skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Inside the Apple //e" included a program listing to digitize sound using the cassette interface[1]. Years before I got an audio digitizer for a PC I had great fun recording a few seconds at a time of audio on the machines in my public library. I made some floppies that booted and played audio samples. They were super slow to load and the sound quality wasn't great, but voices and songs were recognizable.

[1] https://archive.org/details/InsideTheAppleIIe/page/n341/mode...
In this context, I assume a "large family" is 3 or 4 children (a 5 seat sedan cannot physically, legally fit 4 children and two parents, and due to the size of modern carseats it can be dicey or impossible to fit 3 of them in compact or midsize sedans even for a 3-child family).

Even just maintaining replacement rate fertility requires an average of 2.1 children TFR, which means some families would need to have 3 or 4 children to get there since other families will have only 2 or 1 child.
I don't see what one gains by limiting the number of shades of colour when designing a professional app (as opposed to a personal/art project where one might enjoy constraints). Just a mental satisfaction of 'I used less!'?

Multiple colours cost nothing, don't incur performance penalties, but do help make the UI look prettier and more finished. I'd be way more likely to spend time in an app if it looked beautiful, and by almost any metric, Windows 95 was not a thing of beauty. It had clarity, I agree, but it was far from the pinnacle of what humanity can achieve.
I'm taking everything that is being proposed in good faith. There is a legal manner in which a country controls who gets to come in. Whether they have to modify treaties or not, I don't know - I'm not an expert on international jurisprudence.
since this is homebrew we are talking about the solution will be whatever is the most user hostile.
In Py3. Mixed whitespace that Py2 accepts can be very much misleading.
Aha, I got it now. Technically you are absolutely correct. The mapping always happens. I was just aiming at cases where original ORM intent was to provide more "smooth" OO expirience, such as having object references instead of foreign keys, 1 to 1 class to entity mapping etc.
>Nobody reasonably holds Uber and Lyft and DoorDash’s recent politicking in California against them.

Just as a customer, I hold it against a business when they too aggressively tell me how to vote. Campaign for whatever, but don't make me sit captive to it in order to do business with you.
On the other hand, emacs is self-modifying code. Or executable data. it's lambdas all the way down. ;)
> * Thanks, but those questions were meant as exercises for the poster I replied to. ;)*

That's not how discussions work around here. And, frankly, you sound a bit condescending.
It's this definition from M-W:

2: the act of hearing
especially : a critical hearing
// an audition of new recordings
I understand this full well. I'm speaking in the context of that you'd are calling scientism because I think it's the dominant religion of our times. An example is this slogan: "I believe in science". We might say well, this person is saying they have faith that the scientific method produces ... But I would argue that this person (in aggregate in modern society) is actually much more like a religious believer. They believe without any real idea of what science is.

I don't dispute the difference between the scientific method and the mythological one. All I'm saying is that religion had at it's heart a hard science and mythology was it's product. I am sorry saying that modern science produces mostly mythodology as well. I don't claim that everyone has to agree, but this is how it looks to me.

So I see a world around me made of scientism. Yet you never hear the word, and certainly it's not a legitimate sounding word. So I go a step further and say, our modern religion is science which produces the mythodology which we consume. I think it's a valid position. But of course no dominant paradigm likes to consider it's falacies.
Define adversary. Feels like the security state is moving more and more towards the domestic side.
We're kind of collapsing "politics" down a little far, right? There's "not taking a stand on the capital gains rate", and then there's "not taking a stand on whether Black people are actual people". I understand the former more than the latter. There's a line to be drawn somewhere, right? At some point on the line where you draw it, your company is IG Farben.
I'm pretty sure the problem is that the "portable dumper" that replaces the dumpster fire that was unexec is not in fact portable across architectures.
Uber didn't invent the car or the mobile phone, or cabs or food delivery.

What they invented was a business model that empowers capital and disempowers (some classes of) labor.

I hear their microservice architecture employs a lot of SWEs, though, so they've got that going.
Also, it's not the householder choosing to surveil their entrances that bugs me, it's the householders who choose to feed all that surveillance into the gaping maw of overreaching police and their unaccountable databases.

Like I said, if you're _not_ live-streaming your Ring footage, I'll blood your door so the destroyer passes over you. Even if you have a Ring camera.
Ms. Streisand made it clear that this is legal in the US. Public spaces (and airspace) are not private.
A lot of people are saying that function coloring is essentially an unsolved problem, and this is true. However, coloring of individual functions is not strictly speaking necessary.

Think of the classic "zlib" style C libraries. Often they can't assume anything about the target platform, even basic stuff like memory allocation or I/O, because there's such a huge variety compilers, standard libraries, and restrictions.

So just about every such library exports an "API context" struct, full of function pointers. These then allow the caller to pass in implementations for malloc, free, threading, I/O, etc...

