skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our high-school had a B 5500 for the school district's administrative functions and it eventually was also used to teach students software development (the course was titled Computer Math and taught by the same teacher I had for statistics). Naturally, having students on the same system where their grades were stored led to some interesting "events". I also remember one of the kids (a fast typist) entering SpaceWars into the system.

We had 10 card punch stations and ten glass terminals in our classroom which was adjacent to the room housing the computer. I don't remember seeing a separate operator's terminal but there was definitely the field tech cabinet described by 4x5-Guy.
It’s particularly interesting because the trend with HIV so far has been towards less damaging variants, not more. Fatality rates for HIV are almost at point where there’s no longer any reduction in life expectancy, due to mix of better medicine, but also due to HIV evolving into less deadly strains.

To see a reversal in this trend is extremely note-worthy, and somewhat worrying.
Well ok, it seems the scandals were bigger and more spectacular back then, but maybe not. Thanks for the link, very entertaining!
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/introduction-...
I like Clojure okay, but it lacks the deep support for highly-interactive programming that I prefer. I've written fairly extensively about that subject in other posts and elsewhere.

To be fair, that kind of support is hard to come by outside Common Lisp and Smalltalk.

I miss Common Lisp when working in Clojure, but not vice versa. Clojurescript with figwheel is a pretty nice, pretty interactive way to develop web apps, though.
They explicitly state that:

"This simulation program, originally called cns4u, started as a relatively small C program that ran on the Cray-Y/MP supercomputer at NASA Langley Research Center in 1991."

and the abstract for the 1991 report they link reads in part:

"The unusual features of this program are that it is written in C and makes extensive use of sophisticated data structures to encapsulate the data. The idea of writing the code this way is to make it easier than traditional FORTRAN codes to parallelize for the Multiple- Instruction-Multiple-Data style of parallel computer."

so pretty clearly it's always been a professional academic research project. This means you have severely misunderstood the context in which this code was written: they didn't maintain interest in the code because they could use a fancy language, they did it because it was integral to answering questions that they were paid to investigate and that they've dedicated decades of their life to study.
From one of the dominant theories of a material view indeed an emergent behavior from an incredibly complex neural automata.

But from our daily experiences actually reality is an emergent property from our consciousness (or awareness).

What we do feel, smell, hear, forms into concept, meaning, experiences forms our "reality".

There might be a theoretical other "reality" or it might be a bit different many think it is now, but it doesn't make it more or less real, in the sense of actual experience it's less real.
I was confused by the claim that the Encarta version is quieter until I read that it was because of the inline links. I thought the Wikipedia version was quieter because it doesn't have a distracting background image. I think this confusion is evidence that inline links are actually not distracting. I don't feel I have to make a decision whenever I see one because I know they'll still be there later.
I don’t understand what this adds to C++20’s standard `format`, which you can run in older versions of c++ via the fmtlib library.

Is there a use case I don’t understand?
> But that is still heavy when another lua based application [...] and 100x as many lines of code (before importing external packages) is still just short of half a MB. (apples & oranges yes ...)

Apples and oranges indeed; a Go binary is a fully self-contained, external-runtime-less application. That said, I can picture (in my head, don't expect me to build it) an edge / lambda environment that only takes your codebase and will run / feel like a script moreso than a complete binary.

I'm willing to put money that if you add the libraries + runtime to the lua application, you'd end up with more than 11MB.

Anyway, I'm trying to keep neutral; if your binary size is that important then staying with C may be the way to go. It's a compromise between binary size, language features, 'safety' (e.g. memory management is easier in Go thanks to auto zeroed variables and garbage collection), concurrency (not as much an issue in lambdas), etc.
I didn't have a problem with them since Magisk got so good at hiding itself which has been at least 3 years
Yes. Varying types of silence each require its own method of cutting like speeding up,or putting a graphic in the middle.
WSB Bullshit.
Wasn't there a time where you could sign in to facebook at the system level? They could pay to get it back

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/understanding-facebook-integrati...
The concept you are describing is a government.
Theorizing about the nature of consciousness without having been subjected to it's multitude of altered states is an obvious waste of time. If you can't or won't venture into the "field", then at least have the humility to address the aggregate experiential data of those who have.
This was the way for Microsoft in the late 90's. Hire to fire.
Consciousness is not an illusion, it is a real phenomenon that is experienced daily by almost every human. You might be referring to free will and its subjective experience, which is a different story.
I miss the spatial properties of classic MacOS. Windows would always be in the same spot when you window shaded them, files would be in the same spot in a folder unless you cleaned it up.

