good news is that for now they do still exist throughout the city. However, without regular patrons that could always change. Seek out the cafes, reading rooms, and esoteric bookstores of Kensington Market. For world renowned collections of books and high speed free public Wi-Fi, one hundred Toronto Public Libraries are scattered throughout the city. For close quarters laughs many small bars host casual open-mic nights for everything from comedy to music to poetry.

Also, seems wrong to not even mention Tim's. Are Tim Hortons in Toronto not like Tim Hortons outside of Toronto? Maybe they're too small to qualify as a third place?
New nontransformer architectures
That's about where I gave up too. You make it sound like you disagree with me when in reality you do.
There is no real reason to write any production code in bash or any other shell language.
It's useful in Rust where you might parse input as a string and then convert it to a number.

It's better than having a variable named age and another one named age_num or the opposite, str_age and age.