skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This project is interesting, but I looked at tests folder and there is not many tests despite software is so complex. Also I wonder, isn't it better to write tests in languages like Python?

Also, I don't see what's the use of Cosmopolitan Libc. In what situation does one need a CLI-only binary that can run on any system?
IME there's at most one of those wheel-reinventors for each zillion devs unthinkingly swallowing whatever (VSC) Microsoft is spurting down their throats this week.
Want the F-22 designed for narrower scenarios, and so part of the other is we'd never need as many?
not what i said but ok. There is an app that allows you to meet people better - Hinge.
If you like this article, I would suggest reading these too:

I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person: https://www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/04/i-dont-want-to-be-an...

The Internet is Made of Demons: https://www.damagemag.com/2022/04/21/the-internet-is-made-of...

When traveling, I carry a dumb phone, specifically a Nokia feature phone that doesn't even connect to The Internet. The only distraction on it is the Tetris app which kills time waiting for the bus, or waiting to be seen by a doctor, etc

I dedicate a small window of time (1 hour at most) to social media, and trained all my feeds to be high signal, so I come out of scrolling educated and informed.

I don't engage in phubbing[0] which is a portmanteau of 'phone snubbing'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phubbing
> Bread freezes just fine, I could name you a bunch of 3 star Michelin places serving frozen bread every day.

Please do.
The OP was responding to the article not another comment, and the article doesn't make any generalized claims about decline, so I don't think they were responding to anyone's assertion but rather making their own.
Making airstrips ineffective is much harder than it seems. Recall the US attack on the Syrian airbase a few years ago that did little lasting damage
I'm not exactly in the target audience, but this is brilliant. Bravo!
Aw, I'm flattered my comments merited a mention
didn't the americans and europeans bail out a bunch of banks 10-13 years ago?
> And no one has to pay it since it's a license fee. There are ways to opt out if you don't have a TV. So stop being dramatic.

You still have to pay it IF you have a TV. That doesn't change my first point as there is absolutely nothing "dramatic" about pointing out the dangers of a media directly controlled by the government. Stop acting like government controlled press isn't prone to manipulating their audience.
Seconded. I love soccer. I fondly remember waking up at 3:00 a.m. to watch many of the 1998 World Cup games. I think I have watched every single game since then. I know it is a small gesture, but I will not be watching a single match this go-round. The direct support of and kowtowing to such a corrupt government is disgusting.
Drones are slow. You can pick them up easily with a fighter jet, and in some cases even with attack helicopters.
yes it is. I remember the research, men found 50-50 , 50% attractive vs 50% not. normal distribution.

Women were a huge difference. 80% not attractive, 20% or less attractive.
All of my important files get saved to a NAS on my network. It's just a raspberry pi with a big disk attached. That is backed up nightly to another raspberry pi with a big disk. That is then backed up off-site to another raspberry pi with a big disk, except that one is encrypted.

Yes, it's pis all the way down.

Nextcloud is fine but I only use it for the calendar and file sharing, I don't want ALL of my data spread across portable devices. For one, it's too much data and secondly, there's the risk of a device getting lost or stolen.

Your data isn't locked into Nextcloud, you can always switch to another system or pay for a hosted Nextcloud instance.
>Mean engagement was quantified as an average of the two continuous self-reported engagement ratings that each conversation partner made while rewatching a video of their conversation

The tail is wagging the dog in this study. The study fundamentally fails to validly measure what it claims to measure. It's measuring the perception of attention, not attention itself.

I only look at their face to signal that I'm paying attention to them, but if I'm looking at their face, I'm probably paying attention to looking at their face not at what they're actually saying. It's a very conscious move on my part to sacrifice my actual ability to pay attention to give off the perception of paying attention. If I want to both pay attention and look like I'm paying attention, I write notes.

