skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The TI-PC was released around the same time that Compaq was ushering in the era of the 100%-compatible PC clone.

Compaq, of course, created the first 100% compatible clean-room implementation of the BIOS, modified MS-DOS to work with it, ran an extensive compatibility lab to ensure existing PC software worked correctly with their BIOS/MS-DOS combo, and gave their changes back to Mircosoft to encourage the growth of a standardized platform.

Unsurprisingly, Compaq was founded by ex-TI engineers who became disillusioned with the TI's management.
I play dodgeball, and rock climb. Started 3 years, and finding some community is great :)
Thanks for pointing this out. I confirmed that you can reword a commit without checking it out, with the caveats:

- It has to be an ancestor of `HEAD`, like you said.

- Doing so doesn't invoke Git's `post-rewrite` hook, which can cause interoperability issues with other tools :(

- Doing so will abandon at least some descendant branches (possibly all descendant branches which aren't checked out, or possibly just those which branch aren't ancestors of `HEAD`).

- Doing so doesn't seem to be undoable inside Sublime Merge via the undo command.
Do you have stats proving that wrong?

Like I said I bought my bike 10 years ago for 200. I do at least 2600 a year, to and from work and errands I can use it for. I don't have exact figures but in that time I definitely haven't spent more than 1000 on maintenance. So 1200 for 26000 miles and it's never needed a software update and the battery (me) is still strong.

It's hard work and keeps me fit so that's an added benefit ebikes don't offer. And I'm not beholden to vendors deciding not to support my bike anymore or maybe locking features unless you pay monthly for them.
It may seem cheesy and somewhat simplistic at first, but after you get over the cutesy anecdotes and jokes, the book/method "Slicing Pie" by Mike Moyer has been a very helpful resource for me during several very early-stage bootstrappings.

It really helped contextualize the different types of contributions co-founders and early employees will bring to the table, and is a helpful transition into the world of stocks and equity for those who are less familiar.

I bought copies for all involved and we worked through the calculations together, resulting in equity splits that have so far been low-drama.
This. I have a home full of Google Home devices. I have been thinking about switching to Apple (a fairly expensive proposition given the payoff) but this sort of news makes me rethink the value prop of pouring more money into Apple products.
I should say that the applications are largely for read-only data access. We define not null, unique etc. database constraints to ensure data problems are detected during import. An application for data entry used stored procedures as GraphQL mutations where more complex logic for data validation was required. So one parameterized procedure can check its inputs and update multiple tables in one transaction, or raise an error if the validation failed.

We also used postgres policies for row-level access control in one application. The policy functions could rely on the logged in user being already validated and present in a SQL variable (we set that variable in a postgraphile javascript hook).

The database schema and stored procedures are just one or multiple SQL files which are in version control. I also commit example GraphQL queries, which indicate how a schema can be used and can serve as a manual test case.
Funnily enough, I am a Combat Systems Engineering Officer in the military, but I daydream about becoming a full-time SWE once my obligatory service commitments are complete. Maybe we should job-swap when nobody's looking.
Yes, and file system snapshots and remote sync. But writing to a file, in the general case, is an irreversible action.
Can chatGPT understand negations? Then it would already be an improvement to existing SOTA of search engines:

https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes
15-Inch MacBook Air Rumored for 2023, but New 12-Inch MacBook Now Unlikely
Mind posting the climate slack group link?
You can see that the channels are labeled YM2608, which is one of the many four-operator FM chips from Yamaha used in consoles and PCs (like the Genesis and AdLib).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YM2608

Like the IBM-compatible PCs, the PC-98 series was available with various different sound options.
Biographer Robert Caro on why it's taking decades to fully capture LBJ
New social network launched Friendstore
The Yeezy brand briefly elevated the adidas brand in the street fashion world. Now they need a new partnership
I did a lot of research and Fedora on my Lenovo T480s with glass touchpad feels a lot like macOS now, with some minor details... thanks for the huge effort. Here are my experiences:

# Precision

The precision on short movements is not as good. On macOS I can move from "minimize" to "close" without a hazzle, on Fedora it is slightly off. I don't know if macOS handles short movements differently, but it feels still more natural.

# Kinetic scrolling

I don't know where kinetic scrolling is (and should be) implemented exactly (libinput, mutter or in every app), but on macOS it seems like it just works everywhere while on Fedora some apps don't support kinetic scrolling att all and where it is supported (e.g. Firefox) the scroll speed was WAY to fast (maybe because of WQHD). There was no way to fix this with on board / gnome settings, I had to use a special hook daemon for this (https://gitlab.com/warningnonpotablewater/libinput-config.gi...).

