skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think a balanced-ternary Setun was ever built in hardware. It was emulated on a base-4 machine according to this contemporaneous RAND report by Willis Ware [1]

The Setun creator N.P. Brousentsov made a lot of dubious claims, including that Setup "worked correctly at once without even debugging" [2].

Balanced ternary was never competitive in transistors. It was hypothesized to be more efficient for vacuum-tube based ring counters, and even that was "only approximately valid, and the choice of 2 as a radix is frequently justified on more complete analysis" [3].

[1] https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2541.html

[2] https://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm

[3] http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/era/High_Speed_Computing_Devices_1950.pdf
I'm not disputing the idea that he was told this but that's a weird thing to be told just for googling someones name. Maybe he was just curious about his background and wanted to read his wikipedia page.
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Dear whatsapp devs please disable the feature which shows how much time and when to EVERYONE in the world. TY.
> Pianists, orators and athletes all have coaches.

Note that these are all, as we say in the software business, "individual contributors".

And the new accepted wisdom is that there can be no truly outstanding individual contributors. "10x developers" or whatever you might call them, cannot possibly exist, only people who "enable" teams can have any kind of significant impact.

And so it makes no sense to develop or coach extraordinary abilities in individual contributors.

Why this is being accepted despite the clear, overwhelming and long-standing evidence both from within the field and outside it, is beyond me.
Holy Carp, those things look so cool. Like from a vintage sci-fi film.
Complex (and usually somehow broken) caches where optimization would suffice is probably the #1 overengineering outcome I see. And at all levels - from caching HTTP proxies all the way down to functions that take five arguments to avoid re-summing a dozen numbers.
It could also be they planned it this way and will add it to next year’s model. That way they can advertise new “must-have” features for upgraders without redesigning the case/OS
Honestly, it seems it may be more than enough to become the preferred transactional currency of, say, Taco Bell.

The decreasing inflation and other technical merits are super interesting, though.
Do you never nod in agreement when someone else is making a good point. Or use hand gestures? Also you can smile at a joke when you have your camera on. Sometimes it’s nice to have a joke with colleagues.
You're both right. The tradeoff you have to make: is the opportunity cost really worth it?

If you're a big company and are greenfielding a new design, you either need a huge amount of buyin (eg we're going to go heads down for 8 months and come up with a solution) OR you need to build something that provides incrimental improvements along the way. It's really hard for a new greenfield system to compete on features with one with 5 years of features on it.

If you don't have any users, it's far more valuable to demonstrate the business value as early as possible and then build a more scalable solution that's easier for a large team to manage once you've gotten a good chunk of funding.
The FBI has a great track record of successfully thwarting Islamic terrorist plots that it creates:

https://www.salon.com/2010/11/28/fbi_8/

https://theintercept.com/2015/02/26/fbi-manufacture-plots-te...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/16/fbi-entrapment...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/magazine/fbi-internationa...
TLDR, seems ant evolution suggest individual brain size decrease with rise in social / cooperative intelligence / capabilities. Very interesting...
A Robot Called AI-Da Was Detained by Egyptian Border Guards for 10 Days
Yes.

This is a warm-up routine when I can't focus on my reading. After one or two pages, I feel focused and engaged.

One or two times I had to stick with it for longer. Or even in the middle of a reading session, in a very obtuse book.

This, obviously is for technical (or non fiction) books.
Just because you code like it's the 90s doesn't mean everyone else has to. But I'm pretty sure even in the 90s everyone had word-wrap, so the 72 columns thingy never really made sense for texts that don't have indentation.
The firewire connection was lame.

And everyone agreed. If you look at the sales graph for the ipod it is basically a trickle until it suddenly explodes upwards.

Why the explosion? USB adaptor connection allowong it to be used on normal Windows machines.
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Yeah, somewhat counterintuitively treating tech as a cost center will inevitably lead to wasted funds. But hey, that just makes incumbents die faster and give way to organizations treating tech as an investment. Which are the ones you want to work for as a tech person anyway.
This was said about Uber when the various "bro culture" stories started to surface. Doesn't sound like it had any negative effect on ex-Uber alumni hire-ability.

