skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors actually seem to have short memories. They are more interested in whether they can make a quick profit. An example is Argentina, which was issuing 100 year bonds in 2017 at an interest rate of 8%, despite a long history of defaults and inflation.

https://qz.com/1274875/how-argentina-went-from-selling-100-y...
Look, you already know their policy agenda for the upcoming term, so lets get right to the investigations.

Not sure how cutting taxes for the super rich is going to stop inflation, but it's gotta work sometime, right?
I use some specialized engineering software that's by subscription. The subscription pays for the ability to use the latest version, otherwise you're locked out. And it pays for support. Only the latest version is supported. Even if you're paid up, if you have an issue, the first thing they ask you is if you've installed the latest version.

Mechanisms vary. The license I'm using can either be managed through a networked license server or a physical dongle.

Don't forget to set aside some resources just to maintain and support the licensing and purchasing processes.
> The most common cause is refrigeration after they have been chemically ripened.

We often experiment between organic and nonorganic apples, and in my experience, it seems like the organic apples are way more prone to being mealy, suggesting that it’s not (in this case) what you’re describing.
The Federal Agents need to find more useful things to do with their time, and the people's dime.

This whole things reminds me of Library.nu. Sad day.
It's a very simple matter to verify a degree. No 84930 tweet thread needed.

Has anyone verified the degree?
For those wondering about the significance, Scott Galloway has been saying all week that someone should be whispering this in Elon Musk's ear.
Exactly, the majority of people aren't putting in 40 hours a week of productive work unless they're working over 40 hours.

We shouldn't treat productivity like we're robots, we're not switched on working on a repetitive task for all of 8 hours a day.
FDA Restricts NMN Sales
I don't know a lot about US-Argentina relations, but was surprised they so cooperatively arrested them for the feds.
Apologies if you consider this pedantic, but I prefer to phrase it in terms of the wavefunctions in position and momentum, rather than position and momentum, unadorned:

At a quantum-mechanical level, the wavefunction in the position domain is the Fourier transform of the wavefunction in the momentum domain, and vice versa - anything that constrains the position wavefunction to a narrow interval inherently also smears the momentum wavefunction...

Again, apologies if this seems pedantic. I know enough about quantum mechanics to be dangerous, but am no expert, so pedantic wording helps me keep things straight.
This was the first thing this post made me think of. You blew my mind with this back when I was a kid in school. Extremely memorable. Glad to see I’m in good company in this thread.
Yes it does look nice, but I wonder how you'd do eg pattern matching on ADTs...
Spend time on social media or don't spend time on social media, you will regret it either way. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.
But doesn't this also mean you're more likely to loose your best employees (who can more easily find a job elsewhere) and retain your worst ones (who'll consider an unpleasant Amazon better than any alternative)?
Money wasted on useless "software" jobs

This shift was long overdue, hopefully we'll start to see meaningful projects that moves humanity forward from now on, economy of the self has to go

I doubt that'll come from amazon, but the signal is loud and clear
So you're telling me that if Purism continues to receive new pre-orders that outstrip their manufacturing capacity, they will indefinitely hold the money they've collected from me thus far since new customers' pre-orders take precedence over my refund? My refund, initiated because of their inability to meet demand in the first place, is now perilously delayed because of their inability to meet demand while they service new customers?

If so, this contradicts what I've been told in emails by Purism staff, the fact that people after me in the queue have received refunds and the fact that this policy in question no longer even exists on their website. It's all super transparent, fair and customer friendly.
>This list reeks of middle-brow hipster ignorance

I agree! For example, a lot of their complaint about Cosmic Crisp is the marketing campaign around it. Like, buddy, that apple tree didn’t design stickers or write press releases. It makes no sense to penalize the apple itself for that.
> What role did the seed have in making the tree's fruits?

That's not an appropriate analogy here. Without a tree there would be no fruit - without billionaires, we'd still have phones.

> It's PG who built HN.

I stand corrected.

