skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the best people left MS. People forget that MS was so completely dominant that it attracted a lot of talented people who wanted to do big things. Since then the competition from the FANG companies have brain drained them, not helped by MS insistence on paying less than their peers, sure there is no state income tax but the company shouldn’t be trying to capture all of that difference.

The net effect is that not only are they not capable of building things as well as they used to, they can’t even maintain what they already have. And how would anyone go about fixing such a culture. I think that’s a big part of why MS has been so generous to OpenAI while also keeping them at arms length.

Inertia is incredibly powerful and big companies can remain successful for long after their technical competence dissipates.
One firm I worked at still has its old “mainframe” running all its cobol apps… but it’s all running on a windows server backed by a sql server database.
While we do want to support GCOS, it'll be GCOS-3, and that is if we can find system tapes. We are actually planning another blog post soon that will touch on this.

Now, Multics does have GTSS (GCOS Time Sharing Simulator), which Dean has helped us get working.

There is an general information page available: https://dps8m.gitlab.io/sb/MR12.8/documentation/info_segment...

This facility is based on GCOS-3 4JS3, and it does work, although the software that we have available for it is minimal.

GCOS-8 is a different beast entirely. While there is the possibility that a future version of the simulator could theoretically run GCOS-8 in the future (as most of the work necessary overlaps with supporting CP-6), this is not something that we're going to support as GCOS-8 is a current commercial product.

If you want to run GCOS-8, you'll have to purchase an Atos BullSequana M9600 mainframe - https://atos.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/BullSequana_M_Br...
How would one use this to replace Sidekiq for instance?

Rate limiting is something I miss on Sidekiq (only available on the premium plan that I can't afford) and the gems that extend it break compatibility often.
TBH I don't see why the market sellers should have to pay for that. Like I said, the solution is to offer a privacy/freedom/etc-preserving electronic payment system that is a real successor to cash, but still has the low costs that make businesses want to go cashless and the convenience that makes consumers want to.
Well, cash helped me, because I had a good enough fraction of my wealth in cash to not be affected. It's not like things are just fine one day, and bam!, capital controls the next.
I am equally baffled.

It's a pet peeve of mine seeing software projects that describe what they do, but without providing even a single use case. Or even what motivated the developer.

Why does this thing exist? There is probably a reason and then I could learn something.
Expert witnesses are already required to be impartial. There's currently an inquiry in the UK over a massive miscarriage of justice caused by an expert witness going rogue and letting prosecutors put words in his mouth, etc. A big part of the scandal is that prosecutors were meant to inform him of his legal duty to be neutral and share all the facts, but they didn't, so now he's claiming he didn't realize he was required to share all relevant facts including those negative for the prosecution.
Sciter's support forum is pretty active : https://sciter.com/forums/

Mr. Yuri (Pravic) has his own agenda these days. As far as I know creation of Go, Rust and Python backends for Sciter was a method for him to determine best frontend technology for his organization.

If someone wants to take care about Go, Rust and Python wrappers - let me know.
You can start to refine your incorrect thinking on this by decomposing these associated characteristics and terms rather than conflating all of them.

Thinking, understanding, self-aware, awake, integrated sensory stream, alive, emotional, visual, sensory, autonomy, adaptiveness, etc.
There are thousands trade offs going into each product. Demanding that a subset of these trade offs must include certain solutions in effect elevates those solutions' importance above all the other issues, past or future, encountered or unforeseen.

That is simply dumb. It prevents improvements, innovation and future advances of said product while pandering to a current political base sensible to said issues. It is another way a country stagnates,
Smuggling can be redeeming under oppressing conditions, and smuggling agaisnt cash is more common
The argument is we don't have capacity to learn what needs to be fixed, and it's the unfortunate truth that figuring out other things instead generally has better ROI :-(
I don't see how you can call it first-class when they don't support sound or vibration? Completely useless for anything that actually relies on push notifications.
The goal of this is so that end-users can modify or update Qt, the LGPL licensed component.

