skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving things away is not the same as open source. Java was closed source until 2006. Sun released the Java runtime and class library for no charge but not the source. The class library's interfaces were public as was the JVM specification so there were open source Java implementations like Kaffe, gcj, and the GNU classpath before Sun open sourced Java proper.

Originally Sun released the JRE (on PC/Mac/etc) at no charge but charged for licenses elsewhere. With the release of Java 1.2 (J2SE) Sun charged for releases of J2ME on devices and J2EE products like application servers.

Sun wanted to get the Java runtime spread as widely as possible to make it the platform to develop stuff on. The idea was to get stuff written in Java and then deployment was just embedding a class file (later a jar) in a web page.
Why would their revenue not drop?

Typically, revenue suffers if either clients downgrade or stop their contracts. Or go out of business. Is Salesforce in a position or niche where that doesn't apply?
Playing instruments do not pay the bills and are ultimately useless. (Unless you are in the top 1 percent that make it.)
> people generally don't care about privacy because they don't understand the ramifications of that decision

Every single time I point that out, I get told to show proof of such "ramifications". They just don't think they'll be impacted by this tracking, which is ridiculous. Even more strange is the position of "I have nothing to hide." - privacy != secrecy.
> This probably isn't burn out, as my job has been surprisingly relaxed for the last year.

Maybe it's bore out instead. It kind of feels like you need a hobby to fill "a void" that gives you purpose.

> So what comes next? Maybe try to make a small startup? Maybe switch to carpentry or farming? Tough it out for another decade until I can retire? What do people do after they get bored of tech?

- Startup: Lot of work, minimal pay in the beginning. Might be perfect to get back into the groove, but doesn't sound like you actually want that.

- Carpentry/Farming: Why not. Definitely gives living more meaning in my eyes. Hard work and you will likely ruin your body earlier than you want.

How about reducing working hours if that is an option and then take on volunteering work that has a meaning to you or teach/mentor kids.

> Side note: how and why did we as a society ruin that job?

Pretty much the moment someone decided that your publication count is an important metric to get funded.
Nathan Myhrvold's long answer was more interesting. He was talking about the future of the Internet and what would make money.

Now 25 years later, watch what's actually made the most money, and did his reply cover those. I can think of hosted services and search.

Even Microsoft had one of the very first maps online in the 90s [ terraserver ] but they failed to realize how large this business eventually will turn into.
What a great read! A crystal clear explanation of several obscure corners of the language with a really nifty stunt to motivate it all.

I learned a few things, had my memory refreshed on others and look forward to absolutely never using this technique under any circumstances except fun experimentation. Kudos for including a warning to that effect and for mentioning the prior art.
I was handed a violin when I wanted a guitar. Interestingly I took it up again 20 years later and now play the fiddle in a rock band.
This is exactly how I feel, and why I don't understand why tech interviews are the way they are right now
I remembered it as "In a world without walls, who needs gates and windows"
> If I own stock but I don’t want to sell, what happens then?

Too bad, you can vote on the deal, but the deal happens based on the majority of votes. There are ways you can sue over the price, but it's procedurally difficult to have standing and institutional holders routinely mess it up; you may need to have the shares actually in your name in the books of the company, and must have voted against the corporate action, and it has to be the same shares. Anyway, if you have standing, you can protest that the price wasn't fair, but I can't imagine anyone arguing the price was too low with a straight face. Matt Levine covered some merger price lawsuits some years ago, IIRC Dell was one of the parties, it quickly gets into the ins and outs of Cede and Company and the Depository Trust Company and all sorts of intricate details.

Of course, some corporate actions do provide options. A sale of a subsidiary may offer shareholders a share in the acquirer of the subsidiary or cash. In that case, you'd tell your broker what you wanted, and if your choice wasn't oversubscribed, you'd get it. If too many shares picked the option you picked, there's a (random) assignment procedure to handle that.
There's an underappreciated part of music making that I rarely see represented in music curriculum unless you're in an actual music school: Playing with other people.

I don't mean playing together as an ensemble where the music is already written - though that is important. I mean PLAYING and improvising. Exploring. Simply having fun. Developing your ear, not only for your instrument, but how to listen and react to your collaborators. Making mistakes. Going off-road and being wildly experimental. That's such an important component of what makes music wonderful. Even if you don't have an audience to perform to, and even if you and your friends are objectively terrible it is FUN to express yourself and to synchronize with your friends and have a laugh when you do something satisfying.

As you all mature you become tuned-in to your band. You work as a unit. You surprise each other. You keep each other fresh. You learn to listen deeper and deeper. You discover ways to interpret the same composition several different ways. It becomes a playground.

