skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really loved that guy. He died a few years ago after a series of strokes. He had worked his whole life in a paper factory at a time when 'personal protection' had entirely different connotations and vats with acid were large and open and real men bleached the paper for the cardboard with utter disregard for their own health.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa_Triton

So I can see some of what made him do these things (with alarming regularity I might add). His name was Jakob, which is a traditional Dutch version of my own and right after I moved there we hit it off as if we'd known each other for years, I still don't know why. When the front gable of his house became too dangerous the whole neighborhood chipped in with materials and work and we built him a new front for his house for a ridiculously low budget, which was both a fun project and made everybody on the street that much closer to each other.

I'd bet that if we could have gotten them together your neighbor and my neighbor would be able to talk for hours :) These old-timers are interesting, they all have their stories and it is definitely worth making time for them.
You should continue to support the LGBTQ community and ignore "organized LGBTQ"!

Vote out folks engaged in this absurd "grooming" moral panic but don't pay any attention to people that want to cancel your grandma for not articulating the perfect version of inclusion!
I believe the Nintendo 64 is the first Nintendo console where using C started to become prevalent. I’m not sure about the Saturn or PlayStation. But I know the 16 bit consoles were usually assembly because they had such a limited resources.
> I don't know how to live with this shame. Can't even post in Russian, at local forums.

i would trade 1 million nutty tweets from americans with one honest expression of your opinion on a russian forum. the voice via the spirit is the boundary between the material and the ephemeral.

apparently the race to the nuclear apocolyse is being lead by the russian orthodoxy, a dark horse. i pray i am wrong.
Beyond Compare also offers 3-way merge conflict resolution. Very helpful.
Rust is rather low level, yet it offers memory safety.

> One is that I wanted to pay homage to many great programmers who wrote industry-pushing software in C.

Some of those great programmers might probably have chosen other languages if they existed back then.

Anyway, I think what you're doing is pretty cool and I wish you all the success in whatever language you choose to do this in.
Yeah so I'm peddling the engine for this shit, the matrix multiplication, https://www.fgemm.com, and you know it's just a Markov chain. What can I say.

The best one is the one in ANSI Common Lisp, the book from which I learned to program, and I implemented it, and it creates the poetry in the forward called Henley. That's a good bot right there, and 1994 tech to boot.

The more you spice the algorithms up the more intimidating at first blush, but if you dig deep the more fancy the model the more embarrassing the fuckups, rarer though they may be.

Contrary to how I started this post, there is a way to make it a bit better, so here I'm going to make an almost shameless plug, showed some shame at the start. More matrix multiplication means fewer embarrassing machine learning fuckups. Not none, never none, but fewer. So that's expensive, so you want something cheaper, and that's full of error, you want precision. I intend to charge half the going rate, with naive error, which I can do because I have a better algorithm for multiplying matrices.

Stay posted, there's nothing on that site yet, and in fact I'm not interested in tracking visitors anyway, gauging interest by feel instead. Reply to this.
Ask HN: Why hasn’t Putin put all his chips into Odessa?
Simply put, controlling Crimea and Odessa means you control all of Ukraine’s ports and the Black Sea.
I don’t think it matters where the plane crashed if he wasn’t in control of it.
Anyone who saw the video could tell it was staged. I could tell it was staged and I don't know the first thing about aviation. Every single thing about it was just off in so many ways.

I really hope they throw the book at this guy with criminal charges so others will think twice before trying similar stunts.
Curiosity, mostly. I have no plans on doing anything major (let alone released to an end user) in Smalltalk, but it's a very different mode of programming than most of what I've done in my professional life (largely dominated by work in the embedded systems space and a lot of tooling around that). On the desktop side, by fiat, I've spent a lot of time with C# for new development, and a bit with some older C++ and Java systems (with the current job, more those two).

Because of the way that embedded systems work, you can't easily escape the standard build, load, test cycle (at best, on some projects, you get simulators to help speed up test), and deployment is often delayed for, sometimes, good reasons around coordination with a fleet of systems.

On the desktop software side, because I haven't convinced my employer to go with smaller batch sizes for releases, we still have big-bang releases every 3-6 months (and the first year with COVID we didn't even hit that pace with remote work growing pains). When an end user comes across a non-critical issue, this means they will be waiting months to have it addressed (if it gets put into the next release, it could be years in a worst case).

This leads to end user empowerment, at least in principle. One of the current systems I'm working on has a pretty comprehensive scripting language (a bespoke DSL) that lets end users (not formally trained as programmers, and their job isn't to work as programmers) extend the system to meet their needs without calling for help most of the time. None of the other systems do that, but most could without hitting any corporate IP issues (the customer, in our case, owns most of the source code anyways, but they aren't a software company and outsourced the development and maintenance work). Smalltalk (the system) is an extreme case of end user empowerment and I wanted to explore that concept.
Precisely this. Empty shops have an unconscious (sometimes conscious) effect on people making them less likely to drop in themselves. 1-3 people taking up wifi and electricity could easily attract enough customers to pay for their visit with each stay.