The trick is that these can have default implementations. So the function pointer in the context for allocation can simply point to "malloc()". This can of course be overriden, so the capability is there, but the caller need not do anything by default.

Features like logging and tracing can be similarly sent through to default implementations that do nothing or call standard APIs in some naive (but sufficient) way.
Yes,

Sounds like "beatings will continue until the moral improves," but that's how it was at least for Europe. It needed to go multiple rounds of very brutal collective self-punishment for popular politics to kind of start minimally working.

Stopping doing politics, means to leave the status quo as is, and give the at the time "leading brand" of political though no contest.

History tells us, giving up on politics usually means to leave one group of political extremists uncontested by all others.
> But if you make some prosaic observation about this overall pattern

If you outlined a pattern in your comment I failed to deduce it. Something about negative externalities of increased drug consumption? I’m sure there is a point there that deserves a better argument.
The Separatists (Pilgrims) were close on many things to the Puritans, but should be classified separately from "Puritans."

The Puritans believed in a unified government and church, which the Brownists very much rejected.

Ultimately, the Mathers arranged to have the Puritans take over the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies after the Glorious Revolution.
I placed an curbside order at Guitar Center for some in stock items. When they told me it was 3 days before I could pick it up, I canceled and ordered on Amazon. Talk about a fail.
Agreed. What I'm saying to ask tho is what are the strengths if religion? Because science is failing us very seriously in certain cultural regards.
Bit of a meta question: is linking to Substack posts in this way equally as viable as linking to a standalone blog?

As in, the advantages of Substack are clear, but are there any distinct disadvantages to using it as both a blog (exposure, discoverability) and a newsletter (reader retention) at the same time?

Anything about it that limits it in ways in which a standalone blog wouldn't be limited, e.g. analytics?
Are you familiar with how Apple did product development in the Jobs era? I’ve read a bit about it, but didn’t work there at the time so can’t confirm. From what I’ve read, it essentially had no PMs. They drilled the culture into every aspect of the business and then demanded excellence. Projects were lead by either designers or engineers.

This to me is the ideal state. One person, most likely the lead engineer, essentially acts as what a traditional PM/PO would. They understand the deep technical and business requirements of a product.

I think this might be the only setup in which you can achieve real innovation.

A business only needs a modern PM once they’ve crested the hill. The data roles in. The PMs absorb the data, distill it into tasks, and engineers build it. It’s more of an assembly line than building a product.
They will probably spare him just because he's a pretty nice dude. (Source: he's old school Chicago Internet scene).
“ The constraints of the target microcontroller may limit the number of language features that can be used in combination by a single application.”

Thats a pretty huge caveat.
those humans are the ones picking your food, doing your lawns, building infrastructure. or there escaping some shitty situation where ever they're from. there's no reason to treat them like shit.

glad america's got an immigrant that doesn't think others deserve to be here.
I want this. I dislike depending on rosetta. I want native, and I am saddened that Apple didn't reach out to homebrew or macports to pre-arrange something. It speaks badly of the future, they're so indifferent to the developer experience.

I downvoted your comment. I think this article is spot on for HN, and I think you showed a lack of critical self-awareness questioning its relevance.
I do see a relationship with the current pandemic. Many individuals in my community who believe they have COVID end up testing negative. It is as if the constant deluge of media bombardment is convincing them they are sick but as soon as they test negative they return to life like nothing ever happened.
What is bizarre to me is that I have one google account and on a PC there are relatively few ads and they only occur after watching one or more videos. However, on mobile or a tablet I find that I have ads even before the first video and they are constant (every 10 minutes of video or so) and offer there’s more than one spot in each break... it's unwatchable so I don’t.
People get burned out because they don't have options.

If you were rich and worked a job for the social parts, would you ever burn out? Doubtful, if you get fired, you're rich. If your asked to work extra hard, you don't, because you're rich.

If you're not rich, you can't get fired: you'd lose your income, foreclosure, difficulty feeding your family, no retirement savings, can't afford to fix your car, lose your healthcare, etc. You can't say no.

Debt is the primary driver of the economy in this country and the major reason why people are unhappy. They buy things they can't afford with money they don't have because of marketing and then are trapped in their jobs and treated like garbage.
I do this same thing, except now with USB-C chargers it's even better. Charge my laptop or my phone. There's some great charger bricks that go on sale for ~$10, so I have a lot of those.
The smartass kid would agree with you. Is your claim that some things used to not be political but now literally everything is?
Queued for later.
I don’t agree with that assessment - I evaluate decisions based on what your alternatives are. Riding Caltrain is a much lower fuel intensive act than riding a Hummer, and since you had the choice to do either it reflects on your values.
I think the web browser was developed in an online world of instant communication and broad participation. It was a new paradigm.

