skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Lisp Curse essay is an interesting read.

I don't think I agree with its basic conclusion that language flexibility leads to a kind of social problem akin to a "curse."

From what I've seen over my career, both C and C++, which the essay claims are not cursed, have many libraries that don't interoperate well, re-invent wheels, are under documented, solve only part of a problem, and are basically solo/hobby efforts. In every job, the first thing I have to learn is how I'm allowed to write C or C++ at the company, since each provides such a huge surface.

The difference between C/C++ and Lisp/D is, I think, not language flexibility. They are all incredibly complex and flexible languages in their own way. The difference is funding and critical mass. C and C++ persist because companies pay people to use them and to improve them. Or, in terms of the curse essay, companies pay people to cooperate. The result is an enduring dominance. Those languages work better because more people use and improve them, so they stay relevant. Neither Lisp nor D seem to benefit significantly from that, so you have what is left: people without the time or interest in producing truly polished solutions.
I'm old enough to remember going to one of the very first presentations of the Arm architecture in 1985.

As others have said the licensing terms of the Arm ISA prevent this very thing happening and in any event there is no way that even MS could do this given the size of the whole Arm ecosystem.
Algernon's Law: "Any simple major enhancement to human intelligence is a net evolutionary disadvantage." The article applies this to mental states, like the difference between our normal thinking and meditative states.

A partial rebuttal might be that we live in a very artificial environment, and the mental state we walk around in isn't necessarily the same as the typical mental state of a hunter-gatherer. I've taken courses in primitive wilderness survival that emphasized this point pretty strongly.

Some types of meditation can help counteract the effects of modern life. Focusing on the present moment with a lot of awareness of your surroundings, for example, can definitely have survival benefits. A great book that delves into the mental aspects of survival situations is Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why.

(I'm not claiming this has anything to do with sex scandals, it was just a side note the article mentioned. Also I'm not claiming that all forms of meditation have survival benefits.)
> getting a good job at Google is just as competitive as getting a tenure-track position.

From my experience this is not true. I personally know about 10 classmates who either dropped out of the (pure math) PhD or left academia immediately afterwards and ended up at FAANG as generic SWE. They all said that a few months of DS and alg prep was enough.
We all benefit from variety when looking for something specific.

As an example, I play accordion and I like to hear other accordion play songs on YouTube. There may be lots of covers of a popular song I want to learn, but there are rarely many accordion covers, let alone good ones.

So the question is whether you are looking for generic entertainment, or do you take an interest in something specific? Add another search term to a query and the results can thin out pretty quick.

From a professional creator’s point of view (not me), the question is whether these niches have enough money in them to get started and grow from there? And that depends on market conditions. Can people find what they like when it’s not mainstream?
Thanks, that helps.

I had to check quick at a gas station and post this.

For the most part, I took away 27kbps, and it seems the intention is software bit bang.

Sure, it’s not master/slave like LIN, and with an arbitration scheme more like CAN. But, without hardware codec, DMA buffering and interrupts, I feel it’s a lot less useful to me as my embedded projects are already pushing their limits with hardware communication.

Still, while it’s not good for me, I do see utility in a bit bang format for LED, IR, simple RF, etc. This makes sense and seems well thought out.
I do believe the living conditions in North Korea must be harsh, particularly in rural areas, and that many North Koreans suffer malnutrition.

Like you mentioned, there is outside confirmation of these facts.
Agreed, but this was normal in professional pastry cookery. I guess I agree with both of you. The purpose of using exact measurements is to ensure exact reproduction of the product. Not using bakers percentages when you can, takes away from that goal. However, if this had been done, far fewer people would have used the recipes.
It is true that in a rich society such as that of the United States, we produce in absolute numbers more than we can hope to consume. Not necessarily so in nations such as China, India, and many other developing countries.

