skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There were Turbo C++ and Borland C++ variants.

Turbo was something like standard or community cutted down versions.

I am sure of the boxes I still have lying around. :)
So you have much greater freedom than we in Europe, but you do not have the freedom to have you 8 year olds walk outside?

edit: yeah, it was sarcarsm.
> ... or if they accidentally trip over while walking.

It's (probably) sarcasm.
Last time I tried, there where still some issues, e.g. the 'mailbox' (contrib) test of SBCL didn't succeed (just hangs). There are known issues with cancellation of threads in Windows, which I think explains why the test doesn't succeed there, but the fact that it doesn't succeed in WSL makes me wonder how well the hypervisor deals with multiple threads ...
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or an actual opinion. Well done.
How brutal are the interviews?

Isn’t the pay really low? Can you negotiate?
I'm pretty sure Mill computing will never get off the ground. If they were intent on producing something they would've started by now. The only thing they've worked on from the beginning is patents. And since now the focus is on RISC-V due to its openness, Mill will likely not see success unless they go the same route, because people don't want a locked down processor.
Thanks for this. I got the same growing sense of discomfort reading the OP, that decomposing everything into operations makes the code way harder to grok vs. just doing the entire transform in one step.

I think the point being made was “each transform could be reusable across your codebase”, but I think for this example you really pay a high comprehensibility cost. And duplicating a few lines of code is often actually the right call, instead of coupling two unrelated bits of code that happen to be saying the same thing right now (but which will plausibly diverge in the future).

As a new Rustacean, I do really like Result and Option, but writing idiomatically in your language is really important too.
They've even made an adorable Netflix show out of the concept - "Old Enough".
> who in their right mind calls the cops on a kid walking around his own neighborhood?

The profoundly innumerate, that’s who. They overestimate the risk of an adverse event because they rely solely on media reports of child safety events to anchor their estimates, never stopping to consider that the media doesn’t report on children safely walking home.
White collar work in the modern era is also very unrestricted. I can slack off during most of the day if I want (and nothing urgent comes up) and my manager will neither check nor care. Because of 24/7 systems, I can completely bunk fridays while pretending to work from home and just staying online from the phone. It is totally irrelevant to my job. I hate fridays and usually work Sunday to Thursday in reality. Many people I know have this level of flexibility in many fields.

My “work hours” in my pay slip say 75.8 for every 2 weeks. I work maybe 50 hours in a busy week. It is irrelevant to my organization. So we are already there in terms of intellectual white collar work.
Yes.

The DSM 5 provides Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD, not to he confused as ASD which is autism). It's more commonly referred to as Sociopathy. Psychopathy is not an 'official' condition
The Apollo 11 documentary a few years ago had 4k-quality film footage. Worth checking out!
Just putting my experience out there, across the space/aerospace industry I've seen a lot of C++ and Ada, but not much actual "C".
> The other part is: Records are no substitute for objects. Not even close. Those are just quite primitive structs. (To learn how unpractical is it to try to build objects from structs without proper language support just ask someone who was forced to use C after coming from a more complete OO language).

I agree with you about C and Haskell's records, but I'm curious if you'd say the same about Rust's struct + impl system? Are there problems that can only be solved with real, Smalltalk-inspired objects, or can lightweight structs do the job if supported by enough syntactic sugar?
Here in Texas that means lower property taxes so I am excited about it. When your home value triples in 8 years due to no fault of your own I can stand for a reduction in what I pay the local government.
DAs don't have cases to prosecute if cops don't make the arrest.
I’m not against government jobs programs. Just wish it was something useful day to day, like healthcare, versus security theater.
I'm afraid that I've become hesitant to call the cops even when an intervention is required (e.g. minor theft, a person is walking around disoriented, etc.), for fear that someone will get shot or beaten or otherwise have their lives ruined. I don't want to think that way. It's why I think ordinary cops shouldn't carry guns.
Peacetime CEO does not raise her voice. Wartime CEO rarely speaks in a normal tone.

Utter crap. Business people trying to compare themselves to the godfather movies to excuse their asshole behavior. Lessons from the school of Steve Jobs Worship.
Alphabet must cut headcount and trim costs, activist investor TCI says
Boytacean – A WASM Game Boy emulator written in Rust
Thank you for your effort and time for explaining this to me.

I still need to learn more. I think I'm not sure how someone would write their own runtime with pollers and waiters. Those are the only APIs provided by Rust.
That's not actually their role. It's not what we pay them to do.

It may be how they view their role, and it may be how their incentives line up.

