skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I replied to explicitly mentions "and obviously, population growth" and making many babies is rather typical for the kinds of societies the poster apparently prefers.

> Very, very few women will choose to have more than 2 or 3 kids.

Exactly. The drop in fertility rates is strongly correlated with women emancipation - it's kinda telling how the poster rails against the divorce in several places. They won't say that explicitly, but their way to higher fertility rates is through reducing women's say in the matter. Both directly (outlawing abortion) and indirectly (pushing women into a financially dependent role again).

I think the societies are now undergoing a dramatic shift which results in very low fertility rates. But I believe things will stabilize in several decades / few centuries and the fertility rate will return to ~replacement rate. And as mentioned before, this (IMHO temporary) drop is very much needed at the moment.
Ancient parasite analysis: Exploring infectious diseases in past societies
That's definitely cyan, why did me have to pick a wrong color?
> end of the reconstruction period

To be fair civil rights and relative racial equality was imposed by an (effectively) foreign army of occupation.

That army leaving is what led to Jim Crow, there was hardly any meaningful bottom-top societal change since the local Republican governments could have never survived without significant external support anyway.

KKK/etc. were effectively an unofficial enforcement branch / citizen militia of the local elites and state governments.

IMHO the situation was a bit like the war in Afghanistan (just with a slightly narrower cultural gap). Women rights could only survive as long as the US/NATO force were there to impose them and they reverted to the status quo as soon as the foreign militaries left.
The most vulnerable were old male smokers with COPD, diabetes, cancer, kidney malfunction, elevated D-dimer and obesity. Just having two of those didn’t put you anywhere near the top.
We need to agree as a society to slowly transition to Dvorak or Colemak one key at a time over the next couple of decades. Every year we announce a new pair of keys which needs to be swapped, OSs roll out an update and people manually pry out the keys from their physical keyboards and swap them.
I think the situation you experienced was more one of social conditioning and societal expectations. We've had it drilled into our heads from childhood that schooling and adolescence is about preparing us for jobs, and if we don't get a good job, we're worthless and pathetic.

There's no actual reason for us to feel that way. It's just a way to ensure that nearly everyone participates in the economy and keeps it humming along.

But sure, when you are out of work, actively looking for it, and keep getting rejected, finances dwindling, of course that's going to have a negative effect on your mental health. But the key things about that have nothing to do with work, specifically: it's "constant rejection" and "approaching homelessness".
gRPC: The Ugly Parts
No, it will not do! It looks way too peaceful and pleasant, not at all conducive to inspiring to endless hours in the cubicle.
I know this feeling, having seen an universally loved service made by passionate excellent engineers, my people, driven to shit along with the organization. It took a long time to get to grips with it. But then I realized, that the people who did it, made a whole lot of money. I might think it morally wrong, but I also understand I might not be able to resist the temptation to do the same, if someone promised me the same piles of cash. Gotta accept the failures of the man.
The terminfo rant, long version
I did this as a prank a long time ago to a friend. He couldn’t log in, and I think it took us a while to figure out how to change it back without being able to log in. Or maybe he found the Dvorak mapping and logged in using Dvorak and changed it back.
I used Java, python, and golang professionally, and the Java ecosystem (and yes, including the language) is far ahead of what the others offer on almost all important fronts, including readability, expressiveness, testability, introspection, etc. You just need to be a little bit disciplined - then again, that is always the case regardless of language/platform.
They are, however, maintaining a separate cloud, and parent is not mistaken; windows professional running under group policies is a different animal than windows home

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescripti...

>> Subscriptions in the GCC High and DoD environments include the core Exchange Online, SharePoint, and Skype for Business features. Given the increased certification and accreditation of the infrastructure, there are some feature differences between the general commercial Office 365 offerings and those available in GCC High and DoD.
>Security theater is _security_.

I've noticed that Windows 11 (on multiple computers) will often display a flash of whatever programs are currently open on my computer before it gives me the login prompt after I wake the computer from sleep. That should never happen. It's yet another nail in the Windows 11 coffin for me.
Do normal users require maximal SSD performance? So long as they can launch Chrome, the super app is going to handle all of their needs.
Exactly once processing != exactly once delivery
> When these kids grow up and get to make procurement decisions, are they going to be as tolerant as today's staff of whatever overreach Microsoft is going to try with Windows in the future, or are they - and their peers - going to be much more accepting of non-Windows solutions?

