skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "(I think Microsoft is an interesting example because they have a history -- pre-2010 -- of being one of the biggest opponents to the Unix philosophy)"

Windows had system-wide IPC (OLE and COM/DCOM) since Windows 95 that Linux doesn't have today, and which I suspect Linux users don't even know they're missing. You want a spreadsheet in a word document, you could drag it in there and Excel as a component would appear inside Word. You want to extract JPG metadata in your VBScript, call WScript.Shell and lean on Explorer to do it. Array calculations? Automate the 3rd party J engine. Voice recognition in Python with PyWin32? Instantiate SAPI.SPVoice. System wide task/specialty-focused components not like installing a node.js library, but available to any language or any program which speaks the same interfaces.

It isn't /piping/ but it isn't everything-reimplements-the-world either.

> "An example that also highlights this is Microsoft's work on PowerShell -- which is built to be used in complex pipelines"

And sadly you have to drop away from the pipelines to fuse operations together to get decent performance.

Get-ChildItem C:\Windows | Where-Object Name -like '*.dll'
gci c:\windows |? Name -li *.dll

will not be as fast as

Get-ChildItem c:\windows -Filter *.dll

because the first one has to generate pipeline data for every file only to filter most of them out, the second one can generate only the data which is needed in the first place. And this problem of fusing operations to avoid wasting resources is endemic to pipelines, not only to PowerShell - see Unix shells serialising everything to text at the output of a command only to parse it from text at the input to the next command, or how commands gain ever more options to do with filtering and processing, summarising and formatting, which aren't anything to do with the "one thing" they allegedly do.
True — but Unicode strings that are not bit-equal aren't collation-equal either, so that doesn't usually matter. A non-canonicalized Unicode string won't "find" its canonical counterpart in a hashtable.

IEEE754 floats (and doubles) are kind of unique among scalar types, in that the answer to "are these equal" in pretty much every programming language is delegated directly to the CPU to answer; and, in obeying IEEE754 semantics, the CPU's definition of equality for FP numbers makes things equal that aren't bit-representation-equal.
Can you give more info on the data reporting options that we should be disabling?
"Back" to what? Their level of development before the age of colonization?
I'll take it one step further: deploy your highly available container home in a Kubernetes cluster.

/s
> Surprised to hear people say that it could be a step up from VSCode.

VS Code is very* lightweight. Both in speed and in features. Comparing it with IntelliJ makes it seem very basic. Now, for some people that’s okay, but JetBrains IDEs are full-blown IDEs.

*: Compared to something like JetBrains tools, or literally any other electron software.
This would be totally inexplicable to 5 year olds, except the odd genius. But we took it as intended i.e. "can someone explain this in a simpler way, defining terms like "R""
Very handy when I've forgotten what film I've loaded into what carriers!
Losing 80% of employees is not the same as losing 80% of the workload.

Much of that workload isn't going away, even if they are ignoring it.
Resharper. Visual studio sucks in a few key areas without it.
It's not a Jack Dorsey situation where they're just throwing old CEOs at the wall to see what sticks -- Iger ran Disney incredibly well and no one wanted him to leave.

edit: see echelon's comment
It would be great for Disney if he could get Mayer back.
If you are on the Copilot team now - seems like a perfect revenge story.
Question: how does the density of R(x) primes, with respect to x, compare to the density of primes. Are they the same?
That should work, but I think for bulky cooling I'd just stick the pi to a half inch thick square of aluminum.
It feels like this is a mindset across the industry. Everything seems to moving away from customization-- no "I prefer the old UI", no "I want these accessibility/shortcut tools", no "this theming (more complex than the occasional dark-mode toggle) helps with my workflow", no "let me see real error messages instead of oopsie-daisy cop-outs".

The overall narrative is infantilization of the customer. It's not like our customers are doing something important with our products, or have specific needs or tastes. They're just undifferentiated blobs that can be slid through whatever KPI-tracking funnel we want them to run through this week.