It was an aid to my memory.
I never said they repost to YouTube
> Btrfs raid 1/10 is rock solid and offers similar robustness to ZFS, ie >= hardware raid.

There seem to be some foot guns present. See Jim Salter's article, specifically the section "Btrfs RAID array management is a mess":

* https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/examining-btrfs-linu...

Btrfs was lunched in 2009, and there is still so much meh about it. I've been using ZFS since Solaris 10 (2006) and all the features have done exactly what they say on the tin.
My son's almost 4, on his birthday him an old tower(hooked up to the lounge tv) with a MES emulator. My plan is to approximately every 6 months upgrade his emulators to next gen.

Between SNES and N64 I'll introduce him to dos games. Then basic to show him how to control basic output and PC speaker(that's going to be a hunt).

I'll see how he likes all that stuff and if he is interested, steer him through how I had access.

I know once he hits 8ish he and his friends will be into whatever is popular at the time online wise, but it's the only way I can figure to see if he is interested enough to try programming.
> I have neither a feeling nor a rationally logical proof of this idea. It's just an intuitive guess.

This intuition, that there is something special and unique about what 'we' are, is baked into our brains by many thousands of years of evolution, and this makes it so extremely difficult for us to believe that there's nothing more to us then a bunch of molecules. This is why people have invented theories about souls, reincarnation, collective consciousness and what not.
Why not? Do you use vanilla WebXR?
> Why would I want to "program" money? What does that actually do for me?

If you are outside of the financial industry, you probably don't. Maybe you can do some amateur high-frequency trading on the side. It's not "programmable money" in the sense of "please send $30 to the gas company every month".

As I see it, the main application is financial derivative products i.e. investment products. You can make any kind of "ownable thing" based upon other ownable things on the blockchain. Remember the mortgage-backed securities that caused the 2008 crash? Now anyone can create their own variety with some coding effort and a $100 fee. And if you pay another $100 fee, they will automatically become tradeable on major exchanges.

It's peak capitalism, basically. From a purely technological point of view, I think this is pretty damn cool. From an economic point of view, it's going to be our downfall.
Maybe one or two observations should not make us jump to a conclusion of reversal in trend.

Trends don't imply constant variability on each and every single observation...
How can you write such an article without mentioning the Grothendieck prime?

https://www.ams.org/notices/200410/fea-grothendieck-part2.pd...:

One striking characteristic of Grothendieck’s mode of thinking is that it seemed to rely so little on examples. This can be seen in the legend of the so-called “Grothendieck prime”. In a mathematical conversation, someone suggested to Grothendieck that they should consider a particular prime number. “You mean an actual number?” Grothendieck asked. The other person replied, yes, an actual prime number. Grothendieck suggested, “All right, take 57.”

But Grothendieck must have known that 57 is not prime, right? Absolutely not, said David Mumford of Brown University. “He doesn’t think concretely.” Consider by contrast the Indian mathematician Ramanujan, who was intimately familiar with properties of many numbers, some of them huge. That way of thinking represents a world antipodal to that of Grothendieck. “He really never worked on examples,” Mumford observed. “I only understand things through examples and then gradually make them more abstract. I don’t think it helped Grothendieck in the least to look at an example.
Nah. It has too many ().
I recommend reading Basic Economics from Thomas Sowell for more examples of how fixing prices and a centralized allocation of prices and resources is terribly inneficient and it backfires terribly bring misery to entire countries:
https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Economics-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465...

Thank you to user on Hacker News that suggested this book in a comment a few years ago. It was eye opening and one of the most important books I've ever read.
Is this strain properly detected by current HIV tests? If that's the case then we already have statistics about the HIV epidemic. No need for speculations.
That rather depends on what you mean by "left"

https://socialistworker.co.uk/news/mandatory-vaccinations-ri...
Not quite. Picasso had actual, one-in-a-billion talent. Most people know someone that could have drawn the Bored Apes better.

Not to mention the artificial nature of NFT “scarcity” or the physical aspect. If you buy a Picasso you buy something that one of the greatest artists of all time made with his hands.
This was asked multiple times, the general consensus seemed to be "no", except if you enjoy doing them and so they're worth it for the pleasure you derive from them.
In terms of disguising synthetic aperture radar that’s much harder with a satellite which needs to send out a strong signal to hit stuff at 300+ miles and then bounce back to another detector at 300+ miles. Especially when there is such a limited number of easily tracked satellites to be concerned with.

10x distance requires 100x the signal.

