skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30 years ago. Man. I was working at a OpenVMS shop, cranking out DCL code and writing mainly in FORTRAN. Books and manuals littered my wee little cubicle. I had a vt220 and vt420 terminals because Reflections rarely worked correctly on my hardly used PC. I also had a terminal to a HP 3000 system,, running MPE, and had to do code review and testing on a app that was written in BASIC!

Version control was done using the features of the VMS filesystem. I believe that HP MPE had something like that also, but I may have blocked it out.

Around about late '93 early '94 they hauled the HP terminal away and slapped a SparcClassic (or IPX? IPC?) in it's place. I was tapped to be part of the team to start migrating what we could off the VMS system to run on Solaris. So, I had to learn this odd language called See, Sea, umm 'C'?

A whole need set of manuals. A month's salary on books. Then another few books on how to keep that damn Sparc running with any consistency.

Then had to setup CVS. Sure, why not run the CVS server on my workstation!

By the end of '95 I was working mainly on maintaining the Solaris (and soon HP/UX and AIX) boxes then programming.

I still miss writing code with EDT on VMS and hacking away on fun things with FORTRAN. You know, like actually writing CGIs in FORTRAN. But that is another story.
I think there's a neutral technical aspect and a political aspect.

The neutral aspect is that if you have so much money (a surplus) that you start giving it away to secondary causes, you're being misleading. The begging messages clearly imply they're about to run out of money to run things, which seems opposite to reality.

So they should change the tone of the message, and provide more transparency about where the money goes to. It should be a basic donator's right to understand if the money is needed at all, and where it is used for. No matter from which political angle you're coming from.

As for the political angle, to each their own. I'd say most knowledge institutes are progressive and always have been. Importantly, moderately progressive or "classic liberal". Which is quite different from post-modernist, equity, "woke" type of politics. This last category far less embraced, and not just by conservatives.

The situation seems comparable to Mozilla. Many people would gladly donate to support the development of the Firefox browser but not neccessarily want to reward incompetent leaders or fund the running of a "indigenous intersectional BLM feminist blog" that does absolutely fuck-all for anybody.
For context of what this guy is saying: the modern Xbox's (after 360) are actually running VMs for each game. This is part of why despite the hardware being technically (marginally) superior: Xbox tends to have lower graphical fidelity.
It's interesting to consider this viewpoint 30 years later and wonder what will bring about the next age. Is it something in it's infancy being dismissing as a fad? Have we even thought of it yet?
>Radio Flyer has received one report of an incident where the single-rider Cyberquad tipped over when driven by an eight-year-old child and a 36-year-old adult female, resulting in a bruised left shoulder to the adult female.

Sometimes you really need to stop and think if your best interests are being considered. So far, it's as dangerous as a bicycle and probably 2x the fun.
If Harvard graded appropriately, then GPA would be a proxy for hand-eye coordination.
Given that none of this is official, and there are at minimum 3 different reports about the quantity and timeline of layoffs I dont think anyone is concerned about a WARN notification

I beat even Elon, at this moment, does not have a full accounting of what the layoffs will be. This is all just pure media hype and nonsense with very little basis in truth or reality
Few more years until TempleOS stage?
The situation you're describing is no different to 5 years ago: autonomous vehicles exist but can only operate in a limited environment. That's where Waymo was 5 years ago, it was just an even more limited environment. Read the "Road Testing" section on Wikipedia, specifically, 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
> If you gave everyone who has ever lived and gave everyone a /48, you'd have 281 trillion left

What if I got a /48 and my customer wants a bunch of /48's? Better ask my upstream for a /40 so that I can give it to them. What if my provider already has a bunch of people that want /40's? They'll probably want a /32. What if their provider has a lot of customers that want /32's? (and so on.)

I'm not saying any of the above make any sense (you don't typically have that many layers of "providers"), but I've seen it happen in really huge corporations that have this kind of logic:

"It'd be nice to know where a packet comes from using only its address, let's give a /64 to each server, a /56 to each rack, a /48 to each aisle, a /40 to each server room", etc... but suddenly your needs change and your servers themselves need to have multiple /64's, or you start needing to add regions to the list of stuff packed into an address. Suddenly you're asking for a /32 in order to keep your inventory management simple, even though you're barely using any of the addresses.

I'm not saying the above is a good idea, just that if you do dumb stuff with your address space, you can end up running out of addresses even though you have many many orders of magnitude more addresses than you actually use.
Replit team member here:

- Ghostwriter is especially good at Python and JS, but supports up to 16 languages (to varying degrees of effectiveness) you can read more here: https://docs.replit.com/ghostwriter/faq#which-programming-la...