Management will make those decisions and choose Windows because of the surveillance features built into it.
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Mir is amazing for math books and sadly underappreciated in the US.
> but that intonation is not indicated in writing

Oh?
> Yes, yes, a real profiler would be better

As someone who wrote several profilers for a living... that is a real profiler.
That's quite frankly a shame.

When I'm not working, I also eat when I'm hungry, tinker until distracted, and sleep when drowsy. But I also stay in touch with friends, exercise, have fun, and it's great.

I think the isolating bit is the problem, not the lack of someone bossing you around for 40+ hours a week. I'm not saying your tendency to get into that state is easy to fix, but I think it would be a valuable thing to figure out.
Is it possible they billed at 0:00 GMT? (if you're in the continental US, that can be anywhere from 5-8 pm local time)
that makes a lot of sense. I've noticed myself, whenever I'm procrastinating and avoiding working on a project, it's because I don't actually know what the next step is. if I make figuring out the next few steps as a time-boxed task in itself, suddenly I don't procrastinate anymore, I just sit down and do it.
It's definitely a relic of a simpler, more fun era.

I miss it.
Because they are convicted criminals. This isn't a case of showing photographs of suspects. They've all pled guilty.

Showing their faces accomplishes three main things.

1. It disambiguates them from people who share their names. You can now see that it isn't the Callum Picari you went to school with.

2. It acts as a warning to the community. You may have been a victim of these people, but not known their names. Seeing a photo might jog your memory and enable you to report further crimes.

3. It is a disincentive. If you are planning on committing a crime, you will know that your face will be in the media if caught.
Fun, I got 174 and when I saw the results my reaction was "but that is not turquoise!" which I suppose means I either don't know what turquoise is, or my screen has bad calibration/gamut.
OP can get a small further reduction in image size; by copying /bin/echo and removing them in a later layer, they still affect the final image size. OP can build the /etc/passwd and other user files in a separate builder image and then COPY --from into the distroless image.
Grepping for symbols like function names and class names feels so anemic compared to using a tool that has a syntactic understanding of the code. Just "go to definition" and "find usages" alone reduce the need for text search enormously.

For the past decade-plus I have mostly only searched for user facing strings. Those have the advantage of being longer, so are more easily searched.

Honestly, posts like this sound like the author needs to invest some time in learning about better tools for his language. A good IDE alone will save you so much time.
I miss the old computers on display, though.
Statically typed languages, performance, refactorability, instrospection, debuggability, observability, the list goes on.
> I'd say that a good amount of this advice also applies to one-box systems.

Nothing in "distributed systems" implies any constraint on deployment. The only trait that's critical to the definition is having different flows of control communicating over a network through message-passing. One very famous example of distributed systems is multiple processes running on the same box communicating over localhost, which happens to be where some people cut their distributed system's teeth.
Yup. I think purpose is a very important thing. It just really sucks that current civilization tells everyone that a job is the primary thing that will give you purpose. (And a spouse, and a bigger house, and kids, and...)

The world is so wondrous, and there are so many other ways to find purpose. Imagination is the only true limit. I'm not saying everyone can live off all these other purposes, but that's part of the problem: linking purpose with livelihood is a recipe for mental health issues.
This is the source I'm referencing:

https://acoup.blog/2019/05/03/collections-armor-in-order-par...

He talks about the economics of bronze age warriors, how most soldiers were generally expected to bring their own arms and armor which could be costly, and how soldiers would prioritize armoring their heads and torsos before other body parts.
Windows for Warships: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Command_System
Is that not consistent with how Microsoft always introduced its "features"? Especially all the crap that came since Windows 10/11.

First you could still create a local account after there was backlash against cloud-everything, nowadays a local only Windows is quite complex to set up.

The Cortana/search bar stuff was also regularly re-enabled or parts of it made non-configurable, with them only occasionally backtracking. Not to speak of the ads that are included nowadays.

Their strategy generally seems to be boiling the frog when it comes to pushing these features onto the users, whether they want it or not.
Intelligent Platform Management Interface

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Managem...
I'm confident if we all start calling it "find last week's porn" instead of "recall", it will make things better.
I do enjoy reading on dead wood as well, but for my bedtime routine, an ebook reader with an extremely weak backlight or frontlight really is the way for me, because it's slightly more convenient for me not to have to deal with room light and when I close the ebook reader, it will remember where I was. With a bookmark I often forget to put it back in, or I leave the book open and it falls to the floor causing me to forget... Also, English is my second language, so I find it very useful to be able to quickly look up the meaning of words (something I really valued about my now broken Kobo was its dictionary).

