skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have the same passion about computing history. I can't count the amount of literature I've read to learn about this fascinating history; it's very satisfying to know when, how, where, and by who original work was done to advance computing. Most of the foundational work in computer architecture and computer science was done in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. From there it has been incremental improvements.

I highly recommend reading "The Dream Machine" by Mitchell Waldrop. It's very well written, and covers a huge swath of computing history, from the ENIAC to the Internet (it was written in 2000).

Instead of recommending specific sources (too many), I can mention key milestones in computing history that you may want to research:

- Theory of computation (Alan Turing, Alonzo Church)

- Early binary systems (John Atanasoff, Konrad Zuse, George Stibitz, Claude Shannon)

- Early computers (ABC, ENIAC, EDSAC, EDVAC, Von Neumann architecture)

- Early programming (Assembly language, David Wheeler, Nathaniel Rochester)

- Early interactive computing (MIT Whirlwind, SAGE, TX-0, TX-2)

- Early mainframes (UNIVAC, IBM 70x series)

- Early programming languages (Speedcoding, Autocode, A-0, A-2, MATH-MATIC, FLOW-MATIC)

- First programming languages (FORTRAN, COBOL, LISP, ALGOL)

- Early operating systems (GM-NAA I/O, BESYS, SOS, IBSYS, FMS)

- Early time-sharing system (MIT CTSS, Multics, DTSS, Berkeley TSS, IBM CP-67)

- Early Virtual Memory (Atlas, Burroughs MCP)

- Early minicomputers (DEC PDP line)

- Mainframe operating systems (IBM OS/360, UNIVAC EXEC)

- Early online transaction processing (SABRE, IBM ACP/TPF)

- Early work on concurrency (Edsger Dijkstra, C.A.R. Hoare, Per Birch Hansen)

- Early database systems (GE IDS, IBM IMS, CODASYL)

- Early Object-Oriented Programming (Simula I, Simula 67, Smalltalk)

- More programming languages (CPL, BCPL, B, C, BASIC, PL/I)

- Mini/Supermini operating systems (Tenex, TOPS-20, VMS)

- Structured Programming (Pascal, Modula, Niklaus Wirth)

- Relational data model and SQL (Codd, Chamberlin, Boyce)

I could keep going on, but this is already too long. I hope this at least puts your feet on the first steps.
On the rare occasions when a friend will ask why I don't use Uber my reply is "Because I don't support organized crime."
What if the poor person was injured?
There is good git <-> svn integration. I was using git even when any of my peers or projects were on svn and they never noticed.
Not OP but yes. Newer vacuums also have cameras to avoid this exact issue.
I think that's just regular 'summon' where it'll only move straight forward or back, which very well might be what's happening in this video, but "smart summon" does require holding a button down on the phone. The original reddit comment[0] only said "someone tried to summon their Tesla".

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/flying/comments/u95dqt/someone_just...
Maybe you should watch it instead of skimming, because your summary is incorrect. (The uranium enrichment was done by a different person than the other two things.)
That said, it sure wasn't fun for the mail person when they had to deliver me those two boxes of lead ingots.
If my password is only ever kept in RAM during my login process, there’s a small window of time where it can be exfiltrated, it’s only really at risk if there is an attack in progress while I’m logging in. Persistent storage is always susceptible to exfiltration.

Nothing is ever 100% secure, but we can limit the exposure, and the blast radius when you do get breached.
Link? it's not an easy google.
> Why didn’t the car react to the aircraft? Did it not detect it, or did it fail to judge it’s location?

Because these smart vehicles are dumb as fuck when you put them anywhere other than on a well maintained, sunny, first world country highway. Not so long ago teslas braked on the highway when going under signs because they thought the shadow was an obstacle. A few of them crashed in overturned trucks because they though their roof was the sky/a cloud, one even missed a damn firetruck and smacked into it at full speed

When you have thousands of cars out there your one in a billion edge case will happen, this is the perfect example. A ten years old would have braked, the tesla didn't
I don't know why this comment is downvoted. Let me elaborate a little on what I think they meant.

All the risks associated with false positives (other than the side effects of actually drawing blood once a year, which I think is negligible) can be removed by simply not overreacting. Find a cancer? Well, consider not subjecting yourself to chemo just to get rid of it. Some cancers will kill you by winter, some will just stay there until you die of something else. How will we know which is which? By testing lots of people over long periods of time to see what's harmless and what's actually really bad. Or as the previous commenter said: "That's the whole point of establishing a baseline."
You know how at the airport, they have that tug vehicle that pushes the aircraft out from the gate and into the taxiway?

I think the person was just trying to use their Tesla in the same way. The plane needed to be turned around, and the Telsa did it.

This is actually a feature, not a bug.

