skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You mean genuine diversity (of thinking) instead of the fake, superficial kind (skin color, gender, sexual orientation etc)?

Sounds like a good idea to me..
Judging the sizes of the stacked pages from the last 60 days of code would probably be a pretty good indication of productivity. Perfect? No. Good enough? Maybe.
> At least on Apple if any Apple Music is playing that you don’t own the mp3 for, gets scrubbed out.

Yeah. Next year I'll be reading about how the camera apps are detecting copyrighted content and refusing to take pictures too.

> wish I could just go back to android

Don't count on Android. Stakeholder lock down is increasing there too. Remote attestation is already a thing, soon we won't be able to run most apps if we "tamper" with the device by owning it.
1965 is a commonly picked start date because it is the worst time in the last 100+ years to retire with a self-funded portfolio. It’s commonly used in the FIRE community to check withdrawal plans.
FWIW I’ve heard a story essentially identical to what’s described in that Tweet directly from one of the engineers asked to print their code.
Shift + f6 in jetbrains products to rename is one of my most used shortcuts.
if it costs some $ to be able to recover is still better than not being able to recover at all because the single point of failure fails
Why? Printed code is code, NASA/Military does it for formal review. I've worked on avionics systems that are developed in similar fashion. You ought to be able to explain what it does. Most of it is going to be plumbing. Call this, fetch that, join foo, collate bar.

Strong arming Elon's intentions, may be he is used to perhaps how code reviews work in Space industry? Sometimes old school ways are fine, under the hood it is just code.
still no golden goose the "robotaxi" he promised was coming out years ago and told people to buy the Tesla now since they would be updated with this feature... i got scammed, should of known a car making me 30,000$ a year was to good to be true.
I think Microsoft was a lot more restrictive with source licenses - generally only universities for research purposes (and Windows Research Kernel was never the full OS anyway), some ISVs with specially negotiated deals, and some government agencies. The average customer couldn’t get access to the source code. Whereas, OpenVMS for example, I think basically any licensee could order the source.
Right, I understand that it influences your perception of events. What I want to understand is the mental machinery and inner psychology that serves as a basis for those feelings. Like do you feel a stronger sense of justice than other people? Some specific catalyst in childhood that you can look back on that influences this feeling? Something else?
The trouble is that requirements change. So you write it "the right way", then you get a minor requirement change that forces you to slightly bend the rules, which is okay. 100 requirement changes later your code is a real mess.
>to correct behavior

this is literally trying to control, just on a different level.
When it comes to work functionality and comfort are top priorities. Aesthetics, price, history and philosophical considerations are not.
Mental health:

https://www.psypost.org/2021/11/meat-consumption-is-associat...

Intelligence:

https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/137/4/1119/4664672
Yeah, as a European whenever people say "the left in the US would be considered right-wing in Europe" I shake my head. When it comes to social issues, the extremes in the US are far more pronounced, both on the right and the left.
This monitor height (and size) looks incredibly painful. The desk top material is just an incorrect choice. I don’t understand how they live with the felt pad.
Why not airdrop AKM assault rifles and lots of ammo then? The protesters could use the weapons to overthrow the government. Much more effective than Starlink when your government has a monopoly on violence.
> Stop using bad user-hostile platforms and they'll either improve to win back users or they'll become obsolete and die as people flock to better alternatives.

There's no point in migrating to some perfect encrypted federated free software platform and being alone because everyone I know is still using Instagram.
I remember reading fortune a lot as a kid. This file contains the quotes, I think.

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/413/games/f...
>You first. What browser and OS are you posting from?

The ones that use Rust - Firefox and Windows
I'm not exploited and I don't see the world in zero sum terms, because success is not zero sum.
I think it was a Usenix LISA conference once where Unix wonks were handing out "Mentally Contaminated" buttons to anyone who'd seen AT&T source code and, on the basis of that experience, wouldn't be allowed to work on a "free" codebase. One of the silly but meaningful battles in the Unix wars.
1. Twitter Large Language Model incoming
2. E-shops on twitter supported
3. Twitter communities ala discord incoming
I searched NixOS and found really useful blog-articles, the kind you would find submitted to HN. Quite cool.
No, they haven't. The left used to have people like the Weathermen, the civil rights movement used to have the Black Panthers. Nowadays, there aren't any groups with their reach or methods, whereas their equivalents on the right have exploded in popularity, mindshare, and political reach.

