skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that Intel currently fabs ASICs for roughly 0% of the cell phone market. TSMC has a massive lead on that front. Intel selling off StrongARM 16 years ago was massively shortsighted.
(Incomplete?) list of repositories that have Bzip3:

https://repology.org/project/bzip3/versions
iirc software rendering in kwin disables compositing alltogether
sorta related: I remember first day of CS101 class circa 1998... professor starts off with question, "why are you here? why are you all here?"

After going around and replying "no" to a half dozen or so different individuals with increasingly philosophical responses he broke it down for us with, "you're all here because 60k! You're going to graduate with a computer science degree and make 60k a year!"

to even imagine that was supposed to be an inspiring number back then is pretty laughable. I was already making as much doing chinsy web dev stuff.

It was a different time for sure. There were no (or very few) laptops, you took notes on paper, you went to the computer labs to do work (with old sparcstations and such) or you remoted in to your shell and used emacs and gdb. Pretty simple times.
>The only question is will most Linux machines use vector. That is probably a yes.

And, while RVA22 does not require vector, the next profile, whenever that happens, is.
this is a huge milestone in my coding. i remember refactoring a bunch of my code as soon as i learned how to use map functions lol
https://github.com/shish/rosettaboy
> The real question is, what should Meta shareholders do in response to this stuff? What would happened with respect to the shareholders if Zuckerberg took his foot off the gas pedal with the "Metaverse" stuff?

Meta shareholders signed up for the double class share agreement which enables Zuck to do whatever he wants.

And besides it's is kind of right, given the past execution ever since 2004 he kinda earned the right to bet the company on something new. Billions of people use the different flavors of Meta , and they do sohundreds if not thoudands of times per day. Nobody else can claim to having provided quality of life to so many people.
Agreed. they should. …But should that be the law?
We should stop the ASCII madness at some point. The world speaks Unicode. Only programming languages are mostly stuck in the 7-bit era. That sucks.

People even use extra keyboards to input their emojis, but we "can't" input math or programming symbols? Really?

An "international" keyboard layout gives you already a shitload of "special" signs.

Using the compose key you can input even more.

When this isn't enough it's trivial to add something to ~/.XCompose

I'm not advocating to have a pure symbolic programming language. But things that are better expressed through symbols just should be.

It has reasons why you use symbols in math instead of writing everything out in some human language.

Programming is evidently symbolic, just like math: We know that as we let professionals read code while in a MRI scanner and we could look on their brain activity. The brain activity correlates with the one seen when reading (and understanding) math, not with the one seen while processing human language.

We should design programming languages accordingly!
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/08/15/apples-antitrust-... Those are up to 2020. Last year there was a spotify complaint, and this year the DOJ said they're looking into the 30% cut the app store takes.
From what I've seen posted elsewhere California requires companies laying off more than 50 individuals to file. Failure to do so cause the state can step in and force the employer to pay a couple months of severance. Most California labor laws cannot be waived by contract
He's giving it a bloody good try though
> How can the minority applicants who have lower scores but high potential be distinguished from those who just have low scores?

> A machine-learning model would be fed historical admissions data, including candidates’ family background and academic achievement, and noncognitive skills such as grit and resilience, along with outcomes of past admission decisions. It would use these data to predict new applicants’ performance — as defined by each institution, such as college grade-point average or income 10 years after graduation. The model could figure out which characteristics best predict performance for various subgroups — for example, how salient SAT scores are for public-school Black students raised in the South by single mothers vs. private-school White kids from the Northeast. If we use only unadjusted test scores, all that context is lost.

I love the idea of using an algorithm to rate candidates [1] and having a feedback loop to rate the performance of the algorithm [2] but I think Fryer has too much faith in machine learning. I suspect a machine may simply learn that nothing beats a middle-class kid who did well at high school.

[1] The book Noise by Daniel Kahneman et al has a fascinating description about how algorithms are superior to human judgement: "Meehl reviewed twenty studies in which a clinical judgment was pitted against a mechanical prediction for such outcomes as academic success and psychiatric prognosis. He reached the strong conclusion that simple mechanical rules were generally superior to human judgment...You can surely imagine the response of clinical psychologists to Meehl’s finding that trivial formulas, consistently applied, outdo clinical judgment. The reaction combined shock, disbelief, and contempt for the shallow research that pretended to study the marvels of clinical intuition"

[2] This would fix the problem Paul Graham describes here:
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1585890585621168128
It's a good unique key to use for tracking the book, even internally. You might change the title of the book at a late stage. You could use your own ID scheme, but what if your publisher merges with another while the book production is in process?
I have one word for you "Usenet".
Ah I see now. Right we will have to see whether they’re claimed to be for-cause or not. Though the rush to fire people with a looming vesting deadline is certainly cause for suspicion.
It is what happened:

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformat...