Perhaps most importantly, there are ZERO RULES. Nobody dies if you play the wrong chord. So you go big. You learn to take risks and occasionally you surprise yourself with what's possible. Music (and perhaps art and creativity in general) demonstrate that so much in life is malleable. That things don't have to be a certain way. That most of it is open to negotiation.
Worth explaining a little more why survivorship bias doesn't apply here - the point is that small teams are capable of achieving billions of dollars worth of value add. This is closer to a claim of existence.

Obviously most small teams don't generate that much value. There are a lot of tiny podcasters out there. Nobody is going to mistakenly think that all small teams are Joe Rogan. But it is nevertheless possible for a small team to be absurdly productive given the right conditions - success isn't about team size, it is about the opportunity and available skillset.

FWIW, politics is very similar. One person can't achieve very much, but a small group can wield devastating levels of power.
The heuristic for Github though is that the vast majority of people visiting a repository page who aren't logged in to Github on that browser don't have an authorized private key. It makes complete sense to present only options for anonymous checkouts to anonymous users.

Long ago they used to push SSH as the "right" way to pull repositories (I still almost exclusively use SSH), but their change to recommending HTTPS instead by default is by now quite old: it's been the case for many years.

Other related things have changed more recently: Github doesn't allow git:// urls anymore (but HTTPS still allows anonymous checkouts), and when doing authenticated HTTPS, you now need to provide a token instead of your password.

The git:// protocol, to my recollection, doesn't support authentication at all. If you've ever been able to push to git:// URLs on Github, it's news to me.
Totally agree, which is the reason why I recommend the book. The author explains the difference in a great detail and by that you learn so much about Sun. …and NeXT or course :).
It talks also about the creator, not only the viewer. By being disembodied, the content creators themselves are disconnected from the context of their audiences. That’s the kind of relationship that is only possible via exacerbated prejudices and oversimplified pseudofacts that can be transmitted (and sound good) to a large amount / variety of different people. If this relationship was one of open dialogue where the individuals could argue and discuss, it wouldn’t last a minute.
> The people that make money in the industry, aren't the people that play the instruments.

I've got to say I'm legitimately shocked that anyone still thinks this. I can absolutely state 100% of my friends who play instruments don't do it for the money. Granted none of them are signed, but the point of music is not to get signed.
This is a great post for people who are new to optimizing GPU code.

It is interesting to see that the author got this far without interchanging the innermost loop over k to the outermost loop, as is done in CUTLASS (https://github.com/NVIDIA/cutlass).

As you can see in this blog post the code ends up with a lot of compile-time constants (e.g. BLOCKSIZE, BM, BN, BK, TM, TN) one way to optimize this code further is to use an auto-tuner to find the optimal value for all of these parameters for your GPU and problem size, for example Kernel Tuner (https://github.com/KernelTuner/kernel_tuner)
Yes, you can just specify different start- and endrunes:
https://github.com/Eun/yaegi-template/blob/master/template.g...
Java + Swing was doing cross-platform desktop apps long before Electron was a thing; my editor of choice for years (before moving to Sublime, then Atom and VS Code) was a Swing-based cross-platform editor called JEdit. And the JetBrains IDEs are still Java/Swing applications.

(There were other options out there, too— for example, SWT’s the widget toolkit used by Eclipse which feels a bit more native on some platforms than Swing.)
American politicians (all parties) wearing those flags on their lapels still looks weird and sinister to me.
> it was Netscape that broke MS' monopoly with Internet Explorer

What do you mean by this? We used Netscape Navigator for quite a while before trying a version of IE.
This probably crazy, but is it possible that the whole kerfuffle about making it harder to track Elon's jet was just to make it harder to serve him with legal papers?
But there are hardly any java desktop apps aren't they?
Oh, interesting, I wasn’t aware of how the community were, since their documentation is quite thorough and self-contained that I’ve never had the need to check their forums (on top of the language being quite straightforward). I learned entirely from the inline samples provided in every page of their documentation.
The best experience with legos is if you had older siblings who got the legos. Then by the time you got the hand me down legos, you ended up with just a big bin of random parts, no sets, no manuals. I would create elaborate bases or freighter style space ships for playing with my other toys, play with them for a while, then take them apart and make something else. It was kind of like minecraft is with kids today, but with your two hands.
How hard would it be to make an EV garbage truck that turns some of the garbage into electricity?
Ida plugin which queries OpenAI's language model to speed up reverse-engineering
> So unless you know Apple's secret knock, it's functionally blocked.

That's way over the top.

All you have to do it right click on the app and select 'open' from the pop-up menu.

And it's not like there aren't thousands of articles available via the google machine to explain how to do this.

It's just a minor speed bump to prevent unaware but vulnerable users from shooting themselves in the foot.
Right. However, we've had GPUs as compute engines for a while now. People have gotten better at getting massively parallel architectures to do something useful. Both machine learning and graphics fit that model.