The LGPL is working as intended.
Unlike Windows, Apple and Android have managed to publish modern UI libraries for their own platforms - but in both cases, this involved migrating the whole platform to a new programming language (Swift and Kotlin, respectively). If I remember right, C# also has a few features which were only added to make Windows Forms and WPF more ergonomic.

I'm starting to suspect that general-purpose languages just aren't flexible enough to keep up with changing fashions in UI development. Whenever somebody comes up with a new UI paradigm, you're not going to be able to take full advantage of it until somebody designs a new programming language with that paradigm in mind.

If so, this might explain why the Windows team keeps pushing new desktop UI libraries, only to abandon them within a few years - they just don't have the willingness or resources to migrate away from C# and C++, and so the quality of their UI libraries is stuck in 2006.
I don't even want these devices making outgoing connections to the internet. I have my router drop all outgoing connection attempts from my IOT vlan. I can connect to the cameras etc on there from other VLANs but that's the only way packets get out.
No one wants to talk about it or Delphi anymore.

Programmers are just as fashion-concious as the Milan catwalk designers.
The point absolutely does not stand. You've retreated to "relative affluence". For your point to stand, it would also have to be a given that the acceptability of noise pollution correlates with how rich the population is. That doesn't stand either.
That is correct. But it is possible to design a system with short lived auth tokens/keys and frequent key rotation. I designed such a system at $oldjob for remote access (see [1]). Obviously there is always a risk, and there are always syseng/ops people with access. That is correct.

[1] https://blog.heckel.io/2019/11/19/providing-remote-access-to...
They'll get dark, light, rainbow, whatever the user has set.

This was a feature since at least Windows 3:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25871787
It’s not working in India. It’s not working there. We’ll see what happens.

Why shouldn’t one billion Hindus have a Hindu nation? There is no country in the world that has Hinduism as official religion.

Religious conversions and by extension, secularism is a form of colonization.
Wait, what is it, then? I assumed you meant security ops.
I may be asking a naive question, but what is the rationale behind disabling foreign key support and using them anyway in the database schema? See https://github.com/poundifdef/SmoothMQ/blob/46f8b22/queue/sq...

The "TODO: check for errors" comment, combined with what seems like disabling foreign key constraint checks, makes me a bit hesitant to try this out.
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2013/02/13/the-global-c...

Catholics have made up a remarkably stable share of all people on Earth. In 1910, Catholics comprised about half (48%) of all Christians and 17% of the world’s total population, according to historical estimates from the World Christian Database. A century later, the Pew Research study found, Catholics still comprise about half (50%) of Christians worldwide and 16% of the total global population.

What has changed substantially over the past century is the geographic distribution of the world’s Catholics. In 1910, Europe was home to about two-thirds of all Catholics, and nearly nine-in-ten lived either in Europe (65%) or Latin America (24%). By 2010, by contrast, only about a quarter of all Catholics (24%) were in Europe. The largest share (39%) were in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Never coded a GUI app but speaking of regressions:

As a heavy windows KB user, losing the ability to alt+letter all the things to /quickly/ navigate windows apps is incredibly frustrating.

I've read that Mac OS envy infiltrated the WinUI time and while some may prefer the aesthetics, on Windows 11 apps like mspaint I can no longer navigate anywhere near as quickly.

From milliseconds to multiple seconds.

I'm incensed at this change personally, and I feel totally confused by it from the perspective of MS. In the era of AI and automation, slower screen draw times will make a significant impact to performance and energy use. I hope someone like Mark Russinovich, Kevin Scott, or Satya Nadella will notice and change course.
As the article states, it wasn't just stimulant qualities, it was also for morale. Imagine having no choice but to drink tea after decades of very rapid cultural absorption of coffee by every person.
> I fail to see the logic behind how the idea that the relative risk of wood smoke compared to cigar smoke is supposed to convince anyone that cigar smoke should seem safe

It's not so much a logical argument as an emotional one (though it is a true statement). So much of the public opposition to tobacco is emotional, not logical. So that's where at least some of the discussion needs to happen. Sometimes the best way to put something in the proper perspective is to make a comparison to a more familiar thing.

