skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first glance, the paper seems to be written by competent people, but the 'related research' section is rather shallow. How is what the authors have developed more than "yet another language"?

I don't want to be too critical, though, it probably can't hurt to work on something new without dragging along all the baggage of the past. Still, it feels a bit strange from an academic perspective.
The Mighty model is timesharing CPUs. At least 80% of the time my computer isn't even used. And when I use it, I doubt average load is over 25%. So the Mighty model has a 20x utilization advantage by those numbers.

That should easily support twice the peak CPU power for me when I need it.

Another thing is that the Mighty CPUs will (presumably) be upgraded continuously, while my laptop CPU gets no faster after purchase. If that makes me only buy a new laptop every 4 years instead of 2, I've saved a lot of money and hassle.

I'm not saying this means Mighty will conquer the world. But there are reasonable arguments behind the model. Especially if you assume bandwidth will keep improving.
The alternative Art. 3 No. 2b and Recital 24 do not have such a restriction.
No worries; thanks! :)
That is indeed one of their premise. However that also has, perhaps unforeseen, implications. To start with, their VMs have to be at least one step better than the end consumer's machine. Can they do it without increasing their price? Secondly, there's no guarantee that developers will overwhelm even Mighty's cloud resources?

All that said, it's worth noting that the first set of customers seem super impressed. So maybe Mighty are on to something.
I think there's a very strong analogy between the Copernican model vs Ptolemaic and computer languages (for example) - you can have something like C which has obvious defects (grant this for the argument, substitute something else if you like), but a replacement like Rust isn't taking on just C, but the entire ecosystem around C and all the tooling and knowledge therein.

Similarly the Copernican model was "more correct" depending on how you look at it (currently we model everything relative to everything else, the earth and sun "orbit" around a midpoint that is inside the surface of the sun but not the exact center, for example) but it provided WORSE predictions than the Ptolemaic model of the time.

And this had real practical implications in the technology of the day - navigation charts, etc, analogous to trying to use new tooling and finding it doesn't support aspects the old tooling did.
You can get more tax breaks for planting > 6 fruit trees, and an additional break if you get a forester to survey your woodlot and they find species on a protected list! There are also incentives for putting in wetlands/ponds and grassland.
Not to mention the privacy concerns of allowing someone else’s machine to proxy all of your web requests.
While the Youtube purges did follow some obvious political lines, most of them were nuts. The only reason you go to Bitchute is that Youtube gave you the boot so that's their niche right now. I think these companies are trying to position themselves to be in a good place if these platforms ever trigger a more mainstream exit. But the fringe content makes them highly unpalatable so good luck. This is why I won't sink a penny into these sites right now despite my issues with Youtube, Facebook ect.

This may provide Bitchute with some diversity of content. I think this counts as a fringe community just not one that's all American right wingers. It remains to be seen if these communities are compatible (one group calling the other one "sand ****ers" in the comments might be an issue since Bitchute doesn't censor anything).
I wonder if there are more brick or wooden buildings that are around thousand years old. Concrete the Romans had 2000 years ago did last, but that technology was lost. Most buildings I know about that are between 500 and 1000 years are made of wood. Of course the wars we have had in Europe since then might have had something to do with how many old houses we have
JWTs are security time bombs in general, but Go has a standard mechanism for constant time comparisons: https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/subtle
> Gaps between contracts are desirable! Having a whole summer off to live on your accumulated war chest and chill out, it's amazing.

If you can do that, that's amazing. Unfortunately many contractors fall into the "if I don't work I'm losing money" mentality and never stop. Then they start converting everything to how many days it cost them to earn and try to never spend money. I've seen it so many times and it's so unhealthy. Strangely it seems to mostly affect people who do get stupid-high rates.

The most absurd case was a contractor guy in a big corp at lunch with employees from the same team - he was pulling 3x our employee rate equivalent and complaining how he can't afford to take any days off or he'd be "losing" his daily rate.
A very smart man, PG himself, once said [0]:

> I actually worry a lot that as I get "popular" I'll be able to get away with saying stupider stuff than I would have dared say before.

