skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Honestly, I think any complaints about the "politics" in his netcasts says more about the person complaining than about the actual contents of his podcasts.

This is right. I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but in my, admittedly anecdotal, experience a lot of folks who are on the right politically really have trouble consuming content if they perceive any degree of left wing bias. Like if they know the star of a movie has done some left wing activism they struggle to enjoy the movie even if the movie itself is in no way political. So the fact that they know Laporte is a liberal they become extremely sensitive to any topic that could be perceived as political.

I'm sure this isn't just a right wing thing, but for various reasons the people I know who struggle with it are all on the right.
This should never happen on Prime Video. Major breach of customer trust.

If it’s happened to you please call customer service and complain. If they can’t fix it or refund you, please get in touch with me and I will try and get it fixed for you
They can make old players stop playing old blu-ray discs? Has that ever happened? I thought they just did key changes that would stop old players from playing new blu-ray discs.
I think a few things:

- even an unheated garage will have some thermal mass and not reach the wind chill temperatures outside. this can make a huge difference.

- plug in the car in the garage. most cars do thermal management and this keeps the battery warm and healthy without depleting its own charge.

- even when not plugged in, these cars will keep the batteries warm (using battery power to warm the battery)

- electric cars can run the heater and be toasty warm when you want to drive.
All talks by Bret Victor are great, they are listed on his websites but they are more concerned with the future of programming than old languages: http://worrydream.com/

On the topic of language design, there is also this talk by Brian Kernighan which gives good practical advice if you're building a language and talks about his journey with awk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg4U4r_AgJU
Honestly, it sounds like you're judging on a pretty big outlier example. The sample seems to more be aimed at background noise and even that sample is extremely easy to understand without the enhancement. There are a bunch of tools out there that are probably better aimed at your goals.
> The transaction changes the entire nature of a process, turning activities that were about civic virtue into transactions about profit, degrading the entire thing.

Even worse, profit attracts bad actors like blood attracts sharks. In real life, you would soon have people "gaming the system" to get those incentives.
The ball was already rolling on Tesla before Elon came along though. He was the majority of their first funding round but their company structure and development of a concept car was already underway. He just saw the opportunity that others were already working on and funded it, then stepped in, pushed the original founders out, and claimed it was his idea in the first place until he and the company settled a lawsuit in 2009.

SpaceX was truly his and he found great people to lead the company judging by their results. Contrary to your statement though, space travel wasn't dead at all. During the early SpaceX era when they launched zero rockets there were still a number of successful missions from organizations around the globe as well as routine commercial satellite launches. The key thing SpaceX did was cheapen launch costs to the point where existing launch companies had to start competing. This is down to the engineering achievements at SpaceX.

Musk is a face for businesses but if I were an investor in those other two ventures I'd definitely be concerned that this focus on Twitter is distracting him from his actual important work at those other companies, and I'd probably be pissed about what he's done to the share price of Telsa.
minimal ads, a waiting list that you had to be invited to so it made it cool if you had a gmail email, boasting about unlimited storage for email (big deal back then), the better web mail interface.
I really wonder how this is going to play out in the auto industry. Adobe can get away away with a lot because a number of their products, namely Photoshop, has no real competition. I would rather have Photoshop from 2005 than today's GIMP.

This dynamic does not exist in the auto market. 4 companies compete for just German luxury (in the US), with dozens of viable options in the broader luxury sector. Actually rolling out subscription based lockouts of on board features just seems like suicide.
PALcode implemented context switches for all systems, including Linux (which uses Digital Unix PALcode). Specifically, PALcode covered various internal details of the CPU presenting unified interface to OS - each CPU needed custom PALcode implementation, though IIRC there were only few mandatory PALcode calls (related to memory barriers, iirc). The kernel covered switching OS-specific structure pointers over, PALcode handled all sorts of MMU, TLB, PASID indexing of TLB, internal CPU state etc.