>186 subjects comprising 93 dyads (mean age: 19.38 y; 120 females) participated. Subjects were recruited from Dartmouth College

Also a rather WEIRD sample which is actually a major issue in a study like this since it's measuring something rooted in cultural perceptions.
I have different point of view - 90's Start Trek stuff is here - I can tell Alexa turn on the lights and it will happen. I can tell specific name of a room I want to off/on/dim/bright that I typed in while setting up my smart lights even.

In 90's Star Trek they also don't talk with computer much more than saying very specific commands and getting some response just like one would ask Alexa for a weather. I can also setup some sensors so it would give me status report if I want to.

You take voice recognition for granted - it is not easy - it was really not possible not that long ago on level we have now like even in 2000's.

From 1990's to today - I feel that I live in the future.

If you take Doctor the hologram or holosuite characters - well yeah AI of today is nowhere near and I believe it never will be - but as I say my mind is blowing up when I see level of voice recognition, image recognition, game engines of today compared to what was possible in 1990's or even 2000's.
Still outside of Ukrainian territory, the condition for NATO support. And it only transports gas from Russia to Germany, with the winter approaching. Even more telling, the US statement in reaction to this was "a tremendous opportunity to once and for all remove the dependence on Russian energy".
If your goal is full fidelity, sure, but they're trying to make a cheap practice device. If you want the former you're probably better off just buying something commercial, at least an AKAI.
Loved the language - first as an embedded developer (late 80s), then with Harris Semi's RTX microcontroller team. I see a Forth reference about once per month on HN but nothing in developer-specific forums, so I have to assume Forth is dead.

What gives? Is there some use case that only Forth can satisfy? Is it just the simplicity and "strangeness"?
Compared to recent years it's a bit of volte face for a Chancellor to say something like this, I'm not really thinking about the pre-Boris purge era where of course, things were different. Anyway, I don't want to get stuck on this point. It was a throwaway observation and hearing Hunt say this in his current role stood out, and I felt it was moderately significant politically. The weather is changing. Give it 5 years and I think you'll hear murmurings about rejoining the single market. I really do. Public opinion will get there, although it's way too soon politically for that right now.

I don't lay the entire blame for our decline at Brexit's door, I too think it has been decades in the making. For me though, Brexit was a singular moment of lunacy, and many of the morbid symptoms our politics have displayed in recent years, the terrible quality of leaders, the hard right wing creep in some sections of the govt, the sheer reality-ignoring stupidity, does seem to have a Brexit link. But no, I don't think everything was great pre-Brexit. The lunatics took over the asylum is probably more how I see it. Now we have 'grownups' in charge, I'll concede that much, but I find this new project a grim re-run of the Cameron era. Another ideologically motivated choice to slash the state to address a mythical fiscal hole. I dread to think where we will end up after this latest round of austerity. It's truly grim.
Just to clarify, we recently made a pivot from a shopping platform (that collected personal information) to this new platform (that does not collect all the personal data mentioned) and we are now waiting for pending updates on our app store page.
FTX's #2 person donated to Republicans to partly balance out SBF. The total ratio is approximately 2:1.

The weren't about altruism or progressive causes, they were playing both sides to embezzle 10x the amount they donated.

The "pledge" was just talk.
Blink cameras can run on battery for a year! A worthy platform to be liberated from app/cloud.

https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/camera/firmware

Thanks for the supply chain diagram: https://astrid.tech/_/2022/08/03/0/blink-companies.svg

Microsoft's ThreadX RTOS was also used on RPi GPU, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore#Linux_support
It's probably not slave labor. It may be really poorly paid labor but if you had slave labor you'd probably use it for something profitable like construction like they do in the Persian gulf countries instead of solving captchas that people pay $3 per 1000 for.
> It's not perfect, but it's not Pravda and describing it as such is quite ridiculous

Of course if you agree with the BBC editorial line, you'll find nothing wrong with the BBC. Just like Fox News audience don't see any problems with Fox News bias. What is ridiculous is thinking that only Murdoch controlled media lies.
Yeah, it’s a pickle, no doubt about it. Both options are undesirable. Not sure what the best solution there is.
>The main task for any BIOS is to initialize the memory controller, which for modern DDR4 or DDR5 memory is a very complex and undocumented task, so it must be done usually by a binary firmware blob provided by Intel or AMD.

