skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unfortunately the texts i'd most like to link are not linkable because they were lost in medieval times

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3290/long_paper3261.pdf says:

> It is to be noted, that historical and philological knowledge of loss rates is very scarce and
elusive, but it can still be approached from various angles, such as the collection of data from
ancient library catalogues, inventories, wills, as well as allusions and intertextuality [54, 4, 9].
Buringh [9] provides estimates for the Latin West, with a geometric mean of loss around -25%
per century, with variations from -11% in the 9th to -32% in the 14th and 15th centuries (with
local variations between medieval institutions from –3% to –71% per century). The global loss
rate for non-illustrated manuscripts of several well known collections have been estimated
around 93-97% [32, 38, 53, 40]. But there is a potential bias in accounting only for well known
institutional collections, from which some manuscripts are known to have survived: trying to
account for fully lost libraries, Buringh [9] is compelled to revise his estimates higher, to -25%
by century until the 12th, up to -43% in the 15th.

(note that buringh's figures here are highest after the dark ages and the introduction of paper!)

i only have buringh's figures from this scholium because buringh's paper itself has not been preserved in sci-hub and will probably be lost in the next century

i agree that in the counterfactual history where there was no papyrus in europe there would have been even higher losses
Glad to hear.

FWIW I wasn't suggesting "villainy" so much as "SNAFU". Google's record on privacy in general leaves something to be desired.
Why would kids be playing on the street? What the hell.

You're implying a 9 year old is mature to be online. Or that you're never too young for certain things. As if children know what they're doing.

Also, seems like you don't know a difference between sheltered life and raising your children responsibly.
The US spends a trillion dollars per year on education, an astounding number compared to other countries even on a per capita basis. There are few issues that would be solved by diverting military spending to other already indefensibly bloated budgets.

It isn't an argument of should the government be spending this money on something else but more if the government should be spending this money at all. Particularly given the budget deficits.
In a profession that by nature is meant to be aggressive to the point of killing, how is any form of masculine expression outdated. Worse comes to worse these people may be required to kill other people with their bare hands. It's trained into them, it's meant to be systemic. Unfortunately a side effect is this sort of behaviour.

Separating men and women in such an environment is sensible. Recognizing that isn't victim blaming.
I recently saw a tweet where a programmer demanded that all UIs (and presumably their frameworks/toolkits) should be immediate mode.

So, yeah, there seems to be some desire for that kind of thing out in the wild these days.
They're both gatekeepers. One is for iOS apps, the other is for websites. I'm not sure how "voluntarily" is a relevant factor here. People can and do install alternate roots, especially back in the days when letsencrypt didn't exist and the WebTrust/CAB monopoly was charging tens to hundreds of dollars for certificates.
If we were to harness all that energy into a mass the size of a space shuttle it could reach ~0.99999c. Neat.
I think eliminating nuclear weapons is out of the question. We see that over and over again when nations that don't have nuclear weapons get dominated by nuclear nation-states, which sends a clear message to non-nuclear countries that they should develop nuclear weapons if they care about their sovereignty.

The next best thing is to try to slow down how fast the destruction unfolds.

There was actually an incident where NORAD's terminals lit up with a full scale nuclear attack from Russia. They only had a few minutes to determine whether or not to launch a counter-attack. During that time they found out somebody left a training tape on the "production system" and fortunately it ended there. https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2020-0...

The world got lucky on that day. In my mind this incident is the same as the "configuration management errors" we see take down huge websites. It's just a matter of time.

My proposal would look something like at traditional arms treaty with limits to the size and number of warheads, but I'd also add to that a time dimension. Maybe we agree to allow 10's of weapons that can be deployed in minutes, then there's another tranche of 100's of weapons that take more time to prepare... perhaps it takes hours to deploy them, or days. This would give people more time to determine if the threat is real and possibly let cooler heads prevail.

