skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something about the author's overall point here, but what is it that actually should matter? Is the most important thing on Earth objective mathematical efficiency or subjective quality of life?
Curious if someone can find a URL for Gibson saying such things.

I've never seen Gibson describing Neuromancer as a critique of Reagonomics or having any particular political agenda. Interested to see it if so! I don't think of Gibson having nearly as much "political" agenda or grounding as some other early "cyberpunk" writer's like Bruce Sterling or Rudy Rucker.

(I don't think Gibson himself referred to his work "cyberpunk" or "punk" originally)
The "not forking" graphics look a lot more like forks then spoons or knives. Let's call that forking. Or if they insist on renaming monkey patching to something new: lets name it pitchforking or tridenting.
I like to imagine a system with the different geothermal-like technologies working together in maybe a layered like structure.

Extracting from the winter / summer cycle, the day / night cycle, and the consistent deep ground / surface air temp differential.

Granted day / night might not have enough variation to take advantage of in a lot of places - but surely some cool tech has come out of desert areas right?
This is the USA. You are allowed to insult the government.
You can run up costs pretty much arbitrarily with big memory and big storage. 2TB of RAM in a workstation will run you at least $30k if not more (it was $40k last time I checked), and you can go as high as 4TB in current systems. And big storage and NVMe arrays, it's almost a matter of "how much you got?", you can really scale capacity arbitrarily large if you've got the cash (although performance won't increase past a certain point).

This was always the dumb bit with the "apple wants HOW MUCH for a mac pro!?!?" articles about the "$50k mac"... it had $40k of memory in it alone, and the "comparable" systems he was building maxed out at 256GB theoretical and 128GB actual. That's great if it works, using a lower spec will push costs down on both sides, but it's not comparable.
No, not anyone can do anything. I never said that.

I said anyone can master the subjects mentioned above. Including programming.

These subjects are so easy that anyone can do it.

If I said anyone can master chess and play it on the level of a grandmaster, I'd be wrong. But for just learning to be an adequate programmer or playing chess adequately... anyone can do it.
That's interesting. I guess the two are coming from very different places. Gibson comes from a place of rebellion. The current fascination with cyberpunk comes from a place of nostalgia.
Oh wow, what a great example. You have totally changed my mind. /s
The analogue soundtrack on 35mm is recorded optically and also used as a fallback in case the digital soundtrack fails for some reason. It often used Dolby Stereo which could be played as a regular stereo track but also as four channels including centre and surround.

70mm film was far superior with 6 discrete magnetic soundtracks. But it was also far more expensive and required entirely new equipment.

Digital soundtracks were a solution to retrofit discrete multi-channel audio to existing 35mm technology. I love how they found space next to and between the perforations. It reminds me of how colour TV works. DTS is one that used the timecodes and came on an external CD which would also be far cheaper and something cinemas could easily upgrade to without replacing existing equipment.

The LFE channel appeared with these formats and is another example of supporting retrofitting. The idea with LFE is cinemas could simply buy and install some subwoofers and feed the LFE channel directly to them. No expensive bass processing required. No need to touch the existing main channels. Easy upgrade. Now every cinema has bass management so it's not really necessary but it's still there.
>He filed forms that he was going to be a passive investor

No he didn't.
>The comment you're responding to argues the hole is besides the point.

They're making no comment about why RT resonates, just that those people it does resonate with "are the problem".

By media I was referring exclusively to mainstream newspapers/sites, TV, etc. I realize that the way I used the term was slightly ambiguous.
He didn't have a lot of experience in cars or rockets either.
At consumer's expense? Nobody is forced to buy a Tesla, people do it because they like having a car more than money.

You can argue that Tesla in particular is successful off the back of the taxpayer; are you advocating against government incentives for electric vehicles?
He tweeted a mean thing once to a guy /s
note: You can use `pnpm import` for converting a lockfile.json to a pnpm-lock.yaml

https://pnpm.io/cli/import

(This is not an endorsement of or recommendation of pnpm which I personally don't use daily)
Very, very few homeless people are homeless because they simply can't afford housing.
I joined Air Force active duty for a 4 year hitch when 9/11 happened, and was in the Air National Guard for a few years after my initial enlistment. I mention that because some things may have changed since I've been out more than a decade, but I don't think they have. Individual job descriptions do change though, so I will only give high-level advice rather than specific AFSC/MOS.

I went into Satellite, Wideband, and Telemetry Systems, commonly called SATCOM (although we did have wideband terminals like the TRC-170 and the GRC-239 TSSR). It could be lucrative with the right experience, but for most people it wasn't (although I was able to get a civilian job pretty easily with the skills/training but it wasn't highly paid).