The opposite state of this is poverty, a condition in which humanity has lived for 99% of its existence. In the modern day, technology and evolution in economic-political systems have enabled us to produce wealth at a large scale, enough to support hundreds of millions of people living with more material comforts than any medieval king. It took a hell of a lot of work to get here.

To argue that "Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world", then, is to put the cart before the horse. Work is precisely the attempt to alleviate ourselves of poverty. Work, coordinated well and magnified in its output by technology, which itself progressed due to a combination of work and the play of creative-minded individuals, creates the wealth we enjoy today.

I think this essay provides too many fancy words and not enough details about how to achieve this utopian vision of a world of all play and no work, in which economically productive activities are perfectly aligned with our human pursuits so as to produce wealth, leisure, and comfort for all.

For example, this following passage, in which he proposes the abolition of the auto industry:

Next we can take a meat-cleaver to production work itself. No more war production, nuclear power, junk food, feminine hygiene deodorant — and above all, no more auto industry to speak of. An occasional Stanley Steamer or Model-T might be all right, but the auto-eroticism on which such pestholes as Detroit and Los Angeles depend on is out of the question. Already, without even trying, we’ve virtually solved the energy crisis, the environmental crisis and assorted other insoluble social problems.

What does this even mean? We need automobiles to get around — to drop kids off at school, to transport food from the farm to the granary to the supermarket, to visit mom and dad's over the holidays. I take issue when this essay hand-waves away these concerns. I'd rather see a proposal for what might alleviate these needs — better public transport? Electric cars? Logistics handled by swarms of flying drones?

I am all for being an optimist, and all for evolving culturally so that we can work more happily and efficiently, and all for employing technology to achieve these things, but this essay isn't it. It would make sense if we lived in the Culture of Iain M. Banks, cared for by hyper-intelligent AI, but that's so far away in the future as to be barely worth considering right now.

As of today, work and a culture of work has produced our rich society. It's also produced its share of problems — rich diseases, soulless office cubicles, environmental degradation — but abolishing work culture is not the answer. The problems you mention of distribution and recycling of surplus is going to be solved with — dare I say it? — more work.
Here's a two-second method to determine whether TSLA is overpriced: currently, their market cap is $659B. The combined caps of Toyota, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, BMW, Honda, General Motors, Ford, and Nissan is only $629B. So unless Tesla is worth $30 billion more than all of those companies combined, either those companies are undervalued, or Tesla is massively overvalued.

Keep in mind, Tesla sold 367,500 cars in 2019, while those other companies sold over 34 million cars, or nearly 10,000% more. I realize that stock prices are based on future profits, and working capital is factored into it, but still, I just don't see the rationale in an ownership stake in Tesla being that much more valuable.
I felt the same for years, but when you really dig into it you can learn a handful of flags that will get you what you want 90% of the time, and you can Go to Google after that set fails you.
Ridiculously useful piece of software, but yeah the docs baffle me more than help me.
I think both you and the parent have missed the point.

The word “loser” is not the colloquial use of the term, and there is no “winner” (despite the confusing quotations above). Here it simply means loser in the economic sense — they produce an outsized amount of value for the company. They may be fully aware of this, and be happy and productive. They are simply unwilling or unable to do what’s necessary to climb the corporate ladder. If they have awareness of this dynamic, then they’re also unlikely to be promoted in middle management, since the sociopaths want people that will be loyal to them and support their agenda.

Similarly “clueless” doesn’t mean they are idiots — simply that they don’t have what it takes to be a sociopath, and aren’t aware of how they are being used. In other words, they are thinking exactly like the parent post — that’s exactly the kind of person the sociopath wants to promote to middle management.

Finally, “sociopath” is an exaggeration, and it doesn’t mean these people are terrible humans with no redeeming qualities. It just means that they are focused on their own outcomes above others, and internally may be lacking in the conscience department.
- RBS is a language to describe the types of Ruby programs.

- TypeProf is a type analysis tool bundled in the Ruby package.