But it's not actually their job. I bet you know this, I'm just clarifying.
The upcoming PineBuds PRO seem to do that also [1]

> The BES2300 – the chips at the heart of the PineBuds Pro – was seriously considered for hearing-aids, so there is a potential that the PineBuds Pro could serve as over-the-counter (OTC) hearing-aids for people with very limited hearing impairment.

[1] https://www.pine64.org/2022/11/15/november-update-tuned-in/
I'm not sure of the statistics, but even so, it's something you have more control over than a lightning strike.

Edit: at first glance I'm not sure the numbers are right...

Google says: "Lightning damage in the U.S. [...] In 2021, there were a total of 11 fatalities and 69 injuries reported due to lighting in the United States."

Also: "In the United States, an estimated 460,000 children are reported missing every year. Federal Bureau of Investigation, NCIC."

Edit again to be more specific: Many of the "goes missing" doesn't mean kidnaps, and according to wikipedia, "The vast majority of child abduction cases in the United States are parental kidnapping".

However it also says: "Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year, on average, between 2010–2017."

This number is still a high multiple of the number of people (not just children) struck by lightning each year.
Pimiga3 is coming – this is a teaser trailer
Thank you for lunar. I use it every day. The ability to rotate the inbuilt apple display has been a killer feature for me.
Synopsis for those who do not want to read a twitter thread.

Pitfalls:

1. People lose their keys. Design around that, so users stay happy. Super difficult since everyone looses their keys eventually.

2. People have their keys stolen.

3. Abuse of various parties and how to moderate.

4. Web E2EE is hard.

5. Multiple devices add corner cases that may introduce security issues.
Oh hey, that bit about turning a Surface Dial into a mouse is pretty neat! I wonder if I can use eBPF to simplify my user mode surface dial driver...

https://github.com/daniel5151/surface-dial-linux
How did you differentiate lies from inherent complexities in public health communication in a novel situation?
From what I've heard Amazon had laxed their URA targets during the peak pandemic years. This is likely the correction for this.
>Because of that I have very little fear of screwing up.

I met an engineer or two that were always feeling like walking on eggshells around git, and every once and a while having to call in the expert to fix their git state, so they get unstuck.
>> > As they stood on her porch, the officers told Wallace that her son could have been kidnapped and sex trafficked. "'You don't see much sex trafficking where you are, but where I patrol in downtown Waco, we do,'" said one of the cops, according to Wallace

Then go downtown and.. do some police work? What the hell man, stop harassing an innocent mother.
Passive House in 17° weather stays at 65° without heater
The problem is CPS/DCS. They are a lawless organization that can take your child at based solely on their feelings at the moment and not from "probable cause", "reasonable suspicion" or any of the other standards that police are generally held to. In practice that means any neighbor can report anything they don't like about your parenting and it will be acted on just because a child is involved. This leads to the parents with the most strict and overly protective and cautious parenting strategy having their methods enforced by law since they can report anything they are a little uncomfortable with in other's parenting.

Why have we decided that the legal protections granted to us are only sometimes good? Why have we built in this loophole where if an accuser says the magic word "child" to the authorities they can remove our rights? When a kid is involved simply asking for a lawyer to help you understand your rights can be seen as trying to restrict access to the kid and can result in them being taken by CPS.
So we shouldn't allow children to go outside where the lightning could get them! (/s, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone seriously believes it is what we should do..)
About exposing the data inside MLFlow

> I found the query feature extremely limiting (if my experiments are stored in a SQL table, why not allow me to query them with SQL).
What I'm excited about is the prospect of nontechnical people being able to use a GUI like Docker Desktop to install and manage apps in a nicely sandboxed environment. I think Docker is still too targeted towards developers, but Docker Desktop is already a huge step forward in usability for people who aren't comfortable on the command line.
> It's not the problem, but it is a problem. There's no reason we shouldn't try to work on both.

There's problems, and then there's unavoidable problems. Failure to design a system with checks and balances for the unavoidable problem is an avoidable problem. ;-)
When I realised that branches were just labels pointing to a commit, instead of a an actual "branch" ie a group of commits, then everything made a lot more sense. I still kinda wish branches were more groups of commits, so that if you have multiple branches on top of each other they can automatically/more easily keep up to date.
Yeah, Git's problem has always been that it exposes too much implementation complexity in inconsistent ways. The underlying concepts are not that hard, and they aren't inconsistent.

Git just chose to expose them inconsistently, making easy DAG operations hard to remember the syntax for.

I'm also not thrilled with the "everything is a pointer" model since that doesn't match how I've seen branches used in practice; Mercurial's concept of a branch as a named, linear sequence of commits seems to better match how I've seen it work at companies small (< 50 people) and large (>50K people). It's not a big issue, but it is yet another impediment that isn't necessary.

