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> The earliest work in optimizing highly dynamic languages was done in Smalltalk

Hard to believe, given that optimizing native code compilers for Lisp were already available.
I used GPT-3 to 'write' a children's book and asked it to include descriptions of the illustrations.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1y8EE_p8bw9dIEDguT1bT...

The fact that it's a derivative of an existing work is noteworthy, but I gave it absolutely no guidance on the topic. If i suggest something it will give it a go with similar fervor. eg https://imgur.com/a/N1qWaSV
Maybe try magic mushrooms?
Raja Koduri is the best
I always read that as "wasn't it great when the Internet was mostly nerds exactly like me, and all the things people created had me in their target audience?"

There's plenty of "weird interests" on the Internet. More of it than ever. It's harder to find your specific thing... but not that hard. If the centaur furries and left-handed pickleball players can do it, so can you.
It seems more aligned along age groups than political affiliation, at least when the topic is statements against minority groups: [1]

40% of Americans aged 18-34 say the government should be able to prevent people from saying offensive statements about minority groups

27% for GenX, 24% for Boomers, 12% for Silent gen

1: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-mille...
My god, Byte magazine. The internet generation probably doesn't appreciate just how difficult it was to be on top of CS outside of academia or SV in 80s and evens 90s. I remember there was one bookstore down in Wall Street and one day I saw the green and blue Smalltalk books. It was like finding a little treasure! Naturally I grabbed them both.
I will backtrack a little and concede that it's not evidenced that the LGBA itself taking the cash, but here's its founder talking about how the wider movement she represents wouldn't have even been possible in the United States without Heritage Foundation backing
https://twitter.com/BevJacksonAuth/status/115396424210361548...
(not her only tweet defending the need for feminists to work with the Heritage Foundation)

I think being such a niche cause that only your notional political enemies pursuing a divide and conquer strategy will work with you internationally is what most people mean when they accuse a cause of being "astroturfed"

[For the avoidance of doubt I fully agree that in other respects, they do not share the same political views and that they are not closet hardline antifeminists in disguise]
Caveat, education itself isn't necessarily a problem. Men still go to the more lucrative fields far more often than women, and there are many ways to earn a higher income than what most women end up studying earn.

The real problem is continuously pushing women into a fast lane to get these high-paying jobs and handing other freebies in the name of some warped sense of justice, at the cost of younger men. The STEM paradox exists for a reason, and its not because 2nd/3rd world women love IT a whole lot more than 1st world innately.
You can have casual sex and still feel lonely.

Tons of people are single and having sex with random hookups and still feeling lonely.

And just because 80% of women are matching with only 20% of men, that doesn't mean they're actually talking or meeting up.
I think HN automatically removes "How" from the title; I submitted this post[0] whose original source starts with "How", but after submitting, the word "How" disappeared from the the title.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32350462
Is Intel supporting CUDA/PTX? It will only ever be a consumer GPU if not. Ryzen is building Radeon cores into EVERY new Ryzen 7000 part and with CPUs getting HBM, the need for a discrete GPU that just does graphics isn't necessary for the vast number of applications.
It doesn't conveniently sort lexicographically.
It does not need to be three. It can be: set-up and then the punchline
I recall Smalltalk had the first unit testing framework, which became a model for other languages.
I don't know why people are starting these companies with such unattractive economics and stiff competition. As noted in the Article, Zume raised 375m and failed (plus their pizza was almost comically awful). From the photo it looks like this company makes a better pizza but there are still some serious problems:

1) Margins on pizza are not very high. Dominos has a 30% gross margin and that's with all the non-pizza crap they've convinced people to buy over the years. The quote a $10 price in the article (though it's not clear if that's their cost or what they're selling for). Say their magical pizza robots instead allow for a 50 or 60% gross margin. If they're selling for $10, you still gotta sell a crap-ton of $10 pizzas to make any real money. That might not be impossible except for the fact that...
2) Competition is incredibly difficult. There are a zillion pizza places everywhere in the US. In addition to the major chains, there are also mom and pop pizza stores too. They are not going to sit idly by while this company scoops up marketshare with its cheap pizzas. They're going to market aggressively (which hurts net margin) and cut prices (which further compresses gross margin). It's going to be especially hard for this company because they're going up against established brands that everyone already knows - they're going to have to outpromote these giant companies.

If you really have this magic pizza robot tech, go sell it to Dominos. They will happily pay you vast amounts of money and you can juice your margins with a subscription model for parts and service.
If you go into backend code from the typical place where "backend code" is a thing, it can be derived completely mechanically from the frontend. So all the work that goes into it is accidental, for a start.

Often that relation goes both ways, and the frontend code (that is even more complex) can be derived from the backend too.