This does only really apply in shops in areas with decent foot traffic though.
right, can't imagine whats going through their mind right now.

he could have gotten a reasonable price (though perhaps still a loss) if he tried to list with sotheby. curation matters.
No more than you're allowed to claim insurance after setting fire to your property.
Can you elaborate on what your understanding of the term is?
This would actually probably fly just fine … if he hadn’t posted the video with evidence against himself.

NTSB might still investigate and determine the plane has nothing noticeably wrong however.
mpv controls!
Could it be Cream?

https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/archives/cuis-dev/2022-April/0...
Even knowing what I was looking for I had to do frame-by-frame a couple of times before spotting them, and once you see them it's obvious but to spot them not knowing they are there is quite a feat.
That's a very similar use case to where DTL started.

We needed a way to link arbitrary APIs together without having to resort to custom code to rewrite the data between formats. DTL was born as a way to handle that translation without having to worry about untrusted code or limiting the end-user's ability to define how to remap the data. DTL can only operate on the data it is provided and can not rewrite the input data as it runs, so it is pretty safe to use in that way.

I'd love to see DTL get used in the way it was originally built for. Happy to help / talk sometime if you want.
When I was around 10 years old on Holiday overseas with my parents in Australia, my Mum tasked me with fetching cigarettes and milk from the convenience store one street over.

I managed to somehow fuck up the straight line trip home, and returned nearly 2 hours later to my mother in hysterics on the phone to the police.

I think that was the end of my independence and parent's faith in me.
Los Padres National Forest isn’t the Mojave Desert.
There are very, very few things that get my goat like a willfully irresponsible pilot. What really bothers me though are the CFIs who keep signing these guys' flight reviews. I trained pilots for years and it is in-your-face, flashing-neon-sign obvious when someone like this walks through the door.
I cannot find a single source that agrees with you on that. The first 3 pages of Google when I search "general purpose computer definition" all show results that largely equate to;

"A general-purpose computer is one that, given the appropriate application and required time, should be able to perform most common computing tasks."
There is a saying in Ireland called "More Irish than the Irish" and refers to immigrants and non-locals who take up all of the local culture to extreme (compared to the average) levels.

Immigrants are statistically the most law abiding and often times, even conservative, members of a a community and it probably is one measure of long-term survival (esp. in the U.S. while living under the microscope of a work visa) so they need to go to great lengths to fit in and avoid even the appearance of impropriety - something the natives (and in all likelihood their children, if raised there) would take for granted. Meanwhile local citizens gather on the street corner protesting mask wearing or whatever nonsense they feel like.
Oh good sir can you please share your story?
I think people have been saying for a long time that Americans are especially responsible because the US is a democracy and not a dictatorship.

On the other hand, it is often claimed, and seems plausible to many, that the "military industrial complex" is kind of independent from elected representatives' control so citizens are helpless.

Both these themes seem to be pushed by fringe political groups and anti-US propaganda. They are synergistic. Demoralizing anyone is best done by convincing them that all possible choices are evil and nothing can be improved.

Regardless, the unseen power of this sort of discussion is how it maintains a false bubble where the US "reign of terror" is compared to this particular brutal war only.

I haven't been paying attention myself to how Russia has been suppressing revolts, destroying cities, expelling ethnic groups, and backing separatists through the years, but since 1991, there have been something like ten conflicts involving the Russian Federation.

Ten! Well, I had to look it up, but I was certain it was more than zero (plus Ukraine/Crimea). Chechnya alone accounts for two wars.

Everything that anyone ever tries to convince you of these days is an unstated premise. Since everyone's completely immune to assertions by people they don't like.
I'm talking about QD films, not diodes.

Since early 2010s Vizio, HiSense and TCL made TV with 3M's QDEF [1].

This year, a few brands made TVs with perovskite quantum dot film. They are being branded as QLED.

The widespread adoption of Rec. 2020 creates a demand for displays capable of displaying larger color volume. Phosphor LEDs TVs have around 60% coverage of Rec. 2020. The best OLED TV has 73% coverage. QDEF TVs has up to 81% coverage. The perovskite quantum are capable of achieving more than 90% (but the commercially available TVs are not there yet).

[1] https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/985375O/3mtm-quantum-dot...
I think he probably has them for just that reason - to put out any fire his crash might start. He knew there is massive, massive liability and jail time for deliberately doing something that causes a fire and can potentially destroy miles of trees, homes, and people.
Yes if there was a clawback clause that could be triggered for some excuse, and presumably there was. For instance: you left the company. Depending on the clause you could be forced to sell back to the company at the issuing price or the fair market price on the day that you left.
1, sweet, that sounds good.