- Ractor is an Actor-model like concurrent abstraction designed to provide a parallel execution feature without thread-safety concerns.

- Fiber#scheduler is introduced for intercepting blocking operations. This allows for light-weight concurrency without changing existing code.

- One-line pattern matching is redesigned. (experimental)

- Endless method definition is added.

- Memory view is added as an experimental feature

- Performance improvements(MJIT)
I’ve been meaning to give something like this a shot to assist in lazy loading large images. Generate a low complexity svg that is hopefully pretty small and just fade in the full image once loaded.
SpaceX wraps up 2020 with Falcon 9 launch of classified NRO satellite
Man, I played me a LOT of Lode Runner back in the day! Apple II+ 48k ram, color monitor and the joy stick he describes.
SQ1 appears to be designed by Qualcomm exclusively for Microsoft.
> This would further entrench them as government-chartered monopolies.

They are going to be entrenched as government-chartered monopolies any way you look at it. ISPs either need a right of way to lay cable or a license to use RF spectrum. Even if you could magically overcome those problems, or are willing to deal with the chaos of removing the applicable regulations, the Internet would become fragmented since the dominant players would freeze competition out of the market. (Recall the olden days of online service providers when everyone's network was independent of everyone else's, and even then it was only regulation of the telephone companies that allowed those service providers to exist.)
That’s Numberwang! Let’s rotate the board
Microsoft collaborated, but the SQ series is an optimized Qualcomm Snapdragon variant: https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/what-is-the-microsoft-...
Am I the only one that would be apprehensive about Big-G's fiber for privacy reasons?
The numbers don’t add up anymore...
I think the poster meant real world wooded forests as an example. As in, the human brain is as distant from this mathematical construct as an actual forest with bears is from decision trees.
Two particular moments comes up to my mind:

- Whole company going downhill and when Jim as co-manager got nervous about another Michael's "brilliant" idea of distracting people from work, he stuns him and audience with "They need this game. Let them have this stupid little game"

- Another dialogue with Jim implying that "That's what she said" lines are more self-conscious than everybody in the office thinks.

Scranton branch having one of or lone best finance numbers across whole company just makes me think Michael knew along what is he doing. This plot was never expanded in the show for obvious reasons.
Better link: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-hunters-dis...
I think you completely miss the point. With cloud tooling, my team is unblocked to spin up the resources we need, manage CI / CD in our unique way that solves our problems, quickly try out serverless if it’s a good model for a given use case, change logging or alerting, get new compute resources like GPUs, etc., all without being blocked by a choke point of in house engineering limitations and staffing limitations and political in-fighting over who owns what and who gets to define how abstract vs purpose-specific the tooling will be.

You toss out “build a good CI/CD pipeline” like that’s just some localized, solvable problem, and it’s exactly that lack of imagination and lack of understanding about the true multitude of use cases that causes this problem in the first place.

I agree “serverless” isn’t a panopoly solution to everything, but externalizing and democratizing all infra tools to cloud vendors is a major transformative solution that is worth a lot of money and solves a lot of problems.

For example, if someone like you had any leadership influence in my company’s infra org, I’d be trying to spend money on cloud tools just to get away from your authority as fast as I could, and I would be 1000% correct to feel that way and would end up with much healthier tool solutions and less blockages on use-case-specific delivery requirements by doing a giant spin move around your myopic perspective.
Its cli became so complex to account for all its use cases which could have been replaced by a config file at this point.
> The power test tools they were using were unreliable and approximate, but good enough to ensure this rule of thumb power requirement. When the first test chips came back from the lab on the 26 April 1985, Furber plugged one into a development board, and was happy to see it working perfectly first time.

> Deeply puzzling, though, was the reading on the multimeter connected in series with the power supply. The needle was at zero: the processor seemed to be consuming no power whatsoever.

> As Wilson tells it: “The development board plugged the chip into had a fault: there was no current being sent down the power supply lines at all. The processor was actually running on leakage from the logic circuits. So the low-power big thing that the ARM is most valued for today, the reason that it's on all your mobile phones, was a complete accident."