His net worth is estimated at 50m however. He's far closer in wealth to you and I than he is to a billionaire. ~900 million dollars closer.

Probably because he chose not to exploit his gifts in search of endless profit. He made choices to help people around him, instead of exploiting them to the hilt. He probably even pays something like his fair share of taxes, instead of paying dipshits to find loopholes to hide his money.

> Your arguments are crafted and sold by oppressors, dictators and tyrants everywhere.

Buddy, if oppressors and dictators and tyrants were talking about taxing billionaires and saving the environment then we'd have a very different world today.

No idea what planet you're on, but it seems like there's no getting through to you. Good luck to ye.
If a country is corrupt from top to bottom then it doesn't really matter what the laws are.

But in the US the same thing can happen completely legally, via a National Security Letter, with no real oversight or appeal. And much of Europe is starting to follow the same path.
I've been taking Elvanse for 6 months. If I don't make the conscious effort I will not take it... I feel like addiction is not a worry at all.

It allowed me to stop eating my feelings (which allowed me to lose 13kg and counting), made me stop drinking, I still play games but can stop whenever.

I know I will surely have to take it my whole life (days I don't, I'm a wreck) but I see it as a diabetic needing insuline.
You've probably seen this, but in case you haven't. Good luck with your treatment.

Steve Jobs on Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR6-elnwBmM
Whatever truth there is to the rapid degradation, for at least red delicious there’s a long time for degradation because they’re staples in mass markets which don’t otherwise stock fresh fruit (eg schools, convenience stores). Who knows how long those apples have traveled or rested waiting to be consumed.
SBF transferred assets to Bahamas government custody after bankruptcy
Mighty was great. If they had a Windows/Linux port it would be killer as it would have allowed you to run all kind of apps without carrying a $1.5k computer around. That was the dream.

I'd also expect their pricing to go down given economies of scale.

I lowkey wanted them to be super ambitious and one day roll out their own chips and become a full stack computer company.
One of my most used phone apps is WeCroak https://www.wecroak.com/

Reminds me several times a day of the impermanence of life and of death, with a thoughtful quote.
It is a buddhist thing. It somehow makes your everyday world a little easier.

The last quote of the app i took a screenshot of was:
"Having no destination, i am never lost." [Ikkyū]
I wish you all the best! This space has a lot of stuff in it and they’re lacking in some aspect. And that’s not a admonishment, PDF is such a complicated format that there will never be a library that doesn’t come with asterisks — it’s just a matter of picking the thing you want your library to focus on and be good at and you can pretty easily be someone’s favorite lib.
This is full 'on fire' mode for Twitter. Even more people quit than Musk expected and he's terrified that people are going to start sabotaging the company. So he's shutting everything down which means if critical infrastructure has problems, Twitter's going to fall apart.
Docker Desktop does the same. You do not want to close Docker when you close the main window, you don’t want Discord notifications to stop (or even the audio call) when you close the main chat window.
The one thing that I can think of is that the natural rate of seed spreading is slow, at least for citrus plants. (Plants like dandelion likely spread much more quickly)
The Future of Hackathon Research and Practice
Bahamian securities regulators directed transfer of FTX funds to their accounts
Yeah, but in some cases it's worth it.
I use Yabai on MacOS to do tiling window management and it works reasonably well, although not as good as linux window managers.
It's almost as if crypto is mainly just scams, and people in the process of being fooled by scams.
I never knew about the J number suffix in python: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#im... which it would appear is used to represent references: https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/tests/test_p...

I wish you good luck, this file format has tripped up many, many a developer. It blew up on a pdf I had lying around:

ValueError: could not convert string to float: b'5.0.0'

104 0 obj <<
/Producer (pdfTeX-1.40.10)
/Creator (TeX)
/CreationDate (D:20131209161146-08'00')
/ModDate (D:20131209161146-08'00')
/Trapped /False
/PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0)
>> endobj

as it seems a string with nested parens jams up the parser
> at ~3g/kg the uranium only has about 10x as much energy as you'd get by burning the polymer or 5x in the current nuclear fleet (wonder how much it takes to make?). There goes the much vaunted EROI unless you get quite a few reuses (hint: you only get a few).

