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by ajross | 2025-09-04 22:43:59+00:00
Apple Pascal was a UCSD Pascal descendant, which means it was a P-Code interpreter.

The article is broadly correct. The 6502 had what amounts to a mixed-performance address space. All indirect addressing had to be done via pairs of registers in the zero page at addresses 0-255. Essentially all the "pointers" in your application wanted naturally to live as one of these 128 "pointer registers". But that's not the way natural code generation wants to work, where the pointers get stored in the data memory along with everything else.

So compiled languages need to have some kind of trampoline for every pointer to copy it into the memory where it needed to live, which was a really tall order for the optimizers of 1983.

Or they could just cheat and compile to a virtualized instruction set and feed that to an interpreter. Apple chose this, twice: once with Woz's sweet16 in which Integer BASIC was written, and again with the port of the P-Code interpreter for Pascal.
by pedalpete | 2025-09-04 22:44:04+00:00
I like to hope we're a slingshot company.

While, everyone is trying to bast off, we're creating a new category and changing the way people think about sleep.

I don't expect to be able to change the world in a day. This is a movement, and it is going to take time.

I compare it to sunglasses, which existed for centuries as medical aids but didn't become part of everyday life and fashion until they were made "cool" by pilots in WWII.

Throwing rocketfuel might help, but we can build momentum market after market as we go from this somewhat strange activity, monitoring your brain during sleep, and directly increasing slow-wave activity through micro-pulsed auditory stimulation.

The industry is still obsessed with measuring sleep time, we're directly influencing what your brain is doing during that time.

The early momentum of a slingshot takes a bit to get up to speed. Building a comfortable EEG headband for consumers is a challenge, realtime analysis and stimulation take time do develop, among other things.

The momentum begets more momentum. At some point the momentum of the slingshot provides enough force to launch the projectile.

BUT, slingshots don't work forever. Once the projectile is out of the slingshot, it's downward trajectory has already begun.

So I'd prefer an analogy which takes that into account.

If you're curious about our work, check out https://affectablesleep.com
by lelandbatey | 2025-09-04 22:44:25+00:00
It's not fightable or optional, so it's less like starvation and more like gravity. Humans have decided that we'd like to "dispose" of aging, but unfortunately reality has this annoying habit of not responding to our categorization and despite thinking of it as a disease we cannot fight it like we can other diseases. Those other things you mentioned are considered outside of the usual because we have been able to make them less common through effort; despite all our effort though, aging isn't something we have that control over. We're all gonna die, of old age or a short-sharp-shock, at least until we figure out some wild medical breakthroughs.

Once we have those breakthroughs, sure folks might start thinking of aging as a disease that's not "normal" or a thing that we can actually avoid, but until then it's a fact of life, same as gravity, the sun, or the tides.
by tomhow | 2025-09-04 22:44:32+00:00
The origin of this is the Jargon File [1] v. 2.3.1, published on 3 Jan 1991: http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg231.txt

This exact version of it was first published in v. 4.0.0, on 24 Jul 1996: http://www.catb.org/jargon/oldversions/jarg400.txt

That was then published as The New Hacker's Dictionary, third edition, 1996: https://books.google.com.vc/books?id=g80P_4v4QbIC&printsec=f...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
by Nevermark | 2025-09-04 22:45:46+00:00
> Any increase towards baseline is beneficial throughout the entire affected graph of neural structures, as well as proximate ones.

This cannot possibly be assumed when talking about physiology already known to be atypical.

And specifically, assuming that reducing blood flow one place, and increasing it in another place, post-development, will predictably be a benefit is ... I have no words.

Your whole comment is full of this type of worse than weak reasoning.
by sema4hacker | 2025-09-04 22:45:47+00:00
Around 1979 or 1980 I was working for an 8080-based CRT terminal manufacturer and ported UCSD Pascal to our 8080 system, which worked flawlessly. I don't remember the details, but I believe all I had to do was implement a few BIOS-style routines. I got hung up for a few days because I had inited the heap pointer to a byte boundary instead of a word boundary, but after that everything booted and ran as advertised.
by slt2021 | 2025-09-04 22:45:55+00:00
the nuclear deterrence is basically a game of Russian roulette, and nobody can play it better than the Russians.

