skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, but requires a ton of background to understand what the author is doing and why.

The Commodore 64 had a... somewhat unique floppy disk architecture. The disk drive itself had its own 6502 processor and some RAM, and so Commodore felt they didn't need to buy a WDC or NEC floppy controller, they could do all the work of interpreting the 250 kHz bit stream (which for physics reasons can't be the raw bit pattern the user wants to store) from the device in software. Woz had pioneered this technique four years earlier, so they knew it could work even though they made a few different and somewhat questionable choices in the hardware design. That's the "GCR" encoding being discussed.

Also, having a separate CPU meant that all the filesystem[1] duties were actually farmed off to the drive, the main CPU would just speak what amounts to a system call (open/close/read/write) interface over a 1 bit synchronous interface called IEC. But that interface was slow. Hardware bugs with their interface chip meant it needed to be bit-banged from the 1 MHz 6502's. Effectively it was a 1 bit wide parallel port, and it was awful (like, literally 10x slower at disk I/O than an Apple II!).

BUT: the separate CPU had commands that would load and execute code from the host, so its behavior could be arbitrarily changed. So... a whole ecosystem of "fast loader" products grew up using deep mysteries to work around this. Most of them were basically two-bit clockless/async transfers written in extremely carefully timed assembly.

But because of that crazy-accurate sub-cycle timing requirement, you couldn't be doing stuff like "reading the disk" and "decoding the flux patterns" at the same time. Fast loaders would load the raw data out of the shift register and only when the full sector was in RAM do the work of unpacking it into bytes to be sent over the IEC wires. So even though the transfer was fast there was a big latency cost.

So that's what the author is doing: reading bytes off the disk and decoding them simultaneously. It's a pretty amazing trick.

[1] That's the word we use today. Commodore just called it "DOS", which was ambiguous even then.
>> "Their entire lives seem to be on the internet, with no regard for anonymity or oversharing with complete strangers, many dazzled by the idea of getting fame through those interactions and often turning what should be personal relationships with real friends into exclusively virtual interactions, and it compounds when you get older and you're further incentivized to put yourself publicly out there with LinkedIn and such."

This is exactly opposite of everything I've heard and seen. If anything, they're retreating from public places to Discords and private chats with friends to reduce the risk of becoming their school/community's main character. Opening up on public social media is seen as unacceptably risky.

edit: there's also the phenomenon where almost every weird, disingenuous, etc, callout in public is from someone under 20. It's fear-based performance. The action of someone still naive and inexperienced enough to think that if they seem virtuous, no one will come for them. It's been a huge problem on furry Twitter as the fandom gains more younger members with all the furry bait coming out of Disney, Pixar, and Netflix anime. It's how we got the sinful spine line and "any furry over 30 is sus" memes.
There was never any theory that Linux doesn't need reboots to update the kernel. That's never been a general understanding in the more than 20 years that I've personally been working with Linux.

What's true is that you can update everything BUT the kernel without a reboot.

Any understanding of theory that involved a belief that Linux never needed a reboot to update the kernel is a flaw in your understanding rather than a problem with the theory.

And in fact, the reason people have been working on being able to update the kernel without a reboot is finally put to rest that final mile. Personally I don't think it will ever come to full fruition, but the list of things that does require a reboot will become smaller and smaller over time.

https://cloud7.news/article/how-to-update-linux-kernel-witho...

> Rebootless Kernel updates are not a replacement for full kernel upgrades but it allows you to patch critical security vulnerabilities and bug fixes. With these methods, you can keep your servers safe and running without outage for years.

> Several Linux vendors offer rebootless kernel updates. Your solution mostly depends on the distribution you are running.

And finally, a bit more info about canonical's solution

https://cloud7.news/article/how-to-update-linux-kernel-witho...
"sleeping later into the morning"

Weekend me already knows how to do this
What is it? Suggest you put a two line TLDR summary on top of the article. I spent around 3 mins in the web page but could not comprehend it fully.
Advertisers, marketers, and product placers for the most part aren't armed with the tools nor legal authority to implement capital punishment.
Yes. Literally, that’s it.
I see nothing in your link to justify what you say. Perhaps you can elaborate.
Do They have access to who enables this setting frequently? If so, it does not seem harmless.
> Comparisons of data between pairs of identical and non-identical twins showed that genetics plays only a minor and insignificant role in next-day alertness, explaining only about 25% of the differences across individuals.

