skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were GUI's for POV-Ray too, Moray i used extensibly, and something for the Atari I forgotten what it was called, didn't use it much.

I started with my 8 MHz Atari, each test scene took at least 10 minutes for a stamp-size picture and then the sphere was in the wrong place and wasn't visible or the wrong texture. It took me soo long to get the hang of the coordinate system and the language. But fun it was!

I printed the documentation so I could read it while the computer was buzy rendering.

I also wrote a small program for my Atari Falcon that would turn of the graphics chip to give me more rendering speed. Since it was a shared bus it used up something like 25% CPU on full colour.
I'm not familiar with the US hospitals... But pretty much everywhere else I've seen the doctors and nurses being seriously overworked. Is this different on the other side of the pond?
Breezewood is the way it is for historical reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breezewood,_Pennsylvania#Unusu...
Utility is subjective? We have instincts around what to consider useful or not. These instincts have been calibrated by evolution for survival. Survival is pretty objective, don't you agree?
How was this in doubt? I invent fire, you see it and copy my idea. Technology transfer. The idea is useful enough that it propagates out to the rest of the world over time. This is intuitive.
You will be delighted to learn of the existence of (inter alia)

- France

- Japan

- Australia

- Great Britain

- Finland

- Taiwan

- New Zealand

- South Korea

- and many more!

All countries which do not spend anything like what we do on defense, are not under Chinese or russian domination, AND nearly all have longer life expectancy than we do while at the same time spending much much much less on a per capita basis on health care than the US does.
Exactly. Thanks for reminding me.
0-Day Vulnerability on Log4j
I tried writing my last project in React but its Postgresql libraries are basically non-existent.
The early FM pieces weren't very pop. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=988jPjs1gao

You may think it sounds crude, but pieces like these took hours of expensive mainframe (PDP-10) time. There wasn't a lot of opportunity for careful sculpting of fine details.

You could easily synthesize something like this in real time now. But not many people do, which I think is a shame.

If you can read French, there's more background here: http://brahms.ircam.fr/analyses/Stria/
This sentence is key:

> This is ostensibly what the legal system provides, but anyone who’s actually tried to go through small claims court knows that the reality of that route is… painful. And it often ends unsatisfactorily

And it is in fact a key feature of the contemporary modern world: the people don't have a realistic access to court anymore, and this deeply undermines the legitimacy of the State.

This immediately reminded this article[1] which explained how the Taliban have rebuilt their power in Afghanistan in recent years, especially outside of their original ethnic group (Pashtuns): by appointing judges in every provinces, available for free, with no delay and hassle.

A quick DeepL translation of the most relevant part of the article:

> From a material point of view, these courts are rudimentary. The judges, dressed without distinctive signs, sit in village mosques, in private houses or under the cover of trees. “The Taliban courts operate in a very simple way, said one of them. The Taliban judge sits with a cup of green tea in front of him, he receives the requests in person. Then he calls a member of the movement and tells him to go and ask the people against whom a complaint has been filed to come the next day” The judges interview witnesses, examine the documents brought by the disputing parties, and render their verdict, often after a few days - at most a few months for the most sensitive cases. Most disputes concerned land or matrimonial matters, but judges also punished theft, murder and adultery, sometimes with very severe penalties (executions, amputations, stoning). […]

> The same motivation was found in a relative of Mr. Faizal Akbar, governor of Kounar province between 2002 and 2005. Despite his political opposition to the Taliban, he was forced to turn to them for a theft of cattle because, since the regime's judges were "corrupt," the costs of filing a complaint with the police and of an official trial would have far exceeded the value of the stolen cattle.

[1] https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2021/09/BACZKO/63487 (in French)
My thinking is that if the blockchain has sufficiently high fees and sufficiently high computational cost, then people have an incentive not to try to game it. That includes off-chain.

