skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I maintained an app that used homebrew for the Mac users, I kept my homebrew in a different, self contained path off the user’s path, and maintained my own repo of every package so I could pin versions and not break the user’s install.

Codifying this crap UX, always deploying head to a dev’s machine, setting packages on a dev’s computer and path in some privileged manner that I as a dev using the machine can’t control… it’s terrible.

I should have full control over the development packages on my machine, the environment, etc. fine, put some memory hog scanning crapware on there if it makes IT feel like they are doing something… but don’t touch my path and my dev environment
neat!

Always love to see music theory content here. Nice find!
Plenty of people take caffeine indefinitely. Is that better because it's not prescription?
Eaglercraft is minecraft 1.8.8 ported fully to any modern web browser. it uses TeaVM to compile java to javascript. It has servers that you can connect to with the websocket protocol, some of which have over 300 concurent players online. It has Singleplayer too, which works perfectly. It's optimized for low end devices. Go check it out, it's pretty cool.
link: https://eaglercraft.dev
Not sure why https://www.rpvl.cz/en/ was at the top but we've changed the URL to that now. Thanks!
Related:

Was early modern writing paper expensive? (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20559968 - July 2019 (4 comments)
Not every person was born into the elite or wealthy or corpo classes. My mom still works minimum wage jobs, she never had the ability to save any money. Especially when raising a family of 5.

You should feel sympathy toward them because not all monetary gains are felt uniformly. If you look at the savings from median Americans and median wages you’ll notice most Americans are not actually wealthy as the media portrays.

When you have the working poor battling payday lenders, bank fees, credit card debt, increasing healthcare costs, or lack of homeownership for their entire lives why would you expect them to suddenly become rich when they retire?

I mean for myself I didn’t start saving aggressively until I was 32 and I didn’t get my first programming job until I was 25. I was 28 when I met the first person in my life that owned stocks (CTO of my second job).

I already have more money saved for retirement than my parents and siblings combined. I honestly attribute this to complete luck too. I could have easily ended up like them financially.

I suppose I should count myself blessed because my parents raised me to value education, a love for learning, and reading books. I’ll forever be grateful for them because I’m positive I’ll be able to provide a better life for my family because of their sacrifice.

A sacrifice not everyone is even allowed to make.
Terrible idea.

Plus, banks aren't allowed to just close their eyes and allow all money movement via ACH.
We all make poor choices sometimes
Trader Joe's recalls expose the cracks in our food safety system
I don't think I would trust those numbers. They seem wildly off, TBH.

I'm not sure what you mean by "server footprint", but I doubt most Linux installs are phoning home in a way that a third party like Statista can easily measure. Unless they provide some detailed methodology, I'd be very skeptical of those numbers.
Flown to the US in chains, now Mike Lynch is free and talking
I'm assuming a situation where you'd need more than one server and there actually are bottlenecks. If one server per datacenter is enough, with no bottlenecks, then great you're done.

If your actually-kept-busy servers get 20x faster and your allocated bandwidth doesn't, there's a point where your racks are almost empty and you have some issues to address with the datacenter owner.
The last time I used MacPorts it fell out of popularity and did not have nearly as many packages as Homebrew had. It's unfortunate. Homebrew is dogshit slow.
> the titanium heart is only meant to keep a patient alive while they wait for a heart transplant, which has always been the goal of fully mechanical heart development at this stage of the game.

Why are we not aiming higher?
If you like posts like this check out https://qrper.com , basically focused around low-power "out in a park or mountaintop" sort of operating :)
Apple has reached its first-ever union contract with store employees in Maryland
No chance. This makes zero sense.
Music Industry Puts Pressure on 'Parasitic' Streaming App Musi
Related:

Show HN: Musi for iOS Lets You Stream Audio From Youtube

5 points by speedyapoc on Dec 14, 2012

3 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4920857
I always felt that true "scripting" with a "scripting language" was two things:
1) Most of your functions were linear: low cyclomatic complexity.
2) Functions rarely called into other functions.

While "programming" moves away from both of those:
1) Higher cyclomatic complexity is allowed.
2) Functions frequently call into other functions.

For instance, I like bash only for scripting. The moment it starts to resemble programming, I tend to switch to Python. However, some people are fine doing a fair amount of "programming" in bash, people who know it really well.
Even just within linux it's not a great situation. Weston has basically abdicated the role of being a reference implementation by refusing to create standards for core functionality. So each wayland ends up implementing core features their own way. Which means if you want to have any control of window placement or keyboard/mouse inputs you have to hope your particular wayland supports whatever plugin that allows it (ie, libei for mouse/keyboard). It is completely fragmented. Except in one sense: even after 9 years of waylands there's still no screen reader for the visually impaired on any wayland.