L4/Alpha PALcode was limited to specific set of CPUs it was implemented for, so unlike VMS, NT or Digital Unix PALcode it wasn't available outside of those few machines.
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I would love for cancelled shows to have the writers create a script or synopsis of where they wanted to take the show so I could get closure.

One show I was in to a while ago was Amazon's Mozart in the Jungle and it was canceled when a new studio head came in. It ended on a cliff hanger.
You're right, I do think Spotify connect is an absolutely killer feature that I'm surprised it hasn't been replicated by other companies. I'm a fairly happy Apple Music user but that's definitely one of the things I miss about using Spotify. It's truly bizarre for Apple who has fairly good integrations and Music continuity just makes sense.

Spotify Wrapped is also kind of a cultural phenomenon. People enjoy sharing and talking about it and I guess it's the default assumption that you're using Spotify so you can easily share playlists and stuff to other users. Spotify has the network that smaller services don't.
The Academic Family Tree-Building a single, interdisciplinary academic genealogy
> I learned about computer architecture in the days in which the "northbridge" and "southbridge" were the major active components of the system bus... but few computers today have discrete north and south bridges (or front-side and back-side buses for that matter), the functions of the two having been integrated into various combinations of the processor die and a large, monolithic motherboard chipset like the platform controller hub (PCH), with the functions of essentially all motherboard components put into one IC.

Seems somewhat in flux again though, albeit slightly different form!

AMD's been doing chiplets for a while now, with a io die that quite strongly resembles a Northridge in many ways. It sits between cpu, ram, and the rest of the system. Conceptually it seems very similar to a Northridge. But it so happens to be a dedicated die on the multi-chip-module, rather than be on the motherboard.

The southbridge never really left, and I'm not sure if there's any roles it really gave up either... i've thought of it as the platform control hub or io expander for a long time.

But agreed that many embedded chips tend to eskew this pch & just combine all functionally on the main chip, albeit that might be comprised of chiplets.

We've gone to finer levels of integration! But things are much the same.
I almost killed a SaaS, and switched into slow organic growth instead
youglish.com is a similar type of website, but you can read the words as they're spoken.
I recall my father mentioning having an Alpha with Windows NT4 available at work, circa ~1998. This was probably explicitly to run computational packages like ANSYS. It wasn't main work machine, which AFAIK was something more like random Pentium, maybe Pentium Pro (doubtful - I think there was a dual Pentium Pro which was similarly a shared machine but not daily driver)
It made sense to remove the first poll. It wasn’t constructed in the best way. The revision was warranted in my opinion, and doesn’t necessarily show that he was being tricksy.
Don't they? I always used that rule and pronounced it as in REGular EXpression. Do people say it differently? Like a soft g and long e like in "regent"?
I worked briefly on a real-estate web system which ran on it. It wasn't bad, as these things go (I was coming off OSF/1)
It hasn't even doubled in the past 10 years. At today's global lithium mining rate, it would take 220 years to get today's known reserves out of the ground. Nevermind 4x. And then there's the human and environmental impact of all that mining. We're just talking about a single element. There's several more that are just as constrained if not worse.

