skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Since a base-3 electronic technique is not available, they decided to construct a base-4 machine and to utilize only 3 of the 4 possible states. The unused fourth state in each case is available for some form of checking."

Thanks - that clears some things up. It also appears that DSSP (Soviet trinary Forth, yes there was such a thing), postdates Forth, was based on Forth, and was not an independent discovery as it is sometimes represented.
http://www.euroforth.org/ef00/lyakina00.pdf
So if, when Standard Oil was still operating as a monopoly, a single well had decided to refuse to sell to them - or even a dozen wells - or a conglomerate of wells - that means they'd no longer be a monopoly?

Just because you don't own 100% of a market doesn't mean you don't have a commanding position.
It's high time to unmask and punish Banksy for vandalism and anti-government speech.
I Wanna See Writing Gangs
Introduction to the Narrativist Framework
ZOOM Z double-oh M box 3 5 0 Boston Mass 0 2 1 3 4... send it to ZOOM!

And Schoolhouse Rock: Ready or Not, Here I Come; Conjunction Junction; I'm Just a Bill; The Preamble
Good question. I remember Microsoft had an app around 2010, but it just failed to gain critical momentum, maybe because people were already moving en masse to Facebook and WhatsApp itself.

The app was only ok-ish. There were some alternative apps in the AppStore. But people just preferred talking trough WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger (which was already two years old at this point). I guess people gravitated to WhatsApp because it was less cluttered and snappier, and to Facebook because it also had a proper social network in it, but I have no idea. Two years later Microsoft would kill MSN and integrate it with Skype.
Tik tok and Facebook are very different social networks.

That's entirely irrelevant to the "is Facebook a monopoly" question. If Facebook is losing market share to a very different social network, this still shows Facebook doesn't have absolute control of it's customers and market. I would strong suspect that every rising social network is going to be significantly different from the social network it captures users from.

Facebook competes with linked-in for business stuff, Amazon and craigslist for selling, Tik Tok for youth attention etc.

The main thing is an argument for Facebook being powerful, influential and even abusive isn't by itself an argument for it being a monopoly as such.
cirr.org has data you can compare.
Sort of a mini review. Using it at home on my MacBook Pro 2015 Intel Machine.

Big Sur on M1 was fine ( if not great ), mostly because M1 is extremely fast. But Big Sir on x86 was slow, really slow. I am in the group that reported Big Sur was slower than Catalina, and Catalina was slower than Mojave. That is with both the OS itself and Safari. So Big Sur was not a smooth experience for me.

Monterey so far brings back the speed / snappiness of Mojave. Safari feels so much more responsive under normal use and under heavy tab usage. Lots micro-pause ( Jank ) and lag are gone. As if they put back all the optimisation for x86 previously left out.

Far less Kernel_Task CPU usage and stupid disk write for whatever reason. My guess this is mostly a Safari problem given they have implemented Tab Groups they have at least taken into account of heavy tab usage in mind. This is also apparent when they fix the long standing Tab Overview bug, where it will load ( and reload ) every single Tabs you have trying to generate thumbnail. Imagine you accidentally press the Tab Overview button in the tool bar, or three finger swap in Safari when you have hundreds of tabs. You will instantly get a few hundreds GB of Disk Write paging trying load everything. It is literally a feature that kills your SSD. I have reported this bug for over three years, it is finally fixed. Cloudd and Bookmark / History / Tab Sync pause / Jank is still not fix though. That is 3 years+ and counting.

Still wish they do a list of tabs like Chrome instead of Thumbnails when it is over certain Tabs Number. It is easier to track when you have lots of Tabs. Easier to do Manual Garbage Collection of Tabs.

Bug that causes IINA to crash when viewing video in portrait mode is gone. One of the biggest complain when updating to Big Sur.

WindowsServer also uses far less CPU. It used to hover over 30% for no apparent reason. Now it is back to a normal 5-15% in most cases.

Safari "classic" tabs are back. Along with a very long list of webkit improvement. Far from perfect but at least things are moving.

I am also feeling Apps that are using Swift and SwiftUI are snappier than before and uses less memory. An observation mostly from using Stocks App.

Many other minor details, may be worth reading Ars' review [1]. It is solid release, which along with M1 MacBook Pro sadly dampens my motivation to move away from Apple.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/macos-12-monterey-th...
I can feel that your comment is utterly bullshit.

FreeDOS runs the 99% of software and drivers available for DOS.
Oh, don't worry, I assumed that you weren't, I just realised that I wasn't too specific so I just specified it. Sorry if I accidentally implied that you were, I wasn't trying to.

Still, I learned about micro-distros which was quite an interesting thing to discover :) I might try and mess around with some on the Pi Zero I have to see if I can figure out a cool use for something like that.
It's precisely what makes it so volatile. People are pricing in things that have not happened because they think they're very likely to happen. Then their opinion changes and the stock tanks. Trading on sentiment is not my cup of tea, btw.