Read about how andreesen at uiuc would would get an email and just add the feature.
The voice mobile app has gotten much better (to the point that I switched from Hangouts last year) so this sounds about right. Still impressed I have the same phone number from Google for a decade and a half. Been around long enough that I got 100 custom business cards from the Goog when I signed up.

I'd take it just because it meant I never again had to send out a 'New number!', but being able to search through every text message ive sent or received since 2007 and download voicemails is just more icing.

Totally get people who dont want google to have more of their data, but for those who don't mind, Google Voice is seriously one of the most underappreciated services out there.
Just a quick note than your analysis (here, I don't know about elsewhere) depends on the effectiveness of test prep courses, but those aren't the only advantage well-off student have in the SAT; other advantages, all of which might be more important than coaching, include stuff as simple as "expectations and forcing functions to take the SAT more than one" and as lurid as "phony IEPs to enable the taking of the test over multiple days", which is a thing.

"The SAT isn't gameable" is an extraordinary claim. And "suburban families try hard to game the SAT" is not so much a "claim" as "a fact your own analysis acknowledges". I could be persuaded, but what you've presented here doesn't constitute extraordinary evidence.

(Your other argument in this thread, about the possible Cobra Effect of eliminating the SAT, is much more persuasive).
Implementing Modern Collection Views
Obviously I'm familiar with the definition. If you didn't get that, you should probably read my comment again. It seems like you've somehow decided that people in this thread are arguing with you, but they're not. And anyways, it's a bit silly to get mad at people because they haven't studied information theory.

Define the random variables M for message content and U for the identity of the user. The interpretation of "bits of information" that most people will have is H(M). The correct interpretation in this context is H(U). You seem to be confused about why people are talking about H(M) instead of H(U). But I think people correctly intuit that those aren't independent, so the mutual information I(U;M) = H(U) - H(U|M) is positive. And obviously if you change P(M), you will also change the amount of mutual information. That's why talking about sending fewer headers makes sense.
HN is filled to the brim with petulant morons who really, really want to bury their heads in the sand while the rest of the world gets fucked over. Here "politics" is everything that reminds them of how terrible they are.
Yes, it does. Bitcoin's market cap is ~350b, which is about the same as JPM's market cap, which is exactly what the purported utility aims to replace. Doesn't seem far off to me. Bitcoin aims to make paper money obsolete, which aims to make banks obsolete. Bitcoin is therefore undervalued, assuming it is a valid replacement. $100k per BTC in 5 years is not unreasonable. 5 years ago, if someone said $20k per BTC in 5 years, you would call them crazy.
you'd love the book Conquerors by Roger Crowley
> You heard of Hobby Lobby because they promptly got sued for it.

Hobby Lobby filed the lawsuit that they are famous for. And they won the case? What an ignorant reply.
Pigeons spot cancer as well as human experts (2015)
So they're going to hold USDT until the crash, then re-buy BTC and move that out? Plausible, but it sure seems complicated.
Useful Sudoers Configurations for Setting ‘Sudo’ in Linux
One can only hope, it's a beautiful concept that would make life easier for non Americans consuming a lot of live media produced in the US
The guy who is campaigning against WhiteHat Jr is struggling and being bashed. It's sad that with so much education available for free, parents are falling for this scam
> 1) do you consider variable reference to be an effect because you're getting a value from memory/disk/network? Or is it effectful simply because you're replacing a name with a value somehow? I'd love to understand the point of view here.

To give an example, say you have int* x. When the expression (*x) is used later on, it is the dereference that is effectful. In other words, the expression lacks referential transparency.

Going further, Oleg says that "an expression is effectful if it sends a message to its context". The example he gives is x+1 being impure, since it sends a request to the context to look up the value of x, whereas (λx. x+1) is pure because λ provides a handler for the request to look up the value of x, and the whole expression can be evaluated without sending anything more to the context.

> 2) Relatedly, why do you say that creating a lexical closure is effectful (I assume here that we are storing an immutable memory address, or at least a value which represents a way to reliably find another value in the future), but using it (dereferencing that address/value) is not? I can see why you'd say that creating a dynamic closure is not effectful (the code is essentially unattached to anything at the time of creation and can easily be represented by a pure value), but using it is (it now inhabits a scope and will act differently depending on that scope).

Creating a lexical closure (see 1:22:30 of the video) involves capturing the environment in which the closure was created. As in #1, the effectful part comes from a request to the context, which is collecting the free variables in the body of the lambda and building the closure. OTOH for dynamic closures you can create them without sending any request to the context, but when you apply it you have to request from the context.

The discussion on the Actor model is very relevant to understand what it means for expressions to send requests to contexts.
This is great.

