skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there wasn't really a trans panic there wouldn't be passive aggressive comments like that and the harrassment that follows to start with.

Making it "only 2 sexes lol" is bad faith, incorrect semantics, or just bad branding to frame it that way. Semantics aside, what it's really about is that some people feel psychologically different than their biological gender. If you frame it that way, there's no reasonable option other than to give them freedom and acceptance. Hence, "only 2 sexes lol" and other distractions like "won't someone think of the children".

I'm not trans so I don't understand it from personal experience, but it's not in my nature to write off surprising or counterintuitive behaviors as wrong.
Knowledge Under Siege
The Voyager computers have done pretty well (with some help from JPL).
I remember a couple kids with Windows 95 PCs at home. They seemed like such richie rich's. We'd all play Wolfenstein when we'd sleep over at their houses. My childhood computer was a WebTV, hacked to get dialup internet for free, on a 100 lb CRT TV from Goodwill. I finally scraped up the money for an actual PC some time in highschool.
The thing is you are not being curious. You are basically putting your head in the sand and goading at people to drag it out for you.
It's just indicative of a wider trend in some western countries to punish and threaten people protesting their complicity in genocide.

Same thing or perhaps worse is happening in Germany, US, etc.

One can just as well ask why would a democratic country arrest and threaten young people for protesting actions of a foreign country, when such actions include things like mass killings of children, or targeted attacks on healthcare and rescue workers, where said country sometimes just murders 15 of them while on a rescue mission (destroying 5 ambulances and a fire engine, basically killing all of the teams), like recently.

It's a worthy question that such an article can elicit regardless of who's being arrested for activism.
FYI, you seem shadowbanned[1] for some reason: all of your comments after the first one (and, now that I’ve vouched for it, this one) are marked “dead” as though downvoted to oblivion, though I find nothing that objectionable in any of them. I suggest you look at your comments page[2] from an incognito window (and perhaps contact 'dang for clarification?).

[1] https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#shadow...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=mpascale00
Can it add 'grain' to shape fills in svg?
That raises the question of what work they should pursue.
> If the headline was "police raid house to arrest criminal activists", it wouldn't have made a blip.

If you’re willing to lie, the headline could be whatever you want.
Why do you think your upper classes have a different dream just because your working classes are better at pushing back? They want the same thing as American ones so, and it's dangerous to forget that.
You can solve your “problem” for a very small price: it costs under $0.50 per day to distill your own drinking water per person.

So for $15/mo, “problem” solved.

Are you doing that?
Sure, but at the same time, it's a useful tool to show people how unusable their ui is using something they already have.

The problem with “what colour is this? what colour is that?” is not the question, it's that the question comes up with an expectation of an answer, regardless of the context. If I'm _never_ willing to answer the annoying question, that makes me the asshole regardless of how poor my colour vision is.
A ban on food dye in West Virginia has forged an unlikely alliance
You realize that navel-gazing metaphysics and philosophy aren't the same thing, right? Your list contains such a quantity of intellectuals with low substance to verbiage ratio that I hope it was made in jest.

Regardless of potential faults in pg's writings, which are indeed more collected thoughts than essays. And I don't even agree with this one, creating should be left to those capable of doing it well (which means at least some degree of perfectionism, developed aesthetic sense and inspiration) and those rarely need external encouragement. The others should cultivate their virtue and maintain an iron will within a steel body, the world (both individuals and as a whole) would certainly benefit much more from this.
When I used XFCE as my daily driver, I once tried installing Chicago95 just for nostalgia and it stick as my daily driver for almost a year! The UI is less distracting than modern UIs and there's something to it that makes it easier to just know which window is open over which window that's lacking in modern UIs (I think it's the over-reliance on soft shadows and the borderless windows).

Eventually, I stopped using it because: 1- it was always annoying to send an screenshot to someone and have to explain that no, I wasn't using Windows 95, and why; 2- the grey-ish look of everything started to bother me over time; 3- I wanted a more integrated desktop experience and moved to KDE Plasma. Still, I configured my Plasma to work like old Windows: window titles on taskbar, zero to none animations, etc.
I've already used it as an example when talking to some people about our technology choices.

Sometimes - to be able to live in the societies we do, we have to accept that there's very little choice. But if you live in full awareness that every choice you make to participate in it, there is a cost and effect that someone else has to experience.

One is example is Social Media moderators - for us to not see the worst of humanity, they have to experience it for us and make a decision that literally can manipulate people's opinions and preferences
The uncertainty around using the Model F designs Powell references are what have kept me from ordering one, but I have to say I love seeing someone try to put together modern mechanical keyboards that aren't just another set of Cherry (or clone) switches. It'd be nice to see someone run with a similar design but with commercial polish, perhaps via a Kickstarter...
I’m actually now much less certain that fluoride is unequivocally safe and newly skeptical of anybody arguing that anybody else questioning it, including effects on the brain, is a whacko. Thanks to down-thread links to the meta analysis from this year by the national toxicology program, it is crystal clear that high levels of fluoride ARE linked to lower IQ. It begs the question about working to better understand the effects of lower levels. Absolutely nothing presented thus far draws the conclusion that low levels of fluoride are safe, full stop. Thank you for changing my mind and making me look deeper, fervent fluoride supporters.
They did, long ago. I remember when it was shut down after someone made the problem public, like this.