I would like to point out your comment comes across as very stack-overflowy.. It's the class of comment that does not answer the question, but instead suggest a solution to a different set of problems. I don't think my OP could reasonably be interpreted of me asking about other ways of reading books :) I'm guilty of this as well, but it's not very helpful and it tends to come across as snarky rather than clever.
If I found out that you had such a narrow view of what it takes to be "curious about how their software actually works", I wouldn't hire you either.
are these "serious math people" in the room with you now? how do they write their statistical operators, in cuneiform?
I very strongly relate to this, it's been close to 3 months, since I have started working on a blog built on Quarto, and all I have so far is a elaborate design and a half complete blog on an LLM tool I had built.

But like the comments say, I had way too much fun on the journey of a side project, just doing other things like configuring the website and playing around with the design elements like font and how the overall website looks (I'm a data scientist and never usually get to play with design as much as I want to at work). And recently, with claude's help built some cool react elements to push my story further.

Hopefully after this, I ship at least one blog and iterate on the design elements.
gg i only lasted 57 secs :'(
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Good catch. It seems the U.S. organization did provide funds for military drones for Ukraine, at least for a certain time after 2016. Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. Sounds like a perfectly wholesome thing to do, in fact, given the situation Ukraine has been facing since 2014.

Whether it continued to do so by the time of her donation (in late 2023) -- being as Razom does seem to have shifted its emphasis in recent years (completely independent of any recent "sanitizing" of their website as you allege, but based on my own recollection of their messaging 2022-2023) -- is a different matter.

That's all I have time for at the moment. I may comment further again in 1-2 days.
What's wrong with AppImages? They're basically .exes
I just gave the layout a quick spin, and it's indeed very easy to learn when coming from regular QWERTY, and it's almost eerie how much finger travel it saves. I may just go and switch to it. Thanks to the author!

(Apologies for not referencing Dvorak or Colemak in this comment)
Your observation does not help with the majority of the points in the article. How do you find all usages of a parameter value literal?
Even Joe Average will appreciate how fucking creepy this feature is when they surface private information that they never told the computer to store.
Eric Quinnell's critic on RISC-V, slidedeck
I have found HP iLO very useful on my MicroServer Gen8 with UnRAID.
A few months ago I called up a reporting hotline to report an incident.

Now it wasn't an in-person law enforcement encounter, and I wasn't the suspect but the victim. The agent on the phone was only tasked with taking down the report and forwarding it.

She listened to my narrative and took down the facts. Then she began to relate it back to me, and at every turn, she gave me the wrong details and altered the story.

So I found myself correcting her again and again and ironing out the actual facts so she had them right. And I came to realize that her mistakes were probably not accidents, but she was intentionally prompting me to reinforce the same narrative as I'd stated it, because if someone is lying, fabricating, or embellishing the truth, they won't be able to repeatedly insist on the facts as retained in their memory.

Conversely, I've had interactions with authority figures, who seem to intentionally misspeak as a test. They want to see if I will challenge the veracity of what they said, or if I can accept that their knowledge counts for more, and perhaps I shouldn't openly question them for every trivial matter.

So if the police succeed in implanting false memories, then maybe someone just had a shitty memory to begin with. If someone's involved in a crime, even as an eyewitness, it's important to work with their perspective, because testimonies consist of a lot of subjective information, and different people have different capacities for recall, so if you ask 3 eyewitnesses what happened, you may get 3 different but true stories, then you reconcile them. Just ask Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
I've found pg's essays to be a little hit or miss, but I really like his "Keep Your Identity Small"[0]. After reading it I realized that a lot of things that I had made into my identity were not useful or positive, and only created conflict or stress or anxiety.

I like the idea of identity including mostly abstract things. Like, for example, if you donate to charities or spend time volunteering, don't hold "philanthropist" as a part of your identity; instead think of yourself as "generous" or "giving".

Instead of a "computer programmer" I think of myself as someone who likes to solve problems or likes to build things. The nice thing about that is it's more flexible, and unlocks creativity and enjoyment in places I don't expect, when I find that I can also solve problems or build things that have nothing to do with computers.