The reflog is useful, but not as ergonomic as Evolve's hidden commits that have been replaced.

Everything about Git's UI is like that. Poorly thought out, poorly integrated, causing unnecessary friction on top of what is a perfectly fine underlying implementation.
Agree that the current situation was not ideal, but it was habituated at this point and now they're replacing one non-ideal solution with another one (in my opinion).

If they want to differentiate products, how about rebranding as TalentList or something like that to keep the association and buying talentlist.com and/or talentlist.co (neither of which is being used; both of which are registered). Let angel.co be a redirect; keep AngelList branding.

Agree that angel.co is confusing. I would have rather seen them use angellist.com as a lander to direct clients to talent.angellist.com and venture.angellist.com, but 1) it's too late for that now, 2) that doesn't differentiate brand which I accept as a goal.
A list of outrages by authorities worthy of a failed police state.
Wait… Apple is providing support via Discord now?

Anyways, if you have access to a Mac you can sync your notes via iCloud and then on Mac you can easily access the SQLite DB containing the notes. If you can figure out the schema it would be easy to write a tool to export this automatically. I’d guess someone has already built such a tool.
StableDiffusion has attracted the Feds: https://eshoo.house.gov/media/press-releases/eshoo-urges-nsa...
Hi!

I got a job as an embedded C programmer after a MSc in "High Performance Computing". Weirdly the biggest supercomputers can use similar techniques to tiny microprocessors.

First of all I get why you like C, I loved learning it, and think it is a really elegant language (with obvious flaws).

I have some practical advice. Embedded is your best bet for getting to use C professionally. Are you into electronics at all? I would recommend getting some microprocessor/electronics kits, like the Arduino ones. If money is tight, Arduino clones are very cheap indeed. You could get going for < $20. You'll need a "bread board" some wires and a microcontroller. I remember getting a _very_ cheap oscilloscope kit too. You can make some cool stuff with sensors etc. I recommend any video by Ben Eater, if you want to know more about digital electronics.
If you come up with a cool project idea you can write a blog post or even just talk about it in a cover letter. It would show you are very keen, even if you don't have professional experience.

You could also learn more about low level computing stuff by doing the excellent "nand-to-tetris" course, which shows you how to build a CPU. This is quite a commitment, and not essential, but I enjoyed it a lot!

Embedded Linux is also very widely used, so a project with a Raspberry Pi would look good too.

Good luck with a child on the way! Perhaps any electronics kits you buy could have a second life in 10-15 years...
Laying myself off from Amazon
I spent some time looking into this from a post about this artifact yesterday. I had the same response to think abut runes when I looked at it as well.
For anyone curious, the characters are evidently from one of several Paleohispanic scripts. The origins of those scripts might be Phoenician and/or Greek, some are read from left to right and some from right to left.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohispanic_scripts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleohispanic_languages
I'm not seeing how that would cause a memory leak. It just means that the value might be GCed a bit later. Could you give an example?
Fair enough. What I meant was "even if the tittle is technically correct".
few things I can see from where this is coming from. 1. He wants people out if they don't want to work long hours. from experience I can tell, one negative person can slow team down 2. With so many layoffs, he is not worried about incoming talent 3. he always worked like that so he doesn't care what other people think & how other companies are ran. I don't like, he wont stop anyone.
> With general, or strong AI we only just barely have the beginnings of an idea of how to even do preliminary research on it.

Maybe. Or maybe we're just on small change away from AGI. We could be, because we don't yet really know what's required and we may not ever know until after we've done it. That prospect should be terrifying.

> It's far, far too early to start worrying about controls and management strategies for the end point of that research.

No, because if you create AGI before we have some containment or safety protocols, then it may already be too late.

Consider whether we should have researched biolab safety before we started experimenting on modifying pathogens in various ways. Doesn't that just seem blindingly brain-dead obvious? For some reason this clear and obvious conclusion just goes out the window when it comes to AI.
Crafts and artwork from kids.
Homemade food.
Text-to-image GUI for Professionals – free licence in exchange for feedback
TL;DR: I've built an awesome one-click Stable Diffusion GUI for non-tech creative professionals, will give free licences in exchange for feedback.

I got fed-up with all the Stable Diffusion GUIs. All are either:
- hard to install
- overly complex UIs for non-tech folk
- or, cloud-based, so no privacy and high cost

So… impossible to use if you're a non-technical creative professional, e.g. marketer - like most of my colleagues & family

So I built a stupidly simple GUI, with:
- a render queue
- built-in prompt enhancement
- built-in styles - e.g. photorealistic, cartoon, etc - so prompts are 10x easier to write)
- Image-to-image
- Texture mode
- 1-click install - no setup needed
- Notarised and signed by Apple, and runs in Apple Sandbox

Targeting professional creatives rather than Stable Diffusion enthusiasts. But would love feedback from everyone.

