skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 1990s also were the times of software that crashed ‘all the time” and had security vulnerabilities so large that they nowadays would be called open doors.

One can also see all that work on languages as trying to create a language where programmers get help preventing such issues, so that they can focus their attention on making stuff users want and that also produces code as performant as what expert programmers could write in the languages of old.

That’s not distrust, but realization that being vigilant about buffer overflows and data races is a part of a programmer’s job that (maybe) can be automated.p without sacrificing performance.

The kind of stuff discussed in this article, for example, can help compilers move data around less, without introducing potential concurrency issues.

Now, whether this accomplishes that? I wouldn’t know.
It's also possible they're both correct.
https://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/NewDominantLifeForm.... is an entirely serious summary of the argument. I've never seen a satirical documentary based on h ideas though :(
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9988266

And part 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10156265
Yum yeah... That's the one I miss!

I always wondered how they get the eggs so round but one time I saw them make them.. They fry the egg on the burger plate but in a metal ring. Cool idea.
The gui really needs its own theming if you use it a lot, and the header file that is supposed to be the stable api is... Limited. Thankfully the unstable stuff hasn't been changed in years so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

https://patchstorage.com/ has been making a pretty heroic effort at being a searchable hub for, pure data in the beginning, but now many.

The forum is the most active for posting patches, but is terrible at indexing. https://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/category/2/patch

Puredata.info was the historic one right? Even though I remember using sourceforge a lot. Some interesting things there, but I don't think people post patches or even plugins on the main site much anymore. On the sourceforge note, plenty in GitHub too. Sometimes, /r/puredata
Maybe after generations of learning how to effectively work remotely. Humans and social structures evolved with in person interaction.
I manually manage by year/folder, synchronizing thousands of items via DropBox. Each folder has all the associated links and metadata I can muster.

By "manual" I mean various scripts, on MacOS. "bib" for example is an Alfred keyword that runs a script scraping the front browser page for bibtex data, and initializing a new folder based on this data. Other scripts write search output files that "Find Any File" thinks it saved; FAF offers a nice Finder-like interface for selectively opening search results.

I've avoided any canned solution. I don't want vendor lock, and I'd rather be crippled by my own lack of imagination than someone else's.

By far the most useful metadata are the dates of access. One wanders continuously through an idea space no software can adequately categorize, yet adjacent items in time are likely related.

The holy grail I haven't coded yet is to generate web pages with URI schemes that open each PDF in a viewer. GoodReader is a nice viewer on iOS with such an interface; stunningly its own browser can't understand these links, but DropBox can. To simplify versions for MacOS and iOS, one can write a custom URI handler on MacOS that recognizes the GoodReader link, and redirects it on a Mac.

The goal here is to meaningfully browse closer to the speed of light than clumsy current standards. Just as lock-picking is both skill and cycles, research is both skill and cycles: One wants to have the right three ideas in close enough proximity for our feeble brains to notice the connection. We have to be in our happy place when we're flailing for hours, days, years; it would nevertheless be nice to accelerate this process.

I've been in constant friction with the MathSciNet team: I believe that it should present itself as the premier playground for machine learning mind mapping experiments, in addition to maintaining its stodgy hand curation. There is some controversy as to how math is organized. Many great mathematicians wander freely; others never read a paper outside their field after the age of 23. Departmental hiring meetings degenerate to "it's the number theory group's turn", perpetuating a dated view of how math is organized. Independent views of the MathSciNet database could give us new understandings of our field.
There's a lot I like about Pandora and a lot I don't. The "stations" you mention can be pretty good. The problem I have is with the app itself. It's buggy and learning to use it well can be frustrating. A simple example would be when using the back arrow to return to where I was in the app. If I try to go back to a previous screen, it shrinks the app and when I resize it, Pandora restarts from scratch. This seems to take forever and it happens just about every time I use it. The only reason I haven't deleted it and switched to another app, is that I can't be bothered with all that while I'm working or driving (the only time I use it). Of course, there's other, more common issues like searching for a favourite song and only finding live sessions or worse, finding out they've stopped carrying a certain artist on my playlist.
We only really call it eugenics when it's something population-wide or being enforced by a government.

When individuals choose their own mates it's just called dating.
Maybe in that case but not necessarily.

It might just be their home isn't so nice. Ages before covid I worked at a company that had an office but was mostly remote.

There was a guy who was going to the office because his wife was unemployed and they lived next to his mother in law, so he wanted some calm.

I'd go because the heating at home sucked so on cold days it was better to be in the office :D
What about lab-grown meat?
Main problem is that journalists uses Twitter, as long as they are there Twitter will remain the most relevant political forum. It is mandatory for most journalist jobs to be active on Twitter, and since all the journalists are there anyone who wants publicity will also post on Twitter.
Ashby (YC W19, B) Hiring Engineers Who Want to Own Product/Design
Devs don't want to do Ops
Did they ever want to?
Spyware is a great name for all kinds of listening devices.
Not sure about "other service" remark, since I was just describing how the Modern Roombas and app actually work.