If you wanna buy and hold TSLA today, you pretty much have to be convinced that their FSD and TeslaBot plans will become reality.
Alright. Also - great combat flight simulators and an army of world-class black hat hackers. Few people care about either.
Give me a moral basis on why we can't destroy Earth when at the end of the day, from an atheistic materialistic point of view, nothing matters since we're all "chemical scum". Suffering or pleasure, it doesn't matter one bit. This isn't controversial, this is what atheist heads and philosophers say because it's the only logical conclusion to arrive at from their world view: https://youtu.be/EqK_JPts26k?t=183
Agreed.

One interesting thing about Missouri is that, in addition to the Governor swearing to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, Missouri says that violating your oath of office is per se perjury.

In my opinion, the Governor needs to be impeached and prosecuted criminally for abusing his office in this manner.
They got a new CEO who actually cared about engineers. Some of his first acts were open sourcing things, actually participating in open source and contributing, and supporting Linux.

When Nadella started, I actually said to others that for the first time in my career I would consider working at Microsoft.

Also they sold the shit out of Azure. Every big enterprise contract would include $500,000 of Azure credit for free, and the sales reps would constantly remind you that you're going to lose your free money. So CIOs would say, "Hey we have all this credit we should use it" and then all of a sudden their company was using Azure and liking it (because it's a pretty great platform if you're already using a ton of MS products in your enterprise).

It's no coincidence Nadella was in charge of Azure before being CEO. He knows how to make things developers actually like.
It's not made up. They monitor key sites including social media and those peddling in sensitive information. EO12333 makes warrantless searches legal for anyone with a clearance. It's also a convenient cover for why they need this extra-judicial domestic surveillance apparatus.
I imagine that a randomly chosen judge would, but I don't imagine that the FBI gets their dodgy warrants signed by a randomly chosen judge.
Underwhelming updates are good, that way corporate IT doesn't take 3 years to approve updating company computers.
Tesla isn't completely vertically integrated. They've been buying batteries from CATL and that is core EV tech.
The methodology they use to calculate the placement rate is clearly misleading, and given that methodology, the 2019 placement numbers are rather mediocre. They shouldn’t be tricking students into making major life decisions based on misleading statistics.

On the other hand, some of the arguments in the article are silly. Tech companies drastically cut back on entry level hiring in 2020, and when this happens the non conventional pipelines tend to be the first to go. I wouldn’t extrapolate out this decline as a permanent issue beyond the pandemic. Additionally, the article expresses skepticism that expanding student enrollment at the expense of placement would hamper profitability - common sense is that there will be some variable costs that scale proportionally with student enrollment, and as such the path to profitability would be to improve placement rates. Perhaps most egregiously, the article talks about the high opportunity cost for students investing 9-12 months in lambda school and the immediately after that switches to attacking lambda school for shortening its class lengths. A curious juxtaposition. Frankly, this is a good example of incentive alignment.

Finally, there is the ridiculousness of the graduate at the end who doesn’t want to find a designer job because that would entail making income share payments. Not only is that cutting off your nose to spite your face, but it’s rather odd to feel you didn’t get your money’s worth from a service operating at a significant loss. I guess taxpayer funded K-12 and community college education has made a lot of people accustomed to being insulated from the true cost of education.
There are different flavors. You're broadly correct that communism (and, in general, actual socialism, as opposed to social democracy that is often mislabelled as socialism) is opposed to private ownership of the means of production - but it doesn't necessarily translate to banning them. Authoritarian varieties generally advocate for that. Libertarian ones are more likely to say that abstract private property, on the contrary, is what requires state enforcement by violence (e.g. evicting squatters) - and thus, if you get rid of that enforcement, you get rid of private property as such, leaving only personal property / right-of-use in place.

(Anarchists would also add that protecting property rights by violence is one of the primary functions of any state.)
That's exactly the kind of wording that NSLs require. It's why the idea of a "warrant canary" [1] came into existence.

As to the selling of shares - prima facie, that's likely criminal (insider selling) but I don't know the details of his case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
ok. These things have been discussed on reddit/twitter the last 3-4 years over and over again. Tesla has sold a decent chunk of cars now, from which you can do meaningful projections on it's fire safety.

From Tesla's website (https://www.tesla.com/VehicleSafetyReport)
"From 2012 – 2020, there has been approximately one Tesla vehicle fire for every 205 million miles traveled. By comparison, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and U.S. Department of Transportation shows that in the United States there is a vehicle fire for every 19 million miles traveled.
In order to provide an apt comparison to NFPA data, Tesla’s data set includes instances of vehicle fires caused by structure fires, arson, and other things unrelated to the vehicle, which account for some of the Tesla vehicle fires over this time period."
> One of my former classmates in undergrad is a Visiting Researcher at Purdue in the Agricultural Engineering department; he tells me that many tomato transporters actually own or rent fuel tankers that they fill in the South to sell at a markup in the North. In order to make some extra cash on the trip South with the empty tanker, they carry tomatoes.

