skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it works well enough for you, that's great, but... Core 2 Quad is definitely old. I don't think it can keep up with even a Kepler GPU, tbh.
Cooling costs 1/3 the energy of heating per degree day, but comes in for more hate because it seems decadent.
Wait, what? So the system was purposefully hindering everyone's productivity?

Sounds more like a "I brought up production" story...
I think you’re vastly overestimating programming fundamentals.

Every language can do some form of if then else be it machine code with goto’s or purely functional. Ask someone to find the absolute value of a number and they should be able to quickly figure out something that works in a new language. The basics of programming are not about being correct so much as not being lost.
Although, the recent Fastly outage spanned more than one continent
> There is also a pretty big body of evidence already that doesn't show any hugely significant (say, 2x) changes in productivity

> For productivity I haven't been able to find any large-scale studies that compare functional vs imperative/OOP languages

I'm having trouble reconciling these two statements of yours.
Oh wow it's finally doing what SweetFX has for years.
Well, you invented the “most of my associates” part which is the substance of your smear, so you seem a bit disingenuous.

As for this fellow, intel agencies don’t get to both conjure lies AND claim guilt by association--with 5-year gap in the timing to boot--though surely they are not beneath trying. Surely the ends justify the means, right?

Quite the contrary to your misguided assertions, way back in 1993, Assange consulted for the Victoria Australia police to apprehend child molestors and pornography distributors.
I think that Twitter is the primary source for this scam.... (and they should be held responsible)
The size of the physical paper makes a difference to the integrity of the content?
But the topic is how their view is shaped by the first language they learn. If they learn C first, will their ability to knowledge transfer into other languages happen differently then if they learned Python first?

Concretely, I can't fathom how people learn Rust without learning one of C or C++ first, and I'd think the underpinnings of how you understand code and systems is probably different if you are subconsciously mapping new concepts back to Python or Java or whatever.
PHB?
Programmable Ads à La Minority Report Have Arrived
This is an argument for teaching intro programming with Scheme.
no thanks... I'll stick with Linux.
i thought it was about kafka's work.
>If anything, fewer men are married to their careers than before

Is there a source for this claim? (not being acerbic - genuine question)
You're supposed to take it to a recycler. Don't worry, they'll responsibly dump it in Africa or Asia for you.
Because it's healthier than the opposite, which invariably is going to be someone's very strong but completely unverifiable opinion.

It probably does, but for a long time, it was hard to tell exactly why. Now, however...ha, just kidding. It's still the same.
https://archive.is/99DDj
Uh... can you tell me eli5 what does TPM do that w11 needs it so bad? It it for DRM ?
I feel I see folks sweat their first language a lot.

IMO it is more important to try and find out if programming is even something they REALLY want to do.

The language maybe better selected for what they might want to ....do.

My first language was C, in a classroom where someone read from the book and then you were on your own.

I dropped out of school (for other reasons) and 20 years later I got back into programming via web development.

I wish I had a different experience in school.
Adrian Zenz’s work is a generation-leading project in uncovering human rights violations and promoting human freedom. Your empty pot shot notwithstanding.
you don't need a 5 axis milling machine to build a firearm, even a modern one like an M4
Accusing them of pushing political positions and the saying they're not journalists feels like conflicting arguments in this day and age.

It's also difficult to appear politically neutral when publishing truths that are (or should be, but aren't) existentially inconvenient to any particular person or group.
Ryzen 1000 CPUs are still sold NIB on Amazon. It’s not even 3 years old, a lot of CPUs are basically current and plenty fast.
A few of the older guys have been playing together for probably more than 20 years at least twice month over that time. A round at our club is about 4 hours. So something like over 2500 hours spent between them. One guy was moving and another wanted to move closer to golf course where a few of the guys lived. So they sold the house to them for below market rate. That seems like "real" friends to me. I could easily not play with these people. But we all try and play together. We always ask each other how are families are. What we have been up to. How is work etc. I can not think of anything that is more of real friend. Sure I am closer to some than others. But if I asked any of them for help with something They would help the best they can.
Yeah, they are. The system boards with everything soldered on sometimes make me rage tbh. Is 3mm of thickness worth everything else?
Outside of school where friends basically just enjoyed each others company, I would say most friendships now are made in the work related environments so there is often a layer of politics involved that make it difficult for everyone to see who is sincere and who is just networking. Nobody knows how they stand with each other so they are hesitant to develop strong relationships and trust with others.

Traditionally these bonds came about through other things like neighbors, communities and religion, but people are constantly moving for work, and society is more pluralistic (and secular) than ever so most don't begin to lay roots until they have a spouse in these roots aren't being laid, and there hasn't really been anything new that fills that gap outside of where you work.
A friend of mine ran a large and relatively popular (as in at least 30 users online at any given time ...) PvP MUD on a server of mine back in the (late?) 90s.