The waylands are not really a future for linux either. The unixes are probably in the better situation at this point sticking with X11. Wayland is the linux desktop's Perl 6/Raku.
Scientists are trying to unravel the mystery behind modern AI
The earliest tritone substitution I know of appears in Scarlatti K420

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf3_NfuvK8Y

There are two tritones in 7-limit just intonation (7/5 and 10/7) and therefore two possible tritone substitutions. Here they're played successively

http://lumma.org/music/theory/demo/progs/TritoneProgressions...
Are those additional positive effects reported specifically for semaglutide/GLP-1? Because over time we're moving away from semaglutide - tirzepatide is much more effective for weight loss than semaglutide and is a much weaker GLP-1 agonist but unlike semaglutide it's also a GIP agonist. I'm wondering if the newer drugs will have those other non-weight loss effects.
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In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37314225 - Aug 2023 (2 comments)

In the Beginning Was the Command Line - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29373944 - Nov 2021 (4 comments)

In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24998305 - Nov 2020 (64 comments)

In the beginning was the command line (1999) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20684764 - Aug 2019 (50 comments)

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16843739 - April 2018 (13 comments)

In the Beginning Was the Command Line (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12469797 - Sept 2016 (54 comments)

In the beginning was the command line - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11385647 - March 2016 (1 comment)

In the Beginning was the Command Line, by Neal Stephenson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=408226 - Dec 2008 (12 comments)

In the beginning was the command line by Neil Stephenson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=95912 - Jan 2008 (5 comments)

In the Beginning Was the Command Line - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566 - Aug 2007 (2 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so; links to past threads are just to satisfy extra-curious readers. In the case of perennials like this one, it's good to have a new discussion every once in a while so newer user cohorts learn what the classics are.)
> How many people do you think would manually pay a large chunk of their paycheck into a savings account every months before deciding whether they can afford an extra order of curly fries?

People are irrational. I have a loved one who told me they can’t afford car insurance, but subscriptions to Spotify, Netflix, Duolingo, and uses DoorDash, etc.

I think people are wired to think that small purchases are ok but that long term things are “not possible.” Of course there’s also a sense of people wanting to have some joy in their life now and choosing to gamble away future prosperity.
Sugary drinks aren't very healthy anyway. Time to change offerings?
> Your logic would presumably interpret this as even naturals.. but ya

My logic comes from a Math background. Take any Abstract Algebra class and this notation is common.

For example: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1378174/how-to-deno....

To say the least I take numerous issues with the notation used, but I accept it. Since the integers and the naturals have the same cardinality, we have that Int = Nat.
The purpose of the post is trying to understand 1. can a viable mesh-network exist 2. does the mesh network not currently exist because it's artificially suppressed by centralized networking (i.e. cellphone service providers' influence over the FCC), or 3. Does a mesh network not exist because physics

On point 3, we have made huge strides in miniaturization of electrical components since the dawn of radio; we have also made huge strides in battery technology.

That would suggest it's physically possible to build better devices, so maybe the limiting factor is more #2 nowadays, the ability to innovate is capped not by physics but by regulation.

Sure, things like LoRa exist, but are not widely useful.

If iPhones were a little more brick-like, maybe we wouldn't need to dump money into ISPs pockets; we could just have a standard communication language to bounce packets around. Then we don't need to pay cell phone bills, just buy new batteries.
Do what you need to do, but if the right switch flips in your brain, possibly in combination with lifestyle changes like exiting a high stress situation, you can Just Do It, without pills or anything. "Just" focus your brain on it. Count calories. Avoid sugars and carbs and manage your blood sugar more like a diabetic would. Keep it up for six months. I'm telling you, even if you can't afford Ozempic, well, fuck The Man, you're still in control of your own goddamn body if you really choose to be.
Adding these titles into the mix:

- Hugo's House of Horrors

- Maniac Mansion

- The Goonies II

- The Cave

- Machinarium / Botanicula / Samorost (put together because they're, at their core, the same idea.)

- Love you to bits.

And I think these also give that adventure story feel (find objects & solve puzzles to progress a story), even if they don't transport the player to far-away locations

- The Room series

- There is no game

- The Rusty Lake series

- The Stanley Parable

- Tangle Tower

- Chuchel
Vonnegut was that soldier described in some of his stories...WII prisoner during Dresden Germany fire bombing....his painting art is treasure as well.
> Downtrodden workers used to be easier to ignore. The internet is the greatest tool for organising in history.