The Soviet bet was that the collective West is more wealthy and hedonistic than Soviets, and has more to lose in the global hot war, and therefore would be less willing to climb up the escalation ladder, thus giving the escalation dominance to the Soviets, as long as technical means of delivering the decisive strike are available (ICBM, IRBM, SLBM, ALBM, MIRV, Perimeter, etc).

examples are numerous:

1. Cuban missile crisis. It was JFK who blinked first in the Caribbean crisis and called Khrushev to deescalate and agreed to remove missiles from Turkey

2. Ukraine war. It was Jake Sullivan that turned off the tap on military shipments to Ukraine, when Russia communicated that they will be using tactical nukes in Kherson
by pmkary | 2025-09-04 22:46:42+00:00
When I git Arc, I thought "how are they going to monetize this?" Red flag I just didn't take seriously. Then I saw remains of the chromium branding, they hadn't even changed the icon. I thought this isn't time consuming, why they haven't done such a thing? And honestly it felt like one of those ADHD brains that go to many ideas and never finish any, Arc was exactly one in every sense. I knew this was huge red flag but then the beautiful interface (which till this day is—after Apple's—the most crafted and beautiful one) made me break my lines. I knew this could not keep going. Arc Search is a horrible browse, and I actually always used it because it was syncing with the desktop, the desktop was broken in so many different places that I cannot name (just try to open the downloads and you see). And well Arc is just another browser with some ideas borrowed from here and there. I mean it's still some sandboxed web frames, nothing integrated, no special new feature and infrastructure to make the browser an OS. My whole point with this is that it astonishes me how they never finish anything (Arc, Arc Sync, Arc Search, Arc Windows, Easels...) and they actually sell big time and have all of this hype around them
by randycupertino | 2025-09-04 22:47:26+00:00
I was referring to the article, which specifies Amazon is now requiring 5 days RTO.

> Many firms are tightening RTO, but Amazon stands out. It demands 5 days in-office and ties compliance to promotions and performance reviews. Those who refuse to relocate to "hubs" are considered by Amazon to have voluntarily resigned.

> "We continue to believe that teams produce the best results when they're collaborating and inventing in person, and we've observed that to be true now that we've had most people back in the office each day for some time," the Amazon spokesperson said.

List some companies that allow 4 10 hour days? Other than healthcare I haven't heard many tech companies allowing this.
by alphazard | 2025-09-04 22:47:33+00:00
The lesson here is adapt or die. The things they thought were important or difficult or impressive are no longer any of those things. Regurgitating information on a test or generating prose from the notes you took in class are tasks which are easy to stereotype, and now readily automated.

Rather than framing this as destroying education, it should be interpreted as proof that these tasks were always shallow. AI is still much worse than humans at important things, why not focus on those things instead?

The school systems are clearly not keeping up. Any kid who isn't doing project oriented creative work, aided by an LLM as needed, is not preparing for the the world they will likely inherit.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-04 22:47:47+00:00
My kids (CA high school) were incredibly stressed with a heavy workload that seemed mostly pointless and specifically, teachers who didn't care and students who didn't care as a result and used AI and cheated whenever possible. Both opted out of high school after 2 years (GED-equivalent test, to junior college for 2 years). They were and are getting basically straight A/A+s. Older one just finished 2 years of JC with 2 associates degrees and 4 certificates, and transferred to state school for 2 years to finish BA.

My experience was wildly different. I was what was generally considered a middle-of-the-road high school in a good-to-great school district in Canada (the highest-performing one next to the university was a whole different level). I rarely had much homework other than writing a few essays - which I often printed on my dot-matrix printer (yes, this was in the 80s). I studied half an hour for my highest-level senior chem final and aced it. Maybe studied 1-2 hours for calc, etc. Computer labs were some of the best times - hacking Basic on PETs.

