skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, thank you for sharing!

I'm not surprised that the system lasted that long! VMS is legendary.

I've looked through the documentation for OpenVMS BASIC and it does seem like it was a nice platform.

The entire VMS system appears to be quite a comfy environment to have worked in. (DCL, help system, documentation, standard libraries, multiple languages (Pascal, C, BASIC))
It doesn’t take that much practice to get typing speed/comfort up to the speed of organized, phrased thoughts.

A lot of people have that already from communicating on their phones a lot, or (for the young ones) growing up on touch screens, but even if you just dive into journaling like the OP, you’d probably get their soon enough.

And once you’re there, dictation can’t hold a candle. I’ll type a paragraph in the time it takes for some dictation assistant to transcribe a sentence, with fewer mistakes, more precision, and more linguistic creativity.
In multiples of tens, I would believe it. Upto a hundred over a couple years? That's a stretch but possible if you count a very wide range of roles. Multiple hundreds as they imply on Reddit? That would be catastrophic to any company, even one as large as Apple. You would certainly see it reflected in their job postings after even a few, let alone hundred+
I hope you hang in there, friend. I don’t know how long it will take, but I’m optimistic and hopeful that the state will not support the kind of extreme social positions the party in power is driving beyond maybe another two or three election cycles max.
If you were the art gallery of Wales, and I was the art gallery of scotland, no: assuming only your art provenance is valid and no other gallery can establish it is exceptionalism.

If you are the art gallery and I am some random with a prior cleaning job for a rich dead person who just happens to claim I have a van gogh, sure: good initial assumption. That's not exceptionalism, it's caution based on experience
Hey pjmlp!

Yes indeed. The docs for VMS are great. Really cool environment.

On an unrelated note, have you seen this video yet?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31701231
> There hasn't been any huge crash or people getting filthy rich due to the recipients of 30 year mortgages exploiting the system in any way...

Those very US government programs that implement the political guarantee also implement an exploit in oh, so many programs for non-owner occupants, typically realtors / agents, to leverage in ways they absolutely cannot in a truly open commercial market. Every single realtor / agent acquaintance I've been introduced to will wax on about their impressive portfolio holdings if I give them an opening to do so.

Acting innocent, I inquire about the details of their fabulous business acumen. Every single one below the $20M valuation mark, without exception, and most cluster around the $1M valuation mark, hold the bulk of their assets via government or quasi-government-backed paper and not through a commercial bank loan.

The US rules around establishing owner occupancy in many programs are insanely easy to circumvent, and for all practical purposes never enforced. There are plenty of people exploiting the program making a pretty penny off of taxpayer largesse. Real estate is one of the most heavily subsidized assets in the US.
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Just to dispel any confusion. AI (and specifically deep mind's reinforcement learning) can help with any task the same way computers in general can... you still have to set up the task, inputs, reward function, and so on. It's not AGI which is still science fiction. The jump between the two is very large.
I thought AMD succeeded because they managed to get Jim Keller and other great engineers? Unsure why you're placing your hope on a CEO.
This is completely wrong.

Quality education isn’t scarce. You think Harvard educates better than most midwestern schools? No. You think MIT does? No. I have so many data points to validate that. So many people who went to both who can testify that for example UIUC was harder than MIT. The same with several other schools.

People go to the top brand name schools because of status, or because they think others care about the status. I’m not talking about trying to get a professorship. I’m talking about people who want a decent good job when they graduate.

On top of that, the number of high quality high schools, or decent quality that you can supplement with courses at your local college or online is massively high.

People are obsessed with metrics, often the wrong metrics, making them even more self-fulling prophesies.

In France for example they might have more funding for better high schools, but they also ban all kinds of things, like most rankings. Get people to stop obsessing and people will relax a bit and come out better. Again, this is for the majority, not the few who push society forward. Those people just obsess all the time.

I’m a programmer in Silicon Valley. I went to a “top” public school for computer science. I went to a no-name local high school in my home town. I see very little benefit to the school I went to. I have had bosses who didn’t even go to college. Others who studies English or something else entirely unrelated to CS from a school that wasn’t too in their field. What I’ve learned is those who keep learning rise to the top. Every year after college, less and less people care about where you went, what you majored in, etc. I haven’t had a single interviewer ask about my publications or research projects after my third year in industry.

Most parent just obsess way too much. I get it, I’m a parent too, but parents need to look at actual behavior that influences long term outcomes and whether those outcomes are even good.
Thanks to being based on their phone chips Apple came out of the gate with the M1 and cleaned everyone’s clock on performance-per-watt while putting in good to great numbers in general (as a CPU).

But their rate of improvement on the A series has been slowing on general tasks. They’re on the same process node, and only increased frequency a bit.