I wonder if this is just the natural evolution of the hyperscale business-- when "everyone" is your potential audience, the median/mean customer becomes a nontechnical user with no expectations, and so you end up with business decisions that wouldn't fly at a more focused "tools for professionals" business.

It could also be a matter of user count/growth focused metrics; as you go searching for that second billion users, an obvious path to go down is to continually dumb-down the product to make sure that it presents no obstacle to anyone signing on, even if the overall value they generate is lessened.

I am continually disappointed at the lack of "graduated" interfaces, where you can choose to unlock customization or advanced tools if you need it. It's not like trillion-dollar firms don't have the R&D budget for it, but they seemingly lack the incentive structure.
Manufacturing employment is declined due to lots of factors: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00054...

> UK manufacturing employment fell especially steeply in the early 1980s during a recession triggered by a high exchange rate and high interest rates. The job losses during these years were documented in particular by Townsend (1983) and Fothergill and Guy (1991) and the process of deindustrialization more generally by Martin and Rowthorn (1986). The recession of the early 1990s added further major job losses (Gudgin, 1995). Thereafter, manufacturing output largely stagnated and manufacturing employment continued to slide even though the UK economy as a whole enjoyed 15 years of sustained economic growth.

What’s notable about New Labour was how manufacturing job losses continued even during a long period of sustained economic growth. Finance and knowledge sectors grew while manufacturing sectors declined.

Moreover, as to China specifically, the UK had little trade with China until 2000: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-53468925.amp

Likewise immigration really got turbocharged under New Labour: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2015-32162123
Hopefully Disney will cut the political sermon from the next movies. I've just watched "Eternals" and couldn't believe it's a Disney movie.
I was going to mention something along these lines. I quit smoking 15 years ago because I realized I just felt dirty, sick, and depressed after a cigarette, no matter how much the addiction primed me to think otherwise leading up to it.
For the older devs, has there been anything in the past like this?

As in some new hyped tech that people kept trying to insert into their business?
> This is almost certainly poor wifi / cell coverage, not Signal having "hiccups" or "latency."

Signal is very finicky about that, though. I have friends who prefer Whatsapp simply because they don’t have to worry about connection stability. With Signal, you sometimes don’t even know if messages actually arrived or not.
Not sure whether or not the small fee would do anything other than make it more elitist, and money is not necessarily a predictor of community member quality. The only thing a fee might do is dissuade mass spam bots, but HN doesn't seem to have a spam bot problem. Not that I have a better answer though.
jetbains software and I use it for work. I'm using datagrip, phpstorm and py charm
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Obviously. Why else would people on hacker news advocate for all the socialist economic policies that humanity just spent the entire 20th century proving don't work?

Sadly history repeats so we'll probably just have another "cultural revolution" and "great leap forward" in the 21st century.
There was definitely a period where O3X was behind but Zevo was dying and I couldn't update because of ZFS version conflicts. Lead to some leaps of faith in beta O3X to get up onto it and the community was pretty active. And still more active today than I'd expect too.
Well, until Truth Social fails, which could be pretty soon. Then he'll want to be back on Twitter.
The liberty is in not being forcibly relocated. Try to focus.

Note how far the question has already drifted from human zoos, to just whether it's good to contact people or not. This is not an accident. It's because the human zoo comparison was never defensible; it was trivial to force you to move the goalposts.
Twitter needs whatever features the customers want so they can increase their DAU’s to a rate that will drive their profits to pay off the debt. He can’t coast with the current feature set as it has shown that it can’t pay the bills.
Why read old books? A case for the classic, the unusual, the neglected
Modern x86_64 and ARM designers absolutely know a lot about computers, and the expectations of modern software. That’s why we see constant advancements in things like vector instructions...

Perhaps the designers know a lot, but Intel and AMD seem to have been driven by sales & marketing, not by knowledgeable designers. Look at the list of "features" being regularly added to Intel CPUs - and then look at how many have been depreciated or removed, and consider the large proportion that have never been widely used.

