skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Old reply but you're talking about my childhood so I'll do it anyway :)

The 1000RL definitely did not come with a hard drive by default. I added a 20MB hard drive to mine a year or so after my family bought it. 3.5" 720KB floppy was the only built in storage.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000#Tandy_1000_RL-serie... the RL/HD had the HDD preinstalled, that may be what you're thinking of.
Where are you seeing "memory enhancement" or "memory augmentation"?

This article is about analog computation hardware, which can potentially solve computer vision tasks with far less power than typical hardware with digital processing.
I've been studying color theory (its harder than you would think) on my spare time; and I did my undergraduate thesis was on posit few years ago. I think using posits may be a good idea to compress the luminosity, but I'm not sure how good it would be for the ab on a Lab-like format.

A format close to the cone fundamentals, like XYZ, could have benefits being encoded in some kind of non-standart posit.

I'll add this into the stack of things I eventually I'll look into.
> As to "cloud agnostic", don't believe this bullshit.

> It is the same story as with SQL. Trying to use frameworks to keep your app DBMS-agnostic but then nobody ever migrates their apps to another DBMS.

I agree, I can't tell you how many hours I've wasted trying to keeps something (theoretically) cloud or DBMS agnostic, how many problems it's caused, and at the end of the day we could never "easily" move to a different cloud or DBMS without large rewrites.

I built on top of the Serverless Framework and I am constantly kicking myself for doing so (eventually I'll move off it for my main project). It's the worst of all worlds and in the Serverless Framework docs they even have sections for "GCF" vs "Lambda", if I have to write my functions/declarations differently then why am I using your layer on top? I know you get a few things for "free" with the Serverless Framework but once your project grows you run into all sorts of issues that are a PITA to work around. The truth is I'm not leaving AWS Lamda for GCF or whatever Azure has, I quite enjoy my "walled garden" and using an abstraction layer only means I get the lowest common denominator or a headache when trying to do something that is normally easy if you've fully bought in.
I had an 8086 (compatible) Epson Equity II+ w/ SVGA back in the day. Was a bit odd, but it worked!
Some other key things:

4) Lots of people buying with all-cash or mostly-cash. You're not at all rate-sensitive if you're a cash buyer.

5) A lot of these cash-heavy buyers are powered by generational wealth.

6) The housing shortage in the US is incredibly acute, so much so that the market will continue chugging along even as borrowing conditions worsen considerably. I bought a couple of years ago when the market was red-hot largely because a family-sized property was unrentable - to get anything big enough for my needs there was no choice but to buy. I imagine others are in the same position now.
Yep... I too was hoping that something besides the first option would fit.

Did not happen.
Why storms are exploding into major hurricanes
You should look into Deus Ex, both the 2000 original and the newer ones. Apparently, a sequel is in the works which will combine the newer games with Cyberpunk 2077.
My favorite for several reasons: https://github.com/cat-milk/Anime-Girls-Holding-Programming-...
The author must have removed it.

Edit: apparently it's only on mobile size, near the footer.
> Could I at least talk you into using `#!/usr/bin/env bash` so your scripts will work on a wider slice of the Linux universe? Even on Linux distros that exact path isn't a given (guix and nix send their regards), and you're completely breaking compatibility with the BSDs and illumos distros.

You're also breaking compatibility with newer versions of bash on macOS that almost definitely wouldn't be installed at /bin/bash. I use 5.2 from brew.
Well 90% of Us mortgages are fixed.

Of the ARM mortgages, nearly 90% of them have longer terms than 1 year.

You're looking at maybe 2% of mortgages that will be impacted unless rates stay this high for >2 years.

Everywhere else in the world beside Denmark, where there are ONLY ARM mortgages - they're gonna be in for a world of hurt if interest rates stay this high for >2 years...
There's always an odd dichotomy between those who do, and those who do not.

No farmer in existence would ever agree they need to understand the historical context to successfully use a fence post, or that they need it to be able to critically evaluate their specific needs and adjust their usage of fence posts to meet those needs.

I find this attitude amongst software architects a lot as well. The stereotype of the hapless academic didn't come about because there's no truth to it.
I'm...not sure why it would be embarrassing? People have things they're interested in that aren't related to work, and besides, the suit-and-tie image of the workplace is deeply rooted in a load of nonsense (nonsense which ought to be recognized as nonsense, but which is often confused for professionalism).
They were always risky assets the moment they started QE.

The main problem, its now almost impossible to avoid extreme hyper-inflation (which inevitably will cause a repeat event but much worse) and when the mechanics force it back there will be a deflationary cycle (that feeds on itself).