I didn't play muds and my experience was mostly limited to helping him fix C programming bugs from time to time and fielding an occasional irate phone call from users who got my number off the whois data. But because of the programming help I had some kind of god-access to the mud.

One afternoon I had a ladyfriend over that I was presumably trying to impress and she'd asked about the mud. We hopped on and I summoned into existence a harmless raggedy-ann doll. That was kind of boring so I thought it would be fun to attach an NPC script to it, -- I went through the list and saw something called a "Zombie Lord" which sounded promising. I applied it, and suddenly the doll started nattering on about the apocalypse and ran off. Turned out that it killed everyone it encountered, turned them all into zombie lords, creating an exponential wave of destruction that rapidly took over the over the whole game.

I found the mental image of some little doll running around bringing on the apocalypse to be just too funny-- until my phone started ringing. Ultimately the game state had to be reported to a backup from a day or two prior.

[I've posted a couple examples, -- I dunno which one is best, but people can vote. :)]
> 4am to 7pm and often during the weekend

15 hours days and more on the weekend sounds incredibly unhealthy. How do you eat, sleep, and socialize?
My comment is not to minimize the oppression. It is rather to point out that other countries, engaging in similar oppression and dehumanization have managed their PR in such a way that they don't need to twist the arm of a company like Google to ensure their preferred vocabulary is used. It is the status quo. China is doing the work now of integrating itself with the "free" media to ensure a certain image. A country like the US did so decades ago.
At my university, there was an intro to programming course which used Scheme & was inspired by SICP. I took the course with previous programming experience (Java, Python), and found the course straightforward. I also knew students who took the course having programmed in C++, and who struggled with the course.

I'm not sure "do SICP exercises in scheme having learned Python/C++" is really about transferring programming fundamentals. The SICP exercises seemed really geared towards a small lisp.
Most programmers are not computer scientists. Even most people with computer science degrees are not computer scientists at heart, they forced themselves to do the coursework so they could get a job (mostly web, utilizing almost nothing they were taught).

I learned to program as a child (I taught myself, for fun!) but I didn't learn much computer science until well into adulthood.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Intelligent_Tape

Green = backup worked.
Hey, another Kiwi!

The about section says "A UNIX-style Operating System for the Waikato RISC Architecture Microprocessor (WRAMP)". Did you study at Waikato?

I'm curious what you think about tech in general in NZ as well. Compared to the US it feels like there's practically no community :/.
Sorry, but 7 was way more stable than 8-10 and it didn't even support SecureBoot.
I assume the 3/4-reliable tape drive?
Or you pick a better way to indicate more options, and not have to worry about a trade off at all.

Side note, I personally hate sideways scrolling stuff 99% of the time. I can't imagine I'm alone.
America’s 50 Largest Inherited-Wealth Dynasties Accelerate Inequality
The point would be to provide a more legitimate USD stablecoin in a space that seems to be attracting a growing user base (blockchains). I imagine a significant share of the market would choose the Fed-provided stablecoin over any of the non-Fed competitors. If you're using US Dollars in the first place you're already inherently trusting the Fed, so it shouldn't be a much bigger leap to also use their blockchain-based version. This would reduce the degree to which Tether and others are "a challenge to financial stability" because it puts mint/burn powers of the dominant USD stablecoin squarely back in the control of the Fed.
So, your evidence that Google wants into China is that their project for entry into China has been terminated. Alrighty.
That's because Julian Assange reused the same password on multiple files. At best, it's terrible opsec on his part. At worst, it was deliberate on his part, so he could plausibly claim no responsibility for the fallout. Either way, unless you can prove malicious intent on The Guardian, they have nothing to admit and Julian has some explaining to do.
Or if living closer to a dam means you are more likely to be better informed as to the construction and safety margins and thus less likely to think catastrophic failure is likely.
Wikipedia: Films with the Longest Production Time
I assume it’s part of the shutdown process. Makes sense in a way: kill -> killall.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
Pointy-Haired Boss[]

[]https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Pointy-haired_Boss
Most people don't want to program in C, and I think my high school programming course (which used C) did more harm than good in that regard. The only students who got anything out of it had already taught themselves programming on their own!

I came back to C later and enjoyed learning it properly, but it is very much not a gentle introduction into the world of programming for the average person!
I clicked the link expecting to agree with the author but to be honest, I don't think those are dark patterns. Pushy? Yes. Annoying? Sure. But still not what I would call dark patterns.

Try booking a cheap airline ticket on RyanAir or something, there you'll find some real dark patterns
Mars will be rough but at least there won’t be a tyrannical police state there to bend you over.
Sometimes I use kill -15 -1 on Linux to log me out, but obviously not as root.
And 7 being dropped by major software companies, which is the only reason Windows is the most popular OS, might I say.