There have been many dead ends in that space, though. Thinking Machines and the Cell processor come to mind.
I really wonder which of the following will win:

* a brand-new battery chemistry based on cheap and readily-available elements that avoids the issues related to existing lithium-based cells for vehicle applications (e.g. cost, cold, low power density, towing, large vehicles, etc)

* a way to synthesize fuel via CO2 capture from the air, perhaps in a fluctuating demand way to soak up solar from solar-rich regions (to make it net neutral-ish for CO2 capture) or if we finally get it together and build a bunch of nuclear reactors, which become net negative for CO2 emissions (from building the plant) in a matter of weeks

I would love to not have to deal with tedious car maintenance. I wish my car was as reliable as my phone, which never needs any sort of ongoing maintenance other than charging!
Take a look at this study [0].
No drugs associated with higher rates of depression but amlodipine found to be protective.

[0]: https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.120....
Ask HN: Why Do You Like Emacs' Org Mode (Or Derivatives)?
I've seen so many people talk about why they like Org Mode, and hardly anyone speak ill of it. This is not typical of software, as the saying goes:

> There are two kinds of [software]: the ones people complain about, and the ones nobody uses.

But Org Mode seems to break that, and I want to know why, I want to know its magic, especially since I never really felt a need to organize my life that way.

If you are the exception, please also say why you don't like Org Mode.
Wow. My college organic chemistry lab class was basically a childs chemistry set from the 70s then.
Thanks for sharing. I didn't really understand it (though I didn't doubt it) until I read your comment. What a hard burden to carry; I completely understand the state of watching myself do something unwanted (though not with food).

One thing that's helped me: I just make a rule to myself, 'go from one healthy thing to another'. I just try to find more and more relatively healthy (or at least harmless) and appealing outlets and tell myself that, whatever I do, I may not do something ideal but I'm going to choose one of them.

(A healthy outlet is one where I feel better after I do it than when I start.)

I don't follow it perfectly, of course, but it has helped result in a major shift.
Hahah.

Yeah maybe in the future there will be a spate of law suits about wind turbine sickness.

Or someone will get hold of an exceptionally damaged wind turbine blade with no leading edge protection and the media will run a scare campaign about bpa.

Or counties that have state laws that say they can't refuse fracking and the tap water is flammable will ban solar on the basis of non-existent cadmium somehow escaping from a sandwich of glass and poisoning the water.

The renewable industry is definitely getting a free ride. Maybe it'll change after a solar panel falls off of a roof and renders an entire city uninhabitable, or when a ship stopping a military from destroying an atoll with worn out wind turbine blades for fun is blown up by state sponsored terrorists.
[author here] oh wow, surprised to see this here! it flopped the first time I posted it. questions/corrections/additions welcome!
Big discussion at the time the upcoming acquisition was first announced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33623402
> Generators are a thing that pretty much every one of these services will have. Because you can't have a fire station, EMT dispatch, etc go dark because of a grid down situation.

Okay, work out the size of a generator needed to power one truck vs the dispatch offices. Now tell us how many generators you need.
> huge volumes of plausible blithering that's factually wrong

That describes large parts of the internet, and we trained these models on that, so what did we really expect? ;-)
Just for fun ...

https://blockonomi.com/sam-bankman-fried-cashed-out-over-600...

Blockonomi: "Sam Bankman-Fried Cashed Out Over $600k, Violating Parole?"

In the US, there is no parole at the federal level. It was abolished in 1984. Maybe the website is using the term in a general sense, not specific to the US.

Blockonomi: "SBK is only allowed to spend less than $100."

Perhaps this is a typographical error where someone omitted a zero.

What the bail disposition form actually says: "... Defendant not to open new lines of credit, open a business, or enter into financial transactions in excess of $1,000 without pre-approval of the Government or Court, except to pay for legal costs and fees; equity interest in parent's home to be posted by 1/12/23. (Entered: 12/22/2022)"

Blockonomi: "Transferring money or converting it to cash does not count as spending money."

OK, I am lost here.

Financial transactions could include include spending, e.g., purchases, as well as sales, i.e., receiving proceeds.

Only the court or the US attorney know if SBF obtained pre-approval.

If the monies are used to pay for legal costs and fees, then no pre-approval would be required.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230104120043/https://blockonom...

