skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm I'm afraid with my limited vacation time each year I'm now a firm believer in following the well trodden path most of the time. I've had too many trips where you try and do something completely unique like go to an island or a province "tourists never go to"...and then you discover why. There's nothing there. I went to a couple of the Pacific islands in Micronesia which don't get many tourists thinking I was being so adventurous. It was the biggest pain in the ass to get there and it turns out no one goes there it's because it's basically a sulfur mine (1 nice beach though). So call me boring but from now on I'll queue up to see the Taj Mahal with 20,000 other people and enjoy that experience just as much.
Cathedrals took hundreds of years to build. Basic research can take hundreds of years to put into practice. The Swedish government has a couple of nice national parks that were originally oak forests planted to supply the navy in a few hundred years.

While there are definitely advantages to the discipline of having to make a profit, I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with building a company over long timescales.
This sounds fake. Every lawyer I’ve met is perennially overworked. Not saying it isn’t true, but it’s completely antithetical to my own experience.
Taxi: A language for documenting data models and the contracts of APIs
It's a cute anecdote. ?
It's hard to imagine but there are people who aren't American ;)

Btw, while the tax argument was the last thread the fiat fans were clinging to, it should be noted that this is obsolete now since there's at least one country where you can already pay tax with cryptocurrency and possibly a second one that recently introduced Bitcoin as legal tender. As well as the Próspera SEZ in Honduras. Things have been moving fast, it's highly unlikely that this trend can be stopped now, even if some countries aren't going to accept it any time soon.
Isn't that, in itself, a condemnation of CISC? The instruction set is so complex that the CPU has to translate to microcode at runtime.

If the compiler could emit that microcode directly, it would be easier to optimize and the CPU wouldn't have the task of decoding and translating the CIS.
> You can probably take the same set of execution units, forwarding paths, branch predictors, etc. and slap several different ISAs over it - I've seen CPU architects show experiments where (for x86 and ARM at least) two chips with the same number and type of these internal features will perform the same regardless of the instruction set.

Isn’t this what Transmeta was trying to do back in the day? I remember they famously employed Linus Torvalds for a while, but I never learned anything about the technical details of their ISA front-ends.
I used to charge per class when I was freelancing to avoid this. It creates other issues but I feel like they're easier to deal with.
Came here to say this. The present is (on average) the best time to have ever been born in history.
Best of luck to the author of the blog post in finding the author of the code! Excited for any follow ups! :)
CubeSat Set to Demonstrate NASA’s Fastest Laser Link from Space
Is there a publicly available report of this test of 363 XMPP domains? Thank you.
It’s just a fun little anecdote, nothing else much. :)
Back when I was in high school and programming on the original IBM PCs I wrote a program that would graph "solids of rotation" (a function rotated around the X axis). Well I chose the obvious name based on the 8.3 filename limitations. One day someone looked over my shoulder and said "you named your program solid rot???"
Oops.
A cyberwar is already happening in Ukraine, Microsoft analysts say
How often does the client use all the reserved hours?
Is there any branch of engineering where "a couple days of not worrying" does not have the potential to be "lead to a spiral that quickly gets out of control"?
I forgot to ask which distro you were using. I have been looking into dual booting his machine as an option and found that people report Elden Ring runs without the glitching you can get on Windows.
Thanks
I've been using vector-based object-oriented drawing programs since MacDraw came out in 1984. This program does many things which are counter to to 4 decades of design patterns for such programs (e.g. Adobe, Microsoft, and Apple drawing/presenting/layout software, as well as various 2D/3D CAD packages, etc).

1. Selection is a mode, not the default state. Similarly, move is a mode, not the default state.

2. Selecting non-closed shapes (lines, curves, arrows) is challenging, and the highlight of selection is a nausea-inducing animated pattern.

3. Move doesn't grab the object where the mouse grabbed it, it picks up at the upper left. Move requires so many more clicks than something where you just click and drag, and then after you click into position, you have to reselect move mode to move again.

4. Scale goes from upper left to some place in the middle of the object. "Stroke should be scaled" mode is not sticky. Scale seems to try to keep objects sized by the grid, but it doesn't always work that way.

5. There's no way to edit a curve other than the transformations of the whole shape - you can't move the end points or the middle control points. Also, curves are all just degree-2 Béziers (AKA parabolas).

What problem is being solved here by re-inventing so many wheels?
Not bad, ~$3,00/USD and 125w draw.
Paper on translating images into maps wins ICRA best-paper award
Definitely not if two people have to fly to your destination to bring the boat back.
Systemd had a regression recently that has broken booting a secondary encrypted LUKS device.
It's so basic. You gotta limit the cam. It's just too easy to do the spycam, I have a friend who did it to himself to see how hard it was. It was really easy.

It's from like 2002, when they first came out.