Not sure why Adobe et al don't just show Microsoft the middle finger and move to Linux, with their support everyone wins.
C is very different from C++. Rust isn't more complicated than C++.
How do you feel about Gaza launching 4000+ rockets at Israeli population centers indiscriminately ?
Woz, meet Steve.
> “Programming fundamentals” isn’t the same from language to language.

You should be able to carry very, very basic concepts over to other languages with much less difficulty than learning them the first time. A student sufficiently skilled in Python will be able to make the same intro level programs in C given enough time. Badly? Yes, but they'll function.

Similarly, a watercolor artist won't forget the basics of art when handed a pencil.
"No automation without universal compensation"
This is getting downvoted, but honestly? It’s kinda true. Normal tasks like setting up hardware (drivers), using HiDPI displays, and installing software can be a struggle. Many tasks require a user to jump into a terminal and run arcane commands (which sometimes have to be tweaked for your specific distribution - good luck). Even the user-friendly Linux distros can be very challenging.
I'm pretty sure we don't want to be in a world where we can only use one of a few Microsoft-approved Linux distros without it being a pain the the ass to deal with.
Straw Buyer As A Service for an airport soda and chips.
In Zimbabwe this self-taught tutor in a Harare township developed an entire exam prep program on WhatsApp and his students outperformed some of the country's elite schools
What I am most concerned with for Win11 is Privacy...I suspect we are going to see some major consternation on that front as soon as Microsoft can be cornered on it.
Pointy Haired Bastards
Let's say you don't want users to view foobar.com so you convince Microsoft to configure it's browser not to resolve foobar.com.

No problem the users install their own browser.

Now we ask Microsoft to limit software that is signed by it effectively granted permission to run some software but not others. The alternatively browser is right out.

The user installs his own OS now we ask Dell to only allow it's computers to boot software that implements the same restrictions as Microsoft has agreed to.

So the user gets his own computer. Now we simply ask your bank or better yet your ISP not to connect to "insecure" devices that don't follow the standards described.

Now you need a substantial unlatched vulnerability to be able to resolve foobar.com

At it's root to make a users own device effectively restrict what they are allowed to do you need something difficult to defeat that you control and they do not.

At one point a us senator wanted this used to allow music labels to remotely destroy users computers if they believed that you were pirating music and every other restriction described has been implemented or discussed using on user devices belonging to users and most implemented.
Real friends will help out, not just greet you in a shared setting. Would they buy you lunch if you forgot your wallet? Loan you their vehicle? Help you move? Visit you in the hospital if you broke your leg? Actively try to help you with life in general?

As the saying goes when the chips are down, you will know who your true friends are.
It's only a matter of time before we use this to cosmetically modify our bodies. I predict that at the very least we'll use this technic to change our hair color and eye color. I will even say skin color too, with-in the next 50 years.

Most people won't use it but there will be an active market , legal or illegal, for the modifications. The Sci-Fi future is here.
Saint Julian reused the same password on multiple different files. Ask yourself why he might commit such a slipshod error.

> Wikileaks should censor the source files before journalists got them.

WikiLeaks, like anyone, should take prudent steps to avoid doxxing people. If you can't understand why doxxing people is bad, then I have nothing to say to you.
Been using it for months with my MacBook Pro and iPad Pro and it works great!
As someone who fought hard to switch careers into this industry and teaches software engineering now I understand the impulse to think this but I have to say all my experience thus far contradicts it.
Some states have code that fixes the sound problem, but the cost is higher $/sq ft costs.
(Unless you specifically ask people to keep asking you!)
> I don’t think everyone can understand computer science.

This is a bold claim. None of us are special for working in tech. Our life has presented us the opportunity and passion to invest ourselves deeply in the field, often at great opportunity cost.

Saying that a bad teacher makes no difference in student outcomes is equally ridiculous as saying an excellent teacher makes no difference in student outcomes. If that's the case, we should be able to replace professors with cardboard cutouts, no? I was a student and TA long enough to witness directly the impact that a thoughtful curriculum can have on students.
They might pretend to be on other networks they own when they do things like ad/policy reviews (eg. the Google Fi or Google Fiber ASNs[0]), but I don't know of anyone confirming that this happens.

0: https://bgp.he.net/AS16591
The first language is incredibly important and I normally recommend javascript for the following reasons

- it's /highly/ accessible (any computer with a browser can compile and run javascript - you just need to get your browser to load the file)

- it shares a lot of its syntax with C-Style languages (which makes transference to other languages much easier

- it's 'relaxed' on how it enforces rules (now, this is contentious, should a learner be allowed to get away with mistakes that will haunt them later, or should a learner be hobbled and forced to be precise from the get-go, IMO the former is easier for people to upskil with than the latter)

- it's (currently) got commercial value (that is, you can get a job with javascript on your CV)
I think it's worth distinguishing between "Computer Science" and "Programming".

