skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That chart with Java is amazing. And in my personal case, also true. Actually paid for something called SmalltalkAgents (which was pretty cool btw) just a bit before Java happened. Then Java happened.

On QKS' SmalltalkAgents:
http://computer-programming-forum.com/3-smalltalk/fe67cb349c...

(amazed that there is not a single image of this software on the net.)
Because free speech was always about the kind of speech that Musk wanted to be free: transphobia and COVID conspiracy theories. He saw people he agreed with being silenced, but never cared otherwise.
They will accelerate cheap screening before treatments
Even casually, deleting comments and accounts happen all the time.

I would laugh if a site used the word "gutted" as a weak excuse for not having that feature available. The IQ is so high on that statement.
My high school Latin has faded to the point that I resorted to Google translate, here is what it says:

"You who remember our passing, I beg you to be what we are, you will be. We were once what you are

Alas, how great is our grief"
(with some complexities about defederation; Gab is on a Mastodon fork, but most of the Mastodon world has blocked interchange with it.
Perhaps the risk/benefit ratio explains it better. The NYTimes could break a story that could undermine future access to an influential group of elites and that could be not factual and invite pesky questions, in exchange for a potentially, considerable boost in reputation. Or they could play it safe, wait for someone else to take the plunge, and then follow after, with a negligible increase in their reputation.

When an organization has already taken on considerable risk on multiple fronts, they become much more conservative. I'd wager it's not fear of the Paul Brothers, it's a limited appetite for risk. Also, mitigating risk since it takes time to investigate a signal and turn it into a story; which the NYTimes seemed content to offload onto Coffee.
What's crazy is how bad the Detroit made cars Bolt & Mustang are and it get's really cold in Detroit.
He’ll be back.
It's not really the fault of "heating" that you're idling your car unnecessarily. I'm definitely not idling my car to defrost my windshield, as I'll most likely pre-heat my car, or if I don't, I'll scrape the frost off.
> having CAR and CDR take lists instead of conses.

(car nil) and (cdr nil) safely returning nil was introduced in InterLisp, according to Gabriel's HOPL palper. At some big Lisp summit in the early 1970's, InterLisp decided to adopt MacLisp's readtables, and MacLisp adopted (car nil) -> nil.

Why the empty list is a symbol is natural: math uses symbols to refer to such things. For instance the empty set is notated both {} and ∅: empty braces or the special null set symbol.

I mean, why have symbols refer to things in a language that is consciously oriented toward symbolic processing, whose initial creators were people with math backgrounds? It's pretty much a forgone no-brainer.
PL/1 was an IBM mainframe language; but Intel made a compiler for a stripped-down version targeting 8086, called PL/M (Programming Language for Microprocessors). PL/M was (I believe) the main language used in writing the CTOS/BTOS operating system (Convergent Technologies/Burroughs).

PL/M was a nice language. It was suited for system programming (structs, pointers). I first came across it in some introductory programming book I bought from a second-hand crate. A lot of my early programming lessons came from that book, even though I had no access to a PL/M compiler. I have no idea who wrote it, or what its title was.
Paul is an out of touch reactionary billionaire. when you’ve lost your own, maybe it’s time to acknowledge you don’t know what you’re doing
When something is web based, I get it. That requires infrastructure to run. When it's a downloadable program that requires nothing but yearly or monthly licensing, then I am in full agreement with you. I would argue however that for most SaaS or subscription based services though, there are alternatives to them that follow a different business model or are FOSS. I do know, though, that in some cases this is not true.
If we're gonna go that route then Emi deserves the hero title just for that save at 120+3'.. not just for how important it was, but how unlikely it was and what followed after.
> It's also a quite absurd for a free-speech platform to even have such a policy in the first place

It does make sense for a paid-speech platform, though.

Also, as a thought experiment, if Twitter were a part of the fediverse, wouldn’t this policy essentially be the same as defederating from the prohibited sites?

I’m new to the concept of the fediverse, so I welcome edification or enlightenment on that thought experiment.
lol what. Pele is 3 times WC winner my dude. Messi is great, but not yet at Pele's level.
Well Dune is pretty popular, many people have probably mentioned it. In the series humanity ends up going to a long war against sentient machines, which they win. All machines and computers are destroyed and laws are created so anyone who builds a computer, even as simple as a calculator, is sentenced to death.
That, and "inoremap jk <Esc>".
Maybe Elon is playing 15D chess, and crashing Twitter into the ground is part of a bigger plan.
And this is exactly the reason I self host[0]. I am pretty sure it's not just me. I have seen r/selfhosted[1] skyrocket in it popularity over past year or two. The number of applications that you can self host are increasing daily. The only problem at the moment with self hosting seems to be the maintenance and setup but that also will be solved once many people start doing it. History repeats itself. Self hosting too will become mainstream once again

[0]: Why start self hosting https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/why-start-self-hosting/

[1]: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted
I follow mostly tech people (makers, not influencers), and it’s been great.