Today's batteries just aren't suited for grid storage.
Yeah, where did rejex even come from? Perhaps, people don’t know that it’s regular expression?
Another big problem with these families of contaminants, is they are heavier than water.
Contaminants such as oil, gasoline, and diesel, are lighter than water.(Called LNAPL- light non aqueous phase liquids.) and therefore float on water.
So when they sink into the ground, they hit a water table and stop, floating on that water table. Water tables are about 5 to 50 meters underground - moving very very, slowly - usually off sight (towards a neighbor.) It is fairly easy to pump that to contaminated layer of water up, treat it, and pump it back down, a bit downstream.
Chlorinated and fluorinated compounds, and other similarly constructed organic compounds are DNAPL - dense non aqueous phase liquids.
They sink. They hit the water table, and keep sinking, not only below the water table, but further. Finding cracks in the bedrock and they keep sinking. It is almost impossible to get at them to clean them all up
. Some small fraction of the DNAPL pollutants may be transported with the ground water, the rest stays and goes deeper.
And you can't get at them. You need to drill: very deep, through bedrock, and many holes, which aren't connected. Read as: very very expensive.
Once you remove the source of the contaminants,. You can reduce the main part of the problem. They are also somewhat volatile, so they sometimes migrate up. Sometimes as gases. (But that's another story.)
Meanwhile, quite often the treatment technique, can make the contaminants more toxic! Oxidizing a contaminant with chlorine in it can turn it into a simpler, less complex contaminant, which may be more reactive, and/or more toxic.
In summary it's the sort of a system that is complicated and one has to understand it, and think about the possible scenarios.
Often it is cheaper and most realistic to pave such a site, hence isolating the contamination, underground. (In some cases, depending on the results of a risk analysis, continuous or yearly monitoring is mandated, to see if the contamination is spreading off site. For example dry cleaning solvents, may reduce to PVC (poly vinyl chloride), which may further to reduce to Vinyl Chloride - an even more toxic contaminant.
More like he wins either way

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Yes = he gets to step away from the dumpster fire without it looking like it was his decision

No = all of his previous decisions are justified
I agree that HN's perspective, and mine, skew too far in one direction, but I think you are skewing too far in the other direction - the "vast majority" of people in the United States are not so broke that they cannot afford reasonably priced new vehicles, or we'd be selling a lot less of them and at lower prices.

Consider that the average new car in the United States cost $48,000 in 2022[0].

I own a new 2023 Chevy Bolt. It cost $36,000; the base price is more like $27,000.[1]. The Tesla Model 3 starts right around that average number at $48,000[2]. The Ioniq 5 starts at $42,000[3]. The Mach E likewise, around $46,000[4].

Electric cars are priced right around what people are paying, on average, for new cars.

You're right that battery packs are very expensive - right now, for new vehicles. But the very first Tesla Roadster was only made in 2008, and the model S, in 2012. We've only had a market with multiple decent choices for reasonably priced EVs in the last three to four years. Give it time.

Also, just to add: a "bad battery" isn't necessarily one that's worthless. My Bolt's battery gets ~250 miles of range now. I don't drive a quarter of that on an average day, nor do most people. Batteries degrade over time - they don't necessarily give out or totally stop working.

[0] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-hits-reco...
[1] https://www.caranddriver.com/chevrolet/bolt-ev
[2] https://www.caranddriver.com/tesla/model-3
[3] https://www.caranddriver.com/hyundai/ioniq-5
[4] https://www.ford.com/buy/mach-e/build-and-price.html?gnav=sh...
That sucks if you're gay though. Maybe there should be places that will just take your blood and throw it away for you?
In order to incentivise emitting less CO2, tax the C in the fuels. No other actions are necessary.
IIUC aisle endcap contents are determined by vendors, not the typical store; it's "pay to position".
This takes me back... 25 years ago I visited a company called "Zeus" in Cambridge UK, who made a web server that competed with Apache httpd, and was told about their developers' Escape pedals.
Both of those stories garnered world wide attention, but one of the positive unintended consequences of those tragic events was that they scared many "adventure seekers" enough that they stayed away from cave exploration, which is a "good" thing.

About 30 years ago I became trapped in an alpine cave in a way very similar to Floyd Collins, when a football sized piece of marble fell from the ceiling about 30 feet into a virgin body sized phreatic tube I was exploring.

It landed on my ankle, pinning it so I couldn't move forward or back, and the passage was so tight that I couldn't move my free leg to dislodge it, and yes, Floyd Collins entrapment was the first thing I thought of.

Thankfully, I had two things in my favor, one was I had a caving partner on the surface who knew where I was, and I could communicate with, so if I couldn't self rescue she could hike the 5 miles back to a road end and get help (no cell phone service back then).