Except the polymer is re-usable.

> The longer you leave it, the more Uranium gets displaced by Vanadium. At 2 months you get 5x as much.

Until it's saturated, then you can leave it out all you want and it won't collect any more. And I had thought you were referring to lithium seawater extraction - you just tossed out vanadium without actually explaining how you'd use it and I assumed you mistyped lithium.

Unfortunately vanadium redox batteries are not nearly built at the scale of lithium batteries - which are themselves not built at a scale large enough for grid storage - as well as poorer round trip efficiency.
How will Musk's failure at Twitter affect market confidence in his other ventures?
No Macoun, tragic.
> 2) People write good commit messages. If your commit message isn't in the following format: [snip] I'm sending it back to you.

Try reviewing commits without reading any associated messaging, or having your team submit complex changes with no message. You have to engage your brain to understand what the code is doing and what is being changed, you'll have a better understanding of if the comments are useful or insufficient, and most importantly you don't already have a bias that the code does what it says. You may find that when you really look at it foos are getting pushed in qux order, or that the benchmark was calling a different function.
This risks the dead sea effect though.

https://medium.com/geekculture/the-dead-sea-effect-d71df1372...
The operations on "entire arrays at once" don't benefit much from compilation, because the interpreter overhead is amortized across the size of the array.

For "one potato two potato" scalar code code with lots of branches and control flow, compiled will always be faster because each little op has overhead and a compiler could optimize it away.

A sufficiently smart interpreter or JIT could theoretically optimize this away too, but as far as I know no APL (or APL-like) language uses anything like a tracing JIT, instead they have historically focused on optimizing idiomatic expressions so "typical" code is faster.
Does this assume that Musk will actually let people go with 3 months severance as promised? As far as I know his promise wasn't binding.
Leverage probably paid a big part too.
> !!! That's what Haskell is !!!

I haven't tried Haskell yet. Only F# (of the functional bunch). From what I heard about Haskell, I'm not sure it's what I'm looking for. It sure has functional side covered, but not much else.

To me functional programming is based on logic. However, every program runs on a machine, and sometimes it's important to reason what the machine is doing. Focusing just on the logic is not enough every so often.

> What language are you using which is explicit about side effects?

Sadly, none that I use.
(Unison dev here) I hear you! :) `'` is easy to miss so we added the `do` keyword, and at least a few of us want to substitute `delay` as the keyword. Fortunately, we should be able to do that programmatically at the codebase level if the time comes for that, so folks won't have to hunt for their single quotes to change it everywhere.
Nah, these days all of the top engineers you'd want solving an incident are used to working remot.... oh.
It can't be inconsistent. You've got one copy of the data in memory, everything uses that, everything sees the same thing.

What's the use case of all this copying and shunting stuff around and consuming massive amounts of memory?

What kind of programs would you write that would benefit from this?
I've been using resophnotes as windows client for simplenote for years (and the ios client if I need to look something up on the go) after evernote become terrible 10+ years ago

Nothing sophisticated for sure, but a little windows macro and I can make a new note for something with a timestamp sorted the way I want with one keystroke

plain text is underrated though I think they are more sophisticated plain text options now but I don't feel like importing my database elsewhere when my current solution works pretty well

further, for super ad hoc stuff, I just need notepad++ open with 100+ tabs using pleasantly little memory...
I've felt that way at one point, but it is on you as to how far you want to push it. If you want to do C# like it's 2008, it won't stop you.

As for me, I take the good bits that I like and ignore the rest now. I resent only two changes. Firstly, eliminating null values for classes was a mistake, and you're trading one class of error (null data) for another (placeholder/default data). There's no plus as far as I can tell. Apps with the second error scenario are in an unknown state and that's not something you want lasting for too long. The second change I dislike is that the inverse indexing syntax starts from 1 instead of 0 to access the last item. That's idiotic.
Thanks! I already do most of this for unused domains, but was not aware of null MX records.
Don't remember where I saw this but: "The act of purchasing physical books and the act of reading them are two entirely different hobbies and practices".

