skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer is probably not really. McCarthy was at Dartmouth very briefly which happened to overlap this conference. He moved on to MIT and then Stanford.

John Kemeny was recently in Dartmouth's math department at the time but AFAIK there was very little interaction with the early AI work.
ie quickly became revolutionarily better than the alternatives at the time.

My team at the time held contests to find the shortest html that would crash Netscape. There was a hallway at the office with over 100 Netscape crashers printed out and pinned to the wall.

By the time ie5 was released, almost 1/3 of the frontend code existed to work around netscape bugs. It was standard for us to fingerprint point releases of netscape to work around bugs.
Who and why downvotes this?
We can have these problems simply with classical mechanics’ equations of motion (Newton, Lagrange, Hamilton, whatever). These equations are deterministic, there is no doubt about this. We just don’t have an analytical form.

We know that exactly the same initial conditions will lead to the exact same trajectory. What we also know is that the tiniest error will make the trajectories diverge exponentially. It is still deterministic.

AFAICT, their random walk idea is not in the trajectories themselves, but in the sampling of the possible trajectories to assign them a statistical weight, a bit like we do commonly in statistical Physics.
> Though, to be honest, it is QA who is testing it, not us developers.

Developers absolutely should be testing for the issues they know about. QA is there to look for unknown issues.

Any company that depends on QA for testing and doesn’t make devs to it is miserable to work for (both as a dev and a QA).
Lightning came out years before USB-C (in fact, USB-C is inspired by Lightning). Macs never used Lightning; they transitioned from MagSafe to USB-C (which caused its own gripes).
Static binaries like Snap, macOS, etc. solve “moving slowly” issue. There should be little need to update the core OS (kernel, initd, /etc stuff) often.
North America is 4.5%. That is just shameful and inexcusable for a non 3rd world country. The US needs to get their trash disposal in check and I hope the infrastructure bill has something in it to get away from open landfills to more modern methods such as cleanly incinerating garbage. Banning plastic bags at the grocery store and straws at the bar is also not going to solve this issue.
If you look at the evolution of smartphones and laptops you literally have all the proof that consumers should most definitely not be in charge.
Not the way the founder of Stack Overflow seemed to see things:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20110731170810/http://answers.on...
- related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056
In general, I find too much emphasis is now on "closing" an issue as soon as possible. I understand that open issues can be a burden for maintainers.

That's the outcome of metrics-driven development. Getting to 0 open issues becomes the goal, and not the effect of having less buggy software.

I personally despise the GitHub "auto close" bots. Some issues take a very long time to even reproduce, and the constant nagging to close really encourages a culture of "if it can't be easily fixed, it doesn't matter" --- which nicely correlates with the state of a lot of new software today: all the basic stuff works, but there are lots of obscure, almost edge-case bugs.
VAT is not a revenue tax. VAT is the tax paid by consumers not by the company. Company only acts as tax collector. The weird thing is this: they collect VAT on everyting they sell, but then, for everything they buy (raw materials, office supplies, etc.) they can substract amount of VAT paid for those from the amount of VAT collected. So purchases by companies are basically VAT-free. And of course some tax optimisation schemes come into play here, with some companies getting ahead on VAT (like, actually getting a VAT refund from the government, instead of paying it).
Did you use COMAL too?!
It Happened One Knight (2018)
But criminals do not need local banks.
The way I see it, we got here by abandoning OOP for web development. There’s a lot of reasons that MEAN, NoSQL, no-schema… is so appealing, because OOP is so tedious. But we’ve just been slowly recreating OOP in a piecemeal fashion, with ORMs, TypeScript, JSON Schema, GraphQL… because the new approach didn’t actually provide an alternative solution to the problems that OOP attempts to address, it was just based on the premise that you could ignore them.

I don’t think we’re that far away from coming full circle back to OOP, even if the “framework” ends up having a different name.
The same happened with Python 3 and it took a decade to catch up. To be fairness, it was mostly about Unicode support and applications doing stupid stuff with strings.
Is there a reason you're implementing the AWS auth yourself and not just using the `Range` argument in the boto3 SDK [1]? Seems like it would significantly reduce the amount of code here.

1. https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/refe...
7xxx models are too heavy for a laptop. You might as well get a portable PC!

I heard precision line is very similar to XPS, except costs more because it targets business users. The build might be slightly better, with official Linux support.

For individuals, I would probably consider XPS 13 or 15.
Do some searches on linkedin -- you will have very slim choices of company if you are trying to be working in a niche language like this.
I had a fun conversation with my brother the other day. He was working on an R script (given to him by his lab) to perform some data collection. The script was no longer usable and he had to rewrite some parts. He was annoyed.

