skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great! i have a huge 486 with soundblaster awe32 laying around to run the future mind dos based mindmachine. I only have to hook up a parallel port converter to this board which is probably larger. But AWE support is lacking... could it be emulated somehow?
Or perhaps I could use Dosbox on a raspberry pi.
Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime

> On April 17, 2013, Yitang Zhang announced a proof that for some integer N that is less than 70 million, there are infinitely many pairs of primes that differ by N.[9] Zhang's paper was accepted by Annals of Mathematics in early May 2013.[10] Terence Tao subsequently proposed a Polymath Project collaborative effort to optimize Zhang's bound.[11] As of April 14, 2014, one year after Zhang's announcement, the bound has been reduced to 246.[12]
It's the default in Python, and it's more helpful that not, so I would say it's a good design decision. But "always" is a dangerous word in engineering, and in this case, definitly not warranted.

Case in point, last week I worked with list ofdates, and I needed the last date to bracket my sliding windows as a time period cleanly.
Yes, to add to your point: nobody has managed to used the "outputs" of the STEPS project to do something useful.

There was a cool "wordprocessor-like" (Franken?) demonstrated which was created with a small number of lines, it should be a huge success in the FOSS world no?
Well no, nobody managed to make it work.
> If the current state of affairs at Twitter keeps up, it'll probably be a slow descent into chaos.

It's not like Twitter was bug free before. How many times it annoyingly refreshed the timeline while I was reading something, or when it shows notification that it failed to send the DM, and when you retry it says "you've already wrote this", or you open the reply dialog, but it freezes, has no send button at all, so you have to re-open it. All of this was happening to me pretty regularly long before Elon came along.

As we all know, just hiring more people is not necessarily the solution to every problem, and to me it seems it was exactly what Twitter tried to do in the past. Now they deconstructed it to the bare bones, which will clearly show what are the core problems and requirements. They basically turned Twitter back into a startup. And from that new starting point they can hire again to cover the needs as they arise. If they succeed it will be a huge success as they'll end up with far more optimal team (and huge savings), and of course, if they fail to catch up with problems it will be a huge failure. We'll see how well Musk can manage it...
> SpaceX is subsidised

Winning government contracts over other competitors is not the same thing as “subsidized”. Otherwise Hilton is subsidized because government employees stay there sometimes.
I actually got my start flipping bits on the PIC, partly because I heard so much about lightweight software I just assumed it must be absolutely and objectively better in every way to get so much hype.

When IoT stuff started getting big and SSDs became affordable my attitude started slowly changing as I actually experienced more software complexity and how it could just work, and save so much time for users and devs.

The tradeoff is it only saves time if you do exactly what the library dev wants you to do, and don't look into the internals too much.

I still enjoy digital electronics design, but I don't do much outside of work because the finished product is often a bit disappointing compared to commercial stuff that usually has an app ecosystem, a warranty, an injection molded case, etc.

I've been on somewhat of a decluttering binge both physically and digitally, so I've currently got almost no DIY stuff in use at home.
I hear $1bn quoted but maybe $1.5nm is accurate.
I can't see your point towards the washed out colors. Did you really compare the two Examples? I did compare both color schemes (the dark blue ones), and they seem very close together with a bit (nearly unnoticeable) more contrast for the OKSolar Color Scheme. Here is it side by side (the bottom one is oksolar):

https://i.imgur.com/wcu2r7O.png
I wish the airlines would do differentiated flights (maybe adult-only or 12+ only for one flight a day on otherwise high volume route, and maybe an explicitly pet-friendly flight on a route, etc.). I live on an island, and especially now that most airlines (covid scheduling issues) have eliminated animals as checked baggage, anyone with an animal which doesn't conform to normal cabin transport is kind of screwed -- they have to use a specialty transport company, which either flies on dedicated cargo flights or something else, or they charter a plane ($5k minimum for San Juan to Miami).

My personal preference would be zero children, zero dogs, only well behaved cats, but I realize that's a niche flight preference, but on a route with hundreds of flights a week, one flight a week (or even one a month) should be easy to fill.
I've fixed some of mine by opening the switches themselves and bending the metal spring a bit. Of course that only lasts for so long before you need to re-do the fix.

The middle mouse button seems to be the one to fail the most - I guess manufacturers cheap out on it even more than others since it isn't used by normal people that don't use X11 (middle click paste for selections) or know that it opens links in new tabs (in FF at least).
FTA: “In 2013, the bloc launched the Graphene Flagship, an initiative to commercialize the material. Backed by a €1 billion budget and nearly 170 academic and industrial partners spanning 22 countries”

Also FTA: “Pundits have questioned the value of the EU’s immense investment”

€1 billion is less than €3 per citizen of the EU.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene_Flagship#Funding:

“The Graphene Flagship is divided into two separate phases: a 30-month ramp-up phase under the 7th Framework Program (October 1, 2013 – March 31, 2016) with a total European Commission funding of €54 million, and a steady state phase under the Horizon 2020 Program with expected European Commission funding of €50 million per year.”