I’m amazed Android still allowed this in 2022.
WSL2 works fine, but that's merely because it's a linux VM with a little polish.

I'd kill to do dev on a linux machine, but alas it's not company policy :(
Re PDF/HTML...

I suppose it's not the literal file format, although I do see value in a format that is closer to "everyone gets the same experience" (c.f. recent blogpost about grammarly extension borking CSS)

I miss when you got one edition of your favourite mag, once a month, and could read it beginning to end, or on any order you fancy, but you got _an amount_ of content and could complete it.

Web properties of any scale now do not really have a "size" that you can experience. You can't "complete" them.

And this breaks up a communal experience. I'm on HN, and so are you: but we're not on the same HN. Whereas if I see you picking up Total Guitar, I could ask you if you got anywhere with the Satch tab in October's edition.

Is that what you were driving at?
Rats are adorable. Lab rats have even been shown to laugh when tickled.

But the truth is, fancy rats are completely different from pest rats, even if they are the same species. If you keep a rat, keep it well-fed and its body and living area clean, take it to the vet when sick, etc. it's not going to pose anywhere near the kind of hygiene threat that a wild rat looking for food in your garbage (and maybe nesting in the area) poses.

It's like, I love dogs too, but I would treat a feral dog scavenging for food VERY differently than I would treat any of my pet dogs.
For what it's worth, the RISC-V unprivileged spec says:

> The behavior upon decoding a reserved instruction is UNSPECIFIED.

> Some platforms may require that opcodes reserved for standard use raise an illegal-instruction exception. Other platforms may permit reserved opcode space be used for non-conforming extensions.

The RVA23 says: (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-profiles/blob/main/src/rva23-...)

> Implementations are strongly recommended to raise illegal-instruction exceptions when attempting to execute unimplemented opcodes or access unimplemented CSRs.

and has an optional extension "Ssstrict":

> Ssstrict No non-conforming extensions are present. Attempts to execute unimplemented opcodes or access unimplemented CSRs in the standard or reserved encoding spaces raises an illegal instruction exception that results in a contained trap to the supervisor-mode trap handler.
Stardock Software
The fact that this company builds both sucessful professional apps (fences, windows blinds) and great games (sins of a solar empire) makes it something of a singularity
She said she purposefully wrote in a simplistic style to mimic the traditional epics she was familiar with, like Beowulf. The books were supposed to have a wide appeal, and evoke that sense of the archetypal struggle between good and evil.

I personally love the style, even as an adult - it's a very easy read, but the world of earthsea, true names, and it's daoist philosophy is very appealing to me. It was the first of its kind, and really established the idea of "balance" in the fantasy genre.

The books definitely do get more sophisticated, though, both thematically and stylistically. But ultimately it's going to be a purely subjective experience, as these things always are.
One of the worst thing about ChatGPT / Claude is that if you're chatting for too long, they suddenly forget everything due to the limited context length.

Google seems to have understood how important a long context length is and what I absolutely love about AI Studio is that it shows how many tokens you've consumed, so that you know that you should start wrapping it up and move to a new chat.
Sure. Just like all social apps are just about who can send the best code to run on a hyperscaler's servers.
What’s a good country to operate from?
Hear, hear.

My personal AWS bill is roughly $10/month, all for S3. We're not talking millions here :). Personal compute is a mix of OVH and on-prem.

Work is an entirely different kettle of fish, at an entirely different scale, and primarily runs compute on spot: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/capacity-optimized-spot-ins...

Being able to scale down, rather than needing to pay for peak capacity, genuinely does save us large amounts of money. But it's a capability that we needed to build out, not something that happened by magic. And it does require that our services are big enough to scale for load, not just for redundancy.
I tried that but cut it from the code because it had the same performance.
They did the same for photos years ago.

Many apps have not updated and perhaps never will.
Companies are outsourcing testing. I'm not surprised that they get rid of UI testing. Back in the day companies used to invite people to sit down and use their software. Nowadays they just push out whatever they have and then start collecting bug tickets. Then they let the community to vote on the tickets. It's basically a huge "pay for being a beta tester" scheme.
Hmmm... Smalltalk, a pure object-oriented language, stores everything in an image, and has tons of different browsers to inspect its "object soup". Install a Squeak Smalltalk if you're curious :-)

Userland Frontier was a wonderful scripting environment born on macOS and ported to Windows. It was a mix of an object database, storing code and data, an extensible scripting language called UserScript, and very powerful InterApplication capabilities, based on Apple's Open Scripting Architecture. Dave Winer, its author, worked on the XML-RPC standard afterwards.
Watching Mangs comment Advance Wars by Web (AWBW) games as I fall asleep is my guilty pleasure. https://www.youtube.com/@Mangs1337
I wonder how it compares to (1) Go, (2) the JVM, and (3) native stuff like Rust and C++.

