skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Symbolics was fundamentally the victim of an inferior performance doubling time. Their performance increased at a rate noticeably slower than more mainstream processors.

That meant that their massive advantage in running lisp evaporated in just a few years between the mid 80s and 1990.

This was coupled with an inability to simplify their product. The first Symbolics machine we ordered at the CRL at NMSU in '84 had to have a guy with a graduate degree from UT come light it up. The SUN 2 that arrived at the same time had everything preinstalled and just needed me to plug in a few cables and turn on the power switch. The complexity of the Symbolics was reflected in the maintenance contract prices and in the fact that you generally had to deliver an entire OS and dev tool chain image to deliver any program (a so-called world build).

A few performance improvement doubling times later, Sun was the darling of the startup world and you could buy all of Symbolics for the price of a few of their maintenance contracts. Sun had been able to hitch a ride on the broader base of the 68000 processors from Motorola and then was able to improve the Sparc processor at a much faster tempo than Symbolics could cycle their own design.

Of course, about 15 years later, Sun fell victim to similar pressures and business model problems when the Sparc development team couldn't maintain tempo against Intel. Intel's primary advantage was broad market adoption which funded faster design cycles. Sun also had locked in on large banks by that time (how they survived the .com crash) and couldn't get back out to the broader market.

So it wasn't really that the flood came to the desert ... it was that Symbolics was focused on the wrong problem because they thought they had all the answers.
These are the best ones I've ever worn : https://turnbullandasser.co.uk/products/white-west-indian-se...
No one needs yours either.
It sure sounds like IBM were bad. But it sounds like your company was even worse, the way your bosses' boss behaved.
In each comment, the karma is bounded by -4. Also, comments can not be downvoted after 12 or 24 hours. (I'm never sure.) So the damage of downvote brigades is bounded.

Also, the system probably can detect it and notify the mods and they fix the karma. (There are a lot of hidden unofficial features. They are part of the secret sauce. Some may be fictional.)

Also, if you see something like this, you can send an email to the mods to they can take a look.
Mailgun are pretty good. I use them on a couple of email services I’ve built.
A useful read. I was hoping for combination pronunciations as well (often found in functional programming): rocket =>, arrow ->, etc
> This seems to assume that the 10 strangers are not someone else’s children.

It does not make that assumption.
Not to be in disagreement that there is a huge disparity in wealth, but most of this gain is in illiquid assets that vary daily, and much of it is in securities and other financial instruments. And this was driven by the Fed and other banking institutions around the world pumping up the money supply.

It's going to be interesting this year as they pull back with their QT program.
Oracle is a expensive and "popular" database, IBM does many things ( eg. Quantum computers, ... )

Palantir is a consultancy body shop with a dashboard product and a probably good pipeline for merging data. ( Reference - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11646587 )

Pure consultancy is rated much lower ( eg. Thoughtworks if you want a reference)
Yeah when I ran my script using the real wordlist I got RAISE too. (Just updated the article.)
It’s because of an inner city gang culture. It’s primarily just one specific demographic in the US that glorifies gang violence and shooting. If we eliminate this demographic culture, the gun violence issue will be solved.
I think one piece of evidence would be the studies in psychology on the "big five" personality characteristics that show women scoring higher than men on agreeableness. But this is more of my guess on how things work.

And it's probably not a massive offset in the bell curves; your examples would not be in conflict.
Even assuming the candidate isn't lying, this approach relies on great episodic memory, introspection and eloquence; qualities almost entirely unrelated to those you're actually looking for.
Food: Various sources. On this one, I am a bit of a spiritualist, so I generally wait for acceptable food to appear before me or be given to me and only then eat it. (If someone offers to buy me something, I generally refuse.) I believe in the benefit of fasting, so I fast until acceptable food appears, but I rarely fast unintentionally

Your answer sounds evasive. It's like your answer to the question "So how do you eat?" is "I don't, basically."
Great observation. I had opened it on my old mobile browser and it loaded super fast too!
I think e-bikes did the important job of making bike rides more enjoyable for the masses. And the next important changes are maybe not on the bikes themselves but infrastructure. Would be great to have more safe bike routes which are fully separated from traffic. And it would be great to have more opportunities to safely store and park those expensive bikes. It’s annoying if something is definitely within biking distance but be one can’t leave a bike on the area without having to worry it might be gone shortly after.
Any blockchain which universally stores media forever puts itself in the category “economically unfeasible/unsustainable.” People pay for that storage and the large and distinct nature of media makes it easy to single out prune. Worst case scenario I replace that block with illegal media with its original block header and no data.

The cost to sustain an illegal media attack such that consecutive blocks contain such data is unsustainable and far easier to ameliorate than a 51% attack. According to this $76k per gigabyte on Eth. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/872/what-is-the...
The Chinese make tofu using Plaster of Paris harvested from streams.

