skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not very ethical to spend hundreds of thousands to minimally extend the lives of people who will use this new gained time to watch a little more television. Someone has to pay the bill.
Two thoughts:

a) How can we measure "bureaucracy"?

b) On average, an increase in bureaucracy implies an increase in productivy.
Yeah, sort of, but it's more like this:

First, there were computers. There were some that were made to be small enough for a group (IBM 1620, for example), and some that were large and intended as the central device for a large organization (IBM 7090). IBM referred to both as a "data processing system". These were delivered as batch-oriented systems.

Large computers like the 7090 often had smaller, accessory, general-purpose computers that handled things like card reading/punch and printing. For example, the PDP-10 had a PDP-11 as its front-end controller.

In the late 60s the term minicomputer appeared. A little while later, it became popular to refer to the large computers as "mainframe" computers. This probably was marketing speak to imply that, while minicomputers can be good for somethings, you wouldn't mini-frame your house, so you had better main-frame your company. I like to think about this time, which was also the heyday of database innovation, as the time when companies thought there would be many integrated applications running on the same data base [two words at the time] operated by a large, reliable computer and accessed by peripheral terminals. Through the 80s, people in companies often referred to "the computer" rather than considering multiple computers as the norm.

Microcomputers appeared with the development of the microprocessor. Certainly, the Altair 8800 started the wave of using a fully integrated microprocessor as the basis for a general-purpose computer. They grew out of calculators and, tellingly, from the project to develop an intelligent display terminal.

Micros often looked like minis in their use - they might be operated by terminals and punched tape, saving onto hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape. In my opinion, the distinction was if you used a discrete ALU, like the VAXes or the Xerox Alto, you were still using a minicomputer. Many minicomputers used ECL* to achieve high speeds that were not reachable by NMOS or CMOS logic at the time. Eventually, minicomputers also became microcomputers, for example, the MicroVAX. I think that these articles get it right that the microcomputers are different because they are not considered to be the orchestrator of a system of disks, tapes, terminals, printers, etc. They are at best part of a network with specialized microcomputers helping share resources when needed.

There is trend of data ending up in silos that happens with minicomputers and microcomputers. Applications get written for their own data, they aren't given direct access to other applications' data, and the data itself is geographically distributed.

As time has gone on, we now have the datacenter and virtualization. Data has been moving out of silos and into large, shared databanks. The computing unit is no longer made out of hardware, but rather represented by resources that can be provided in many virtualized ways.

* Emitter-coupled logic, a high-speed discrete logic often used in supercomputers and fast general-purpose computers until CMOS caught up with better power and heat characteristics.
> but I do agree that maybe we should consider the frivolous waste of sending people to space for joyrides when the cost is so high.

Commercial space operations are sending celebrities to space because its seen as a wothwhile promotional expense. “We“, except to the extent that refers to the owners of these operations, aren’t involved.
Ya, it would be like getting 538 people together and putting them in charge of passing laws we all have to obey. So ignorant!
Except that death is fact of life, pain and suffering are not.
What does deal with mean here? Deal with as in how to...

... recognise and learn from the mistakes in your investing strategy?

... reorganise a life based on having less money?

... deal with the emotional turmoil of losing lots of money?

... deal with the emotional turmoil of uncertainty?

... cope with facing an imminent retirement where you don't have the funds to live comfortably?

This post isn't really answerable because it is too vague. Even as a comment on hard times, there isn't much to go on here.
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who pays for these treatments?
There's not really space for lock-in with garnix - you really only need a flake.nix file, nothing garnix specific (or more precisely: at most a very simple 5 line YAML file). The idea is that "normal nix" is enough.
> “I have realized that the thing I needed to learn is that my net worth is not my self-worth.”

This is a really important point. I’m not a native English speaker. When I first heard an American use the expression “he’s worth X dollars”, it felt extremely wrong. Someone’s worth should never be attached to a dollar value!