Obviously as with all such benchmarks the skill of the programmer doing the implementing matters a lot. You can write inefficient clunky code in any language.
To be clear, about whom exactly are we talking here? Who are the actual people drinking water with known harmful levels of fluoride that we’re ignoring?
The problem with the LLM equivalent is that you can't see the timestamp of the knowledge it's drawing from. With stack overflow I can see a post is from 2010 and look for something more modern, that due diligence is no longer available with an LLM, which has little reason to choose the newest solution.
Yes absolutely, you can do both.

One good thing about new ideas is that it becomes an enabler for everyone else who are not working on new ideas. Similar to how technology democratises peoples abilities.
I enjoyed using Object Desktop by them when I was still using OS/2 Warp
Yes, it works with SVG!
Agree with you about him being a great lyricist (I find 'the loom of the land', to give one very brief example, a masterful configuration) but I also have mixed feelings about the man. I find him intellectually pretentious, politically distasteful (to put it mildly) and suspect him to be very lacking in his personal relationships. An exemplary case, for me, of liking the art while not necessarily liking the artist.
Donyou know if account driven enrolment requires different phone numbers for the MDM managed apps and the personal ones? Specifically for the diaper app for example.
> I just can't work out the economic logic of that.

Startups are often unprofitable despite having a good product. Large companies have an easy time of making good products profitable, but a difficult time in developing good products from scratch.

> It seems to be then that there are secondary considerations, such as market domination, that provide the value in these transactions.

Undoubtedly! But a profitable startup that is dominating a market would not be acquired for a small amount of money (or at all).

> I can't determine why a search and advertising company thought it had the requisite skills to run an ISP or to make it a competitive and profitable business.

Google makes the majority of its money on ads. That being said, it's absolutely brainless to ignore YouTube, Waymo, Pixel, Cloud, etc., etc. when talking about Google's business. All of these would be unicorns if they were independent companies.
David on directing commercials: https://youtu.be/GiP85kdyRLo.
PG seems to love making grand statements like this regarding things about which he has little knowledge.
I used QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES among other things for my app Limit Buddy (https://www.limitbuddy.com). It would be impossible to make the app without it. But for more normal use cases there's no reason to have it.

Apple has a much more robust solution privacy wise with their ScreenTime API but it makes an app like Limit Buddy much harder to build.
The previous submission was flagged, despite this article being of great importance for this community. The actions that it reports are being taken by government and corporate interests will affect all industries, markets and citizens.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=missiles+running+Linux
Product and Engineering: Who Owns What?
If you want to get technical, Andoya is an island separated from continental Europe...
In the US, it was estimated that about half of HS grads had an A- (3.7) average or better. That was in 2016 and was ~10% higher than in 1998, so one should assume that it would be higher now.
> This is a bit elitist isn’t it.

Damn straight. Understand what you're doing or don't do it. Software is bad enough as it is. There's absolutely no room for the incompetent in this game. That science experiment has been done to death and we're certain of the results.
>2. Facility OPEX: $50,000/month (Power, connective, monitoring etc..)

Are you sure? It looks like they only have 1 rack (+1 in another facility for redundancy) and seem to have 40Gbit/s connectivity.

A full rack is in the range of 1k, connectivity around 600$ per 10Gbit/s. I have no idea how much power they consume but I doubt it's 40k$+ per month for a storage workload. I would guess they are in the 10k$ range. Those are only list prices I've seen in the wild so take it with a grain of salt but 50k seem VERY high.
I've read a lot about this from at least the United States perspective. The rocket wasn't launched from the United States, but the FAA requirements on flight termination is the ceasing of thrust and removing "energy" from the vehicle by rupturing tanks if they pose a danger. The primary thing that's trying to be prevented by flight termination systems is damage/danger to uninvolved parties. So if it's low to the ground simply shutting off the engines is a perfectly fine solution to the issue. If its higher then rupturing the tanks will be needed as it's likely going to land outside the safety area.
I think it’s a personal decision. I really, really do not want to carry two huge slabs around. One is already too much.

