skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our IT guy told us, that (about 10pcs) the Dell machines he ordered (T5810 or something similar) a couple of weeks ago will ship in July earliest(although the online shops states better delivery times). So there could be some shortage too or at least logistical problems...
I’m not an economist so my naïve reasoning is:

1. Is Apple using their platform to promote their services? Yes.

2. Is Apple making it harder for competition to compete on their platform? Yes. Someone mentioned Apple Music is not a subject to 15-30% fees while Spotify is.

3. Are companies building platforms to do exactly that? Also yes. There’s no point in building platform and not using the benefits of controlling it.

So where does that leave us? Apple is doing exactly as you’d expect it to do. Government will try to restrict that, that’s what it’s for. What I don’t get is why people are so emotional about it. It’s all out in the open, why pretend Apple isn’t using their platform ownership to undermine completion? Why get upset that they do? People perceive this situation as black and white, nothing in between.
Our first century of nonintervention was unquestionably based on the thought that entangling ourselves in European wars would drain us dry. Saying an element of that doesn't still remain is just incorrect, it is broadly the same idea as "Make America Great Again."

There is a vast difference between "drain america dry" and "stay out of the war to profiteer". Vast. Immense. The motives are entirely different.

I cannot continue this conversation, when you keep making these sorts of assertions. There's no common ground. Nothing we can realistically discuss, for, you aren't even discussing the same things when you reply.

Outside of all of this, bear in mind I'm a Canuck. No, I'm not all "rah-rah America', nor is my viewpoint skewed by propaganda. You guys drive me nuts at times. I frankly view your country as a brother, one I wish well for, yet often sit gobsmacked, and even sad, when you I see how my brother is behaving.

I think you're trying to discuss things, with the view that I'm going to respond to US political talking points. Or perhaps culture viewpoints.

Anyhow.

Have a good one. We're not going to agree here, so there's no point.
You are right. However, when Google blocks the creator, most of their audience will know how to find them.
The thing is, you assumed what I believe. I'm actually in favor of higher minimum wages and indexing to costs. But the feedback-loop nature of the economic system, or any feedback system (where future output numbers of the system depend on previous outputs), must be acknowledged and accounted for, or else you will, mathematically, get exponential growth and/or oscillation.

I also have a lot of family who currently live just fine making less than $15/hr. Their employers (small businesses) would have to raise prices (or go out of business, or both), which would raise costs, which would raise the CoL index, which would raise future minimum wages in a feedback cycle, if there is not some compensating factor in how wages and prices are set.
There are no doubt some systems still running under emulation doing the same thing as they were 40 years ago. The software might even be maintained. But the truth for decades now. CP/M is dead. Long live CP/M!

It's just hobbyists now. One hacker ported his game to a Kaypro under CP/M a couple years ago: http://www.chrisfenton.com/dd9-kaypro-edition/

Much of the focus is on porting CP/M to whatever new or old Z80 system someone has built or found. Speaking of which... CP/Mish is an attempt to bring all the free software CP/M tools together. It is to CP/M as Linux is to UNIX, or FreeDOS is to MS-DOS. A mostly complete, improved, libre reimplementation: https://github.com/davidgiven/cpmish

RunCPM is a CP/M Z80 virtual machine under modern OSes for development etc. https://github.com/MockbaTheBorg/RunCPM

In terms of recent new programs, here are some pointers if you wanted to write something yourself:

Also written by the maintainer of the CP/Mish project (and not CP/M specific) is Cowgol. Alpha quality. But it's a self-hosted Pascal/Ada-like language with compiler. Runs on 8-bit systems, at least theoretically. It is written, of course, entirely in Cowgol: https://github.com/davidgiven/cowgol

Millfork is another new language which targets CP/M systems, among others. It's a whole-program optimizing cross-compiler for a language somewhat lower level than C, with properties that make it very nice to compile for 8-bit systems like no recursion, and no automatic promotion to 16-bit integers in type handling: https://github.com/KarolS/millfork

There's some work on a Z80 target for FreePascal. I don't think there's CP/M specific support, so there's a project idea: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Z80

SDCC supports the platform with C surprisingly well. I wouldn't call it rock-solid but compared to the above toys it is an industrial quality compiler for the Z80. In fact, C seems to be the most common actual language for hobbyist and the little remaining serious Z80 development, probably ahead of assembly. If it just reads and writes the terminal and can fit in about 60 KB, then a port is probably straightforward.
Yeah, but YouTube has ads that can pay the content creator. PeerTube doesn't.
I will repeat this, write test first, possibly using TDD.
If you follow the rules of tdd you will have tests documenting the code.
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Also... While cute, I found the examples of storing and retrieving images of The Simpsons characters not very informative about what goes on in that weight matrix that stores patterns.