When it comes to being stealthy from above, jets bank to turn. Pilots can handle much higher g loads vertically than horizontally.
> We use enums heavily to force devs who use our code into good choices

Beware, tho, that with many languages today you’re not really doing that even when they advertise enums e.g. in both C# and C++, enums are not type-safe (not even `enum class`). Iota is, at least, a fair acknowledgement of that.

> with a FromString() function

That seems like way a step too far, is there any such “default method” today? And I don’t think Go has any sort of return-type overloading does it?
Maybe it's individual variations? I struggle immensely reading text with inline links. I immediately start skimming and my attention is strongly drawn to the linked words.
> I'm not sure that them being a search engine makes sense

It really does. Want to search for a local house cleaner or children's entertainer, include Facebook pages with web results. Want to search for things to do in a particular town, include Facebook events with web results about museums and such like.

This is just scratching the surface too. There are lots of possibilities here so I'd be very surprised if Facebook haven't explored this idea.
It is because you can't validate it how is it that hard to distinguish between true statements and speculations. The same goes for your sources claims brought up in court are not true statements until they are proven to be factually correct.
> What happened with btrfs? People waited for a decade and still no wide deployment.

Isn't Facebook all in on btrfs? https://www.networkworld.com/article/2367229/smooth-like-btr...
I think the most simple explanation is the brain runs a simulation of its environment and at some point after birth it puts its human into this simulation. That's probably when children start using the word 'I' and raise a consciousness.
Your "mind's eye" is getting information from your actual eyes through your optic nerves and cortex. This is how we know it is a physical mechanism, we can affect it in predictable ways with lesions, drugs and other physical methods.
I believe it.

I remember from my student days, a couple of M&CS students were playing some game, and afterwards, the mathematician managed to fill an entire A4 sheet trying to add up the scores.
> I have no idea if democracy leads to less war

The simple answer is yes, it does. "Democratic peace" is one of the most solid empirical results in International Relations. (Of course, "democratic" here has to be understood as including broadly liberal/freedom-promoting norms. Electoral politics on its own is beside the point.)
This is just anti-vaccine propaganda that wants us to believe that the current changes in labor are primarily about vaccine mandates. It's disingenuous and transparent.
The article mentions: "I think that having to use C++ Functors was about the tipping point in our 25-year adventure with C++. Ranges and the foreach loops make our D code so much tidier than our equivalent C++ code."

It almost sounds they were stuck writing C++98 code and instead of moving their coding standard to C++17, they chose to rewrite in D.
Maybe think of building an RC2014 with CP/M. If it's completely self built there is another sense of specialty no prebuilt system can reach. And it's a good project to do together, too. There is also a variant with an 6502 instead of Z80 (RC6502), which can be built Apple I compatible.

https://rc2014.co.uk

https://github.com/tebl/RC6502-Apple-1-Replica
On my iPhone, some of the cross flags have gaps in them (e.g. Georgia, Guernsey and Sweden), see image below. But when I view the source for the Swedish flag, it's very clearly drawing one blue rectangle and two yellow ones:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" id="flag-icons-se" viewBox="0 0 640 480">
<path fill="#066aa7" d="M0 0h640v480H0z"/>
<path fill="#fecc00" d="M0 192h640v96H0z"/>
<path fill="#fecc00" d="M176 0h96v480h-96z"/>
</svg>

(each path has five commands, making a box: "move to", "horizontal line", "vertical line", "horizontal line", "close path")

I guess the iOS SVG renderer is just buggy.

https://i.imgur.com/toS0Wjh.jpeg

https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons/blob/main/flags/4x3/se.s...
I agree with you. But it seems that pain probably existed before higher reasoning (since it's a associated with the older parts of the brain), so it's a bit of a puzzle. Maybe early on the pain mechanisms existed without the associated qualia, or maybe pain also forces other control systems to be bypassed.
<0.1% of the population in 2 years is quite minor in the context of the response in my view.

It justifies things like washing your hands and getting vaccinated.

It doesn't justify lockdowns and things like making it illegal for family members to visit each other. That's a net loss on all of society.
> What stack has gotten slower over time?

Python 3 was slower than the preceding Python 2.x version, I believe; it's getting more difficult to find sources now (it's been a while) but there's plenty of resources that showed Python 3 had performance regressions.
One aircraft that I have always assumed existed was the SR-71 replacement. When they retired it the official story was that it was superceded by satellites, but satellites have a level of predictability and trackability that is best complemented by an aircraft. I have always assumed that they had a replacement with capabilities that were once again classified.