# Gestures

Gestures do work, but at some places there are fiddly to use or just don't work because of in app overrides (e.g. if you use remmina and are logged in to another system, the gestures are not working as expected). On macOS everything works seamlessly, even in Microsoft RDP app or VNC connections.

That's my feedback for now, but I'm a happy Fedora user - there is no way back to macOS ;)
When you rob a bank, you're presumably getting at least a few thousand dollars. If the fine were actually $100, then the ROI is on the order of 10x-100x. How much money do you think apple got for "illegally harvesting iPhone owners’ data for targeted ads without proper consent"? Do you think apple made $85M to $850M from it?
Checkout chezmoi, I’ve been using it for a few years and it ticks every box for me - various machines, different configs, scripts, passwords etc

https://www.chezmoi.io/
> OP also overly focuses on throughput in his benchmarks

Because OP is a junior developer, he reads a lot of theory and blog posts, does a lot of research, but doesn't have much practical experience. Just look at his resume and what he wrote. As a result, most of what he write about is based on what he have read about senior developers doing in the companies he have worked for, perhaps he created some supporting software for core services but did not design or implemented the core, so he doesn't have firsthand experience. This is evident to anyone who has actually used DPDK (which is ridiculous proposal for Twitter like service in 2023 where you have XDP and io_uring, it's not HFT), designed and implemented high volume, low latency web services and knows where the bottleneck is in that kind of services from experience, theory will not give you that intuition and knowledge.
I have one of these and I like it a lot:

https://www.roland.com/us/products/handsonic_hpd-20/

It's not a substitute for a regular drum kit, but it you like hand drums it's pretty cool in combination with a DAW. There's a foot pedal you can use with it, but so far I'm I'm doing fine without it.
What you're describing is a role fulfilled by a product manager, rather than a traditional people manager.
I was curious about why it would have been PC incompatible, so I did some searching. Didn't find any answers, but Wikipedia led me to this incredibly detailed contemporary review in Byte magazine:

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-12/page/n287/...

I enjoyed reading it. At one point the reviewer dials in to The Source (an early competitor to CompuServe) to download a BASIC program. The ads are great, too.
I did the same thing (looking at the negativity in subreddits) when I was daydreaming about moving to a different country. It's quite effective.
Ah, so Twitter’s Unicode implementation is fucked.
If you like Caro’s approach to biography, I suggest Carl Sandburg’s biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Sandburg is much better known for his poetry, but I found his style and attention to detail engrossing in the same way that Caro usually is.
This needs a (2004). The article mostly targets the Intel Pentium 4. Many high-level tips still hold true (for example those that could apply to any programming language, like expressing divisions as multiplies), but quite a few things have changed since then. Especially things related to microcode are likely be different now.
PC-88 and PC-98 have a large collection of erotic games with the best pixel arts. The games are fun too if you can read Japanese or someone kindly provided a translationed version.
I recommend taking a look at Handmade Hero. Follow the first 20-ish episodes then brach off and use the Episode Guide (https://guide.handmadehero.org/code) when needed. Also join the Handmade Network Discord to get direct guidance from experienced folks.

There's a lot to learn from gamedev that is fully applicable to traditional tech, so there's really not a lot of risk in going for it since you'll be more hirable _anywhere_ in the long-run. Many companies in traditional tech are catching on and looking for game and game engine devs specifically.
We are working on "the next git" that brings version control to the rest of the world.

> No one bothers to consider: what are the workflows that people actually want to do? What are the features that would make those workflows easier?

What a coincidence, I just created a document [0] that collects engineering and UX issues that we are running into with inlang (localization infrastructure built on git) [1]. Part of bringing version control to people outside of software engineering is fixing UX related issues.

For example, your proposed `sync` command is interesting. Our observations lean towards some real-time collaboration workflow that could make `pull, push, sync` workflows redundant. Applications that benefit from version control like a next-gen Figma, Adobe Premiere, Excel, etc. require real-time collaboration. A question that I've been asking myself whether real-time collaboration in software engineering makes sense too. To be elaborated! :)

[0] https://github.com/inlang/inlang/blob/main/content/git-sdk-n...

[1] https://github.com/inlang/inlang
I had a Xerox 1108 running Medley Interlisp (until I updated it to Common Lisp). Great memories, but I just can't get the same level of excitement running it on my MacBook in emulation mode. That said I 1000% appreciate the work that Larry and other people are doing to maintain it because it is my personal history.

I write a lot about Lisp languages (and I offer free mentoring, and people often ask for Lisp advice) and for most people I actually recommend Racket Scheme as an introduction since it is a batteries included instant install on most platforms and the supplied IDE is pretty good. If anyone gets really interested in using Lisp, the big job is deciding which language and implementation to use. I love Common Lisp (LispWorks, SBCL+Emacs), Scheme (Gerbil, Chez, Gambit), and Haskell (which for some weird reason I think of as a Lisp language).