- As for tasks, it's great for reducing the amount of boilerplate code you need to write (Complete Code), writing React components (Complete + Generate Code), explaining code in plain English (Explain Code), translating code between languages (Transform Code), writing exhaustive tests (Complete Code)

- No stats on how often its generating code with bugs or how often the code gets generated used as is vs immediately edited, we're interested in getting both to help improve Ghostwriter

- Like any LLM, it can get stuck in a long-tail of repetitive loops; we're working pretty hard to improve and mitigate these issues, but, especially for new users, the repetition and hallucination type problems can be distracting.
Studies have shown that surgery outcomes are highly correlated with experience in that particular procedure. So if I needed a heart bypass operation, I would want the surgeon who does 5 of them every week and nothing else. Where they attended medical school is unimportant.

You might have a stronger argument in other medical specialties where theory is more important. But heart surgeons are more like athletes in a way.
This has to be the most word soup comment I've read in a while.
Squares (n^2) -- as a recurrence relationship expression:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO1_-qptr6c&t=730s
Wasn't that a Meta employee?
I am not making any argument here about whether this specific incident is fair or whatever. I'm just clarifying how the word "worker" is used in the context of economic and labour theory, and where your blue-collar misunderstanding likely came from.

Yes, I am a well-paid SWE. But I must still work for my salary; my income does not come from owning capital. That's the crucial difference.
Nord in kitty/neovim (https://www.nordtheme.com/)

Penumbra Dark in VS Code (https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra)
What am I reading...
How well you do academically is influenced predominantly by genetics. It’s unfair to idolize these institution as something to aspire to and worship. Doing so is a gross misallocation of precious resources as a society. Instead they should be viewed as trade school for academically gifted. We should find different ways to harness the remaining 95 percentile. Striking it down would be the step in the right direction
> How does he expect to retain employees when other companies pay way more than Tesla does for way fewer work hours? Am I missing something?

Cults?

At least for Telsa and SpaceX, his propaganda (PR) efforts have established some grand "for the good of humanity" narratives," for the companies, and passionate true-believers are easily exploited.
I believe all ip4 lans I saw survived with just one subnet. What's the need for more?
Thanks.. Kind of unreal. I think we are doomed, because this is not even funny even more, but it's also hilarious.
I hope this means devices will become more affordable. I have the comma2 and love it but got priced out of the Comma3. Would love to upgrade someday.
You can like whatever you want. It's not controverisal - it's personal. People won't necessarily agree on what is good and that's fine.
I dunno, look at what’s happened to GE.
One glance at the edit history on the Project Vertias entry will prove the lie of this theory...
prot’s ef-deuteranopia-dark, usually.

https://protesilaos.com/emacs/ef-themes

otherwise, some solarized variant.
Pay the tax man

Source: IRS
Question is: why is it allowed, and will Musk continue to allow it.
> You can run your own and federate with whomever.

One big problem IIRC (haven't touched it for a year or two):

I'm all in favor of being able to block users or instances.

But many Mastodon instances have a policy of blocking other instances if they don't block certain other instances.

When I realized this it was one of a number of reasons why I just gave it up.

I'm currently hoping that nostr and element/matrix takes off, but in the meanwhile I agree with whoever commented somewhere onnthe Internet the other day that Telegram is a DIY social network.
I have a custom theme that's pretty minimal, because I find lots of colors distracting.

Colors are vaguely based it on pen on paper:

white: background
dark blue: foreground
light gray: brackets and commas and stuff
red: literals (strings, numbers, true/false)
black: comments

This means comments and literals stand out, which are usually the things I don't want to miss when I'm reading through code.
> Conservatism: an in-group who are protected but not bound by the law; and an out-group who are bound, but not protected, by the law.
Actually, they're paying a full refund for sending in the motor controller. I've half a mind to buy one; replacing the motor controller sounds like a fun afternoon.

Replacing the body panels sounds considerably less fun, but the thing is fugly as a cybertruck, which is a reason that I'm not getting one.
Spacemacs Light and
IntelliJ light default

Dark themes make my brain hurt.
> "if you're a certain skin color, you're too stupid, to compete on merit"

Hold on. You realize Harvard's policies have historically been designed to favor Whites, right? The whole "holistic review" process was invented to favor Whites. See https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/03/histor...
> What ever happened to access based on merit?

It’s a complex problem. If the process of evaluating someone’s merits is biased or restricted in some way, then the merits are an inaccurate way of evaluating them.

We’ve seen this exaggerated throughout history. If you deny groups the opportunity to learn how to read then they appear less competent based on their “merits”. When you then take those groups and give them the opportunity to learn how to read, then their “merits” improve over time.

But it’s complex because no two students are the same, nor are any two reading teachers, nor any two reading tests.