PG started writing essays about what he knows well (programming, start ups), then about things he knows a bit (painting) and then stuff like this, or his essays on economic policy. In any case, he predicted his own future quite well.

[0] quoted here https://idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm from there http://lemonodor.com/archives/001091.html#c8508
> libc and the kernel are a pair of shoes.

Not really. The kernel obviously is compatible with older versions of libc, but glibc is also compatible with older kernel versions (down to 3.2 for the latest version), and it even attempts to emulate some system calls if your kernel doesn't support them. You've quite some freedom to mix versions.
It’s not that different? That’s why the dot com bust happened
So... when you're looking at a job ad, what words are you looking for that tell you a place has good engineering culture?

I'm getting that 'agile' is not one of those words, but what words are?
>Intelligence is an instrinic property of really-existing physical systems

Why are human brains real, which are just meat full of electricity, but computer brains cannot be real, which are just metal full of electricity?

>Only organic material has demonstrated the relevant short-time and long-time properties for intelligence.

I would argue: so far. We didn't start with Ultra-high-definition televisions. Grandpa had a tv that was barely discernible as a picture, and probably caused massive cancer. Now I have a high def screen in my pocket.

>What the ad companies have been selling, and researchers peacocking, isn't "AI".

I do agree with this, but I certainly do not know enough about it to speak intelligently.

I guess what I'm saying is, your argument comes across as - we can't do it right now, so it must be impossible. That just smacks of being wrong.
On the other hand, one of the things I like so much about Overwatch and TF2 is the importance of mobility and crazy movement patterns - with some characters you can be flying around the map, ending up in odd places, and characters usually have enough HP to be in a good fight with someone when they land.

By contrast CS offers nothing like this - movement is always strictly along the ground/ladders/stairs etc, and gunfights are more like who saw who first. It just feels boring to play in comparison - sure the tactics are interesting, but there’s nothing like the feeling of freedom you get from some other games.

I’d like there to be more of a focus on games that are fun to play, in terms of movement and combat mechanics just feeling awesome. Horizon Zero Dawn is another great example of making combat awesome.
Sony’s entire APS-C storyline is a bit fuzzy.

(Honestly, Canon and Nikon don’t exactly tell a coherent story there either…)

It’s really unclear if they ever want to fully flesh out the lens line for that sensor size, and they don’t seem to have much enthusiasm for the line. Honestly, they seem to just want to sell full-frame.
Scotland already had a ‘once in a lifetime’ referendum on leaving the U.K. and chose to remain.
Reminder that "bourgeoisie" means "the middle class". Most of us here on HN are bourgeoisie or higher. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with being from the middle class.

There is nothing fundamentally wrong with government people being middle class either, in an ideal economy, bourgeoisie is the most common kind of citizen.
Because a scam product will lie to you in order to look like a healthy and useful product. If you ignore the hints that it is a scam (that it is a cryptocurrency project, where 90% or more of all projects are, in fact, scams), you will be more likely to fall for the lies.
> what are some examples of the top 10 hardest to explain ones?

The Nimitz 2004 incident taken as a whole seems to be in a category by itself in terms of how difficult it is to explain.
Scala for example is statically typed and had a REPL from day 1.

However, when using a language with a great typesystem, the need for a REPL is just much less. You mostly don't need to try things out because the types guide you. Therefore these languages might have a REPL and it might be useful, but REPL-driven is not really necessary.

> I always wish that it would become unnecessary to have to choose between stability and extensibility

Stability, extensibility, low language-complexity. Pick 2.
I think he genuinely believes these issues are much broader than a single company. So he wants to encourage discussion about the general issue, instead of sparking even more unproductive, repetitive argument about a single company which would overshadow the broader and more interesting issue he sees.