And they had everything to do with politics.

It’s interesting to see people cheer when things go their sides way and then do contortions to rationalize when they don’t.
Windows CE released in 1996.

Apple Newton (hardware & OS) released in 1993 and discontinued in 1998.

Palm Pilot introduced in 1997.
I rely on a combination of 1Password and some offline SSDs. Key passwords/passphrases are in our shared safe. Nothing is perfect. While in theory, in the US at least, your executor should be able to gain access to whatever is necessary, in my personal experience as a two-time executor companies and organizations are rarely prepared to deal with estate issues. It's a lot easier to tell my spouse "all of the passwords are here".

Previous related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31027766#31031202
Granted in more bullish on VR than most, but I'm skeptical of the scenario you're dreading- outside of the world "virtual" I think that entire situation is possible today, but it hasn't happened yet. Call center employees are already required to wear headsets, and if you're sitting in front of a laptop there's nothing technical preventing your employer from implementing an eye-tracking computer vision powered panopticon.
While archaic, ISBN doesn't seem a bad system to me.

Short values are more reliable in retail situations. They can be typed in by hand or read with cheap scanners.

You are of course free to publish without an ISBN if you don't care about the legacy ecosystem.

There's nothing stopping anyone from creating or promoting an alternative but I don't think the incentives are there. There's not enough money in it, and I don't think the cost savings are enough to make a switch compelling.
I don't assume this is easy or even possible to solve. If the model is trying to determine something like the applicant's level of adversity based on whatever info college admissions has, of course the result will have a divergence between races, and historical racism will have shaped some of your input variables (like high school) to some degree that we'll never fully understand. Using some statistical difference between races as a cost function wouldn't be satisfactory either.

All I'm saying is at the bare minimum, don't feed race as an input. It's a vague factor that the applicant has zero control over, and a model (or human reviewer) making any assumptions based on race would be inherently racist, which is unjustifiable. Another bad example is how UCSD asks how feminine (rate 0-5) the applicant considers themselves. Only use factors that have some legitimate purpose; at least the high school matters because of grade inflation, but standardized tests are actually fairer. US hiring is this way, where many companies consider it an unwanted risk to even know about protected categories (age, race, religion, marital status, etc). It's far from an airtight solution.

This isn't really about science, and the article is off-topic for HN.
Actually Portable Executables / Cosmopolitan

https://justine.lol/ape.html
https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Right. Over the coming years, the number of people who choose to sell, buy, or hold will determine the outcome of the Metaverse experiment. So that's the right frame here, not whether Zuckerberg can continue pursuing it --- if only because the Zuckerberg question is much less interesting to think about.
I really don’t like that example. I get that it’s just demonstrating mutual recursion and not intended to be practical, but I feel like there could be other ways to demonstrate that concept that aren’t so inefficient.

My answer would be the jQuery code base, back in the day when that was popular. At the time I didn’t know a whole lot about Javascript or the DOM. I remember it feeling like the kind of code you could just read top to bottom and it was almost like reading a novel. Really well-organized, well-commented, and effective. I don’t know if it’s still like that, but at the time it was transformative for me.
To offer another take at a summary:

Apple has offered App Extensions for several years, in both UI-serving and non-UI contexts. App extensions are secondary services, bundled within apps, to provide some service. These extensions are invoked in their own process space, typically in the containing application's sandbox.

Examples include:

- The contents of the action/share menu in apps, which for example lets you share photos onto social media

- Audio Units

- Photo plugins

- Password manager autofill

- Content blockers

- Custom keyboards

- Filesystem providers to have a cloud storage show up in the Files app

- Finder synchronization for cloud-synchronized services like OneDrive

- All app integrations to extend Siri

ExtensionKit (and the underlying ExtensionFoundation) lets a host application define its own extension points, which other applications can provide. I do not believe you can define n-to-m extensions with this interface however; I can create a language server for an iOS text editor and put it in an app, but I can't do that once and support _every_ text editor.
I just use the same password everywhere, only a matter of time before it is publicly available.
Come on… we know why.
It would be irrelevant to the lawsuit, as Qualcomm have a license that allows them to create designs such as the one they got from Nuvia, to begin with.
The guy installing the meter was told where to install it, they are not the architect that make sure it actually works if they install top many so it's not a surprise.