Additionally, if someone downloads your book for free, and barely reads it, as you suggest, have they _really_ done much more than picking up the book in person, scanning the table of contents, reading some pages in particular, then setting the book back down? What you're describing sounds like the digital version of what I used to do at physical bookstores; it seems a less compelling argument against what the z-lib founders were doing, not more.
This is a profound misunderstanding of what makes Twitter valuable. Of course the technology isn’t anything special. Of course the features aren’t revolutionary. The value is in the people that use it and the connections between them. That’s something that takes years of hard work; it can’t simply be built or bought.
There could be lots of reasons? Interviewing is a hassle. You might like your job and/or coworkers. You might (justifiably or naïvely) not be worried about being laid off. And with all the layoffs all over lately, you might figure it’s going to be a lousy time to be looking elsewhere.
A mix of Scratch on the laptop and Game Builder Garage on the Switch.
Kyle Gann’s albums are excellent too. Hyperchrimatica is a highlight: https://www.otherminds.org/recording/hyperchromatica/
Very much accelerating, for instance by geographical spread. Also a plant might have a hard time "getting started" in a certain place, and not always end up in optimal conditions. The Soviets put plants in arrangements not found in nature.
SBF: “You know what was maybe my biggest single f----p?” he asked. “Chapter 11.”

~1 Week in to the melt down of a massive, hilariously horrifying structure of $Billions intricately tied up in a mixture of hubris, malfeasance, scam artistry, good intentions (maybe?) and...

his biggest regret is that in, perhaps, a moment of sanity he filed for bankruptcy in a jurisdiction that is expert in handling the fallout from this kind of thing. (well, I'm not sure Delaware has actually ever seen this kind of thing before)

This does not reflect well upon his character and perhaps belies his claims that all he wants to do now is find some way of rescuing things from the ashes to make whole the folks whose assets were incinerated
Is this a good thread to recommend the movie "The Man From Earth"? Awesome sci-fi about living forever, made with just a bunch of people talking in a small room.
Is LE really universally available? I'm not aware of them making any public commitment to serve unpopular websites (thinking of e.g. KiwiFarms), and they used to check an opaque Google blacklist before issuing certificates.
Silly me! I should have realized (or remembered) that it's a Fujitsu product. It's just the name "Fujitsu" isn't on the machine anywhere, so I tend to forget (just double-checked, and no name on the outside!)

Thanks for sharing the model numbers, too. I'll be sure to check out the newer models!
When the indignant see that nothing has changed, the site still works and the company marches on, how will they feel?

I hope grateful that the management gave them a sweet deal to leave. Everyone wins.

I think we all know 50 quality engineers can keep Twitter afloat.
FTX's Bankman-Fried Quietly Invested More Than $500M in Sequoia and Other VCs
Because it's your job and you're a professional.
I kinda like the Newtown Pippin Apple.
Hmm, I am going to overlook the threats and strange response - I think what you have here, in this license you are trying to push, is a good thing. I was giving it feedback. Hire a lawyer, strip away the opinions, and you're cooking. I wish you luck with it.
One feature, as far as I can tell, that no languages had until Algol-60 was recursion (https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2020/12/01/recursion-the...).

It's hard to imagine nowadays how controversial this was. Previous versions of Algol did not necessarily require any form of dynamic memory allocation. Recursion requires it in some form to avoid overwriting a procedure's variables upon the recursive call.

Languages that forbid recursion (like Fortran before F90) can allocate for peak memory usage before runtime, which is especially useful on RAM-poor computers.

EDIT: The site also has a great quote on the subject (https://craftofcoding.wordpress.com/2022/10/20/d%c8%b3kstra-...).
Great feedback, an offline version is something we've been thinking about.
Sadly, reading that guy's posts, he is also clearly a lunatic. I guess it takes one to know one.
It seems to me there is a step missing: plant seeds further north, some plants survive better than others even reproduce, take those survivors and repeat further north.