Is it really that surprising that performance didn’t take a massive jump? You can’t keep up a 20% increase in normal stuff every release for long.

You can use accelerators like they do for video and ML to help some tasks. You can improve your GPU some and make it a little bigger.

It seems like in some places people are trying to push a “the M2 is a failure because it’s not a huge leap above the M1“ narrative. But no one exits that from Intel or AMD every year anymore. Or Apple’s A-series.

So why here?
I have the same story. But the ironic thing is, the Odyssey2 was a superior system to a 2600. But Atari had all the major titles locked up, and back then, nobody did ports. All deals were exclusive.
Tinygo is supported by several edge computing platforms, and works well for at least one commercial application.

If you need wasm/wasi support, and you're ok with working around the partial support for reflect etc., it's not a bad choice.
It’s incredible, happy to spread the good word. Highly recommend the 3080 tier and playing with the GFN app streaming settings & any in-game visual settings as well, the default configs can be a little conservative!
If the general HN consensus is to be believed, Professional Engineers and Software Engineers Who Write Bare-Metal Code are the only people who have ever attained success commensurate with their effort. Everyone else seems to have had disproportionate advantage - Elon Musk was given too much by his dad, Sheryl Sandberg made friends outside her lane, presumably Steve Jobs parasitized Woz.

Curious distribution. At the bottom are the losers, at the top the cheaters. In the middle are those whose brilliance is undetected by bean counting MBAs who presumably also support open offices, NFTs, and Apple CSAM scanning.
Fat lotta good it seems to do. We still have those, maybe less frequent, but holy moly the amount of money involved requires many more zeroes to express nowadays.
https://youtu.be/0a5BJxrarL0
Putting crypto currency to one side, you are aware of the pgp 'strong set'? because six degrees of Kevin Bacon says a handful is a serious underestimate of how good transitive trust can be. The strong set is quite large.

That word "transitive" is a very important qualifier here: it's weaker than an absolute statement but hierarchical PKI turns out to be weaker than theory, in practice.

Crypto coins are trash. Signatures are not trash. Behaviour of people and systems performing signing including HSM operators are mutable and worrisome.
I know. The advantage of Linux is that you can pretty much write a script that sets up the exact same OS settings on new machines. Definitely useful for system admins.
This mf spittin!
> It only works with a low population.

That’s the point. Killing lots of people lowers the population, but it doesn’t stay low. Over time, the population will always approach the carrying capacity, so the only way to permanently lower the population is to make the carrying capacity lower.
Find a lot of people I know living what I tend to consider an overexamined life.
While the US just maintains several fleets of ships just outside of Chinese waters. Oh, they probably does all the things you listed too.
Looking at the 11th edition it has chapters on Adaptive Cruise Control, Lane Assistance and Infrared Night Vision Systems.

Pretty sure it covers modern cars fairly well.
Like search and replace among equations, change font for all equations AFTER they're written, scroll up and down using Vim keys, etc.
I'm always entertained by the optimism of the people who think they'll be the ones to survive.
We had the same issue and ended up using remote docker.

Pros:
- Setup is very simple.
- It can run dozens of containers without overloading local machine.
- Its stable.
- SSL is working.

Cons:
- I got issues with web sockets support.
- Some times I get file conflicts.

I actually got ready solution for running remote docker with Mac but It need a bit of work. If someone would like to support project some front-end work, and a bit of docker/nginx work, please get in touch.
Read the paper this thread is about.
> If asset prices do not decrease in a rising rate environment, then inflation cannot be controlled

the asset price could remain stable, if the jobs that service those mortgages aren't removed.

Inflation of consumables can be controlled, but it is painful. Inflation of assets should not be controlled, even if it could - asset growth represents the wealth of those who invested in it. If this growth is artificially suppressed, millions would lose their retirement funds, and become poorer in the future, and for what?
I think it's more about it making you choose your words carefully.

For the record I'm very against what will smith did (posters above mentioned it), but I'd have felt differently if it hadn't been a comedian telling jokes, but say someone got in will's face and called him the N word with malice. I think it'd be perfectly reasonable to knock someone out over that. If the other person knows this is a good possibility, they may only use those words if they mean them enoughto accept the consequences.

I'm not saying my way is right, I'm just saying how it was growing up, and how that's shaped me.