It leads to the question of what is the real purpose and utility of a distributed blockchain? If the blockchain can willy-nilly be gamed and won't be enforced, why have it?
I'm guessing we'll eventually converge on something like Nix except where every artifact is in a Ducker image. (And with a micro k8s on a "cluster" of one machine to make this mess sorta work.)
I think for most streams there's no real need to watch them from start til end. You can just tune in and out at will without missing much. For many it probably just runs in the background while they do other things, like some people do with soap operas on TV.
What are some cool websites that I can visit right now?
The M. Night Shamalayan twist....the Lucky Charms Elf ends up with the girl.
PHP :P
I sorta had the feeling he fell victim to "cult of personality" eventually. Everybody telling him he was so great he lost touch with reality. Or was he never actually connected in the first place?
Hopefully they invest their money and don't blow it on Ferraris and avocado toast.
Looks like he didn't maximize shareholder value!
5G HD Voice has better quality than an analog land line with no noticeable latency. Of course the actual audio quality experience depends more on the handset and ambient environment than on the network.
Seems to be not much different from zeronet. It even makes the exact same mistakes like not building in anonymization by default (preferably using i2p). Zeronet hovever is much more mature and has a very active community.
I didn't realize that this was prompted by Facebook labeling information that John Stossel posted as "false and misleading". I found a post with his side of it:

https://www.thenews-messenger.com/story/opinion/2021/10/02/j...
log4j is a very popular and ubiquitous Java library. Having a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in it is a serious problem that undoubtedly affects a huge portion of the internet.
Thank you for a good series of articles and some great insight into the inner working of FM synthesis in general.

I have never owned one of the original Yamaha's, but i have been using the awesome Dexed VSTi plug in, that is modeled after the DX7 for several years now.

And I am planning on purchasing a Korg Opsix for its FM capabilities.

But for someone that has only been on the learning-by-experimenting end of FM synthesis, your articles are a great insight into the theory behind it all.
Get rid of onerous documentation requirements. There - you cut 10%-20% of hospital administration costs, and you haven't changed how much doctors are being paid per hour, but you have increased their productivity, so they can see more patients for the same salary.

Find me a payer who will agree to it and I'll show you the solution to healthcare bloat.
And even then, quite a lot of that audio production software is very, very inefficient, primarily due to poor GUI development. There are a few popular choices of software that are very well-known for being CPU hogs, even relative to more complex software.
I don't know what you are talking about. I can tell you the rough plot of Stranger Things, Squid Game, and Tiger King despite never having seen a single episode of those series.

Shows are still part of popular culture, it's just streaming instead of timed TV.
Adjacently, this is fun:

https://github.com/mcdwayne/CIA-Emoji-WP-Plugin/blob/master/...

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Life-critical industries like airlines, cars, healthcare, etc. are probably the exception?

If a restaurant ran out of some menu item for a few days because a supplier didn't have a good harvest, eh, it happens. If a bookstore doesn't stock a certain book, no big deal. Grocery store self-checkout broken yet again? Oh well. Band got too drunk and can't perform? Reschedule it. No snow at the slopes? Climate change.

In the real world, shit happens, and most of it isn't critical.

If you offer a 99.999% guarantee and your customers pay for it, well, you better deliver -- subcontractors or not. But many businesses don't need to do that and a few hours of downtime a year is just a minor inconvenience. To go from "a few days of downtime" to "a few hours" is really easy; just about any provider can offer that. To go from "a few hours of downtime" to "a few seconds" is a huge investment and not worth it to many folks.
To quote the BLS [0] on why home prices are the wrong metric:

> the CPI views housing units as capital (or investment) goods and not as consumption items. Spending to purchase and improve houses and other housing units is investment and not consumption. Shelter, the service the housing units provide, is the relevant consumption item for the CPI. The cost of shelter for renter-occupied housing is rent. For an owner-occupied unit, the cost of shelter is the implicit rent that owner occupants would have to pay if they were renting their homes.