There have been a lot of policy mistakes over the past two years. Selling more bonds in an environment of rising interest rates is what a fool would do.
I make a 90th percentile income, and I cannot afford the median (or mean) US home price. Something is seriously wrong.
We've just finished moving servers from AWS to https://hetzner.com - and saved 10X with servers of double the capability. A great experience so far.
No one who owned a house 20 years ago had a 2.75% mortgage rate. That's the difference.
The economics of housing are weird. Someone who bought the 1MM house at 2.5% still has a payment based on 2.5%. This individual's house might be nominally underwater, but they are still comfortably making payments. If they were to move, then they would lose both the downpayment and their monthly payment would increase. So the best bet for them is to stay put. However this might mean that they put the house up for sale, and let it stay for sale for the next 2 years.
> There is a long list of customers who'd kill for a chance to get (additional) capacity of the leading edge node process for years at a time

Is there? Seems like we're heading for a recession and reduced demand - at higher prices I wouldn't be surprised existing customers cut back on existing capacity.
This is no different from stealing something physical in the real world, and then claiming its yours. Sure some people will believe you and be impressed, but as soon as you attract the attention of the original owner, they will use the law to prove it is not yours but theirs.
This is applicable to anything that can be 'owned'. Licensing only dictates how something can be used lawfully, the law protects the license from being abused.
You need to spend more time in /g/
It's interesting that the more advanced an economy is (and thus presumably the more access it has to machines and technologies that should speed up construction) the slower it actually constructs buildings and infrastructure.

There are a wide number of factors involved and their relative contribution is difficult to determine. Of course for starters people in advanced economies expect more of their buildings - they are built to higher standards and have more complex features which take more labor to produce. Verification that these higher standards are being met is likewise a more involved process. Advanced economies also have much less tolerance for risk - they sacrifice speed for safety both for the workers building the structures and for the end users. Additionally, workers in advanced economies tend to be less willing to go into manual labor fields and operating more advanced equipment requires more skill, requiring those who do go into the field to specialize, and thus while technology may make workers more productive this is offset by having fewer workers on any given project. Then, advanced economies tend to already be built up - you're either building in an already bustling area where extra measures must be taken to prevent disruption, or you're building in an area that was passed over for previous construction, likely for good reason. And finally, advanced economies tend to have more small stakeholders who have more influence - citizens have the means and motivation to raise objections to proposed projects and it's difficult to grease palms to bypass oversight.

Prefabrication can help - work can be parallelized, maintaining standards is less onerous, and it causes on site construction to be less disrupting. Unfortunately the larger the structure the harder this approach is - you need more capital investment for the production facilities, there are fewer customers you can sell to, and the engineering of structures which can both adequately serve their intended purpose and be transported economically becomes more challenging.

More fundamentally, everyone wants things to be better, faster, and cheaper, but you can at most pick two, and it is very difficult to get people to agree to making things worse or more expensive.
Do yourself a favor and read "Self-Made Man". It's obvious you're only seeing this from one side of the coin and lack the perspective of the other side in some kind of crusade.

Both sexes have their problems and the status quo causes stigmas for both. To claim women are uniquely seen as "lesser beings" in a developed world is horribly naïve.
Posits are pretty damn cool.

The posit standard was ratified in March this year. It's only 12 pages and shockingly comprehensible for a standard document: https://posithub.org/docs/posit_standard-2.pdf

Also in March Gustafson hosted the Conference for Next Generation Arithmetic (CoNGA) 2022 sorta 'inside' the Supercomputing Asia (SCA2022) conference. They covered a bunch of different areas not exclusively related to posits. Lots of cool topics including hardware implementations and optimizations, comparisons between different number formats, and a talk and panel from the posit committee about writing the standard and what's next for posits. The session videos are somewhat difficult to find so I made a playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBH9oUUfaYoQNl6-zr_ScsMp4... (Note the descriptions have talk titles and authors.)

The best video intro to posits is probably the one in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJgT-YphE1Y
Remember when there was no way Apple would shift their SOC production away from Samsung?
How the false rumor of a Chinese coup went viral
Not to be confused with other investment firms Blackstone, Bridgerock, and Bridgewater. Or tire manufacturer Bridgestone, for that matter.
Open source alternatives do really well when a lot of people are complaining about the pricing of the closed source leaders (e.g. Snowflake). I don't hear many people complaining about Figma's pricing, but maybe that will start once Adobe starts meddling.
Pretty sure he left because he was originally only meant to be taking the job for five years before returning back to Canada. He ended up staying longer because shit hit the fan with Brexit. I believe that after it settled down a bit he left so he could spend more time with and be closer to his family.
Oracle pays $23M to settle SEC bribery probe
> I'd actually love to see such a paper. Plan 9 threading is more like coroutines, but it is certainly possible to run multi-core/multi-process code.