In another thread I mentioned a friend of mine getting hurled insults at her abortion appointment. Had any of them been a man I'd have definitely gotten in some trouble that day. My belief is they have the right to say it, not protection from the consequences. But I'm also very against cancel culture. Am I weird for all of this? Alone in these beliefs? Totally wrong? Quite possibly, I know the world now confuses the shit out of me, and sometimes I feel like I am the only sane one for seeing some things (ie- trading our lives to the rich for a pittance, rules for thee but not for me, etc). Truly I could be very wrong, and if so I will accept that and try and change my views. I do try and live by the scientific method.
This seems like it could be handled by hiring ONE engineering leader for the engineering org - which is one spoke of the multi-spoke wheel that runs a modern day tech company.

The HN crowd is biased, but it seems to overinflate the importance of IC engineering contribution vs the contributions of the collective - eng and non eng.
HTML can't be fixed with a small trick like that.

Just use templating engine like Pug and get away with most of the annoyances.

It's concise about what part of the text is covered by a certain tag due to forced indentation, not to mention you'll never need to close any tag and you never write "class=" but are all turned into CSS selector notation among many other tricks.

https://github.com/pugjs/pug#syntax

Unless the HTML I'm composing will be touched by people like designers who would get scared of new syntax, in which case I'll use Twig or Nunjucks, I'll never write plain HTML for myself.

There's also a very solid implementation in PHP as well.

https://github.com/pug-php/pug

You can either let server side (node.js or PHP) compile that on demand or let your editors compile them as you edit if you're working on a static file.

I really think the language humans write should deviate from the language the runtimes understand to get all the convenience while never breaking how runtimes/crawlers interpret your output. Same goes for Stylus against CSS.
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Same, i'm discreet too.
Well, if you are dead, your actions are not going to change anything (because you won't be performing any actions). So if you are going to plan, you can only plan for the case where you survive
I continue to use it even today for small root stores I manage for internal networks. Very clean and intuitive UI that gets the job done well.

Also using Kleopatra for GPG keys.
> No, it's because they lost the lead in fabs. AMD passed Intel, was it because of their designs? No, it's because they use TSMC's fabs and TSMC passed Intel. Apple blew everyone away with M1, was it because of their designs? No, it's because they paid TSMC boatloads of money for exclusivity on their latest fabs.

The fixation on the fab process is bewildering. Yes, it does help, but it is also an optimisation step that is decoupled from and that bears no relevance on the chip design. Yes, the smaller node size also brings the increased density along and an increased number of things that can be whacked into the same sized piece of silicon, but it will not magically improve the overall system performance or result in the linear architecture scalability.

The article is specifically calling out a potentially decreased ROB size in M2 cores, and ARMv9 also potentially not arriving until M3 which are crucial to the speed or software performance. There is absolutely nothing the fab process can do to make SVE2 and matrix instructions automagically appear in lithographic chip designs – those are the «silicon» design time decisions. As we have recently been seeing more and more practical, mainstream use cases of the advanced use of the SIMD instructions at the C/C++/Rust runtime level that bring an order of magnitude level performance gains, having the SVE2 implementation at the ISA level is becoming somewhat critical.
A dig against Rust I sometimes hear is "Oh, data race freedom isn't such a big deal, if you really need it, a garbage collected language like Java will give you that guarantee."

So now I'm hearing that Go, a garbage collected language, doesn't guarantee data race freedom? I guess it's garbage collected but not "managed" by a runtime or something?

Why go to all that effort to get off of C++ just to stop 30% short? These are C-like concurrency bugs, and you still have to use C-like "if not nil" error handling.

Why do people keep adopting this language? Where's the appeal?
Dave Clark upgraded to CEO of Flexport. This is pareidolia.
Trust is earnt. I can reasonably have a default level of low trust for practically any app. This isn’t some blind anger stance. Its not blanket mistrust or some kind of ignorance. It is healthy scepticism. Totally reasonable in today's environment.

Plenty of app developers have muddied the water enough that apps should have a lower level of trust given to them. Stealing data is a reasonable fear now. It is not reasonable to assert otherwise.

It is therefore reasonable for a person to wonder why geolocation is requested but then be suspicious why it doesn't seem to need it. Regardless of the underlying technical reason. Those technical reasons are part of informed consent. If I don't have informed consent, do I really have consent?

Its also not a sad state at all. Its healthy. Its part of the modern landscape that someone can be suspicious and rightly so. If not, you're setting people up for misfortune. Is there some reason you want people to blindly trust like this? That seems almost abusive to me.
No one person deserves the credit for a processor and if Intel had delivered on their roadmap (Ice Lake in 2017 and Alder Lake in 2019) AMD would be dead today.
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The trick though is volatility = both times of lows and highs. So it can survive down times are well as when times are good
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve intentionally signed up for a newsletter. I’m really enjoying your articles, please do keep them coming.
I do think there is some potential in the idea of people proving they are at face-to-face events (signing each others' zero-knowledge tokens) and then timing/placing those events such that someone can't be in two places at once.