I don't question that binary blobs are distributed by Intel or AMD...

I also don't question that DDR5 memory is probably more complex (since it is newer, and newer technology is usually more complex) than DDR4, which is probably more complex than DDR3, etc., etc.

But, on a purely conceptual level, RAM is not all that complex... It's ridiculously simple. On a conceptual level, RAM is just a bunch of wires where most of those wires determine the address, some of those wires are for power, clock signal and ground, and some other of those wires move data back and forth to the CPU. Not complex at all!

The memory needs to be initialized? Well, maybe on startup it needs to be quickly calibrated/tested to make sure that a given RAM will work at a given frequency, but again, not rocket science!

If a memory controller requires a lot of complex initialization -- then maybe it isn't designed right?

A well-designed memory controller (if it were well designed) -- should abstract away details of what it does with the underlying memory such that it presents a single, simple, easy-to-understand, easy-to-initialize, unified, homogenous interface to memory.

In other words, no need for a lot of BIOS initialization code or black box binary blobs -- IF it is created correctly...

Somone doesn't like Intel or AMD black box binary blobs?

Well, people have (and I'm guessing more will, over time!) implemented their own memory controllers running on FPGA's...

Some of them are up to DDR4 capabilities...

https://github.com/oprecomp/DDR4_controller

https://www.google.com/search?q=open+source+ddr4+ip+core

But I'll let the statement "DDR5 memory is a very complex and undocumented task, so it must be done usually by a binary firmware blob provided by Intel or AMD." stand for now.

Yes, that's true as of 2022...

But will that continue to remain true?

?
Self-promo: I recently wrote a book critiquing gamification of this kind, examining it across health and fitness and lifestyle apps, video games, workplaces, finance, and more. It’s called You’ve Been Played and you can find a bunch of excerpts and reviews and discussions here: https://www.metafilter.com/197065/Youve-Been-Played

I think I have a unique perspective on the topic as CEO of a games company (Six to Start), designer of a fitness game with 10 million players (Zombies, Run!), and being a former neuroscientist.
This is why China released comprehensive regulations governing algorithms that are aimed at companies which use dark patterns and ranked newsfeeds to fuel addiction and also exploit hourly workers, like delivery drivers, whose livelihood is determined entirely by an app. Interesting that they are ahead on this problem, of all things.
No one is saying the stuff you're saying, you're just constantly projecting aggression. Do a self check in, please.
BJ Fogg [1] is someone who could have contributed to our recent
"Things you built and regret" thread. His "Persuasive Computers" paper
gets blamed (for example by Tristan Harris) for the explosion of
attention economics. That's perhaps unfair as his Tiny Habits work
seemed geared toward wellbeing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._J._Fogg
I think a lot of people are responding to just the headline. For me a key part is, as the article says, making the new regulations "ones that limit exposure of traditional leveraged intermediaries to the crypto world". But I also think we need to make sure the existing substantial barriers for unsophisticated individuals investigating in dangerous products cover the crypto world.

Pure "caveat emptor" works in a low-trust society. But it's wildly inefficient, which is why rich countries are high-trust societies enabled through regulation. E.g., the reason you can safely eat at most restaurants is a web of food safety laws and health department restaurants. People who are used to that are in for stomach-clutching surprises when they travel to low-regulation, low-trust areas.

So for me letting crypto burn includes real barriers to scammers hoovering up the life savings of the naive. The simplest thing would be to extend the "accredited investor" standard, such that anybody who wants to play the digital ponies either needs to be rich enough to afford the losses or prove sufficient sophistication that they really know what they're doing.

(And the answer to "but why" is twofold. One, society has to pick up the tab for people who run out of money. And two, the more money criminals have the more crime they can do, so we all have an interest in keeping the level of scams low.)
Where did he admit this
that’s my point
On the other hand, Berkshire Hathaway is Apple's largest investor.

