skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 8086 doesn't have virtual memory, so there is no such thing as a pagefault or invalid address. For a memory access, the microcode blocks until the bus interface circuitry completes the memory access. If there's physically nothing there, the memory access will either hang or come back with random garbage.
Yes. It is conventional wisdom to assume that all startups are lying though their teeth. Claims about what they've accomplished are understood to be what they hope to achieve eventually.
When people use meaningful guiding principles dogmatically, the principles aren't the problem.

As a chef, I often adopted the "measure twice, cut once" principle from carpentry. Saved big batches of sauce or whatever several times during prep. Working the line on Saturday night, however, doing that would cost someone their job within half an hour.

Don't replace problem-solving with rules and always use the right tool for the job. If you realize you aren't, it's usually a lot easier to switch the tool than modify the job.
I found a Half-Life CD in the street, just laying there, when it was a new game and all the rage. I guess it slipped from somebody's jewel case or the like. By some miracle, it wasn't scratched enough to be unreadable, so I went and installed it but… no key. Out of frustration I started to just type silly sequences, until arriving at one that worked: 1234567890 until filling the textbox completely.

Man, the sheer joy and happiness when the game installed and ran without issue. I had to tweak the settings a lot because I had a P75 with a 3dfx Voodoo accelerator card but nonetheless I enjoyed a lot of that game and I still have that disc. I hope the original owner was able to get hold of a copy and still use his original licence though.
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Subscriptions are great model. If something really gives me value I will keep paying for it in return for newer content/features.

Why would I spend $200 on some software one time when it will become obsolete within a couple years? Or maybe I only use it a few times.

I’d rather pay 10-20 a month for one month. And never use it again. Or keep using it.

In this economy I went ahead and cancelled a few subscriptions and kept some. I feel zero obligations and it’s great.

TLDR if it brings you value use it. If not don’t.
Yes, this must be a new take on metric, which is the only tons I have ever used. Maybe their conversion went wrong. Does the math work the weird American tons?
Uncle Sam to block Adobe absorption of Figma over monopoly fears
That may be what it means academically, but it is ABSOLUTELY NOT how it's used casually.
> EDIT: I'm saying this as actually one of the top performers at my company. It's politics and bullshitting that gets you more money and promotions, not hard work. But that's the game I refuse to play. Instead, I focus on doing the least amount of work I can get away with. Say "Wally" from Dilbert, but without being an asshole.

You need to work somewhere else. Politics is everywhere, but it is not the only thing that matters at many companies. Competence and productivity matter too.
D has std.zip:

https://dlang.org/phobos/std_range.html#zip

Sorting two arrays in parallel:

import std.algorithm.sorting : sort;

int[] a = [ 1, 2, 3 ];
string[] b = [ "a", "c", "b" ];
zip(a, b).sort!((t1, t2) => t1[0] > t2[0]);

writeln(a); // [3, 2, 1]
// b is sorted according to a's sorting
writeln(b); // ["b", "c", "a"]
https://youtu.be/jNMcdIkef_c?t=106
I've tried Nix/Nixos a few times over the past years and at some point decided that the documentation was bad enough that any further tinkering would be a waste of my time. So, when it was announced that a group of users would be making a concerted effort to improve the documentation I was hopeful, but looking at this thread--in which Determinate Systems (or one of their employees) is blamed for running roughshod over other contributors--I'm not anymore: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/parting-from-the-documentation...
Agreed. On every PR we make, we have a template in the description to remind the author to document if we’ve taken out any technical debt. (And the author could list tech debt they’ve paid down, too)

It’s a useful reminder that it’s there to use as one of the many tools in our toolbox.
Can someone make a bot to verify the gpt bots are up and another to verify the first verifier is up
What is the Y Combinator´s new logo font?
"In theory, there are enormous benefits to indoor farms. They often use 90% less water than traditional farms; right now, most lettuce in the country is grown in drought-stricken California and Arizona. Growing inside can avoid outbreaks of E. coli and diseases like a plant virus that recently devastated lettuce grown in California’s Salinas Valley, pushing up prices. Indoor farming also eliminates pesticides and reduces fertilizer and keeps it out of rivers. Lettuce grown near Boston or New York City can avoid traveling thousands of miles from Western fields, saving gas and staying fresh longer. It’s possible to grow delicate, flavorful foods that otherwise wouldn’t survive a long trip through the supply chain. And as climate change makes extreme heat, drought, and flooding more likely, growing inside could become a necessity for some crops."
I think the person you're replying to has a valid point. Attraction isn't a binary, it's a spectrum.