Don't waste those transistors - give me the simpler & cleaner architecture, and a little more cache.
I'm not formally diagnosed with ADHD, but I find myself able to relate with the struggles.

There's this place at the back of my university's library in the silent section, I think it's below a large HVAC fan motor or something. There's always a deep 'brrrrrrrrrr' sound going, and it is an absolutely sublime place to work. (https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/whiteNoiseGenerator.php?l=... this sounds pretty close to it).

Earplugs help, but for some reason the deep 'brrrrrrrrrrr' is very relaxing. A quiet environment with the 'brrrrrr' is preferable to pure silence (though I'll still take ear plugs over one of those horrific open office environments).

Moving off topic a bit, but other things I do to help focus:

- Redirect bad habit sites (like HN tbh) in the `hosts` file to 127.0.0.1 as a site blocker

- Turn off cell phone, and place well out of arms reach

- Kill & block discord, telegram, ect

(Fortunately, I'm at a place in life where no one really needs to contact me on short notice)

---> The goal being to give my brain literally nothing else to do besides the work <----

(Not perfect since I tend to daydream a lot, but I'm almost graduated uni, so I guess it's working well enough)

If I'm really struggling to get work done, I'll set a countdown timer to create artificial external pressure.

During my internships, and side gigs, I find myself setting up "real work" periods where I (try to) block the world out, and communication periods. (I get along with people too well and chit chat too much otherwise).

In general, if the day-to-day work environment requires just a whole lot of "raw willpower" it's not going to work out. Willpower is for losers anyways, better to remove the distractions / change the environment. (Also fuck MS for constantly trying to weasel more ads into its OS, their new widgets panel in Win11 is literally useless to me for mandatory news ads)

Oh, but MS Edge's read aloud is a god send, it has the best text to speech voices I have access to, and I can use it on any html or pdf article easily. MS giveth, and MS taketh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unfortunate that zlib died. MS Edge TTS only works with html and pdf, zlib basically let me have any textbook I needed in school read aloud to me as a pdf (janky, but it gets the job done). In particular it really falls apart with math textbooks, but eh.

~ I've rambled too much, back to homework now ~
Eternals was in production since 2018. Its filming was mostly complete by February 2020, when Chapek took over. It’s also Marvel and under Feige’s purview.
Should this really require export control? It's only standard consumer electronics doing the heavy lifting. The military equivalent of this kind of system is orders of magnitude more capable in every way to the extent that it seems silly. It also makes people less likely to obey the rules in the future if the govt is constantly crying wolf about this stuff. Export controls aren't supposed to be something that hobbyists can accidentally run afoul of.

Seems like the rules need an update. Anyone know who to lobby about this? Office of the president?
The amount of combusted material that one is exposed to makes a big difference in cancer rates (and other disease rates).[1]

I imagine that this is orders of magnitude lower for marijuana smokers than tobacco smokers, especially in this era with most flower being >20% THC by mass.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6235683/
> I'm not sure what baggage either prop came with

Short answer, tribal gaming leadership shenanigans. No betting propositions will ever pass in CA without their approval, but they continuously want way too much of the gambling pie.

1. Prop 26 — sports betting at tribal casinos and four race tracks. Tribal casinos can do dice and roulette.

Issues:

- even more power at tribal casinos.

- “ The proposition also would have created a new way of enforcing some gaming laws, allowing anyone to bring a lawsuit if they believe the laws are being violated and the state Justice Department declines to act”. Basically any card room that was not tribal was going to be sued non-stop.

2. Prop 27 - online sports betting.

Issues:

- even more centralized gambling control by tribes.

- extremely high threshold for gaming companies seeking licenses would have made it unusually tough for small but viable vendors to compete.
With new research showing that vehicular tire wear being an even worse polluter.
Docker and Vagrant are the some of the prime examples.