Right now seems like Facebook and Amazon are in the crosshairs for different reasons, but I doubt it will have any long term effects on alumni hire-ability.

That said, there are people on Blind saying they would be wary about hiring ex-Amazon anymore for reasons, but I don't know if there is any weight behind those sentiments.

Otherwise, I'd say if you're ex or current FAANGMULA, you're more likely to have to worry about shooing recruiters away than not having them reach out.
Nearly half of American companies say they are short on skilled workers
A "group of people ... collectively making decisions" doesn't help make sense of anything. A company is itself a group collectively making decisions. Where you draw the "group" line is arbitrary unless you understand the decision-making structure. From the outside you can only make assumptions about which teams or management layers define the "the group."

I also used to believe that personifying companies was silly, but now that I've worked closely with the C-suites of various companies, I've come to understand that companies do have unique cultures and company culture matters. It's the culture that guides decision-making--does customer service and long-term investment matter more than next quarter's goals? Do we want to do thing that's most profitable in the short term because we're cavalier about staying dominant in the long run or are we cautiously managed?

As others have pointed out, MSFT's execs grew up in the Gates-Ballmer culture. MSFT's current actions are consistent with its past actions and attitudes under that regime. I think it's therefore totally legitimate for the parent poster to be concerned about Microsoft, and express that concern by personifying the entity.
I strongly believe in simplicity and maintainability of the applications, even at the cost of some flexibility. I like the simplicity of REST when compared to the GQL. Yeah, you have write some extra lines of code, but in return I get reliable tools, mature frameworks, simpler caching, easy to fine tune database queries, easy testability, etc.
Apparently 100 billion stars in there. That is nuts.
Did they misread the table? I see two distinct rows:

- Cloud Storage

- Internet/Web Browsing

In the big picture it’s probably fine to conflate them but the technical aspects of each are going to be very different.
This just comes across as "bah, get off my lawn."

I'm sure someone wrote a similar lament when cameras were invented; waxing nostalgic about having to spend hours with an artist in order to have a portrait painted.
Do they? Why? Do you have evidence?
A Brief History of Data Warehousing
This uses the GNU version of sed and the BSD versions of everything else. Roughly: print the calendar, transpose the data, get the line with only Thursdays, count the spaces between the dates fo the Thursdays. Just realized I have a picket fence error. You can fix that. Also it's the wrong month. Also it's horribly unportable. Also it rocks.

cal | sed 1d | rs -T | grep Th | sed -e 's/\( \+$\|^Th \+\)//g' -e 's/ \+/_/g' -e 's/[^_]//g' | wc -c
These are just unconnected ramblings. Check your own hysteria and sources. We are leaving Covid behind. With some luck it will become more like influenza.
It doesn't matter if it's meaningless to the hackernews crowd, it really only matters if it has meaning to you and if you're learning.
80 billion dollars? China's annual defense budget is $202 billion. They're not going to be spending 40% of that on AI.
I agree that Java has a lot of silly boilerplate, but I don't see that as a huge hurdle. Most people will use an IDE that populates it for you. Keep in mind this is for a complete beginner.

Dependency management with either Java or Python is PITA IMO, but my idea would be to avoid dependencies during this initial phase of learning the basics.
My point is, that if you trained an AI on Parisian French, people in Quebec would be annoyed but could adapt to the differences if they wanted to use the system. People in southern Germany may be annoyed they have to speak high German, but they know it. There are very few people, if any, who only understand Cajun French and the issue.

Also, the biggest difference would be the pronunciation differences vs words being different. The word differences are easily modeled after any ASR, if the developer understands the differences and plans for it in their NLU models.
> Won't they just have to buy Resharper anyway?