Got to university (computer engineering, just slightly below electrical engineering) and it was brutal. Dropped 25% from high school to 1A semester. Had no study habits, "just wing it" had worked just fine to this point - if anything, it had worked too well. Of course, basically everyone in my class of 80 had the same story: graduated #1 overall in their high school (just like me). Some had way better habits / discipline. We had one student who came back to school 10 years after trying to make it as a studio musician. I once asked him point blank: so, do you do 5 hours of homework a night (because he ALWAYS knew the answer, etc) - he looked at me straightfaced and said "I try to do 6". Eventually, I managed to graduate in the top 1/3 of my class, stay on to get an MASc and have had a ~30 year career in software, so I'm reasonably happy. But I've had a hard time identifying with my kids' experience - high school was a blast for me and super easy. University was not. It's the other way around for them.
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-04 22:47:50+00:00
Basic, mindless, catchall 2% cashback cards exist. I keep a Fidelity, since you can set it to automatically points every time you earn 50$, which can immediately go into a brokerage account and be held in a moneymarket fund earning ~4% annual interest. Which is not a huge deal, but it's a very hands off approach.
by robocat | 2025-09-04 22:48:58+00:00
I am not talking about empathy with friends (I'm not sure why you assumed that). I am certainly not saying "don't immunise". I suspect you're making assumptions about me, but to be clear I am strongly pro vaccination and pro-science.

Each vaccination has costs and benefits. The science is amazing at reducing the physical risks.

I am just asking you to understand that some people are seriously psychologically harmed by requiring vaccinations (for themselves or for their children). It may be irrational, unscientific or selfish but I have seen how real the harm is for some people. That harm is a complex grey area. It should rarely trump the needs of children or society.

Society has a variety of ways to balance that harm against the expected benefits.

The second half of your comment is just a strawman story. And introducing religion as a topic is usually a poor idea.
by ethbr1 | 2025-09-04 22:49:05+00:00
No phones in class, at scale and enforced, feels like a last 5 years thing in K-12. And the trend was very much towards increased digital testing, pre-LLM.

This is pivoting back to paper-based, but it's going to be as messy and slow of a transition as the no-mobile-device one was.

Especially given how much money there is in "AI".

And hamfistedly-handed, will likely leave another generation fucked over with regards to basic education (like the predatory social+mobile adoption before regulation did previously).
by BoorishBears | 2025-09-04 22:49:25+00:00
I should have realized that my comment relies on too much nuance for the average person who's crying themselves sick over RTO to engage with in any reasonable semblance of what it actually says.

If you want to try reading it again with a clear head and not engage with the strawman you're building, you'll notice it doesn't make any claims to the effect of:

- why offices work

- that offices work for everyone (it claims the opposite)

- that no one does better at home (it claims the opposite)

- that no org can make WFH work (it claims the opposite)

- that performance issues shouldn't be dealt with

All it says it that empirically (and of course, limited to my experience and experiences shared with me), a lot of people, specifically in large companies, perform worse with significant WFH.

"WFH" makes this special because it's organization wide, in massive orgs: like I specifically mentioned "significant WFH" and "large headcount" in the same sentence, can I really spoon feed this any harder?

I think WFH can work for some people, but when it's significant amounts in large headcount companies, it starts to fall apart.
by Izikiel43 | 2025-09-04 22:49:39+00:00
> It might be a good fit there but trading in dollars would've fixed that too.

You are underestimating how toxic the Argentinian government was.

We did do that with capital controls, the problem is that it was illegal, and the Argentinian IRS is very active trying to tear you a new one. Argentina has long become a bimonetary economy, dealing with ARS for everyday transactions, but saving in USD and pricing assets in USD (real state for example).

To give an example where this would have helped, my parents in Argentina needed to send money to my brother in Europe. The government had made that illegal with capital controls, so I had to transfer him money through wise from a 3rd country and when at some point later I visited they gave me the cash.