If I'm reading that fact sheet correctly, they actually don't ask homeowners at all. Rather they just ask a bunch of renters whet their monthly rent is (which the vast majority of them should be able to answer accurately) and then use fancy math to extrapolate what the nearby home ownership units would rent for.

I'd suggest reading/skimming that whole fact sheet if you want more details, though the summary seems to be that they've actually put a bunch of thought into this stuff.

[0]: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/owners-equivalent-rent-an...
No it isn’t better. It just means that money is not going to “rich stockholders” as the parent asserts.
I think you misread my statement. The first bitcoin block literally had a political statement embedded into it. That's all I'm pointing out.
Hundreds of thousands? The battles I read about maybe reached tens of thousands, and who knows how many had swords.

Even in Europe, a large part of the armies were peasants with whatever comes to hand. Their resource constraint on metals wasn't the ore, but the availability of the enormous quantities of wood required to process it.
Isn't this related to proportionality? Giving somebody with only $1 another dollar increases their wealth by 100%. Giving somebody with $1 million another two dollars increases their wealth much less, proportionally.
AngelList Roll Up Vehicles: Why, What and How
It’s good background noise for me, albeit I watch relaxing background content here, things like Pokémon or Animal Crossing.
Years ago I helped a friend install a CasaTunes [1] setup in their house. They already had speakers installed in the ceilings of each room, but they were routed to local closets with the intention of putting a system in each closet. We pulled cable to haul them all back to one closet and installed the CasaTunes system. The result was very nice, smart phone app control over the music in each room. It worked well for individual listening or to set the atmosphere for events.

[1] https://www.casatunes.com/
I noticed this 6-7 years ago and decided to find time to read a book a month. The easiest way was to insert this in a bedtime routine.

Your smartphone must be out of reach.
We're getting into the territory of some external debates -- that is to say, into areas that have already been debate by others, so there isn't much knew I could tell you here.

But basically I'm in the camp of Gary Marcus and others, who would probably respond by saying something along the lines of the following:

"No, there's not particularly good evidence that all we're doing is pattern matching, and a lot of evidence to the contrary. For one thing, a lot of these ML algorithms (touted as near- or superhuman) are easily fooled, especially when you jiggle the environmental context by even just a little bit."

"For another, and on a higher level, what algorithms lack -- but which sentient mammals have in spades -- is an ability to 'catch' themselves, an ability to look at the whole situation and say 'Woah, something just isn't right here'. (This is referred to as the 'elephant in the room' problem with modern AI)."

"And then there's the lack of a genuine survival drive -- not to mention the fact that we don't see any inkling of evidence of some capacity for self-awareness in any currently existing system."

Just as a starting point. But these are some huge differences between currently existing AI systems (however you want to define "AI here) and actual sentient cognition.

Huge, huge differences... such that I don't see one can get the idea that "all" we're doing is pattern recognition. Even if it may cover roughly 90 percent of what our neural tissues do - that other 10 percent is absolutely crucial, and completely elusive to any current, working technology as such.

When someday we do achieve human level intelligences in computers, it will be at least in large part with ML.

No doubt it will, but still there's that ... remaining 10 percent. Which you won't get to with accelerated pattern finding any more than a faster airplane will get you to the moon.
Zero-day vulnerability in popular Java library log4j
How much time does reverse engineering this kind of chip take?
Chelsea Manning: Activist and Whistleblower
There never will be a free market due to inability to negotiate prices and obtain quotes.

A person who had a stroke is not going to be evaluating offers from various surgeons. Nor are 99% of people going to know what healthcare they need or don’t need.