€50 million a year is less than €0.15 per EU citizen per year.

You can question whether the money is well spent, but I don’t see how that’s an immense amount.
Well, I think the issue is precisely considering Twitter a "simple technology project", and it's the same mistake that Musk does. Twitter isn't a "software and servers business" as he said. Twitter is a social community, and while in some regards it might be easier, it's also far more difficult in others. Just compare how many business and institutions can reliably launch rockets or create cars, and how many can reliably create social networks.
not to mention toyota did batteries and electric motors in the prius well before tesla and way more reliably and in higher volumes.
> Automotive and aerospace are not similar to each other, either. I don't know any other outfit that was successful at both.

Rolls-Royce (of the last century) would qualify, but it was more aero than space.
> Slack space leads to innovations

I'm certainly no supporter of "lean operations" with minimum staff etc, and fully agree that you need people that are well rested (for the lack of a better analogy) to do great stuff. But I do think that some of these internet giants do have to many people working there; wasn't LinkedIn 14_000 strong when Microsoft bought it?

I've always felt that the American model of doing business is based on how we optimize network traffic, i.e. double the amount of data until failure; then turn in down a bit. Fire on all cylinders until people are truly worn out, then turn down the pace a bit. Haven't worked in the US so I'm pulling this info out of thin air...
I'm not sure how you got less cautious from my comment. In fact I was saying the opposite, that they viewed gambling as a pastime or entertainment, not as a legitimate way to make money. It's when a person considers it a means of getting out of a financial tight spot that they start to make ridiculous and dangerous bets.
At first I did not understand if and how they managed to fit a running game into 64K. My original thoughts were that a memory expansion would be required.

But now that the source and release are available it makes sense - the game runs on/as a cartridge, which means that static data can be pulled almost as fast as if it was in memory.

It is nevertheless an outstanding achievement, the graphics are simply stunning, and the automapping feature is a nice addition. And it still all fits into 1 MB (IIRC the original PC game came on two disks)!
Matt works for an extremely reputable institution, not to mention he's a former Goldman Sachs lawyer. He would be the last person to call anyone or anything a fraud.

Short sellers and people that bitch about things are either heroes or completely marginalized entities (without any reputation to uphold).

Also, IDK why you expect "the system" to warn you about fraudsters. The entire premise of crypto is that it's unlimited, ungoverned finance - which also means unlimited fraud opportunity. So many reputable people warned about this general problem. Like - this should be even more common than it is, because it's ridiculously profitable and kind of legal!
There is nothing here that other big tech companies don't have. To attract the best, they spend a shitload on perks and benefits.
>and they wish they were the first

They also did similar things before Tik Tok, they just didn't catch on. Vine was quite similar, for one...
No but the people who made clickhouse did. I don’t think 1000s of engineers were required for that.

Where’s the 1000s of engineers for Postgres? Most stuff that works is made by a handful of people. Look at io_uring it’s basically one guy at Facebook…
Or to PowerBI, which will any UUID to a string even in joins. That cast + string comparisons + killing of indexes is not conducive to performant queries...
Increased taxes and the higher cost of operating in California. Check Trader Joe’s— they have a great selection of budget wines.

I hate buying wine in the US generally because the markup is so high. A 5 euro bottle in the EU could easily cost $20 in the US.
Are smart contracts Turing complete?
How many people would you say it would need for the backend?
ever notice that the truly competent people can explain things in really simple language?
Yes, the title signals low quality content.

Scanning the text, I think it is the typical SEO fluff that a whole industry has evolved around in the last decades.

Corporate blogs can be a wonderful thing. When they are written by actual employees of a company and describing how they did something.

But they are a bane of the internet when they are written by "SEO content writers" who's job it is to take a bunch of keywords and prop them up to a multiple pages long article that looks and feels authoritative but is just a potpourri of information taken from other sites.
> But getting back to the thought experiment it may ultimately even be the case that widespread rehabilitation is impossible.

And yet Norway manages a recidivism rate of 20% [1], by starting from the premise that rehabilitation is the point of incarceration; I'd certainly call it "widespread" to rehabilitate 80% of prisoners!

Also, I disagree strongly that the logical extreme of "some people are incapable of exercising full agency" is "free will doesn't exist at all, because biochemical determinism". This is a textbook example of the slippery slope fallacy. The law already recognizes and accommodates the possibility of the former, both in cases of permanent disability and of temporary incapability. One of its main tools for doing so is consultation with experts in psychology, which also means that we can refine legal application here as our understanding of psychology improves.