Wonder if there are many other old school dirt eating recipes.
My observation is that men tend more to form friendships around activities such as sports, hobbies, etc., while women tend more toward emotional support, as the article states.
The thing is that:

Junior -> needs monitoring ~weekly

Senior -> does eng work reliably and on time, can lead a junior or maybe a few but doesn't have to

Staff -> leads Seniors (plus maybe some juniors directly)

Grandparent is mentioning that in their org there are plenty Staffs that do not lead anyone.
That may be. I also just learned that you need to be logged into a Google account.

It's not a great solution anyway, a far cry from open access. But I feel like any hole in a research paywall should be public knowledge, however small and clunky it maybe.
Can we have a hash function that is theoretically secure, rather than just "we shuffled a bunch of bits, and nobody yet knows how to unshuffle them, but in 20 years someone might discover how to"?

For example, encrypting the data with a public key where nobody knows the private key ought to do the job, for example, public key=pi. Then use the encrypted data as the 'hash' (or some shortened version of it by discarding bits).

Yes, I know it would be slower, but it might be better to pay the performance cost than to have to move everything to a new algorithm every 20 years.
If anyone is interested in seeing Spaced Repetition applied in different areas besides language and vocabulary. I have a free website called Piano Gym that lets you do use spaced repetition with Piano and sheet music.

It's pretty spiffy, and I can go on at length about it. I have a video explaining it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faxNDhOjlh4

And a long form interview explaining it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrDAC6ZYGHk

I personally use Piano Gym and I've found it to be pretty helpful in getting you to a point of practice and reading sheet music. But there's always more work to do for some of my more ambitious features. However it's a free tool and I have to make my money at my job. So enhancements come out slow.
I think it may be even deeper.

I have 3 male friends who are extremely close types. And others I would say are very close types. However, they are not particularly wealthy, afford me no access to potential mates, and are definitely not what anyone would term "physically formidable". (Maybe one is? If you only look at his height and ignore his freakishly gangly frame.) Point is, I was willing to initiate friendships with them 25 years ago or whatever despite them checking none of the boxes I should have been looking for. (According to the study).

I wonder if most men are simply unwilling to do that? Maybe most men actually do look for those things, and will never consider friendships with any man who doesn't have them? There is a concept in dating called "settling". I wonder if most men are "unwilling to settle"?

So, you're right, it is possible the commenter has none of those things, but it's equally possible that the commenter has all of those things, and simply wants to be around the rest of the "cool kids"?
Funny enough I have to reach for Firefox when debugging some frontends because Chrome devtools don't always keep the payload. FF does.
Ahh I see! Thanks for the clarification!
See also Absurdle, an adversarial Wordle that is designed to be as difficult as possible: https://qntm.org/files/wordle/

I won't spoil how it works, but click the "?" button on the page if you want to know.
Show HN: Termle. Wordle in the Terminal
> Rust easily makes the top four most complex "production" languages in history (together with C++, Ada, and Scala)

Ada was "complicated" when it was released because it was being compared to C. Contrasting it against contemporary C++ or Rust, Ada 2012 is much simpler.
A bit ago on HN there was a link to Evil Wordle - https://swag.github.io/evil-wordle/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864418 ) and there's another variation of it at https://qntm.org/files/wordle/

On NPR ( https://www.npr.org/2022/01/23/1075168693/youve-heard-of-wor... )

> QNTM: So with Wordle, in theory, you can win in one guess. I've won in two guesses a couple of times. Absurdle - you cannot beat it in less than four guesses. Four is the limit. But generally just good luck - you're going to need it.

The worst case for Wordle and evil world or Absurdle should be the same... its just that evil and absurd are always the worst case.
Ask HN: About to turn 30. Any advice on how to deal with the depression?
I feel immense regret for a lot of things that I didn't do in my 20s. Always an academic person, I intentionally sacrificed many things to make progress in academia, and yet, it didn't always work.

Didn't go to parties; didn't date seriously; didn't enjoy most of my time; and didn't follow all my interests.

I've been a long time HN reader and I believe in the wisdom of the HN community. As someone who's still in academia (grad school), what do you think I should do? I feel like I owe myself a lot, and even though I'm in a relationship now, I can't stop thinking about the opportunities that I missed with girls when I was younger. I also think about dropping out of the PhD program and transitioning to the industry, maybe because I feel like I'll never be appreciated in academia and maybe because I feel like I need a new beginning.
That's an observation of modern characteristics, not evolutionary pressures.
In some Arab countries this is a normal day time activity often done during weddings.
> No idea what the author means with "lacking a Toyota Corolla equivalent".

An older metaphor for the same might be "The Model T Ford" of $product.