It's no different than me 20 years ago installing a server for a client. I would go out slap it in and turn it on. I did not architect the applications on it, nor configure the firewall rules on the router for it to work.

News articles are written about exceptional things, not the mundane.
I'll provide an opinion I think is likely untrue, but interesting to consider here. I think there is a small but possible chance that these moves from Zuck coupled with the rebrand are possibly attempts to intentionally scare of investors and evade some of the regulatory scrutiny Facebook attracts.

In my opinion Zuck has been acting weird since the Apple's privacy change announcement. I'm not a long-term shareholder of META/FB, but I have followed the companies IR material for some time and I've never seen Zuck act like this before. On the last few earnings calls it's hard at times not to wonder if he's trying to make investors nervous...

For example, telling investors that they didn't see the Tiktok threat coming. Or that Apple's privacy change is a serious threat to their business. Or just recently that he "thinks" (very unconvincingly) that their huge Metaverse investments will pay off.

One of the main problems Meta has today is that despite their relatively weak moat compared to other big tech companies is that they're treated with far more scrutiny from regulators. And on the flip side you have for dominant companies like Apple which are literally destroying the ad business model that many tech companies rely on while demanding a 30% tax from developers and attracting relatively little regulatory attention while doing so.

One of the things that has made Meta such a strong player historically has been their ability to make very smart accusations, but this is no longer possible because regulators see them as such a dominant player. In some ways Meta was actually strategically stronger as a smaller player.

So perhaps this is just part of the strategy. Historically if you want Western governments to give you a bit of a hand then being out competed by companies in hostile countries isn't a bad move. Similarly if you want to stop companies like Apple from targeting you then making it look like they're doing an unreasonable amount of damage to your business, probably isn't a bad move either.

And Zuck is an interesting position given the share structure of the company. Where other companies would have to bend to investors, Zuck can force down the stock price and ignore investor demands. Again, I'm not saying I think he is doing this, but it's an explanation I'm beginning to weight heavier.
They gave up one means they had to influence Meta's behavior: they can't vote him out. But shareholders almost never vote anybody out regardless of how the share class structure is set up. So the real question is: will they continue to hold Meta's stock?
It's not the feature that's interesting, it's the story from an outsider describing an experience of working on it and getting it added to KDE.
duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33329516
A a set of measurements is required in many places and sadly it's missed in those places too. Humans love simple explanations, simple measurements, simple models, simple stories, anything which fits in our tiny brains without too much effort. Whether or not those measurements/explanations/models/stories represent reality sufficiently to be useful appears to be beside the point.
KWin and Tiling
https://www.boomin.com/

https://www.twindig.com/market-views/boomin

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/boomin
It is exactly what happened.
Unstable leader who makes off the cuff decisions.

As for employees being happy that "lazy" people are being fired, if that's true why are companies so cautious about hiring and firing?
If you like MacOS, you might be presently surprised with the direction KDE has been heading over the past few years. Many apps support a global menu (eg. Mac-like menu on arbitrary panels/docks), and the trackpad support with Wayland is almost 1:1 with MacOS (only missing Force Touch). I'm very happy with how things have been headed recently, and have been using it ever since GNOME 40 dropped.
The `@inlineCallbacks` decorator from Twisted. Not the implementation, even, just what it does. Understanding it was what finally made async click in my head.
Favourite: Amiga.

Tinkering recently: Amiga, C64, 386/486 PCs.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about this after handling an estate for a loved one and then salvaging a business after suddenly losing a business partner. These were extremely difficult situations to navigate because neither of them had a plan. I cannot emphasize this enough: make a plan or risk losing it all.

Digital assets are significantly more complex than traditional assets, and the estate planning industry is still trying to figure out what do with them because the legal landscape has made this very difficult for consumers like me and you. Many of you mentioned 1Password, LastPass, Bitwarden or info in a sealed envelope. Pw managers are great for organizing your digital assets, but beware... they are not enough for this. If your spouse accesses your pw manager after you pass away, and logs into your email, your spouse may have violated 2 US federal laws, a state law and your email provider's TOS. Who cares if people access their deceased spouse's accounts? If you find yourself in this position, be cautious and call a lawyer before you do anything. Companies take your privacy very very seriously, and they have not hesitated to enforce their rights and do what they think is right.

Most states have adopted a form of RUFADAA (Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act) that governs who can access digital assets, but each state might be a little different. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Github have released online tools to set up a legacy contact or inactive account manager -- I agree with @ubermonkey that if you use services provided by these companies, you absolutely should start by using their tools. However, you should also recognize that these tools are LIMITED and are NOT intended to grant full access. Does anyone know if any other companies have provided tools like this? For other digital assets, you should consult an estate planning lawyer in your state (many of the laws are state-specific) and make sure they have expertise planning and managing digital assets.