And two, I was an experienced caver, so I remained very calm, and kept working my free foot in order to attempt to dislodge the rock pinning my ankle, and after about 10 minutes I was able to somehow with great effort, shift the rock enough that I could move deeper into the cave.

I crawled forward another 15 feet to a pit about 20 feet deep that I was able to free climb into so I could turn around and head back out, and was able to push the rock ahead of me and I got out just fine.

It didn't phase me one bit, as I'd had much more serious life threatening events in caves previously (almost "flat rocked" in Lechuguilla Cave, NM), but I was well aware that it could have been a serious situation as it got down into the 20's at night in that location, so hypothermia was a real possibility.

The lesson here for non cavers is, don't explore caves alone, especially if nobody knows where you are, and get proper training before doing so, from a local "grotto" (chapter) of the National Speleological Society https://caves.org/ .
A better UI, there were no message threads in yahoo and hotmail. Every reply was shown as new e-mail cluttering your view. Also as others have mentioned, almost 20 times more storage than the competitors.
Oh, everyone has a big PG&E bill here unless you're fortunate enough to be in Santa Clara. I'm thinking about landlords and old housing stock.
I don't remember the Circle of Gold and, like you, would have been very unlikely to support such a thing. I did take est in San Jose in 1978 and participated in quite a few graduate seminars for some years after so your story checks out. Sorry I don't remember your red afro. I'm amazed you remember me!

As scammy as it probably was (Werner Erhard mostly just cribbed from Alan Watts and others) est was a very formative experience for me as a 21-year-old. I think it has stayed with me ever since. I was just thinking about that the other day, in fact.
Apologies, then, my knowledge of the state of music services is apparently quite outdated. Has Deezer always offered a free tier? They're not really on my radar.

In either case, I do think some of the points the other comment made are prescient. Spotify Connect is definitely a killer feature and I think Spotify Wrapped is one of those cultural phenomenon that you can't reliably predict the impact of. Network effects definitely seem to be quite powerful.
At least HBO releases their shows on disc. Other services that only offer streaming are more concerning.
Well, I like this line in my Ubuntu customization:
sudo apt remove --purge snapd
This decoupling of capital for building houses and those who "consume" the housing is only going to increase this problem.

My apartment tower has broke garbage disposal chutes on _every single floor_. That is, the building's waste disposal system is entirely broken. For 2 years now. Nobody can get it fixed because by my estimate under 20% of residents are owner-occupiers.
I don't think this is necessarily true. Amazon owns the rights to Star Gate and right now SG1 has a warning that it is about to be removed. Rather odd to do when they own the franchise.
The rest of the video venues (what do we call them now that they're not channels?) caught up. HBO is still high-status, but it hasn't had any kind of singular status in years; FX, AMC, Netflix, Apple, Starz, and Amazon do just as good a job with original programming.

I assume HBO has figured that out for itself, and it no longer makes sense for them to be anything less than ruthless; nothing they ever do is going to vault them back to the status they had in 2004, so why pretend?
Yes, that is what I am saying. Our banks are the problem. Does the 0.5% have a flat fee attached to it or could I make a 1 cent charge (+ 1 cent fee)?

Edit: There are still gateway fees so my point stands.
1. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7ib5-eYreHU

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDejH09_0to
It allows you to install a vpn on iOS that blocks traffic to domains on your blocklist, effectively blocking apps (unless you download things offline like YouTube videos or Podcasts).
I don't know, it's a form of extrapolation IMO. The 1984 of our time. That was also not realistic back in the day but reality overtook it.

However it feels like the time of social media is already coming to an end. With the companies filling our timelines with ever more crap in a futile attempt to 'engage' us, they are only driving us ever more away.
This is fairly common in many console emulators, see:

- PS3 (Nvidia RSX): https://github.com/RPCS3/rpcs3/blob/master/rpcs3/Emu/RSX/rsx...

- PS4 (AMD GCN):
https://github.com/AlexAltea/orbital-qemu/blob/master/hw/ps4...