Edit: the linked pytorch implementation looks interesting, these layer types promise pretty incredible things https://github.com/ml-jku/hopfield-layers
I want to see what statistics management are looking at where going into an office is better than the current WFH arraignment. Tech stocks are at all time highs with the current work situation. I'm personally never working full time in an office again. I can only see an office being good for junior engineers.
I cannot say that I did not have "what if" thoughts after my first child was born - I was questioning my ability to be a father, both mentally and physically, and this was leading to "what if" scenarios rising in my head.

We had our first and second child in the foreign country with no support net you usually have when living near your family. And first birth was very difficult for my spouse, pretty much making her unable to do anything but feed our newborn for the first 6 months. This period in my life was very tough. And mostly because I discovered things about myself I would not want to discover, how weak human being I am and how much do I have to work on myself to improve. And how hard it is to improve, even a little bit. Things I learned about myself are those things that make me think that maybe it would be better if I never got married, but in the same time if I never had kids I would not realize how much work I have to put to become a better person. It's twisted situation.

This is not a therapist session but sometimes I wonder about errors my parents made - but errors I could see only after having my own children.
No. But you can advertise something in your own videos as people often do nowadays.
>but there are real consequences to doing so

What consequences ? Breaking ToS can get your account suspended if you even need an account for doing this, not sure what else breaking the TOS really implies.

I don't know if Google can claim ownership of this data as it's customer generated and publically available.
Does that distinction really matter if you're already here in the US? Where else do you go?
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> Get your shit out of YouTube and any other Google product.

Any video hosting service that you will move to will behave in a very similar ways, in order to avoid getting sued out of existence by the media lobby.

If you want to solve this problem, the solution can only come from dismantling the parasitic parts of the media industry. That requires political action.
Ah, you're right. Turns out he was found guilty. My mistake.

I would edit the comment, but it doesn't look like I can now.
> The real problem here is that mental illness still carries too much stigma. Some people are so resistant to accepting a mental health diagnosis and treatment that they will go to great lengths to reframe their problems in physical terms, thereby dodging what they feel (incorrectly) would be an admission of mental weakness.

I feel like suggesting that someone would try to ‘reframe’ their condition to avoid stigma inadvertently perpetuates stigmas by reinforcing the false dichotomy of mental vs physical illness.

Cognition is an extremely complex and poorly understood physical system, but a physical system nonetheless. There’s no separate ethereal plane where consciousness lives, no great uniqueness to its dysfunction. It’s not surprising to me that some people would introduce their own worse pseudoscience when physicians claim their problems are not physical problems, and I think that can happen regardless of stigma.

I believe we would do well to stop cleaving ‘mental illness’ (and, you know, ‘dentistry’) into a separate category from any other physical health problem. These conditions are physical conditions, just with such complexity that we’re not currently able to measure, understand, or treat them with the same level of precision as others. This sucks, but at least it’s honest.
Let's use a thought experiment. If a car was able to get 3 more MPG by forcing the driver to get out and manually hand-crank the car every time it needed to start, would you place images of drivers getting out of their car and hand-cranking it prominently in your advertising? Of course not.

The same concept applies to turbochargers. "We got 3 MPG better by substantially increasing the pressure in your engine, and this will wear it out more over time" is not something that should appear in marketing.
With respect, you save time making 30 minute videos, but everyone else then wastes time watching your video looking for info.

I prefer it if people just write it down so I can ctrl-f or find it in a web search and get what I need instead of sitting through your videos.

For general "welcome to Team X!" onboarding or training though I agree that videos have benefits. But for day to day knowledge and docs I couldn't think of anything worse, although it seems to work for you and it is popular on YouTube for some things (e.g. Unity game dev content seems be be pretty much 100% video based - if I just need to know how to set up something in the UI like character rigging or wheel physics etc, I often have to sit through 30min videos to find the 15 seconds where they show what buttons to click etc - if it was on a web page I could just skip right to it)
To be honest, I don't much like Civ VI on my iPad. Its not a matter of performance but the interface, as well as the game is just conducive to be played with a touchscreen. My opinion of course is biased since I play a lot of Civ (1000+ hours on Steam) on my PC, but not at all on the iPad.

I also imagine that most people who'd buy civ on the app store are like me: looking for a more convenient way to play the game, already used to it on PC, and find the ipad offering quite dissatisfying.
What's the idea? See that they built an MVP but have angry customers that want to switch over to your solution?
I feel like ranting here, but I'll keep it short.

Documentation is a task that is never trivial, but it can be made bloody hard, or not, if you optimise for that. If you ignore documentation as a priority you're optimising for everything else, which implicitly breaks documentation.