What a bizarre statement. In what world is a 25% statistical effect "minor and insignificant"?
This wasn't just a cut to sales or support staff. 30% of engineering was layed off. I would say QA/QE was decimated, but I'm not sure if anyone was left.
I don't hate Ruby, but at my previous workplaces the Ruby evangelists would absolutely lose their minds if you criticized anything about it. They'd even jump to ad hominem and personal attacks. "Man it seems Ruby has a lot of pitfalls for engineers that aren't intimately familiar with each and every one of its ins and outs!" ... would get a response, "it's because you're just fucking stupid and a horrible engineer."
Those single-frame next-gen formats don't support progressive rendering.
I think itake understands this and was making a point (an important one at that). Douglas R. Hofstadter made the same point (perhaps more eloquently) in "A Person Paper on Purity in Language"[0], which might be another avenue if you wish to understand what the parent comment was pointing at.

[0]https://www.angelfire.com/rebellion/personpaper/
But I wonder if the decision requires the "robot" to have a human controller or can the police unilaterally expand the kind of devices they use to include more autonomous ones?
The Hard Truth About Long Wars
The issue here is not "using Apple AirDrop", it's "hindering attempts to organize political resistance".

I don't think there's anything melodramatic about calling Apple out on it.
First Light teams up with CNL on tritium production
No. Communists are not nazis. Communists do not advocate for the extermination of any marginalized group. I made it very clear that the opinion being expressed matters here, so I'm not sure why you'd think this is inconsistent?
Mobile phones and similar should be included here.
Practically nobody in the mainstream had ever really heard of the ideology before said conman adopted it and tried to make it popular. Who are the most influential backers of it right now? Convince me it's worth doing some searching on and I will, but if you tell anyone outside of small circles that you are affiliated with the movement, you are going to be on the defensive side for the foreseeable future.
It's a chicken-and-egg situation. Estonia has a much higher than average number of elderly using such online services.

If you for any reason don't want to, you can still visit a government office in person to do your business.
These are hard cases, and you have my sympathy. (Same for sibling post.) Quite possibly I'd have done the same.

This sounds very different than the case under discussion, which seems to be that an adult child decided that he didn't like the information that his competent parents were listening to, and that it was making them unhappy, so he secretly sabotaged the parents' router.
We are lucky that US is not ripe with corruptions. They either enforce it uniformly or they don't.

In some shady countries, you can bet that this would be enforced selectively.

It's sad that, for a company like Stripe that wants to do things by the book and/or needs to do things by the book (because they are in the financial sector), they will not extend employment date like this and will be criticized for it.

To no one's surprise, Stripe didn't offer this in the latest layoff.
This is extremely pleasant to have a chat with. I talked though some of my fiction preferences and it recommended that I read Hyperion next. I may just do that. Then “we” talked through some of the best museums to visit in Europe based on some of my favorite painters.

One step closer to “Her.”
> I've been laid of with no severance... [but with] 70% of my salary guaranteed

Uhh, yeah obviously that felt like a vacation.
They could also be losing sales for having ads on Twitter.
It's not just you. Feels like unless I'm searching a specific quoted error message all I get are what read like vague non-insightful AI-generated articles that were fed whatever keywords I searched on. Usually from a very generic almost humorously content-farm-sounding domain.

I've recently spun up a self-hosted SearXNG instance which, while it doesn't really solve that problem, pulls and collates top results from a bunch of different search engines on the back-end, so the page 1 ratio of actually useful results to SEO garbage feels a little better to me in most cases.
AIM stored chat as HTML log files. When I moved to Adium I kept all of those as well.

Combine that with being an extreme data hoarder and having full backups of basically all my computers 2000 -> now on my NAS and I've got almost everything…
100% of "recent med school grads" make less than $125k. A brand new resident will be making $45-50k and the yearly bump is in the single-digit percentages.
Amazon Omics
Remember also Java Applets?
> Is using the basic-ass I-V-VI-IV chord progression in music "plagiarism", since it has been (and is) used by countless other people before?

This is not at all what's happening here. Complete red herring.

> If GPT-3 (or most humans, for that matter) are asked to complete the phrase "To be or not to..." and decide that the word "be" is the most likely/reasonable completion, does it mean that GPT-3 (or any human, for that matter) is "plagiarizing" Shakespeare?

The short answer is yes (imho), but let me put it this way: does GPT-3 know that when it's regurgitating "to be or not to be" it's actually regurgitating Shakespeare? My argument is that no, it does not know, precisely because it thinks this just happens to be a very strong statistical correlation of stringing words together. When, in fact, it's a very famous phrase by a very famous person. So, in a way, it's "accidentally" plagiarizing, but plagiarizing nonetheless. Like if, for whatever reason, I had heard the phrase "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" somewhere, but couldn't remember where, my ignorance doesn't preclude me from technically plagiarizing Charles Dickens if I blatantly reused the phrase without attribution.

> things like "it is literally plagiarizing and copying what it saw before" (which seems much less defensible/accurate).