As in, the influential model that brought the product to the masses, because it was more affordable, had good reliability and sold in huge volume: "The Ford Model T Is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price ... The Ford Model T was named the most influential car of the 20th century"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T
I've been reading the continous delivery book by humble & farley these days, placing blue/green delivery in the larger context of CD practices. Can't suggest it enough.
Watson was a big PR machine wrapped around a little kernel of AI/ML.
You don't threaten them, you join them by creating a journal like PLoS, fully open access - let's call it "Replicable Science".

Require a viral license (like the GPL) for all published content, to ensure derivate work using either the data or the code must also be made available under similar conditions but for both the data and the code, with a clause allowing publication to non-open access journals provided that the data and the code of the preprint is published on a sister journal (let's call it "Replicable Science Reprints") say 1 month after the publication to the non-open access journal.

If you manage to reach an impact factor high enough to incentivize would-be author to submit to this journal, it would be quite hard to kill!

Also, the citations would increase the IF over time, by sheer virtue of being open access, and encouraging derivative work.
I think this depends. I’m a male but my two best friends are women who are in a relationship with each other. I think that it’s true that most straight people of the opposite sex can’t really be friends long term without one of them becoming infatuated with the other.
it doesn't actually HAVE to be that way though. You can have closeness without romantic interest if you realize that's what's happening. It's a learnable skill. Having a nice cuddle is good to recharge your batteries.
Bang bang came with windows 3.11 I guess. Two cannons shooting at each other at an angle, first one to hit wins

https://archive.org/details/win3_BANGBANG
The answer is direct cash transfers to people living in extreme poverty with few strings attached.

https://apolitical.co/solution-articles/en/brazil-lifts-mill...

http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/just-give-money-to-the-poor...
I don’t think wireguard will do that shortest path routing for you. Look into babel routing protocol and friends.
If you have a copy of it, you have a backup. Which is good, but not really groundbreaking. You still depend on the hosting provider who lets you keep your stuff on their servers.
>so far what was taking 1GB of RAM in Python is taking, literally 1MB in Rust

Is anybody hiring people to fix situations like this at work? i.e. this script that was written in a hurry needs to be revised to be 10^3 times more efficient, in space or time.
Not getting contacted again was probably a blessing in disguise. They don't really do much, but kind of act like PMs, but aren't very effective as they don't know the business very well. I think they're generally only used when a company temporarily needs like 20 warm bodies to assist with a large project.
> From an information-theoretic perspective, the optimal initial guess is the one which is maximally informative about the target, given the resulting pattern.

This statement (which motivates the rest of the analysis) isn't correct, because it doesn't take into account the highly irregular search space of what you're actually allowed to guess. Sets of possible words can vary a lot in terms of how easily they can be further cut down: for example, if you're on hard mode and your set of possible words is [BILLY, DILLY, FILLY, HILLY, SILLY, WILLY], then you might be in trouble.
I'm at the opposite end of the cli taste spectrum (my PS1 is a single character), but I love this site.
I understand this. And in your case maybe it makes sense. But does the enterprise ever consider the cost of making the finance clerks miserable? These costs can be in terms of staff retention, acquisition, and especially efficiency.

Honest question. I’ve done consulting in big-E (telco) and internal user ergonomics are more often than not thrown under the bus in the name of pet product feature from some noisy but inexperienced stakeholder that are not needed in practice. This doesn’t apply to your example, but in my case compliance was already considered, and didn’t change often. Yet still, they seemed to hate the internal users.

I always felt that there was an economic case to be made for making users lives less miserable, and I’ve come to the conclusion that in most cases enterprise software is bad due to cultural and political reasons (lack of ability to say no to stupid features, lack of discipline around feature implementation, lack of domain knowledge, artificial time pressure, etc) rather than economic reasons.
I'll start using this phrase on my day to day.
English as third language, so let’s say I didn’t realise it was such a strong word.
The objective function is weighted average number of guesses, with some penalty factor for >6 (aka losing), and optionally different weights for getting it in 1,2,3,4,5,6

And you can solve it in a tree- at least for the lower levels when the search space has been reduced
LOL! It's hilarious that economists are talking about "empirical" economics. What were they doing before this? "Unempirical" economics?

Seriously though, economics seems (has seemed) little better than numerology to me, so I'm glad to see the field start to graduate from the alchemical to the chemical stage of knowledge. Good for them.
I’m a man and I’ve had close female friends basically my whole life. I have close male friends too, tho.
ok - "you are too stupid to own this equipment" and "we know what is best for you" basically?
I totally agree that reducing weapons around should reduce weapon related violence, and also weapon related anything.

But why does a gun in the US kill more than that same gun in almost any developed county by an N factor?

Is this also a cultural factor? Or maybe social or political?

Or maybe there is a threshold over which weapon violence rises with a higher exponential in relation to weapon ownership?