2, I personally see roast as one type of emotional attack or speech act (still looking for a better term for it), along with praise, question, supplement, etc. I don't roast things much but I do the others so personally I may feel a bit repelled by the name. However others may feel attracted by it, there are lots of us internet folk :-) good luck!
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once and Quantum Mechanics
> We're very sorry, but we hit the rate limit of the model... please try again shortly.
I wonder what Douglas Adams would've said about that.

https://dirkgently.fandom.com/wiki/Sofa_on_the_staircase
I hate the format of spreadsheets like this... I would much rather have the company name as its own column and get rid of empty rows.

But thanks anyways, I might be the only one thinking like this.
Mosek (mosek.com) is good if you have conic contraints. Otherwise cvxopt is quite simple for smaller problems.
And the source code from the patent was tracked down by Sean Riddle and he found 'George J. Klose' on the printout who was one of the patent authors.

Despite this, I suppose it's possible that Mr O'Dowd did code the 6502 prototype and wasn't given credit in the patent.

https://seanriddle.com/footballproto.html
>> For now Brave Search Discussions come primarily from two sources: Reddit and StackExchange. Brave will be adding more sources for Discussions in the near future.

Actually there are other sources already, I searched 'gemini protocol' and HN is there.
Calendar appointment system
API Encoder/Decoder
Journaling app
Units of measure converter
Camera downloader and processing
Music player
Automate display/data mining of weather info for 24 cities every 15 minutes
Translator
Loan Calculator
Onscreen menu system for the above
I am pretty sure that Ethereum got their VM, Solidity and plenty of libraries to support the development of smart contracts in (much) less than 4 years.

> so what are those?

Make up your damn mind! What counts as "useful" for you, GCC or Google Maps?

My guess is that you don't really care. You just want to take whatever answer you get and spin it in a way that pleases your biases and can score you some internet points.

So please quit wasting my time and go find something better to do with your life. Come back when you have done something that actually matters to people.
Just an unaffiliated 3rd party observer here, but is it possible they meant revenue went down relative to corporate projections or didn't increase in line with other factors like inflation?

Just a thought.
Depending on ASLR for randomization is ironically an extreme case of Hyrums law.
If he was able to spend tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in lawyering and bribes (oops, I mean lobbying and campaign donations) then yes I am positive he'd get away with it
The way would be to show you have a company willing to purchase the IP at a certain amount, and borrow against that - but if you have that just get that company to invest.

The dirty secret the banks know and the startups don’t want to admit is that much IP is worthless.
I personally know Trevor from back in my snowboarding days. I always enjoyed his company and I hate to say it but anybody who personally knows Trevor knows exactly what happened here.
I think there are a lot of myths about Japan, but I don't think public safety is one them.

In over a decade of living in Japan I've only encountered aggressive begging/panhandling once. Street violence is very rare, muggings too. One week in London and I'll see more than in 10 years in Japan.

Pure anecdote: I was jogging on my regular running route and I saw a wallet on the ground with 5000 yen hanging out of it. It was wet so I picked it up and put on a visible dry spot on a nearby wall. I ran past it the next day and it was still there, same spot, same cash sticking out. Finally on the third day it was gone. Maybe the owner came back for it, maybe it was stolen, maybe it was handed to the police. I don't think visible cash on the street would have lasted so long in most places.
Space is of no concern. You would not install solar in the Central Valley generally because it is the most productive irrigated farmland on the planet. You would however put it right on top of Edwards Air Force Base, which is large enough to supply the energy needs of the entire United States, if paved over completely with solar panels.
Meld is a great, free tool available on pretty much all platforms. Been using it for a long old time now and can't recommend it enough.

2-way, 3-way and folder diff, in-place editing, it has all I need.
Motor-vehicle crashes account for 20%[1] of child and adolescent deaths in the US.

I'm not nearly as terrified of strangers or homeless drug users as the legion of SUV drivers scrolling on their cell phones. Distracted drivers are several orders of magnitude more dangerous and several orders of magnitude more common.

[1] from 2016 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6637963/
It gets "better", new Bild (I know) article just came out claiming:

"On February 27th, the German arms industry gave Chancellor Olaf Scholz a 48 page list of military equipment that they could send to Ukraine. Scholz waited until today to forward it to the Ukrainians but his office only sent the Ukrainians half the document)"

"While Ukraine was offered Marder IFV, Boxer APC and even Leopard-2 MBT as well as Panzerhaubitze 2000 by German companies, it is not allowed to buy any of these systems in Germany"

Is Schroder still running SDP?
Swap has always been so slow for me that I just disable it on all of my machines. I would rather the OOM reaper just SIGKILL whatever is using all my RAM than deal with slowness (which often persists after the OOM situation is gone).
I know people that have had no bank for years.

