skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> kind of like the way the dimensions of the space shuttle booster are directly affected by the size of a pair of Roman war horses' asses.

I agree the two are similar, but the space shuttle story is also bullshit. See e.g. Snopes: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

People are suckers for plausible-sounding and amusing stories, that one's classic bait for people's lack of critical thinking skills.

> CRLF was used verily heavily and thus got baked into a lot of different places.

Well, exactly. Which is precisely why it's bullshit to claim that HTTP was "based on teletypes". It was based on technical standards at the time, that originally derived from teletypes, but there was no consideration of teletypes in the development of HTTP that I'm aware of:

> Many early web browsers were expected to be teletype machines [0].

Could you quote a relevant part of your reference? Because I don't see it. Perhaps you're confusing "dumb terminal" with "teletype"? Or confusing the Unix concept of tty, a teletype abstraction, with the electromechanical device known as a teletype - the "remote typewriters" mentioned in the original comment?

By the time that WWW spec was written in 1990, teletypes were decades out of date and not commonly used at all. PCs had existed for over a decade, and video display terminals for mainframes and minicomputers had been around for nearly three decades. No-one was using actual teletypes any more.

> So while it might be a bit of a stretch, I'd say this is far from "complete bullshit".

This conclusion would work if any of your claims had survived scrutiny.
HN should be more generous towards Thierry Breton: an EU commissioner with a computer science degree!

> Breton received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from École Supérieure d'Électricité (Supélec, now CentraleSupélec) in 1979 and later graduated from the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN).[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Breton - former VP of Groupe Bull and various other high-ranking telecoms posts there.

Also:

> Breton received world attention after an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2011 when he reiterated his intention to ban internal email, dubbed as "the pollution of the information age", at Atos within 18 months (known as the zero-email strategy), replacing internal emails by a set of enterprise social networks, enterprise instant messaging, collaborative tools etc..., both being developed inhouse and partially aggregated from other vendors
When I visited a Cisco office in India, I noticed there was a prominent notice of business application and listed the Indian owner of the company. I thought that was interesting and went digging into India law about ownership. When I came out of that rabbit hole I immediately had zero interest in starting up in India. Simply because of the bureaucracy and would be way more wink-wink-$$$-nudge-nudge than what I'm even used to today with my dealings in the West Indies. Then I read the article and by the time I got to the Irrigation NOC I was nodding my head 'yup, exactly what i expected'.

It's very easy to read these requirements and agree that there are natural resources that (a) you don't want exploited and (b) want preserved, so all of these hurdles are necessary. But the timeline involved and the MULTIPLE bribes really drives home the fact that reforms are needed.
Is it actually in stock at this price? Where I am, local price tracker, tweakers.net, also shows some listings for ~100 euro, but if you click through to the seller's website, it says there "not in stock, delivery date unknown". If you limit to what you can actually buy, it's ~200 euros, and even that - often with a week or two of lead-time.
I thought it was funny. Each to their own.
Especially, just consigning Hennessy and Patterson as a lousy book and ignoring what they said at the time, it makes the blogpost apparent for what it is: an illogical rant. On the one hand, Dave Patterson, Turing Award winner. On the other, Rob Graham, notorious troll. Hmmm…
If I were to judge US liberty by the videos of cops I have seen...

In the US you can be sued if you lie and your lie causes economic damage. E.g. if you claim that voting machines are unsafe despite knowing that the evidence says otherwise, you get sued.

In Germany if you lie about the Holocaust, a lie that damages the fundamental right to human dignity, you can get sued.

In other words any country has limits to free speech. There is a whole article on Wikipedia just about this.

Yet comments like yours always pretend like Germany/Europe doesn't have free speech, without engaging with the genuine complexity of the topic. Yes Germany and the US draw the limits of free expression differently. If you have an argument why Germanys lines are worse than the US' lines bring it.

Merely claiming that Germany does not have "real liberty" is... not it.