The Air Force has deepened their cybersecurity expertise quite a bit, and even has some great opportunities for enlisted airmen. That can be a very lucrative field when you get out (and is also badass while you're in, from what I'm told). This is a very lucrative field if you're good at it, and still a good living even if you suck. Before doing this, be confident that the person considering this would be able to get a TS/SCI clearance. Read the requirements and make sure they aren't disqualified. If they've smoked pot before but no longer do, they have never smoked pot ;-). If can't get a clearance, opportunities in the service will be limited and some specialized training will not be accessible.

Some people will say "linguist" but it has not been my experience that that is all that usable outside the military unless you want to work for State (US State Department). If you are really, really good you can find lucrative opportunities though.

Anything nuclear is also pretty good if you can get it. Aircraft mechanic can be good, but the number of employers isn't huge and you'll work your ass off while still in the service.

Probably not super helpful, but that's my advice.
I assume you mean the on-disk firmware. The "drivers" would normally be software provided by the OS, and is protocol- not vendor-specific.
It is not false, when you pay for a product with paypal it takes a fee off the person receiving the money. The person receiving the money knows of this cost in advance so adds it onto the price in advance. Therefore the purchaser pays.
Well Twitter never really hooked me, so I’m mostly just a curious onlooker, but to me it seems that Twitter is pretty stagnant. Do you think there’s a possibility that this change has a positive outcome?
As a side note, back in the 90s I dabbed into the hobby of FPS level design. Some tasks, for example, calculating light for Quake I maps could take a lot of computational time to complete. I fondly remember that people back then discussed a lot about purchasing powerful gigs, or even workstations to build very large maps for games such as Quake, Unreal and such. Typical machine at the time IIRC only has around 32-128GB(sorry MB) rams which were good enough for gaming but fell short for level designing tasks. Even opening large levels for Half-Life requires a good machine.
Easy way to save some resources would be disbanding the UN and turning all it's real estate into forests.
I really recommend Bagciaglupi's "The Wind-Up Girl", which is kind of the novel expanded from The Calorie Man. It is dismal.
No mention of Verse script.
Only if your step counts are drastically inflated. I've seen Fitbit users get hundreds of "steps" per hour sitting at their desks. Seven thousand real steps a day is about 5km, which is more than even smug twenty-somethings typically manage.
We recently started sponsoring pnpm[1] as well as adding zero-config support for deployments and caching. I think pnpm is an incredible tool. Excited to see it grow further.

[1]: https://vercel.com/changelog/projects-using-pnpm-can-now-be-...
There's a ton of practical Pharo books here https://books.pharo.org and Smalltalk books here http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
Because Brave's crypto ad pyramid scheme is better?
That looks like it would be an absolute hoot to experiment with, but I don't know what I could possibly do with one that would generate a return on $150K. What would you do?
Russia is also consistently referring to the asset freeze as the Western countries defaulting on their obligations, which will resonate with countries that are not in the closest circle of the US.
Cross Functional Efficiency for Engineers
HN has a bias against Elon Musk. That’s pretty much what you need to know.
> Elon Musk is kind of obnoxious. He lies (or "exaggerates").

> If you hate Elon Musk, consider probing your mind deeply to figure out why.

I'm not a hater, but I can understand why others are. Like you said, he's obnoxious. And he lies. Which should be enough justification by itself. But he's also really fucking rich, which is a teeth-grindingly annoying combination.

I really admire what he's done for the Electric Vehicle industry, and the rocket industry, (and the satellite broadband industry) and I absolutely cannot wait for Starship to fly to orbit. That's gonna be amazing. He can execute on a vision like almost no-one else.

But he's a dick - I can't deny that. And for people who don't really care about EVs, or rockets, or satellite broadband (i.e. non-nerds), the "being a dick" part is what's going to stand out the most.
What did Elon do exactly beyond take credit for the work of talented engineers?
Why do you think it’s small town wannabe entrepreneurs? Have you ever seen the cost of the art that hedge funds put in their lobbies, or the skyscrapers built by large companies with their name on the top?

This is kind of a universal element of human nature. Flaunting excess resources is a way to telegraph success and draws people to you.

Actually now that I think of it this isn’t an element of human nature at all it’s common to lots of other life forms too. Ever seen a peacock?
The other niche where this kind of thing happens: ERP/eCommerce applications.

And at least from my POV, is where it ACTUALLY need it, not just is fun.
Pipefail: How a missing shell option slowed Cloudflare down
I've always thought that the idea of wanting to leave behind a legacy was narcissistic.