(As we can see here, where a quarter of the comments are debating the business model of Mighty.)
My favourite type of dismissal is:

"X is a stupid idea that nobody asked for and it will never even work. Besides we already have Y[1], so this is nothing new."

[1] Where Y is some product that foreshadows the functionality of X and is already successful among some set of users, although has some incidental limitations that prevent its growth
You wrote almost exactly the same thing as the other person who replied. I have to ask (both you and jameshart): What makes you so defensive of Agile? What benefit have you seen it bring? Truly curious, not trying to bait anybody here. My experience with Agile—except when another engineer and I basically stealthed rapid development into a company with 12-month release cycles in the mid-2000s—has been overwhelmingly negative. 45-minute “standups,” major projects given 3 points, every negative stereotype bandied about on HN is something I’ve experienced.
If we can talk about the primary use cases for color temperature changes, then we can design appropriate experiments. If vendors create features to reduce eye strain, would it expose them to liability? http://dylanmulvin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Dylan-Mulv...

> By treating them as a form of media prophylaxis, night modes can be understood as attempts to normatively disentangle a complex knot of untimely light, inflexible labor conditions, the convergence of work and leisure in portable screens, and the difficulty of engineering restful spaces and times ... By shifting and atomizing responsibility in a device interface, night modes leave only the individual user as accountable for the management of their own pain and discomfort. By transferring the duty of care to individuals and away from institutions, device manufacturers can tacitly protect themselves from accusations of negligence through the selection and propagation of new default settings.
I did not use Paperlike. I used a generic matte screen protector off of Amazon. I had used the matte screen protector for a year and then took it off and got used to the glass feel.
That why I can’t stand contracting. If you treat your team like children they are gonna behave like it.

Also: no accountability of decision. Fire a few people and keep pushing harder. Never smarter.

This does not convey to quality product. It convey to pass arbitrary deadlines with half the team gone and the other ready to switch project.

Terrible knowledge management, too.
I'm the author of the article, but I've also made a video on the topic. Covers the same topic, but some people like video better than written. Also includes a small segment of a relevant Jim Keller talk on the topic of EUV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ0yfEnwipo
Would you say that, perhaps, you value working software over comprehensive documentation?
Exactly. Nassim Taleb calls it an “open ponzi” — a ponzi that is openly known
Gates definitely doesn't come across as tyrant-like, and quick googling suggests he's participative as a leader.
Sysinternals is under Microsoft since 2006. Is this the ‘extend’ stage?
First OFAC Compatible Bitcoin Block Mined
Of course, I agree! But your comment is assuming the platform offers notifications in the first place. Apple has decided here that you should not even have a choice.
Did any of the European countries at the time allow slavery in their own borders? I don't think France is special in that regard.
Absolutely. I'm talking about electric viewfinders that you look through just like you would an optical finder. Not using a back screen (although that can be useful too in certain circumstances).
I prefer my iPad 9.7 over the Remarkable 2 that I have.
It's called GNU/Systemd. Poettering is certainly master of userspace but I think it was Karen Sandler who really pulled the strings. She was executive directory of GNOME and she went to the distros and was like, look, GNOME is going to make Systemd a hard requirement so you can either use it, or not have a desktop anymore. And that's why every Linux distro abandoned System 5 for System 500, with the exception of ones intended to run inside Docker containers like Alpine.
Wait you are concerned that the government is becoming too much like a parent figure but you also think the correct role of the government is to tell people to do their homework?
It could not be more different, to pick one example from web tech with a similar name:

Cryptocurrencies: Efforts to make useful tools are driven out, speculation and fraud are rife.

Cryptography: Used to secure billions of web transactions every day on the web with very little fraud.
Fully agree.

It also feels like some kind of disdain for performance and optimization has taken root in certain parts of our industry and communities. The "client does not care about this" school of thought that aggressively sees optimizations as foolish to even think about.