Instead of having to spool up the jet engine which would burn a lot of fuel and release a lot of CO2, the Tesla with its electric motor, can do it with zero CO2 emissions.
It's true that things were different when we were young, but that's true of any new phenomenon and it's not the heart of the objection. If young people these days want to avoid saying "wonderful", or use women by default in hypothetical scenarios, or go around checking their pulse while they say "sheeeeesh", I have no real concerns about those things and I think most people on team "motherboard" would agree.

The reason I push against "mainboard" is, I think, the analogous concern. While it's possible in principle to type out the letters "mainboard" without meaning anything by it, in practice the people who say it are motivated by a package of ideas about gender which I think are bad and would be harmful for society if they were more broadly adopted. To say "mainboard" would make me appear to be endorsing those ideas.
It's computer-brain solution to a problem that is crying out for a human. Humans "don't scale". Therefore paying 5 bi-lingual experts to teach the machine is "infeasible", but spending millions upon millions of dollars on hardware and software development, then exposing it the unwashed mess of the internet isn't....
It’s not like the whole $3.5MM jet is a write-off.

The hull damage and re-certification should be a fraction of the plane cost.
If this is the worst example you can find for the US, then considering the recorded conversations of Russian officers ordering the troops to kill all civilians in various places and such, I guess Russia very easily "wins" this.
Well that's disturbing. It doesn't bode well for how they are building their self-driving systems. A simple set of ultrasonic reversing sensors would be enough to prevent this.
A vision jet is not necessarily a toy. Plenty of companies using them instead of larger aircraft.
I very recently downloaded because I just couldn't manage to acquire the movie I wanted to watch in any other way.

I looked for it in all platforms, Netflix, Prime, Apple TV, YouTube, Play Store, and it wasn't available in my country. I then connected to the US through a VPN and tried to buy it or rent it but my PayPal account didn't work because it isn't associated to the US. I finally found it in YouTube posted by a page that seemed official! But it had no captions... argh!

I wasted 2 hours trying to have anyone accept money to let me watch it, but got nothing. Then I tried torrenting and 3 min after I had the movie ready to watch and a captions file ready to add. In the end I couldn't finish watching the movie because it had already taken too long.
My best friend was killed when a water main burst, and every time I am forced to use a branch named ‘main’ it causes me immense psychological stress.

Since you suggest it “costs nothing to remove something someone might find offensive”, I propose it be changed to something else instead of main.

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The one thing about the DVD aspect of it is that DVD content just looks bad on my current viewing screen. Blu-ray discs are okay. However, the DVD catalog is much much larger. Whachagonnado
It would be much worse if we were forced to buy the rights to watch a TV show or movie before we know if we even like it. I'd have a massive virtual library of half garbage.
Ukraine's Postal Service DDoS'd After Printing Stamps of Russian Battleship
Yes, and cable TV originally ran without ads (because why else would you pay for TV?), but once they had a subscriber base they started playing them.

Bottom line: if they think it will improve the bottom line, they will do it.
Home automation and networking

Gaming PC builders

Gaming networks: hosting servers, communities, patches, hacks
> How is it that it can be significantly cheaper to rent the physical disk than to stream the movie once?

Note you're not just paying the marginal cost, you're also paying for the streaming infrastructure they invested in setting up.
The part of the jet it hit was in the air, the ultrasonic sensors are the main way it avoids hitting non-car objects in Smart Summon, and they have those all around the car.
The alternative wasn't that great either. Having just 16 address bits allowed you 64 kB of data memory and code memory that were stuck into same RAM area is a lot worse alternative (for example 8051 was like that). Or 65816 style banks, ugh.

If you had to have just 16 address bits, having code (CS), stack (SS), data (DS), extra (ES), etc. segments was actually pretty nice. Memory copying and scanning operations were natural without needing to swap bank in the innermost loop.

Of course if you could afford 32-bit addressing, there's no comparison. Flat memory space is the best option, but I don't think it came for free.
It is called in this specific sense of the term 'intelligent' the entity which writes the implementation of a function from some input to some intended output; the engineer which creates a writer of functions from some input to some intended output is said to have created an "intelligence".

If somebody wears a thicker coat during a "cold war", the problem is not considered terminological.
Ask HN: How do you manage multiple lines of inquiry as a curious person?
Maybe it's because I'm venturing into new topics, but every time I try to read/learn something, I'll end up with multiple lines of inquiry that "distract" from making significant progress in the intended content.

All these other paths are fascinating in their own right, but pursuing them too far often leads down rabbit holes, unsurprisingly. Similar things happen when I'm on Wikipedia and open many tabs, as I'm sure many of you on HN do.