> I know what you might be thinking: is it even sanitary to transport tomatoes that close to gasoline? But that is the least of the issues plaguing these transporters, the biggest one is that they lose about 12% of the tomatoes in a two-day trip.

This doesn't sound safe :(
Exactly what we're doing (optimal.ag). Interestingly, the cannabis industry has taken all the equipment, knowhow and enthusiasm of the (Dutch) tomato industry and applied it to cannabis - not the other way around.
Actually, there are other parts to the email subsystem besides the POP/SMPT interface, such as code that dynamically generates the subject and body, and have lots of regex and string manip code in them.
CISC was not a mistake when RAM was hundreds of dollars per kilobyte in the 70's and early 80s. Made sense to get as much out of a byte of memory instruction-wise as possible.
and for something slightly more accessible and with photos =) on the same topic:

https://www.seriouseats.com/why-you-should-refrigerate-tomat...
About ten years ago, I applied for a SWE role at Facebook. During the interview, the only question that I didn't feel confident was when they asked me how group-by works in SQL and to write a group by query. I said I didn't know and usually looked it up, but they didn't want me to look it up. They rejected me, and the recruiter literally told me it was due to a lack of familiarity with SQL (something I'd been using with PHP for 6+ years at that point).

Edit: I interviewed a year later, wasn't asked about SQL at all, absolutely fumbled my way through some networking questions, and was still hired, so it's clearly very dependent on who's interviewing you and what they ask.
Since banking account history has to be stored and provided for literal decades after account closure, they would still have to implement the changes even if that customer left, as they will still be processing his data and have to do it according to the law.
All I could think of reading this was processed meat and colon cancer.
Investors seem to pay large premiums for companies that have a certain quality of "we know what the future is and we're building it".

All the other companies doing it are somewhat riding on Tesla's coattails. They think Tesla will be around in the future and much bigger than it is now, I'm not sure the same can be said for any other car manufacturer to lesser or greater degrees.
> ACLU would do what's right 100% of the times

Have you considered that your values might've changed? Or their values of "what's right 100% of the time" has changed?
The last paragraph from the article regarding John Gilmore:

He's widely credited as the source of the famous aphorism "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."

-

The EFF has routed around John Gilmore now.
I lied. I reached for my wallet today. Good work :-)
Just went to Bartell's to buy a coffeepot. The formerly $13 one is now $30.
Tesla can't compete on energy storage on a $/kWh basis. CATL and BYD have them soundly beat. Yes it's not solved yet but Tesla is not the leader in solving it.
>This part of the article was particularly cringe. People don't seem to realize how much of a tech prowess it is that x86 builds of those two games are even running at an acceptable framerate.

Spoken like someone who has never seen how poorly Microsoft's x86 to ARM emulation works.

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

They had difficulty getting programs to work at all, much less have acceptable performance under emulation.
> Your Law of Optimization reminds me of the (often popularly ignored) denominator in the famous e = m c^2 equation.

> I believe the full version has a (1 - (v/c)^2) denominator on the right side ….

I think the question is what you mean by `m`. If it's inertial mass, then I believe no correction is necessary. The point is that the inertial mass `m` is the rest mass `m_0` divided by `\sqrt{1 - (v/c)^2}`, as you say.
This is a bad analogy.

The main difference between alchemy and chemistry is that chemistry follows the scientific method.

When an alchemist learned something new, they kept the information to themselves and tried to profit from it. They wanted to turn lead into gold, and then keep the secret method to themselves.

A chemist profits by sharing the new information.
And yet iPhones are flagship phones...

Taste is subjective. Anyone arguing that the MBP is objectively better than, say, https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-...

is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.
I'm impressed. People really will never be satisfied.

A relatively low-key, under-the-hood Mac release? "Man I miss when the Mac was innovative. These releases are a snooze fest."

A big release, packed with features? "Man I miss when Apple cared about their OS stability. We need a new zero features snooze fest like 10.6. Take me back to Snow Leopard :("

Only HN can pull off such astounding mood swings. I know this site isn't a monolith of opinions, but come on.
The bibliography mentions Herbert Stoyan "wrote several chapters" about the history of LISP, but doesn't give more details.

Professor Stoyan, who held the chair of Artificial Intelligence at Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, actually donated his LISP history
paper to the Computer History Museum.