That is the service a managed care organization provided (aka insurance company).
Good work, capitalism. /s
Honestly the biggest selling point of Go to me was that it's simple and consistent. It enforces strong opinions that I may disagree with, but it means everyone does things generally the same way which is an important component in readability. With respect to short variable names, the convention is to only use them for very local scopes (e.g., using `i` as a loop index variable). In particular, I don't need to learn a new language or run a daemon just to compile code with a few dependencies and ship a static binary. Similarly, I don't need to configure CI pipelines just to publish packages or documentation. I don't need an IDE, I don't need to shop around for a test framework or an external web server process because they're built in. I don't have to think about what version of the runtime and/or dependencies are installed on my target system. Plus performance is good and the ecosystem is substantial. Personally from experience, I weight these kinds of concerns a lot higher than whatever bells and whistles are available inside of the language.
I suspect JetBrains location in Eastern Europe helped a great deal talent-wise.
>the majority of the fraud that led to the financial crisis

Really? How exactly do you measure "the majority?"

All the borrowers that took money they were not going to pay back was exactly the root cause. Had they not borrowed, then not paid, there would have been no crisis. They first lack of payment wasn't because a bank forgot to pay. It was because a borrower that signed for a loan did not pay.

And guess what - there are still tons of mortgage backed securities, yet now that more people pay, there is not continual crashes. The ratings agencies still work, the banks still work, but more people are denied loans. So the problem wasn't that MBS automatically fail, or ratings agencies are completely incompetent.

We just stopped letting people access loans like drunken sailors.
The reason why many 8 bit home computers put the memory controller in the graphics chip was to give the graphics subsystem "first dibs" over bitmap data in RAM. If the microprocessor has its own copy of RAM then the graphics subsystem may never update the display unless the cpu "writes through" all memory write operations (resulting in a significant performance slowdown).
Personally, as a programmer I usually have a Twitch stream (often Tyler1's) running on a second monitor as background noise if I'm not listening to music. However, the most active chatters are mainly college students in my experience.
We’re quite far from human-level intelligence and require drastically more power and data storage. It wouldn’t be surprising to see that the ML powering general AI would look the same as today’s AI to 90s ML. Still useful but qualitatively a meaningfully different approach.
I don't think I'd classify any of those studies as "very strong evidence". Lots of studies in many different environments(some uncontrollable) measuring different things at different dosages. It doesn't exactly result in finding any particular conclusion, certainly not "Vitamin D supplementation effectively prevents, reduces harm or cures COVID".
The streamer is 8 hours in, not the audience. Also, if you think how much free time children, teenagers and NEET adults have, yeah, 5+h per day watching games is completely doable during a pandemic.
FM radio probably knows it, but what are they going to do? Nobody is going to start listening if they reduced ads. Best course to just squeeze every last dime out of the current listeners until you can't turn a profit anymore.
Another really great video is Anders and Lars Bak around the time Typescript and Dart came out (about the same time.) In this video Anders explains to Lars why TypeScript will win the race to fix JavaScript's drawbacks. Lars was really happy with their Dart VM (as he should be) and didn't really want to hear how TypeScript would prevail. The thing about Anders is that he's usually right and he was.

Anders Hejlsberg and Lars Bak: TypeScript, JavaScript, and Dart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AqbCQuK0gM
A bajillion years ago in HN time, Joel Spolsky wrote about the then-fashionable peer-to-peer frenzy, that everyone was getting Napster wrong: Nobody cared about peer-to-peer, everyone cared about:

“You can type the name of a song and listen to it right away.”

My n=1 anecdote: Soon thereafter, I was typing the name of a song into iTunes, buying it for CAD 1.29, and listening to it right away. I spent hundreds of dollars a year on the iTunes Music Store.

It wasn’t peer-to-peer that some of us liked, it was making the experience as frictionless as possible. Rightsholders hate that, but they lose this argument every damn time. The winners in content are always those who make it easy.

p.s. In the 1950s, TV was the disruptive low-friction experience. You could turn on the set and watch Lucy and Desi right away, without buying tickets, getting dressed, and going to a theatre!
The debugger of a Lisp system is also not exclusively written in the language (operators, ...) described in the Lisp standard. The standard language is largely independent from a runtime. It says nothing about the implementation technology. The Lisp system could be running on a virtual machine (like many Smalltalk systems), it could be a whole-program compiler to C, ...