That explosion is what made Jan 6th possible two years ago, and what will give legs to the next try.
can't wait to see what's next! solve et coagula
He uses Twitter a lot. The previous CEO barely uses it. That alone gives him a massive advantage.
Legally, yes, but how is anybody going to find out?
As in, the fewer pages, the more concise they are? What about clarity, and which languages are we talking about? Bonus points for Java? I think it’s been fairly well determined that LoC isn’t a good metric for judging productivity.
> Now for the first time in my life I can see the future beyond science fiction. Where machines are capable of doing everything humans do, and do it better

Maybe one day, but we're still far away. To contextualize, Stable Diffusion needed 5.83 billion images to be trained on, and it also uses another model CLIP that needed 400 million labeled images to be trained.

That means that all tasks where we don't have hundred of millions or more of available accumulated datasets are really far off from being learnable by current ML models.
On the same note, I often wonder why the mouse cursor on so many OSes is identical to the one used on the Macintosh[0]. Did they really all just copy what was in the Macintosh System Software, or was there an earlier pioneer of the typical black arrow with a white outline?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#/media/File:App...
No, it will consist entirely of ultra-wealthy knobs. Don't drink the koolaid, kid
Honestly, whiteboard interviews are much better IMO than opening up an online-window-of-sauron that the interviewer can see what I am typing and it makes me super concious. I froze in one of the interviews, couldn't remember syntax about a language I've coded for 8 years. WTF. After the interview was cut short, I had a good 2 hours of self-reflection. Strangest feeling ever when someone misunderstands your strengths from some shallow shit. Have you experienced a time when you can't believe this is how a word is spelled? It doesn't look right, but it is. There is a term for this phenonenon in psychology, I forgot.

Whiteboards + pseudocode? Perfect.
It was a combination of factors:

1) poor noise rejection of AM

2) high noise on the AM band

3) changing programming on AM (aka the rise of talk radio)
I've been using the web since 1994. It's always been an application platform and anyone who says otherwise is misremembering.

> I’m supposing that the problem is that the web browser is the universal platform for all applications

This is a feature not a problem.

> There’s a benefit for information consumption (web pages) being separate from functionality rich and infinitely fingerprintable “native capabilities”

What exactly is that benefit supposed to be? If you want a read-only publishing platform, put PDFs on a FTP site.
What makes Zig safer than Go, to your mind?
They don't have GC so they either make programs difficult to write (Rust) which hinders delivering secure replacements, or have use-after-free security problems (Zig) [1].

Use a GC when you can, it's the biggest programming productivity and quality improvement in PLT of the last 60+ years.

[1] Though I know Zig has some interesting mitigations, some used and some under research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853964 https://lobste.rs/s/v5y4jb/how_safe_is_zig#c_vddk9j
No, that's not what they said at all.

The meat of the claim is "just an engineer [...] Did he invent something that I'm not aware of?"

The money isn't mentioned to disqualify him, but to point out that money isn't enough.

What did he actually do that shows genius?
he scammed me ... years ago he said to buy a Telsa because next year they would make you 30,000$ a year being a robotaxi... i fell for it.. no idea what he was doing say these things
Is math an illusion? Math is a property of systems, as is our and our calculators ability to do it. I would argue that makes it more real.

When you see an object in reality, you're really making a series of assumptions. What you see is reflected light, and you construct a highly innacurate but useful model of what that light logically implies. Something that is external can only be perceived epistemically, as a sufficiently good guess. There's no evidence we're not in a simulation, so it's a toss-up as to whether anything physical exists at all.

Contrast the concept of self awareness. 'I think, therefore I am' is not a guess. It is a certainty, regardless of the broader context, that somewhere, something is a host to my experiences and thoughts.

Tangent: You can extend that a little bit by reasoning that you exist, therefore the things you interact with must exist as something. That doesn't get you past the possibility of the matrix, but it does escape total nihilism.
Asynchronous KQueue Request for FreeBSD
the thing was the robotaxi would of payed of the car in a year so i bought it, now i will never touch Tesla
What would be the case if she came back home from work and they were intact? Missing piece from the story! haha :)
IDK. Not knowing THC is like not not knowing the CCC or 2600. It is more on you ;-)
> silly but meaningful

So much depth in that statement
The 4090 is a stupid card pushed way past the efficiency sweetspot for a few percent in performance so NVidia can claim they have the fastest card. The power is insane - 600w is more than the rest of the computer. The cooling solutions are ridiculous - 3.5 slot card and 2.5kg for the rog strix version. Benchmarks show that you can set the power limit to 60% to get 95% of performance in games along with better thermals, noise, etc.
Agree, Twitter and TikTok are two completely separate experiences.
I doubt it because the whole vibe of Musk so far is that the axe will fall on the culture warriors and activists. I think the productive and less political engineers know they are safe.

And the zeitgeist seems to have changed lately - so jobs may not be so easier to come by, especially for employees that may be too political for the employer.
How about to hold the female in place during mating?
I don’t need _all_ the arrow keys. Just a few.