One of them got one of those 'bluebird' cards.. like a prepaid debit card from American Express.. free to add money via direct deposit I think.. can add cash as walmarts cheap, dollar generals a little more, walgreens a bit higher.. can get free at many ATMs a small fee at others..

From what I understand the bluebird now has two versions(?) and one is more like an online bank system..

They must of put a hurt on greenDot cards as I've seen some of those advertised that they no longer charge $10 a month to have them - but I think there are some that do.

Living without a credit card is getting interesting.. Enterprise is no longer renting cars to me here in this mid size city without a CC (although they said I can bring a copy of a mortgage deed and utility bill and insurance paperwork from same addy to bypass) - some hotels are not letting you checkin without credit cards these days - meh.
Yes, you would. “Chain all these methods and stop when you get to the first error” is an extremely common idiom. People write it all the time in lots of different languages. Go is unusual in that you have to spell it out.
Interesting to see the number of people arguing that it can't be fake.
Re (4), it seems to me like in order to change the existing influence of race on society you must first recognize it. I don’t see how everybody claiming to be colorblind when the systems and cultural institutions are structured to perpetuate racism could change anything. It seems like real color conscious changes must be made before color blindness is achievable.
My cynical take is that some of the smarter players in the field were worried about running out of greater fools, so they did a concerted marketing push of something new.
Turning scrap copper into beautiful crystals
I use IPOPT, and I like it quite a bit.
We already did this. CLECs popped up and offered DSL and cable internet services for a while, throughout the late 90s and early 00s.

Here's the real reason competition doesn't pop up in the footprint of the incumbents - when they do, the incumbents sue them into submission.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/one-b...
Putin doesn't wanna intervene with Ukraine's exports, specially wheat. He doesn't wanna stop Ukraine from exporting to "friendly countries".
Prolog and CLP is an interesting and powerful combination as documented here:
https://www.metalevel.at/prolog/optimization. In particular the CLPZ library is very powerful: https://github.com/triska/clpz.
Yeah! Bunnies yeah, I had a math book when I was a kid and they showed Fibonacci numbers with bunnies, well actually a pervy old two-year rabbit with a sweet innocent one-year bunny, there has to be an age difference to set up the Fibonacci numbers. And that's still exponential growth, just with a lower base.

I bet if you actually had bunnies you could say fuck it they double every season and deal with them on that basis. You'd be wrong...but by how much, like get real? Plus the bunnies have the INTENTION of doubling, they each WANT to have lots of bunnies per season. I think that's the crux of it, despite the impossibility nature's program is exponential.
Not a bad description of the history of analysis. Turns out function spaces are absolutely full of gross things that don't quite fit nicely into your theory.
The guy was wreckless and stupid, it seems a bit much to wish harm upon him and hoping that he might possibly die - even if somewhat tongue in cheek.
And other societies developed social norms which sacralized and ritualized the usage of such drugs, or which totally normalized them. Again, the idea that there is a single social expression of what constitutes 'humanity' is a very reactionary mindset that flies in the face of all evidence and history.
You're right, it turns out what the parent meant to suggest was only that they should be tortured.
Reframe the system to the moving water and put a watermill or a hydroelectric power plant in there in there - perpetual motion and extracting energy. A flowing river is not a closed system.
I’m going to assume you misinterpreted the GP. I read “their current state” as referring to the roads, not to the kids. For example: lack of sidewalks, roads with high speed limits, distracted drivers on phones, lack of other children walking.
I think the real reason is that noisy nerds are the most likely to notice Nintendo half-assing it and most likely to remeber the rugpulls that always followed the half-assing.

If you need an example of a company that has a solid reputation for whole-assing, keeping rugpulls close to zero, and is convenient, checkout valve and their product called steam.
My reading of your comments above is that you are speaking about about cases where swap is being used as a replacement for memory. I take that from, among others, "Swap will destroy SSDs". Swap used only for paging unused data out is an infrequent occurrence, no way it's going to kill an SSD.

My reading of this article is that he is specifically advocating NOT using it as a replacement for having adequate RAM.

My experiences, around 5 years ago, of running ~100 VMs without swap, basically confirmed the assertions in the article. Mostly the systems would run ok, but when they got into memory pressure they would live-lock. I had hoped for just OOM killing, which happened sometimes, but also sometimes the machine was just locked.

I switched over to having some small amount of swap, maybe 0.5-1GB on these boxes and haven't had a livelock since.

Plus, it's better to get unused pages out of RAM, which can be written to swap.

The one thing that HAS killed an SSD, in this case an Intel (320 series sticks in my head) is ZFS slog+L2ARC. Swap hasn't been a problem in my experience, but I also am not using swap to account for not having enough RAM.