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From Wikipedia:

> In the defamation case Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. (1974), the Supreme Court said that there is "no constitutional value in false statements of fact".[11] However, this is not a concrete rule as the Court has struggled with how much of the "speech that matters" can be put at risk in order to punish a falsehood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free_speech_ex...

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Freedom score from Freedom House:

https://freedomhouse.org/countries/freedom-world/scores

Germany 94
UK 93
USA 83

(This score reflects a far broader notion of rights, freedoms and liberties than just speech)
Go after executives? Or, assuming Twitter will be private one day, after the owner(s)? Freeze assets? Go through the WTO and US authorities?
Do you have a source for this price reduction after november?
> I known it goes against the prevailing HN ethos, but more-features-more-monetisation does not necessarily produce the best product.

What? Minimalism is very much favoured in HN. Unix-philosophy: do one thing well
Companies having to follow the rules in the countries they operate in is nothing new.
>it needs to be easy to type on mobile

This is a great point. I've written a lot of stuff just using HTML, even doing the table formatting, by just opening up BBEdit and going to town. It's really easy once you learn the basics. There are (were?) a lot of secretaries who deeply loved WordPerfect because of the ability to open up the codes window so they could fix weird formatting errors. They're just a couple of steps from authoring directly in HTML if they so wanted.

But it didn't occur to me that a non-trivial amount of stuff is composed on somebody's phone. A WYSIWYG editor on mobile is certainly doable, but screen real estate is precious on a phone. Markdown certainly helps with that.
I'm assuming this is an anti-regulation joke, but it seems unironically a good thing.

The EU is pretty good at regulation. and its easier to get the best from US software and Chinese hardware with sensible regulations in place.
The naïveté is astounding, no?
Current and Future Hedge Fund Managers, a Hosted Desktop Is a Priority
There's a video in a first comment
> I don't think you understand what "arbitrary" means. It's not "I don't see the difference".

Arbitrary here means that the rule wasn’t decided rationally. The government must typically establish a “rational basis” for any rule that they want to impose on people.

It is commonly understood that being indoors with a lot of people increases the risk of transmitting a virus between those people. The risk is understood to go up when more people are present, but it is also higher when the building is smaller than when it is larger.

Thus, a rational basis for the maximum occupancy of a building during a pandemic would be based on the number of people per square foot. A rule such as “1 person per 100 square feet” treats both large and small groups fairly, as well as treating large and small buildings fairly.

When we look at specific rules that were actually in place during the pandemic, we often find that there was no such rational basis. The rules were instead arbitrary. In NYC, churches were limited to a flat 10 people in the building at any one time, regardless of the size of the church building. This limits a large church more than a small one, and thus the rule is arbitrary. It would have been no more arbitrary if they had rolled dice to pick the number.

Similarly, the same rule in NYC did not apply to big–box hardware stores. A Home Depot could have hundreds of people in it all the time! No matter how important hardware stores are, this is an arbitrary distinction. There is no rational basis under which the virus is dangerous to a group of 11 people who are in a church, but not to a group of 11 people who are in a Home Depot. The relative importance of churches and Home Depots is not important. What is important is that the difference in how the rule applied to them was arbitrary.
Goroutines (and stackful coroutines in general) require a runtime. Go has to sprinkle suspension points everywhere in the machine code (to prevent starvation) and when it needs to grow a goroutine stack, it also needs to know how to adjust every single relevant pointer in the entire program's memory to point to the new stack location.

This is not something that a systems programming language would want to do. I agree with your point that structured concurrency is good and preferable for high-level languages, but it's not an absolute better choice when you start thinking about the details, like you have to do in a systems programming language.
Raw neuron count is only loosely associated with abstract problem solving intelligence. A cat's neural network is incredibly well optimized for things that cats care about.