That doesn't look very minor to me.
The $5/month price is for the Relay functionality which provides the 2-hop traffic tunneling. I'm guessing(?) that's not more than your monthly phone bill?

The $90/month price is for unlimited mobile data, so it would in theory replace your phone bill entirely.
The End of Smallpox (1999)
>I can't think of any situation where hiding really helps.

The irony of dot-files is that they became used for metadata, like .git directories, .htcasses files and so on. So, a solution that fakes metadata by abusing names is now used to indicate metadata at another level of the system. There is clearly something missing in file system design.
This was a research project that we undertook while at our respective universities. We decided to spin it out as we think it's useful. We are not funded by the government or Princeton (while Princeton owns the IP).
Some sort of systemic corruption in corporate culture must have emerged at least around the time when Personell was renamed to "Human Resources". I mean, think about it for a second, if you were to hire some people to help you with something, would you unironically call them "human resource"? Even if you might think about them in private as easily replaceable and therefore not of much value, would you go ahead and call them "human resource" to their face without feeling weird at all?

Something strange is going on here.
Interestingly the source code for the frontend has Chinese comments all over.
I'll wait for the 1-line APL/J/K implementation in the comments.
The article is 8 years old.

I feel like multimedia players come and go (unlike the stability of say the <img> element), so it’s entirely probable that the site looked different 8 years ago, and a migration or few later the video content was lost.
Uhh…the Rocket didn’t come out until 1998.

Sony’s 1992 Data Discman would beat that by 6 years.
If this were more robust across browsers I'd totally start using it for my personal projects. Such a sweet throwback!
It does seem to be choosing [usize; 5] in this case though.

https://rust.godbolt.org/z/qasxnrTf9
The A380 was a great plane but the plane that is crying out for a replacement is the 737. Boeing and Airbus each have two current widebody aircraft introduced after 1994 but their narrowbodies date back to 1968 and 1984. Boeing is making noises about a mid-sized 797 but that seems like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

I can't get why the most common sort of aircraft is technologically backwards particularly when the most common aircraft have the largest impact in terms of noise, climate change, etc... Unless the explanation is that international air travel is itself competitive whereas domestic air travel means being stuck with Lufthansa in Germany, legacy carriers like American in the U.S., etc.
There was a thread on r/DigitalArt about people debating if you're really an artist if you're using these AI creator websites.

Some guy spent hours feeding the AI pictures he liked to get an end result he was happy with.
The article teases by opening with a casual mention of "high speed running boots" but I'm having a devil of a time finding any info about that.

I've thought about this a bit myself. About 15 years ago my unpowered prototype allowed me to speed walk about as fast as I could sprint. Only problem was my ankles kept hitting each other... Very painful.

Sounds like a very inventive and interesting guy rather than a one trick pony. Good luck!
https://www.qt.io/industry/qt-in-automotive
> Companies that do this are shooting themselves in the foot.

Not companies that care about PR and want to distance themselves from crypto space. Those engineers and researchers unfortunately have been tricked into thinking that crypto would be here to stay as were the hundreds and thousands of investors that were duped into an elaborate Rube Goldberg machine that serves no real purpose other than the monetary incentives of a closed few.
That's the only way to get reliably usable output.

There's a lot of "80% there but not quite" in the current version, which makes it more of a novelty than a useful content generator.

The problem with moving to 3D is there are no almost no 3D data sources that combine textures, poses (where relevant), lighting, 3D geometry and (ideally) physics.

They can be inferred to some extent from 2D sources. But not reliably.

Humans operate effortlessly in 3D and creative humans have no issues with using 3D perceptions creatively.

But as for as most content is concerned it's a 2D world. Which is why AI art bots know the texture of everything and the geometry of nothing.

AI generation is going to be stuck at nearly-but-not-quite until that changes.
I was not aware of that behaviour. I agree that should not happen. Or the user should be asked if they want that. This should very much be under the control of the system and the apps the user chooses to manage the system. In a capability-based OS, apps would not be able to misbehave like this, unless granted the capability.
Weird to see such a poorly-written article on the front-page of HN. Full of dubious and unsourced claims, weird choice of terminology, etc.

It reads as if written by an undergrad.
He's obviously a very smart guy and a pioneer and a much more accomplished person than me (or most of us), but Rob Pike seems to make a habit of arrogantly talking down about other people's intelligence or skill:

Re: Go “The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt.”
-- Rob Pike

I agree it's really a cringe way of approaching people. In this (dotfile) case there may have been some self-deprecation in the comment though, so it's frankly hard to get too miffed about it.
What's not especially useful in my opinion is wealthy people who are failing in their company calling up their buddies to get more funding to buy up other companies that are doing something useful and successful when your own product is failing. Regardless of this case, we are all better served - & society is better served too - by new companies creating technologies and solving problems that succeed or fail on their own merits; the group that is not better served by this is people who succeed through influence peddling and connections to other rich people.
Calling someone out (Rob Pike or not) for "A lot of other lazy programmers" is cringe. It's clear and accurate communication, and shouldn't need to be workshopped to avoid offending people determined to be offended.
We do "it" (what's "it"?) with... 17 year olds' spare time, for free? Maybe they get a patent if it all pans out?
Big companies hate rev share, which is essentially what value based pricing model is. Rev share pricing is great for getting small, money-conscious people in the door, but there is a threshold as you get larger where it becomes more cost-effective for the client to go with standard billing.