I have no idea how that would be enforced and how nations would prevent other nations from having a secret stash of deployed nuclear weapons.
I agree. Although I wonder sometimes how much "about" is involved in my own abstract reasoning.
Louis Rossmann is a hero.
I'm curious what widgets/frontend tooling you use.

This is, I assume, Visual Studio for Windows. Have you tried it at all in VS Code or is that a non-starter?
What are you using to store feed urls? It would be kind of cool and interoperable if you used newline separated textfiles
An Argonne team developed accessible maps for colorblind scientists
Why destroy it, instead of custodying it with a bank, backed by their deposits at the Fed?
I've interviewed a lot of different people from a lot of different Universities and I agree a lot of schools treat that as part of Computer Engineering. My undergrad was also accredited as an engineering program which may have something to do with it. But with that said, I've seen a lot of CS programs that also have at least some of those courses.

Also, some schools blur CS and Electrical Engineering and for those you may take a whole other set of courses neither of us mentioned.
You have to be willfully ignorant or brain damaged to not understand how a 2-button mouse works after the first time using it. The context menu does different things depending on the context. Someone that can't understand that is seriously in trouble in life. It's not something that should be confusing at all.

And as I said, hopefully your father never visits any websites, because they are all different with information in different places on every website. The world must be an extremely frustrating and hostile place for someone that gets confused by a 2 button mouse. I honestly feel bad for your father if everything you say is true.
Want to have a guess how many of the Forbes 30 are corrupt?
Each major cloud vendor has dedicated gov regions for the US government, not so much for non-US govs.
CompEng and CompSci are different degrees here, there is often some overlap, but a lot of schools, the most math you need for Comp Sci is calc 2 and stats. It also depends on the institution, some of them go hard for compilers and lower level stuff, and some of them barely touch on it or save it for their masters programs.
Agreed on both points. Minimum wage needs to move, but doing so too quickly could make things worse.

There is a psychological training aspect, but it is unclear to what degree it correlates with the underlying financial reality. Are they both offended and unable to buy or just offended? In a non-anonymous social medium it is safer to communicate outrage than desperate poverty.
I mean, maybe, but you'd have trouble with sandboxing when you try to open a socket.
Oh I agree.

I mainly meant “to the general public” this (windows 98) was cutting edge.

Almost no one even at the time knew what SGI was. In the late 90’s and early 2000’s even apples share was tiny.

It just blew my mind then how horrible the experience of using windows was compared to Unix and that windows won.

I had a job in 2001 running a bunch of computers: 1/3 windows, 1/3 Unix and 1/3 Mac - os9 mostly. The Unix and Mac just worked.

The windows computers broke so often I set them all up to use SMB shares for user file storage. Since they were all the exact same dell systems and all had the same software on them anytime one broke I’d just boot a Linux CD and use “nc” and “dd” to rewrite a functioning disk image to the system in question and bring it right back up to usable. Then it was just a matter of logging in the right SMB shares and the user just thought I’d fixed their computer.

It was a fun time.
Encryption does not solve the leaking issue because encryption keys are also subject to leaking.
That's a fair criticism. Although, even if less than 100% of the peace is attributable to pax Americana, that doesn't mean it isn't attributable to any of it. But, I do think the existence of MAD is properly attributable US military spending.
The effects may never be felt by employees, customers, and the local community - only the equity and debt holders.

If Company X is an LBO target, gets bought out, does poorly, goes bankrupt, and gets sold a for a reduced value it may continue to operate with little change in the day-to-day.
Right click on the back button will show you a list with the previous pages. Looks like it doesn’t affect it.
Patrick Boyle on Forbes 30 Under 30

https://youtu.be/V36kSqwjaaw
I wrote one. https://puepy.dev
I like it, it looks really nice. To create an account on glow.as requires either Twitter or Google and I have neither. Self hosting appears to be hosting the entire project like I run my own server like glow.as for people to create their dashboards.