The morale of the story is that it takes a year to figure out that organization-person fit is bad?
Should something like privacy be up for sale to begin with? We as consumers never really got the choice to decide. The internet age quickly arrived and our privacy became a commodity to be glossed over in private policies.
I called guitar center a couple months ago about a potential repair job and the guitar center tech flat out just recommended a great local shop to take my business to instead. "If you come here you will get the work around"
10% tip will get you spit in your food if you ever go back there.

Just FYI.
Doesn't this whole comment depend on me believing that organizations like the Go Programming Language are endorsing Marxism when they post "Black Lives Matter" banners? For that matter, all of my very-well-off Oak Park neighbors? Obviously, they are not doing that. Where does that leave your argument?
I love strats, but you have to play 15 new ones to find a good one in a music store, buying mail order is pretty hit or miss. same with wood on a coarser level - I had to sort through a lot of lumber at our local yard to find the straight pieces with no blemishes, bits missing etc.

you'd think musical instruments above all else would be a key retail buy, it's amazing how badly GC missed the target on this. 'Tryable' retail stock levels are hitting a point of no return in multiple market segments right now, ugly situation
You are correct; he was a Timex Iron Man guy.
How many terrorists have made a mistake forgetting to turn off the hourly alarm beep?
From my own recent experience, I ended up buying a Fender Strat HM (the yellow one), during the early days of the pandemic. First, their physical store - for where I bought the guitar for pickup - didn’t have a record of my purchase. So they had to reverse my charge, then charge me again on the spot so I could take it home.

Second, I got it home, and it was all sorts of wrong. Every single fret had buzz, the neck was warped, and while the guitar “felt” great, it just wasn’t playable especially for a $1300 guitar. I had no choice but to return it.

Then I went to Sweetwater. Completely opposite experience. I ended up buying a 7-string Ibanez RG752M (again, the yellow one), sight unseen. The customer service was absolutely stellar, I got phone calls from two people asking me how and when I’d like to receive it, etc. The guitar came completely and properly set up, ready to play. Sweetwater has a 50-something point setup for all guitars over like $300.

No wonder GC is going under.
Is it viable for every country to produce all of it’s own basic necessities — food, medicine, energy, fresh water, building materials? Is it desirable?

I believe that the US being a net exporter of food, and a net importer of medicine is an acceptable situation. I think that to frame out ‘reliance’ on India and China for medicine ignores China’s ‘reliance’ on the US for soybeans, or India’s reliance on US warships in the Indian Ocean for strategic defense. We are codependent, and that codependency is going to keep us all from killing each other again.
Startups who engage in CSR and virtue signaling are extremely cringeworthy. As an investor, I don't want my investments directing resources to BLM and other charities. Companies should focus on what they were meant to focus on: their product. Let non-profits focus on the other stuff. CSR is a misappropriation of funds.
That feels like there's room for a deep dive, considering they've developed such a reputation for doing it.

* Are their success stories quiet and their failures heavily publicised?

* Are they not as creative/clever at strategy as they could be, resulting in them exhausting options and going for "run into the ground" too early or too frequently?

* Do they pick an unusually large number of unhealthy firms that are prone to this endgame? In which case, why aren't they getting better at due diligence?
Well, I don't want to blame it all on 9/11, but it certainly didn't help.
We technically do not evaluate anything of this nature, without acknowledging that there are greater forces which evaluate evaluators.

Without that belief, what we get instead, is vigilantism (either within the institution, or outside of it.) Preferable to that, is well-accountable and ethically mutual reflection which brings out the best, and roots out the worst in the participants. That is never impossible, as long as we presume accountability beyond immediate verifiability. As Christ said: "for there is nothing hidden which will not be brought to light."

In horror tales of every institution (or individual) is the requirement to self-assess and demand better for oneself. If the CIA has entirely slipped its moorings, it is subject to the countervailing forces which would enlighten its enemies to its demise.

What is more hopeful, is that only various activities have gone rogue. Regardless, only God knows entirely the state of affairs. God does respond. So with love, and a whole lot of grace, we'll see a brighter future for everyone involved.
I am afflicted by (B), which impedes measuring (A).
I upvoted you as I think you make some interesting points, but I hope you don't mind me challenging them a little.

> I'm not talking about lobbying for special treatment - just sane policy as it affects your business.

I wonder what sort of policies a coal company would view as "sane", as it affects their business.

> and therefore that you deserve to be destroyed. (At the moment, in the US, this seems to come mostly from the left

Are you perhaps limiting the scope of your consideration to just "cancel culture"? I don't want to make a whataboutist response, but it's not good to cherry-pick a single mechanism of political oppression (which is disproportionately used by people with a certain political leaning) and miss out other sorts, such as business owners firing employees, or violence by the state against unarmed civilians, or attacks by politically-motivated armed extremists.