skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of when I briefly worked for IBM - an unpleasant corporate culture. I don't think it has anything to do with the end results, however. i.e. good people still ended up working for them.

1.2 was problematic and 2.0 worked. 1.2 was Microsoft and 2.0 was IBM. From what I have read the NT team didn't want any of the MS OS/2 developers - this is just memory - and it was related to perceived code quality or something like that.
Writing a Compiler in 2024
I don't really want to comment on the merits of democracy, how to implement democracy, or how to measure how much democracy is being done. I'm just pointing out you can't read much from what people want from how they vote when what they actually want (or need) is basically absent from the conversation to begin with.

EDIT: Obviously I don't have solid data that what people want isn't discussed, but the general metabolism of US politics appears to be: newspapers, cable news, and podcasts raise an issue (which may or may not be relevant), and that's what politicians respond to. I typed a lot more illustrating how this is at best tangentially related to what people want to see change, but I'm not trying to rehash the communication dysfunction of this country.
Their Fertilizer Poisons Farmland. Now, They Want Protection from Lawsuits.
Yeah, that D3O stuff is basically just a non-neutonian putty. I was aware of the liquid/putty/gels. I was wondering if there's anything else.
The puzzle company?
I guess they all have their value - e.g, imagine you just want to achieve a goal, then a turorial is exactly what you need.
Yup, I'm aware. My focus was more on scaling it out to large aggregation systems.
https://archive.ph/vjCfI
The challenge for an intuitive introvert is to not leading the team but succeeding in a management team full of people valuing other traits.
An axiom that was true even before pervasive AI: If you're using the computer to do something you don't have time to do yourself, that's good. If you're using the computer to do something you don't understand, that's bad.
For those looking for cheap portable servers, the majority of the Motorola G series phones with Android 14 including models under 120 USD have a battery charge limiter down to 60% adjustable.

At 60%, the battery will drop to 45% percent before recharging to the specified percentage for coulomb counter drift compensation.

Most lithium UPS avoid this by using LiFePO4.

Moto G04 with 128GB Storage (UFS - 400MB/s read/write), 4GB RAM and 2TB capable SDcard UHS-I slot is just 90 USD.

ZRAM is enabled by default at 2GB and 2GB storage swap, it's adjustable under "RAM boost" setting.

Disabling the app background killer is one toggle away for Termux.

No root required.

Wi-Fi does around 350Mbit with no buffer bloat, and supports simulatenous softAP and station mode with a dedicated DHCP by enabling hotspot without mobile data. This is useful for out of band management, e.g if Wi-Fi AP goes down, there is a small hiccup though.

You can combine Speedify and Tailscale (for NAT) to have 99% uptime with seamless failover since there is a mobile modem in there. ;)

The Type-C port is dual role and will charge from a powered hub in host mode. However connected devices power is disrupted for a split second if the charger is removed, so the phone isn't really a UPS for external peripherals unless you don't mind the brief reconnection.

I do hope a Pi A+ or something similar and popular exist in the future at a reasonable price, considering that we have phones that are cheaper than the Pis while missing GPIO but adding camera, speaker, screen, case, charger, LTE, and a headphone jack which was also removed on the Pi 5 (USB DACs aren't consistent with pipewire).

Mini PCs vary and they aren't really portable, hard to setup headless, especially projects utilizing an easy DIY approach like the Pi-hole or kit/pre-flashed SDcards.

For comments comparing a new Pi with used PC: used Pis exist and are a lot cheaper after shortage.
Diataxis is a great way of thinking about documentation and it really helps organizations get documentation off of the ground.

I generally didn't make separate pages for each type of documentation, they were separate sections.

For example, for a particular feature I would have an explanation at the top so someone looking at it would know what it was for, the audience would be a prospective customer/user trying to determine if they want/need to use it to do a task.

A tutorial section for someone who's never used it before, so very detailed.

A How-to section that has a easy to skim format so if someone is doing something but they can't remember all the steps they can go through it really quick to do the task so they can continue with their work.

The reference section would call out all the options and variables and prerequisites and so on.

For on-prem software the whole install and config section was a tutorial by default because they'd never done it before. A README should have two sections an explanation (what is it and what do you use it for) and a tutorial (how to set it up).

Tutorials are often in a separate section because people expect that but tutorials have an audience that have no experience in the product, the big problem is that the writer often has the curse of knowledge and has a hard time remembering what other people don't know and making sure to add that information in. They need to set up the framework to understand the design philosophy of the product so they can understand the How-tos.
Is there any English reporting of the concrete nature of these cyberattacks? The report linked in the article is obviously in Romanian, but I am very curious if the report has specific allegations about e.g. phony votes, hacked results, etc. or if it comes down to "there was a facebook group that reposted the guy's tiktoks"?
I mean, the proles did vote the way they were told. The problem is that they didn't vote the way "the party" wanted them to.
> traditionally the nozzles and electronics and the printhead are all bundled with the cartridge

Canon at least was selling individual ink tanks (by the color, no integrated head) for their BubbleJet printers way back in the 90s.
These kinds of unplanned impacts are one reason why I think most jobs need to have a certain amount of "slack" built in so that the workers aren't only spending all their time working...