I wish either to allow creating an account with an email or like a mini version to build a single dashboard.
Factorio Friday Facts – Gleba Pentapod Enemies
But so much of the Apple II design was focused around minimizing chip usage and counted on exact timings that I don’t know that it would have been possible to change the clock speed. Add in the fact that there was no access to a real time clock so things like timing delays counted on things like run this empty loop 100 times, or the fact that the graphics memory layout was tied to how the electron beam on the monitor refreshed pixels or the reliance on a quirk of timing of the 6502 processor in the disk II controller hardware and I don’t know that a 6502 at a different speed could possibly work.
Still falls pathetically short of what it should be.
if you're programming in kotlin you're probably going to have to get pretty familiar with the jvm
When I make a web application, the first step in that process for me is designing the relational database model with a pencil, eraser and piece of paper. It makes the code a lot less messy when you have all the data sorted out before you get into it. I also find that it really helps me to understand what I'm building and how I need to build it. And it's a hell of a lot easier to change code than how data is being stored, so it's something I really try to get right and properly normalized the first time.

I don't even attempt to do types at this point. It's really just about how the structure is going to look.
Pyodide is a runtime.

PyScript can use Pyodide or MicroPython. MicroPython is actually quite small.

On top of the runtime, PyScript gives you some pleasantries and a lot of quality-of-life improvements for actually using Python for web programming, not just being able to run Python code.
> The military can’t question the orders they receive

They can present a report on why the orders are a bad idea, IIRC. That could be seen as "questioning". And there is the possibility of disobeying illegal orders. But it is true, if the orders are legal and final then they have to be carried out. (And if they're illegal... better be prepared to prove it at a court-martial)
Ya I was giving a bit of a worst case estimate, for a link with no limiting or quota.
Well, right, but largely for that reason, most of them suck.
Similar, and the ingredients seem to have taken a dive in quality. I don't know if that's true in the US where the meeting is happening.
I understand this very much, but I have one big difference in experience: Once your coverage reaches about 60%, tests expose crashes simply by running the code. Even if there are no assertions.

I've tamed a few untested code bases by writing huge integration test-ish unit tests, and comparing the output with pre-recorded answers. After that, you start adding real unit tests for fresh code, knowing the existing stuff is quite safe.
MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]
> no one had any real information about it before the election

The information was out there and the 50+ "former intelligence experts" have admitted that they had no idea what they were talking about, and what's more, they're still proud of it.

https://archive.ph/uvS8v

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/3058708/ex-int...

The media just didn't do their jobs. A real reporter would have said, "This is fishy. I wonder what the facts are." A real reporter would have called the Post and said, "Show me what you've got."
Even in the code I always figure out the types/schema first. If you get the shape wrong, everything that follows is also wrong
I understand your desire to connect the propaganda industry with the "last just cause"—83 years ago—but lying to the public is not virtuous.

Was it virtuous or justifiable for Jeffrey Gettleman at the New York Times to fabricate, out of whole cloth, stories of rape [1] to soft-shoe the genocidal policies of a foreign government? Who benefits?

[1] https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/new-york-times-int...
If I may toot my own horn, I wrote a somewhat more opinionated, reactive, frontend framework using PyScript. It's inspired by Vue.js, a bit: https://puepy.dev
Looks like that substack just copied a bunch of quotes from this Stack Exchange post:

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1631...
I think it's GP probably intended something like "more resources spent".

That aside, valuation doesn't seem like a meaningful metric in this context. It doesn't tell you how many resources are being spent on a given thing and it's not necessarily obvious whether that given thing is connected to the value either.
The comparison I would make is Santa Claus. He is not all powerful, but he has a lot of supernatural powers. He makes demands of your behavior (but you don't have to align your whole life around him) that comes with a tangible reward (presents). There are big, expensive and complicated rituals relating to him.
Of course there is the small detail of removing agency from the internet user at that point. Maybe I don't want to support local/regional news or maybe that extra fee is going to make the access untenable for me.