On its face the internet seems like a powerful organisation tool, but in reality it's quite bad. These online movements are often so large and prone to in-fighting that no real leadership ever emerges, so they never figure out what their actual demands are. They're good at producing public backlash and getting brands to take down their content, but not much else.
It was not shut down, it will certainly come. The DSA is another tool that is already in effect. Bit by bit all the pieces of a surveillance state are coming together in the EU.
> Part of the blame for that undoubtedly rests on Microsoft’s incompetence at documenting concepts

I mean Charles Petzold did that so successfully redoing it would be superfluous
That's insulting to the work of thousands of people who have been putting their lives into researching how to improve models with more and more detailed information over the last 3-4 decades.

A very close friend of mine is a physicist, dedicated his PhD on modeling how clouds form at a molecular level, then his post doctorate studies further into modeling other aerosols, his work improved many general models accuracy.

All of those models validate their output with empirical past data, this is not fucking tarot.
> Retirement accounts are not the problem. It’s a general lack of financial education.

The 401k experiment is not failing because people don't understand how interest and capital gains work. It's failing because people are not funding their 401Ks and the ones who do, don't sufficiently or consistently fund them. I know so many people my age (mid 40s) who don't even save at all. Like zero. They are playing a dangerous game of chicken where they believe the USA ultimately won't let the elderly die en masse in the street, and they think they'll be rescued. They think I'm the sucker for saving the max every year and then saving more.

This isn't a lack of financial education, it's deliberate. People can save but they won't because they don't think they're going to meet the consequences. Or they don't save enough because they don't think they need to. I also know people who say things like "I plan to die the day after I stop working, so I might as well spend everything now."

And that doesn't even consider the large number of people living paycheck to paycheck who literally can't save. It's going to be a shit show in 20-30 years.
It's really sad that Tk has gotten a lot less love in recent years. With the advent of multi-megabyte UI frameworks (one is named for a subatomic particle), we have forgotten the benefits of a small, well-documented UI interface that is highly portable across OSes and architectures, and whose API can be invoked from virtually any language, with only a thin wrapper (I routinely use Tk from Scheme, for example).

Yes, Tk UIs nowadays look kind of clunky, and they don't cover the entire span of things that a UI should manage. Neither of these is a fatal flaw; if somebody wanted to put in a small amount of money, both could be easily addressed. Since there is apparently no prospect of this happening, I expect Tk to fall further and further behind. Shame.
I've read it first time about 22 years ago :)
The poster is quite correct. Suggest those disagreeing have a read of this eye opening whitepaper by the Bank of England on how money is created:
https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

The government is entirely capable of funding itself through printing money but as the PDF above describes - this will cause inflation. Taxes exist to reduce circulating currency and prevent run away inflation.

This is why the US as the reserve currency can sustain greater debt to finance itself before seeing inflationary pressures and the UK (and other countries) cannot.
This is the correct answer. Broadcast packets do not reach outside of a network segment. The “thousands” of Windows machines OP saw were probably part of the same office network they were sitting in (where other mechanisms may actually have made more of them visible than a simple broadcast would, but intentionally).

Sitting at home connected to the Internet over a point-to-point link, you’d see zero Windows machines that are not inside your home, now and back then.
The market is defined by the buyers, not the sellers.
> There is an issue with that perspective though. The Europeans sell out. Ok. Maybe they are bad at valuation and don't realise that their companies are worth more than they are being paid for. Or maybe an EU company can't capture as much value as a US/Chinese company. And those are really the only two options - either the decision is rational or irrational. If it is an irrational decision then there isn't much to talk about. But it is probably the second case - selling out to someone on a different continent generates value. And there is a good chance that is because it helps avoid EU regulators.

I think it comes down to two things:

1) The US is a large, uniform (regulation, language, media, etc.) making it easier to grow quickly. This puts the US competitor in a better place to buy the EU competitor than vice-versa.

2) More significantly, the US capital market is bigger & better. That starts with VC funding but is also the case with IPOs and publicly traded companies. That‘s how the EU tech standouts such as Spotify end up IPOing in the US.

#2 is certainly something the EU can work on improving but it has very little to do with tech regulation.
> And why I want to control my own keys.

Such as the keys to one's own house.
All valid concerns and I suspect Workbrew is slated to address exactly those issues.
Creek for inlet is British variant and fairly old.

Chelsea Creek in Boston empties Mill Creek.
> They agree change is happening.. what are they denying?

That the change is anthropogenic. That its consequences are not mild, etc., etc. They've moved from climate denial to climate change consequences denial to obstructing climate action.