Moreover, "all behaviours are driven entirely and completely by chemical and electrical processes..." does not imply that free will doesn't exist! After all, it's pretty well demonstrated (through transcranial stimulation studies, cognitive behavioural therapy, more recent psychedelic studies on MDMA, etc.) that we can profoundly alter those chemical and electrical processes ourselves. Perhaps the better conclusion is that "free will" is merely our ability to alter our own biochemical state (where "merely" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here!)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_Norway
You don't need to participate, but that doesn't make "biological male" any less exclusionary.

Especially since it's a nonsense phrase. And even if it wasn't, I sincerely doubt the author actually knows about the chromosomal or endocrinological status of that person Biden spoke with.
The other side of that is browsers. Even if you don’t change your code, the platform people are running your code in changes, automatically in many cases. New JS or CSS behavior in next safari or chrome? You need to patch/push to accommodate running environments that are outside your control.
I was a little surprised he took until the final paragraph to mention
Racket. If he had played around with it then I think the article might
have read differently.

" Racket is a Lisp dialect that’s specifically designed for creating
new languages (a technique sometimes referred to as
language-oriented programming). I haven’t had time to play around
much with Racket myself, but it looks like a very suitable tool for
creating 'little languages'."
> Does it only count if he puts out a really mean tweet in your book?

With a meme of pepe sbf or higher value pepe.
> if someone claims that black swans existed, and someone else is skeptical, the onus is on the pro-black-swan side to provide evidence

Your example is exactly backwards. Black swan events are meaningful because they don't have prior evidence to inform their existence. This is the opposite of the case for zoonotic spillover - there is a well established pattern that should be present and is not.

Actually, your point is unintentionally correct - the black swan event here would be if zoonotic spillover DID occur, because there is substantial, expected, historically modeled, missing evidence. So, as you say, the onus is not on the lab-leak believer.
Then call it "blockchain app" instead.

Just like Tesla's AutoPilot, smart contracts were named that for a reason, to mislead (and make money along the way).
> I do an analysis of the new World Cup ball to see what went into creating the centerpiece of the world’s most beautiful game.

Most popular? Sure. Most beautiful? That seems to be in the eye of a soccer fan beholder, but it turns out Wikipedia agrees on the phrasing [1], and there are websites devoted to explaining it [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beautiful_Game

[2] https://www.goal.com/en/news/explained-why-is-football-calle...
I've had some dealings with them (almost became a customer but the project went away), they're smart cookies and their DB is a nice alternative to Neo4j (seems a bit faster, a bit, C++ rather than Java, implements most of the Cypher query language).
It’s going to be something like that. He bought it for 44 billion. That was mostly loans. Those loans are transferred to the company and the company pays interest on them.
I am not a member of the team or anything. I found this on tiktok. But it is open source so I checked the github repo. They do not distribute a pre-activated image, all images need to be activated using a windows key. So in that sense all they are really distributing is a configuration of windows, that is also mostly what their github repo[1] is. But I see the issue there too as I don't think even sharing unactivated windows is allowed. But worst comes to worst, they can prepare instructions on how to install their stuff with an image downloaded from microsoft website. They are not writing a new windows, its more like they are figuring out what bloat is there in windows and removing it.

Edit: They actually already have instructions on how to use their scripts with a windows image downloaded from microsoft website [2]

[1] https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas

[2] https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas/blob/main/src/README.md
A lot of people worry about super-scale prematurely, thinking that "fast enough" for each individual user means needing to be as far as possible because your have a great many users making concurrent requests.

Somewhat counter-intuitively to some: this way if thinking can actually make things needlessly less responsive for the individual users because of the "over-architecting" it can cause.
Yeah and I have no issues paying for it but unless you run Linux there is no other option that doesn't do this unfortunately.
Show HN: Open Source Terminal Integrated Environment (Rust+Svelte)
Please stop this myth of ADHD overlap, I keep reading this everywhere. There are a lot of autistic kids misdiagnosed with ADHD, but they are not the same. In some aspects they are complete opposite.

Nowhere in the ADHD definition difficulty to understand social norms or to empathise appear. They present very differently to society. I do believe that an ADHD diagnosis should not carry a reduced sentence because we are completely able to understand and see the world like neurotypical people.

There is no overlap, just ignorance and misdiagnosis.

Sincerely, a non-autistic ADHD person.
Is there a version of this that doesn't need server state? I've been thinking of making something like that.
> with a lot of overlap with ADHD

That just shows the extent of how well it's understood. Both are a diagnosis without known cause and cure.

> series of scales of symptoms

So, radically altered. The label is attached to people that just register on one or two of those scales, instead of to the institutionalized that term originally referred to. If you take offense to me calling that "watered down," why don't you correct everybody who's calling it autism/autistic instead of "ASD".