So not the fruit from all trees but from the ones that are better adapted. This could happen naturally but probably more slowly and also would naturally have to compete with local species.
I mean all the US companies are narcs
There is also a ~28TB torrent with ~6M books within it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ymiwzs/zlibrar...
He's really rich, you should ask for more than $30k to take it off his hands.
Awesome. I learned a lot of stuff on a real CoCo 2. The book that came with it is pretty great because it really walks you through everything down to the key press and shows a lot of examples.

https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hard...
My dad used to distrohop a lot in the linux and bsd land. I first used linux around 20+yrs ago when my dad set up some linux(red hat or suse I cant remember). My dad never really taught me to program or supervised my usage of computers but when I got my first pc I was eager to set up linux. In the end I ended up bricking my windows xp install (no more games for me). My usb mouse would also frequently not work on linux. But that got me started on my journey through foss land. I'm now doing a PhD in robotics and I have no regrets.

My younger brother also ended up using linux as he got my second hand macbook (with linux) as his first laptop. He is now headed down the med school route but still very proficient with coding thanks to his linux experience.
I'm not totally up to date on lisp and don't know anything about PicoLisp, so forgive me if there is stuff I'm missing :) but lemme try:

Lets say you wrote a imaginary program to sum a column in a csv:

(defun my-program ()
(let*
((raw-data) (s3-load-file "htpps://..."))
((parsed) (csv-parse raw-data))
((column1) (csv-column parsed 1))
(mean column1))

In this pretend program we are using some 3rd party s3 library to fetch some data, some other 3rd party CSV library to extract the data. Now I want to run this on some other remote node. I know I can just sent that sexp to the remote node and have it eval it, but that is only going to work if the right versions of the S3 and CSV library are already in that runtime.

I want to be able to write a function like:

(defun remote-run (prog)
(....))

That can take ANY program and ship it off to some remote node and have that remote node calculate the result and ship the answer back. I don't know of some way in lisp you could ask the runtime to give you a program which includes your calculation and the s3 functions and the csv functions.

In unison, I can just say `(seialize my-program)` and get back a byte array which represents exactly the functions we need to evaluate this closure. When the remote site tries to load those bytes into their runtime, it will either succeed or fail with "more information needed" with a list of additional hashes we need code for, and the two runtimes can recurse through this until the remote side has everything needed to load that value into the runtime so that it can be evaluated to a result.

Then, of course, this opens us up to the ability for us to be smart in places and say "before you try running this, check the cache to see if anyone ran this closure recently and already knows the answer"
Is there precedent anyone can point to where these sorts of wild dramatic moves under new leadership led to turning a large company around into success?
> You can cycle 40GWh when it's full. Then you can get 350GWh out of it. Then put 240GWh back into it and cycle it a few times, then get another 350GWh out of it again in a month or two. The last 110 fills itself.

But doing so would reduce the usable storage of other facilities using the same body of water. This is explained here:

> At the extreme, the water stored in Talbingo/Jounama could be reduced to 28 GL. This would allow 160 GL of Tantangara water to be accommodated in Talbingo. This equates to a recyclable energy storage capacity for Snowy 2.0 of about 235 GWh (160/239x350). In this case the energy capacity of Tumut 3 is reduced from 60 GWh to 10 GWh, so the net energy storage is 185 GWh (235-50).

How much can Snowy 2 store without adversely impacting other storage facilities? 40 GWh.

Cycling 240 GWh of energy would almost entirely eliminate Tumut 3's storage capacity, and yield a net increase in storage capacity increase of only 185 GWh. 240 GWh is only correct if we ignore the capacity reduction of Tumut 3. And of course, I doubt Tumut 3's operators would agree to this scenario without being bought out because it'd destroy their ability to turn a profit and have a chilling effect on future hydro projects.