I’ve got used to it by now, but I still wish Americans would come up with a more constructive way of talking about wealth than “personal worth.”
You're getting downvoted, but I think for Wikipedia you're correct. Wikipedia's purpose is not to be a cutting-edge repository of all truth. It's to conveniently organize all the knowledge that can be looked up. That's because every bit of it needs to be verifiable by non-expert editors. If there's some knowledge that can't be looked up, then that's not Wikipedia's problem to solve.
This is how Python's greenlet works. It works very well.
Even the first half of the story, about almost deleting an email from a person who became your wife, is a great story on its own. When I read the 2nd half of the story as well, my jaw dropped. Thanks for sharing.
> Intel has tried to move away from x86 three times already

Also, they tried to move to other ISAs they owned. Trying to move from their position to 3rd party or open ISAs would make even less sense.
For some, the pain and suffering is so bad that notexisting is actually better.
> In some cases this is motivated by religious beliefs that "everything must be done" to save a life no matter how much pain or suffering is causes.

Can you explain what you mean by this?
A short answer would be that dozens of projects like this already exist and have existed for decades (scsh was mentioned in this thread), and they aren't widely used as shell replacements:

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Internal-DSLs-for-Shell

https://github.com/oilshell/oil/wiki/Alternative-Shells

It doesn't mean they aren't useful, but we still need a better successor to Bourne shell / bash.
Respectively they should. This is how they narrow down and diagnose something the right way. Something that your computer algorthims can not do,
Vivaldi with ublockorigin and other privacy-related extensions.
Was an actor. He is in his eighties. His best days as an artist/writer (tekwar) are in the past.
> Notexisting is worse than pain and suffering.

That’s a stretch.

Far more important to come to terms with mortality than extend life indefinitely.

Is it even still living to have a heartbeat but with motor control, limited or no ability to speak, and no memory? Is “living” in this way best for the next of kin?

I found a recent episode of the Making Sense podcast in this topic to be thought provoking. You might give it a listen.

https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/297...
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I would question whether extra treatments for an end of life patient is really a profitable venture for a hospital vs the opportunity cost of more lucrative elective stuff.
One of the best things of the past couple years; we have never had a clearer view of where everyone’s motives are.

The real question; what are we doing now that we know these things?
Makes sense, I meant to say it is more like they are deliberately poking Japan to notice Russia is occupying lands they are interested in.
I'm not sure about how to combat heat sensors under current workplace law. But, some workplaces have cameras, which as far as I can tell break surveillance law in many states. Especially given the ability to reconstruct a transcript of what was said and keyboard input from the video.
I expect zen4 on laptop to be quite energy efficient, but we will see.
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That's a fair long term view, and a sense for this type of nuanced choice is one of the marks of a good programmer. Not all students have the experience to judge the tradeoff, and so my goal as an educator is to default them to the safer of the two options. In this example, it's usually trivial to just add the static keyword to an already pure method. In my experience it's considerably harder to refactor a series of stateful methods that were incorrectly declared static, since you usually also have to plumb the state object through all of the callers, and their callers, and their callers, etc...
I completely disagree. I would rather not exist than be in truly agonising pain for the rest of my existence.

Heck, I've had something as simple as bad food poisoning where, if it was a terminal symptom, I would have ended it.
What is to stop someone from modifying chromium to always report "yes" in that case? Or is the idea that we will add another widevine style opaque binary blob to our system that handles this with an encrypted response that can't be examined by the user?
Just don't expect others to pay for it
Hospitals and doctors are already fully booked, they don't need the additional work from overmedicating and overtreating patients in the last weeks of their lives.
2 nukes were enough for Japan. I bet for 4 to be sure.
I suspect that people are more likely to want their loved ones to be treated in spite of glaring suggestions toward the end of their love one’s life when they fear that death will approach within the hospital walls.

It’s likely that many people would prefer their loved one to die at home than elsewhere. Which I suppose is a natural feeling. But they then catch themselves in the dilemma of choosing between what they feel is an environment of care medically and an environment of care, well, “familial-ly”?

It’s easy to make faith or religion a target for phenomenons such as as this. But which faith (or whose, rather) are we talking here?
A marble changed my perception
You have to make it interactive and use multiple sources.. Just recently I was reading about prevailing winds in the Atlantic and I searched global maps to visually recognize them, sailors accounts, yachting world magazine articles on them, etc. And after a bunch of this I learned the subject pretty well. Alternatively, If you're learning a tech subject you can build a mini project or look at both code and the text or look at other articles.