All I needed to do was mute political threads when they happened (left or right), and I got a lot of interesting stuff out of it.

Now it’s a lot of tribal bullshit.

I wish I could mute Elon Musk and what he does across the entire Internet.

And that’s speaking as someone right of centre. I’m just tired of his antics.
What do you mean "the entire point of having power is to avoid exercising it as much as possible to minimize disruption? We worked hard to get here, now you're telling me not to use it?"

Honestly. It's a story old as our collective conception of time. Youth is yearning to power. Being grown up is hoping to $deity that anyone who gets there is too tired or lost to use it to screw things up majorly.
I worked at a bank and the truth of the matter is COBOL is never going away. Most large banks run on it.
Sorry for you. And sadly it's not an uncommon experience. Lots of people leave cancer care with a sour taste due to way too many mishaps.

And the recent era is not pretty (diminishing healthcare in lots of places .. saying that as a French, covid wiping a lot of professional out of the field).

We can do a lot better, focus and resources must pour where it's important.
There’s an old adage about never meeting your heroes that applies well to PG.

Some of his daily takes were so embarrassing and insipid that it was hard to maintain respect. It’s funny because his long form posts which are often insightful were likely reviewed/edited by a third person. A concept he has actually said only exists in the modern commercial publishing era.
My personal heresy is:
ino jj <esc>

I like it because my fingers never leave the home row.
> That Finnish law you quoted makes exceptions for public channels, so you are wrong about that as well

What am I wrong about? It obviously makes an exemption for CB radio which is intended for random people to socialize on.

"public calling channels" refers to a variety of specific channels such as 8.1 for PMR446 or 71,100 MHz VHF/RHA68.
This should cause a significant degree of cognitive dissonance for quite a lot of Hacker News users. fascinating to see two members of the billionaire tech class disagree publicly like this.
I mean, they've won twice in my lifetime and I watched both. It's ok. Just trying to figure out what you were watching?
First time I’m using Mastodon, and it’s incredibly slow. Is the app any faster than the web app?
I thought it'd collapse on the tech side before the policy side. Rather shocked the mask has come off this quickly on what "free speech" actually meant.
You can follow on any server. For example, I'm on indieweb.social but follow folks in all kinds of instances: ruby.social, fostodon.org, emacs.ch, aus.social, mstdn.jp...

ps. You can also follow hashtags if interested in a specific topic.
You know how Musk promises one thing and delivers something else? I'm not the biggest Musk fan but I believe he has a very effective process and he is a product person - that is understands what is a good product.

He will never deliver a free speech platform, he is a free-speech NIMBY and has an agenda os something that drives him but he can still turn Twitter into something valuable.

Then people will come back for whatever Twitter will become. But because he claimed free-speech absolutism he will be held accountable for it and his persona will degrade and people won't cut him a slack and that's the risk for him to fail completely. Until very recently he was able to get thousands of dollars of payment for a product that don't exists and he even jacked up the price over the years, many people are called frauds for less than this but Musk has huge social credit among the techies and He can continue selling that product and continue claiming that it will deliver next year - indefinitely.

He needs to figure out Twitter before his personality loses credit completely and losing the support of Paul Graham, a prominent persona from the scene, is not a good sign.
I actually bought one a while back for the emacs metakeys issue which had 4 buttons (it was originally designed for turning pages on a pad while playing music). It worked pretty well while it lasted, but broke after like a year.

Having a qmk split keyboard (the iris specifically https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard) was a more lasting solution that also solved some other ergonomic issues. Now my thumbs do more than just thonk the space bar. Control, shift, space, meta, backspace/delete, enter alt and esc are now done by thumbs instead of pinkies.
State machines – Why and how to use them in web development
> Twitter will no longer allow free promotion of specific social media platforms

I can foresee that Twitter Orange will be launched next week, which for 8$/month allows you to link to other social media platforms.

On a more serious tone, does anyone know if this is legal in the EU, given the recent Digital Services Act?
It goes both ways. Gab has also closed federation.

Same for Truth Social.
Their process creates the He3 from deuterium. That’s the secret sauce. They’ve got an interesting model and the direct energy capture approach invalidates much of OPs point. We will see though.
Turbo Pascal was popular because it was cheap at a time when buying a compiler could cost hundreds of dollars. But it really never got picked up widely beyond Borland products. BASIC options got a bit better. And, yes, C and Java were popular for "serious" programming.
Surprised this doesn’t mention Smalltalk’s huge influence on two major living languages: Objective-C and Ruby, both of which use the Smalltalk object model, dynamic message passing paradigm and all, which is very different from how most other OOP implementations work.