But it doesn't have to be impossible, if the trivial aspects as designed to be minimal and the impact on documentation is allowed to dominate other impacts.

https://rant.gulbrandsen.priv.no/udoc/trolltech-documentatio... is relevant, even if most documentation isn't developer documentation. (It's about the Qt developer documentation, which IMO is/was the best developer documentation ever written and maintained by a small team, and no big team has ever done much better either. The hard thinking and work on that was mine.)

The key is that if documentation has such a low status that any other consideration can override it, the result will suck. And if documentation has such a low status that the writing tools suck, so will the result.
Purposefully inducing the "out of body experience" (whether it's imaginary is besides the point) is almost always accompanied by this rare roaring sound during the transition moment. I guess that most people freak out and snap back to the normal awake state. Edit: I find the wiki article describing the "problem" highly entertaining. It reminded me of a quote (from that gervais principle book probably) that the modern healthcare manufactures well adjustedness, i.e. they try to square peg everything unusual into their rigid grid of normalcy and if something unusual doesn't fit the square hole, the healthcare system doubles down with rough chemicals.
Yes all of these might happen, but you would be also pissed if you were in a rush and someone in front of you in, let's say, McD or Subway didn't know what or how to order. (Or you were their server)

Yes, UX is important, yes be patient with people who might not get it at the first time, but I see situations like:

- Your app is very specific and it shouldn't be used by people outside a certain domain field. Then some idiot downloads it and gives 1 star because he can't figure it out. This is the kind of person that calls traditional sphygmomanometers "dumb".

- If you build a more idiot proof system the world comes up with a better idiot. I've seen reviews on Amazon complaining that a certain size of item was "small". Conveniently the review indicated the chosen size and guess which one was it between multiple sizes? (The smallest one of course)
Can you give an example what will happen if states do not use standardized tests?
Only 30 percent of the USA travels abroad.
Touching an interesting point.. maybe doc is just an ad-hoc rewrite in a different language. Maybe writing your program in different languages can refine the program to the point everything is clear.
My experience so far when I wrote documentation for some pieces that I though needed it:
- Nobody asked for it
- Nobody reads it
- Nobody reviews it
- Nobody updates it
- It takes me over a day to write so I feel quite guilty wasting the time
- It is often not clear were I should locate it (as code comments? , in markdown file in repo? In knowledgebase wiki? Some other pile of corporate docs?)

When I talked to my successor about some piece of code a year later he told me how hard it was to refactor and (jokingly) that they pissed of a client breaking a bunch of features while refactoring it.
I mentioned the documentation about it, but apparently he did not even notice it existed (seemed also not interested in it).

I guess my fault for not just saving it as markdown in our repo, but instead saving it in a document in our knowledge base (as was according to protocol).
It would help if people read them. I write good docs and I often wonder why, as I have to endless redirect inbound queries to the doc. It's ok for my team, they learn, but it's annoying that the whole org never reads anything.
I've never built a PC. I expect the crytpocurency bubble to collapse because my tech ignorant accountant friend asked what I know about building a crypto mining rig.

What should I read to prepare myself to take advantage of the cheap used high end hardware that will hit the market do build a Windows or Linux system for my own pleasure.
https://www.monkwhocode.com/2021/05/coding-interview-questio...
Of course I want people who care about modernizing code to come in and modernize my code (such as upgrades to newer language versions). Why should the burden be distributed when it can be concentrated among experts?

I leverage type systems and write tests to catch any mistakes they might make.
Think of it as a specialized systems engineering process, but with people. Sociologists are good at that.
what a world to live in
>"The number of entrepreneurs who have second and third companies"

If that were true, I would expect each next conpany to be much more succesfull as the person accumulates capital, network and skills.

Instead what I've seen (and i do not study this as my day job) is that someone has a very successfull startup, and then creates a few 'meh' companies.

Peter Thiel never replicated his success, Elon's Boring Company and Hyperloop are unimpressive, Mark Zukerberg or Blly G never surpassed their initial success.

This leads me to conclude that with the right skill, funds and connections you can create a business, but to have explosively growing startup is really not a repeatable process
Interesting, what position are the people in that told you this?
I‘ve only heard this from middle management at my company.

Software project‘s actually have less delay than usual. Don‘t get me started on why every project is ‚late‘. We‘re not even allowed to work overtime while we‘re at home.

We do see problem‘s with new hires though. They have a harder time integrating into their team.
Great idea, I'd just recommend letting people filter out games.
Agreed, but this is a prescriptive piece. It’s not inconceivable someone trying to become a good software engineer would be convinced by articles like this one. Doubtful this particular specimen gets any traction; singling out the author with more detailed criticism feels unnecessarily cruel.