Beyond that it would devolve into a scenario where entities would begin trying to game whatever system is created to get a cut of the pie.

Forced support is not the answer.
Not a distributed systems guy, but Spanner also offers that right? Or at least I'd assume they do considering they coordinate with actual clocks so you're naturally tied with real-time.
Startree (Apache Pinot) under olap stores can be a addition in the list
NASA Citizen Scientists Spot Object Moving 1M Miles per Hour
> no actual polar bears were harmed in the making of this function.

Only fractional ones.
Can you define British culture?

Do you mean pre-Windrush when Irish people were OK, but black people were not? Do you mean pre-1926 when Irish people were not OK? Are Americans terrorists (18th century), or fellow countrymen (prior to that?). Catholicism was outlawed for 400 years, so we keep that or adopt the view after that (it’s tolerated), or prior to that (it’s a requirement to be accepted in society)? Do we need to roll back to pre-Norman invasion and expunge French influence? Is Magna Carta OK, because we have thousands of years of history prior to that meddling? Wait, do I like Vikings (they settled), or reject them (they raped and pillaged their way in)? What about the Romans who eradicated Celtic and Pagan ways of life?

What your comment suggests is that there is a single “British culture” to conform to. There isn’t, but the closest we have to it is a fusion culture.

The most popular foods - curry, fish and chips, burgers - are a result of remixing immigrant flavours. Our music, film, writing, all a fusion of ideas and styles and backgrounds. There is an official religion (the Monarch is the head of the church), but it’s observed by less than 2% of the population. Our laws (and constitution), are intended to flex and evolve over changing understandings of who we are.

So this might be hard for you to understand, but it’s what we like: come here, be you, be free, respect all around you. It’s what that whole punk thing was all about, it’s why Cool Britannia exists.
I remember being surprised to see someone with an Apple IIgs when I was in undergrad (late 80s) and discovering the platform still lived. The fact that they were still selling the Apple II line in 1993 (1995 if you count the Mac add-in card) seems pretty damn miraculous to me.
NeXt was not doing well financially, and neither was Pixar until Toy Story came out. He also did not run Pixar in any meaningful way.
Oh no, sorry, I should've specified I'm in Sweden; just felt like engaging with the question.
Yeah, but most people talking about "ways and means" aren't planning anything, don't execute any plan, they're just being edgelords or spitballing hypotheticals or teasing the (probably nonexistent) feds that are watching them. For every actual terrorist put on some type of watchlist there are bound to be thousands of edgy teenagers that are on that list for goofing around. That doesn't even speak to the fact that such a tool will be used to go after people simply criticizing their government for it's heavy handed authoritarian activities.

Anyway, my point with the above comment was to poke fun at the article's extreme emphasis on the right wing aspect as opposed to the terrorist aspect. Extremists of all stripes engage in extreme behavior.
> One of my early frustrations with Microsoft's "To-do" app was that it discarded my "today" tasks every day. But now I love that it does this, for the reasons the author describes.

To-do is surprisingly great. It's my GTD tool of choice at the moment.

They change things, though, and you can't switch a setting. For some time they stopped adding tasks with due date on the current day to the "My day" smart list.

It makes sense if you think about it in terms of what they wanted "My day" to be. Adding things to "My day" should be a conscious choice.

But it was a change, and it's very nice to have due tasks automatically added. They changed it back after a few weeks, thankfully.
So basically [engineering] design is more important than implementation details.

I would say the "engineering" part of the design is also optional, as product design is also another lever of higher influence than code optimization.
Also does not work with uBlockOrigin disabling javascript (either of uBlockOrigin's global block or inline script block prevents it from working).
My parents instilled in me a mild distrust of banks. It's for this reason that I get my statements mailed to me each month, and each month I reconcile what's on the paper with what's in my spreadsheet.

Guess what? Every year I find a mistake in at least one bank statement. And it's always in the bank's favor. Sometimes it's a few cents, but once it was a few hundred dollars across multiple errors.