Berkshire Hathaway Energy owns and operates some of the world's largest wind and solar energy farms and is building state-of-the-art Terrapower (Bill Gates) nuclear reactors:

https://www.brkenergy.com/

There's a lot for a "tech investor" to like about the company. As a consequence, Berkshire has a top-notch subreddit, probably the best subreddit of any company:

r/brkb (https://old.reddit.com/r/brkb/)

Other investors will appreciate that Berkshire owns all of a large part of America's freight transportation system:

https://www.bnsf.com/

And is the largest investor in important parts of its financial system (Bank of America), etc.
Really interesting approach. Thanks for sharing. Do you remember by any case where to find any real example? I'm digging into Golang's repositories trying to find one...
Two things in my experience.

In the scientific research lab it's sometimes said that "6 months of research will save you hours of time in the library".

OTOH, it can be helpful if you can position yourself so what requires brute force for others becomes a breeze because of your realigned approach.
Out of curiosity, why not write a Scheme or Common Lisp compiler? Or just a subset?
Have you compared the range of the naval F35s to the stand off range needed to keep the CVNs floating? (it's not even close, & there aren't enough tankers to keep the F35s in the air as CAP. Single deep strike, maybe. But to hold off an invasion, you need to provide sustained air cover.)
How many times has shock-and-awe actually compelled surrender? Especially when you exclude the instances where shock-and-awe wasn't preceded by a thorough evisceration of the defending military, which tends to understandably play a role in motivating people to surrender.
Yes. People just don’t see it. I would argue the stack based VM’s are Forth based or inspired. Language VMs are running everywhere, billions of devices.
> Filling my (non economical, okay mileage) car takes ~5 minutes. I get ~300mi range from it.

Your median wait to “fill up” an ev for many/most people is 0 minutes, because they do it at home.

> Not to mention that many people drive more than 2 hours without a break.

This is standard in teslas, it’s standard in the Ioniq 6, and it will be standard in most mass market EVs in the near future (there may be a niche market for local-only cars).

EVs are only an issue for two types of folks:

1. Folks who can’t charge at home/work, and don’t have a natural place to charge while they are doing something else. Imho, this is an infrastructure issue that will be solved.

2. Folks who frequently take long road trips in a cannonball run style. Even this will be solvable with advance in battery tech (rumors are that Tesla have this tech in hand). 500-600 mile ranges with reasonable battery weight will be a thing.
Warren E. Buffett (WEB) ... It's a joke.
Ask HN: How do you send emails from your backend?
I run/co-develop a small community website and we’ve just added accounts. We’re almost ready to launch but I need to finish up our email backend. I’m expecting between 500-1,500 sends a month and we’ll probably never exceed 5,000.

I’ve tried SendGrid, but their dashboard is unreliable. MailGun/Jet is too pricey for our scale. And AWS SES is overtly complicated with limited documentation.

I’m asking how you handle emails for your applications? Is there some hidden SAS platform that can be a silver bullet or will this be a problem that costs more time than it’s worth?

In addition, we use Go for our backend so any services that offer a Go package would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance!
Against Taiwan? Why? Wouldn't they operate out of Okinawa? Maybe you'd bring some carriers into the area, but the air base already exists. Also it seems like the Chinese would stand an excellent chance of sinking carriers. I think they're one of the more fanciful and unlikely assets in a war of peers. They only really work against non-technological enemies like the Libyans.
That may be true, but I wouldn’t underestimate the terror caused by 100000 armed drones hovering over houses and streets and bridges.
Thanks for sharing this. Great!

EDIT: Mention of Lewis Mumford is already bodes well.
I don't get angry for reinventing the wheel - but if you do, please make it compatible with state of the art existing tools. They at least seemed to have a try at that
> As a bitcoin/monero maxi

It's too bad that (bitcoin, mostly) maxis are using the recent crypto embarassment as a way to justify their own vested crypto interests. To say "we're better than them" without really explaining how in a way that doesn't require incredible feats of mental gymnastics.

edit: here's an example:

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2022/11/16/theres-bitcoin-and-the...
Printing money only leads to inflation, if it ends up in hands that spend it, which didn’t really happen.