So, rather than making it unconstitutional to enfranchise groups, I hope the court comes up with some sort of test to see if a group remains disenfranchised or not. But that’s also an incredibly complex problem.
The Doctor that has performed the most open heart surgeries, which is probably one of the two that passed the state's medical school.
You example is perhaps misleading. I tried to reproduce it using stable diffusion 1.5 and it’s possible using negative weights and some creative keywords but I doubt the title of the post is the actual prompt.
CIBuildWheel – Enabling Performant Platform Python Builds
Out of all big tech companies Meta comes across as the biggest tech debt clusterfuck. Their public software is dangerously close to becoming the Yahoo of the 2020s.
True, he could be wildly misled but he's been around doing this for a while, so that seems unlikely. He could be truly delusional in either case but it's still kinda necessary to knock down his arguments or logic; and that's the critique or analysis I'm not seeing. Just assertions again and again that the real reason is economics triumphing over safety. I'm beginning to think that the idea that there are genuine trade-offs in life is just ungraspable or offensive to many.
SO depressing. I wonder, if you were being uncharitable how much of our "super fancy gadget dystopia" is ads, gambling, and collecting rent via regulatory capture. 90% by MRR?

Makes me embarrassed to admit how much I actually love tech and enjoy my power to wield it.
Agree with the GP. In a sense even if design patterns are not such a great idea, there's so much code written with those patterns in mind (and classes/variables named accordingly) that it's beneficial to understand at least briefly what the names mean.

(That said, quoting Wikipedia, which I agree with also: "A primary criticism of Design Patterns is that its patterns are simply workarounds for missing features in C++". In particular, these days with more modern languages [and also the modernization of C++] some of the workarounds aren't that important any more)

As for why your professors prefer Haskell and Clojure... for some reason functional programming aligns with the way the stereotypical academia type person thinks. In practice, you should be using the best tool for the task, and learning various aspects of software engineering (as opposed to taking a side) should help you in the long run.
I’m of two minds here. Obviously race based admissions is unfair. But Harvard isn’t trying to admit the next generation of scholars, it’s trying to admit the next generation of power. Will that generation be 75% Asian, the way a class would be if formed with standardized testing? Doesn’t seem likely.
Lots of people don't care about what doctor they get. I have heard endless stories from doctors that see patients all day where so many patients don't care about their own health to the point of having limbs amputated and shrugging it off like its no big deal. Or having complications from diabetes and declining free-to-them care. Not taking medication. There are so many of these people. They seem to be mostly on Medicare from the stories. If you care about your health there are options out there unless you have to deal with the VA because of your coverage. Then you're genuinely screwed. For those that don't care about their care there are reasonable defaults available.
I just keep on switching it up whenever I need to feel fresh.
I would want the one with the best track record of outcomes for the specific surgery that I needed.
true, but don't forget there's a lot of lazy teachers out there
I remember it being OOTB on our Wii. Though we didn't get it until 2009 or so
If you slow down and read my original post again, you'll see that I said that I was "among the most receptive to what he's trying to say". I clicked through to this post because it's a topic I wanted to read about. I was turned off by the way the article was written. That said, whether or not I agree with the author isn't salient---probably why you're confused by what I wrote.

Manual memory management is definitely an interesting topic of discussion, with important ramifications in the field of software engineering. Like you said, world hunger and climate change it is not. Maybe because it's a relatively inconsequential topic (in the grand scheme of things) we can approach it more calmly and soberly instead of with a hyperventilating tone.

I would also say that while it can be difficult for some people to approach tendentious issues without being combative, it is indeed possible. Some might even say it's a useful skill to spend some time picking up.
This is so frustrating to me.

People hear "the bible is foundational" and I think they're hearing "the magical stories in the bible are literally true. God sat on a cloud and poofed western civilization into existence!"

What I'm saying is that, the Dawkins sense, The Bible was an extremely successful meme. I don't think that's even up for debate.

>Not everyone eats everything Jordan Peterson says.

People need to find more internet people to hate. Christopher Hitchens was saying the same thing to impressionable teenagers in the early 2000s, and so was Richard Dawkins. Before that there was this little known German Philosopher saying something similar too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche#Death_of_G...
Support for npm, python, emacs, cygwin would be nice. Better yet run away if someone suggests a custom CA, it is not worth it.
Fantastic links. Looking forward to listening while having lunch today.
> Not only this, but he's demanding people work 12+ hour days through weekends or get fired "for cause".

Question from Europe: Is that actually legal in the US? :-O
Gruvbox – Retro groove color scheme (community maintained edition)
Here's a great response to how colleges can ensure diversity since this will likely get struck down.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/20/opinion/affirmative-a...