Brains are very well optimized for computation/energy (while also being self replicating and self repairing), the tasks researchers care about just aren't the ones evolution cares about.
it's one of the earliest /. Era memes that I remember, along with "year of linux desktop" , "netcraft confirms" and "in Russia X does YOU". But I think all those are contemporary, along with "email is for old people " and others I don't remember now.

Darn those were nice times.
If you say the US is a democracy, a whole bunch of people will come out of the woodwork to explain that it's a republic and the President is indirectly elected. Certainly the President is not elected by popular vote, a very important fact recently. Nor does the Federal government run the presidential elections.
The screenshot [1] in urlscan shows a CF error to the origin. Do you have access to the origin access logs or the ability to run tcpdump on the origin?

It appears someone else is having an issue as well. [2]

[1] - https://urlscan.io/result/90a53d26-e31e-488e-a345-f784f5b16f...

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33370873
That's amazing. How did you get through to them, did you just get their email from their website?

We need more examples of this, to show that you can actual reach your representatives.
Life on Mars May Have Been Its Own Worst Enemy
Just because Rob Graham is of a certain age doesn’t mean he’s well-versed in the topic.
might do journalists a lot of good
The biggest issue with adapters is that autofocus systems expect fairly detailed information on the optical formula of a lens nowadays, so it's not easy to adapt lenses even when you do fully reverse engineer the protocol
Maybe the site could add its own implementation into itself. It's totally broken for me.
There were candidates for the commission's presidency, and Frau von der Leyen was not one of them. In fact, she was not on any lists before the election and her name only popped up afterwards, which made the whole election a farce.

It's like having a presidential race between Biden and Trump and then installing Weird Al Yankovic as president after all votes are counted.
True. I was lucky enough to already have one. I recently tried to find another one here in The Netherlands. Usually they're out of stock but can be backordered.
Alwyn Scott's Stairway to the Mind (1995) has an accessible critique of Penrose's theory from the perspective of neurophysics. Basically, he argues that neuronal activity is on such a large time and energy scale that quantum effects are unlikely to be relevant.
Flameshot is dope for screenshots.

Gimp can be tough for beginners. I always fumble around before watching a tutorial. Can be annoying having to watch a tutorial just to change the color of a layer.
Correct, but that takes active effort on a road by road basis, which becomes a political problem on a road by road basis.

In a world where all cars are automated, establishing speed limits is presumably something you do once and auto manufacturers will be forced to comply.

Similarly, issues with cycling safety and pedestrian safety are instantly mitigated without complex study groups to examine why this or that particular intersection has seen three cycling fatalities.

All of this is assuming the creation of currently-mythical technology, or course
In the US you typically have to make sure the land is in the right "zoning" for manufacturing, but that's typically not too hard to find. How easy it is to get preexisting land changed varies widely. If it's agricultural land, that often won't need rezoned in places with cumulative zoning: https://matthewminer.name/law/outlines/1L/2nd+Semester/LAW+5...

Then you probably need a building permit, but they usually just need the plans for the building to be built for that.
Do we live in a Free Market? Where's the consumer benefit?
Will the consumer ever benefit from price drops? Europe has more natural gas than it knows what to do with. So much, in fact, that spot prices briefly went negative earlier this week.
The article is free. The recipe is paywalled. You can tease the recipe out by curling the url:

curl https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1023587-brunswick-stew

-or-

https://gist.github.com/fuzzygroup/9496c22cb3c429ae3cf3aea19...
110 million followers of which 1.2 million liked the joke...
I believe it! I’ve worked with interfaces for warehouses and rental shops, and it’s the same thing.
at de.farnell.com it costs EUR 85 - but has over 1 year delivery time :-(
My love-hate relationship with mechanical watches
JAX-RS

It's super-easy to use for writing JSON back ends, just like Sinatra.

You can add a template engine like Freemarker to output HTML also.
One of the most amazing things in Free Software is its multiplying effect. One person had a problem, dug into it, figured it out and got it fixed. The effects will ripple through time and space and improve the support of a lot of other devices now and in the future.