Indeed. And this is a well understood concept. To the point that Tom DeMarco wrote an entire book about the importance of "slack" - over 20 years ago.[1]

From the description:

<DeMarco> reveals a counterintuitive principle that explains why efficiency efforts can slow a company down. That principle is the value of slack, the degree of freedom in a company that allows it to change. Implementing slack could be as simple as adding an assistant to a department and letting high-priced talent spend less time at the photocopier and more time making key decisions, or it could mean designing workloads that allow people room to think, innovate, and reinvent themselves.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Effici...
> participants who consumed ≥5 servings/week of any chocolate

Outside of what I've come to refer to the "food should be food" group, if you regularly consume five or more servings per week of any food, you will do damage to your body in one of many ways. Ice cream, processed shit, hyper-sugar-content anything, soft drinks, almost anything at fast food joints, Starbucks and more.

I adapted the "food should be food" idea from Dr. Pradip Jamnadas' "bread should be bread" statement in one of his lectures [0]. Good foods include: Meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, fermented foods (plain yogurt, kimchi, etc.), etc. Most good food items do not need a label.

People are hurting themselves every day with highly processed industrialized food to such an extent that eating five servings of chocolate per week (of any kind) is irrelevant. In other words, this study is about noise, not signal. And, in general terms, no one food item --unless consumed to a ridiculous excess-- is responsible for negative or positive effects of note.

In other words, if you eat shit food, you are not going to fix it by taking a bunch of vitamins, magic pills, injecting yourself with the latest magical drug or eating a few servings of a magical food purported to fix all your problems.

And then there's exercise. There's a massive difference between sitting in front of a computer all day and being active.

As I got older, learned about and tried a number of approaches to health maintenance I have come to believe that most of what's out there is harmful noise. The formula is simple:

- Be active
- Eat real food in moderation
- Avoid sugar (in its many forms) like your life depends on it
- Eat fruit in moderation and when it is in season
- Be highly selective when eating fruit:
- There's a huge difference between bananas and avocados
- Reject highly processed foods
- Avoid foods with nutrition labels full of crap you don't understand

For example, peanut butter should consist of peanuts and a very small amount of salt, nothing more, anything else should stay on the shelf. Yogurt should not be full of sugar.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAJ6-X3ESS4&list=PLN4uKfvSU2...
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I typically make Caps Lock into a function layer, then have I, J, K, and L be up, left, down, and right respectively. Home and End on U and O, Page Up and Page Down on Y and H. This way during typing, I don't need to move my right hand to move my cursor around.
Yes. Those formats have had 20 years since Unicode was standardised, and things like my terminal still routinely break when given “unexpected” inputs. Practically every other application can handle it.
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I was looking for a VPN and created a list of the most important features for me. I decided to share it publicly with some additional info. Let me know if there's anything incorrect or if you have suggestions for improvement. Thanks!
I knew I should specify sub-Saharan Africa, because there’s always that Reddit tier knowing and willful idiot contrarian that just can’t help themselves from just being opposite for sake of being opposite, due to a severe mental derangement that compels them to be that way.

We are not talking about North Africa here, we are talking about South Africa and South Africa like places, which would mean sub-Saharan Africa, not Egypt or Algeria or Tunisia. You lack refinement and do not contribute anything useful, and may want to reflect on why you have that contrarian compulsion. No one is talking about North Africa. All the intelligent people here know we are talking about Africa in the context of South Africa. You clearly lack fundamental skills to distinguish such things.
Yes, and this even applies to code to a degree.

Would you rather write some code, or constantly code-review verbose, sneakily wrong junior level code?
>> My question is, what variables are being optimized for here?

The ones that start with a "$".
PETSCII? On the Commodore 64 you could press the Commodore key and Shift together to change character sets between lowercase and the graphical characters.

But the Unix login thing might have been because of teletypes? https://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/teletype/ claims that ASR 33 used 8-bit ASCII but was uppercase only - not sure if the "8-bit" claim can be true.

On some Unix (and Linux) systems, you can still enter a kind of retro mode with "stty olcuc iuclc" (output lowercase to uppercase, input uppercase to lowercase) and turning on Caps Lock.
I keep hearing people crow about how Africa is going to get re-colonized by China, but I just don't see it. For instance, in the last 50 years, America and her allies have:

-Overthrown Gaddafi and destabilized Libya in the process, leading to million of small arms washing into the Sahel. Jihadists groups have killed hundreds of thousands with those weapons, further destabilizing the region.