> Wilson had, it turned out, designed a powerful 32-bit processor that consumed no more than a tenth of a Watt.

https://www.theregister.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech...
I worked IT at a newspaper a few years back and we instituted a strict "never HP" (I believe we had one HP printer that got grandfathered in) policy, so strict in fact that when we were looking to upgrade our fleet of laptops the company president (in his defense he was trying to be helpful) walked into our office area and told my manager he found a great deal on a palette of HP laptops. My manager, myself, and two co-workers all spontanously shouted "No!" in such perfect unison we considered forming an acapella group just by channeling our hatred of HP. The president backed out the door quietly and avoided eye contact with us for the rest of the day.
Interesting that a big chunk of her money on each vehicle is from a few videos and 1 medium article (I think $18k from 1 medium article, the rest earned around $300). Definitely a power law.

This is still a "hits" business even for those with 1.5m followers.
Not a problem. Thank the EU for capping the interchange fees, as well. Processing cards here is a lot cheaper than in other parts of the world.
I guessing it's because Webrtc is near real-time whereas transcoding to HLS would add latency. However the advantage of HLS is that you can offload the serving of the content to a CDN or a Http server and scale horizontally. Whereas serving more webrtc clients would require fatter/bigger webrtc server.

Please note I am only basing my opinion base on what I have read on HN.
To add another anecdatapoint, I had exactly the same thought. It kind of makes sense; I think of ADHD as being a matter of intrinsically-driven attention rather than motivated attention.
> I often wondered if it's just because these folks want free lunch and some socialization.

In over 50% of the careers I have had in the US I can honestly say that it was more about the ceremony of "work" that it was ever about the work. So much of this is the middle-management dilemma where as a producer/IC I find myself more worried about the outward appearance of my work vs. the actual substance of it.

> I don't spend my workdays socializing

I'd advise against this in most places. I've done the whole "work not socialize" thing and it comes up in 1:1's as anti-social behavior. I'm not saying I disagree with you _at all_ but I've learned to go through the motions and begrudgingly participate in "dev beers" at 2:30pm on a Friday, or Go-karting, or the lavish meals... I've had to go to dance clubs for my job, I've been pressured to go to strip clubs (never went), I've been pushed to perform for talent shows... It infuriates me. It makes me mad enough to punch a wall. I am here to work. My culture is work. Let me work. I am a god-damned engineer - let me perform the work I am paid to do, then let me go home afterward...

Socializing is largely the new American work culture. It's pathetic, and it's a bubble that will pop. We didn't get to the god-damned moon knocking off at 2:30pm on a Friday for "dev beers"... =|

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Also, as a drop-out I totally feel you. Self-learning was the only way to getting a successful career after a very toxic "education" experience I went through in the middle-of-nowhere Iowa. I legitimately do not know if I would be OK if it wasn't for the internet. It allowed me to self-learn whenever I could, and allowed me a platform/audience to hone skills.
That would mean 1 out of every million servers is not x64, which seems hyperbolic when amazon is making ARM servers and power chips are still out there.
Acorn was not obscure. It was a household name, with TV ads and such.

There's this nice TV show about Sinclair and Acorn from BBC 4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXBxV6-zamM (Micro Men)
"For example when you make music you are competing with every song ever recorded in the 20th century"

Technically true, but changing moods and fashion mean that relatively few contemporary people will spend their life listening to Fats Domino. Only the very best of the past has even chance to be heard.
They suck. There ya go!
I make systems performant and reliable by eliminating their lock-free queues.

To be more precise... I like to use single-writer ring buffers. (Technically you could say they are a sort of lock-free queue. But there is little to go wrong in a ring buffer.) Mainly, I reduce coupling enough that taking the occasional mutex is not a noticeable drain. Explicit mutex locking is less prone to obscure heisenbugs than lock-free techniques.