This is FOSS at its best. Thank you, @kohlschuetter.
Well if they want European money they better comply with the ruled as they are or lobby a government to get better ones.

(If they are tiny they might fly under the radar but since FAANG and friends aren't charities that won't work)

It's really "unfortunate" that they managed to piss if their own government so that Washington doesn't feel like helping them out much.
It loads for me, but it took like at least 20 seconds
I memorized it by thinking about it like a function call — so () comes last
You're appealing to the law of averages here; all things aren't necessarily equally easy to remember. There's no arbitrary order that has to be remembered with an anchor tag: all tags start with an angle bracket, what they are (if we include the "/" in the name), and a list of attributes, and are closed with another angle bracket. If some elements were opened with square brackets and closed with angle brackets, it would be harder to remember. It would be worse if there were also others that opened with angle brackets and closed with square brackets.

It will always be easier to remember a 10-letter name than a 10-digit number.
But how else can the bing tech can show you ads about, DeLorean, Coke II or google glass.
I always wondered how the 4GB version would perform for my use case! What OS do you run?
Addressing Tech Debt
Cowardice at Sundance: Why Was Jihad Rehab Canceled?
> e.g. RISC-V C extension provides variable length instructions, but they're still either 16 or 32 bit.

It's more than that. In RISC-V, you only need the first two bits of each instruction to determine whether it's a 16 bit or 32 bit instruction; you don't need to decode an instruction to know its length.

> [...] we see the cache sizes M1/M2 need just to deal with this, [...]

Do the M1/M2 need these cache sizes, or do they have these cache sizes because they can have these cache sizes, due to having a 4x larger page size by default? (Normally, page size wouldn't be that much of a problem for instruction caches, but for x86 it is because the x86 ISAs don't require explicit instruction cache invalidation on self-modifying code; x86 processors would likely have larger L1 instruction cache sizes if they could get away with it.)
Right, it was moralistic thinking that created the opioid crisis.
I believe in France the fine is felt and companies like Twitter comply with the rules. Whereas in the U.S. a fine is expensed as part of the cost of doing business and rules are broken repeatedly. Worse case is a long battle in the courts and after more than a decade they settle out of court for a little money and noone is held responsible.
Nancy Pelosi's husband 'violently assaulted' at San Francisco home
> is that AGI is too resource-intensive to be within the reach of normal computing of the ordinary user for at least 2 decades.

Hardware is still accelerating exponentially in density, albeit a bit slower. What you're not considering is that algorithmic improvements in machine learning are outpacing hardware improvements.

For instance, NVidia recently revealed how to switch from 32-bit floats to 16-bit floats with no perceptible loss in effectiveness, and they're working on 8-bit floats next. That's a full doubling in number of parameters in your model in only a single step. Other improvements are refinements to language models themselves to reduce overfitting and boost effectiveness with fewer parameters.

Arguably a machine learning model will achieve parity with human neuron density, in terms of number parameters, within the next decade. What that actually means is unclear.
Fly.io Status – Deployments are broken
Fly deployments have been "down" (partially / fully) for a couple days per their status page.

After all of the recent talk about moving from Heroku to Fly, I was surprised to have all of these operational issues when doing my initial sniff test.

Can anyone testify to the production worthiness of Fly, or should I look somewhere else?

Edit: Before anyone says "editorialized title", when I posted this, the title of the linked page literally said "Deployments are broken".
Blame the employer, not remote.com. The employer decides what benefits they will pay remote.com to give to employees
I'm not sure that is maximizing employment as much as it is taking advantage of labor that is too cheap to meter.
Sue them? The EU has a number of court systems. And in quite a lot of circumstances EU judgements are enforceable in the US. https://iclg.com/practice-areas/enforcement-of-foreign-judgm...
Well, the other conversation to have that doesn’t just cash out into personal consumer choice is who a society lets line their coffers with the vices of others.

