skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody Can Agree on Whether the U.S. Is in a Recession
Transformer Language Model Mathematical Definition
We had a fiber optic cut a few years back that was weird in that way. No cell data, no cable internet. I made plans to leave town so I could do my work, and it would have been a 30 minute drive to get to the nearest place that had internet.

Nobody in the neighborhood knew what was going on at first. Eventually I turned on the FM radio and within a couple minutes they had an update as to what was going on and when a fix was expected. It was some hours before service was restored.

Overall the feeling sucked because it hit in the middle of a busy day and there was this question of A) how long will this take, given that I'm working on something, and B) how big a deal is it that I can't get any notifications from servers or other services?

Since that time I picked up a bank of scanner radios and put some content I enjoy on the LAN. So it's less of an issue, and things feel way more plugged in when problems occur. But it's still annoying to think it might happen again for any number of reasons.
Jeff Bezos wants to move 'all polluting industry' into space to keep Earth clean
Yeah he totally ignored most of my comments in the other thread, then simply resubmitted his "startup" again here less than 48 hours later.

Every time anybody points out the severe technical flaws in this scheme he either waves it away with happytalk or ignores it.
>that it's neuroticism and health fixation to suggest that people should avoid morbid obesity

that isn't what I said. I said that people should make their own decisions and listen to themselves. If they feel bad being obese, they should change it. If they don't, they shouldn't. What people ought to stop doing is being driven by others to make these decisions. And that is where the neuroticism from an entire self-help and lifestyle industry comes in.

the OP is apparently happy with his lifestyle and feels good and that's what they should care aobut, period. Smoking is a prime example of this. Other than in public places it's a purely private choice. If people enjoy smoking and they're aware of the risks other people should stop meddling with their decisions.
Since the document is written by William Happer and Richard Lindzen, I have to ask ...

Do you feel the professors William Happer and Richard Lindzen can give qualified opinions on the effects of CO2 measures or do you feel they're incapable in this area?
Expanding the obfuscated links:

https://tinyurl.com/54ed988n == https://in.mashable.com/tech/31180/instagram-tries-to-copy-t...

https://tinyurl.com/4kkj3ae8 == https://bgr.com/tech/facebooks-plan-to-copy-tiktok-is-a-horr...

If you're looking for a co-founder add a contact link to your profile (in the 'about' section).
Thing is, we are people. So the "people scale" is always going to be the most one relevant to us in terms of what governments do for / to us. The atom analogy doesn't hold here.
Animation, particularly its history, approached from a global perspective is an interesting topic so Ani Obsessive's articles are great to read. A number of articles talk about various whole swathes of animation that aren't typically mentioned.

I find it interesting how, despite being artistic, even 2d animation remains surprisingly technical.
(engineer at Neeva here)

I couldn't agree more which is why we recently launched our Onebox product bringing you forum content directly inline with your search results.

https://neeva.com/blog/introducing-neeva-onebox-community-co...
Telegram uses phone numbers just as UIDs, they're not shared to anyone without your permission.

As for Discord, I've got a few accounts and have been asked for telephone numbers 0 times. It's only needed when a specific server demands it, haven't seen any yet.
I suspect Self and NewtonScript may have helped to popularize prototype-based OOP before JavaScript came around.

And of course Self's JIT/VM evolved into HotSpot and probably influenced most future VMs including JavaScript.
wow, lots happened in just one single day... thanks and voted
yes, it's possible. I think it's called formal verification.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_verification

I can't even begin to understand how it's done. I suspect we need a new programming language that forces you to do it before it compiles to machine code. or an AI that's setup to prove what you code.
It's not an either-on. We can still minimize etatism and other forms of organization that require deep hierarchies.
The article is missing some clarifying words.

> Those are not pin-to-pin compatible chips, and two circuitry were made for the board requiring two BoMs as it’s not just possible to only replace IP2315 by CH224D [WITHOUT BUILDING THE WHOLE BOARD TO THE APPROPRIATE BOM].

Either chip would have worked if built to the correct BOM. But instead they used a BOM for one chip and placed the other chip, causing complete non-functioning for anything over 5V.

Yea. Be clear about your build and assembly process.
What do you have lined up?
I have kids.
For me it is simply therapy. Unfortunately, it is an enormously effective therapy, and I am enormously overweight. It never really evokes any kind of memories for me.
Do you seriously believe that you (even collectively) empower governments to take action of your behalf?
Yet another case of them not taking pro users seriously.
Progress unfinished thoughts and make new ones.
I like Rust a lot but I don’t see a reason to use it for software systems instead of Elixir.
Price is one of the main factors, for sure.

But it's not just that.

The image was actually a big turn off even back then, even before source control was even a thing.