ReSharper's edge has mostly disappeared, and between that and the ongoing performance problems in medium-large solutions you're better off either using Rider or Visual Studio 22 + Intellicode + Roslynator.

With Rider you're obviously getting all of R# with no performance issues, and with the VS22 + Intellicode + Roslynator you're getting like 85% of R# with much better performance characteristics.
But james slagle issue came before algol was finished, and IIRC some algol document mentions the funarg problem too, so there was crosspollinisation.
I want to agree with you, but having been part of the pair-interviewing process at one of the FAANG companies, it did seem like candidates would be declined for the most arbitrary technical screw-ups. One time a manager (at least nominally) voted "No" on a candidate specifically because, despite figuring out the solution to the problem, had a compilation error in their Java code and ran out of time to fix it. I remember saying to the manager that that seems like a pretty silly reason to decline someone, compilation errors are typically pretty easy to fix, but I was relatively new to the job so I didn't want to rock the boat too much. He claimed that they only want "the best" and I guess that implied that the best don't have compilation errors.
In a whole lot of cases dying is, whether we like it or not "I/we/We[0] don't want to pay for it anymore". I have the experience of pulling the plug on my dad, not for financial reasons, but because it was very clear that he was going to die anyways and it wasn't worth the emotional energy to keep him around (luckily for us, everyone important had time to say their goodbyes and several annoying people had said their goodbyes too [1]). But it also brought into focus to me that we COULD have spent/forced the system to spend millions of dollars in extraordinary resources to keep him alive.

Medical technology is quite advanced these days. Advanced != free. And there's a thing where the longer you try to prolong someone's life the more progressively expensive it becomes, not just from a "price of care" perspective but an "[externalized] cost of care" perspective. Is it worth X carbon dioxide emissions to keep a person on a "level-III dialysis machine"? Is it worth X acres of rainforest to extract an anticancer drug to keep someone's cancer at bay?

Anyways the political divide, in the US, between the left's clueless utopianism and the right's underhanded support of market-distorting profitmongers, has become so farcical that it's impossible to question if humans should have "a general right to have their life extended" even if there are actual, difficult questions to go around.

[0] capital We, as in "the state"

[1] if you ever have the experience of being by the bedside of someone who is dying (n=2 for me), you will see people who come to visit, and have so much pathos, I suspect largely due to their own hangups about death. To be at your best in your role, you will want to shoo them away as quickly as possible.
it is like regular Firefox but really hard to install. It will also kill you if it crashes
> They are also expected to last more than a decade, again against brand.

Eh my 2013 MBP is coming up on that and can still compile my work's app (albeit slowly and with a lot of fan noise). The rest is correct though.
Daguerreotypes were only used for a brief period in 1840s and 1850s but had huge impact on development of photography.

Edit: check out the video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbbH77rYaa8
Well I guess I was assuming the prediction was the realization, not the claim for harm. I predict the opposite, that the vast overreaction taken by much of the world will become to apparent to deny. Yet we'll be in too deep for most to admit it.
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It's so cool to see these pictures. It does seem to match David Shayer's description:

So they make what Apple calls a stealth case, which is just a big plastic box. So our stealth case was so ugly. It looked like they went into an old Russian medical equipment leftover warehouse and just took some plastic boxes, and stuck it in. It was horrible. They said basically, “ You’re writing the file system for this thing. You don’t need to know what’s on the disc. Just make it work.”

They weren't supposed to know what they were working on. To the extent that that was possible.

https://corecursive.com/063-apple-2001/#the-first-day
Learning these esoteric languages seems like the opposite of what you want to do if your goal is to create employable engineers in as little time as possible.
such a nice fancy sounding word for something that is so great & powerful but which also is a vast anti-Enlightenment force. we used to see the world about us, could monkey with things about us. butnhugh tech goods are deeply resistant to observation & understanding. what used to be apparent & ooen for interaction has become like magic to us, and we, humans, thr toolmakers, understand & see less of our ephemeralizing infrastructure & tools.

also ephemeralizes systems are often high capable, valuable resources that only big powers in the world can afford or operate well, much less build or develop. this lends to empheralized technology being more prescriptive, typically. it is general & adaptive & highly capable but rarely do we see examples of that power being opened & expressed to random people coming into a shop off the street, or to random consumers: consumers are given a crafted experience, a set of flows carved out of the more capable generalized ephemeralizes systems.
Writing a Linux-compatible kernel in Rust
Thank you! I proposed this new one on occasion of the new version - it is good that the project is alive.