People underestimate how annoying and distopic governments can be if given the chance.
by taeric | 2025-09-04 22:50:05+00:00
I confess I don't know how to contextualize this. The article says that PJM claims this should be a 1.5% to 5% increase in bills for folks. And it notes this is the first time capacity has been added in the last four auctions.

Is your contention that we a) not believe this will only have an "at most 5% increase" or b) predict that it will be more dramatic in the future?

I'm also curious where you are getting the 3x electric bills claim. The largest bill jumps I'm aware of were in CA and were largely related to fires. That and general grid upgrades.
by greenspam | 2025-09-04 22:50:19+00:00
Imagine back in the days when calculators were just invented. An 8 year old kid might have the similar complain: “my classmate finished a 4 digits number multiplication problem in 5 seconds which generally took 1mins.” People might say, in the long term, the kid who cheated would be less proficient in arithmetic, which turned out to be true. But when you think about it, it seems not the end of the world when most high schooler in US cannot do complicated arithmetic quickly and accurately without a calculator.
by stockresearcher | 2025-09-04 22:50:25+00:00
I’ve played in adult leagues for both the common softball and the 16-inch softball (everywhere I’ve lived everyone called it Chicago style), as both a player and a coach. Aside from being an unusually expensive ball to purchase (I believe that they are all hand-made in the Caribbean), the 16-inch ball is a LOT more aerodynamically stable. A long distance/home run hit will have a lot of spin, so either ball flies well. But a super hard hit line drive in the infield will not have much, if any, spin on the ball. The common softball jumps around a lot, and I’ve seen injuries from people that were unable to catch one. But the 16-inch ball flies straight and true. And breaks your finger.
by ozim | 2025-09-04 22:50:26+00:00
Well you don’t run a company of 100+ employees on “top talent” you need maybe 1 top talent guy per 50 worker bees.

But to get worker bees you have to lie that you hire only the best, make them jump through the hoops and the hoops or 2+ hours grilling is justified because you hire only the best. Just to select most obedient ones that will put up with your shenanigans.

So you run the company on the processes not on people as they are replaceable cogs.
by 1718627440 | 2025-09-04 22:50:37+00:00
That's not even the official narrative. The official narrative, is that we the West have a democracy by historic accident and bring war and slavery to the rest of the world seeking for cheap oil and other resources. But this is fine, because if we wouldn't extort them someone else would. And of course everyone is free to choose their situation, so they could just leave. But please don't become an immigrant here, because then you take our taxes and pensions, because we don't allow you to work, because then you would eventually get voting rights. But all these problems are far away and actually only the concern of their countries, we have no part in it, we just do our big money game.

The people distrusting the official narrative, think that we don't actually live in a democracy an there is an elite in power who just keeps this as there facade.
by voidhorse | 2025-09-04 22:50:39+00:00
I think you're mistaking my claim for something else. When I say logical reasoning here, I mean the dead simple reasoning that tells you that 1 + 1 - 1 = 1 or that, by definition, x <= y and y <= x imply x = y. You can reach these conclusions because you understand arithmetic or aspects of order theory and can use the basic definitions of those theories to deduce others. You don't need to throw random guesses at the wall to reach these conclusions or operationally execute an algorithm every time, because you use your understanding and logical reasoning to reach an immediate conclusion, but LLMs precisely don't do this. Maybe you memorize these facts instead of using logic, or maybe you consult Google each time but then I wouldn't claim that you understand arithmetic or order theory either.
by sings | 2025-09-04 22:50:54+00:00
Agree that it seems like a pretty steep jump for my use cases too.

Makes it clear how generous their free tier has been. Comparing the current free plan to the incoming one, as an example: - Unlimited deploys vs 10-15? - 100GB bandwidth vs 1? - Unlimited requests vs 100K?

I have a mixture of paid and personal use, but will be looking around for something with fewer features and a simpler cost structure. Static hosting is the only real feature that's required for a lot of my projects, and the other niceties are completely non-essential.