You know what I just did? I put a band-aid a guy sold me on the street, 2 cents, it's perfect, the cotton part over the camera and it doesn't leave residue. Restickable. Hardware kill switch right there...but for this problem, it's just a band-aid.
Do you mean this? https://www.amazon.com/CANADUINO-WEMOS-Minikit-240MHz-Blueto...
because it has a lot more than 4 accessible pins.
Who pays for security for the room with the dollars?
The case I was making is, it takes many people to turn a startup into a unicorn, and many of them are integral and make massively important contributions that, without them, would not have occurred. The degree to which those people are replaceable is difficult to say precisely, as it varies per person and per company, but I don't think being irreplaceable is the bar for being considered responsible. If a fireman pulls a kid out of a burning building, we don't care that many other fireman could have also done the same thing. The individual who did the critical work is responsible.

I have been at unicorn companies with C-suite executives that are clearly useless, or worse, net detractors playing political games that the people under them have to work around to get shit done. I have been at companies where one engineer is single-handedly keeping parts of the lights on, or conceptualizing and architecting critical systems, having an outsized impact well beyond their title and compensation. There seems to be a false idea here that the way companies run is "top down" - ie. the Collison brothers set out all the goals and strategies and products, and then the employees just execute their vision like pawns. Maybe there are companies like that, but I've never seen one, particularly a fast growing one.

I guess I just disagree that the number of people who would be deemed "responsible" for Stripe's success is 2-3. That seems, frankly, unbelievable to me having worked in companies with hundreds or thousands of employees and seeing how many different people it takes to build something massive, innovative, with multiple product or business lines. Not just taking marching orders but exercising their creativity, judgement, expertise, leadership skills etc.
Can it do stippling a la Wall Street Journal headshots? There's no option in the dropdown but I didn't recognize some entries...
I recommend:
a) go to a Long Covid specialist / center
b) get tested for POTS

Monitor your heart rate, especially the delta from lying down to standing up for 10 minutes.

The metabolic issue discussed in an article is a possibility but Dysautonomia / POTS are worth exploring.

What you describe is what the long covid specialist warned me about.

I'm a bit shocked that it took a year to manifest.
sorry for the confusion. I meant that zstd at higher compression decompresses faster than zstd at lower compression.
I’m really confused by your objection. Can you be specific about what kind of user control you think is missing?

People know they are voluntarily filling out a form and for whom. It just doesn’t go to a server immediately due to lack of signal.

How is this any worse than voluntarily filling out a printed form on paper and putting it into a mailbox to get picked up later? A practice that has been socially accepted for decades?
> Yep, definitely Firefox. In

To be clear, i wasn't badmouthing FF (all of fiddle's develoment so far, aside from occasional individual tests) has been in FF on Linux. That one particular FF feature kinda gets my goat, though, when i'm writing web apps ;).

> My understanding is that the SQLite team typically isn't very open to outside contribution.

It's not the contribution, per se, but actual code patches are tricky for the sqlite project because of licensing. sqlite is released into the public domain by its creators, but not all legal jurisdictions recognize public domain as a real thing. Thus Richard is extra-extra-careful to ensure that all of the code which goes in to the repository is added by someone who's signed a waiver validating that any code they added is not going to be a licensing issue, and only people Richard has come to know and trust are offered the option of signing that waiver. Often, when patches are posted by users, they can be used as a basis for equivalent patches but cannot be used as-is because of the potential for licensing fallout.
I wonder if this applies to NAG (N-Acetyl-Glucosamine) as well - I've been taking it for years as it's a benign supplement against autoimmune diseases [0].

[0]: https://www.lifeextension.com/newsletter/2007/5/n-acetyl-glu...
Wasn't the Lonely Planet era basically about hordes of Western backpackers going off the beaten path, while Lonely Planet carefully documented all the good things the backpackers found? It made many obscure places famous, but only a few of those famous places became touristy, because the others were too difficult to reach.

Consider something like Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal. If you mentioned something about the Trans-Siberian Railway, everyone and their dog would recommend going to Olkhon. Not that many people actually went there, because the island is quite remote.
We weren't really told it was a sin I guess but that it was more honorable or optimal to not do anything except reflect and socialize on Sunday? It's not as extreme as what my great grandmother talks about where they really did nothing on Sunday. She was an atheist too so there definitely was a shift in American culture here.
For the record, he's literally listed off most of my languages: I have years of experience in SAS, R, Python, and SQL, and I also have no idea what he's saying.

Also, for the record, that's largely how I think of databricks ideally. A big distributed database/storage layer into which I can write queries in my chosen language...