Account driven MDM enrolment pushes the Pareto front when it comes to privacy/conveniency compromises from my point of view. I will ask my IT if they have already looked at it.
I’ve had Warside wishlisted on Steam for a year now, as it looks to be just that. And when I looked it up just now to double-check the name, looks like it’s coming out next month! Fingers crossed.
To me “.replace()” vs “.replaceAll()” (in JS at least) is a perfect example to evaluate a developer on. Any JS developer would know that replace()’s main gotcha is that it’s not replaceAll(). I used C# professionally for years before using JS. And “.Replace()” in C# works the same way “.replaceAll()” does in JS. It was one of the first things I learned about JS and how I needed to reevaluate all my code in JS.

In interviews, I’d often ask the interviewee “what is your background” and “do you know that in JS .replace() is unlike .replace() in Java or .Replace() in .NET”. That statement should make perfect sense to any developer who realizes the word “replace” is somewhat ambiguous. I would always argue that the behavior of Java and .NET is the right behavior, but it’s an ambiguous word nonetheless.
A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives
no paywall:
https://archive.is/cn2lD
Noctua
Why is this stuff discovered again?
Agile not working not because your doing it wrong. It just not working.
All agile is cargo cult agile.
The Nobel Duel
Google Maps is just a live traffic data set now. I use it during my commute, and its ability to tell me the speed limit of a road segment is deteriorating over time. Google doesn't need any fancy machine learning algorithms to work out what the speed limit of a road is; they just need to work with local governments to get their databases of speed limits. The whole product increasingly reeks of issues that couldn't be replicated in an open-plan office in Mountain View, so probably aren't real.
> Modern computers that are ARM based are much better for the environment.

And modern computers that are Zen based are even better. You can do real work on them, instead of sitting idle all day. /s
His essay from 2008[0] is just as nebulous. When you have such a hand-wavy definition of such an important term, it ultimately means you can wield your narrative to fit any conclusion you want.

[0] - https://www.paulgraham.com/good.html
The UI looks clean and easy to use!
That's fair point. Its maybe different use case. For me main goal was to be able to run project scripts on macos and Linux ootb, and both have some python 3 version already available ootb.

But probably if you need specific python version it isn't best way
Seems the government IT security and application training people are subpar to say the least.
I would never have given any body an public app like signal by nature it is breaking the record retention law for ANY government communications.
So guess what? nobody is getting busted or arrested or every user gets busted and arrested. Its like giving monkey's hand grenades'.
I think much of what Google was used for by many including probably yourself we called search, but it was really asking for answers.

Link are good for search. Where wherever algo leads you to data that may have information you are looking for.

On the other hand, if I just want the answer to a specific question, then links, that we tolerated for so long are bad. They are bad because once presented I now I have to dig and sort through the data to find the answer. It will nearly always be in a different format than the last and take away mental stamina that could be applied to the actual task I am trying to accomplish.

Google, if they stick to links, will continue to be a good search company. The problem is people don’t and did not actually want to search, they simply wanted answers. And thus this is why the entire industry of search will probably go away.

Google is going to have to make a decision. Continue to be search, a product in which demand is dwindling, or be in the business is providing answers.
Destructive Convenience (thoughts on modern social and chat platforms))
I didn't realize it was intentional! Though, I think Beowulf is notable to a significant degree for its historic context...

I think the mention of daoist philosophy is interesting. Those works are very direct too, but I think (from a Western perspective) there's a huge amount "between the lines", both due to missing cultural context and refinement over generations of tradition, which means that while the writing is simple the meaning and implications are vast and complex.

Aside from the name thing though, I'm not sure I got that from the first book. Especially since most of the actions listed in it are very concrete.
Pretty cool. Notebook LM is one of the best AI tools I've used. My friends love playing really complicated board games with big rule books and I've had a lot of success uploading the rule book PDFs to notebook LM to quickly resolve any questions we may have about the game rules.
correct. that's why I have an old and dumb projector instead of a TV.
> After checks by the maintenance teams, the device was found

Do we know where the device was found?
Read the license. CC BY-SA.

Copying code and breaking the license is a liability many companies don’t want and therefore block SO when in the office.

I’ve seen upvoted answers to questions around with stuff that purposefully has a backdoor in it (one character away from being a correct answer, so you are vulnerable only if you actually copied and pasted).

I think S.O. Is great, and LLMs too, but any “lead” engineer would try to learn and refute the content.

BTW: my favorite thing to do after an LLM gives a coding answer: now fix the bug.

The answers are hilarious. Oh, I see the security vulnerabilities. Or oh, this won’t work in an asynchronous environment. Etc, etc. Sometimes you have to be specific with the type of bug you spot (looking at you, sonnet 3.7). It’s worth adding to your cursor rules or similar.
It's a known fact in the rooting community because some banking apps searching for root only apps!

If you root (I advice against doing that) and have LSPosed installed you can hide apps to be seen by every other app with Hide My Applist (HMA) [1] or HMAL (which I like more because it is more minimalistic) [2]

[1] https://github.com/Dr-TSNG/Hide-My-Applist

[2] https://github.com/pumPCin/HMAL