Rob Pike was on of the main developers behind plan 9 and Go and involved in concurrent programming research focusing on CSP.

Multi-processing was a main focus of plan 9's design and it works well as procs are cheap to spawn on plan 9. Procs are also the smallest unit of execution on plan 9, threads are just light weight procs with a shared heap to pass pointers around. Thread stacks can also be shared as well by being allocated on the heap via fork(2) RFMEM flag (its all done with malloc in the background).

The issue with vanilla (aka labs or legacy ) plan 9 is there is a hard coded limit of 2k procs statically allocated at boot. This was a pragmatic design decision. The unfortunate side effect is vanilla plan 9 falls over under any sort of work load requiring spawning lots of procs like handling web requests. This is actively being worked on by 9front developers so sites hosted on 9front should hold up better (patches welcome :-).

> That said, I can't say I've seen anyone try to write anything that scales like nginx on Plan 9.

Because you really don't need those big web serving monoliths on plan 9. You wire things up using rc scripts and programs like execfs (implements cgi) plus httpd/tcp80 or another web serving listener and sandbox code using namespaces. Plan 9 is more true to unix philosophy and more unix than unix. (edit: execfs is experimental but available on shuthub.us along with other webstuff like tcp80)
I've been approached several times online by different people who wanted to buy my CodeMentor (now arc.dev) profile. It's a pretty strong profile with a lot of good feedbacks, but I haven't done any work (mentoring) in the past few years.

I see how this could be valuable as it can be really hard to build credibility from 0. (Though it definitely depends on the particular platform rules/dynamics.) E.g. I used to have an Elance profile for 15 years or so, which got transitioned to Upwork, but it mostly got reset to zero. When I last checked about 5 years ago I was presented as someone who has never worked there and never had any feedback which would have made it very hard to win projects. (Not that it seemed worthwhile anyway.) So while it's 100% unethical, there is probably a pretty strong motivation for these kind of trickeries.
That is because her audience is not expected to be physics or math grads and is best viewed as interested laypeople who may have some very basic background in math/science.

Contrast to a blog like Tomasso's which is targeted at those in/near HEP those who have a reasonably advanced physics/math background at the BS level.

https://www.science20.com/quantum_diaries_survivor
I don't expect prices to drop much because they are based on the assumption that interest rates will drop and new homeowners can refinance later. We see that with the inverted Treasury yield curve where long term interest rates are projected to be lower than today's rates. Also, with current homeowners locked into their low rates, there will be a shortage of houses on the market (you can't take your low mortgage rate to a new house). So the people buying now will be buyers that absolutely need to and/or buyers with lots of cash that expect to refinance later. The only people selling now are people that absolutely need to.
They are protecting bonds (by propping up their price) in an effort to save pension funds; all at the expense of their currency.
Thanks for linking that. I’ve heard horror stories and this is just another nail in the coffin.
There isn't a drought of new theoretical discoveries, quantum mechanics is progressing at a more rapid pace than ever. Just because one section of theoretical particle physics is having some problem doesn't mean that theoretical physics in general is. Look at the rapid developments in entanglement, quantum correlations, macroscopic quantum systems, and quantum measurement. This is why the public can't be trusted when discussing physics in any sense, because the uneducated layman like yourself has almost zero idea about what is going on inside physics today
to be fair, it's where UTF-8 debuted
This bizarrely conflates understanding or familiarity, with believing.

Incidentally, how's the Bohr model doing? Still widely taught? Well why's that, since it's wrong?
"A lot of potential" is, to be frank, a tragic understatement. Quite simply, if they had actually implemented everything they presented in their marketing it would have been game of the decade. Instead, they chopped features left, right, and center to reach an abritrary deadline. It was 90% of the way there, and that's the real killer.
If so, renting will also be much more expensive
Rust isn't quite portable enough yet. There are lots of small environments or specialized toolchains that are based on gcc that'll compile bash just fine, but once you require Rust, you're eliminating architectures like Alpha (which includes familial descendents like the Shenwei architecture in the Sunway TaihuLight), m68k, SuperH and others.

Rust is getting better, but they're not quite there yet.
Strange, my experiences with unionized labor have found the exact opposite - safety conscious to the nth degree, and much more likely to criticize each other for working too quickly than too slowly. They seem to be incentivized to 1) not get dinged for safety infractions and 2) get as many billable hours out of every work order as possible.
Not sure about the trend in general, but this particular image (Anime girl holding a programming book) made me think it was a reference to these manga guides on various math/science/engineering topics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manga_Guides
Yes well, that's probably a lot better than paying a typical USA real estate tax, which must be paid quarterly and non-payment means the enclosing town takes your house away. What are RE taxes like in London? Do rich foreigners pay anything to park money into central London properties?
I will take a stab at this... it is about object localization via sound instead of sight, using very little power. For comparison, let's say you have a sound sensing setup on a Raspberry Pi, known for its low power draw, attached to a pair of microphones, looking to alert the location of an object by similar sound triangulations. That processing could take maybe 4-6W of power (continuous running of the Pi and attached mics, as a generous estimate), and could be quite effective.