Anyway, the point was: autism in a modern, colloquial sense is nowhere near as invasive as in its original sense. There's no reason to assume people labeled "autistic" in the press is severely mentally handicapped to the point where they can't take responsibility for their own actions.
https://github.com/Atlas-OS/Atlas:

Disclaimer

By downloading, modifying, or utilizing any of these images, you agree to Microsoft's Terms (<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Useterms/Retail/Windows/10/U...>). None of these images are pre-activated, you must use a genuine key.

⇒ it may avoid legal issues, but I wouldn’t guarantee that (are third parties allowed to even distribute the unmodified Windows ISO?
> In DeFi anyone can take advantage of them using flash loans.

Ok... how do you repay flash loans when things go bad?

Please, do elaborate.
In this case though, if there is a lab which explicitly researches this type of virus, and a pandemic starts right there, the onus is on the people claiming zoonotic origins. This bothered me at the time. Even if zoonotic routes are common, the chance of it happening right next to the lab from where research is done (lab leaks also occurred before) is small and suspect. If the government then blocks research into the origin... And discussing it is banned from many forums.. You no longer need a tin foil hat.

This thing leaked from the lab, until proven otherwise imho.
That makes no sense at all. I didn't join Twitter just to read the CEO's tweets.
Not yet! It's still a web-app, but will make iOS and Android versions of the app if more people demand it.
> It’s an open to all market, and there are certified channels and customers reviews.

How is it certified if they are commingling inventory?
I don't understand your point, this is exactly what I am doing. I am not using Windows or MacOS.

> especially when so many people are perfectly happy to keep buying and using Windows OS?

Honestly, this is because a lot of people that would care are unaware that this is happening. It's impossible to stay on top on everything in your life but that doesn't make it ok to treat those people poorly.

The main issue is that for many, there isn't a choice since you can't go to most stores and buy a linux powered machine. You have to have special knowledge in order to even install it.
Debts from where? Any evidence of this at all? It seems like fantasy considering how much money the rest of Musks companies have in the bank.
"Humans are either male or female" is not "basic biology", it's kindergarten biology. It's strictly false, even if we ignore transgender or transsexual topics completely.

It is sometimes an abstraction that is good enough. It's a bit like Newtonian physics in that way.
If you consider that engineers cost about $1000 a day and he got rid of 4,000 of them… oddly it works out to about $4 million per day.

I’m not an expert in math but it’s seems pretty possible.

Plus they’ll have a lot more impressions to sell now that people are allowed to speak. Ad rates might drop but then someone will write an article about how they are getting great CPC on Twitter and everything will be back to normal after the blue checks have their sob fest.
There certainly is a fascination with strong, reproduceable emotional reactions in some autistic cases though.
They also seem to be fascinated by certain emotional reactions, that make no sense to them.

They do understand that they hurt people, but the fascination of finding something adhering to rules, is stronger.

@Scandinavian: Relatives of mine. One in particular, enjoys trolling me, and i sincerley hope its limited to me. Others might not understand the sense of humor, and it particular, the endless "reproduce" joke and reaction sequence.
Why do you assume that Amazon don't know what they're doing here?

Although you returned the laptop, the annoying process might have discouraged many others from doing so. The shipping cost and the cost of processing the return are likely much smaller than you expect when accounted for on Amazon's scale. And by making you return and re-order, they are putting the risk on you if the laptop is not the identical product, rather than taking on the costs of administering a price drop refund themselves.

Of all the things that Amazon do, analysing the game theory of customer behavior so that they can do as well as possible out of interactions like this seems like one of their biggest strengths. They certainly have thousands of skilled people working on it.

As for return scams, I would not take what they say at face value. My opinion is that they have quite sophisticated models for analysing returns, both for detection (to distinguish between the behavior professional scammers and regular customers) and economically (to decide that it's cheaper to give the latter the benefit of the doubt, let them keep returned items, etc). The only flaw is if otherwise legitimate customers start to think they can get away with falsely returning 1 in 20 items or whatever. So they 'blather on' about return scams, not because they are material to their business, but to make it clear that if you cross an invisible line, they will go from not caring about your $120 air fryer that you ended up with two of, to pursuing serious legal and criminal consequences.
In addition, how does one manage multiple cluster itself? Differnet cloud, different kubeconfigs/secrets to access them? AKA. Cluster registry!
SW enginering is about reinventing the wheel every couple of years.

This looks like a copy of Google's material design.
What is with all the people this year who insist that because something doesn't happen right away, it can never happen?

The only prediction anyone made was that the World Cup was historically a period of very high load, so if something was going to go wrong soon, the weekend would be the first vulnerable time, and the World Cup finals will be the next.