And identity should be a frank evaluation; your identity might include some things you consider negative. That's fine; you might be working on those things, or not, or whatever.

I'm far from perfect, of course. There are still things I consider part of my identity that maybe I shouldn't, because they constrain me or because they can cause conflict. But that's something to work on another day.

[0] https://paulgraham.com/identity.html -- though I disagree that discussions about Javascript don't devolve into religious arguments
When the first Asus Eee laptops came out they had Linux installed. They later also did Windows XP versions.

This was the first (and probably only) time you could find Linux machines in most mainstream computer stores. The Linux version was better than XP in every way you can measure: cheaper, faster, easier (more optimized for those 7" screens). And these "netbooks" were just intended for browsing the net, so it doesn't matter all that much which system you run.

I worked at a computer store at the time, and the Linux machines sold poorly. People wanted Windows, because that's what they're used to. Consumers are very price-sensitive, but many opted to pay more.

All of this was a long time ago, but I doubt it would be very different today. Microsoft really doesn't need a "lobby" to keep the majority of machines Windows by default. People want what they're used to, because that's what's working for them. why do you think there is so much complaining every time Gnome or Firefox changes something?
How is this a win that the US enforces its laws beyond its borders? Why can't the US just mind its own business stay out of other countries? Have they found those weapons of mass destruction in Iraq yet? Team America World Police was supposed to be satire, not a guide.

Plus, it's just a passenger jet that's like the Honda Civic of the skies. They're making it sound like he stole some US weapon secrets the recovery of which was of national security importance.

Also, he didn't steal it, he paid for it. And Maduro is now just gonna buy another jet from somewhere else, so the real losers are his poor taxpayers who will be footing the bill again. Good job US.
Personally, for smaller deployments (I.e. about 10k cores) I would just self deploy out from some integrator. A Gigabyte/AsRock Rack Motherboard + Epyc 9003 series + some 384 G of RAM with the usual dual PSUs and all that stuff will be $7k/node and can be very power efficient.

The integrated IPMI is pretty good on these and plays well with ipmitool. They'll usually have some Redfish stuff going on.
We call it appelblauwzeegroen (apple blue sea green)
WW2 week by week coverage finishes after 6 years
> i meant that they can't be single-digit meters from the point of use. solar panels can, and that dramatically drops costs

Transmission costs, yes. Plus if the solar is behind-the-meter you might avoid some of the taxes and levies applied to grid electricity.

(Note that I realise the focus of my comment from here on down has changed from China to the UK, but then again I've not helped install a solar installation over there!)

However with UK rooftop solar home-owners do not have much negotiating power as the market supply is restricted by the MCS scheme (Microgeneration Certification Scheme). This may be changing in the future (Flexi-Orb scheme), but until a greater pool of competent installers are in the market the prices will not decrease.

A relative had 6.4kW solar (and 5kW hybrid inverter) installed last summer for around £7,000. I added in some batteries for another few thousand. The panels generated around 5,100 kWh last year, for a capacity factor of around 9%.
When I bought my house 13 years ago I asked the electrician to run speaker cable from the living room into the adjoining kitchen. I wired up two pairs of extremely competent car speakers in series (because 4ohms) in the kitchen ceiling, one over each corner of the dining table. I have two amps in the living room, one is an ancient 5.1ch Yamaha that runs a very decent set of speakers and sub, and a nice little Denon stereo amp that's hooked into the kitchen speakers. A single 7.1ch usb sound card runs both, and that's connected to a MeLe Quieter (tiny little N100 device attached to my TV). The entire setup is dirty cheap and let's me fill the downstairs of my home with glorious music, and it never fails. I can swap out any of the bits easily (in fact I replaced my main floorstanders with a lovely pair of DALI a year ago). I've never wanted to extend that upstairs. In the bedrooms, some really nice Edifier Bluetooth speakers are more than adequate, and in our offices we mainly use headphones (in my case I still use my old wired Senheisser HD700 because they're the most comfortable things ever)

I love my tech stuff, and I've got home assistant doing the lights, but it never once crossed my mind to mess with the sound system, except for occasional hifi upgrades. Eg next up: run a subwoofer cable from the stereo amp to the kitchen, but I'm in no rush.