Sadly, I have none of my old Medley Interlisp code that I did in the early 1980s (I searched my old paperwork looking for program listings - no luck). I thought of writing up a short 50 page "tutorial and fun projects" book on Medley Interlisp, but the idea of starting over from scratch is daunting.
This tech works by predicting the next word based on the previous words. It doesn't have a concept of facts, sentences or even concepts. Just "what token is statistically likely to follow the previous tokens"

You can limit the sources of information that it uses to determine next word relationships. But then you give up the predictive power of having the entire internet as training data.

If you first do a web search to limit the available sources, you increase the computation overhead (first search and then summarize at the token level). and if you're already doing a web search, what's the point in using gpt? You lose the power of big data synthesis and it's just a sort of summarization / style transfer tool.

Individual tokens don't have sources and they can't be fact checked. They're just words or parts of words. Doing any kind of fact checking or citation adds an entirely separate technical process that is distinct from the transformer model.
Android?

I'm surprised every time I see an ad somewhere. TrackerControl seems to be an accidentally fantastic ad blocker (I got it just to block trackers) and it's super rare that an app doesn't use one of the known ad networks. It probably also helps to use apps from F-Droid whenever possible, which is surprisingly often (most of my apps are from F-Droid, some are stock like camera, dialer, and home screen, and then there's a couple like Spotify and NS/DB that are required for valid digital national rail tickets and I unfortunately can't get outside of Google Play).
> The fine should be equivalent to profit plus a hefty penalty on top of that.

So this was a toggle in an obscure preferences setting toggled incorrectly and therefore a minor infringement of EU law - but you want the court to fine Apple their entire profit? plus some random extra amount?

Wow. Aside from this being completely stupid to anyone who doesn’t share your irrational level of Apple hatred, how would you deal with a really serious offense?
I've read it a long time ago, and while it doesn't contain anything that will change your mind, it's a concise coverage of all the important topics in a single and easy to digest package.

I feel that it gives solid foundations to start learning and build upon. I've read it and recommended it to a lot of people
Sounds to me like all this technical debt being fixed came as a free bonus in addition to their regular more business driven goals.
So why, then, is Japan having cases/deaths at their all time highs?
Start a Shopify dropshipping website, or learn SEO/PPC/Organic TikTook/Facebook ads, hire a VA, and pitch local businesses on marketing services.
There is a finite amount of BTC, but infinite amount of cryptocoins
It's not really a narrow definition of Linux. When the vast majority of technically-oriented people say Linux, they mean Linux with some sort of GNU userspace like with Debian or Ubuntu. It's even hard to install Linux on some Chromebooks...it's hardly a Linux experience out of the box.
Did we ... need proof of this concept? Here's a thread just on this forum, from over a year ago, explaining exactly how to short Tether via the trade the author is "proving":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28796356
Looks really sketchy, would not click without a vpn
> Rewording a commit is guaranteed to not cause a merge conflict, so requiring that the commit be checked out is unnecessary

What if someone else rewords the same commit?
Deploy scripts using G-expressions
So true. My hobbies are work too because as soon as I want to drill deeper into anything (even hand drawn DND maps) I figured I need a lot of practices. Looks like I have a serious attitude towards life but don't have the energy to grit through it.
How problematic is the BEAM startup time for this? I made a command line tool once and it took a while to start the VM but this was on a much older machine...
I think the claim is that usdt crash will be highly correlated with all other crypto going to zero, so any crypto collaterized counterparty will fail. Ability to payout USDT short relies on confidence in other crypto.
Thanks for your time! Basically, business in General, understading whether or not The company numbers are doing ok or not, how much to invest in the tech team, cut costs and so on.
originally supposed to be open-source, non-profit.
Well, it would naturally do that, because the Outrun genre is named after the Out Run game... which, like the PC-98 series, was made in Japan during the 1980s and with Yamaha 4-operator FM synth chips. Out Run was ported to the PC-88.
You’re right that these OS projects can and do destroy the competitive market for their space, but critically they are both free (as in beer and often as in freedom as well) and open. Their reason for being free is not for market capture to destroy competition and then drive up prices.

Amazon bundling a service and providing it at reduced cost to capture the market is neither free nor is it open.
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Perhaps, but almost every birder would look at you strangely if you pronounced it like pl-oh-ver. Plover rhyming with lover is universal amongst birders.
Most of the benefits listed, apart from the extremely simple tax code, exists in all modern countries country (here I use the tautological definition of “modern” as meaning somewhere where everyone has a bank account and “doing your taxes” is typically less cumbersome than accepting a cookie banner).
In theory, sure. In reality it sounds way, way, way worse.

Having one less BS violation to write isn't gonna stop revenue policing when these guys can just lie and the courts will take it.