Sure in theory the Roomba could have been designed to never need to call home, and just share map data locally over wifi with the app, and have the app process the maps. But they did not design it like that.

Indeed I suspect they might consider how the internal mapping data works to be a trade secret, in which case, they want to do such processing on their own servers, to avoid people reverse engineering it by reversing the app.

For whatever reason, there does not seem to be much effort being made by people to hack the Roomba firmware. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it has a well protected design (e.g. encrypted in flash, using a key stored in the processor or something)?
Curious if you have example of racist US visa/immigration policy?
There's a lot deserved criticism of current system, but can't think of anything specifically racist.
Am I the only one who opened the tool and thought: "this, this is perfect, add nothing!"?

Why isn't there a phone yet with no ports or power plugs of any kind (wireless charging and software power/reset), flush rear camera, hidden front camera?

It feels like that's the inevitable end of the current evolutionary tree, and all the technology is there and reasonably economical.
Now presenting the iPhone "oops all cameras"
Plumbers have saved more lives and improved living conditions for more people than doctors, lawyers, scientists and politicians combined.
Globalists. Adjective form of people who think globalism—free movement of labor and capital across borders—is a good thing: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obama-united-nations-20...

See also socialism :: socialist and capitalism :: capitalist.
Why do we need bacon? I just want the mushrooms without paying an arm and a leg!

For context, I live in the city and don't have a reliable way (or space) to grow them myself, or else I would.

I'll be honest, these kinds of skeuomorphic alt-meats never make sense to me. That said, I'm someone who eats healthy by default and doesn't consume a lot of meat, so I understand that I'm not the target audience.

But if you think someone living in rural America and eating bacon regularly is going to convert to this stuff, you're kidding yourself.
Coffee Statistics and Facts for 2022 – A Market Overview
The Ryzen 7000 series will be on 5nm, right? So not too stuck, while that of course isn't shipping yet.
(La)TeX

https://www.tug.org

It won't change so that Knuth can finish:

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/taocp.html
> Windows' estimate in its low power mode.

Am I the only one not bothering with Windows' estimates at all? It will happily tell me I have two hours remaining and shut down after 40 minutes, without me touching the PC at all. I had this or similar experience with every windows laptop I ever used.
> as always absence of evidence doesn't really mean much.

My issue is that there's folks repeatedly saying confidently that there's a patent issue. Which I initially thought was real, and genuinely asked thinking they'd share terrible tales of misbehavior and patent evil committed by the accused company. Over time (more than a year) of this repetition trying to get answers, it seems pretty clear to me that it is not real and is just based on people who have no display industry experience or even a basic understanding of electrophoretic materials just saying 'it should be better than this by now, so the problem must be the company that produces the product'. They often have a Dunning Kruger level of confidence in making their claims. Examples:

"It is indeed a complex patent and licensing issue."

"there were a bunch of patents in the way."

" Imagine where electronic ink displays could be today if E Ink wasn't such a terrible steward of the initial technology."

Not even one of the posters cared to defend their claim when I asked for just a bit of clarification about what they were basing their claim on.
I totally agree. Im not saying he shouldn't blog as for its good personal expression, similar to a diary. Just surprised to see it on HN as for it seems more that the author is someone seeking validation vs discussion.
"Draw popular logos" was a laugh.

Post the code so someone can put a score to it!
> Government regulation spans further than just rules engineered by a few politicians, it can be publicly voted upon

You're making a distinction without making a difference. Regulating public forums for their content outside of illegal content has never been not abused. The UK is learning this the hard way with the police "checking the thinking" of netizens.

If you think companies are bad, then imagine politicians. I can switch off to another social media but I can't switch out to another state.
if we used i >= 0 and someone were to come in and change "int i" to "unsigned i" or "size_t i", the result would be catastrophic
PDFs only get names once I'm finished reading them. I click "Save As" and sit for 30 seconds and try to figure out what search terms I would use in the future to look for this document. Sometimes a title, sometimes a summary, sometimes a topic, author, year, journal, etc. Everything is built into the filename. It doesn't matter if it's long. Computers can handle it. This also has the side effect of ensuring I know what I just read and putting it into a mental filesystem as well as an electronic one.

Once I name it, I move it from the Downloads or temp folder to a Documents folder (though it should really be called 'Library') and I sync it to the cloud with the Google Drive app. In it, there's a Reading-List folder, with a _done folder. I have a few category folders - usually for reading groups. If I read the same document in multiple reading groups, I store it in the folder of the first reading group I read it in. This way feels nostalgic to me. I will also put jpeg screenshots, txt files for notes, etc. This way feels nice, like when I used to go to the public library and see the DVDs and audiobooks next to the books.