This is literally what it's doing, though, under the guise of "statistical correlation." In fact, I've read reports of people using GPT-3-adjacent models that needed to add specific filtering out of training data.
Sure, but that's not what's being discussed in this thread.

"The riskiest stocks are down thousands of %" is untrue regardless of whether that position was in regular shares or /r/WSB style 10,000 calls expiring Friday.
Spot on analysis of the market — we also think the next frontier for data eng/science is towards further automation. After all, dashboards are input to a person that makes a decision and takes an action; and to your point, tools on the market don’t really serve this use case.

To this end, we plan to support more human-in-the-loop workflows by expanding on our dashboard feature and enabling stateful user input interfaces.

One small note to point #4, while we provide out-of-box infrastructure for easy setup, Patterns can run on your existing data warehouse — so it plays nicely with big teams that have existing tools.
I switched to this habit as well and reduced my meals to only 2 per day. I also learned to not fill up to the brim by waiting to see if I'm really hungry. Another habit that I adopted is chewing my food thoroughly.
No, you keep acting like unit economics are evenly distributed, when they are not and that is the point.

People show average unit economics and people assume that the average applied to every transaction, when it is actually a distribution.

Expanding into new segments and markets almost always leads to temporary negative unit economics, but that's just what growth looks like.

The trick is to not take that too far and enter markets/segments with unit economics that will never be positive (like on-demand dog walking)
You're talking about the former owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling. Not an NFL owner.
Ivory: Tapbot’s work-in-progress iOS and iPadOS Mastodon client
Nonsense. It's an elderly issue, everyone knows elderly people shouldn't be on the road but no one wants to take their licenses (they vote in droves).
Languages are orthogonal to the desires of technical architects, solution architects and business analysts, that control the helm of enterprise shops.

There was no Java when GoF book came out, CORBA and DCOM were used all over the place, SOAP was initially driven by Microsoft and its COM/.NET group (see Don Box), when enterprise architects get FP into the enterprise, scalaz happens.
The article contains a few salient lines, including my favourite:

Twitter must agree to an “extensive independent audit”
"Brand safety". Apple cultivates their image and don't want it damaged. Twitter isn't valuable enough as an advertising space to take a risk for. That is, they pulled twitter ads because they think advertising on Twitter isn't worth the price and might reduce the value of their brand.
A major loss of productivity? I think maybe i've spent an hour at the DMV in the past 10 years. I spend maybe an hour or two each year doing my taxes. I struggle to think of a single other case where my time is consumed with dealing with any kind of bureaucracy. I'm not convinced it's a major problem.
Same thing with people who have a scarred face or have a British accent (for US audiences anyway). You almost always know they're going to turn out to be the bad guy.
It depends entirely on your life circumstances. It can feel like a vacation if your partner is still earning 6x+ the median national household income, you have ample savings and multiple years of runway for any immediate debts that can't become delinquent without significant consequences, and you have wealthy parents to fall back on on top of everything else.

(for the record, I don't have any of these aside from the runway, since I have no significant debts due to the lack of a mortgage)
Eric Lippert was my hero back when his blog was hosted on MSDN. Sad to see him go into retirement when he's at his prime. Hope he finds some new exciting project.
Matthew Walker's “Why We Sleep” Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors
You can use Geyser [0] to "bridge the gap" to Bedrock clients. There are bugs here and there, but it works pretty great to get everyone on the same server.

[0] https://geysermc.org/
New Alzheimer's Drug Faces Uncertain Regulatory Path
The problem is that in the age of the internet, it's very difficult to find anything that someone, somewhere won't be offended by. Every time an organization or project gives in and alters its innocently-chosen name because a tiny minority takes offense, they further normalize outrageous outrage.

It's definitely a fine line to walk. There are names that originated in an offensive context, and it's easier for me to see the objection to those. But "lunatic" hasn't been commonly used in its offensive sense in nearly a century, so I don't think it's fair to stoke outrage towards a project that started in the 2020s and chose it for extremely innocent reasons.
I doubt there's consensus on which "side" has stronger calls for violence. But it's not needed. We can just agree that calls to violence are virtually always wrong and deal with them uniformly without respect to ideology.
Damn, I was hoping for this one weird trick.
Instead it's "wake up later" -
and no tips on how anyone's supposed to achieve that.
What is surprising is that there's no indication doing exercise immediately after waking up is supposed to be helpful, yet that's exactly what works for me (even if it's just walking the dog).
Article didn’t mention the best part:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once-only_principle

Basically the government isn’t allowed to ask you for any information more than once. They already know!
What is new is the explosion of the study of "misinformation/disinformation" in academia.
It's debatable that it is totally harmless if the measure was taken in response to the protests. It could prevent the free-flow of otherwise censored information that could be relevant to keeping protesters safe.
Oh yeah, because those problems wouldn’t affect low tech platforms at all.
Why convert USD to USDC and back again, and get two currency exchange dings, on top of the blockchain transfer fees... all for the privilege of still needing to trust Circle (backed by the sinking ship of Coinbase) when you could just do a cheap and simple wire transfer. Same amount of trust, but less fees and the trusted party is more trustworthy.