I find it harder to argue for why you should be able to enrich yourself at the expense of others while singing “But personal choice!” to wash your hands of it all.
i doubt America would back that since at that point twitter is doing nothing illegal here. just refusing to block eu citizens. similar to how extradition generally requires something being a crime in both countries.
They did not ban Telegram, so why should they ban Twitter?
Since the head of the commission was never ever voted for in the EU elections, who ever was proposed was just providing a face anyway. Much like the Chancellor in Germany, you vote for a party that proposed a person to become chancellor in case said party leads a coalition government. There is no way to prevent said party to just have someone else being elected chancellor by parliament. It is still democratic so.
The author seems to think that all self driving companies are basically the same, so Ford must just be facing the harsh truth that everyone else is ignoring, vs Ford being outcompeted by companies with much stronger ML chops
Intuition and common sense are the result of latent learning via experience. A model with the right architecture could learn the same things given the training data.
I used to have some sort of small amount of respect for pg when I was much younger. Now I've realised what a libertarian twat he is and how limited and childish his 3 ideas are which he keeps repeating under different guises he calls blog posts.
Baumgartner does "value" restoration. He gets a lot of criticism which I think is unfounded (his way of working is perfectly appropriate for the pieces he's working on), but he's far from the state of the art you see at the Met, Louvre or British Museum.
The EU enacted the GDPR laws and that had a worldwide positive effect. Yes, GDPR is of course not perfect, but it is much better than the previous status quo.

So yes, even though the EU is ridiculed in this joke it actually makes important contributions. Perhaps the only issue is that well-designed regulation is usually so subtle that people don't even recognize the benefits, or take it for granted...
I misread it as "Google investing in honey bee swarms"
and I thought "nice, finally big tech does something for mother nature other than rape and plunder it". Yes I need glasses.
Why ARM specifically? Many Linux packages are not ported to ARM. Furthermore, non-Apple ARM CPUs are much slower.

There are lots of fanless x86_64 options that are also energy efficient if you are willing to buy from small manufacturers or stick a fanless case yourself.

The M1 performs so well partly because it uses a very advanced fabrication process.

A modern Ryzen is going to have comparable single-core performance, better multi-core performance and slightly higher energy usage.
Seize any assets within the EU. Likely get into 'contempt of court' situation - which might prevent any executives travel to any EU country. To my knowledge there is no* such precedent so far, though. (edited*)
There is no karma, but there is a long-term tendency for real economic growth in about the 3-4% range. It's a combination of innovation and increased population. The latter is pretty consistent; the former is not, and yet seems remarkably steady.

You can increase the rates a small amount by borrowing money, but not indefinitely. Eventually, that borrowed money causes inflation, because it increases the money supply. And eventually, people get antsy, and try to cement their gains.

That's not karma, it's psychology. It's how people have behaved, and it's as predictable as anything ever gets in economics. It doesn't take a deity to invoke a bust; it just takes humans.
Well, YES! since so much of the tech industry has a triangular thing that they insist is a wheel and obstinately refuse to engage with those round things, despite the round things having been around for quite a long time. (I'm talking about programming languages, of course. See the Stop Writing Dead Programmes talk.)
So something like Lenovo Glasses T1: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/glasses-t1-...
True. And that's why I realized again today why I'm so positively surprised by the fact that the RPi actually _can_ do all of the (basic) stuff I want from my desktop computer.
> 50+ oz

Sorry just need to convert that to real units for the rest of the world - 1478.68ml

Nah bugger off, literally no one is drinking 1.5 litres of Coke a day, absolute madness.
> 36 7.2TB Western Digital hard disks

Kind of a letdown

> Interestingly, the now-defunct dial-up online service Prodigy used a local caching system to distribute data more efficiently using the same basic principle as Open Connect in the 1980s and '90s.

Odd 'fact' to bring up.