We have massive supply side issues though: extreme gas prices in Europe, raised gas prices in the rest of the world and raised oil prices in the world because of the Ukraine war. Extreme electricity prices in Europe because of failing French nuclear reactors. Missing parts from China because of a continuing zero-covid strategy there.
And what's to keep the other side from lobbing another dozen missiles every 47 hours?
I wonder if a compositor, and possibly an entire compositing system designed around adaptive sync could perform substantially better than current compositors.

Currently, there is a whole pile of steps to update a UI. The input system processes an event, some decision is made as to when to rerender the application, then another decision is made as to when to composite the screen, and hopefully this all finishes before a frame is scanned out, but not too far before, because that would add latency. It’s heuristics all the way down.

With adaptive sync, there is still a heuristic decision as to whether to process an input event immediately or to wait to aggregate more events into the same frame. But once that is done, an application can update its state, redraw itself, and trigger an immediate compositor update. The compositor will render as quickly as possible, but it doesn’t need to worry about missing scanout — scanout can begin as soon as the compositor finishes.

(There are surely some constraints on the intervals between frames sent to the display, but this seems quite manageable while still scanning out a frame immediately after compositing it nearly 100% of the time.)
You need to pay a license for watching TV programs at the same time they are being broadcast on a channel or for using iplayer. I have a TV and watch Netflix, Disney+ etc. and don’t need a license.
I agree too, this is said so well.

Both groups benefit from the same things.

The difference is in how you sell & deliver your offerings.

For the first group you have to make it available to those that are seeking.

This requires a type of promotion that is primarily informative word-spreading so these turn out to be "clients", or in the traditional medical parlance "patients", who appreciate finding out about your efforts on their behalf.

The second group will need to be reached by what is considered much more persuasive advertising, often coupled with strong closing efforts, so you can turn them into "customers", or in the modern medical parlance "customers", who respond to your sales efforts perhaps more so than your actual technology efforts on their behalf. Whether it's well-recognized or not.

You will have to handle both groups differently even if you deliver the same value to each.

Definitely the comprehensive view.
Mobile phone games are why I bought a 3DS. Some were good, almost all being paid games, but so many were just repetitious gambling for worthless achievements, portable slot machines. When I quit putting games on my phone and used that time for books and 3DS games my life got notably better. Breaking that repetition and proceeding through a story with characters and new ideas is so much more rewarding.
> Nothing is created that benefits the human race.

With Bitcoin, we're talking about nothing less than the separation of money and state, like we obtained the separation of church and state. This is huge.
The ones we use to spy on people and shoot small missiles are slow, but they are designed to stay in the air for a very long time. I assume they make drones today that are much faster (hypersonic missiles are very drone-like in some ways), we just don't know about them yet.
What's a current dynamic keyboard mapping?
Agreed.

At least for me "have done" goals are a trap. They are an endless list which will never be satisfied.

Figuring out what you "want to do" leads to immediate satisfaction and motivation leading to a fulfilling life.
> "Who Says C is Simple?"

People who don't know what "simple" means and confuse it with "easy".

https://www.entropywins.wtf/blog/2017/01/02/simple-is-not-ea...

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

"Easy" things almost always lead to astonishing complexity.

Also it's easy to see just how complex C is: Have a look at a formal description of it! (And compare to a truly simple language like e.g. LISP).

https://github.com/kframework/c-semantics/tree/master/semant...

In contrast some basic Lambda calculus language semantics fit 0.5 of a page in K.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSaIKHQOo4c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Tf1EZVj8E
I really really really want to believe this is how it will turn out, but unfortunately I just can’t. The number of people who keep falling for the same confidence scams and whatnot (in and out of crypto) over and over, just makes me think that too many humans’ brains are hard-wired to be forever gullible to this stuff and will literally never learn no matter how many times they get burned.