I have found Netlify to be a great product so far, though.
by daveguy | 2025-09-04 22:51:14+00:00
I think it's one of the most incompetent moves by this administration yet. You have eyes on a suspected drug smuggling boat. No direct confirmation, and instead of tracking the boat (which they can clearly do) to intercept and apprehend the crew picking up the payload (or at least identify the destination) -- they just blow it up. Like a child knocking down blocks. Hard to tell if it's incompetence or protection of recipients in the US. But what better way to signal to smugglers that you have the means and methods to detect and intercept while also protecting the recipients?
by arp242 | 2025-09-04 22:51:20+00:00
I've been keeping reviews in the last few years. Just privately, for myself. I started doing this because I couldn't remember what I did and didn't play, and had a "wait, I think I tried this before and didn't like it" deja-vu a few times.

Right now the rankings are: bad (388), meh (191), okay (71), good (63), superb (12). Turns out I dislike a lot of games. This is also why I started to just pirate things first and then buy if I like it; I have 558 games in my GOG library and I barely played (or like) >80% of it.

I can recommend keeping reviews by the way; I've since started doing this for tons of stuff, from games to films to TV episodes to wine to coffee, and writing things down really helps narrow down what you like or dislike about things. By keeping it private you can write whatever you like and don't need to do a "full" review. For example my entire review for Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound (rated "meh") is "Too fast-paced for my liking. Also don't really like the controls." And for me, that's enough.

I can write a long essay on why I like or dislike games, but to be honest I'd rather be playing Silksong.
by risyachka | 2025-09-04 22:51:52+00:00
yeah bad regulations must be bypassed.

There is a case for banks that hold your hand as if you are 90yo and there must be a case for banking where I know what I do and I take responsibility for my actions.

If i send my coins to the wrong address its on me. But if I want to send 10k to someone - no one should ask me to wait 3 days, to do 100 verifications if I am not being forced or scammed.

I'd want that protection for my mom, sure.

But I want to remove all that crap for me. I don't have time and energy for it
by iotamigrator | 2025-09-04 22:52:15+00:00
I would like to prove a quick update to the Hacker News community regarding the ongoing fraud at IOTA Foundation.

It turns out that IOAT manually verifying legacy claims for legitimacy and making the payment accordingly was yet another lie by IOTA. Please see the following https://x.com/iota/status/1945821199893668087 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543184

Following my request, they now claim that they "are currently in the process of deploying a new automated claiming tool that will enable claims to be transferred to a new IOTA-based address. Once the solution has been thoroughly tested and verified, we will reach out again". They refuse to provide a date for this.

Thus the pattern of fraud at IOTA Foundation continues and user funds remain frozen, leading to further financial damages. As highlighted before, based on Tokenomist data (https://tokenomist.ai/iota), this potentially impacts 3.8% of all IOTA tokens in existence which amounts to about 30 million dollars in damages at the current market capitalization.
by sunshine-o | 2025-09-04 22:52:34+00:00
> why are businesses finding crypto easier/faster/better?

One way to see it is today the EVM ended up being the solution to a lot of other problems.

The banks are dying, their core banking is dying after 50+ years of service. There hasn't been any real investment since 2008, only minimal maintenance and cost cutting. Also generations of incompetent people at every levels created a situation with no escape.

Also things like SWIFT became very irrelevant in practice. I can assure banks did not really used it for a while.

When Ethereum and its EVM appeared 10 years ago a lot of people saw an opportunity to build a better "programmable money" platform but nobody really succeeded. At the same time Ethereum did not fail, improve and still secure the assets and run the smart contracts deployed in 2015. More than enough to convince the people on a sinking ship to jump on that boat.

My guess is the the EVM is becoming something similar to UNIX: a loose standard almost everybody will build on. Maybe not the best but something good and flexible to jump and we need to move forward.

Also the dollar urgently needed a new outlet so its on.

So it is not really about "crypto" it is more about the EVM as a platform.