So i...admit equal confusion...
If the bid and offer are like $2 - $.50, do you consider that a "depeg" or not? I think liquidity will disappear, transaction fees will go to the moon, and there won't really be a meaningful "price" because trades won't be happening.
The problem that I have with Apple's defense of their walled garden, is they act as if it's either you are totally secure behind it (not true) or if they allow sideloading then there can be no security or the worse is going to happen.

Sideloading would be optional, thus not all users will use it. The more likely to use sideloading, would be the more tech savvy or more willing to take risks. So it's more on those users for taking the risk. It's not like everybody is all of the sudden going to do sideloading, if it becomes available, and especially if they are warned about the risks involved.

There is also a lot that Apple can do to increase security, despite the usage of sideloading. Among such measures, they could show all permissions and rights that an application wants, to include allowing users to block various permissions or applications attempting to use such.
What about US Digital Service?
Cybersecurity and Media Streaming Companies
It’s a competitor/alternative to Alma with a slower moving development team.
There has never been more of a Real One than Yitang Zhang. He proved a theorem that had stumped the most eminent professors. While keeping books at a Subway.
Donate to good causes. Use your skills and judgement to pick the good ones. There is no money in fixing solutions, they need money.
Bullpucky. When white people immigrate, it's perfectly normal. I should know: I've done it not once but twice.

But when white anglophone people do it, it's not only normal, but so extra-chic that they're not even called immigrants but "expats". Pointing out that this is a bit of a silly level of privilege is hardly "Anglophobic". (On the contrary, your claiming that it is comes off as rather like bigoted white Americans wailing that "It's really the white man who's oppressed nowadays" when their privilege is pointed out to them.)

And as a born and bred lifelong European I don't think I'm particularly "Europhobic" either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_hypothesis
If it ended up in the binary it probably wasn't a comment, in the true sense. Was that the name of the mutex?
This is happening in the driest desert in the world, this is a simpler but effective technique to get water out of the desert fog
https://youtu.be/w5cBSORuB6w?t=35
The "don't break user space" guideline should just be called "break user space, and if someone complains, fix it afterwards."
Bolt’s investor’s legal team has entered the chat.
> This is a very specific definition of civilized that suits your opinion.

Well certainly. I have to use what I consider civilized. It’s quite possible that our opinions on what constitutes that differ.

> The US Federal Government does not have absolute authority to enact its will on Americans. This is very deliberate and fundamental to our society.

> As I mentioned previously there are examples of significant action that has been taken, even recently.

> Well as I have now said repeatedly, we are doing something.

I think what it comes down to, for me, is that I just fundamentally cannot consider anything that doesn’t happen on the federal level significant.

Strict regulations on guns in one state/city are pointless if you can just drive over to the next and fill up. It also makes things needlessly complicated for gun owners.

My point is that while americans in a specific location may care, I cannot consider Americans (capital) to be doing something unless the federal government acts.

If you consider the fact that they cannot as ‘deliberate and fundamental’ to your society, and you’d rather have these shootings than infringe on that, then by all means. But I will never be able to understand that.

In my opinion the whole reason for the federal government to exist is that they can act in situations like these.
Then since that is the case, it's quite clear how this is court case is going to end and for that someone, it will end in tears.

That someone is going to end up crying very badly and a bunch of their fans supporting them will scream in outrage whilst another person walks out the door free.

We'll see what happens next.
I always find this framing of "concerning scientists" to be really strange. Like there is some cabal of scientists who sit around keep track of what is worrying and not. And the fundamental thing that allows you to be worried is that you use the scientific method in your day job?

I think as many homesteaders, and poultry farmers, and zoo keepers are worried. Why don't we just say people are worried about this?
Of course, alarm bells just mean we should look into things.

In this case, the author being discussed seems to literally looking for non-material/"Otherworld" based explanations for history. I think he would not be insulted, to be called anti-science. There might be something unfortunate going on in broader discussion around the phrase "anti-science" (I'm not ready to defend that too strongly either way), but in this case it seems pretty apt.
I have to wonder if this is one of those somewhat "implanted" stories to get support for moving towards John Deere style DRM on some of their parts. That is, not that it's made up, but that perhaps the scale is being exaggerated a bit.

Edit: Yes, I'm aware there's some DRM. So far, though, not as locked down as the example of John Deere, cryptographic control that requires phone-home, etc.
I'm still more impressed by the schemes that prevent you from just copying tape-to-tape or disk to disk. I remember on the C64 some games deliberately put read errors on the tracks, which most copy programs would ignore. If you did a disk-to-disk copy, the duplicate wouldn't boot because it was looking for the read error. I figured out I could use a sector editor to read the error from the original disk, swap them out and then write it to the duplicate - which then worked correctly.
> Sounds good but where you going to get the energy, in space

There's always the sun or the possibility to laser them out from earth using nuclear energy (or even coal)
In many of the bird watching facebook groups I'm in people are saying they are taking theirs down unfortunately.
Thousands of workers at Salesforce stop working with NRA
The same thing that stops every other form of blackmail, their word. If someone is willing to blackmail you, their word is probably not worth much.
I've also been using vector-based ... etc ... 1980s just can't remember the year...