Even today, Smalltalk runtimes (e.g. Pharo) are extremely slow compared to other languages, now imagine how slow Smalltalk was forty years ago... I can tell you, it was very, very slow (I used it on NeXT back then). I'm talking "watch the window draw with your naked eye" slow.
ASIMO was once amazing technology and showcase of robot, but quite quiet for quite awhile...
As US aids semiconductor industry, billionaire-backed tech fund enters spotlight
You can customize your quick access toolbar. I've never seen a rule against 3rd party add-ins so I'm not sure about those. Keyboard shortcuts and lookup/logic/date/math/dynamic array functions are key along with data tables if you want to try and solve the challenge in one go.
Yeah, this is one of the reasons I prefer Org. Notes should be dynamic and living and generated and hyperlinked!
Well I don't know how you conduct the interview but in my experience from interviewee side, usually interviewer doesn't want to disclose information if it's not explicitly asked, which is bad. In your garage door example, it's better if you disclose the one button information when asked for "is there any more requirement?" or for any constraint, etc. If you only answer when asked "is it using one or two button" then it's a bad practice.

This practice makes those with only* a decent knowledge about the problem domain at disadvantage, because the interviewer doesn't disclose the requirement, even if asked (unless if asked specifically). In the junior case, it is possible that they know some garage door with two buttons, thus assuming the same since you don't disclose any information about it (assuming the junior asked). And thinking about it, one or two buttons operation should not be the top priority to be asked.
Well sure, but that leaves behind a lot of opportunities for people who can’t or won’t pursue the complex cases.
Yes, they often are found illegal by courts:

>Since 2001, the FTC has filed a number of lawsuits to stop these deals, and it supports legislation to end such “pay-for-delay” settlements.[1]

The FTC lists 4 cases since 2019, but there seems to have been a bunch more prior to 2019 that only have press releases[2]

[1] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/topics/competition-enforceme...

[2] https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/terms/935
I look at the outcome, and can certainly say that the tools I use find issues than I didn't know existed
This is absolutely fascinating. I am not sure if its the case that A/B testing is at fault but rather poor understanding of human nature and player dynamics. Thank you for sharing!
Huh - I believe Wes gave me a flying lesson this summer. That or there's another ex-Xerox PARC guy training out of Palo Alto who looks like him! Cool story :)
https://grist.org/business-technology/2011-11-11-is-your-stu...
Actually lots are prosecuted: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/terms/935?pag...
Aka the tech industry.

Although, he isn’t a writer, so, with squinting, I appreciate the feeling/motivation.
?? no thats closer to $58k USD..
Does GTK run on windows and macOS also?
Mark Cuban, Mavericks in hot water over Voyager ‘Ponzi scheme’
Wanted to throw in "Haven" because they offer a timely way out: https://havenweb.org/screenshots.html

It's basically a private timeline, written in Markdown and with optional pictures. Also provides a RSS feed.

Not affiliated, but was in touch with the author this week to help him with his Docker setup and hosting: https://havenweb.org/2022/08/10/pikapods.html
good point. markdown as web content is widely used, but not whole web page. the project is a sample to use markdown as whole page by putting web element (header,ment,theme) in frontmater.
> you're in the wrong field

Bravo

I found it interesting that the article chooses to not acknowledge several projects like

* https://www.refreedrive.eu/

* https://www.electricmotorengineering.com/synchronous-relucta...
So once the three years is up they they start automatically billing you unless you cancel?
Beachgoer killed after umbrella impales her in the chest in South Carolina
It’s pretty amazing that these programs used 128KB of memory. Nowadays, it is rare to find a program that uses less than 128MB.

I know I’m being a bit hyperbolic. There are definitely apps that use less than that, but my point is more that the actual capabilities of the software have not always increased at the same pace as the resource usage.
I wonder if it is good for consumers though. Everyone I know that has it seems to just dabble puddle deep in game after game now and lose interest. Each person has a very expensive Xbox that they don’t play now. Maybe there is something to purchasing a game that makes you assign it worth. For me, the joy of games is getting deep into them, learning everything about them and finishing them. I have 500 hours in Elden Ring haha. I wonder if the fact that a game is almost free makes people subconsciously think it is worthless.
I don't want to disparage qt+qml, I used it commercially and it's much better than other gui frameworks I worked with.

I just dislike people bashing technology for the wrong reason (like it being a "js framework").

In qt+qml usually you connect slots to signals in js, even if they are implemented in c++.
When I read this, I was like... I'm pretty sure DJB has done this a few different times.

Damn do I miss the days of qmail.

https://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
Took me a very long time to get the highlight joke.

Britta thinks Shirley asks for the highlight of the things she got. Shirley thinks she’s telling Britta what that thing that you use to highlight text is called
Becoming an "authority" can help as well. Having a public, professional, persona can help with credibility.

I started off doing training, which progressed to a book, which progressed to more training, which progressed to a free weekly webinar where I answer questions.