Edit: Come to think of it, you'd need to trust both Circle and whatever cryptocurrency exchange.. in addition to your bank. With wire transfer you just need to trust the wire and your bank. So two parties vs three.

Wire is actually more trustless!
Not at all. The text file has no idea of time, it all exists at once.
Uh, Matthew Walker, the fraudulent scientist

Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors

https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
Are there people who actually won’t buy an iPhone if they advertise on Twitter? That sounds so absurd, but I guess we’re talking about Twitter users
Thanks for giving the thriftbooks.com links. I've completely moved over there to buy my books instead of Amazon.
video based image formats have a ton of downsides. Modern video codecs are all designed for large resolutions, while things like icons are often pretty small (64x64 or less). Videos don't support transparency, don't care about progressive scans, and are more lenient for certain types of errors because people don't spend time looking at every frame. As such, there are a lot of reasons why it is beneficial to use an image first format. https://cloudinary.com/blog/how_jpeg_xl_compares_to_other_im... has some comparisons showing how much better JPEG-XL is than HEIC/webp.
True. This is why I run it only for one path. I also run it against Kubernetes API and some of the payloads resulted in timeouts which I submitted to the security team.
I've received random dick picks often enough on airdrop that I have turned it to contacts only, and so has every female friend of mine that I know of.

The primary usecase of allowing everyone to send at all times seems like mass organization
You can "lose sales" and save money by spending less on marketing at the same time.
Relevant discussion points:

- European Green Deal _was_ watered down after Exxon met with EU comissioners, specifically to prolong transport related emissions. They will likely get what they asked for. [0]

- Biomass is _not_ carbon neutral in any practical sense The payback time for carbon debt ranges from 44–104 years after clearcut, depending on forest type and assuming the land remains forest. Despite all the media spin this is just too long when we are dealing with a climate emergency with several positive feedback loops.[1]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/06/exxonmobil-...

[1] DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaa512
Waiting for Superbatteries
Sorry if the link to my own site is frowned upon, but I haven't seen any other news coverage of this yet. The Tapbots team (probably most-known for its Tweetbot Twitter client) has started work on a Mastodon client, heavily based off its Tweetbot app. The TestFlight beta link was briefly posted across Mastodon, but it apparently wasn't meant to be public and the beta was subsequently closed. I managed to get access though and shared a few screenshots and thoughts.
For those who do not have a twitter account: https://nitter.net/msmelchen/status/1597807914395500545
This is a fantastic inside look at this particular domain! Thank you for making time to write this up.
What does that mean? The signatures are self-describing, you don't need to build a "consensus" around them.
In America maybe but not so much elsewhere
Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way?

Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2]

[1] https://www.ispot.tv/
[2] https://www.samba.tv/
Sort of like calling in a targeted drone air strike on your own population.
But that's not what the article said - it suggested you needed to wake up later.
The printer industry needs a revolution.
Twitter is now operating at 1.3 gigacuils.
CEOs talk out of both sides of their mouth, news at 11.
I really wonder how many americans and asians here think, that schools in Europe are inherently less affected by bullying. I went to a public school in germany. I attended school from around 2000s-2010s, so i had a mixed bag young teachers affected by modern pedagogics, middle aged teachers and teachers who clearly showed influence of nazi like pedagogy (it’s called „schwarze pädagogik“ (black pedagogy) in german an was popular until the late 70s.

At least one girl and three boys dropped out of my high school year (we had 3 classes with around 20-30 students) explicitly because they had been bullied! Then there was at least one student, who repeated a year because of bullying. Then there were like two female and male students who got heavily bullied, but made it through high school without disturbances.
> hiiele?

I live bits that give rare insights into other cultures.

The description of the appropriate reddit page google-translates to "let's meet at the fire".

Is that correct?
In this case, the net metric is the sensible one to use.
You find these all over the place[0]; I often try them and am unsurprised when they work. Have to train myself not to use ^w though. Try to erase word and it closes the window.

[0] for example in the quakelive console
The comment was clearly referring to the “sleep later into the morning” part, though.
So this is now fixed: https://yuri.is/not-julia/ ?
I got an online renewal for a REAL ID, but that was for a 4 year replacement of a 4 year card, and there was specific language about having renewed in person the previous time.

So technically yes, but an 8 year REAL ID that has to be renewed in person would be strictly better.