F5 for refresh. F10/F11 for step debugging. F12 for goto definition.
Same here. And the result is tag I am vastly more productive long term compared with “quick and dirty” developers.
I think you mean “conda install torch”, no? Miniforge would only impact the conda installer?
But is his usage reflective of the majority of the users?

It's like saying that if you own a Lamborghini you can be a great manager at Lada.

Yeah maybe it helps a little but the vast majority of your decisions is still going to be determined by analysis on your users, not your experience.
I've never heard this before. Can you point me some place where I can read more?
Here is a dystopian vision. Randoms halfway around the world orchestrate a social gathering targeting say young rich attractive available women/men/misc who are then cunningly knocked out by date rape drug. Their lifeless limp wrist body is carried off into the night underneath a coat by dracula's minions of organized crime and the rest is an unhappy ending for all except the one percent in this scene that noone ever sees.
Anxiety and a lot of gossip can make people do dumb things, like make non-technical middle managers issue stupid edicts because they don’t know about git logs.

I’ve worked for orgs where engineer head count alone pushed 250 people. The number of people in power with no technical skills managing technical workers was a huge waste of time.
That computers aren't brains.
> Can you see though how this model can cause a lack of trust in external observers? Your development model is reliant on attracting attention to drive funding. There are some major incentive problems here... You just need to make something appealing enough that people start using it and then, once they are invested in the language, some of them may be willing to pay you to fix the issues they find or build new features that would be useful to them.

As also a 3rd party observer, there is an obvious partial counter to the argument that you made. In the case of free and open-source, people are investing money or time because they believe in the product and its potential usefulness. That the product will deliver, for all people invested and for all users, is clearly unrealistic. There is no such thing as a "sure thing". It's more a matter of if the product delivers for enough people. And if anything, if unsatisfied, people are free to jump to the next candidate or savior that floats by.

I think the more valid aspect of the point presented, is the lack of trust or suspicions coming from when the hype is paid for and doesn't come from the grassroots and actual users. To include, negative propaganda campaigns targeting competing languages.

> If the language didn't have issues, there would be no reason to pay you to fix them.

All languages will have issues. I've always found this curious about people having such expectations. Maybe the argument is more valid in terms of the total amount of issues and bugs, but then that would need to be a fair and relative comparison to other languages. There is no such thing as a bug-free perfect language. While other parts of your post were "more valid" or at least points worth considering, I think on this point, it kind of fell off the mark.

> I know I will likely get downvoted for this but I believe in what I say.

Odd, that's exactly what happened. The tribalism is arguably too severe, which may relate to the money involved, that the downvoting is so predictable.
> they're trying to add a <model> tag and standard 3D model file format to HTML right now.

To clarify, Apple made a proposal[0] which got no real traction. It has migrated[1] to a Javascript API[2]

[0] https://github.com/WebKit/explainers/tree/main/model

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/immersive-web/

[2] https://github.com/immersive-web/webxr
Just a tiny bit of hubris to assume anyone fully understands prompt engineering at this point to assert something is blatantly "wrong". What about mixing styles do you think doesn't work?

I've been playing with ideas from the pdf for the last hour, and it's pretty awesome.
Perhaps I should change my hobby from music production to AI
Yep, this is interesting, I wonder what we can deduce about the nature of the bug from the fact that 2 separate implementations, one that's mostly memory safe, are impacted. (Of course Go didn't announce it's about the same thing, so it might be random, or might be some security research that found different bugs)

Might it be a crypto bug, or logic bug (eg in x.509)? Is there code that's used by both OpenSSL and Go (eg assembly implementations of algorithms both imported or modeled after a reference)?
> Now, with most knowledge workers going remote because of the pandemic, the desk setup has become essential.

The phrase “knowledge workers” makes me physically ill.
What's so hard about this? It's sounds like they only had half as much plane to land, so it was probably even easier than usual.

Onwards to management! :D
He set the price, than backpedaled not because he discovered new information, which he did not, but because the market slumped.

We know this because he decided not to go to court to prove that Twitter had hidden information.
> People will then have even less money after paying the grocery and gas-bills.

Precisely. The less money people have the lower prices have to go for sales to be possible so increased unemployment is a downward force on prices but isn’t all that successful right now when there’s also a massive skilled labor shortage in the vicinity of record expansions of the money supply.
Meta has spent $30 billion on Reality Labs so far.

To put that in perspective, I’ve seen an estimated cost of setting up a small colony on Mars to be that much.

Even to get a conservative 10% ROI (super low for the level of risk they are taking), they’d need to net $3 billion a year. I can’t think of any scenario where that is possible any time soon.
Bisqwit's nesemu1 source is 940 lines at https://bisqwit.iki.fi/jutut/kuvat/programming_examples/nese...
It also uses SDL.