-Funded and backed murderous dictators like Hissene Habre who tortured, killed, and raped roughly 40k innocent Chadians.

-Other dictators that have held unto power with implicit/explicit American support include Mobutu, Amin, Barre, etc., and I'm not going to go into the atrocities they've committed.

-Continue to meddle in African countries, including their implicit support for the overthrow of popularly-elected governments like Egypt's Muhammad Morsi, and Congo's Lumumba, after which the country fell apart .

These are just a few examples off the top of my head. No matter how much you scaremonger about China, all they do is transfer technology, build infrastructure, and assist with explicit approval of local governments.

Do they have evil intent in the long-run? Who knows?

But, given their track record so far (of going heads down and building stuff) and the West's history of plain maliciousness, it'd be stupid to suggest anyone shouldn't partner with China.
The leapfrog stuff is what came to mind for me, I remember we had similar things when my kids were little. Honestly, they never seemed to work very well, but I assume the newer versions of such things are better.
> Photography is an art form and that means you get to do whatever you want. Edit freely [...]

This has made me lose faith and interest in (most of) photography. While I can't speak for the past, modern photography often feels dishonest to me. Many photographers heavily retouch their images, yet allow viewers to believe that the final result reflects reality.

It would be more honest if photographers acknowledged that their published work is a creative interpretation rather than a direct representation of reality. But of course, admitting this would diminish the "wow" factor.
AI and democracy: Early technologists should have paid attention to John Dewey
Mistakes as a new manager
The results were annuled by the government unhappy with the outcome, not by TikTok.
Learning YAMLScript from Clojure
When you see some science students mucking around with dangerous chemicals etc. then retreat to a safe distance and see what happens.

If you see a physicist mucking around with a screwdriver and some beryllium, retreat much further away and preferably with several walls between you and them.
> As you mention they would go bankrupt soon if this is disrupted

Or they'd adjust and charge the real price for the printer? We won't end up in a world with literally 0 printer manufacturers. People still need printers.
I didn't choose it, it was chosen for me. And you can say "that's democracy", but it doesn't change the fact that "Americans have chosen" is wildly different than saying "I have chosen" and has radically different and wide-spread implications.

"People will still die" is the kind of thing narcissists and sociopaths tell themselves when they are pretty sure that the set of "people" does not include themselves.
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Simple Secret to a Longer Life
> $50m yearly salary is limited upside? interesting take

OK. Rule of thumb. Any sensationalist headline about CEO making $N dollars is always wrong.

The real details are in the Proxy statement they are now required to file. As an example, when Pat signed on, his compensation package was worth over $160m. How much did he actually get? $10M. Why? Because the rest of the package was contingent on high share prices (I think $80 was the lowest target). He got none of it.

And the punchline: His total payout during his whole tenure is $46-49M. That's over almost 4 years. And includes his sign on bonus and severance bonus.

So yes, your claim of $50m yearly salary is ludicrous.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pat-gelsinger-lost-massive-14...
the quality of dialog on this site plummets to reddit levels when talking about TikTok.

TikTok was stopped because it was eating FB's lunch. That's it. There is not a single argument that applies to TikTok that doesn't apply to FB or some other company
Is there a way I can raise the threshold?

Not every story is deserving of a photo, and if their presence felt more curated it might significantly improve my experience on your site.
EMTs are usually in it because they're adrenaline junkie masochists. I am married to one, there are few exceptions.

Nurses are often there "for the money" but absolutely love their jobs.

Surgeons are absolutely in it for the glory, they have the same basic makeup as EMTs.

Different specialties have different personalities, for sure. Just look at Orthopedic bro...
In my later school years, when I had semi-regular need for printing things in colour, I took to drilling holes in the inkjet cartridges and refilling them with cheap ink using syringes.

Which worked out to about £5 for the syringes, £5 for 400 ml of CMYK ink, and my dad already had a power drill—which was equivalent to about £104-worth of black ink cartridges, and about £312-worth of colour ink cartridges. (Now it would be about £160 of black and £480 of colour).
It only took 15-to-30-minutes to refill both cartridges, including drilling the holes.

Some printer manufacturers have implemented DRM for ink to prevent this kind of thing.
They have a third clock: schools and employers that try to forbid its use.
Grouping humans into 16 categories is pseudo science. The idea that we have traits and tendencies is not, and these things help us understand our own biases if we choose.
Japan Launches World's First Wooden Satellite
It is high. And it is wrong. See details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42341514
> But of course, that's different.

You're right, that is different. That is an American management firm hired by Yeltsin's daughter (also his campaign manager) to do polling and run focus groups. These activities are not illegal, violate no campaign finance laws in Russia, and are not paid for by US tax payers.
If they can't pass the tests it seems like the problem solves itself.