99.99% of people are unremarkable and will be completely forgotten by everyone within 2 generations of their death. Acknowledge and accept it.

> More concretely I'm working towards FIRE

Same. Retire early, live the remainder of my life in leisure. Work on completing the massive backlog of games on Steam I've wanted to play but just don't have the time.
I'll entertain your idea that god can't / shouldn't stop humans being cruel because of free will blah blah. Ok, god was powerful enough to create the world, why did they feel the need to also create mosquitos? or cancer? Why do they use their power to make a Hollywood actor win an oscar (oh they didn't? That's not what the actor claims. Who knows their god better?) but not use it to stop a young child being hit by a car?
It was awfully quiet over there! Glad to see some in person things coming back around though I wonder what capacity looks like compared to San Jose.
I can't speak to lightroom, but I found that CaptureOne renders Sony RAWs much better out-of-the-box than either Darktable or RawTherapee.
The game is approachable right off the bat and is fun w/o the trading, but the trading is cosmetics adds spice.
Nice projection. Who is licking the boots here?

1. Those who back authoritarian style censorship conducted in opaque fashion

2. Those who back free speech and transparency
If we do that we should also outlaw drug advertising. That would turn into a serious shit show taking advantage of people
> It should never be Nix's business (or any other OS) to provide elements of a project's toolchain.

Why? I used to think the same way, but that's because of the scar tissue of all the tooling being terrible at accepting that build concerns and packaging concerns are one and the same.

Nix proves it and makes this ancient pain a non-issue: "My package depends on x, y and z, additionally, building it requires a, b, and c, please also make build dependencies available in my shell while I write code too". That's it.

> Running a project should never require more than "git clone $project && $build-cmd".

That's precisely what Nix allows you to achieve. Meanwhile doing this:

> Reciprocally, projects should go out of their way to not depend on OS installed toolchain components.

Means that you can never depend on anything you're not vendoring (read: maintaining a copy of, on your own). Or it means sacrificing productivity in the altar of shitty tools. Nix allows you to have your cake and eat it too.
Is this in America? I found it much harder to get in American than I do now that I've moved to Ireland. I walk mostly everywhere (weather permitting) and rarely get below 10k a day. I'm actually closer to 12k a day, and 8 km. On the year so far I'm averaging over 14,400. And I wouldn't say I walk a tremendous amount -- just when I can (though I do enjoy it), sometimes with running in depending on weather and other things.
You must own NFTs it sounds like you really buy into hype. People just say they are Jesus Christ come to earth and you just go "Well yeah okay that's amazing"
"the descriptions of the metaverse are the parts of Neuromancer that hold up least well"

I'd be interested in reading descriptions of cyberspace that are better than Neuromancer's.

So far I haven't found any.
That sounds right. I believe most or all developers at the place I worked had either 32 or 64 MB in their machines. At first (~1995) most were probably using IRIX 5.3, but by 96 or 97 I think most if not all had moved to 6.5.

Whatever I had, I don't recall lack of memory ever being a problem. And the GUI was quite snappy.
I'm not an Ayn Rand disciple. But she had a point about certain people and how they view the world.

Musk is rich on paper but the stocks are massively overvalued for various reasons. The idea that "billionaires are evil people who exploit innocent laborers" is false and it comes from a place of resentment.
AMD Makes a Big DPU Move with $1.9B Bid for Pensando
Warp: The 21st century terminal now in public beta
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
They crapped all over their community so much I have little faith. We basically finished UT4 for them and they wouldn't even merge the changes in.
> It's easy to learn about Nix if you know where to look for.

I understand you are saying it with the best intentions but it might sound like not the most correct way of defending a tool being criticized for its lack of documentation or easy of use.
The everyday work of the normal laborer is more worthy of admiration and support than anything that happens in a board room, on the golf course, or in whatever internal email chain that decides these things. It's not amazing to be an investor and make big decisions that shape lives and the flow of money, that is simply what you can do when you are in that position. The worker who can live within the turmoil the former creates, and still find love and happiness, not to mention keep the lights on and take out the trash, are the true heroes of humanity.
Obviously they internally self-host a version of GitHub Actions to build GitHub itself.

They know how unreliable it is to use the live version to do it.
I use an ancient SIM-free phone and the place I notice the speed issue is never within the applications I use it for (Stellarium, Maps, All Trails, IRS etc). It's switching between applications. Once you're "fully inside" one of the apps, yeah, the speed of this 10 year old device is completely adequate and almost indistinguishable (with these apps at least) from a similar phone today.
I'm saying anyone can become a "reddit web coder."
Yeah, TechNexion does it as well. I'm not sure why the CM4 had trouble but maybe with enough force it fits once and everyone just looks the other way.