So do you folks have any tips, techniques, or even philosophies on managing these lines of inquiry and staying focused on the intended material (without simply ignoring those lines of inquiry)?
I'd like to point out that Urbit ID and Urbit OS are two separate products. Many HN commenters object to the ID system for one reason or another, rather than the OS itself (which may just be because it requires substantial time investment to get to the point where one could criticize the OS).

Urbit OS uses Urbit ID primarily for packet routing and peer discovery. If you already know the IP of whoever it is you want to talk to, packets are direct. If you don't know the IP, you ask their sponsors. In NAT'd situations, sponsors end up routing the packets as well, but this is a limitation of IPv4 rather than Urbit.

It is a simple mathematical fact that hierarchical peer discovery and routing is faster than a purely flat network topology. UX is king for adoption, and an "alternative internet" that is slower than the existing one would never gain mass adoption.

So if you care about actual adoption, you're pretty much forced into using hierarchical routing and peer discovery. At least initially.

Ultimately, your ship has final say over what you think the PKI looks like. You download the state of the PKI from the blockchain, but you have final say over how you interpret it. The default software run on every node, from comet to galaxy, is identical. It is probably quite easy to change a few lines of code and use whoever you want for peer discovery and packet routing. Treat a planet as a galaxy if you want. In that sense, galaxies and stars are just default suggested infrastructure nodes, and are in theory totally optional.

There's nothing preventing anyone from building a completely alternate routing infrastructure using Urbit OS that is entirely detached from Urbit ID. As long as the message protocols remain sufficiently similar, such networks could also communicate with one another. The PKI can trivially be forked, the rules completely changed, and you can set up your own network. You can also build virtual networks atop the existing one. If you want a flat network topology at the expense of latency, you could e.g. use some form of DHT routing.

Thus far, the network is too small for anybody to bother building such a thing. But it is easy to imagine many networks, with their own home-grown routing protocols, and their own ID systems, in a future where P2P computing of the sort exemplified by Urbit takes off.

Thus, I see the hierarchical peer discovery and routing mechanism as a almost-necessary bootstrap and growth hack for adoption, but it is in fact voluntary to participate in, and the field is open for many alternatives to emerge in the future.
Not sure it's true that we train that many engineers or that it's because of Napoleon, but most prestigious schools (in particular in Engineering) where created during his reign.
I assume they were saying

Densest material on earth

There are denser materials, but you would struggle to send them via UPS
Because then you can only traverse in one dimension as opposed to two. You can currently scroll through categories quickly. In a single list you have to scroll through every title.
I'm not quite sure how you can mentally disentangle the destruction of a city from the destruction of its population. The two go hand in hand.
I was thinking the same way a year ago and telling my fanboy tesla friend how stupid it was removing lidars etc., but being open minded and always looking to be challenged, I started researching what they are doing and how they are doing it, watch their AI day video (its old in AI terms but gives a good insight), and I eventually got what they’ve meant when saying lidar introduces noise compared to what they are doing right now. TLDR is they convert photons into a multistereoscopic camera and reconstructing the brain’s behavior towards objects and motion…the way they transform the image data into high quality 3d point clouds is really mindblowing, people outside of the 3d ecosystem cannot fully appreciate that, and its kind of sad.

The camera performance is like the newer starlight sensors in terms of seeing in the dark, and they seem to process from raw data. Essentially, once they crack all the quirks, I am now a firm beleiver that it will better than the average joe with limited angulars vision+rotating head vs. surround stereoscopic vision.

Not saying I 100% agree with launching a beta program in the wild like this, but to their defense, given the current government driving paperwork and legislation to insane levels of unproductivity, innovators and challengers kinda have to play it out like that if they want to disrupt sectors (in the end) for the better.

Not saying the end justifies the means, but I can understand the logic.
Actually quite a lot of things exploded. You just don't care about the people who had to pick up the pieces. Moreover, lots of git repos still use master so "new generations" will just have to do deal with pointless divergence and breakage for nothing. The change wasn't progress. It wasn't useful. It didn't stop anyone being offended. It was and still is pure make-work for absolutely no purpose beyond the demonstration of power over irrelevant things.
Hi! the vision is different as the products are shown right now. Because i lack expertise, of course an experienced quant would laugh at my basic algorithms. But i had to start from somewhere. My aim and the features i want to implement now, will mainly come from fast product iteration, making connections with people that do have much more experience than me and quality growth for the algorithms.

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference" Winston Churchill.

Give it some time haha!

Cheers
There are a lot of 0.01% cases when you have 600k+ tesla driving out there... and it's only the beginning
They're quoting George W. Bush.