Having the .gov bureaucracy automatically mail out fines would be worse. At least with the police you can usually show up to court and get it dropped if you have corrected the condition. Good fucking luck if the unaccountable bureaucracy decides to fine you. And at least the police have to expend the labor to do it and it's a personal transaction. When the unaccountable bureaucrats enforce those laws there is massive labor savings and it's impersonal.

Basically you've taken a revenue stream and moved it from a group of jerks who are inefficient and somewhat accountable and moved it to a different group of jerks who are less inefficient and less accountable.
While barely known in Europe or the Americas, these were incredibly popular home computers in Japan. There's an endless amount of unique, interesting and curious games for them.
How TikTok Real Time Recommendation algorithm scales to billions?
So, imagine your grandfather was in the nazi camps, he struggles to stay alive every day, he doesn't lie, cheat, or do anyone wrong, he does stand his ground, he defends the weak, feeds the poor even if it's his own food, how would you feel if someone mocked him in your face? called him a warlord, a traitor, a nazi associate, made derogatory cartoons of him etc.

And this just doesn't come close to what he did and the battles he fought and the pain he's been through, all done to praise God and obey his commands, all to spread the message of God to the world, and he's been reciting a verse about the Idols and how they've wasted a lot of lives along with another verse, and he cries and raises his hands to the sky saying: Oh God my people, my people.
as in "God I am afraid for my people".

He's dearer to us than ourselves.
Surprised nobody brought up an alternative to set this up yourself.

I guess it may not exist or it's called managed hosting and the feature set and complexity is too overwhelming?
If you're planning on reading them in the order they came out, don't be too put off if the first couple books don't grab you. A lot of people even recommend starting later in the series or going through a subseries- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/Discworl...
Git is pretty easy to use but people tend to overcomplicate it. Just push changes to your branch. Merge when ready. And keep your branch up to date with your main branch. Easy.
I had this same idea a few months ago: https://mobile.twitter.com/AlanJay1/status/14187863191997808...

I'd bet on USDT failing in 3 years. But I'd want to understand how the close-out works under the assumption that the non-stablecoin collateral in Aave crashes and the liquidation process isn't able to preserve the value of the pool. I haven't studied that in depth. My guess is there's non-negligble risk of not being able to get that return on the last leg of the trade, even if the hypothesis is right.
I want to ask, would you argue the same about a blog that showed the negative impacts of state-owned vs privatised infrastructure?
I agree with much of what you say. I certainly find bibtex frustrating. On your specific points

1. I might be the only one, but I do sometimes, for the reasons you say. To debug it. But yes, debugging bibtex files is a a real pain.

2. yes, but that is hardly bibtex's fault, would be the same with any system.

2A. (same response as 2)

2B Yes, and so have both fields in the bibtex files. Its the publisher who decided what they want, DOI, ULR or both or neither. Not bibtex's fault

2C dont know what "gray literature" is, sorry.

3. YES!

3A, Think you always will need something like that regardless of bibliography system. The publisher dictates only first word in title is capitalised, how then do you tell it to capitalize USA or Mary? {} is as good as any alternative.

3B. yes. I never had any need for that. do you mean \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

3C. yes, to be safe, one needs these weird latex formatting for foreign characters.

3D. Yes. Well I have the time. When I get a bibtex entry from some external source, It usually needs tweaking. And usually fastest is just to write it manually. But its a a trivial amount of effort
The laptop setup screens that push you to iCloud.

The toast that tells you to use Safari when using another web browser.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain_reflectometer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_time-domain_reflecto...
"here are WYSIWYG editors for TeX as well." not there are not. Apart from TeXmacs I know of no editor which give you on the screen the same result you get on the paper. LyX has not such a feature. If an approximation is ok, then fine, but I do not think you can call it WYSIWYG. Is something else. And it requires a lot of work to do it correctly. You should at least appreciate the technical merits, even if you prefer to use LaTeX for its ecosystem. But as a user of both I see the clear merits of TeXmacs in terms of quality of my work (mathematician), I can focus more on what I'm doing, instead on deciphering the mess of the LaTeX formulas and try to find where to put a correction. I can give online lectures with it, discuss on zoom while scribbling on a TeXmacs document, much of the work I was doing on paper I do now directly on the computer. To me there is a clear difference in the user experience between TeXmacs and LaTeX and I will never go back to write LaTeX if I can help it (I do it sometimes, if my coauthors are using it and do not want to try otherwise).
What I like about SourceTree is the ability to pick individual lines and „hunks“ to stage, as I often have changes and some debugging stuff sprinkled into some files (think printf).
Since it‘s not explicitly mentioned, I assume this is a pretty standard feature?
I wouldn’t mind switching away from SourceTree, it crashes often.