"Blockonomi adheres to the strictest journalistic policies, we have a commitment to providing fair and unbiased reporting in all of our news coverage. Our journalists are required to fact-check each article before it is published and provide sources for quotes and statistics. Each article is checked by an editor before publication."
What if they use typescript/Vue? I work for a fortune 100 company that uses Vue. We have found that people familiar with react can pick up Vue very quickly. That hardly seems like a reason to ask for more money.
It wasn't just sound. The second generation SoundBlasters had a proprietary CD-ROM controller integrated, this was not yet standardized, it was before the IDE CD-ROM. It was the birth of the CD-ROM, and of Multimedia itself, as a product. In the early 90's we used to buy a boxed "Multimedia Kit" from Creative, with SoundBlaster, CD-ROM drive and speakers. Very popular and the best way to "add multimedia" to your computer, and enter the new world of multimedia and massive data, like encyclopedias, and CD-ROM games like Myst. I remember the excitement. https://64.media.tumblr.com/57f25b53fd58e3bad9cf1959f49a82f8...
Did it make money?
Minecraft. Macs were always missing games, and Minecraft was "the only game" that ran on MacBook without Bootcamp in late 2010s. Other than that, I'm sure have seen it happen but not sure...
Chinese researchers claim to find way to break encryption with quantum computers
Who lost and who made money investing in Evernote?
What makes this person the world's leading expert?
I wonder what would happen if you sent the two entangled light beams through the double slit experiment, one through each slit. (I am not a physicist, this might be stupid)

What are the practical uses for an entangled light beam vs existing entangled particles?
I also like the Storybrand method and have found it easy to reason with and adopt.
I read a book on vrml back in the 90s and was convinced it was going to be huge.
My experience with True React Frontenders is opposite, except for more money nuance. I don’t even feel that “no one will be going out of business” vibe, really (but that must depend on a type of a business).
The Luddites and Linus Torvalds
Exactly https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/16/bird/
I think you misread the parent post. They said that they stopped trying to encourage their daughter to improvise, because she took naturally to classical music and doesn't seem to care about improvisation.
"When you don't have a physical body, you're a discarnate being"

As a video creator[1], the greatest irony about the above quote is that filming is substantially involved with the physical reality of the world in front of the camera. You cannot create an image unless the object exists in front of the lens. That is why filmmaking is material-intensive, and to that extent, capital-intensive. Visual elements like objects, composition, lighting do not happen by accident. And in the metaphysical realm, elements like stories, characters, emotions do not just occur in an optimal sequence without considerable premeditation.

[1] https://youtu.be/Z_pH0RMxa_E

To continue McLuhan's quote: "You have a very different relation of the world around you."

This is also true with making intangible products like videos. A video file is just a sequence of bytes that had sampled the audio-visual stimuli. This is then re-manifested into our perception by the manipulation of light on the screen and of soundwaves on the speaker.

The intangible nature of video is both a blessing and a curse to filmmakers. Being immaterial makes it effortless to distribute the material once already created. But the audience will not see the challenges in manifesting an idea into the physical realm for the camera. Furthermore, with the inundation of video content online, appreciation for such crafts evaporates.

As McLuhan postulated, entities are treated differently when manifested without physicality. I would say that being physical evokes more empathy. His conversation referenced the erosion of privacy, on the principle that discarnate beings are treated as being less. I wonder if more "things" will be treated less with their further digitization.
I think it's much better now. It's not a "free speech absolutist" place, nor should it be. Elon Musk never subscribed to this, as far as I could recall. It's basically rejecting things that are illegal and that are very offensive. "Very offensive" is subjective, of course, but if you move the line far enough, it becomes less of an issue. There are occasional things that fall outside of this category (aptly described in this thread), but, on the balance, it is nothing like a censorship that it was before.
FYI- on your Preceden website menu, the “Use Cases” and “Resources” tabs don’t open up on DuckDuckGo on my iPhone. However, it does pop up properly on Chrome on my iPhone.
Very well said. Just want to add one thing.

> This is a big problem now that there are systems able to produce huge volumes of plausible blithering that's factually wrong.

If because of some law of nature ChatGPT were the last iteration of automatic text generation we could ever create, it would be a big and permanent problem. Right now it’s just a big and temporary problem, with a huge opportunity for automatic fact-checking. (Or more precisely, validity and soundness checking.) Maybe the answer to the bullshit factory is a rebalancing of Brandolini’s law.
Given that Evernote was one of the UG unicorns reaching a $1B valuation back in 2012 when that was considered a large number, you can help but but wonder what the acquisition price was.

Bending Spoons is private, but Dealroom gives them a ballpark valuation of $200M:

https://app.dealroom.co/companies/bending_spoons

Which seems a bit low if they've gotten $340M in financing and have annual revenues of $100M:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/bending-spoons-raises-340-millio...
Isn't the whole bible a collection of fictional stories / articles? Who cares if some one tacks on extra "forged" chapters? What does forged even mean in this context?
Exposing Kubernetes apps with ingress-gce in GKE
I was put on more or less the same kind of lesson program for much of the same reasons - my mom wanted the social kudos attached with kids performing at piano recitals, which is something that myself and my siblings had nothing but scorn for.

Same net result as yourself, none of us continued with our music studies once we were old enough to make our own decisions. In fact, a lot of the social climbing associated with how it all started is something we've rebelled against the most.
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