For example in LispWorks it's possible to look at a snapshot of a stack in a Debugger, later.
And their rates/pricing wasn't even any better than other places, just obfuscated so it was harder to compare.
And it's also wrong: There's a list of rust alumni on the website and afaik, every person that has served on a team can be added there: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/alumni

The author of the post complaining about not maintaining a list of alumni is listed on that page.
Brazil's health ministry website hit by hacker attack, systems down
That might be due to https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts (I know it's a joke and the drawing is getting old, but it still rings somewhat true).
Actually if the GP had posted this critique instead of a shallow, reductionist internet dismissal ("just want to sell the hype"), that would have been fine. Thoughtful critique is welcome—it just requires higher-quality comments than that.
When I first got online we did this to smile: <G>
Very easy to exploit as well: https://github.com/YfryTchsGD/Log4jAttackSurface
Even without a C64 mode, the C128 is a cool system. Dual monitor outputs, 128K RAM, 2 MHz 6502, great BASIC, fast floppy drives. The only thing that would have been better would have been to add these things to the C64. Also nice: dual SIDs.

They could have added all of the above without breaking backward compatibility. This would have encouraged programmers to check for the enhanced features and use them if available.

Of course, long term, they would have needed to go with the 65816 and ultimately switch to another processor architecture.

I think if all of the 8-bit and 16-bit systems had survived until today, they would all be running on Wintel hardware but with their own operating systems, just like Apple Macs.
You pre-judge people for using the words mainstream media; and I've given you the reasons I feel that's dumb and on the wrong side.

Your argument is "you don't know me", so I think we can end this chat there.
Giving away guns isn't illegal.

But giving them away and telling people to use against someone is.
Great choice of music. From the album "Music to Moog By".
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I didn't know him well enough to know if he emanated a "Reality Distortion Field" like Jobs and Holmes did.

But he was very charismatic.
> Factually not true.

No one who was active in the computer industry in the 90s will say that. Don't care what that book says.
> In 2010, Assange gained unauthorized access to a government computer system of a NATO country. In 2012, Assange communicated directly with a leader of the hacking group LulzSec (who by then was cooperating with the FBI), and provided a list of targets for LulzSec to hack. With respect to one target, Assange asked the LulzSec leader to look for (and provide to WikiLeaks) mail and documents, databases and pdfs. In another communication, Assange told the LulzSec leader that the most impactful release of hacked materials would be from the CIA, NSA, or the New York Times. WikiLeaks obtained and published emails from a data breach committed against an American intelligence consulting company by an “Anonymous” and LulzSec-affiliated hacker. According to that hacker, Assange indirectly asked him to spam that victim company again.

> In addition, the broadened hacking conspiracy continues to allege that Assange conspired with Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning to crack a password hash to a classified U.S. Department of Defense computer.

10 seconds of perusing the indictment against Assange alleges he actively did things other than merely publish data that was given to him.
https://alexyu.net/plenoctrees/
Cool. I'd probably pick a different font, but I like this consistency. Perhaps as a way resisting attempts at emotional manipulation by typography...
> I think the issue is that even if Mozilla did do that, to achieve the same level of configurability for privacy and security, in ways that the user.js and all it's options offer, or with the many objections they've had to new standards, they would end up needing to fork Chromium to a point where it might become debatable whether the effort was worth it in the first place.

Yeah. That's basically what happened with Blink/Webkit. But that chasm is narrower than Gecko/anything, since at least they share a common heritage. And with Chromium, we already have Chromium/Brave/Opera/Edge/Samsung/Silk/Vivaldi/etc., all of which have fewer problems than the entirely separate Gecko, to say nothing of SpiderMonkey vs V8 & Node.

A browser is more than just the renderer, as those alternatives have shown. The world might need an underdog nonprofit browser, but it doesn't need an alternative renderer.