Generally, many software engineers work on stuff that affect life, limb, or livelihood. My belief is we have to hold ourselves to a higher standard than “I think this thing, I have no proof, now everybody do it.” Famous names have made careers doing this (sometimes badly contradicting themselves along the way). I find it to be deeply counterproductive.
Maybe the adequate counteraction is to file DMCA claims against Google itself. Like the German newspapers did. Google News copies their headlines and intro. And fotos.

Or Australian news. Google News copies everything.

Or Google Search. Googles copies everything. Text, fotos, original work, derivative work. Nobody needs to go into museums anymore. Google has it. Nobody needs go into cinemas anymore. Google has it.

Youtube is full of copyright violations, and has no adequate support mechanism to handle claims and violations, as we saw in this example. They are policing themselves, the biggest thieve of all.
Hord Guitar Repair and Custom Shop is really good.

https://www.facebook.com/hordguitars/
Sure, but they don't scrape anyone who opts out
> And put your content where?

Vimeo? Peertube? Facebook? Self hosted website? Anywhere?
Pretty sure it was about politics, because some employees felt it was an identity politics issue and the list of funny names would lead directly to holocaust. DEI issues were also directly mentioned in the blog posts.
Most of the Reformation was about not believing in the divine rights of kings, and the entire concept (not rightly understood here, but not going into it) was not universal anyway. In example, angle saxon kings (where english, "anglo-is" comes from, were elected.
Related: one of the de-facto netlist formats (what comes out of the synthesis tool like Yosys or Synplify Pro) is EDIF [1] which represents the design as S-Expressions. If you use Xilinx tools, the *.dcp files it generates are just ZIP archives with one of these files inside.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDIF
Software engineers don't do it because lead devs don't enforce it and lead by example. It's not hard. Failure comes from the top down.
That is a lot harder to do, and only the most successful content creators will be able to find sponsors on their own. In addition, that is a lot of extra work for a small content creator.
PG went too far off the deep end and is now living a bubble of his own. From his perspective, everyone who doesn't buy into his wisdom is likely a hater. Success becomes its own kind of blindness.
Why would it need ftl?

Aren’t all the doublings local?
A basic desktop plotter that spoke HP-GL couldn't do that. You couldn't tell it to just go plot a pie chart. It did have an arc primitive, but you had to specify the radius, color, start and end angles, and whether the arc was filled. You could build a basic pie chart out of several such arcs. There was also a label primitive, but only one font (variable sizes though). So if you had a fancy font you had to tell the plotter to draw it with simple line segments and arcs.

That said, most professional graphics software knew how to break down their elaborate output into HP-GL primitives with an appropriate output driver for the plotter. So few users actually had to do this unless they were talking to the plotter directly through a BASIC program or something.
On one hand there is Ansys. It’s a Frankenstein’s monster of a software suite for numerical simulation comprising several tools that have been acquired over the years. It’s frightfully expensive and there’s no incentive to make it more usable as there’s limited competition.

Then there’s OpenFOAM which is a fantastic open source alternative. It’s entirely command line based but there are UI derivatives and cloud based versions (SimScale). However it’s a nightmare of disjointed code, difficult to build and heavy on dependencies. You spend all your time dealing with endless problems related to defining simple geometries in the basic BlockMesh tool and then dealing with and compiling various solvers. It’s a research grade tool and not a polished piece of software. I won’t go into the various versions with incompatible differences.

Getting the most basic stuff working is tedious and frustrating in both.

After a few years of this masochism you just get on with it. However, when you are trying to guide students through the software for their final year project they spend about two thirds of their time just figuring out how to get something simple running and then never want to touch CFD ever again.

Then there’s Blender where I can install it in seconds and set up a simple flow simulation with a straightforward workflow. Sure the result is not remotely accurate but that’s just the solver, there is no reason for the complexity of the workflow in Ansys or OpenFOAM other than it was designed by (Mechanical) Engineers who know nothing about good software design.
It ranks #31 in %age of population fully vaccinated, and #11 in percentage of population at least partially vaccination. But at just under 12m, CA has administered far more vaccinations than any other state.
Haven't people changed their behavior though? Avoiding going outside, having fewer diversity in social interactions but longer durations, and indoors.

There is definitely evidence for vitamin D, it's odd this is still not yet widely acknowledged, I can't say I reviewed the research myself but credible people have and have been spreading the information. I've definitely heard of some governments having taken measures for prevention with vitamin D, but there are also some results if administered early enough after infection.

Vitamin D is essential for immune system function, but the wider picture is more complex with high vitamin D levels also correlating with better nutrition (diets higher in cholesterol, which is essential for hormone synthesis - is generally lower in people having severe forms), better immune system function (infections deplete vitamin D), and even activity levels (spending more time outside).
Do you have a particular timestamp where you're hearing that? To me it sounds like he's pronouncing it the same way that Stallman does.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK52v6bCPvg