The hardware is known ahead of time, so console platforms take advantage of that: GPU drivers allocate a context and hand it over to userspace which can do nearly anything it wants with it (abstraction layers are quite thin), and graphics APIs are essentially a 1:1 mapping of the hardware.

Because of that there's little difference between emulating the API or emulating the GPU (the subset of the GPU accessible through the API).

The only major difference I'd say is emulating the entire GPU (including VM, GART/IOMMU, display controller, multi-contexts, etc.) vs just emulating a single GPU context (which feels quite similar to implementing a graphics API).
Absolutely not! I loved the post! I remember you well.

And I got a little peak at what it will be like when I actually do die. Not many get that privilege. ;-)
Yeah, it's called KUSER_SHARED_DATA, and contains a lot of interesting items.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
No need to wait. It's already built into all major conferencing platforms today (Teams, Webex, Meet etc).

If you'd like to run something locally, there's also https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice....
You subsidize things you want people to do. If you simply set the standards higher they will cost more to build, fewer new homes will be built and they will be more expensive, which means only "people with money" will be able to afford homes at all.

Things have costs. Mandating additional costs and plugging your ears and pretending like market economics for those costs don't exist does not help anyone.
> Why would I want to watch it more than once?

You do you. But many people love to rewatch their favorite movies and shows.
Surely computer science is code golf for axioms, or for size of proof?
This is Fine (On Software Dependencies)
Did caving for a bit. I enjoyed the "mind game" bit of it.

When going into small spaces sometimes people enter a bad mental spiral of: feeling a bit squished, have a doubt that maybe the wall/ceiling moved, tense up further etc etc.

It is a weird mental thing because this cave has likely been largely this way for a looooooong time. It wasn't waiting for you to come along... but such are mind games.

People tended to crack more as you get tired. Physical fitness helped as well as being comfortable with your gear.

Rope stuff was easy enough and fun, though a bit tiring.
and anybody who cares about that (or just wants to support the artist) will buy the new version.
> But choosing the right team is part of being a successful business man.

Sure, but it becomes hard to distinguish luck from talent. How would you know that an up and coming but talented PR person didn’t pick him? Or that was random?

It’s the major flaw with idolisation. Ends and means aren’t that tightly coupled. Against the utility of idolising someone, is the noise worth it? Ever?
There's screenshots floating around of people's bans for completely arbitrary reasons. Don't know if they're legit.
I use Creative Cloud as well, but I've found with auto-update you get random unexpected bugs. I disable it, I kill their background processes if I notice them, and occasionally I'll let it update things if I know a new version has something I want.
I mean he deleted and redid his last two polls when the answer he didn't like won, so I'm not sure why anyone would expect this to go differently. If it's an overwhelming yes vote, he'll delete it I think.
Now if only other programs would agree (e.g. web browser)
Totally agreed about BlueSky and all the crypto-related nonsense needing to go, but thinking that ActivityPub is the future is as naive as thinking the Linux desktop is the future.

There are significant technical, scalability and user experience challenges with ActivityPub-based systems that people refuse to acknowledge and address. Some of those challenges may not even have a good solution - turns out there are also advantages to centralisation, and fixing social media toxicity doesn't necessarily require throwing the baby out with the bathwater and going all-in on a decentralised solution.
The Twitter takeover was fun for a while, mainly due to the people who have spent the past few years deplatforming dissenting opinions and being real shits having major meltdowns and tasting their own medicine, but… enough is enough. It’s but one more failed tech company.
Insurers shun FTX-linked crypto firms as contagion risk mounts
True, perhaps this would be better called an exercise generator. However, when studying this in school, the teachers always called them problems, hence why the title was chosen. The project is aims to help students K-12 and possibly undergrads whose curriculum is aimed to get them comfortable with solving these computations without aid of a calculator, or at least without programs that solve it for them. This is not supposed to be the primary means of teaching, but rather a tool that teachers can use to provide infinite exercises for their students to practice on, with the benefit of students not being able to copy answers directly out of a textbook without understanding how it works.