Just reading paragraph after paragraph is dry as shit and no way to learn.
- Please help me, I am struggling emotionally

- Buckle up my dude lol
What time of day and how complex is the material? I can only read certain types of things at certain times of day. More complex in the morning, medium complexity throughout the day, easy/light novel before bed.
>How is aerial photography essential when a drone can do the same thing?

If you want to survey a huge area (as opposed to your back yard or a local football field), a plane is still your best bet.

>Sure, carbon tax, how does the tax reduce carbon emissions? If all the resourced individuals you mention just pay it? That only works if it is a disincentive. If they all pay it then no reduction occurs.

A carbon tax targets the entire economy, not just general aviation. The aim therefore isn't necessarily to reduce carbon emissions in general aviation in particular, but to reduce carbon emissions in the entire economy in areas where it would be the most cost effective and least disruptive. That said general aviation isn't a homogeneous group and there is certainly going to be people on the margins (ie. they like flying but they aren't going to spend $1000 more per year on the hobby), and they'll be the ones that will stop flying.
add: I run pi-hole as dns-blocker in my network.
Thinkpad pricing like it's 1994.
Why is it hard to learn another programming language?
My bad :(
Have you looked i to how much government support is behind these projects? Setting aside any tax breaks, have you looked into the amount of restricted/classified tech involved? These ventures are not possible without massive government participation.
> No solution to this other than a fixed length encoding.

Micro-op caching enters the room.

I mean, seriously, micro-op caching has been extensively used for over 20 years, including on ARM64 designs although Apple M1 doesn't have it.
Wow. I would resign on the spot if that happened to me.

The one time I worked in an office (in my 25 year career), someone tried something similar but much less egregious. A person I had never met before came up to my desk in the middle of the day with a new employee and asked if they could swap desks with me, so that this new employee could be nearer to their team mates. Since the desk they wanted me to move to was all the way across the floor I pointed out that this would leave me sitting far away from my own team mates and thus it would not exactly be a net improvement. It took a few tries, but eventually they understood that I was declining to move, and it never went any further than that. I was rather surprised that they didn’t even consider that they might be making an ineffectual decision.
> If you have talents in the area, just go to the US.

I believe most simply go to another EU country since that's extremely easy to do and you can still serve the German market easily.
Markets don't have a goal. They just don't care.
Reminds me of the concept of a "shit sandwich" - where you try to put bad points between two slices of positive points.
It was a poor architecture though and if not by AMD64 it would have been killed by something else more in line with traditionnal high perf superscalar. Maybe even just Arm.
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How does Amazon do this SKU aggregation? It must use some kind of product identifier (barcode / QR code / RFID tag etc.)? Why not include vendor information with it? Please stop using this tired excuse. It is not a difficult problem to solve if you have the intent.
> a release that contained many errors (e.g. amount created in genesis block can not be spent)

I was thinking that this may have been intentional.

In that sense there may be a stronger message when creating an unspendable "big" value (reward was 50BTC) than a spendable value of e.g one satoshi.
There is a lot to be said for just running dot and living with the imperfections.
Your first point implies it’s a situation of giving up and dying vs. trying not to die.

But it ignores the view that that act of trying not to die might make the remainder of your life much worse.
"C in a Nutshell 2nd Ed" (O'Reilly, Prinz & Craqford, 2015) is a good reference although maybe not the best for a walk-through learning experience. It also has good chapters on tooling (gcc, make, gdb).

There's a recent book out I came across called "Bare Metal C" (No Starch Press, Oualline, 2022) which unpacks embedded programming in a very readable manner. I imagine a lot of, if not most, C programming these days is done in the low-level embedded world, and this book clears up a lot of the mysteries.