I grew up believing tobacco use was one of the worst possible sins against God, and that lighting wood in the fireplace was a relaxing, enjoyable thing to do. So at least for me, the argument was helpful to put things into perspective.
Thanks for your comment and reference.-
I'm going through the documentation right now, and I'm a bit confused. How would I integrate it to use for the WInforms UI?
You are not correct.

Having a monthly fee for a bank account (typically around 5 EUR) is common in Germany.
For the reason behind edits, my collaborators and I profusely use the comments system in overleaf. This is not the same as a file diff that you might do with git, but we have got used to it now without any big changes to our larger workflow.

(Tangential to your specific point but relevant to many comments here: if your collaborators are not from CS or are not s/w savvy, using git directly is not an option for them. For people who want to just use LaTeX, Overleaf lowers the minimum skill requirement to just knowing LaTeX. This is a big benefit it brings to the table.)
As a mobile dev, it should be the same for mobile apps?

If you are on iOS, you could just use what Apple gives you with very little customizations. The app would feel right, dark mode, font sizes, screen traders, etc. accessibility would "just work" 98% of the time, the app would be fast.

On Android, things are a tad bit more complicated, but it still applies that the closer you are to the OS, the better things work out of the box.

But for some reason, companies, their designers, product owners, developers want to get creative, use their brand but eventually they always run out of time to implement things properly, so apps are slow, user's font scale settings are not respected, dark mode is a feature, and the app doesn't feel like part of the same phone / OS.
For what it's worth, I've found that muscular twitches are always a symptom of magnesium deficiency, which caffeine does exacerbate.

Since I adore coffee and don't intend to stop drinking it, I supplement with magnesium drops in the water I drink large amounts of all day. This has completely prevented tics and twitches, and greatly reduces jaw tension as well.
This isn’t what everybody else means when they use the term “embodiment”. It refers to sensing and actuating in the world (or a simulation!) in realtime.

It’s explicitly referring to the opposite of a “brain in a jar” scenario.
> They don't have to pay for it but it's rude not to.

Given that this is the Netherlands, that sounds like "they won't pay for it".
It's the Pochhammer symbol as defined on page 2 of the PDF. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_and_rising_factorials
Projecting all your own personal shit onto the children of the future is no way to deal with your own shit.

You feel that you needed to be protected from the bad old world by you parents. Who you now wish had more control over you. You bad bad boy!

Children, believe or or not, are very good at discerning what is right and wrong.

No longer believing in god is a good thing. Santa claus is and always has been a lie.

What is wrong with Atheism? I'm an athiest.

It seems like you want to take away choice from children.

Children are monitored far too much these days and you want to make it worse so you can make a few quid

Get some therapy before you start taking it out on the kids.

Muppet!
It turns out naming things is an unsolved problem outside of computer science as well.
And 922 is twice 461
It's even worse.

> Those were only a few options that I considered. After a very long time trying out all sorts of different libraries and at one point even writing my own MFC styles, I figured out that for simple apps there is simply nothing better suited than Dear ImGui.

They decided to go with the option that deviates the most from the standard Windows UI, where there are no native controls at all, and it's a nightmare for accessibility (see https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/issues/4122). I use it for prototyping privately, but I'd never make anything I want to release into the world with it.
Empirical evidence suggests otherwise, at least in liberal democracies.
This is the kind of research I've been yearning to see on suicide.

Just telling people not to, or to call a hotline, seemed like the worst most patronizing advice as it never solved the underlying thing.

I've since learned that there is a subset of suicidal people where that's enough, where the suicidal tendency is a kneejerk decision that can be disrupted, but it bugged me that its not serving everyone that becomes suicidal with a recurring condition that's not improved by merely being present.