The main query interface is MacOS spotlight, though Google Drive also works, and so would something like fzf, or any other finder. I like not having to download or use software. For annotations, I usually save a xyz.pdf and a xyz-Annotated.pdf. For news articles, I just Right Click > Print to PDF and save to the subfolder for a particular topic. You never know when something will get taken down from the Internet. If I search for something and find duplicates, I try to prune then and there.

I don't have to download any apps except for Google Drive, which I already use for e-mail, etc. I can at any point port this entire system to Dropbox, Box, self-hosted FUSE solution, or a flash drive, and keep all its functionality with no software on a computer except for a filesystem and a document viewer.

Names are hyphenated - e.g. Intro-to-Civil-War.pdf. This way feels readable with my eyes, and also most filesystem search utilities seem to tokenize well on hyphens. Tokenizing on spaces would mostly work, except you have to escape spaces on the command line.
Why Digital Ag Tech Might Be Out of Reach for Some Farmers
dogswithjobs

MaliciousCompliance

upliftingnews

animalsbeingbros

humansbeingbros

programminghumor

Awwducational

SympatheticMonsters

pettyrevenge

prorevenge

nuclearrevenge

unclejokes

/r/<CityILiveIn>

/r/<StateILiveIn>

To those who complain that Reddit is garbage. Sure, the front page can be. But you can make your home page what you want it to be.
It's a little weird, but I've heard dumber reasons for people to start dating or have a family.
Hey! Yeh I did https://g6.antv.vision/en although I think I might try using this https://x6.antv.vision/en if I could start again. X6 wasn't as well built out when I started though but its probably more suited to my use case with its interaction support. If you have other libraries that serve this purpose let me know because I did a lot of searching and thats the best I found at the time.
I love how there is a copter blade and a rotary dial but no USB options of any kind.
Epaulette sharks able to walk on land evolving to better survive climate crisis
Never.

Because we’ve allowed media to become entertainment and the internet killed print, and as a society we’ve lost the ability to sway the population with anything approaching fact.
Two more examples to check out:
Yugabyte also persists with rocksDB
https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/how-we-built-a-high-performanc...

And this is very cool, distributed SQLite with FDB:
https://univalence.me/posts/mvsqlite
Aren't the power and volume buttons switched there? The long one is volume, no?
Repo for star purposes (no code) [1]

[1]: https://github.com/gjthompson1/glue-public
Many similar negative books about AI have preceded this one over the years, perhaps starting with Hubert Dreyfus' "What Computers Can't Do" in 1972.

In my experience, few naysayer arguments prove to be the game-stoppers they imagine. Alternative paths around those obstacles always seem to arise, like the ability to learn from millions of examples -- something never imagined by Dreyfus in the days of 1 KhZ computers and magnetic drum storage.
Came across this because it's been used for FreeCAD:

https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=51429

but couldn't manage to wrap my mind around FreeCAD so as to benefit from it.
It does not, unfortunately. One of the main reason I left it.
be careful generalising india because anything that one can claim, the opposite is also true.

A major reason countries like the USA and the UK flourish is stability. Stability is not something india has and that is a very difficult thing to put a price on. Indian capital markets are not transparent though that is less of an issue for startups. What should be telling is the number of "Indian" startups that are registered in places like Singapore.

I have to rain on your parade but there are many aspects of life in India that money cannot solve. I am no fan of the USA either but the "gun culture" thing is a strawman that doesn't affect daily life in the cities. It is certainly a problem but not a problem that many make it out to be. Be careful with the healthcare argument too. India's legal and police systems are a joke and their healthcare system is cheap but kills millions every year due to medical negligence. The US healthcare system - for all its flaws - has some of the best outcomes provided you have enough money to access it.
The existing technology isn't actually that safe. The safe technology isn't that existing, actually.

The "population" tends to not believe claims about certain accidents being impossible if they keep happening. The safety of nuclear power is a fantasy. No, the track record is not enough. Given the enormous potential for catastrophe and the timespans for nuclear power project, questioning assumptions like "nobody is going to shoot rockets and shells around the plant" is entirely valid.
long in C and C++ is absolutely arch dependent. In Java it's not depedendent, but neither are any of the other primitives in Java.
There's a sci-fi book 'The Mote In God's Eye' that touches on this concept.

Spoiler Alert...

Humans discover an alien planet/race and eventually realize they've destroyed and rebuilt civilization many times. They've learned to build 'museums' for future civilizations to discover that house a roadmap to all of their advanced technology, but biological constraints (they have to reproduce or they die, ensuring extreme population pressure) mean that global war is basically inevitable. So they're stuck speed-running this cycle where they start from the stone age, rapidly rebuild an extremely advanced society based on guidance from the 'museums', experience extreme population growth, bomb themselves back into the stone age, rinse and repeat. There's a hope that if they can just push technology a little bit further each cycle, they might be able to reach a point where they can resolve the underlying issue, but it's unclear if that's a pipe dream.