While this kind of thinking obviously has its place especially when it comes to proper management, it has been way overblown to the point of not being able to mention performance advantages without someone appearing out of nowhere to smugly tell you how the evil performance and optimization (the enemies of creating revenue, apparently) should be ignored and looked down upon in the face of the allmighty "faster development times".
Agreed, buying a house right now is not a good idea. Renting might be better right now, but it looks like you've worked around that.

1. Pay off all loans and debt, if you haven't already. This includes student loans and credit cards.

2. Max out retirement accounts (401k, roth) and health savings accounts. You might want to talk to your employer's HR department.

3. Be generous. Donate some. Get a receipt and save for a tax write off.
More background: The fine is mainly based on the fact that Disqus forgot to enroll Norwegian IP-addresses into their GDPR «privacy mode».

That meant that websites that had enabled a specific setting ("Enable anonymous cookie targeting") in Disqus were tracking Norwegian without informing them. Most of the websites in Norway and elsewhere did not know they were sharing users data through Disqus.

Major sites like the Wirecutter, The Hill, 9to5mac, Breitbart had enabled the setting in 2019. Of the 23 websites I contacted, all 11 that responded told me they were unaware of the tracking and had turned the setting off.

(I wrote the investigative articles in 2019 for the Norwegian public broadcaster NRK.)

A thread in English from then explains most of the findings:
https://twitter.com/martingund/status/1207327648093003777
I'm sympathetic to the parents that it's not as bad as people say, but I'd definitely agree with you that syntax at least to me provides a lot of value. Of course, too much syntax is a problem in the other direction.
They abandoned the NEX branding a long time ago, but they released a couple of APS-C Alphas at the end of 2019. I bet there are more to come, unless they're going to drop the <$1000 consumer market.
Even better, the analog (or old) solution: just shutdown or sleep the PC/screen for 20-30 min and meanwhile do anything else.
In Starcraft: Broodwar... Muta-harass isn't about winning, its about forcing your opponent to make more clicks than you.

In the ZvT metagame, Zerg can deploy Mutalisks many minutes before the Terrain have access to Valkyries (AoE anti-air). Terrain's only response at that stage in the game is Marines.

Marines (who shoot one-vs-one) need to group up tightly to have a chance vs Mutalisks. However, a Marine only has 40 HP, and can be KO'd by a group of 11 Mutalisks taking one shot simultaneously.

This forces the enemy Terrain player to group up their Marines before approaching Mutalisks: the Mutalisks are flying however, so they just run away when they see the opponent grouping up. By forcing the opponent to group up, respond, and deploy, you win the "APM / Clicks" war. You're just trying to force the opponent to "waste their clicks" and eat up their mental capacity.

If the opponent fails to respond, you just run into their economy and destroy their workers. If you break the opponent's economy, you pretty much instantly win. Because you have flying units, you always have access to the opponent's backline / economy. (IE: most Terrain players "wall off" their economy so that ground units must destroy a 500HP defensive structure before reaching the backline. But you can get around those walls by using flying units, like Mutalisks)

Otherwise, you take advantage of map features: high-ground makes your creatures invisible (even air creatures are invisible on the high ground in Starcraft: Brood War). So you swing in from the cliffs / retreat into the cliffs repeatedly.

A missile turret has 200 HP, and is a bit harder to deal with. However, a Muta-stack with of 11 can KO the missile turret before it even takes a 2nd shot. It takes much practice: you need to learn the timing of the Mutalisk, carefully watch their animation and positioning (they only take a "instant shot" if they're flying in the same direction that the shot will take place), and Mutalisks can instantly turn-around (you need to move-click 180-degrees offset from the direction of their current movement).

With accurate timing, you can move-click, attack the missile turret, move-click away (causing an instant turnaround, leaving the missile turret range, preventing the 2nd shot), then move-click attack the missile turret a 2nd time and KO the defensive structure. This is the "muscle memory" practice that made Starcraft: Brood War famous. Only those who dedicate many hours of practice to memorizing this strict timing will even reach the barebone basics of the game.