“I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy,” Bush said in remarks he later regretted. “. . . I was able to get a sense of his soul.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bush-saw-put...
The dynamic display however is annoying for the users who do want to see it all, because the slides always change at the wrong moment.
Based on the cancellations of some beloved shows, I’d also say they give a disproportionate weight age to binging.
People used to climb mountains in hobnail boots. The history leads to a funny grading system where relatively easy rock climbs (if you have suitable equipment) fall into the ‘extremely severe’ categories.
One could argue, always caching plans could be costly resource wise and you need to administer timeouts and cache sizes, while when associated with a session, you get the cleanup for free.
Indeed, how awful.
The story of SketchUp mirrors the story of the internet a lot IMO. Once a beautiful product that people wanted to explore, invent, help, have fun, create, enjoy. Then it's popularity drew in the "big pockets" and it all went downhill. I made a lot of money from my skill with SketchUp professionally but I long for those young boy days. If I get to heaven they will have SketchUp on Linux and I will know that I have lived a good life.
That is simply nonsense. You like NVIDIA that is fine... some other people value bang for the buck and go for AMD knowing the limitations fine. But just thinking that people are doing a concerted effort to try to pump a stock in a specialized group about building a PC is just simply insane... You better have it looked by a specialist, you may have a real problem.
It’s far less intrusive. It will highlight fuck, for example, and tell you “that language might be offensive to readers.” It also flags on idioms that may come across poorly if you aren’t familiar with them/know English well. In a strongly multicultural company it’s been quite nice to have it catch a couple of my phrasings that wouldn’t track well to a non English speaker.

I interpret Microsoft’s as helpful when considering ESL or other cultures. I interpret Google’s as straight woke. Very different products but you’re probably right that Microsoft led them there.
Discussed a few months ago:

The slowest SR-71 Blackbird fly-by - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29371530 - Nov 2021 (132 comments)
You’re just reading the news and jumping straight to conclusions. If you’d like to actually defend a position against D&I and how it is actually net harmful (or personally harmful to you), or specifically how it is reenforcing harmful stereotypes with examples of such, then that would be an enlightening discussion.
Perhaps I'll reach out to you for assistance the next time someone suggests to myself or a family member that they're trans simply because they engaged in an activity that broke gendered stereotypes. Maybe we'll both learn something!
> Ultimately if a company has to "settle" for an employee who they have to monitor and watch from behind their chair, in my view it's still the hiring company's failure.

My entire point about "flawed individuals" was that this is not binary. It's not wonder employee vs do absolutely nothing unsupervised employee.

Office environments for sure push up productivity for some folks from, say, 40% to 60%. Mediocre folks being boosted a bit by having structure in their lives. And mediocre folks are most folks, by definition. So that boost adds up over large numbers.
Why have you omitted that Polygon is also a layer on top of Ethereum?
Researchers take a step toward creating an axle-rotor nanomachine
> I doubt that it is used for actual trading.

Do you have a basis for that claim?

JS have developed tons of libraries and tools for OCaml development, and new developers and quants that they hire go through an OCaml bootcamp to come up to speed. They put lots of work into the OCaml compiler, and in blog posts about that work they talk about why this is useful for trading. Maybe I'm missing something crucial, but I think it's more likely that you just don't know what you're talking about.
Any examples of micropolitan towns?
Relevant:

TopoR, an EDA program developed and maintained by the Russian company Eremex:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopoR

"The most recognizable feature of TopoR is the absence of preferred routing directions, which results in unusual looking PCBs."

> https://www.eremex.com/products/topor/
I think you overestimate a 10 year old driver - even a 15 year old on their learners might not realize that z height matters, unless they're learning on a tall vehicle that can't fit under some drive-thru overhangs.
Looks like they use the net to disrupt the rotors. But what if the rotor blades of the attacked drone are shielded?
I always interpreted the data storage (and, particularly, retrieval) aspect as more of a metaphor for man's search for meaning. Or something.
"The Dream Machine" by M. Mitchell Waldrop.

It tells the history of computing by following J.C.R Licklider. As one of the directors of ARPA, he was responsible for funding research labs to work on computer research. He had a major impact on which projects got funded, and in-turn which systems are now being used 60 years later. I honestly love this book so much. If you love computers and history, its a must-read.
Reminds me of the best homelab setup I've ever seen:
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/cgi5gq/homelab_wit...
In my opinion the book is horrible. It doesn’t provide any in depth details. It functions as a high level survey of the field. It is very superficial and just scratches the surface. It doesn’t describe the presented algorithms in any detail. It’s a very poor version of Daphne Kollers amazing book on graphical models.
Sure the origin is to do with Lords but landlord isn't male, anyone can be a landlord, pretending it's gendered is just lying to try and be offended. Presumably, such people think the word coward references bovines as it includes the word cow.

I don't like that landlords exist, but that's an inordinately stupid reason to try and get rid of a word. Surely noone believes that by sensoring a word you get rid of that which the word describes.