However, doing graph-based Sybil detection is already a hard problem[0], and trying to create an infallible algorithm that also works using homomorphic encryption is maybe pushing beyond the boundaries of known technology, unfortunately.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2492517.2492568
Because their efforts for climate change and social justice are just cheap words?
> one of the things I like about Americans is that such displays are considered distasteful

I think this very much depends on where you are, how recently said person acquired their wealth and how. Miami wealthy are very different from Omaha.
I think journaling can be a great funnel to collect everything of interest during your day. Like anything general a lot of it is just noise but the few gems inside can really be worth the effort.
It's plausible BA overreacted to this. Ironically he did give a simple Blind anonymous poll quite a bit of spread and legitimacy now
Wow..imagine the churn amongst the teams working on this
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Well but you get into the security space and license your server db technology for shit like IoT lights. I don't want the company knowing if my lights are on or off, but if they had a homomorphic encrypted backend and app, I might trust it.
It is now, thanks to Brian. Which is quite the irony
If the author had taken the time to define some acronyms, this would have been way more accessible to a layman. Had to give up halfway through.
To the author: please define acronyms the first time you use them.
I am curious. Would it be possible to provide a more direct reference?
In my company ranges are posted and they are $150k to $250k USD.

Not terribly helpful.
Can notmuch or sup somehow store the tags on the IMAP server?

If I were to ever leave GMail (and there may be reasons to do so), it would be pretty painful for me to stop using tags. Folders don't cut it; many of my incoming emails have 2-3 tags. To have tags on my laptop but not on my phone (even in a rudimentary way) would be painful, too.

I can imagine that tags could be stored in some hidden / special folders, and a conforming client could be able to at least read them and synchronize with the local mail DB.
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I'm aware of the strong set, but I was under the impression that it didn't accomplish much anymore -- GnuPG disabled SKS lookups a while back, in response to the network's inability to handle thousands of clearly malicious key attestations. The last major topological analysis I can find of the strong set was back in 2015, one year before the first series of spam attacks on SKS.

(But don't get me wrong: signatures are great! I'm just skeptical of the WoT, from multiple angles.)
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Wow, Facebook knows how to give someone a send-off
The fact you couldn't find that reason yourself implies you could not have made an informed choice. You were effectively compelled. That isn’t permission consent. That was permission coercion. Being forced to consent isn't ethical.
I sort of doubt that's how it works in Texas, but in Germany that's the law! A company can only prevent you from working for a competitor by A) keeping you employed by them; or, B) paying what the competitor would pay you.

When I was an employee in Germany I always thought it would be fun to get stuck in B) and get an "offer" for like 5x my current salary and see what happens.
I wonder if we'll learn someday the NSO or some other TLA has actually bought some mass/volume/electric load/network access on each Starlink. It's such an obvious thing to do and it'd be so easy to hide.

And then you have the v2 Starlink coming which are much more massive (nearly 4x) than v1.
That’s quite an exaggeration - many states disallow or severely limit non-competes, and in many of the states that allow them, they are often unenforced, or easy to get around. So yeah - some people in some parts of the country are locked behind non-competes (if they aren’t willing to move), but it’s hardly everyone.
There are some subjects I do not feel appropriate photographing. I prefer to remember friends and family as I knew them. I understand the logistics of the past were different... but it's a line I've never crossed.

It's also true that many of the people I've photographed have since died. Some day my family will be left to decided the fate of these photos. I've done face tagging (more than once... grrrrr)

I do need to prune them down a bit. 350,000 photos is a bit much.
Depending on how you define richest Apple could very well be the richest. It has something like 200 billion dollars in cash in hand. I would be surprised if any company could match that.
I'm woefully underinformed. But SSI seems like some kind of next-gen adtech. Instead of scaring people about privacy we just convince people "it's safe - you are in control." Meanwhile you can now sell your privacy.

I hope someone less cynical can convince me it's a good idea.
That must be a great policy. I'm glad I have Geico.
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I've started journaling daily myself and just pouring out my thoughts somewhere makes me feel really really good. It doesn't matter what those thoughts/feelings are: love, hatred, sadness, gratitude, jealousy, ambition, anything really. Just writing stuff down made the difference for me.
To give that idea serious credence would mean being able to parse the inputs and outputs, and make the togglable settings on each.

When it's a simple number, that's not hard. When it's a file, it's a lot harder, since there's a lot of non-file files (fifo's, directories, symlinks, hard symlinks, network locations, mountpoints, etc). And don't forget that you can pipe stuff in anything that looks like a file.

It sounds simple, but for things like ffmpeg or openssl, the possibilities are just stupid complex.