It remains relevant to also mention KolibriOS, the fork:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27249075 - May 2021 (134 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22873298 - Apr 2020 (219 comments)
As someone who is a native of Los Angeles, and spent many childhood drives on La Cienega, I love this story. I had to look up the character -- looks like it was an animated series called The Proud Family that ran on Disney in the early 00s, and was created by an LA native.

Growing up in LA I could see a lot of influences from my local area in media (and in the 80s a lot of stuff was filmed in LA too so I'd literally see local spots in movies). But it never occurred to me that the LA inside jokes wouldn't really be inside jokes to people outside of LA.
All this reminds me of MTV in the late-90s/early-2000s. We all watched it, even though we all pretty much hated it. Then, something magical happened: the internet became a content platform (MySpace, YouTube, Facebook, etc.), and MTV became basically irrelevant - my teenage niece-and-nephew don't even know what MTV is. And this seems to have happened to Facebook; it's still popular with the olds, obviously, but once again, my teenage niece-and-nephew don't have accounts on Facebook. They laughed when I asked them about it, said Facebook was "annoying", just like us olds thought MTV was annoying back in the day.

Not really adding much value to this whole conversation; just an observation.
>However in the strict sense of math, there is a requirement there.

As someone who tutored first year MBAs at one point...

My observation in general was that most people could at least muddle through most classes, even if they were at best mediocre students. But some subset of students pretty much froze at anything beyond the most basic arithmetic--and then probably only because they had calculators.

Whether you call it aptitude or just a phobia about math, it's there.

I even had project groups of generally strong students. But, still, as soon as things got into more complicated spreadsheets, operations research sort of topics, etc., I usually ended up doing more than my share.

Over the years there have been a number of "My first year at business school" sort of books and the common theme in all of them I think is "It was the math that got me."
The 72 (or 80) column standard is one that is guaranteed to be accessible in virtually any circumstances.

Such as, say, just for the sake of argument, when you've been awakened at 2 am by a pager, have travelled an hour to the colo, have a multi-switch KVM wired to a cabinet of otherwise headless boxen, several of which are embedded / dedicated devices with no package installation or updates possible, several of which support only serial terminal access (possibly given an equivalent access over TCP/IP or USB), and for which the output standard is an 80x24 terminal.

This might include ILOM, IPMI, or similar protocols.

There's too much RF in the colo itself to make a phone call, let alone support wireless or mobile data.

In such a circumstance, relying on anything but 7-bit ASCII text becomes really dicey.

Unicode has over 144,000 characters presently supported with more being added constantly. Systems without ongoing OS support (such as the six year old Android tablet I'm typing this on) simply won't have the new hawtness^Wcuteness installed, and I'll be looking at some variant of ▯▯▯▯▯▯▯▯. Which in context won't be especially useful.

Documentation in MS Word, DOCX, PDF, PS, or ePub will be simmilarly opaque.

Documentation in strict HTML ... without dependencies on images, CSS, or JS, may be useful, if I can aim w3m or lynx at it. (And I can always simply view the source.)

Documentation, like lifeboats, fire-extinguishers, and aircraft emergency slides, is intended for use in the least favourable, not most favourable conditions.

Your high-powered, graphical, UTF-8 / Unicode lastest-motherlovin-codeset Retina-display monitor should have no issues in taking 72-character-wrapped text and unfolding it to longer line lengths.