Or perhaps the trouble is with other people trying to design compatible boards and just not getting the placement exactly right compared to how the RPi board house has it set up.
Will you be proposing any alternative revenue streams for Mozilla to use? Do you even know what data is being sent to the two listed domains? Or do you just see pings and that annoys you?

> services.addons.mozilla.org

Have you tried turn off addon auto updates?

Could you please share what browser you use?

> they run updates automatically

This is a feature. Web browser updates are some of the most important updates on your device. Getting any lay person to update their browser is difficult.

>your browser stops working until you restart it

Untrue. Opening a new tab won't work, but your current tabs are still usable. Firefox will also open all your previously opened tabs after updating. Not really a huge disruption. I use Firefox on Windows and have never had this behavior fyi. Only on Linux.

> You come across as a paid advertisement

Completely unnecessary.
Yeah, I don't quite get the way people sometimes reminisce about the hardware costs of the past. We used to have consumer CPUs topping $1000 back when that was some serious money, and big-boy graphics workstations could easily run the tens or hundreds of thousands.
Haskell in Production: Freckle
SEC: S Elon's C.
Oh, it's a lot longer story than that. I worked as SGI from just around its peak, to its downfall, seeing the company shrink to a tenth of its size while cutting products.

At the time, I was a fairly junior employee doing research in AGD, the advanced graphics division. I saw funny things, which should have led me to resign, but I didn't know better at the time. Starting in the late 90's, SGI was feeling competitive pressure from 3DFx, NVIDIA, 3DLabs, Evans and Sutherland (dying, but big), and they hadn't released a new graphics architecture in years. They were selling Infinite Reality 2's (which were just a clock increase over IR1), and some tired Impact graphics on Octanes. The O2 was long in the tooth. Internally, engineering was working on next gen graphics for both, and they were both dying of creeping featureitis. Nothing ever made a deadline, they kept slipping by months. The high end graphics pipes to replace infinite reality never shipped due to this, and the "VPro" graphics for Octane were fatally broken on a fundamental level, where fixing it would mean going back to the algorithmic drawing board, not just some Verilog tweak, basically, taping out a new chip. Why was it so broken? Because some engineers decided to implement a cool theory and were allowed to do it (no clipping, recursive rasterization, hilbert space memory organization).

At the same time, NVIDIA was shipping the GeForce, 3DFx was dying, and these consumer cards processed many times more triangles than SGI's flagship Infinite Reality 2, which was the size of a refrigerator and pulled kilowatts. SGI kept saying that anti-aliasing is the killer feature of SGI and that this is why we continue to sell into visual simulation and oil and gas sector. The line rendering quality on SGI hardware was far better as well. However, given SGI wasn't able to ship a new graphics system in perhaps 6 years at that point, and NVIDIA was launching a new architecture every two years, the reason to use SGI at big money customers quickly disappeared.

As for Rick Beluzzo, man, the was a buffoon. My first week at SGI was the week he became CEO, and in my very first allhands ever, someone asked something along the lines of, "We are hemmoraging a lot of money, what are you going to do about it"? He replied with, "Yeah, we are, but HP, E&S, etc, are hemmoraging a lot more and they have less in the bank, so we'll pick up their business". I should have quit my first week.
Game 454: Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
I'm pretty happy having reached that point after burning out at a job I was laid off from. There were several times in my life where I thought "I need to make some changes or I'll never grow...and I think a lot of people talk themselves out of things that could make their life better (more income, more personal time, better boundaries from people that are harmful, insert your desire here)...

And while you miss 100% of the shots you don't take, I ALSO wonder if I was successful, because I was smart enough to be successful. I did well enough in school, I was good enough at networking, I was smart enough to recognize patterns.

I feel like it's not my place to say "You! You can do it! Go take life by the horns!"....because what if the person receiving that advice is a moron? Then I'd have guilt.
Reminds me of Gene Roddenberry needing to invent teleporters because the Enterprise couldn't land on a planet.
Browsing bbc.co.uk, e.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60947877 , from outside of UK, half the page estate is dedicated advertisement.
> "Enjoying your life" may seem self-indulgent to some at first.

It is, but I dispute the idea that "self-indulgent" is inherently bad, as long as you're not hurting anybody.
The issue that I have, is that I really like designing and developing software. It's not just a job; it's a vocation.

I have never been interested in making a ton of money, but I could make other people a lot of money, if they just treated me (and, even more importantly, my work) with simple, human respect.

That seems to be beyond most people, these days.