However the technique in this paper is _ultra_ low power. First off, they model the design off of a barn owl, and using "neuromorphic memristors" (sounds technobabble to me but I didn't understand that part). But in the Results part of the paper they claim they can sense movement sampling every 1/10th of a second using only 250 microwatts of power, orders of magnitude more efficient than a naive approach, with only 22 floating-point calcluations per sample. Sounds quite impressive, but I wonder what the actual applications of this will be, even though I'd love to be able to track mice around my house in real time grrrr.
Nice

More "authentic" (but also way less useful) if it booted to "bare metal" with no OS, just a Python (or similar) unikernel.

So one could do peek/poke, right to the hardware etc.
It's really funny hearing someone ask if this is the hand-off to the new generation, when the fact is that furries were working on the internet well before anybody else cared. Furcadia came out in 1996!

[edit] Oh, right, I should explain what Furcadia is. It's apparently based on Multi-User Dungeon type technology, but has a graphical frontend and was driven by user-generated content. Essentially, it was Habbo Hotel for furries, four years before Habbo Hotel even existed.
What is the source for this claim? I haven't heard anything to this effect and nothing I've seem from Apple signals anything along these lines.
Yea, after awhile of using Fastmail for my own needs, I found that I really liked the service so I decided to setup a reseller account with them and have been switching my att/yahoo/sbcglobal email customers over to this service as there have been some issues with login and resetting passwords due to the merging of att and yahoo.

I really like the integration they did with iwantmyname domain name registrar. They make it very easy to setup a custom domain name with the service. Also I have had great experiences with the import tools and security features. The admin interface for managing my customer's accounts is great, its built right into the normal settings interface, and they have good privacy features with the relationship between the reseller and the end user.
I would argue there are also advances at the various light sources as well has facilities like CBAF/RHIC
Of course you can. China is doing it right now without ASML even. There is nothing special about TSMC here. It's just funding and time. If Apple wanted to I wouldn't doubt they could reach cutting edge tech level within 5 to 10 years. It would cost enormous amounts of money and would probably be a very bad business move. But technically there is no problem.
Similar to the r9k 4chan board and the xkcd post that inspired it, yeah?
I can neither see clockwork's nor platecom's website -- they demand that I upgrade my Chrome browser (which I can't -- Chromebook Pixel here). Why would they restrict their market? Apple.com happily shows me their content ...
Thank you. I suspected a common ancestor, but I didn't know what it was.

Makes perfect sense that a meme combining anime and programming would come from 4chan's technology board.

I suppose what made the meme interesting enough to spread is the subversion of the traditional hacker aesthetic. Having a beard voluminous enough to carry The C Programming Language inside everywhere you went was a sign of great experience and wisdom. As a bonus, it also horrified "the suits", who were hackers' natural outgroup.

In the 21st century you just can't annoy the suits the same way because even large corporations don't demand people wear literal suits anymore. Baffling the HN crowd is what passes for iconoclasm these days.
> It is widely thought that SCOTUS decides based on ideology and politics

Citation needed. Judges have differing judicial philosophies and those philosophies may run contrary to a political parties aims but it does not mean they are servants of political parties.

It is likely that the people who think their decisions are purely politically biased are the ones whose politics are not aligned with whatever the court decided. Rarely do they dig into the justifications and expert analysis for a given decision.

Both liberal and conservative leaning justices have ruled against things that the parties which helped appoint them wanted.
In the spirit of upsetting things about this article, the "retrocomputing" tag is probably the worst part.
I remember going to an AI meetup where the guy presenting was proposing a totally new computing architecture.

I quickly suspected he wasn't very competent about how computers worked, and tried to probe a bit. I suspected he was mentally ill but could "talk the talk" enough to convince people his ideas had merit.

But this: A more efficient way of handling floating-point numbers, is probably something worthwhile. I wonder how hard it will be to recompile existing software to take advantage of posits?
That may work for common topics, but it does not appear to work for niche ones, at least in my experience.

If I want to find a particular user-run forum on some obscure bit of some hobby, "<hobby name> <forum topic>" brings it up. But if I type out "Forum for <hobbyists> discussing <topic>" I get... a random selection popular of fora where someone has mentioned <topic>, often in passing or with minimal information.
Lambda is an option, it's been a very attractive one for me.