skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've learned x86 16-bit assembly originally, and I find that most of that knowledge is still applicable when looking at assembly listings while debugging C/C++ today (which is the most likely area where one might have to deal with it in production these days; few people get to write asm from scratch).

For x86, at least, I wouldn't even say that it was less complex. Segmented memory alone is a huge complication, and then on top of that there was all the legacy CISC stuff like the BCD helpers or ENTER/LEAVE; x64 is comparatively streamlined.
> So if they said, "First Amendment doesn't count any more, sorry for the confusion," then I guess there is no more Constitution.

Not how that works, someone else have to make that claim, make the argument and convince the majority. And…SCOTUS would have to evaluate the argument based on the first amendment itself and whether or not it allowed itself to be eliminated.
Gonna repost my standard question on Mastodon articles: cool, how do I get into it?
That is unlikely. The rapid price reductions in those areas have been due to technological maturation of the underlying technologies and scaling of the manufacturing processes. These processes are likely to complete soon, if they have not already, and future developments will likely have more modest effects. Additionally, factors such as increasing demand for both these products and underlying material resources are likely to cause an upwards pressure on the price.
I'm sorry if I implied you do/don't support any of the arguments we're discussing. I seem to have a bit of confrontational style of arguing, I'll try to tone it down in the future.

On the original point - it seems to me that the whole cancel culture is just an attempt by a vocal minority to bypass democratic system. Centuries of lawmaking have made some things legal and others not, walking very thin lines between good and bad decisions in order to maintain the balance between totalitarism and lawlessness - and suddenly a mob of random internet dwellers think they can get their way by throwing tantrums and bend the rules as they wish.

I'm annoyed at the very efficiency with which mob manages to cancel whoever does anything remotely "unacceptable" by their unwritten, "come on dude we all know that", rules... It seems like the futute is likely to be lead by loud demagogues skilled at tapping into the mob rage of the society and cleverly weaponizing it against their political enemies. Like always.
"Justice" is not the same thing as "constitutionality." The latter is a legal construct.
It's Meta. They censor stuff. If I post Youtube videos on Facebook they usually get covertly censored (i.e. I can see it bu my friends can't see it on their feeds). It doesn't happen if I post the video directly to Facebook.

Though once when I posted a video of me playing Beethoven on Facebook they censored out the audio because their idiot ML thought it was copyrighted music.

I posted a link of a charity donation page after a disaster once and it was also similarly censored. I deleted it and reposted a text-only status asking people to google certain words to find the page and only then could my friends see the post.

They do similar things on Instagram as well, most of my followers can't see most of my posts anymore. Because I don't do this Reel bullshit, Instagram has decided to mostly censor my content from my own friends.

Not surprised they do it on WhatsApp at all.
Kavanuagh was working within the system, or at least able to find a rationale within it.

It doesn't mean

a) that he agrees with the system

b) that he can't find another way to reach the same result in a new system
Please do post it, that would be sweet to play with:)
I'd love to see two docs there:

- What's different from Lucky https://luckyframework.org/

- What's different from Amber https://amberframework.org/

There's probably something exciting there, but finding out the differences in features for yourself... please don't make me do that.
Black-American, like Irish-American or Italian-American, are seen as a unique, somewhat homogeneous identity and culture. White-American isn't. So they decided not to capitalize it on that basis.
> Firstly, there is a false premise here which is that the story is about a great programmer who worked hard to do nothing but add real value to a program. Obviously, this is not so. The story makes it clear by including detail like '"Even the initializer is optimized", [Mel] said proudly', where is it clear that Mel understands that the initializer runs only once, but he optimized it anyway. Some of what Mel did added value, and some of it was just done for Mel's own benefit of learning and self-actualization.

The RPC-4000 was a goofy machine that had extremely variable IPC depending on machine code layout. It could get as bad as 60 instructions every second if they were on the wrong parts of the drum. I'd expect the initializer to be optimized as well even though it's going to run once, since not optimizing would land you with a very long wait for it to get ready.
I am a white person in San Francisco and I do experience a lot of casual racism from POC. Just things like “there are too many white people here”, “that’s white washed”, etc as well as mild harassment on public transit.

I am often the only white person in any group, so comments like these among acquaintances get tiring, and I have nobody to talk about it with, partly because, according to a lot of these people, I am privileged despite me growing up in a far poorer neighborhood and single mother household.
... and SCOTUS can freely misinterpret those changed laws, as well.

Remember Shelby v Holder, when SCOTUS struck down an unambiguous law, unanimously passed by Congress, previously held as constitutional?