Even if they do manage to cheat their way to a degree, they won't be able to pass interviews or fulfill their role at a job.
They take up 2 spots: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/1f0wt4v/okay_is_the...
Why Portcullis is betting on ClickHouse for our petabyte-scale solution studio
https://archive.ph/lKbFD
I do freelance/custom dev work. I continue to bid projects as if AI didn't exist. Recently (particularly since Cursor came onto the scene) I'm finding I finish projects 50-60% faster than my estimates.

It has been utterly game-changing and time-saving. I question each new bid I do: Should I assume AI will continue to help this much, and adjust my pricing?
Melons and Melancholy: "Eating and Being" illuminates the dynamics of dietetics
Maybe not effective as a full ban but once it got ejected from all the app stores, how much trouble is the average person going to take to keep accessing it rather than switching to some other source to get their short video fix?
Bullshit. Show me the proof. Given that nearly all successful revolutions against oppressive powers have been backed by violence, I'm curious what you come up with.

There is one group, the insurance companies, which have unequivocally stated that they will physically harm other people if it yields marginally higher profits. That's not up for debate, that's the stated business model. It is extra-judicial killing for profit, backed by the state. And when the state abuses their monopoly on power, history shows that people will claw it back as violently as they feel necessary.
You can run these commands to turn that kill behavior off:

setprop persist.sys.fflag.override.settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false

/system/bin/settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false

Termux as an example supports several services that run forever. Works great, sshd and crond don't get killed for example. https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-services

Battery wise you can use this app to keep it in a healthy range and temperature indefinitely: https://github.com/VR-25/acc
I feel reminded of brawndo.

https://fictionalcompanies.fandom.com/wiki/Brawndo
You've tested all the websites in the world? That must keep you busy.
^ unabomber posts on hackernews.

Joking aside, the key word which is sometimes implied rather than included is “too”. The order isn’t important. The saying is both things can’t simultaneously be true.
... That is kinda what it means though: the apparent success of the framework would come not from being grounded in any truth but from humans mistaking noise for signal. Are you going to argue that astrology has meaningful signal?

(Although, that said, the one thing of MBTI that does comport with modern understanding of personality is that introversion-extroversion is one of the main axes, although unlike MBTI's theory, it's more of a gaussian normal distribution than a bimodal distribution).
Pretty sure the HP LaserJet IIIp (introduced 1989!) in my parents attic will still work if I would find a cable for it.

They definitely don't make them like that any more.
Oh, it's been closer to 20 years for the rest of the world to catch up to Unicode than 30. We aren't at "perfect" now but we're certainly down to the trickier corner cases that are difficult to even see how you solve the problems at all, let alone code the solutions, and that's just reality's ugly nose sticking in to our pristine world of numbers.

But there really isn't any other solution. Yes, there will be an uncomfortable transition. Yes, it blows. But there isn't any other solution that is going to work other than deal with it and take the hits as they come. The software needs to be updated. The presumption that usernames are from some 7-bit ASCII subset is simply unreasonable. We'll be chasing bugs with these features for years. But that's not some sort of optional aspect that we can somehow work around. It's just what is coming down the pike. Better to grasp the nettle firmly [1] than shy away from it.

At least this transition can learn a lot from previous transitions, e.g., I would mandate something like NFKC normalization applied at the operating system level on the way in for API calls: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_equivalence Unicode case folding decisions can also be made at that point. The point here not being these specific suggestions per se, but that previous efforts have already created a world where I can reference these problems and solutions with specific existing terminology and standards, rather than being the bleeding-edge code that is figuring this all out for the first time.

[1]: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/grasp-the-nettle.html
It’s about toner in a Brother MFC laser printer (these do exist - I’ve owned one too), not ink in a Brother MFC inkjet.
You've got it back to front, mate. The concept didn't take off among services and smaller websites precisely because the advertisers won't pay nearly as much if you're doing it. The big players can do whatever the hell they want, what kind of company isn't going to advertise on the biggest platforms that exist?
This is a very bad article as the cyberattacks did nothing and didn't interfere with the election.

The relevant part here is how TikTok was used to push an unknown character from a nobody to getting 22% of the votes in the first round, all while no one was aware of this. The polls didn't show him among the favorites. More than that the campaign was so we'll targeted that only people likely to vote for him saw the TikTok content making everyone else completely unaware of his presence.
or you could just direct an asteroid of the right size into that location.
I think the opposite will happen. Engineers will still be worth $200k/yr.

Humankind will just develop a lot more software, faster and further into industries.

Availability will create new demand.
Just selling off remaining stock – https://www.forbes.com/sites/pamdanziger/2024/06/05/de-beers...