For example over a certain threshold you end up having a significant number of armed individuals that are poor, desperate and armed which boosts potentially lethal criminality. Or stupid and violent armed people.

Or maybe: over a certain threshold you have too many people that are simply both armed and stupid. Occam's razor point towards this one IMHO.
I asked a pretty straightforward question that shouldn’t require me reading hundreds of pages for you to answer.

I feel like this is headed toward a low-value philosophical discussion about how nothing really means anything without an observer or something like that.
So man prefer men and women women. Or rather maybe the study is just observing that men and women tend to friendship more between themselves

Friendship is quite complicated and high maintenance. You really don't have the luxury to choose who to make friends with, their attributes, whom to keep long term, and how responsive they'll be. It mostly just happens based on those around you, neighborhood, school, family friends, university, work...
I believe -4 is the lowest you can get. At least it’s the lowest I’ve seen after saying some unpopular or off-topic things.
/r/unixporn users
There's this (called SWIFFT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWIFFT#:~:text=In%20cryptograp....

There are also trivial constructions that exploit the difficulty of Discrete Log. But they are slow.

You do have to be careful when using these hash functions, because they satisfy potentially undesirable properties like H(a + b) = H(a) + H(b), which make them unusable as random oracles.

There haven't appeared any cracks in SHA2 for the nearly two decades in which it's existed. So unless it's possible to have a sudden and totally inexplicable break, we'll probably be safe for many decades hence.
You can read r/noctor if you want examples
Gross candy-store like website.
I can not believe that the start page is nearly 14 MB big.

And I still don't understand what they sell.
Maybe it's aimed at a younger demographic and not just all devs that use cli tools. The design doesn't appeal to me but the several animated examples and quick blurbs about functionality seemed to showcase what was on offer pretty well.
It's possible things are changing. I just remember things like this, which was extremely frustrating at the time: https://lwn.net/Articles/754163 . Guido got visibly upset for this talk.

In the last roughly 10 years, Google, Instagram, Dropbox, Facebook, and reddit all invested a lot of time into trying to make Python fast and was pushed away with harsh no's. There are dozens of forks and branches with basic optimizations that were rejected.

I wish everyone the best of luck. But there's a side of me that's disappointed since this somewhat shows that it's only when these ideas come from inside the core maintainer team that they get acceptance. That's going to make it difficult to grow the team in the future.
Instead of a special right to repair law, it may be more prudent to expand anti-competition law to include the practice of precluding competition via impeding repair.
Yeah, the analysis doesn't really work for hard mode as noted in a footnote.
I am logged in.
This is too small a study to do this, but I’d be curious if the observations would hold up across various gender identities and the sexuality spectrum.

What would gay men prefer? What about lesbians? What about non-binary folks?
With $3B, biotech veterans launch a disease ‘reversal’ company
We use zxcvbn library for password length check. I will test some longer passwords
The voice reminds me very strongly of the one in the genius game „There is no game“ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Game:_Wrong_Dimens...)
Font Licensing
This looks cool!

But: These mostly aren't command line applications, they're mostly terminal applications. They're no more "command-line" than running "firefox" from your shell is "command-line".

There's a big difference... a terminal application takes over your terminal and doesn't have all the usual advantages of command-line applications used from the shell, like history and easy scripting.
likely cultural. There are a lot of (possibly "extreme") male environments where males DO provide emotional support to each other, though probably at a lower throughput that the "typical female" friendship, and where they don't, it's empirically dysfunctional -- for example, groups of men living together in submarines, deployed in the military/bootcamp, prison, but also some less extreme stuff like fraternities.

On the other hand, for men, finding yourself a "band of brothers is "your job". If anything the cultural defect that we don't tell men that it's up to you to create your own band, and that we don't give them the tools to do so (note my examples are almost all "men forced together by happenstance"). There is a cottage industry of male support groups that is starting to address this that's getting really popular, if you want a rec, I'm doing one starting mid-next-month, I trust the pod leader, he's my housemate, and really good at this. Contact info in my bio

As for the sex differences, I suspect both men and women need approximately the same amount of emotional support, just that in our culture, men undershoot how much they think they need (often by a factor of infinity) and women overshoot.
Former Nintendo headquarters reopens as hotel in Kyoto
English is a mess.

Deceitful implies intention. Qualifiers help. "Unintentionally misleading" fits better. It's like the difference between manslaughter (whoopsiedeath) and murder (intentional).
I think you should do LSD.

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot
They specified that in the post, they were able to constrain to a strategy that guarantees 6 or fewer and then optimize for EV to get 3.55, but could get down to 3.52 by allowing some small number of words to take more than 6.

I would be interested to know if 6 is the lowest you can constrain it. Can you guarantee a solution in 5, and if so what is the best EV with that constraint?