Edit: TLTR:
Dump standardized college admission tests as an admissions requirement, end legacy admissions and tap corporate activism.
I don't know why you believe the purpose of medical school is to predict how good a doctor is at surgery. Most doctors aren't going to be surgeons.

I've never been to med school but my understanding is you learn how to be a doctor in residency, where there are no grades. Medical school gives you theoretical knowledge but not the practical knowledge you need to actually do the work.
Ford is dropping production of Fiesta, its most popular car to focus on EVs
This says it's not meant for production use.

Does anyone know of something that is meant for production use for generating in-house certificate authorities and signing certificates?

I've used scripts I've written myself that run OpenSSL commands. They get the job done, but they're not the kind of thing that fits all use cases, and they're not user-friendly.

I've tried EasyRSA which is not particularly easy either. It requires some unexpected use of environment variables, and I didn't find the documentation very clear either.
Does anybody know the status of the legal action against that kid that supposedly stole all their good ideas and made a hobby project out of it? I would like to know how that resolved before I consider anything from this company again.
Speaking only for my own experience: everything was written in C, and took 7x longer to build.

UI toolkits cost money.

So did compilers.
Still early days and already a lot of promise in the vast field of advanced prompt engineering!
I'm curious as to why affirmative action in the US has always been race-based and not economic-status or household income based?
Asking as someone with no skin in the game; I'm merely curious if anyone has any constructive opinions on why they think economic status based affirmative action may/may not work?
The contempt for them on twitter is even worse. A ton of anonymous twitter accounts laughing at people losing their jobs.
Similarly I started in 2000, just as internet applications were starting to become a thing. I could list a whole load of defunct tech stacks: WebSphere, iPlanet, NSAPI, Zeus Web Server (where I worked for about a year), Apache mod_perl, Delphi etc. And the undead tech stack: MFC.

Compensation: well, this is the UK so it's never been anywhere near US levels, but it was certainly competitive with other white-collar jobs, and there was huge spike briefly around 2001 until the "dotcom boom" burst and a whole load of us were laid off.

Tooling: well, in the late 90s I got a copy of Visual Studio. I still have Visual Studio open today. It's still a slow but effective monolith.

The big difference is version control: not only no git, but no svn. I did my undergraduate work in CVS, and was briefly exposed to SourceSafe (in the way that one is exposed to a toxin).

Most of the computers we used back in 2000 were less powerful than an RPi4. All available computers 30 years ago would be outclassed by a Pi, and the "supercomputers" of that day would be outclassed by a single modern GPU. This .. makes less difference than you'd expect to application interactive performance, unless you're rendering 3D worlds.

We ran a university-wide proto-social-network (vaguely similar to today's "cohost") off a Pentium with a 100MB hard disk that would be outclassed by a low-end Android phone.

Another non-obvious difference: LCD monitors weren't really a thing until about 2000 - I was the first person I knew to get one, and it made a difference to reducing the eyestrain. Even if at 800x600 14" it was a slight downgrade from the CRT I had on my desk.
TuSimple Stock Plunges After Firing CEO
Saying we need to censor because free speech benefits mass shooters is wrong for the same reason that saying we need to backdoor encryption because privacy benefits terrorists and pedophiles is.
I wrote a short story about ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces
SO.. tell us what would allow a surgeon to start operating in the first place?

You simply presented a chicken and egg problem...

Does the mediocre surgeon get all the surgeries and therefor become excellent at it?
A more accurate title would be: Radio Flyer's Tesla Cyberquad for kids has been recalled....

It wasn't designed or made by Tesla. This would be like saying "Chevy Jeep for kids recalled" instead of "Power wheel's Chevy Jeep model recalled".
That's what always gets my goat. People seem to be less concerned with actual equality and improving things and more interested in claiming symbolic prizes.

Why bother trying to make to her schools and opportunities better when what we really want is just to cash in a piece of the pie for ourselves. Another example is the push to STEM for women and minorities, it's not about actually learning the skill or contributing it's that being a coder is seem as an easy path to the good life and so we want to get in on that. If it were really about equality or income there would be more people pushing for representation in being an oil worker as those guys make great money too, but it just isn't seen as high status.
Oooh, those look wonderful, I will install it and see if I like them more than doom themes :D
>it was just an even more limited environment

Huh, so are you saying maybe we're a little close to autonomous cars than we were 5 years ago?
> they could always expand the size of their enrollment

There are reasons beyond manufactured exclusivity for why this doesn’t work. College education isn’t just about students soaking up material. We need more online vocational schools where that’s the sole purpose. But let’s not throw out the baby with the bath water.
>_only_ due to external factors. You are the way you are because of your DNA and environment.

Your DNA is not an "external factor". Rather, it's the most internal factor there is.
White House invites dozens of nations for ransomware summit
an example of confirmation bias.