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Eventually, Terrain can go Valkyries and with a large enough group, can AoE kill the entire Mutalisk stack. However, that's later in the game. By that point, the Zerg player has moved onto their main strategy (probably mass ground-forces, like Hydralisks). Valkyries are useless against that, and its well known that Mutalisks are otherwise an inefficient unit in combat. So its unlikely for the Zerg player to heavily invest into Mutalisks.
Should probably credit Thomas Kuhn: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_...
The secret US military mission that located the Titanic (2018)
Converted Nissan Versa to a Home
It's not hard to build, no. The hard thing is having to pay $100 per year to Apple and submit yourself to Apple's rules in their app store.
Yes, but even Canon is putting most (or all) of it's R&D into mirrorless (bodies and lenses for the new full-frame, mirrorless RF mount system).

I expect they'll slowly stop releasing new DSLRs over the coming years.

And FWIW, a good friend of mine is a pro photographer and said he'll likely not buy any new DSLR bodies. But, he's still a few years away from needing a new body. Not to mention has north of $30k in glass, so would still run an RF with adapter for quite some time.
How Does Enterprise IT Consulting and Software Development to Gain Market Hold?
Different countries, different cultures, different company values.

FAANG = tech.
anything else -> you're a cost center. Become sales and they'll appreciate you
About ten years later also in America, our Driver's Education documentary was called "Red Asphalt".
The Paris Climate Agreement and future sea-level rise from Antarctica
Cagebreak: A Wayland Tiling Compositor Inspired by Ratpoison
Utility is gone, and all that's left is crypto scammers and "entrepreneurs" selling Amazon dropshipping master classes.

When Clubhouse is acquired or implodes, it will serve as a cautionary tale on how quality control is an essential element of social media.
Assault on reporter
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/us/politics/greg-gianfort...

Anger management course. Community service of 40 hours.

And some other issues on top, including some bending of the truth? Wow.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/17/greg-gianfor...
I did not take Jonathan Blow's tweet to be saying it's a bad idea, or won't work, but rather that it's an indictment of the whole web stack that it's necessary.
> I don't understand this. How can someone trust you that you picked up some new skill if you have no experience in it. Do you put it on your resume anyways? How can somone even pickup software sales ( for example) on their own free time.

Well, for anything which produces tangible output you can show off (I'm obviously thinking of programming) it's fairly straightforward to prove you can do it. Software sales? Yeah, no, I couldn't learn that in my spare time - good point.

Personally a jump to marketing and sales sounds roughly as enticing as the time I was offered either redundancy or a new role as a Lotus Notes dev, but I'm happy it floats your boat.
I forgot to mention in OP, but no loans or debt of any kind. All paid off already, including student loans.
All governments are slowly and inexorably moving towards a synthetic mix of capitalism and socialism. The problem in the US is _unfettered_ capitalism, which has metastasized into an attempt to capture the ENTIRE vertical stack of any business enterprise. That's the whole play of VC money today: find a segment of the economy to monopolize, run everyone else out, and then extract ALL the profits, from top to bottom. In my opinion, we need GDP-adjusted limits on how large a company can be, in several different dimensions.
Wasn't this a feature of Amazon's Silk browser?

"The browser uses a split architecture where some of the processing is performed on Amazon's servers to improve webpage loading performance."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Silk
> late Marvin Minsky, AI pioneer and associate of notorious billionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Epstein gave money to thousands of researchers to boost his credibility. What did Stalman say exactly?

>But he was also elected by the voting members. Who were they? It certainly wasn't the rank-and-file FSF members. They were as startled by Stallman's re-emergence as everyone else.

But do they support it? I suspect they do. Most nerds are not super into *isms and cancel culture.
80-100%? Holy hyperbole batman.

Stop beating that strawman! He's already dead.
I have had a Lilygo T-Call [0] on my basement table all winter with the intention of building almost exactly this! (My idea was to use cellular instead of WiFi).
Thank you very much for the write-up!

[0]: http://www.lilygo.cn/prod_view.aspx?TypeId=50044&Id=1127&FId...