Don't tell me Congress can override SCOTUS when they obviously can't.
My understanding is that income based affirmative action would actually have little effect on racial demographics. Hence why this isn't really discussed by these top colleges.

In other words, top colleges would just be full of poor whites and asians (instead of middle-to-upper class whites and asians, without affirmative action).
I think you're really confused here...

People that run Twitter don't want to keep people from talking to each other, they want to keep a particular crowd that is worth a lot of money talking so they can make billions doing it.

4chan is mostly worthless unless you're willing to take on very questionable advertisers.
It's going to work initially, but I've never seen it have the clause that 'this will result in equality once we hit the correct percentages' or that 'AA will finish at this point' because that second stage is difficult and will rip off the band-aid.
It’s good enough for people, so all the info is there.

Doesn’t mean it’s better or easier
I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology.

Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost.

It's really too bad that the idea of where you connect became conflated with what your name is.

PS: thanks to the person who was running mastodon.technology and found that it was too much to do with what else was going on in their life.
Yes it is, and I don't care about how popular my comments are. In many slavic countries antisemitism is the default and normal opinion. Semitic people are not the sacred cows they are in american culture.
Twitter does have a downvote button: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/04/twitter...
> I like The Next Generation because it shows us a future I could live in.

I watched TNG as a kid, and maybe this is why I liked it so much.

Recently, my 5 year kid came running to me with his tablet during his allocated screen time, all excited in the way that only young kids can be. He was going on about how great it was he'd "killed them before they killed me!"*, and I just can't stop thinking about what an awful moment that was :( Maybe we need to sit down and watch TNG and DS9 together...

* He has a Kindle Kids with an age limit set, so he's only playing curated games from the Amazon Kids collection
Another trick is to put lots of dry rice grains into a sock, tie the sock and warm it up in a microwave. Just be careful, as the rice heats up Really fast in the microwave.
Hey, this is fantastic! I've been looking for one-bit-deep screenshots of SunView, OpenWindows, or Open Look for a while — I don't remember if I ever used it on a one-bit display, but a lot of the graphic design in Open Look seems like it's intended to work well on a one-bit display. Unfortunately, all the SunView/OpenWindows/OpenLook screenshots I could find were 256-color screenshots.

This version of SunView looks pretty different from the Open Look I used to use. There are no pushpins on menus, no rounded ends on menu items, no arrow-buttons on the scrollbar slider, and scrollbars on the left (usually) instead of the right. Action buttons are beveled instead of having rounded ends. Default action buttons are indicated with a thick border instead of a double border. Instead of popups being connected to their parent window with a tower converging on a vanishing point, they're connected with a curvy arrow (though with a little vanishing-point action). Instead of picture-frame corners to resize windows with, you have a mega thick double line border around the entire window. Cascading menu items are indicated with a double-line right arrow instead of a right-pointing triangle.

There are clearly some elements in common. The file browser has the same ugly folder tree view with awkwardly wrapped filenames. The cursor in text fields (including "cmdtool", a name shared with Open Look) is a caret shaped like a diamond or triangle, instead of a vertical line, a flashing block, or an underline. The "file properties" dialog in fileview still has checkboxes for permission bits. And the pushpin also shows up in that dialog despite its unfortunate absence from menus.

The OpenWindows section following seems to have one-bit-deep versions of most of the Open Look stuff I'm familiar with, though! You have the picture-frame corners, buttons on the scrollbar slider (which is on the right), downward-pointing triangles for the titlebar button and menu buttons, a non-shitty mouse pointer graphic, circular ends on menu entry highlights and action buttons, right-pointing triangles for submenus, pushpins on menus (now with lines inside the silhouette), underlined text fields, checkboxes with a little more panache, dropshadows on buttons by way of thickening the border on the bottom and right, rectangular radio buttons (which highlight the selected option with a thicker border), the same slider and gauge widget from the OLIT sampler demo, double-lined borders for default buttons and the goofy perspective tower thing for popup dialogues.

All of this looks perfectly comprehensible despite the one-bit-deep display, and not only is it less ugly than SunView and GEOS, it's even less ugly than Motif or Windows 3.1, on par with the one-bit-deep UIs on the Macintosh and the Palm Pilot.

The highlighting of the hyperlinks in the Help Viewer leaves something to be desired.