In the long run: Objective-C will be gone in 20 years, but Ruby won’t. Outside of ObjC interop facilities, Swift will retain some of Objective-C’s Smalltalk heritage, as one of many influences.
> If this already increases coding productivity by up to 50% (depending on kind of work)

Does anyone believe that?

edit: I'm surprised to see that (so far) 3 replies actually agree with the statement. Is there a video that you'd recommend that shows realistic usage and gain from copilot? Maybe a livestream or something.
Only the optimists were thinking we would have something like Waymo already in 2022.
It's not a question of laziness it's a question of prioritization and opportunity cost.

The logical conclusion of your argument is Apple has lots of money therefore they should have finished everything already.

The small team assigned to port Books to iOS16 probably decided that spending a lot of effort porting the one animation is not worth the opportunity cost that could be spent on literally anything else.
DALL•E 2: Panlingual?
Last time I did anything academic it was my degree, and that was 2006. So, I'm curious, did ChatGPT help me turn my shower thought into something more substantial?
Yeah, I believe the issue here is that games are not usually color managed because that would require tagging the rendered image with a space and then converting it, which would probably delay the render by at least a frame.
A friend of mine works in the cancer ward of a childrens hospital in Amsterdam (Emma Kinderziekenhuis), she's the strongest person that I know. I couldn't face that kind of hardship in others.
Why is that amazing? When people do what you think is right, or what you think might be right, you agree with them or willing to see where things go. When people do what you think is wrong you disagree or break with them. That seems perfectly reasonable.
That "user story" is like a tragically misinterpreted comment by someone at a prospective customer, speaking of a special time with their grandmother, but garbled through N layers of field sales, marketing, product managers, engineering hierarchy, and Agile task management.

Including the part about declining more cookies offered (to save room for grandma's lasagna).
You're assuming that Elon isn't doing what he intended to do, turn Twitter into his own personal, right wing echo-chamber with political influence.
X is read as "Equis". And Equis is a word some Latin American countries used as a synonym for irrelevant/whatever/not important.
The post that killed HN
> I'll point out that if you can't hear by ~11 years old, you won't be able to understand language

I don't know the specifics of this claim, so I won't talk about the argument that I assume you're trying to make. However, the argument you're actually making here is completely untrue. Almost all deaf people understand and can communicate through language. In fact, if you put a group of deaf people together for long enough, they may well spontaneously generate a language. Sign languages are real languages with almost all of the features of spoken languages (and with additional features of their own). The idea that someone can only understand "language" if they are and to hear is completely wrong.

I assume what you're trying to say is that if you can't hear by this age, you will not be able to decipher sounds into language - I have no idea if this is the case. But this is an important semantic distinction (understanding language versus understanding language from sounds alone), and the fact that you seem to have inadvertently confused them seems relevant to the issue at hand: it is very easy for us to accept spoken language as a universal standard, when in practice, spoken language is just one (more common) variant of many different forms of language.
And in the replies to this tweet he insists[1] "Elon is a smart guy" in spite of all the evidence to the contrary

[1] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604557444247539712
Pele is amazing. But he did not play in Europe where the competition was more fierce. And he was also a goal-scoring forward primarily. Messi is both one of the greatest goalscorers and one of the greatest playmakers.
Flip the script: what evidence do we have that he's smarter than eight billion people?
Yes, in the 1970s plus or minus black was the preferred term.
I mean, it's a flawed system to begin with.

When someone is incapable of building stuff or running a company, we (as a society, collectively) hand them shittons of money to be a VC.
Yeah but werent the files fragmentable across networks in an open standard that anybody can roll a UI for?
> people will realize that only 50 of their thousands of followers can be found on mastodon

That was true a few weeks ago, but not anymore (at least for tech/electronics).
Computer science in general?
That's a shame, never happened to me, have you tried changing it to an include or adding a wildcard at the end? The project has been active for a very long time, I've been using it since it was only an Opera 12 extension, the developer seems very responsive, try reporting a bug.
It’s not. What we are witnessing is the last gasp of an unproductive class of hall monitors and moral busybodies trying to control everyone else and appear productive and enlightened while doing it.
The hubris is what gets me. The sheer audacity that the peons had in suggesting Musk didn't know what he was doing!
I still use Delphi for my Windows desktop product and Lazarus for Linux desktop software
This is unfair bothsidesism. During the "progressive" era of twitter governance, policy was introduced with countless warnings and slow-walks, and had clear justification. There was nothing as naked as the retroactive bans for location info or as anticompetitive as banning linking to your off-site social media profile.
They went to Arch, which is fine, although quite a steep change in the baseline system. New package manager, new update cadence, new "way to do things".

Another alternative with much less change would have been Linux Mint: it still is a fine-tuned Ubuntu, but without the Snap Store.
> Why is that amazing?