Substack's been running into this problem, where it's easy to get people to try it out, but as a content creator gets popular the rev share amount becomes greater than the cost to hire an agency and "self-host". Someone making $1mm/yr is going to chafe at a $200k rev share when an agency at $50k/yr retainer can do a similar job.

Unrelated to that but related to the main topic: it's interesting that people treat FOSS consulting as a weird beast and ignore the thousands of successful WordPress/Drupal/etc. consultants and agencies. There's a lot to be learned from analyzing their strategies!
Mac hacker’s code is so good, corporations keep stealing it
I'm not sure what exactly you think needs explaining. By "difficult to graps", I mean "difficult to graps that there is nothing magical going on". An AI neural network is quite dissimilar from the structures in our brain, so I wouldn't draw any conclusion from that. But I also don't see what would prevent a sufficiently large, multi-layered and recursively wired neural network to have perceptions comparable to what we experience as our consciousness.

When I instrospect my mind, everything there is, is a perception. A perception of a feeling, of an emotion, of a thought, of a recollection, of the texture of an experience ("qualia"), and of course of sensory perceptions. There is never anything that is not a perception. And a perception is just some set of information, the content of the perception.

For any given perception, it is easy to imagine that it can be represented in the brain, with its 100 billion neurons and 1000 trillion synapses, also since the carried signals and states aren't necessarily binary. It is not the case that our perceptions are more complex or more differentiatied that what could physically be represented in our brains. Our perceptory repertoire is rather finite, when you think about it. Furthermore, it is easy to imagine that our internal meta-perceptions of perceptions would arise from corresponding recursively superimposed structures and/or recursive processing in the brain.

The question is, what else, other than all those perceptions we have ("experiences"), is there in consciousness that would require explanation? I haven't been able come up with anything missing. I'd go even further and claim that there can't be anything else that we could notice or observe, since anything we observe would just be additional content of our perceptions.
Printer toner linked to genetic changes and health risks
Most times I see middle managers meeting (and when I participated when I was one) were about "X is happening, the problem is not (entirely) on my area, let's find where it is so we can fix it".

In my experience, managers have no problem looking busy. They can do that without thinking or conscious effort just by letting the system work the way it wants to. What takes conscious effort is doing anything else.
I tend to not take this as a black and white matter -- I see privacy as a layered problem -- at multiple network/software layers -- and as a policy and user behavior question. No single response, whether user education, policy, technology, etc. can perfectly solve something as complex and nebulous as privacy. (It gets worse when we think about the contextual nature of privacy -- that what we want out of it depends on the parties involved, even the time of day.)
Even wilder to call it right-wing, given that I'm a moderate leftist in a social democracy (western Europe). Makes me pretty close to a "commie".

Pushing back against government overreach is now also right-wing, as is defending free speech.

But hey, hard to argue with California logic where the top 1% earners of the world working for harmful neoliberal companies spend their time telling themselves they are victims and oppressed, and doing the "right" thing.
There's one statistic that I didn't see but I'm now really curious about: what percentage of audits discover irregularities, per income level? If lower-income people are more likely than average to cheat on their taxes, then it makes sense to audit them more, but if they don't, then this is indeed totally unfair.
Hi author of like-dbg here :)!
The attached debugger is not just raw GDB but is using https://hugsy.github.io/gef/ to make debugging less of a pain. It's still not perfect but helps plenty already.
I was not aware of the crash utility you linked, I'll definitely take a closer look :)!
What are you having trouble with specifically? What services have you tried?
How exactly RCS is not strictly better than SMS?
Take a look at the Tiny Mini Micro[1] project from Serve the Home for some very enthusiastic reviews of small 1 liter-sized desktop computers from Lenovo, Dell, and HP. I use a tiny Lenovo that's been rock solid, and uses almost no power.

[1] https://www.servethehome.com/introducing-project-tinyminimic...
Back in the day, I used to frequent Comedy Cellar and I was there multiple times when Chris Rock was trying out his material in order to decide which jokes he would later use with his larger audiences.
Optional isn't it?
> why so many of us have the impulse to figure out what the flaw or missing part of the story is.