In my tiny niche, prospective clients "know my name". If I'm asked to supply credentials it's easy to do, and there's usually someone on their team who's heard of me.

It helps skip over the "can he do the work" part of the negotiation. Customers are happier to do projects, and pay more, if they are confident the project will actually succeed. Typically its not their own money they are depending, but project failures hurt their upstream reputation.
One of my first big dressing down at work, as a young engineer, was a result of this.

A manager had been emailing me monthly requests to update some time-tracking excel sheet, but his emails looked like the kind of automated spam you get from every other service reminding you to do something or other so I ignored them. And I was tracking my time following a different process (you had to do both unbeknownst to me) so I assumed it was just an automatic reminder and I was good.

Anyway 6 months into the job he called me on the phone and gave me the dressing down of a lifetime about responsibility and answering your emails and so forth. Very unpleasant experience all around.
Federal watchdog approves Google program to let campaigns skip spam filters
I appreciate the detailed reply.

Offering free hands-on experience seems like a version of “work for exposure”; even if it can be effective at times for a given company, I’d say on a larger scale it makes the market less healthy.

E.g. it might give unfair advantage to larger companies that can afford to offer free services; smaller businesses might have more trouble with growth and getting recognised.
Red meat and heart disease: a new study examines the link
It's also physically impossible for it to actually be 0 ohms. Unless there are consumer grade superconductors that I didn't know about.
It's hard to take this guy seriously knowing that part of his story is he traveled Australia in a van for months and basically left his kids behind.
Richard P. Gabriel (who every Emacs person should know) wrote "Worse is Better"[1] in 1984, which is directly applicable. To summarise, "worse" software prioritises simplicity of implementation and priortises simplicity over correctness.

[1] https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I thought we were opposed to the Nanny state?
Nice list. Too bad they didn't keep going.

And too bad they covered Modula-2 rather than the Oberon system which was (and is?) quite amazing and compact.

I wonder what they would have covered if they'd continued? Maybe.... C++. Objective-C. Ada. Apple languages: HyperCard/HyperTalk, Dylan, NewtonScript... Object Pascal (later Delphi.) Oberon. Scheme. Tcl. Perl. Python. HTML. JavaScript. Ruby. ...

The recently-featured-in-HN BYTE Lisp issue actually included an 8-bit Lisp implementation for the 6800 (though you had to order the full listing separately.) Or you could write your own based on the article.
Because the optics of a car company disabling a feature that was included with the car after three years unless you start paying for it and continue paying for it indefinitely are even worse.
Where do you think new medical innovation comes from? Who trains the next generation of semiconductor engineers?
WASM-4: A Retro Game Jam Using WebAssembly
Alternatively: declare that "regex" has graduated into its own proper term (not a contraction) for whatever this evolving somewhat-too-capable-for-easy-classification tool is.

It's certainly how it's used colloquially.
Isn’t article 3 missing? In the introduction it says there’s a section on retro thinking ads. Can’t find it anywhere.
Gitlab keeps misleading its users. That’s why people criticize them. This has been the case since day 1, when Gitlab was supposed to be O/S with money made off consulting and later Gitlab.com hosting.

They host a free tier and they keep moving stuff out of it without much warning.

But quite simply this article is invalid because it’s not even accurate about its facts. Gitlab also removes features for paying users. They frequently move features that were present in a certain tier to more expensive tiers.
I think that if someone can condense an algorithm using just a bunch of lines of code, that reflects a deep understanding of the problem domain. A lot of people can code an algorithm using a lot of lines of code. But it requires practice and experience to write short and expressive code. For example, Karpathy is famous for this, you can check his implementation of evolution strategies [1].

[1] https://openai.com/blog/evolution-strategies/
What if the developers made the informed choice to use AMP? Aren't they going to be hug-of-deathing a lot of sites that thought they had a caching scheme?
First, what's wrong with having Pinterest images in the search results? For the types of queries where they show up, they usually seem to be pretty relevant.

Second, many high-quality sites use ads and analytics. What are you going to do? Downrank the New York Times because it has ads and uprank your local conspiracy theorist because he doesn't?
“Broad jump: Killed her.” is one of the most clever succinct jokes I have ever heard. Works even better because it’s the only pun in the sequence!

The first two minutes of the set are incredible.
Unity signs “multi-million dollar” contract to help U.S. government with defense
In order to provide the best ranking DDG would need to track beyond their results page and see if the persons' question is actually answered.

For a privacy-focussed search engine that's a very hard goal to achieve without betraying their core value prop.

Google can do that through

- Google analytics

- Chrome

- Youtube embeds

- Google DNS cache

- Android DNS

- Tracking repeat searches

- Tracking similar searches

- Google fonts

Every other player is just so far behind it's unlikely we'll see anybody beat google in their core desktop and mobile search but there are certainly niches that can be attacked.