PG mocked those who thought we would end up here.
What were your use cases for APL ? I love it to bits on principles but never used it seriously, despite all the efforts of dyalog and Aaron Hsu.

niche languages have a flavour that mainstream spoils with feverish fads.. I always like to read perl or TCL forums and am surprised by the ideas and productions.
> Paul is an out of touch reactionary billionaire.

Elon Musk is billionaire reactionary distilled into its purest form. I mean the guy is literally spending 100% of his time reacting to things he doesn't personally like.
The article gives a good overview of why ventilation and filtration is important but in my opinion misses on the importance of monitoring.

At AirGradient we do monitor thousands of indoor spaces and we do see very different patterns of indoor air pollution that need different solutions.

Often it is a lack of fresh air that leads to a high CO2 built up. Sometimes it is high PM2.5 either from outdoor or indoor sources (eg 3D printers) and we also have cases where we detect leaking chemicals measured by TVOCs.

These different indoor air quality problems need very different solutions to fix them. Some depend on what filters to use, some about eliminating of indoor contamination sources or changes in HVAC or sealing of cracks to prevent dirty air from entering.

The monitoring should also consist of an outdoor monitor to better understand how the indoor air quality reacts to outdoor changes and to better identify indoor sources.

By the way if you are interested to monitor your home, we maintain popular open-hardware air quality monitoring kits [1].

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/
> VP of the European Union

There is no such thing. The corrupted person was a VP of the European Parliament, one of the 3 governing bodies of the EU.
I dunno.

I felt like it was a mistake to get a Plex Pass that I paid for once because Plex had my money and didn't have to listen to me with product direction and Plex got worse and worse at serving media from my local server while it became increasingly focused on showing me ads for off-brand streaming services.

I think the subscription model actually works for Adobe in that the upfront price of creative cloud was astronomical and breaking that up to a monthly payment puts the product in reach of people at basically the same pricing.

Subscriptions for video games like the Xbox GAME PASS irk me. It's hard to make a case that they aren't a good value, but I think it's a movie that we saw with cable television and it doesn't end well. If I can't reward game companies by buying their games, I feel like I don't have any input into what games get made.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34040165 is on the front page at #19 right now.

There were a couple of other duplicate discussions, but that's the main one.
And then they woke up.
Yeah, I can imagine a version of that show that’s basically S1 but stretched out much longer. I can also imagine it being quite enjoyable, there was a lot of story space back and front to explore that they didn’t get to before things went to hell in the park. Some of the best parts of S1 were in this mode: “Ooh, Pariah… that’s new and different!”

On the other hand, I think it would have required robbing S1 of the coherent, two track, beginning-middle-end story that made it as compelling as any single season of any show.
>You’ll be back

>It's not impossible. Elon is a smart guy. He doesn't currently understand how different social media is from cars and rockets, but he could well figure it out before it's too late.
“Fine company” will just turn into higher costs for consumers.

If raising the price of Coke is the goal, I believe there are already proposals for a sugar tax in various jurisdictions.

Let’s tax the hell out of processed foods so they become at least on par with the price of healthy food.

It’s very tricky since taxes like that will hurt low income households the most.

Another option: ban advertising of heavily processed food, and while we’re at it let’s also ban advertising prescription drugs (as is the case already in Canada)
He can't alienate a big potential investor to future funds.
It was a vital stop, and he absolutely deserved the golden glove over Lloris for it.

I’m not sure I see how it counters my argument though - had Martinez let everything past him for the first 80 minutes (not that France actually had a shot during that time, but hypothetically) whilst an excellent Argentine attack kept it level, that save alone wouldn’t cement greatness as the rest of his performance was subpar.

This is essentially the crux of my argument regarding Mbappe, he was far too quiet for far too long and didn’t play for the team often enough to deserve such plaudits.
There’s another exodus of twitter users, and most servers are run by individuals, give them time or run your own instance and federate
If Elon feels sore about having burned $44B on Twitter now, I wonder how he'll feel once he realizes that it's actually Gab/Parler he's bought.

And discovers the hard way that Twitter's ex-leadership could afford to bully and piss off the MAGA right to a far greater extent than he could afford to piss off the Bay Area left (the the two are not equivalent in intellectual output, sway over the mainstream, attractiveness to advertisers, or ability to build alternative platforms).

And this particular move will irritate people right across the political spectrum.
He could have made this Twitter Blue only. What a missed opportunity!
They're literally banning mentioning your Mastodon handle.

Unbelievable. Like Paul, I will not be adhering to this absurd new rule. If they ban me for that, then I guess that's that.
The amazing part is that even the second half looked like a complete bore until the 80th minute. I don't think I've ever watched a match turn around not only in the score, but also in the pace and intensity so decisively and so late. I rooted for argentina but I'm so glad Mbappe almost single handedly made the final legendary by bringing France back from the brink.