skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you stop using jargon then people assume you don't know what you're talking about. This affect is real. Your precieved credibility goes way down when you stop speaking in jargon.

So let them learn it the hard way. If people prefer to trust someone they don't understand over making the effort to understand what they are being told in simple words, they only reveal their own ignorance.

I once was reprimanded in school (in absentia), for choosing my words to impress and not to be understood. That was probably the most important lesson I ever received.

But I think you are wrong about why jargon exists: Jargon lets us express complex ideas in a very compressed way, because, among peers, we understand exactly what is being said. It is just detrimental to effective communication with people outside our area of expertise. So yes, sometimes "NOP sledge" says it all, while with a different audience one might just skip that subject...
No, but UK enforcement is now quite vulnerable to, say, an HQ move to Paris.

Wouldn't want those jobs to go missing during a Brexit war deepfreeze winter.

A pity there wasn't some way of harmonizing laws and enforcement with other nearby nation-states. Some sort of "Union".

Thinking aloud
What a mismatch of goals. The Steam Deck is meant for games and the steam platform tries to provide a single unified system library that games play under. Nix is all about creating a new custom system library environment for every single application.
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What I've found with ChatGPT so far is the following:

- It's really good at sourcing information and understanding the kind of response you are looking for.

- Even its most creative answers lack "flavor." Creativity is a lot to ask for, but I think this is good reason to believe humans are still needed in the equation.

- It clearly doesn't actually know anything.

- It remains in the uncanny valley of communication. Sometimes it really keeps up the illusion, but all it takes is one flimsy answer to break the illusion, and it will inevitably give a "computers" answer at some point.

- It's what Alexa should have been from the beginning.
Oh what would have been what could have been had Apple bought Be instead of Next. We'd likely not have any iPhones or a 2.5T Apple but we could have had some really cool software. BeOS and now Haiku will always have a special place in my nerd-head.

consider sponsoring the team here: https://github.com/sponsors/haiku
The new Twitter UI is getting roasted (on Twitter)
A lot of the bullet points actually revolve around hostile hardware.
What sort of wiki are you envisioning here? There is some decent tooling and docs around generating SoCs [1] but, as the article mentions, the most difficult part is not creating a single RISCV core but rather creating a very high performance interconnect. This is still an open and rich research area, so you're best source of information is likely to just be google scholar.

But, for what it's worth, there do seem to be some practical considerations why your idea of a hugely parallel computer would not meaningfully rival the M1 (or any other modern processor). The issue that everyone has struggled with for decades now is that lots of tasks are simply very difficult to parallelize. Hardware people would love to be able to just give software N times more cores and make it go N times faster, but that's not how it works. The most famous enunciation of this is Amdahl's Law [2]. So, for most programs people use today, 1024 tiny slow cores may very well be significantly worse than the eight fast, wide cores you can get on an M1.

[1] https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/en/stable/Chipyard-Basics/in...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl's_law
Fear of demons, fear of God, fear of what happens after death, fear of having a thought which may be construed as dissent or heresy, fear of speaking out against their fellow church leaders for pedophilic behaviors. The Catholic church is all about fear as a form of control.
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Not yet. With a couple of exceptions, the RISC-V CPUs described in the article are all closed source.

RISC-V is an open instruction set, so anyone can implement their own design using it, often with their own proprietary extensions.

Because the instruction set is open, there are indeed hundreds of open source RISC-V designs out there, because basic CPU design is fun, easy and educational.

However, at the moment, nearly all physical RISC-V CPUs you can actually buy, dev boards etc, and devices containing them, use closed source CPU designs.
This was the first time I was reading the word yuppie. So certainly not a jargon to me.
Uhm.. I really don't wanna sound negative but I don't think you know CSS as well as you think you do.

Bootstrap is trivial for people that know CSS.
It is hidden, but it is there:

vs_buildtools.exe --layout c:\where\you\want\the\entire\installer --lang en-US

Have enoughh space there, current 2019 release is ~40 GB and 2022 is ~35 GB. It is updated each month, you can use the same command to update your installer (won't remove old packages though).
Feedbro is by far the best feed reader.
Why would I use RSS when HN does it all for me?
I found a secret US Government surveillance program (2019)
>The court is not a creditor

Never said it was and the whole point of this is not whether they put some collateral or not.

The whole point is, how come a 250M bail can be secured with a 4M house? That is the whole thing that is driving everyone nuts.