When I've told people this in the past, I've been dismissed with "Oh, I use Venmo instead of a bank, so it's always right," or "Oh, it's too hard to figure so that out."

I simply don't understand people who blindly accept what an app or web site tells them about something as important as their own money.

I know they don't teach balancing a checking account in high school anymore, but you should be able to add and subtract to get through life.

No, the computer is not always right.
It’s not like large numbers of newly enlisteds are doing crime. It’s a small percentage, it’s just not zero. It’s above zero enough that it’s a problem; however, it’s not like all the enlisteds are hooligans.
How ex-liberal power couple Ben and Felicia Horowitz made a political U-turn
Could awake kidney transplants become the norm?
I want to express just pure love towards your idea that software should be simple.
Sexual assault occurs in single sex groups. This can be a factor in under-reporting.
Hard to prove a negative. On the other hand, relying on a poorly defined idea of "emergent behavior" when there is no architectural rational is rather poor form IMO. It's more wordy but safer to qualify these terms appropriately. That is, to test the "appearance" or "simulation" of human-like abilities.
The fight increases the faster/further you jump around the circle of 5ths. The 12TET fret spacing aligns octaves and 5ths with JI, so if you tune for a JI `I` chord, your other chords will be internally JI but only your `V` chord will be spaced perfectly from the `I` chord. The other chords will be closer to perfect JI the closer they are to `I` on the circle of fifths.

This microtuning isn't perfect in theory, but it's a favorable compromise for a lot of western music, especially for legato strumming where the inter-string intervals are heard more often than the inter-fret intervals.
I'm sure you've seen teams that have bad leadership / a culture of dysfunction. They're always asking for more headcount and no much how much you add they don't get any better. I assume parent was pointing out that no matter how many resources you give to the IRS they won't get functionally better. You need to change the leadership/incentives/culture, which is hard with govt agencies but resources also won't make the problem go away.
Is the US military supposed to be aggressive, or disciplined?
"AMD Confirms It Won't Opensource EPYC's Platform Security Processor Code" https://hothardware.com/news/amd-confirms-it-will-not-be-ope... (2017)

> Dr. Lisa Su gave some hope that something would be done when she said she'd discuss things internally as the result of a recent reddit AMA question. Ultimately, though, it turns out that AMD is not opening up the PSP

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/160097335?t=00h35m35s
https://github.com/deathau/sliding-panes-obsidian
Recent discussion on the Keyboard:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40831489
I wasn't attempting to prove or disprove anything. It's a comment.
You can see the interface while you're designing it. Meaning, instead of writing a bunch of code, compiling, running, deciding one widget needs to be moved a bit you can just see it and move it.

You also save time writing a ton of boilerplate.
I've switched from SwiftKey to the FUTO keyboard and it's worked well enough that I haven't switched back. After many, many years on SwiftKey that's a huge accomplishment. There's some more advanced features I miss and one broad issue I have with the autocorrection feature, but overall it's quite usable.
>on the flipside macOS is still the place where software happens first (e.g., Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, Lightroom all were launched first for Mac).

Don't you think you're generalizing from a set of cherry-picked examples? How would you even approach trying to demonstrate this?
It's also unfair to lump all 18-22 year olds from dysfunction background as potential sexual predators.
Superficially they were setting record sales numbers up through last year.

https://newsroom.subway.com/2023-02-02-Subway-Announces-Seco...
This is a joke comment. Most LBOs result in eventual shuttering of the company. The LBO itself is a strip-mine of the assets and value.
I think most of the problem I run into is that I don't use a lot of mainstream services. Like, my step count, heart rate, and weight info isn't in FitBit and Google Health. It's in GadgetBridge and openScale. And I'm not syncing it to my computer with Dropbox or Google Drive. It happens through syncthing.

Most of my "system," if I can even call it that, is held together by a whole lot of duct tape and bubblegum and commands I ran one time that I found on StackOverflow.