Most of the time, software is written until it works just well enough to be just reliable enough to deliver value. And then abandoned. Engineers move on to solving the next problem using that previous bit.
We only go back and edit that previous bit once we get to a point that the new thing becomes limited by that previous bit. That is to say, once we encounter a fundamental issue of the old bit.

We can't write 'perfect' code today to build on in the future. We have no way of knowing what will be built on top until it's built! At which point we discover the fatal flaws. And then go back and rewrite. Or design a new language/framework/tool etc that avoids those issues. So of course this is the pattern.

Separately, engineer's have become end consumers for software. And that software is produced by other engineers, who, are also using software.

End consumers may not care about how software is made (though some certainly do, especially once they notice bugs, degraded performance etc caused by technology decisions etc - see 1Password's plan to switch to Electron).

But what's the alternative? How could we otherwise avoid this and all the other problems Ryan points out. What is the alternative? Endless rewrites of existing layers with no progress made?

Editor configurations, file structure, variable names etc don't affect end users. But they help engineers who help end users.

Lots of progress is made to 'simplify' processes. But of course, those simplifications create their own new things that have to be learned, along with their own issues. And those new things are usually built on those old bits.

It's easy to download a docker image today and with a single command spin up a React project, running its own databases, and express server and not have to worry about configuring paths, installing dependencies (the right way), configuring ports etc.

But now we have to know about Docker. And Docker itself is built on those old bits.

If there's a better solution (besides the pedantic write perfect code) I don't see it. But I'm all ears.
> 45% minimum income tax

Holy shit
On first glance at this title I was having a really hard time understanding A) how you would generate an x.509 cert with these tools B) Why?
People don't care about privacy, got it. No one is quitting Facebook, no one is de-Googling their lives, installing privacy extensions/apps and making purchases based on privacy issues.

The worlds largest online companies increasingly making privacy a priority in their marketing are all wrong. Got it.

>Most people I know didn’t abandon WhatsApp despite numerous privacy mishaps

I never said privacy was the top issue, trumping all else. You're absolutely correct that other issues like convenience and network effects are important.
I see a bunch of posts about the iPad being a "consume" only device and that's totally totally wrong.

I've had an iPad since day one, generation one and took notes with an aftermarket stylus. I used Keynote and OmniGraffle to make slideshows and diagrams.

I even bought an Apogee JAM and was able to record my electric guitar in GarageBand and used several other apps for guitar effects and simulated amplification. My favorite was AmpKit+ [http://agilepartners.com/apps/ampkit/].

The iPad is a great creator's device and has only improved with the Apple Pencil and other enhancements.

That being said, if Apple keeps moving macOS towards iPadOS I'm out. The iPad is a complementary device as I use it. It can not replace a notebook computer and my notebook computer can not replace my desktop.

There are definitely people that can get by with just an iPad or even just a smartphone, but I can't and will not. There are still many options for non-Apple notebooks and workstations and many more OS options too.
> I beg to disagree -- storytelling is the main part of hiring and selling.

If your goal is to hire a person or sell a product, yes. I think what the OP was saying is that they are a small part because of other ethical concerns. Like, the OP was saying that selling many units of snakeoil is a failure because it's a scam. Or hiring contractors and motivating them to work hard and then using fine print to screw them out of their profit sharing (e.g. Hollywood accounting) is a failure.
Programming languages don't matter for most backend roles. Most companies just look for general programming expertise or relevant expertise to what the job position requires.
> Indeed it's pointless for desktop/server OSes.

Isn't it only Linux that does overcommit by default?
yes, that project was so influential in developing computer science, it determined almost all subsequent AI efforts from symbolic AI to the recent revival of ANNs.

Those influential 1950s seminars contributed to the current treatment of AI as a subset of CS instead of independent discipline with roots in cognition and neuroscience research.

but with all due respect you can’t really talk about artificial intelligence before understanding intelligence
AMD is much faster overall. This page has a benchmark of a MySQL database, the slide is called MariaDB: https://www.servethehome.com/amd-epyc-7763-review-top-for-th...
The only benchmark where AMD didn't have substantial advantage is chess, I think the reason is AMD's slow pdep/pext instructions.
I’ve always ran but thanks to less commute time I’ve been running longer and more often. I suspect I’ll keep doing that after COVID.

Also while my wife video called her friends regularly before COVID, I never have. I started video calling my friends and I liked it enough to try keep doing it for friends that I don’t see often due to geographic reasons.
Mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand’s shores?
Cutting my own hair has been big for me. It's much cheaper and I don't have to wait in any of the queues that most haircut places have started adopting. And if I mess up, I just wear a hat
The famous ad agency Widen and Kennedy (they came up with Just Do It among other famous campaigns) has the slogan "The best story wins."

In the end doing anything non trivial requires collaboration, and the way to create that is to tell your story.
For macOS on arm64, the software renderer fallback is gone.