That 15 year old bit of embedded kit corporate's been too fucking cheap to replace or swap out when the universe is melting down, not so much.
I've tried to use it for C# work, and while it is usable, you're still getting a subpar experience since not everything Visual Studio can do is offered by the dotnet CLI.

I was arguing above for that to change, I wasn't suggesting that is the reality today. VSCode is great for CSS/JS/HTML/etc though, but unfortunately C#/Dotnet still remains VS.
This site is getting quite repetitive. I think the balance of News to things of interest has gotten quite out of whack. This article is not news, and is also in recent memory so not an interesting re-visit. Is HN average age decreasing? The content character has changed in recent years. Something's changed/changing.
This thread has a lot more on the current state of vGPU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28944426
Russia Is Censoring the Internet, with Coercion and Black Boxes
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Rule-based tagging for Strava activities
I worked in information security for 10 years before I became a developer, so I seen both sides of the fence. Most developers believe they know more about security than they really do qualified by their owned invented nonsense and then invent all kinds of fictitious bullshit to qualify those invented opinions.

> How many of those 250 questions are related to proper implementation of cryptography?

Many. Back when I took the test there were 10 knowledge domains, one of which was cryptography, and cryptography by far got the lions share of attention.

The rest of your comment falls apart into some bizarre nonsense to explain an argument from ignorance. https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/cgi-bin/uy/webpages.cgi?...

If you no actual experience on the subject why would make such spurious biased recommendations?
The anti-trust stuff is also about Instagram. Isn't FB the service losing young folks largely to Instagram?

Anyway, everything about monopoly is about the market space. FB has no monopoly in places-to-post-stuff-and-get-attention-online… except in the many many countries that FB successfully took over where there is near-zero use of the rest the internet, but those cases don't apply to U.S. anti-trust law.

FB has more monopoly power in some other market areas. Not a complete monopoly, but they have a lot of dominance in the market space of targetted social-driven advertising.
https://hellotars.com , I work here. We have customers from different industries including finance, health, e-commerce, real-estate, etc
Is college that clothing focused now? I think it changes across generations. Not as in smelly, but wearing a beat up shirt and jeans was pretty fad in the 80s. I remember seeing a HS class visit in the late 80s and they were all dressed like they were going to a Miami Vice shoot.

In winter I would dress before light and end up on bus or class randomly with an inside-out tee. This drove people crazy. I stopped checking myself because I met so many people that way who would have otherwised ignored me but felt compelled to tap my shoulder and tell me.

Sometimes you have to be different enough to stand out.
5 years after the 2016 MBP and the only device I have with USB-C is my Android phone.

All my PC peripherals still use USB-A.
One could argue that's the problem: They got a slap on the wrist instead of crippling punishment for illegal behavior, and there are companies that may be farther in the electric vehicle game than they are today, because they didn't employ a grandiose, law-flouting CEO to prop up their stock.
For context: When this post was written (2020-05-18), TSLA was at ~$165 per share. Right now, it is at $1028 after yet another massive jump (+13% today, [1]).

This means that Tesla has reached the market cap of $1B that the article gave them a 50% chance of reaching by 2027. That could also mean that (if you consider this analysis to be accurate) it has stopped being undervalued.

Personally, I agree about the lead in EV production. Everyone else is playing catch-up, although the other manufacturers do have more experience with building cars (just not EVs). Tesla also has a unique approach with their vertical integration that could be deciding (for good or bad).

I have very little confidence in their autonomous driving capabilities. Can someone say more about their battery tech and battery manufacturing? Do they have any unique/ahead-of-competitors capabilities when compared to battery (not car) manufacturers?

[1] Edit to add, the reason is likely a Hertz deal https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-tsla-shares-jump-hertz-4-3-b... - I had mostly given up on searching for explanations for stock rises because it tends to bring up algorithmically generated clueless speculative drivel, but this was big enough to have an actual explanation.
Noise-driven topological changes in chaotic dynamics