Does anyone know how these graphical idioms changed so radically from this version of SunView to OpenWindows?
That is not an issue with the connector though. That is the adapter. That is my entire point. The connector is safe. Shoddy adapters are the problem. Putting multiple supplies in parallel is always very shady, doubly when it's high current through a small piece of metal. That's what's dangerous, not the 12VHPWR connector.
Thanks. I am more worried about the identity than the posts. If my identity belongs to the host, then in that sense this is no better than a centralized Twitter. Just theoretically speaking (I have not been banned from anything ever), if a mastodon.art user is banned from mastodon.art - everyone who followed them will have to find them on another instance and subscribe again? If exporting data is a process that depends on the host instance, when they ban you - that's it, your identity is not recoverable.
With no attribution nevertheless :) (/s)

I love how, without the 'hello, world' message itself, 25% of your entire HELLO.ASM codebase is from a random HN comment

Edit: I saw the new commit, HN is lovely
> As a POC, I'm always amazed at how well advocates manipulate everyone to get what they want. Liberal white people are ridiculously easy to guilt trip, and they keep falling for the same old shit time after time.

I don’t think you’re giving liberal white people enough credit. They’re playing a smart game. If it wasn’t for conservative and moderate POC going along with them, white liberals would be a political minority: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/02/27/5-facts-abo...

They turn up the dial on racial conflict to keep that coalition together. Who put Joy Reid on MSNBC to call half the country racists every day?

White liberals use POC the same way they used “blue wall” Midwestern voters. They don’t care what any of those groups thinks—which becomes apparent whenever the dominant view within one of those groups contradicts white liberals, whether on social issues or even on affirmative action. They’re objects of white liberal benevolence.
Except that by that logic, the hood release should be a giant red button in the middle of the dash.
Funny that we seem to be heading further away from just admitting 'students' and more into categorisation. Working as intended?
That's kinda weird, I will tell you that signups are kinda limited right now since we're slowly rolling out features since we want to offer value to people.

Try the sign-up link with the referral code (https://bk.poachme.dev/PayMeToo)
It's quite amazing how many web frameworks are built for Crystal (in comparison to other languages of the same size, for example Nim)
The issue with using measurement X is that it quickly gets gamed.

Having a freshman class filled with people who’s parents wanted their kids to get into a good school isn’t the goal. Standardized tests for example are surprisingly gamble especially when you consider things like bribery.

Elite collages for example want their student body to look a specific way. One slice for ultra wealthy, one slice for foreigners, another slice for XYZ.
even if this were true, which i'm not sure it is, it isn't a reason to make the whole platform centralized.

you could argue that there's benefit to centralized friend-finder tools, but there's no reason that has to be tied to a centralized platform. a decentralized and open-access platform allows for choice and competition amongst friend-finder tools
Its served with a healthy portion of irrationality.
Jeadie/gram: 1800 line terminal text editor in Go
A text editor I built in Golang from scratch. No external dependencies. Based on work from antirez/kilo, but with a different syntax and feature set.
This is kind of a tangent, but driving the J6 conversation toward “sacred democracy” is a red herring that focuses away from the real issue, which is jockeying for power by playing dirty and bending the rules to create unexpected outcomes.

For example McConnell inventing a rule from thin air that you can’t fill a scotus seat in an election year. Then cynically breaking his own “rule.” Or Trump insisting Mike Pence “can send the votes back to the states.” Or submitting “alternate” electors who would break the pledge to match their votes to the majority vote. Or install a DOJ puppet AG who would seize voting machines.

This has nothing to do with whether America should be a democracy or not. It’s all about whether we should normalize a toxic culture of scummy power jockeying.
I'm no authority on Russian literature but I've never agreed with this criticism of Dostoevsky. His writing is of a different kind, one that has its own logic. This article does a good job of explaining it I think: https://www.americanpurpose.com/articles/the-master-of-peter...
Solo-dadding, hopped up on cold meds, both of which are impacting social media attention which I’m only giving attention anyway because of the cold.

Think a bit literally; reading language is “adding” information to our memory. To explain certain data structures and geometry in English would take an absurd amount of storage; first draw a Cartesian plane; what’s that; first draw a vertical line and a horizontal line extending to the right from the bottom of the horizontal line… is a lot of information to import to explain…

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The information density, memorization of form, syntactic rules, of English obfuscates simple ideas.

It’s that obfuscation that’s leveraged by aristocrats to then create confusion around truth when simple mathematical analysis shows they’re one of billions like everyone else, propped up by politically correct adherence to the subset of English that’s socially viable; tax a minority pf the population empowered by run of the mill political corruption being an example of politically incorrect language right now.
Since people keep getting the implementation of affirmative action wrong, it should be scrapped and replaced with something else. Most people's experience and opinions of affirmative action are based on bad implementations.