It's a process.
Does this include all the official post-abandonment patches (from Microsoft POSReady), and unofficial service pack patches?
> Any revolution and revolutionary change will cause a considerable amount of deaths during the power struggle. Do this mean that post-revolutionary France is orders of magnitude worse than pre-revolutionary France?

Post-revolutionary France was Napoleon causing somewhere between 3.25 million and 6.5 million deaths across Europe. Then back to the monarchy, so very little net change from pre-revolutionary France, except for all the dead bodies.

But I agree with your first sentence. Any real revolution will cause a great deal of death. Can you build back something enough better to be worth all that? For many revolutions, the answer is no.
Option 3: "Solving these problems would be fun except they are too reminiscent of all the broken buggy real-world products that I came here to temporarily forget."
Many examples abound. Don't be lazy and do a google search. Granted, many of those opinions that create grounds for legal sanction in the EU are disagreeable ones, but that's how freedom of expression as a real right works, it applies to the shit you don't like or want to hear, not just socially condoned opinions.
The ways to enable it are contrived for logged in and logged out users both. I hope there’s a path to it just using users’ OS mode and `prefers-color-scheme` in CSS before long.
The notion that a nation can save for retirement is a fundamental misunderstanding of money.

Money is pieces of paper that determines how a nations resources are divided.

Having more money in a "Social Security fund" is useless. If the social security fund is massive when it comes time to withdraw money from it but there are no resources to divide, then inflation will ensure the fund is worthless. If the fund is tiny but there are lots of resources to divide, the money will go a long way.

Individuals can save money to ensure they get a larger share of the resources in the future. But overall money is a zero sum game -- if one person has a greater share, everybody else has a lesser share.

As a country, to support retirees you invest in the productive capacity of the country -- train nurses, build infrastructure & housing, et cetera.
Did the Canadian players know the staff were doing this?
[PDF] 21 compilers and 3 orders of magnitude in 60 minutes
Using CNAME delegation for the ACME challenge domain and directing that to a Route 53 zone is my preferred approach. Then (as long as you have CloudWatch configured) you get inherent auditing and very flexible privilege management.
If Apple wants Pro developers to buy $10 Pi Zero to run Linux sidecar with $1000 Apple iPad Pro, the least they could do is sell $100 Pi Zero attachment* for $300 Magic Keyboard. Is it too much to ask Apple to give customers what they want for 900% markup?

*or $100 Apple Linux VM sold in App Store

Just take the money Apple, you can do it! Some hostages will pay the ransom for a Thin, Light, Linux, Apple VM.

Even with EU sideloading, some will pay for Apple VMs.
dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41086952
Apparently very little past discussion:

Managarm: August 2022 Update - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32515546 - Aug 2022 (3 comments)

The Managarm Operating System - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24689727 - Oct 2020 (1 comment)
With his rhetorical question, he's saying it must be malice because no museum operator would be that incompetent. They're actively making a false claim to their customers. They could have just not said anything about the age of the toys since they know they didn't verify it. I think you can see this must be the case since you didn't answer his question.

In my country, if a business makes a factual claim about its products, it has to have already verified the correctness of it to some reasonable level and have the documentation so show that. There's no room for this "oh, I just assumed it was true because I'm incompetent" excuse.
Airtable's New AI Tool Can Generate Apps from Just a Prompt – and Has CEO Howie
Personally, I'm a fan of when he has argued with academics on Twitter about things that he is actually ill-equipped to discuss, but he refuses to budge because their (factually correct) statements don't align with his limited worldview. Really made me want to get his books for sure.
Related:

Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut interview each other (1999) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26018824 - Feb 2021 (46 comments)
The core of the problem is that engineers do not own their code. It would be like a chef not owning their food. Engineers are split into teams that the business side of the company decides arbitrarily... and because non-technical leaders are not as familiar or knowledgeable about computer science, they create incorrect abstractions that constrain the solutioning for no reason.

Imagine an app where you have feature A, B, C, where A and B are basically the same feature with a few differences, and feature C is completely different. The business side of the company might decide to create three teams, one for feature A, one for features B + C, and another for features A + C. The engineers in each of these teams are immediately setup to create complexity in the long run because the correct abstraction would be A+B and then C.
When I first loaded this, I assumed it was built with Perspective..

It definitely feels very influenced by it.
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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22625578 - March 2020 (104 comments)

Why Adventure Games Suck (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15569221 - Oct 2017 (1 comment)
Throttling inside of Devtools should do all of those.
So put another way, you need to allocate resources now to produce more resources in the future. We call this investing
When I got my first cable modem in maybe 1995, there were about half a dozen of my neighbors computers in Network Neighborhood. Most with unprotected shares and printers. Basically everyone running Windows on my C block. It got cleaned up within a few months tho.