They are clearly useful but people still don't want to pay.
To starve the industrial prison complex.
Ash HN: Where do I start to build a POC?
I am a PM, who used to code over a decade back and have not kept in touch with the evolving tech stack. I have an idea that I want to POC. Help!!!

I want a simple website, iOS and Android app which allows invite only access, registration, login, a form, view progress and ability to send notifications on email to begin with

Ideally want a common front end that could be web based (web app, pwa?) and a simple backend

I want to do this myself. I used to be a dev but that was eons ago :(

Where do I start?
Thanks for answering. This is totally without hardware graphics acceleration, right? As my understanding is that gpu drivers are still an experimental work in progress.

If so, it’s pretty cool that you still get 6 hours even with that handicap. I’m excited to see how it looks once the GPU works well.
There is also a problem of what happens when the farmers computer gets hacked and their land NFT stolen. Are the police meant to roll in and kick out the farmer who clearly still owns the land? Or do they just ignore the blockchain record as it's obviously wrong but not fixable.
Not to be pendantic, but 1950s would be if that was happening indoors. I assume this happens to you and your family outdoors.
Yes, that’s the anonymity part. You only need that if the parties don’t have some kind of relationship and reputations to maintain.

This distinction matters because almost no real world situation is like that: people need to know that what they’re buying is what they were promised, sellers want to avoid doing business with anyone who fraudulently claims damages, etc. If you need to add reputations and/or trusted third parties, you get no value from a blockchain to make up for all of the negatives unavoidably added by using one.
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It’s not really more work; it’s just a matter of enabling the ‘client isolation’ setting on the wireless AP.

For example, see Cisco’s Meraki documentation: https://documentation.meraki.com/MR/Firewall_and_Traffic_Sha...

> With Client Isolation enabled, clients will only be able to communicate with the default gateway and will not be able to communicate with any other devices on the same VLAN (or broadcast domain). In order for the wireless client to communicate with another device, the upstream gateway must be used to enable this communication (e.g. inter-VLAN routing and ACLs). Any traffic bound for an address on the same VLAN as a device in client isolation will be denied. Traffic bound for other VLANs will be forwarded and routed normally.
My mom, cause of her eyesight, constantly increases default font size and every single simple action on her phone is like solving a sudoku puzzle.

My theory is these designers dont have family members or they dont care about them.
No the answer is limited government that doesn’t make laws because someone’s sensitivities are harmed by watching ads.

Just like we overturned laws because someone’s sensitivities were harmed because other people were drinking and even conservative states think it’s no one’s business if another person decides to smoke weed.
> I am eagerly awaiting any response to know why this is such an unpopular comment! I'm excited to have my mind changed. Tell me.

I suspect it's because "an artificial intelligence that can identify primes for quicker testing" is a phrase that would probably be recognized by experienced developers in this space as a bad idea. There are already very good ways to identify prime candidates; no artificial intelligence is needed. They just take a while because even though they're very efficient, it takes a long time to operate on staggeringly huge numbers.

For a more relatable example, you can build an artificial intelligence that understands what you mean when you type "2 + 2". But this is a fantastically inefficient and expensive way to compute the value "4". Therefore, no one does this in a serious way. Even GPT-3, one of the more advanced commercially available models with hundreds of millions of parameters, struggles with multiplying two-digit numbers together (one study found a success rate of 20%).
Blockchains are great for one-thing... guarantee that data is being appended and never modified.

When you want to display a record, you can aggregate the data historically and allow people to see changes and attribute them to users and time but you can always see what was originally added.

However that's kinda risky for HR because anything committed to that DB will be there... forever!
Disney bought Marvel in 2009 but you are right avout Chapek. It looks like the hope in Disney is lost!
We used to look forward to Disney releases but something happened around 2015 which made them sanctimonious and forgettable.
Andrew Bustamante says on Fridman podcast that French government intelligence agency is number one in the world in industrial espionage.