What I rip out are queues treated as if "lock-free" coupling were free. It's not free; it is at least 50 cycles, each interaction. Nowadays you can get a hell of a lot of work done in 50 cycles. Each "lock-free" operation engages bus-level interactions more like a mutex than not, so it doesn't buy what you hope.

To reduce coupling, you increase batching. Instead of one event per interaction, do ten, or fifty.

Most "lock-free" implementations you find are not portable off of x86 systems, which have a much more forgiving memory model than, say, ARM. You think you were careful, but the system is better at finding your mistakes than you are.
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/list.htm...
Some people use backpropagation and gradient decent interchangeably. It's really confusing though
I'll add some more from the article, then, repeating the initial quote in full and then carrying on.

The Safer has sat off our coast, abandoned and rapidly decaying, for the last five years. Our official government-in-exile, led by the useless President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, claims ownership of the vessel but is squabbling with the Houthis over who gets its load of rapidly degrading crude, estimated to be worth $30m. To make matters worse, Donald Trump is thinking of officially declaring the Houthis as terrorists, just as they were on the verge of allowing UN access to the ship.

(This was from PE No. 1537, cover date 18 December 2020.)
Let's not kid ourselves; an OS with an advertising ID is an assault on people's privacy and basic computing freedoms. The android situation is much worse, yes, but apple is still giving in to surveillance capitalism and nothing they do short of staying away from it can be regarded as a "privacy protection". Their advertising ID endorses surveillance, it does not protect you from it.
A futures "buy" is not an actual buy. Its an agreement to buy at some agreed price at some point in the future. So they entered into agreements to sell during the day, then effectively covered that commitment by entering into agreements to buy at the end of the day.
My guess would be Nextcloud put a lot of load on both CPU and disk (for thumbnail generation, file encryption, etc.) making Raspberry Pi which lack performance in both front not very suitable for the task.

I tried running Nextcloud on Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) a while ago, and hitting performance issue on SD card very fast (initial DB import take very long). I tried to solve this by moving all Nextcloud data into iSCSI disk but RAM & CPU became a problem once I started adding more files. After a week or so, I tore everything down and went back to a VPS instance.

It might works better with Raspberry Pi cluster on Kubernetes, though. (This very Raspberry Pi is now happily running as a DVB streaming server.)
I have Ryzen 9 4900HS.

according to that link, support for Ryzen 9 4xxx began in build 2004. It says even build 1909 doesn’t have support for Ryzen 9 4xxx only Ryzen 3/5/7 3xxx. Confusing because 1909 definitely worked ok since my laptop came with it and ran okay.
And just like fashion, what's "in" is driven by marketing.
Earth2.io HKSDN9BQFD
Don't day trade with your career
Yes, but look at the data. There are industrialized countries with less than 1/3 the per capita death rate of the US. Maybe you can’t ‘win’ but clearly you can do a better job than others. It’s a stretch and arguably fear-mongering to equate sensible policy to reduce death with authoritarianism.
I think I'd need to have serious craving for carbohydrates in order to bring myself to eat 2-month-old bread.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/seasonal-affective-disorder-sa...
I remember in the 90s when Microsoft, Apple and RealNetworks pushed hard for their own codecs and tools. IMHO those where dark times for digital video. ffmpeg and Xiph.org played a large part in changing that.
It's reassuring that you've independently come to the same conclusion I did.

And in the absence of the NSO option, my current thought on the matter is that they hold no value unless there's an exit while I'm working there, and I'll want to get an accountant who knows how to exercise it all properly.
The M1 has undocumented extensions.

https://twitter.com/dougallj/status/1339934291929694210
Is that because you have some sort of big discount while under contract?

Once your contract is up, it should be $60/year more for unlimited using your own modem.

Unlimited with your own modem is $30/month.

Unlimited with their modem is $14/month for the modem/router + $11/month for unlimited = $25/month.