NES emulation is a great low level programming project and the tradition will probably continue for some time.
Why? Isn't it just another term such as white collar worker?
> it is a self-correcting problem because as prices go up people will no longer have as much money.

It’s not as simple as that, and thinking about the second and third order follow-ons is important. History has taught us it goes something like this:

1. People have more money, so the majority spend it (instead of saving it).

2. Companies, seeing more demand, but can’t expand supply as quickly, raise prices.

3. People are feeling good cause their companies are doing well, but wait… we should get a raise and get some of that profit!

4. see #1.

At some point, this cycle gets out of control and we finally realize “inflation is too high”.

For example, when companies can produce a good at a rate X, they can up prices at rate 1.05X. But suddenly, they run out of resources and can only produce at constant, instead of rate X, but continue to raise prices due to “projected” demand.

You have to break the cycle somewhere, and it’s painful no matter where you start, from unemployment or raise taxes or add regulations.

The US Fed only has 1 tool out of the 3, as congress is the ones with power to raise taxes or add regulation.
There is also https://www.serverhunter.com/ which I really love but is for renting servers.
Sounds like a very boring game. The two races are basically distinct, just like the human race is distinct from geology. For all we know, Earth's geology might be sentient already.
44bn is a lot for a social media company. Westinghouse was sold off for 7.9bn. They make nuclear reactors as opposed to distributing short text messages over the Internet.
inflation is only initially caused by money supply. once inflation expectations become embedded, it becomes a self-reinforcing perpetual motion machine.

e.g. imagine you negotiate a 13% raise because inflation was 13% last year (btw so did everyone else). congrats - everyone just guaranteed that they will have enough money to create 13% inflation next year, when the cycle will repeat

unemployment solves this because it's a "-100% raise" and takes spending power out of the economy

and inflation is generally considered bad because among other things it distorts markets for savings and loans
Yes, this sounds SOOOO bad that it is unbelievable, no self-respecting engineer would do that. Yet Elon did it.
While this might be a boon for the returning of free speech, I wonder if Musk will succeed in monetizing the platform, a task where previous CEOs failed.

Also, had he waited a couple more weeks before making the offer, he could have bought Twitter for half the price.

Even if he manages to make the acquisition worth, I would expect it would take at least 5 - 10 years, so it isn't the best investment he could made.

It seems his impetuous and histrionic side made him act when he should allow him more time for reflection.

I'm not saying he isn't capable of making Twitter a financial success, after all he has a record for stuff like that, but if I was an investor in one of his enterprises it would gave me some food for thought.
Clean! clean is the last thing I would call the commercial unixen. I have a couple sgi boxes and irix is pretty wild and weedy. I picked up a sun box and had to replace soleris with openbsd after a week. If curious the straw that broke the camels back was that the official way to change the hostname was to reinstall the os, I found an unofficial way but it was involved to say the least.

The commercial distributions tended to collect cruft without ever throwing any thing away(throwing things away may upset a paying customer that depended on the feature) linux is a cleanroom by comparison. and, as a good bsdite I consider linux an almost unusable mess.
What if Elon buys Facebook, too?
Zwei und dreissig ?
Wahid wa ishrun?

Yes most modern languages have lost little endiannes and those that kept it use only for the first 100 numbers.

That's because for bigger and bigger numbers you're correctly pointing out that big endian is more useful when saying the numbers aloud since you can often ignore the less significant digits.

My original point was different though:

You can easily render little endian hexdumps equally readable as big endian hexdumps by just writing them in the order that is meant for numbers, namely right to left.

We even align numbers to the right in spreadsheets. That's the same thing.

Look at an old DEC manual (digital Unix, or VMS) and you'll see hexdumps where the numeric part is aligned from center towards the left and the ASCII part is aligned from the center to the right.

With this layout you can easily read multibyte numbers naturally.
Much of this report is obvious to the point of boring, and it was one small part of it that seemed so nonsensical that it ‘went viral’: higher living standards and lower infant mortality actually decreases population. Beguiling as much for it’s feel-good hopefulness as it is for its lack of testability, it’s become a new sort of religion in the new liberal world order. These charts tell me nothing but correlation, no causality, no indication whatsoever that any direct aid strategy has accelerated this trend, or had a differential effect on individuals. But we certainly have tried this experiment. Some areas got food, medicine, clothing, shelter, money, etc to improve living standards. Others didn’t. So tell me, which areas had higher population growth?
Is it not fact that the manipulation of public discourse using bots on social media has taken place at scale?[0][1][2]

When U.S. Presidential elections can be significantly swayed by information warfare campaigns run by malign actors, I can't help but feel that dismissals in such a context are rather aloof, if not out of touch.

[0] https://intelligence.house.gov/social-media-content/

[1] https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ICA-dec...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/infamous-russian-troll-fa...
This is great tho