You aren't supposed to hire candidates based on any form of quota or race or protected class. This is what keeps happening and has sowed disdain across all society. The guidance is lacking and the people with power to change it are all afraid of talking about it.
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What do you mean he was popular in his first term? He left office in his second term with an 87% approval rating.
That sounds nice but is impossible. Privileged influence oozes over the university system and pretending it doesn't or just trying to eliminate the biases that help the disadvantaged only serves to increase the advantages that the privileged already have.
Block by default is fine but customers should be empowered to disable them if they need the IP service they're paying for.
He believes the issue is that there are too few women who are clerks in the highest courts. It’s the fastest way to contribute to the perceived resolution of the issue from his point of view.
There's some argument for using a 32-bit distro on systems with 4GB of RAM or less - https://www.sevarg.net/2021/12/18/raspberry-pi-32-bit-vs-64-...

(It's not likely worth it for most cases, but in theory half-size pointers can help.)
> Most people everywhere have ancestors kept in bondage.

True, but serfdom persisted in some Eurasian countries well into the 1860s. This makes it plausibly quite relevant to present times, in a way that other forms of bondage might not be.
While it's beautiful to have fanless machines, I was kind of horrified by the temperature on the SSD. 82 degrees is NOT where you want your m.2 drive to be!

Yes they do run hot, but that means they need to be cooled adequately. Even if you're lucky enough not to have the controller die on you, it will still massively throttle and give you much less I/O than theoretically possible.
I was also curious so I went to the "learn more" link[0], but it doesn't really answer the questions and seems rather confused.

It describes the token as "a futures contract that expires to $1 if Jair Bolsonaro wins the 2022 Brazilian presidential election and $0 otherwise". Leaving aside the fact that it's not really a futures contract (since it's not an obligation to buy or sell any underlying asset), the implication seems to be that it is a financial obligation issued by some entity, presumably FTX itself though it's not clear.

There is also this gem:

> FTX retains the final right to interpretation of this contract. FTX will not entertain any objections to this contract’s settlement mechanisms. Attempting to object will result in immediate account closure. FTX may modify the terms at any point. By trading these contracts, you are agreeing to abide by FTX’s interpretations of them.

[0] https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360060916172
It’s going to be really cringy watching liberals call out Thomas for having “internalized white supremacy” for agreeing with the majority of Black people that race should “not be a factor” in college admissions: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/02/25/most-americ...
Those sound like the same people who would like to make “micro aggressions” illegal.
That must be what happened, then :)

Of course, you still have this morbid curiosity: "Is that it? What am I not seeing?"

Then you shudder and close the page.
AA does the latter.
Yes I’m still confused what it’s attempting to say.
The DEI org at my company sent a mail out a few months ago saying how much the wage gap was between blacks and whites are, which is funny given that now Asian women have average higher wage than white men
There’s a plausible argument that Gitlow v New York (1925), which extended the 1st Amendment to apply to the states, was wrongly decided. I can’t see how any consistent originalist could disagree. The framers of the 1st Amendment saw protecting free speech at the state level as a job for state constitutions not the federal constitution. The framers of the 14th Amendment never intended it to change that in the general case.
Interestingly, he only brings on pretty girls, to the point where people advise interviewees to sex themselves up a bit for interviews with him. Thank God he's fighting systemic oppression.
If you're referring to the Emerald Chain plot, I think you may have missed the point.

The party offering wasn't interested in rule of law. There was no long-term peace to be had with authoritarians who would only be content with peace as long as it was peace that put them above the law.
It was a controversial decision also in-universe. The Admiral had to make it because otherwise he would have had to throw out of the window any pretense of clinging to the old ideals and to the rule of law. That would have destroyed everything that distinguished the Federation from an aging space empird that tries to keep itself together at all costs.

Spoiler: Conveniently, the unfolding events saved the Federation from the consequences that this decision would have otherwise had. And in the end, they ascended again, even though Vulcan^H^H^H^H^H^H Ni'var made it very clear that their rejoining was very much conditional.
To some extent, you see the real preferences when it comes to single-issue referendums (since the vote is secret, and there are no secondary "tactical voting" considerations there that might skew the preference). Some examples:

https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Referendum_88,_Vote_on_I-...

https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_16,_Repeal_Pr...
Hmm, so what is the manager's job then?
Where as re-using works perfectly, now if I could just find something to do with the 10 perfectly good phones in the draw that wont accept updates..
Good to understand what came before and how computing has evolved. I really recommend “The Innovators” by Walter Isaacson.
That is some hard core science simulation...
Absolutely.. when you believe in the idea that prison must be relatively worse than everyday life, it can get pretty horrible pretty fast.

And I will say the US is not unique in having horrible prisons, but they are uniquely the wealthiest country in the world, and actively choose to have that system.

They could fix it if they wanted to.
(author) Are you sure those weren't converted XView clients you were using? Those used the SunView API but OPEN LOOK widgets.