No GPU? WindowServer crashes and you'll never see the GUI.
Ok, but you would be wrong. It is anyone who works in a profession PT wants to attract. And it got more strict but any IT job qualifies and it matters not what the salary is.
I think Dostoyevsky and Camus are more accessible.
The massive concentration in the Philippines is one of the most interesting takeaways here. I ended up poking around for more details on this, and it looks like the causes relate to, among other things, a lack of proper waste disposal and an industry reliance on plastic sachets for food packaging.

Sources:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health/article/2168819/philip...

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/plastic-trash-from-the-sac...

https://urban-links.org/insight/turning-the-tide-on-ocean-pl...
They are regular Mach-Os, with some symbols still available too.
Considering the Spiderweb
I didn't say that.

For the three body problem we don't know the closed form solution under Newtonian physics. So if we don't know it, then a closed solution may not even exist. If we don't know whether a closed form solution exists then how can we even know if it's deterministic.

You can prove determinism by finding me a solution that's closed and deterministic.

My answer is the same as stated: we don't know, and that the claim that we do know, is completely wrong.

>In fact, more is known: the solution exists and is analytic

These are special cases, under special conditions. A general solution is not actually known. We don't know. We are only assuming that it's deterministic. Also the solution you provided is analytic not closed.
Well, it's the first thing in the pipeline, so why not?
Is water always the best choice on a hot day?
This package is still one of my favorite things on the internet, ever. I used to work on python packages at a car company and it hits all the right spots to make me giggle uncontrollably.
> Just a reminder: Working on the development version of Emacs is easy on most operating systems.

With Nix, it's amazing to be able to just run (on macOS/Linux)

nix develop nixpkgs#emacs

and be on my way to fetch the tarball and compile (dependencies already loaded into PATH). The same goes for packages like vim or even firefox, if you wanted to hack on them.
It is far from obvious whether the best strategy is for the U.S. to clean up its 4.5% contribution, or to use those same resources to help the Philippines clean up their vastly larger share.
My comment saying this on the article has now been downvoted enough to hide it. I guess they don't care about the article making actively false statements like "The Perl community is in a shambles due to disputes concerning its (nonexistent) Code of Conduct, its (inconsistent) enforcement of community standards, and an inability to agree on what constitutes toxicity or a proper response to it." and "At least five extremely senior Perl community members have resigned from their positions and/or withdrawn from working on Perl itself"
I remember some Lenovo server boards being bricked by an UEFI variable storage snafu, which was painful to handle.
That update history on the right is interesting.

Also if you like 3D shooters but haven't heard of any recently: give Overload a look.
You may want to add some graceful errors for users not found
> > Perl is as hard for novices to learn as a language with a randomly-designed syntax

Stefik is a hack fraud, and he claimed another victim with Wilson. HN readers, beware.

https://www.nu42.com/2013/11/are-perl-users-unable-to-write-... http://redd.it/39buec http://redd.it/38i1pr
> No it’s not. It’s solving a real problem.

Effective leaders tell the stories that attract and retain key people, enable them with resources and put their works into the world. This is a key difference between ventures and small businesses. If the CEO thinks that is beneath them, they’re micromanaging a glorified one-person shop.

The technically-superior badly-coördinated solution losing to a well-communicated one is a Silicon Valley, business, political and military trope for good reason.
You will be limited by backbone and inter-country connections. Having 1 GBit to Costa Rica servers won’t be that useful.
Pressing into Depression by Favour Chukwubueze
The number one cause of micro-plastic pollution near waterways is from car tires. Just another reason cars are such a detriment to our society.
IMO this is the first future-proof mobile device from Apple.

Apple has bad habit to install absolutely minimum amounts of RAM into their mobile devices. iPhone had 2 GB RAM when Androids (with similar price) had 8 GB RAM. It means that RAM will be main issue for supporting those devices in the future iOS versions and eventually they'll be dropped, despite extremely powerful CPU and huge storage.

But with 16 GB it won't be the case ever. And, of course, CPU will not significantly progress in the future and certainly will not the limiting factor. So this tablet should easily last for another 10 years (if battery could be replaced with reasonable efforts).
If you are an experienced programmer I suppose you already have a job or can get a job with your experience, unless your skills have become devalued because the field they apply to are no longer sought after.

I would expect though that your experience is somewhere in the web area, so it seems unlikely that your skills would be so devalued that they are no longer sought after.

So if your skills are still relevant in the job market you should be asking not what job you can get with a tech you learn now but what job you can get in a future where your current skills have become devalued, or in a future where those skills have become suddenly much more valuable.