One of the motivating examples in the OP is "conversational programmers". OP defines that as people who want to be able to have conversations about programming stuff, but won't program. -- For those people, sure, assuming heavy technical/math background when teaching programming isn't helpful.

But many topics in Computer Science heavily rely on applying math. (3D rendering, Computer Vision, Machine Learning).
As a general principle, yes, all of humanity matters, and all grave matters deserve grave attention. At the same time, how a given issue impacts you and those around you, how much influence you can possibly have over the matter, and how much responsibility you and those like you truly bare in its existence are all of upmost importance when deciding where you should be putting your emphasis, morally speaking.

For example, for your typical US citizen, decrying the plight of the Uyghurs is fine in principle. But if one goes and weights things relative to the above criteria -- though admittedly there's no clean way to do so -- I'd argue that China's Uyghur genocide would not even make the top 100 of things that deserve to be morally prioritized (again, by your typical US citizen).

And forgive me if I read to far into what you wrote past what you intended; it just struck me as possibly flattening a bit too much.
The Evolution of the Unix System Architecture
> since you and others seemed to have trouble with it. Given your hostile response to that response (naturally after having been attacked) I won't continue to try.

How is what I asked hostile? They commenter made a statement about small towns and politics equating friendship. I've lived in those areas and I still have no idea what they mean. You have very strong opinions in this area and keep on lobbing partial ideas out there (just like this) as if everyone should understand how you feel without explicitly stating why.

>In all honesty, if you're that insulated from the current zeitgeist, consider yourself fortunate.

You seem to be consuming more media than you are interacting with the folks they're stirring up propaganda about to get views. As I've previously mentioned I have hobbies that are stereotypically aligned with certain demographics, and from the countless hours I've spent at gun ranges, muscle car shows and shops, tech conventions and art fairs, 99% of people's beliefs are not at the extremes of the political spectrum. The vocal minority usually creates the divisive attention you seem to be speaking of. I saw your other comment in this thread about ditching your friends because they were "more trouble than it's worth". I'm not surprised you believe everyone is at each other's throats based on that comment. Most people are very reasonable.
Read some of this stuff and report back!

https://www.hexbear.net/post/2361/comment/17793
redditizing HN kills people
But it ran much faster until the reboot... LOL
there's no need or special value in learning assembly first. you can learn it after.
Another big reason is that it is so much easier to write powerful software for programmers than non programmers. So at some point it will be easier for the world to teach program to everyone and have that as a baseline than trying to put ever more programmers building specialized programs for non programmers.
This article on Ars [1] was a more readable and easier to understand one on this topic for me.

“Once-dreaded Alpha variant is falling fast—Delta and Gamma take over”

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/06/delta-and-gamma-vari...
Drones rid Galápagos Islands of invasive rats
I was really excited for most of the time reading thinking “A privacy-first general data store that lets us donate insights for the common good, and may even end up being a marketplace where we can choose to sell data. This is so cool! I hope they have a mobile app so I can record things like what I ate for supper or how long I looked at a screen today”

But, it seems like they’re just tracking browser behaviour, and there’s absolutely zero place for people to add their own data?

Why bother giving it a branded name then? Why not “crowd-sourced browser behaviour study in partnership with ____”?
What about monads and term rewriting?
Some knowledge should remain only with the gurus on the mountain tops.
You are given a set of tools, designed by folk's that may not have envisioned how you want to use those tools. You make the best you can from the bag of tools available.
Consider using the Craigslist Teleportation Service for any things you possibly can. Sell it on Craigslist at the source and buy replacements at the destination.
Fast forward a few decades and they will be like IBM who sold tabluating machines to the Nazis.
> Do the US need to extra judicially murder Assange in order to make an example of him?

No, but they’d at least need to attempt it to be tossed in the same bucket as Russia re: Navalny.
The Intel DG1 is quite good for that, apparently, but they don't sell it at retail.
Awesome work! How long did it take to finish this project?
It takes years to compose the best response
As they take Assange to court, they’ll have to mount credible legal arguments, present convincing evidence, and deal with counter-evidence / cross examination from the defense. As I said, “these witnesses who worked with my client have admitted to being liars” can sometimes be a good legal argument. But as a third party observer, it doesn’t seem like the slam-dunk vindication of Assange that some here are implying.

For better or worse, when bringing legal action against criminals, law enforcement sometimes needs to use evidence from other criminals and various kinds of unsavory characters.
As much as you want this to be true, it simply isn't.