It always feel like people are too uncomfortable to talk about it enough, or to question the response measures. A "I'm Helping!" sentiment by copy and pasting a suicide hotline memo, when they're not helping at all, just offloading their discomfort into a protective layer for their own psyche.

In contrast, I'm comfortable enough to wonder whether suicide was the most rationale and objectively best choice, as someone with strong self preservation circuits you can see how far apart I am from everyone else. But this is opinion, a hunch, what I really want is a data driven analysis of the conditions. As with real science, I am accepting of any conclusion, instead of trying to conform a conclusion to preventing it if prevention isn't what winds up being on the table with our current infrastructure.
Respectfully, it is insane to not recognize the discrete similarities listed, and moreover, how many genocides have their roots in purported "public health measures".
Peacefully protesting can be criminal. The two are not mutually exclusive.

The right to protest and speech does not include a right to break the law.

The fundamental problem with the Canadian bank response is that it was not proportional, broke convention, and did not fit the crime.

If someone is trespassing, you arrest and remove them.

Government have incredible power they can wield, but convention is that they do not use it to force compliance in every circumstance.
I learned this weekend that birds routinely get trapped in the eye of hurricanes and have to keep moving with it despite being exhausted, for hundreds of miles.
Which is not the case here -- just simply "googling" would provide the right answer.
They will recognize you next time. At least they should.

Where I live I have seen dinners with a "No cash" warning by the entrance. The "No cards" warning is less common"
Poverty, Humanity's Elemental Foe
If mail gets lost for longer than 5 days, it won’t be known who it goes to, since these codes are reused.
I actually said it can read my mind which I interpret as my work being repetitive and not that clever. It can still read my mind poorly most of the time, although it's in the ballpark, but on occasion it hammers one home which feels like magic. Whether or not it can get good at reading my mind or not I don't know. But whether it can get good at doing non repetitive tasks that have been done a billion times, well, it feels like a no right now.
An excellently presented article. Impressed by the usage of `turtle` module. Didn't knew it was that capable.
write a cross platform GUI is even more painful.

It's pretty much either paying for Qt or use the bloated Electron.js. Looks like the latter won the market.

I failed to see other practical options, flutter was an option, but its strength is not on desktop so far.
It's funny that you mentioned apple because their system shortcuts are integrated as hell and they even let you map them in the OS -> App level, way better than anything MS has ever shipped.
Thank you for the feedback!
We completely depleted the remaining savings we had into this ''campaign'' (I know, stupid) and interesting part about IPads is that most of the recipients just return the tablets, so we were able to reuse them on each delivery. They also were acquired used off the marketplaces, of course.
It's later that we learned majority of these companies have ''no valuable gifts'' policy where they must return things like these.

I agree with you, though. Probably too strong of the word to be used and I should reconsider its usage.
AI drive brings Microsoft's 'green moonshot' down to earth in west London
It probably lets them scrap large amounts of FM transmitters, relays, broadcasting hardware and maintenance. I assume in a mountainous country such as Switzerland this adds up to quite a lot
Or for that matter, weren't brought intentionally by someone who traveled on a ship with the equivalent of a terrarium or something that would keep them alive that long?
The instructions to install Docker are clearly wrong on many Linux distributions. They add very little value, and are yet another thing that has to be maintained.
> And everyone with any sense said blockchains were stupid tech.

And yet practically every big company was falling over itself to have a ‘blockchain strategy’ (remember IBM’s thing?) Sound familiar?

> Duplicating portions of human intelligence has tremendous practical use in every facet of society. The tech just needs to get there.

Trouble is, that’s a _huge_ ‘just’.
> That was more than a century before we had the technology to determine that humans are genetically all the same.

What a comically false thing to say.
I have never heard of DAB or DAB+ requiring monthly subscription fees? At least I don't pay any, and I have a DAB+ receiver in my car
> And yes, IANAL.