Divide by a thousand and you may be able to get a better graps of it. Imagine you have a bail set for 250k and you tell the judge, well I have this really shitty used car which (may be) worth 4k, you can keep it, but also you can't take it from me now because well, it's my car :). You would stay in jail.
I believe "the society of mind" contains a bunch of really good but unorganized ideas for building intelligent models, but was written in such a way that it remained virtually impossible to implement them into a working program. Minsky's last book called "The Emotion Machine" tries to reorganize these ideas into one giant architecture composed of at least five interconnected macrolevels of cognitive processes built from specialized agents. Having said that, "The Society of Mind" is one of the most difficult books I've read.
As a high level language programmer, I look forward to understanding my computer all the way down i.e. including the ISA which is not happening on amd64.
Would it be possible to create a lean competitor to Uber/Lyft that would pay out full rider fare to the driver? Let's call it RideDirect. It can require passengers to setup ACH payment to avoid credit card fees. Such system could be operated by a small group of software engineers (say 10 devs). The cost would only be cloud costs and salary for 10 devs. These costs can be covered by displaying non-intrusive location-based ads to the passenger. It would be easy to recruit drivers by playing up the unfairness of Uber/Lyft, "Lyft pays you $20 of $80 fare. Don't let fat cats rob you blind. Drive for RideDirect instead".
thoughtworks requires travel to client sites even post pandemic. You cannot request remote only.
> No. The "developer" is often as much a clueless victim and tool of other forces who misuse her work.

its reductive to assign or reject blame.

“developer” is the same to the user, if its the product manager of the company, QA, the CEO or the person writing the code.

it would be easy for me to point blame on the person writing code for a variety of reasons: because ultimately not pushing back on bad behaviour is making their lives easier, see also: using electron, sticking in all the analytics systems under the sun, using framework du jour, etc.

but i wont; in this context “developer” is the company that produced the software; not the individual: customers do not understand the distinction
I for one love the PS1 / GBA 3d vibe. Great work!
I think GPT Chat and its competitors will eventually bring about a new golden age of online social interaction similar to the early internet days or perhaps pre-eternal September. It of course will be preceded by a very dark time where AI chat bots absolutely destroy all public forum though value extraction.

Forums will have to become basically whitelist only to withstand the bots and require some sort of verified identity along with probably a dollar cost barrier maybe just one or the other. Kind of how the somethingawful.com forums used to have a one time $10 fee to make people consider if what they were posting was going to cost them $10 before hitting the submit button. (it cost $10 to reinstate your account if you were banned)
The 2018 ISO standard [1] is 520 pages. Not what I would consider small. Nor is it simple. The integer promotion rules and undefined behaviours will trip up even experienced C programmers.

Something like R5RS for Scheme (50 pages or so) is what I think of when I hear small and simple.

[1] https://www.iso.org/standard/74528.html
lets sink to that level.
Fun piece of history regarding business ethics, the mass-unionization of West Virginia coal mines occurred after the mass-unionization of coal mines in other regions. Part of the reason the unionization effort in West Virginia was so fanatical was that part of the deal the unions struck with the mine owners in other regions was that they would unionize West Virginia as fast as possible, otherwise the newly unionized coal mines in other regions couldn't compete with cheaper, non-unionized West Virginia coal miners.

Point being, the playing field must be level for ethical business to exist. If you try to act ethically on your own you will lose to a less ethical (but still legal) competitor. Sure if you're dominant enough or niche enough you can get away with being ethical, but if you have hard competition, good luck. You'll maintain your virtue, and they'll maintain their profits, and we'll see who's still around in 5 years.

Granted it is possible to overstep and cause a customer revolt, but hoping your competition is that stupid is not an effective strategy.
I'd also like to thank you. I still use it.
Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.
To a certain degree that's inevitable.

Wealth buys comfort.

Constitutionally the purpose of bail is to ensure they don't flee and aren't a danger to the community while they await trial. It's not supposed to be a punishment since they haven't been convicted of anything yet.

So wealthy non-violent offenders should have the right to sit in lavish homes with an ankle monitor until they are actually convicted.
How many single-sided books do people read?
Absolutely. There's a world of difference between a professional voice actor narrating an audiobook, and AI/amateur. Personally I can't listen to anything narrated by anyone other than (good) pro voice actors, it just kills the enjoyment.

On a similar note, Sanderson's own books in "graphic audio" format (multiple voice actors, sound effects, music, etc) are a wonderful piece of art and is my preferred way to consume audiobooks when possible. I don't see that being replaced with AI any time soon.
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we should all sink to his level or author's level. lets "own the Libs"
some of my friends do it as squad where they share work and commitments.
If you want to try DXVK natively, DXVK-native has been upstreamed in the latest release, though I guess the fork still contains the instructions:

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v2.0

gallium-nine can't really be targetted however. While most distribution with AMD or Intel graphics will have it enabled as part of Mesa, it can't be used for nvidia (unless... well, you could theoretically use zink to run that on top of vulkan as well). It's DX9 in any case.