There is a view that what languages you learn have to do with improving your understanding as a programmer of different paradigms - in this view you learn Elixir because it will make a you a better programmer, but for a job market what languages and skills you learn maybe should be ones that complement what you are already highly competent at - as long as those skills are going to continue to be marketable.
Wonder if this is connected to China ceasing to accept trash/recycling from the US.

I really hate that recycling became essentially a for-profit shell game of shipping it somewhere else to be a problem rather than dealing with building the domestic infrastructure needed to correctly handle it (including not overselling recycling so we could get waste-to-energy plants as part of the mix).
While I think I agree with the straws and plastic bags (it's hard without actual data), I do wonder whether reducing plastic packaging on a large scale would not have a significant effect as well.

Close to a decade ago I moved from Europe to the US. I did, and continue to do, perceive how much more plastics my groceries are packaged with. This is especially egregious for things that you buy in bundles, where each individual item is wrapped in plastics again. Also, cheese for example seems to be packaged with plastics a lot more than, say, paper.

In order to solve the problem, it's probably more important and effective to address the larger sources first, though. Prioritization.
No Pressure Suits? Bezos, Branson Spark Alarm over Safety in Space
The EU was always going to over-buy, even without the AstraZeneca fiasco, to give to countries in need: https://apnews.com/article/europe-health-coronavirus-pandemi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28180074
>"...most of the people who die from tobacco and alcohol do so in old age, not instantly, like they do when they are poisoned or overdose."

This view of alcohol and tobacco follows decades of social assumptions and is highly dubious.

It's also suspect the author mentions 'housing first' initiatives as if they somehow correlate with failed harm prevention programs...
why are they mutually exclusive?
Relevant: "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality" by Ronald Purser

''Provocatively illustrates how mindfulness has been hijacked by corporate interests, turned into an opiate of the masses, and how we can radically rethink the meaning of mindfulness in contemporary life.''
-- Dr. Steven Stanley, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Your premise that there are bad ideas that need to be studied and actively suppressed by authoritarian means is flawed.
Mysterious Hacker Group Suspected in July Cyberattack on Iranian Trains
> For some, working hard - physically or intellectually - feels good, so they do it more than others. For others, it does not feel as good, so they don’t do it as often.

I apply this belief to the act of forming human relationships. Unfortunately, failing to remain interested in people long enough until they can act as your support network might lead to dire consequences.

I'm still debating whether or not human contact should be considered a human need, instead of just a human want. Denying someone food or water is cruel, but denying someone else your friendship or attention is considered healthy if the person is too much of a burden to be worth the effort. I once had someone I considered my friend suddenly start to explain to me what the definition of "codependent" was, and shortly after I could no longer view them as a friend.

At that point, all you're left with are the people who will forgive you no matter how you act and no matter how long you've known them, whom are nearly impossible to find outside of compensated therapeutic relationships. I suspect that most of them are already giving that limited store of attention to someone else or were taken advantage of in the past.
How much is large?

The dendrogram is right here: https://www.eva.mpg.de/genetics/genome-projects/neandertal/

The difference between the Denisovan and the Neanderthals is bigger than between San and French, but not by much. Keep in mind that the archaic genomes are noisy, and noise adds to their distance.

At the time, the debate was whether Neanderthals and the Denisovan constitute different species or just different subspecies. (Taxonomy is fun. You get to name species you discover after yourselves. I'd love to discover a new species, but in a pinch, a subspecies will do.)

You use the meaningless term "population". Whatever, let them be different populations. Now we have two populations, namely the "Denisovan" and the "Altai Neanderthal" living in the same cave, at roughly the same time.
I'm sure that they could just use Linux for that. I wouldn't be surprised if they're using Linux right now.
> But are they so insistent in the reverse; people who died with Covid unvaccinated but ‘from’ something else?

Do you have any source that shows unvaccinated people who had covid and died of an unrelated cause (say, ran over by a truck) are being classified as covid-related deaths?

It has already been established that covid is linked with multiple causes of death, and death by respiratory is not even the most common cause of death associated with covid[1]. Therefore it's reasonable to take a less exclusive approach to accounting deaths by covid, but I'd expect the same principle to be held regardless of whether a deceased was vaccinated or not.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82862-5
Wealthy don't hoard money. They hoard assets which appreciate with inflation, and they can get cheap debt against their assets. Inflation affects the poor the most, because their net worth is in cash, and they are dependent on their wage which doesn't increase hand in hand with asset prices.
> easily devour pounds

The real problem—don't do that. Eat a salad beforehand and then keep the fruit to a serving or two. Zero doesn't work in the long term, there is no need for deprivation that squeezes out the fun in life.
You can use Facebook while not having any conversations on it you'd wish to stay private. I think most of my friends still on Facebook use it that way.
High Voltage SID Collection – Commodore 64 music for the masses
Yes, if it was one of those projects that can be "finished" and that can set a clear goal for that.