So - lemme know if you want a copy, I'd love to hear what you think - I'll be watching this thread, or email: hn@avoloapp.com, or https://www.avoloapp.com/contact

We're building in public - all our internal discussions are on public Discord: https://www.avoloapp.com/go-discord
Many options, should you decide to leave the Apple ecosystem
It works if you install the optional KB5020030 via Windows Update.

edit: I can also confirm, that they ported WSLg back to Windows 10. \o/
I already know because I was one of the first to back it on Kickstarter.
man my kids walk home 1 mile from school on a daily basis, am I gonna get arrested?
“we had to endure a lecture about it and veiled threats”

no you didn’t you were just too afraid to tell her to fuck off like any normal person would do in that situation
Basicaly perfect unless you want a special character in the title of the note.
Do you use AWS Athena as the "database/serving layer" for customer-facing applications where performance matters?

Our experience is that isn't a common use case for Athena, while it is the primary use case for TimescaleDB.
They're in the business of pushing new features. This is why problems like this (and many others) will go unfixed for a long time. Long gone are the days of prioritizing fixes in Notion (which BTW their "performance fix" before they hit hyper growth was abysmal).
>Are people (and specifically cops) in US really that quick to judge? Or do these cases make the news exactly because of how outrageous and rare they are?

(With the obvious caveat that I do not claim to represent the entire American population) I think it is the latter. This kind of thing is newsworthy precisely because it gets people riled up (as it should). It is pretty shocking to me as someone who has lived in the US my entire life. As other commenters have said, I also walked to school alone as a kid with no issues.
> the US has much greater freedoms than Europe

Does it? I can't see this happening in Europe. What freedoms stand out?
I made a tool that Turns your data into an API product
There comes a point in your career where a 60 hour workweek is unacceptable, and unnecessary. Yet some corporate cultures do not accept people have a life outside a project.

There is also the youth employment tax-credit driven layoff cycles the industry likes to hide as a subsidy. Over 28? good luck staying with some firms...

You are probably thinking this is some dubious startup, but you would be wrong... "They eat their own" is the warning most kids rarely heed.

Have a wonderful day =)
the generated filenames
From other threads like this I’ve heard “sales engineer” might be a good option.

Less BS because sales comes down to the money you bring in. You still get to code and your peers will be impressed with anything you do. And you could earn a lot with commissions.
RTS devlog #6: 1000 units bandwidth
Every police interaction in the US bears the risk of death. Police will stop kids on the street with or without being called. Ergo, it is unsafe for children to walk to school in the US.

Sure, that's all a bit circular, but good luck breaking the spiral with a "law and order" mentality.
Seems to me like the airline might fight that harder.

I don't know what the reality is, but I can imagine a justification that looks something like, "We do this slap on the wrist. You fix this or next time we have a paper trail showing you know this is illegal conduct"
> The local DA is the person to look to here. Cops don't persecute cases.

More than one person can be at fault. I would place some of the blame on the neighbor, the police officers, the District Attorney, and the CPS case worker for this.
If you really want to write C just do it--most popular languages have a defined way to interface with C code, and if not you can almost always find a way to communicate with a C program via stdin/out. You can always justify to your teammates/bosses on "performance reasons" and they'll probably think you know some deep magic. (In practice most interpreters have gotten fast enough that it can be difficult to come out ahead after the overhead of going through an interface layer, but they might not know that.)
But it's a version of the same story. If the queen hears that he's planning to marry Marcella off to Dorne and Theon, she'll know that something's up.
For anyone curious, the governor commuted his sentence in that case to 10 years, eligible for parole in 2026 [1]. It wasn't a simple accident though - it involved a great deal of negligence at the minimum.

[1] https://www.fox29.com/news/truck-driver-rogel-aguilera-meder...
How would you design the org to avoid this? You basically need to disband the team once the product is done. How do game studios manage it?
They do. There rarely is a photo of the workplace though. When there is, it's usually a tiny table with a dining room chair against a corner somewhere.
Just bill this to Putin's account.
Along with this great SNL sketch, "Old Enough! Longterm Boyfriends" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhGTtWsW9F8
Evernote always felt like a product that was wasting its potential. Years ago I approached them about doing a portable version for PortableApps.com, with us doing the portablization for free. They refused and said they were happy with their proprietary portable version that only worked within Ceedo (a closed source portable virtualization platform that was fee-based for most use cases). Ceedo never gained traction and was discontinued.