Winelib has been a thing for a veeery long time, I think it was always possible to build a native executable and link against Wine's DX->OGL translation layer.
This headline is quite weighted, since the phrase 'winter of discontent' in the UK refers to a year in the late 70s when Britain's economy was in a shambles and the country was paralyzed by strikes under an ineffective labor government. The discontent was so acute that it swept Margaret Thatcher into power in 1979. That helped to boost Reagan's 1980 candidacy and between them they continue to influence politics and economics in the present. Many of today's power-brokers and senior politicians got their start in that era.

The Conservative party has held power in the UK for the last 12 years, having started in coalition with the Liberal Democrats under David Cameron. After gaining a majority and holding several referenda culminating in Brexit, it has then speed-run through 4 more prime ministers (May, Johnson, Truss, and now Sunak). Thus, they have no scapegoat on whom they can dump administrative responsibility for the country's problems. In a country about the size of California where power is considerably more centralized with few legal/electoral checks and no election due before 2025, the problem of how to canalize public anger becomes acute.

Politically, the government can deflect blame to unions, the media, the EU and Putin but in terms of policy options the cupboard is empty. There's not much left to privatize besides the NHS and the police, and the Tories' big idea for economic growth is the widespread establishment of free ports which ostensibly trade tax revenue and regulation for boosting exports and job creation. But even if valid this would take years to realize, and economic aspirations can't bridge the political gap between a steep fall in living standards and a monarchy going through an increasingly anachronistic reproductive cycle.
https://ionity.eu/en/network/network-status

And that's just 35k out of 375k.

The US is at about 150k.
Ooops, you’re right, I meant to say green is a primary colour, as indeed should ChatGPT have done
The United States added more battery energy storage to the grid in 2021 than the United States had at the beginning of 2021. The situation here is one of rapid transition.
WebDAV is still used for cloud storage (e.g. https://www.transip.nl/stack/). You can do offsite backups this way (if you’re not using rsync- or S3-compatible storage).

CalDAV and CardDAV (which are based on WebDAV) are of course also still around and used to sync contacts and calendars.
Particle Swarm Optimization implementation to help refresh my programming skills
Given that they know that they cannot collect the full $250M in the event of default, is there a reason that they picked that number? If they had called it a billion or a trillion or a squillion, what would have been different?

Or for that matter, if they had said that the penalty was $0, and that the securities and sureties were sufficient?

Presumably, they'll never find out, so perhaps it's moot. But I feel like there's a legal distinction or rule I'm missing.
The big issue with tramp is that code doesn't run remotely. Running LSPs is impractical over a network connection, no matter how close the remote is.
Fully agree with the principle but maybe let's not call Redis "well-written" :)

Redis is a great piece of software because of how much it impacted the "evolution" of Internet not because of the code quality, Redis's code resemble spaghetti code, a lot.

I will push myself and say that nowadays people would get fired for writing code like that!

And before someone start to throw stones (just for the sake of it), here a few examples:
- Redis source code is FULL of GIANT files with thousands and thousands of lines of code, decoupling and separation of concerns are basic things! A few examples
-- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/module.c
-- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/cluster.c
-- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/redis-cli.c
-- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/src/networking....

- talking about auto generated, the repo contains commited auto generated code, a valid reason though really slips my mind (yes, of course I can think of a few, but ... really? :)))

- https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/9c7c6924a019b902996fc4b6... ... that struct feels like an "Italian minestrone", basically a kind of soup where you throw in, literally, all the vegetables you have around and it's great for a soup, a bit less for software engineering though :)

- the naming structure is a bit random at times, there is a mix of camel case, camel case mixed with underscores from time to time, pascal case

This kind of staff might be alright for a 0.3 or 0.4, maybe even for a 1.0, definitely not for a 7.x that has had 15 years to evolve :/
Even in cachegrand, that hasn't got to a v0.2 yet, I tried to avoid these kinda of dramas, in C is quick and easy to get there if you are not careful.

There are plenty of other small things but most of the big dramas should be there.
I doubt there is any place left on Earth where you would be able to escape a motivated US prosecution, that also offers some relative comfort of life.
I've had really good uptime once I added a capacitor on the power rails. This was onto one of those WEMOS boards and a few others too.
I don’t even prefer Rust to C personally, and I’m not a dogmatic sort. My analogy wasn’t particularly complimentary to either language.

If some people are too sensitive to take a little caricaturization of C in stride, maybe those people should examine those sensitivities.

Edit because I didn’t read your comment all the way through:
uninitialized memory is RNG, functionally.
I switched over a few years ago as well but for some reason forgot to delete my old account. Sigh :(

I never reuse passwords of course but it's still annoying having to go through everything and change a whole bunch of passwords.
You could do a trial build of an in-order Rocket RISC-V core [1] to see how much space it takes up.