https://nostarch.com/bare-metal-c

Also it never hurts to look at a good open-source codebase written in C, for example the SQLite code is worth looking at (if a bit overwhelming):

https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/tree/master/src
Old school Think pads had the best keyboards.
Not following, how would the system know the document was authentic without transmitting data; understand that client-side it would be easy to cross-reference the ID-face and Live-face and scan the barcode to extract any data attributes, such as age. Also, worth noting that assuming the individual had a smart phone, scanning document would likely provide no additional security and there numerous apps that provide real-time end user verification using biometrics.
It's CE certified which is something that Chinese companies print on everything, since it's a self-certification process. UL/ETL require you to do failure mode testing and provide detailed schematics of your equipment for review, and costs quite a bit of cash to get done.
Props to you and your fellow students for being the professionals in the room (along with a few of the professors.)
One moves in a large city to start a career. At which point, by the time that middle America house is within reach, your support system is in the city as well. Friends for pet-sitting, likely family close-ish for child care, public transit to avoid paying for insurance, gas, parking, and a car. An emotional support network, instead of being (for at least the first bit) physically all alone with no friends nearby - because let's be frank: having all your friends a multiple-hour drive away, and none nearby, can feel bleak. Doubly so when your long-term partner isn't ready to sacrifice the above for a house in flyover country. And all of this precludes keeping your professional network nearby as well, making getting a new, better paying job easier as well.

None of these are insurmountable. Not at all. But the more barriers in place, the more likely it is that our hypothetical person will be stopped by one.
Thanks for elaborating in case others don't know... but yes, I know of those :) I'm talking about a seamless tool that connects with SciHub and/or LibGen and provides full text search and so on.
What I was trying to say here is that Linux advocacy is still very much in its infancy, and of zero complexity.

Linux, as an entire operating system, and not just as a kernel, really needs a strong steward with a vision if it is ever going to be beaten into something that is a cohesive single thing, and not a loose aggregation of software packages.

Unfortunately, by the time most people learn and know enough to become this person, they are at retirement age, and no longer have the energy or the desire to be that person. The younger people who attempt this are simply swatted away by the more toxic members of the Linux fanbase.

The only person I know of who could have possibly have filled this role when they had energy for it is the person behind the Linux Hater's blog of old. That person understood what was wrong with Linux very well, and was vocal about it.

That's who we need, again, someone like that. Someone to point out all the silliness and absurdity and expose it all as the silliness and absurdity that it really is. Because it is all very much incoherent and broken in so many ways. It all functions, it all works, but is it really competitive with MacOS or Windows? Those two both have their flaws, and plenty of them, but I don't think that Linux can hold a candle to either of them, really, for anyone but the most technical of users.

And maybe everyone has just agreed that only the technical users are the users who are important for this operating system. I don't know what the thought is about that, but I'll tell you, technical users are not the only users you need to care about as a Linux application developer.

a blog entry describing the linux Hater's Blog: https://www.mschaef.com/linux-haters-blog

an archive of the blog entries: https://github.com/atoponce/linuxhaters
So, you're trying to build a more integrated service than Hercules (https://hercules-ci.com/)? How would you compare it?
I once followed a sponsored ad for some Samsung headphones. After having problems with that Samsung product support informed me I have no warranty because the product I had was a European model and I’d have to ship them from the US to a European support center to get them fixed.

Amazon took the return/refund almost a year after the sale. Ideal? No, but they took care of it.

Samsung paid for that ad.
Nothing would stop someone from hacking the system if everything was client-side.
Sounds like the demographic of "tech person" changed. It used to be mostly hardliners back in the days of the thinkpad, but now it's filled with moderates who don't really feel too strongly about repairability and extendability.
I mean, I understand it even though I don't agree with it. If you're trying to budget for an organization, and it comes down to either needing to buy an entire new office building, or making everyone make do with 20% less space, that packing people in option looks pretty attractive.
If you exclude everything that does not go into your direction and make the hypothesis that a poor architecture would have risen and then would not have been replaced, you conclude that "everybody" would use it?
"Extreme C: Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C" at https://www.amazon.com/Extreme-Taking-Concurrency-advanced-c.... Especially if you want to do OOP in C instead of playing with C++.
Why should there be a limit on human productivity? After all it means we are getting more efficient at the things we are doing, doing more with less, is that not a laudable goal? Any time we have approached a limit we have found a way to cheat it, that’s cause for celebration.
What's this wizardry?
Simple discussions are easy to follow, but complex and extensive discussion are really, really hard to follow. Charting them like this is the only way I know where you can trace over discussions and make sure you catch everything.

I get involved in a lot of large discussions, and extracting and distilling the knowledge is important to me, which I why I start with the chart, then have tools to navigate over it, cull the useless bits, and retain what's important.

If you cultivate and curate your connections, Twitter can be a brilliant source, but the interface is atrocious.