Here is an overview of the material:
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270323...

https://wwwdh.cs.fau.de/de/stoyan.html

(I was lucky to count him as one of my undergraduate teachers.)
Pablo Escobar’s ‘cocaine hippos’ are people too, US court rules
Or you could do this: https://vinpit.com/vin-check/owner
React Native and (maybe) Electron are nice if you need access to real networking but want to write webtech, and can afford to impose somewhat on your end user. Browsers (very much rightly, IMO) lack a lot of handy stuff for local device discovery, including, notably, all of UDP.
I'm a currently working software engineer from Lambda, who knows other people who succeeded at Lambda and other bootcamps.

The TA thing, a TA doesn't teach, a TA pretty much grades/code reviews. They answered questions. (I did this while I was hunting for a job).

They also don't count that towards placement.

I have an IS degree, but some other people I know succeed with pretty much anything you can think of. I don't have enough of a sample size to know if we're all just exceptions or not.
Nightshades are also inflammatory for some autoimmune conditions.
See also at least https://github.com/LLNL/RAJA and https://www.khronos.org/sycl/

The great thing about portability layers...
Also, "looting" is a racially-charged term.

Black People "Loot;" White People "Find" https://www.aclu.org/blog/smart-justice/mass-incarceration/b...
Right, that seems a whole different problem that should really be addressed. In the Netherlands the police are the politest people one could ever meet. It takes very few complaints about politeness or excess force to lose the job. Ofc on the flip side they are also highly incompetent, have no tools, get to see just about ever crook released, are under paid and are very unprofessional. But polite, woah!
Interesting concept, might try it! I've used Quitter (https://marco.org/apps) for months to auto-quit my email app & Slack after a time interval. This is a more proactive approach.

You'd still have the issue of being able to open multiple browser tabs, and they can be more distracting than apps. But there are already plenty of browser extensions for that; personal fav: the Defaulter in https://github.com/louisbarclay/nudge (unfortunately temporarily unmaintained)
Crypto Mythbusting: Do altcoins pump after big Bitcoin moves?
Tesla should buy all of the remaining rental car companies and do the same with those to go to $2T next year.

Today's gains alone for Tesla surpass all American rental companies combined. They could do it if they wanted.
Perhaps this is relevant although it is about the fsf(clarification added after comments): https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/16/glibc_gnulib_fsf_copy...

The glibc stewards are seeking input from developers to decide if the project should relax the requirement to assign copyright for all changes to the Free Software Foundation,"

I do not, and have never, had an assignment in place (it's a running joke that my patch contributions have been all-minus-signs)," wrote glibc contributor Rich Felker, "but given recent behaviour by the FSF board, I am completely unwilling to assign copyright to them in the future, so not making this change may affect my ability to contribute.
I wish I have a solution for you my friend but unfortunately I don’t. Anyone telling you to relax or it will be alright, please don’t believe them. I’m 32 years old and since college I had the same issue and I have tried so many things and all did’t work. I’ve made almost only 1-2 friend after high school. It’s a problem I just don’t know how to over come it. I almost lost hope and start just focusing on myself and try to make some accomplishments and not worry about social life as I tried so hard and nothing is working. Fyi, I’m an immigrant live by myself since college in the US and I think that played a big prt of getting along with people. Not feeling accepted as well as bing an introvert myself. Believe it or not, I have tried to move all over the country/switch jobs maybe it’s the town I was at but nope. I lived in bug cities and rural towns and it’s the same no different what so ever. Peace my friend. I hope it gets better for you.
What is hard to understand here, really? Nobody said anything about EFF having to be transparent.
Both things will happen. In some locations they will be destroyed despite the potential consequences, in other locations the population will rationalize their presence as being a good thing. It'll vary by affluence, culture. Poor people will tolerate them a lot less than rich people (rich people will believe that they make the area safer and will accept the trade-off).
Is this information freely available anywhere? I mean volume breakdown by the type of buyer/seller (institutional/retail/market maker)?
I was really shocked when a Brazilian friend of mine was longing for the days of military dictatorship. Why on earth would he support a dictatorship? Because of crazy murder rates and crime. .001% of the population can destroy popular support for Democracy, if the democratic government isn't able to keep them in check.

And you see this pattern everywhere.

* A small number of anti-social homeless can destroy all the public spaces in a city.

* A small number of disruptive students in a class prevents everyone else from getting an education.

* A small number of vandals can destroy beautiful public spaces for everyone.

* A small number of shoplifters can shutdown stores all across a city

etc.

How society protects itself from the tail of anti-social behavior is going to determine in large part how successful the society will be. And unfortunately in the West we are focusing so much on whether the tail is being treated unfairly and how it can be reformed rather than whether the rest of society is being protected from the tail at all.

This type of tail mismanagement is a good way to lose popular support not only for democracy but for many other institutions (e.g. schools, local governments). This is how people turn to private security, vigilante groups, gated communities, private schools, and in general lose a sense of solidarity and social cohesion.
Designs from Data: Offline Black-Box Optimization via Conservative Training
Online harms don’t need dangerous legislation, they need a spot of naval action