That said, I don't think you'd find it at Area 51 given the fact that it would have been in service for a while by now and that Area 51 is more about testing experimental aircraft.
That's just a side effect, not the reason to do it.
Aren't all formats available on yt lossy transcodes?
I honestly thought this was going to be a development post on hosting a python package in AWS.
Let's assume that it's 100% true. This guy is young and it'd be better for him to delete this. I'm totally going to cyberstalk this guy to see where he goes.

My number one rule is not to sh*t on former companies with my main account.
That's not value that's potential value, there's a difference in maybe learning and maybe doing it fast / clean / responsibly 4 or 5 days a week.
I didn't know about prosthaphaeresis! Thank you!

Richard Guy developed a single-scale nomogram based on elliptic curves in 01953: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3609499

His explanation is wonderfully simple; quoting the beginning: "Since the equation x³ + ax + b = 0 has zero for the sum of its roots, the x-coordinates of the three intersections of the line y = mx + c and the curve y = x³ + px + q add to zero." It may be entertaining to attempt to derive the rest of the nomogram from that sentence and the use of logarithms before consulting the (one-page) paper.

A nice advantage of Guy's contrivance over slide rules is its facility with squares and square roots. On a conventional Oughtred slide rule you can easily enough read off the square root of a number on the A or B scales by reading across the hairline to the D or C scales, respectively; but if your square had been computed on C or D, you are out of luck. Guy's nomogram has some similar limitations, but you can in general easily take the square root of any point on it.
Picture a point source frequency hopping different collars of visible light on your wall. There are real limits to how many photons it can send before it becomes really obvious.

As satellites need to detect returns bounced off the ground hundreds of miles away they have some hard minimums for high resolution images vs aircraft or ground stations. 10x distance needs 100x the signal.
>After all, if I want the support of gun rights/abortion rights voters, a clear statement of unwavering support will get it

Coincidentally, zero donors to the Democratic party will be inconvenienced by this stance.

If you look at Medicare for all it's supported by 52% of Republican voters and 7/10 of voters in general. It's pretty much the definition of an electable policy.

Now, why do you think it might be such a fringe view in the Beltway? Why did Obama write it off as a non starter?

If a policy became super popular and no donor interests were threatened by it, yea, it has a decent chance of being promoted and passed.
You are being confidently incorrect and making sweeping generalizations and assumptions. The vast majority of anything Javascript is still being interpreted (or as you mentioned going through a JIT interpreter), which represents all browsers and a lot of apps.
At least where I live that has not been the case, at least until a while ago. I would guess the ratio is higher than in office jobs, but not like you make it sound. Might be a bit dependent on city vs rural as well.
The customer couldn’t care less, so if you can deliver without all that complexity congrats!

That means you either have time to focus more on your customers, and therefore win more business, or you just take home more money if it is fixed-income contract work.

I consider companies that add complexity just because BigTechCo does more interested in playing or pretending to be on a path towards success than to actually be.
The comment is not about repost, it's about the short video, and I also don't see much of it on yt
Somewhat controversial opinion but from my experience most people at Amazon who got pipped deserve it.

Especially with new grads, they've lowered the bar and stopped doing interviews since it's so hard to hire, that there's a lot of people not cut out for the job so they rely on pip to calibrate quality.
They should really make a vaccine against HIV.
Oh wait: https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/31/health/moderna-mrna-hiv-v...
Your comment reminds me of religious people, whose argument that God exists is similar: that you will realize that He exists as soon as you believe in Him. And that you can't possibly understand it otherwise.

Consciousness is a hard problem until you realize that most of it is an illusion. Which is the very reason that it is so hard to understand: there's nothing to understand, because it's not real.
Freetube [1] also let's you default to audio streams.

[1] https://freetubeapp.io
There is a Firefox extension doing the same:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-audio...
Could you share which things those were? I mean error handling is a common issue people first raise an eyebrow at, but other than that I've found it a really straightforward language to use (coming from Java and JS myself, a bit of obj-c/swift, some scala in between).
Many cryptocurrency enthusiasts agree that the technology will not disrupt nation states. But that does not mean they won't move the needle in the balance of power.

If cryptocurrency can provide citizens with more financial empowerment and privacy, then it can accomplish something meaningful in society without having to completely disrupt government control.
The importance of avoiding more artspeak with NFTs
Part of what made the Apple II great was the Apple II Reference Manual, which started out gently with an introduction to the hardware, how to turn it on, how to type on the keyboard, and ends with an assembly listing of the autostart and monitor ROM.
Not a Go développer here, but let’s take the example of Java when it got (for example) generics or functional features.
There was NO going back.
These were so fundamental improvements that the past was absolutely outdated as soon as those new features were available.
May be the same thing will happen for Go