[1] https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip
TSMC is not going to give up their trade secrets, sorry.

Also, if you are using a high-end RISC-V (none on the market currently), then the implementation is going to be proprietary and decidedly non-trivial.

I'm not sure in which sense you expect to "understand your computer".
I've been using Mint for the past year, just updated to 21.1 yesterday. It's running smooth as butter, nothing broke in the upgrade and it's great to have my flatpaks updating through the GUI update tool. Really feels like a feature-complete desktop with a genuinely cohesive UX.
Unfortunately the iOS App has major problems for some users, see the app reviews. I like it, but as of now it's barely usable.
Ah, fuxxor. Thanks.
I use an RSS reader for HN! A couple other feeds, but that’s it.
Uninformed person from the middle of North America, here. I read this article and I get the sense the author was delicately writing around certain issues. The part about UK becoming more illiberal (but not as illiberal as Turkey) strikes me as one such place, but like I say, middle of North America....

Exactly how illiberal? I suspected the whole Brexit thing was to increase power and prestige of hereditary aristocrats. Would an illiberal UK become less democratic and more medieval aristocratic?

There's not much fundamentalist religion, as there is in Turkey, so going full crusader seems unlikely.

Would the UK try to restore it's old empire, like Turkey did with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus?
This feels contrived. And is in the face of, for example, how Disney tried to not pay a Star Wars writer.

I agree it feels like this could be easy to argue one way or another. I am willing to assert it is often not simple and many of the complications are from pushing simple solutions.
Setting up preview environments automatically (in kubernetes or azure) with sanitized production data is something that always sounds amazing to me, but I have always had difficulty to come up with ideas to implement it. Every company/team uses different tools and ways to implement this, so there isn't a one-size-fits-all solution.

Do you have any pointers?
Yes for inoreader. Not free, but works well for me
I did that with Git itself. As a bonus you’ll learn more about a tool you’re probably using everyday. If I remember correctly, even the early commits were pretty high quality.
Newsify is also good for a simple, visual block news scroll. It pulls images from the source site, so it’s like browsing with a polished news app.
Or just use open source software if you want developer incentives to be aligned with users instead of fruitlessly asking developers of proprietary software to go against their incentives.
So LOTR was written in iterations, and the Hobbit was patched after first released?

Sounds like a good framework for productivity.
I have no idea but apparently the author thinks that is the correct answer. CGPT gave what is a correct answer iirc
The Hobbit edits here make a lot of sense in the bigger picture, though. Given what we later learn about the Ring, there's NO WAY Gollum would wager it as a 'present' in a riddle game... And if he somehow did, he would cheat like hell to keep it, despite all the 'ancient tradition' around the Riddle Game.

The edit is great; it solves the continuity problem in a really creative way. Making the old version into Bilbo's self-serving rationalization is an excellent bit of meta-fiction, further reinforcing the seductive power of the Ring.
Well it did spur the research into multi-agent systems (popular study area in 1990s) and interaction protocols. So there was a degree of influence.

But taken on its own it is indeed more a book of musings. I put GEB, ANKOS and the like into the same genre.
Question: If even most PC gamers are pretty take it or leave it, on the whole real time raytracing thing in AAA PC games, it being more of a flex rather than a must have, then what's the point of having this tech on a phone for iOS games?

I don't game on my phone, so am I missing something wild here where seeing raytraced reflections on a six inch screen would be the ultimate game changer and have everyone rush out to upgrade their phones?
Yuppie although originally likely a demographic term now has a well understood meaning. It is no longer jargon.
That would be VB.NET with the Office SDK.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-...
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India's version of the internet is also very different than ours. I doubt TikTok even had much of a market there
There is an argument to be made that these… micro services were a part of a bigger offering from Google. Maybe by itself Reader wasn’t a billion dollar business, but together with other niche features Reader attracted an influential and wealthy audience.
My understanding is that they do, but there are some caveats. For example the feature that tells you if 2fa is available for a website presumably requires sending an HTTP request to 1Password servers including the domain of the website.

Although it's possible they implement this with a local bloom filter or something. I'm just speculating. And either way, those requests would only end up stored in some server logs somewhere, rather than in a database row directly linked to your vault.

EDIT: It is in fact done locally. :) see: https://support.1password.com/watchtower-privacy/
I hear you dijit. In speaking to the HN crew I'm hoping that people
understand what I mean by developer.

TBH I never actually liked that word and have previously attacked it -
or rather us using it about ourselves for the reasons you point to
here... it's deflationary.
When can I buy your ebook?
I have backend for the Hisilicon SoC from 2016, its about 1500 lines of C code, few calls to 2D API and copypasta of the triangle rasterizer. Dunno about modern version requirements.