...it's simple drawing software, not sure there is really a need to indulge in the rigorous critique format. IMO simple software and credential-pulling critiques are a kind of unwarranted match. Logically you'd think it'd also be better to keep it upbeat and maybe incentivize the author as opposed to measuring them against all of vector drawing history.

You can draw with it, I tried it myself!

Some of the coolest things about reinventing wheels are A) it's your wheel and thus motivation levels tend to be higher that way, and B) maybe you find new standards that work for you and reveal new leverage points. Otherwise the wheel critique also starts to converge with new-idea / new-opportunity critique.

I don't see those items as fixes so much as alignments that are optional. Maybe those changes are made to console you, great, but you can also use many other drawing tools if you want that type of configuration.
When I see some product advertised as "made with science" I usually assume they have done zero actual research, no studies whatsoever and its just meaningless marketing trash. Those are products I generally avoid
For really big clients the trick is finding out the maximum allowed budget before the next approval escalation kicks in. You divide that by the LOE in hours and that’s your hourly rate.
Never saw that - pretty cool (but annoying). I do remember endless time spent in the library photocopying manuals so you could answer those text challenges: "On page 46, in the third paragraph, what is the second word?"
The Goodyear ReCharge Tire Concept – Capsules That Regenerate Your Tires (2020)
the proper term is "defensive programing"
This is only an issue because YouTube doesn't implement a low friction counternotice procedure like the DMCA allows. If they had that then the scammers would have to file a lawsuit.
Basic research can take a lot less than hundreds of years in special cases. So for me, I got my AI algorithm, my first one, to produce a result I did not already know about within a year of starting the code. It discovered negative modulo. That was it.

But! That was something I myself did not know. Not really important that eg wikipedia already knows about negative modulos getting the last elements of a list.

That was the point of AI. From that day I had much more confidence in the basic premise of the basic research, that this could be done and it slowly would develop.

And why did I come up with a result so fast with my own basic research? Desperation. Solitude, isolation. Silence. Single-mindedness, determination, that AI was all I actually cared about, no secondary reason to live. It got all my resources.
The counterargument is that RISC architectures end up needing to use compressed instruction formats (e.g. ARM Thumb) because their clean orthogonal instruction encoding is so inefficient (e.g. it wastes a lot of instruction cache). If you already need the compiler to output some compressed encoding that your processor is going to uncompress at runtime, well, why not keep that uncompressed format as an implementation detail that you can change in future models of your processor?
> you're either selling something or you just don't know what you're talking about.

There's no need to be combative. i've been programming since the 80s (mid-90s professionally), and in _no way_ long to return to those days. It was fun while it lasted, but the dev tools, environments, and targets we have nowadays are a lot of fun in their own ways too, and many (perhaps most) of them wouldn't be possible/feasible with 16MB of memory on a 120mhz PC.

i'm selling nothing but the idea (for $0) that people expect far more from software now than then, and there's no way to run a modern app in such a limited environment.
I think you underestimate the number of people who live their lives on these games.
Do note that IFUNC is a convenience. You don't actually need to use IFUNCs to write target specific code that dispatches dynamically at runtime.

For example, ripgrep's dependencies dispatch dynamically at runtime by querying CPUID, but nothing uses GCC's "IFUNC" thingy. So it's likely that much more software is utilizing target specific code than not. Still, it's probably less than one would like.

(I think this is less of a response to you and more of a response to this entire thread. It seems like some folks are conflating "IFUNC" with "all forms of dynamic dispatching based on CPUID.")
They do it's just further down. "taken down by spamming Circumvention of Technology claims"
I keep seeing channels being added to Nebula (feels like every week), so it's not bad. Then again, they have some persisting issues in the app, so it doesn't sound like lots of engineering capacity is available.
Not a planet of the apes traveler trope, but in his “book of the new Sun” trilogy Gene Wolfe leaves it as an exercise for the reader to figure out that it’s set in a far-far future South America.
I believe the case is about defamation and there is a counter suit. It is not at all clear how the defamation verdict will go even if everyone believes everything plaintiff said. Believing Depp to be a victim of spousal abuse is much easier than thinking defamation (in the legal liability sense) occurred.
Listening to matthew walker speaking on joe rogan, he said there was a huge correlation between getting little sleep and getting alzheimer's.

I also think having good circulation is important. I also remember reading that people who took viagra had lower chances of getting alzheimer's as well. viagra helps with circulation.

(so, sleep well and exercise)

I also find it amusing the article doesn't point to lifestyle changes as a possible answer, but to a possible drug solution :)