Interesting take on the "pre-tech society discovers keys to future tech" trope. Does advanced technology actually solve all problems, or just it just let us skip ahead along the timeline to the same conclusion?
I don't disagree with that. My current office people keep about 6 hour workdays, including their lunch break. We're also multi-national so overlap is usually where shit gets done. I have many days where the bulk of my productivity comes in 1 hour of a call with a Portuguese or American engineer. (I'm in Iceland).

That might sound like a case for being remote, but for me, it's usually been much more effective in the office because that single hour of overlap was most of the day. Yes, some of it is wasted time, but I did and still do build great working and personal relationships with my peers in that "wasted" time that I still cherish.
Hmm, I was assuming the OP was extending the c elegans result to earthworms since I've never heard of c elegans aerating soil. And now that I go google it I'm seeing lots of stuff on c elegans requiring aerated soil but none on it doing it itself so I think I'm correct in my assumption?
Really, that is something that sets it apart in my mind. An explicit, rolling two decade+ compatibility effort.
Exactly this. I just can't deal with this (I call it) SEOfication of the world.

Content like this always rubs me the wrong way. Not genuinely written because it must be said, because of a deeply felt need to express oneself. But to present oneself in a very specific but essentially superfluous and artificial way.

Maybe it is me being more and more disillusioned by all this kind of superficial content. Maybe it is just me having a different opinion was I could regard as deep content.
Restore backups may be a rarely used feature (where applicable), but it's not a good reason not to have it (working properly).
The mathematical definition of "integer" includes the set of negative integers. That's the whole point, otherwise we could just use natural numbers. So making ints signed makes the most sense otherwise there's an impedance mismatch that you need to explain away.
But it’s also a problem when your export to rely on imports
If the best we can come up with is hierarchies of servitude we will end up with yet another destructive and oppressive system.

which is about where we're at, so
I gotta admit, when I bought my sports car (2022 BRZ) I specifically ordered it in white. It wasn't a resale value thing (I don't think I ever plan to sell it!), I just thought the various colors were a bit too garish -- it already has a pretty striking profile in white.

I kind of see what the article is saying, but if I'm perfectly honest I can't say it bothers me. I sort of like having beige carpets and beige walls, sometimes too much color just feels visually noisy.

The pictures from the 1970s kind of amuse me; I've always contended that the 1970s might have been the (visually) ugliest decade ever. It's colorful but not in a good way..
Heh. Incidentally I just finished my weekly "delete all the accidental screenshots" session.
I use these as well, but maybe something I didn't articulate well is that it's often useful to remember where I've been. One thing that I haven't played with in VS Code but that bites me a lot (and sorry, I don't know the proper name for this setting/feature) is that often when you're navigating you're doing so in the same vs code tab. If I remember to double-click the tab it'll hang around, but that's a pretty janky workflow, and I don't ALWAYS want to do that. Ctrl+- works if I hop into a method/function and want to look at it briefly and hop out, but I find if I go more than a couple levels deep it would be nice to mark certain areas as I go so I can easily get back to them.

Sometimes I do this by just adding a comment, and now that file will at least show up in version control as changed and I can get back to it if I need to, but that's also a little bit janky and I have to be careful I don't leave that cruft around on accident when I commit.

I'm trying out a bookmark extension in VS code and we'll see how it goes, I'm already a little bit annoyed by it in that it doesn't seem to let me organize the bookmarks in any way, so it might be somewhat useful for temporary spelunking, but I won't for example be able to save these bookmarks to refer to them later, which seems like it could be useful.

Sourcegraph has this concept of "Notebooks" which allows you to add files and intermix markdown, which feels like a pretty cool idea, and if I'm just reading code in Sourcegraph it's great, but when I'm in my code editor and making changes I don't want to bounce over to another tool. Maybe it's as simple as keeping some sort of Markdown file open that I write into and then add links to file line numbers as I go, I haven't tried that but I suppose it wouldn't be the worst, and allows me to organize the links in any fashion I see fit.
Meizu Zero
I think there are several countries, across North and Western Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, perhaps Singapore and Hong Kong, that could compete with the US for "standard of living". These countries don't have similar immigration policies or histories compared to the US.

If you think of a person who builds a unicorn as a national level resource, which makes sense because they create jobs, capabilities, and wealth, then you seem to be saying that it is good for the US to drain the national resources of other, poorer countries. Why isn't a good thing for Indian entrepreneurs to create Indian unicorns in India?
Does this blog really need to trap the back button? Use history replace instead of push, please.
“Oxidizer”, perhaps? ;-)