Politely, you're presumably not a lawyer of European law.

> Then, in paragraph 38 [. . .] In paragraph 39

They're called Recitals, and I'm not sure why you're so focused on them. Recitals help clarify purpose but are not legally binding[1].

> These exceptions then are codified in Article 11, which uses 'shall', not 'must'

This proves the opposite of the point you're making. Shall denotes an obligation[2].

> which gives us another reason when this does not apply - for devices which need to have power constantly, e.g. for the integrity of data collection. Which you could easily argue that smartphones fall under.

Come on. That's not a good faith interpretation of the exception.

[1] https://uk.practicallaw.thomsonreuters.com/w-009-6368?transi...

[2] https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/c45f5b70-2d0e... paragraph 10.27
PostgreSQL with Rust is always a great combination
I drink 4-5 cups a day, although I always stop by noon.

No problems sleeping, and stress seems average for the job lol
I am contradicting you because you are taking his words out of context.

Chomsky disagrees with the philosophy, but he never called Foucault morally bankrupt nor a phony. Those are your words, not Chomsky's.

PS: I'm actually genuinely sorry you and Chomsky don't understand Foucault. It's very illuminating when you do. I don't have a great deal of sympathy for your attempted character assassination on Foucault, though. And I do appreciate a lot of Chomsky's writings, and that's why I react so negatively to your attempts to bring Chomsky into that. Chomsky's dismissal of post-modernism as "not philosophy" is simply dim, and I'd say a variant of his obnoxious habit of dismissing linguists who take a different or broader view of the subject by simply saying that what they're doing "isn't linguistics". And I actually think that the intellectual quirk that causes him to do that is the same thing that makes him struggle with understanding the actual content of Foucault.
Some US jurisdictions do require businesses accept cash. My company would love to stop taking cash, but because some locations are in those jurisdictions it's easier to just take it everywhere.
It is possible that I'm missing a bigger picture where Mozilla is pushing the envelope with Firefox.

We've crystalized around a specific role for each browser (e.g. Chromium brings in whatever webstandards it needs to pretend to be an OS, Safari tries to keep up while also sneaking Apple ecosystem facilities, Firefox... keeping up?) and there is no real innovation. Of course, we have better ways to not-block-ads, scrape user telemetry, or ai-whatever-that's-good-for... but nothing substantial towards improvements for the people using browsers.

The browser space is stagnating.
Yep but getting your luggage back is the responsibility of airlines (and usually whoever they outsource to).

That means airlines that cheap out on that will rank higher for lost luggage because they'll get more mentions on social media for lost luggage (usually after days of not getting it back!).

The airlines that return luggage fast won't show up on social media as much.
I think koreader[0] has an RSS feature where you can fill in some RSS feeds and it converts feed items to epubs. It's nice, but I'm using a different reader on my laptop, so then syncing (of which feeds you follow) becomes a thing to do.

Instead of following a bunch of them and having to sync them I guess you could just follow the combined one and be done with it. If you have multiple feed readers, each with their own way to input feeds, I think something like rsscombine might be an easy solution.

[0] https://koreader.rocks/
have you seen flight prices these days ?
TBH that doesn't sound ridiculous at all. "UL recognized" is not the same thing as "UL listed."

The former means that the assembly is assumed to meet UL specifications; the second means that it has been inspected by UL and confirmed that the assembly actually does meet specifications.

Making sure that things meet specifications is the entire point of the building department's inspections.
EU/Finland has used debit+credit combination cards over 21 years.

20 years ago the card type caused confusion going abroad, especially US, but also some European countries that had not yet introduced the same card type. Some merchants were confused about the extra prompt about which card to use before the customer enters the pin.

But it has worked fine 99% of exotic places. I think the 3D secure caused much more trouble when shopping online when it was introduced compared to the choice of using either the debit vs credit variant online.
Mpegstreamclip used to do similar on macOS but is not compatible with modern Mac’s