Disclaimer: there's a group of us working on solutions that operate within the legal requirements so that our heirs/executors aren't left worse off, and we're always interested in new ideas! Also, none of this is legal advice :)
That article has nothing to do with what I said. Twitter is not banning people for posting conservative viewpoints.
Well, they built a monopoly and now everyone surprised there is no proper competition (schools/institutions were forced to accept microsoft's contracts, strong lobby)

They start by playing the innocent little girl, they cry because others do better than them, then few years later everyone is surprised they became a monopoly and everyone has to depend on their bloat because there is 0 competition, recent example: [1]

But that's ok because it's our friend, our allies

But now imagine we have to include the military, the US army has HoloLens, which was a failure [1], while China already concluded their tests and are using their AR headsets today

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33410252

[2] - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/microsoft-mixed-real...
Computational Philosophy – Simulation as a Core Philosophical Method [pdf]
piggy backing on your comment: the only way to get PFAs out of your blood is to drain it! donate blood yall!
Literally one of these on the front page of the NYT today, fully of chirpy anecdotes about people ditching the sweatpants and silly comments about how much our dogs will miss us when we go back to "real work".

You may kindly shove it, NYT. I'm not going back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/return-to-offi...
> That doesn't remove the concern that one or two companies deciding to do something can be so damaging to another megacorp who isn't competing in the same space really.

Why is this a problem? If a business does something that obviated another business, that is the obviated business’s problem.

Websites and computers displaced travel agents, streaming displaced cable/satellite tv middlemen, etc. If a business suffers because they are providing less utility to customers than another business, that is a sign of a functioning market.
1 is not true. You are actually experiencing dartboard paradox. The probability of the dart hitting one particular point is nearly zero. Yet some point has to be hit by the dart.

In the same way, even though someone has to be the first, that does not change the probability of us being the first (which is very unlikely by most estimates of the probability distribution)
And why to the USA? Can't it be disposed of in New Zealand?
He didn’t. Look at context.
They should be damaging each other more if anything, I see 0 problem with that. Apple launching a search engine would be the best possible thing for the world any of these companies could do, given how terrible Google has become.

And Google is by far the worst of the bunch, closest to 1984 mixed with some of the worst of old Microsoft and a splattering of pure degradation of societal fabric though incessant advertising. They have no taste, no ideals, they have suffocated all competition in the most important industry we have (information gathering) systematically and then turned the entire thing into pay to play.
It is literally the same people. I designed WebP lossless and had a lead role in Pik and JPEG XL (invented and implemented gaborish, xyb colorspace, adaptive quantization and block splitting heuristics, modulating epf with adaptive quantization, etc.)
> Nobody makes any policy decisions based on GDP

Voters respond to GDP prints. See the hand wringing and pearl clutching around whether or not we're in a recession. If voters care about it, politicians do too.
Required reading:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...
this will be a nice competitor for TikTok
Did you list public salary ranges at Reddit? If so, why? Else, why not?

Not a gotcha, just curious what were the factors that made you take that decision.
Back in the late '80s the government department I worked at had a dedicated data entry team with their own system (hardware and all).

The greenscreen data entry was highly optimised to not even require tabbing to different fields, but just run the values together in a large single field and the software would split them into fields and validate them.

I assume it was very fast and efficient for the experienced operators.
+1 for Ember.js as well :)
The envelope is not in the house. :) That would be silly.
There are tons of incentives to cut costs. It was a public company that had quarterly reports.
the phone in a drawer solution works basically by default on apple devices. Very common solution in outback Australia (satellite internet only, no phone coverage)
The GC code does look like a collection of garbage
No idea if it’ll turn out to be just a corporate raid but I’ve become so disillusioned and disgusted with nearly everything about companies like Twitter, Google, and Meta that I do not think a realistic solution exists for the problems they cause that doesn’t involve a complete change of leadership and firing a significant percentage of all of them.

I don’t care what Elon does with Twitter tbh, as long as it’s something different. Good luck to him.
I think that at this point, taking something Elon Musk says- especially about Twitter!- as having any sort of relationship to truth is the thing that's absurd.
The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser
> I believe it's all about integrating the raytracing equation for a moving sphere over the time variable

In all of the samples there is some iteration constant you can adjust. Take this below a certain threshold and things get really interesting. You can almost reason about how it's all working mathematically by plugging in different iteration counts.