France might also be the country that “bans the most”. Privacy is probably used as a tool in business.
There is vaping of the dry herb itself or or concentrates all of which involve zero Propelyne Glycol or Vegetable Glycerin or Vitamin E. Very much the more popular trend in weed vaping that has nothing to do with anti vaping propogandas and is unfortunately ignored by those that don’t partake.

That is where most weed smokers end up or plan to end up.
When Caves Were Avant-Garde Architecture
Disney did buy Marvel, but as with Pixar and Lucasfilm, the heads of each seem to get a decent amount of leeway to operate as they want.
I have thought about this. I think it's a two part issue. One is a timing concern. The timing is critical on the shinkansen and waiting for people to go find and organize their bikes from another carriage would add time to boarding and departure.

The other is application in general. It would help travellers I think, but the Shinkansen is a intercity service more akin to an intercity flight. I am not sure how common it would be to have a bicycle move between cities, rather than say rolling luggage. Also thinking of the reduced capacity and increased chaos of the trains should you add bicycles to the general carriages.

Lastly, affordances for bikes are pretty good in most other ways, you could probably keep a cheap bike either side of your common stops. I would love to hear if people actually do this.
That's actually one of the big problems with buying a mobile home. They don't really increase in value (as much as, say, owning a traditional home).
We can put bounds on it.

Here's an easy lower bound, for the context of avoiding collisions: The name has to have been used by at least two different humans.

Or to get closer to a reasonable bound, 100 humans.
George Conway and others have at times lamented that whenever somebody arrives at something sufficiently complex to be intriguing and no apparent real world application ... military gentrification follows within a decade.
Because I'm always disappointed with paid proprietary software eventually. Despite some shortcomings, I used Windows 7. Anything after that had a confusing interface with two settings panels, some kind of an attempt to bring a tablet interface to desktop, loss of control over my computer.

After installing NixOS, I never actually boot into Windows 10 anymore. Naturally, I never use MS Office or Photoshop anymore.

It would feel weird to buy some proprietary software, even if it is good. Why not contribute to an open source effort?
TSMC planning advanced 3nm chip production in Arizona, company founder says
Trains just aren’t well-suited to carrying bikes. A bike takes up as much space as like 4 people, if not many moor on a crowded train (although perhaps only 3 in a seating-room only train like the Shinkansen). When you consider that, taking a bike on a train is decidedly environmentally unfriendly.
This is an example of state-of-the-art computer graphics at the time, using this method:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg-Carlson

>In the early 1960s, Stromberg-Carlson also produced the SC4020, a computer-controlled film recorder used chiefly for Computer Output Microfilm applications. The SC4020 could output graphics and text either to 16mm microfilm or hardcopy (using chemically-developed light-sensitive paper) utilizing a Charactron CRT as the heart of the recorder (with the microfilm camera pointed directly at the face of the Charactron inside a light-proof column inside the 4020). Some 4020s were fitted with a 16mm motion picture camera instead of the stock microfilm camera, in order to create some of the first computer-generated animation.

>Though intended as a high-speed printer, the SC4020 could be used to create vector-graphical output of scientific and engineering data, rather than plotting numbers by hand. Early installations of the SC4020, with its plotter capability, were at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Livermore, CA and at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated in Murray Hill, NJ.[5] The SC4020 could also be used to create computer-animated movies on a frame-by-frame basis. These computer-animated movies, usually using vector graphics, were of scientific and engineering data and also of artistic investigations, done with the 35 mm camera or the 16 mm camera. Pin-registered cameras were used for creating movies on the SC4020 to minimize jitter. Computer-animated movies using raster graphics were created on the SC4020 at Bell Labs in the early 1960s using FORTRAN and the BEFLIX subroutine language.
I wonder how much bandwidth they could save by caching the movies... Disney movies tend to be repeat watched by youngsters. Of course a lot of the streaming hardware doesn't support this.
Written like that Google suddenly looks like geniuses.