The reality is that satisfying all privacy concerns and building a great search engine are not compatible.
So, this is a fair take, but also, the actual statute that drives antitrust law right now is still insane, and that has enabled lots of unnecessary judge-made interpretation.

The sherman act starts by saying "Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. "

Couple things:

1. Because it's a federal statute, it has to be within congress's powers, which is why it only applies to interstate trade/commerce, rather than purely intrastate.

2. All contracts are a restraint of trade of some form.
So this was a bad codification of common law.

This immediately led to judges adding words (IE finding only contracts that "unduly" restrain trade are void).

It has only gotten worse in the past century.

So when you say "in the 80's they decided to repeal it from the bench", this is right, but it would also be fair to say "judges were forced to try to interpret this thing for a century because it was badly written, and some eventually decided the earlier interpretations were wrong".

Congress could have fixed all this at any point.
Check out https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - I think you'll be pleasantly surprised
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I find this attitude among developers frustrating to say the least.

Apparently developers are just helpless sheep being ruled by an amorphous entity called “management”.

Supposedly developers are important enough to command 3-400k in salaries, but not important enough that “management” would be open to all of them pointing out that maybe that 1 daily meeting is costing too much in employee time and not giving enough value and could be reduced to 2-3 times a week.
>Is this the end of X?

No.
It only takes a few minutes to set it up. I use it for my blog, very happy with it.
I assume the vast majority of the neat material we have today came from a lab. Antiadhesive coating, velcro, even aluminum wasn't always possible at scale.
Why? Because you say so? With a dismissal like that you ought to elaborate with some evidence. Especially since you seem to be attacking the man, along with his theory.
I’m guessing they have a filter on the prompt text, but also one on the generated pictures.

I got blocked a few times with very non sexual prompts, and I suspect that the AI was a bit horny when it interpreted them.
"Now that the pretenders are leaving"

Unpunished? To continue committing their moral (at least) crimes?
I looked into this for my yard. Unfortunately given how bad of a shape it is, it still would cost multiple thousands to clear with goats. Fortunately, it only costs a few hundred to buy some goats and do it over a longer time, with the bonus of making my niece happy.
It’s going to be extremely exciting when a group figures out artificial muscles that can be actuated electrically with high efficiency and speed.
That took me back on a trip down memory lane...
My father had a psion, can't remember the specific model, though most likely from the 3 series, because he was using Palm devices by the time of the 5 Series launch.

The form factor was of the Psion great and I even ended up getting the Sony Clié NX73V more or less because of that years later... Aside from the 227g weight, it was an amazing device for ebooks with an amazing 320x480 resolution...

It's funny, I use a 6" e-ink Tolino (Shine 2HD, if I recall right) for ebooks these days, but the far lower resolution LCD displays never bothered me back then... My phone today has a considerably better and larger display (Samsung AMOLED) compared to then, and yet I would prefer not to read on that; I wonder why...
Microsleep is a GC pause.
And then, some states like Wisconsin take it a step further. If a criminal assaults or threatens someone and the victim attempts to use deadly force against the criminal, the criminal may legally use deadly force to defend themselves. I think they need to be trapped, but still...in Wisconsin you can beat a murder charge with a self defense argument.
Oh god I can related to this with my daughter. Our flat is an open garbage thanks to her hoarding of scraps, paper scraps, parcel cardboards etc.
Straight up raw CSS Grid is my new favorite. It let's you do what we used to do with tables. It even improves it with fr units. Though not sure what to do with the extra brain cycles that don't goto div soup layouts.
It's basically the same as the System 1 which was just a ripoff of the stuff at Xerox PARC. That is where things really went from zero to one, on a lot of things. The same thing happened with programming languages. C sparked a revolution and languages have been getting incrementally more bloated (and terrible) ever since. I think the difference stems from academic versus capitalist roots. I mean, even Xerox didn't want the stuff they had created.
I mean, who doesn't hear the "I'm lovin' it" jingle and not want a highly processed not real meat patty shaped something on a bun?
Not a useful comment but I will be honest...I read "Did GIANTS impact..." and thought "Definitely an interesting read".
Windows10Debloater: Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware (2021)
I have goats. They are picky eaters. They know what they want and what they don't. They will strip most trees and bushes to the branch. They will eat most grass, but not if it's too tall or has gone to seed or is too dried out. And they'll only eat it down to about 3-4 inches from the ground. There are certain plants I dig out of my pasture because the goats just won't eat them and I don't want them spreading and taking up more space.

There's truth that goats will put most things in their mouths. Almost every time I bring something new into their pen, they check to see if it's food. They'll even check me every now and then just to be sure I haven't become food in the past week. So, sure, you might see a goat pick up a tin can for a brief moment, but you'll also see it spit it out 5 seconds later.
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