Why? Because that's literally what engineers are paid to do: make things, break things, fix things. It's all about tearing things apart to understand them, and then making them better.

Just like this kid is doing. I don't think DC motor engineers took it personally when he decided to "figure out what the flaw" was in current rare earth magnet designs, right?

If you take that personally, you're in the wrong field.
Thanks for working on this, I can't wait to give you my money.

It seems like you're misreading a key market segment if you don't offer cryptocurrency payments (particularly Monero).
From one of the articles (Gizmodo), they say Russia is upset at StarLink because they are providing Internet to Ukraine. With that in mind, this researcher had no problems posting the flaw to Github to help "better fortify" the StarLink system. Absent other details, this sounds irresponsible to me.
Your pizza will taste like the sterile sound effect of a modern car's turn signal.
maybe this team is a cell

let's hope so!
They don't even need to leave the city. Just look at the SoCo
I understand there is historical context. I even can comprehend why a good person would have such feelings.

I can also assert that it is racist nonetheless, and that we should either admit some level of racial bias is acceptable in parts of society, or we should admit that even "understandable" racism should be discouraged.
That not really true. Most desktop environments will create the directories on session startup but depending on the DE that behavior can be disabled (in xfce for example has a service in the session you can disable).

It is true that applications will create these directories if they don't exist. But you can fix this by setting the XDG user directories[0] to something that isn't in your home directory. I set them all to a subdirectory under `~/.xdg-user-dir/`, but you could just as easily set them to `/tmp`. Nothing has recreated ~/Documents on my system in years.

[0]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories
> the myth of the "expiration date"

We (UK) have use by dates, and best before dates.

They mean exactly what they say.

i.e. Raw chicken will have a use by date, eat it beyond this and you risk getting the shits. On the other hand all fruit, veg, tins and most dairy simply have best before dates.... meaning use your eyes and nose to see if it is OK.
I suspect that many of the "impressive" examples that we see from tools like this have been carefully selected by human curators. I'm sure it's not at the level of "monkeys + typewriters = Shakespeare [if you're sufficiently selective]", but the general idea is still applicable.
You're welcome! Note that this is still very much early alpha stage at best.

PS: If you're using a case-insensitive APFS, Linux kernel compilation will fail. I'm already aware of that
It's not.
Tinder and okcupid released shocking data that confirmed it.
Marketing. I used to work with Qt before 2000. In the beginning it was "Quasar Toolkit". Nobody cared and most people I knew - including some of the libraries developers - were fine with kju-tee.
In 1997 I was using a Pentium 75, what were you doing with an 8088?!?
Social media and dating apps have led to a hyperfocus on selecting partners with conventional, mediagenic appearances. With more personal lives out in the public, you don't want to be embarrassed by an ugly boyfriend. So tall, white men are awash in attention. This represents 10-15% of men in the US. Of course, a lot of women want this. So they have to share. Thus the rise of ENM on Tinder.
I may be leaning into my rationalist philosophy here, but I like to believe that everything is driven by values first: intangible, hard/impossible-to-measure aspects of existence that create the spark that eventually provokes the body to do things.

What you're saying about finding an emotional outlet is absolutely true. I spend so much time building, and probably need to spend more time advertising it! Things like HN are great places to express my passion (i.e., state assertions of fact in as few words as possible), and there are likely more niches once I slowly build out my dev ambitions later.
Hmm, thanks for that feedback. I think (hope?) people wouldn't think that service like this was free (the prices reflect the costs). We say pretty clearly on our site what the prices are and are trying to be upfront. It's true that the payment isn't handled by Google but by Stripe, so you aren't buying it on the Play Store, but that's because it's a network service, something that isn't under Google's normal payment processing.
Presumably they will need drivers – I'm not holding my breath for self-driving vehicles – and people to work on the vehicles and the pizza-assembling machines. Probably, much like Lime scooters, they will need daily maintenance, for cleaning and restocking. Not a recipe for increasing unemployment, just moving people from one kind of job to another.

Also worth noting is that this puts large, heavy vehicles on the road, with all the attendant externalities for that. They'll be out there with the Amazon, FedEx, UPS, and whoever trucks.
Curious timing given the expansion of the IRS.

EDIT: why is this getting down voted?
I'm not sure why anyone bothers. StyleGAN2 profile photos are literally all over social media and they're good enough to fool the human reviewers every time I report them.
This article is an excellent “how to” recipe for going about this sort of refactoring, from the importance of training and of getting the backend folks on side, to clever use of attrition (no more jquery in new, then start removing it from old), and identifying sites that still needed it and accommodating them.

Seems like a well managed project.

(Yes, yes, this could be a very glossed over account that ignores frictions and factions along the way, but I quite enjoy taking it at face value.)