As a guy in your early 20s who has left the the college bubble, your eligible dating pool is at its very smallest size. Women generally prefer not to date a guy significantly younger than them, so you're basically left with the girls your age. Guys don't have similar issues with dating younger women, so that 23-year old you just asked out is also going to be asked out by guys in their late 20s who are richer, have more impressive career accomplishments, and are more mature.

As you get older, your pool of eligible partners keeps growing. Whereas for women, their pool of eligible partners keeps shrinking. For the exact same reasons discussed above. This isn't going to radically transform your life and land you a supermodel. But it does improve your odds in a noticeable way. Someone who used to think of you as a 6 would now think of you as a 7. Maybe even an 8, depending on how you used your 20s. Going from a 6 to a 7 may not seem like much, but it makes a big difference in your dating life.
I just fell into this hole. Started a rebuild and the only thing moving to the new computer is my 3090.
Very interesting that they did the same thing India is doing with Adani. Defending them as "local champions", talks of suing the entity that exposed them and stopping shorting
The big cache version of the Pentium Pro (512kB) was 1,217 USD (1996) - 2320 USD (2023) with inflation.
It took me an afternoon to glue together my own DIY SSG with all the features I wanted. I did that after a previous SSG didn't do what I wanted and I didn't know how to fix it since I don't know ruby.

An SSG especially is such a low-risk project.

Probably the most carefree code you could possibly write.
I'm salaried and I work 30 hours a week. That's what we negotiated for, that's what I do. I get pages outside of work hours but I make it up later in my workweek.

For my part, I am confused why anyone would work more than 40; get your work done and leave.
If you read the primary sources behind these headlines, studies find that knowledge workers who work 55 hours per week have the greatest creatively useful output of any amount of hours. Above 55 hours a week the output gets flat, reflecting no additional creative work utility. Up until 30 hours, the line is steep, hence where all the '6 hours per day' and '4 days per week' stuff comes from. But from 30 to 55 hours, you're still getting more done, it is just less per hour than the base 30 hours. One type of person looks at that and says 'I am less efficient over 30 hours, so why bother?'. Another type looks at that and says 'I get the most done by working 55 hours a week'. Both are true. Finally, these things are highly individual. People on the spectrum are able to focus on their special interest as much as 15-16 hours a day, which is not true of neurotypicals. So it is as an individual most important to know yourself, and in aggregate to know the median when setting policy.
I can't imagine the benefit of sleeping in the office, especially as a PM. What is a PM doing around the clock to help ship any feature beyond helping morale?
Lex-in-depth: how much is Manchester United worth?
No (betteridge's law).
But the tech sector is the doom of the consumer :)
> I've stopped visiting couple of sites because of CloudFlare. I keep using old Firefox with no scripts or ocassionally with uMatrix.

Why do you use an out-of-date browser?
Haha :) I still do so for some old legacy games.
The biggest patching project was AI War: Fleet Command.
Great game, but quite a bit of bugs and missing features.
Spend weeks in CIL decompiler, understanding code and then making patches.
I was born in the 80s and plenty of people were still just throwing it 'over the hill' or 'in a hole'. There are still remnants of it lying around if you know where to look. About 10 years ago when China was buying lots of scrap iron and steel, the scavengers dragged away all of the metal that was in these places which at least made them look better. You can still spot some old tires now and then.
Your understanding is wrong, obesity directly causes sleep apnea.

> There is a linear correlation between obesity and OSA. In obese people, fat deposits in the upper respiratory tract narrow the airway; there is a decrease in muscle activity in this region, leading to hypoxic and apneic episodes, ultimately resulting in sleep apnea.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5836788/
I recall that video. I wonder how the math compares of their costs during the summer, vs the cost of transportation.
> GOTO is a BREAK (could always be substituted for one), but a BREAK is not a GOTO.

You wrote this backwards, but you seem to understand the relationship and that GOTO is more general. That is, every BREAK is a GOTO (because you can always substitute a GOTO), but every GOTO is not a BREAK (i.e., you can't substitute a BREAK for some GOTOs because BREAK cannot jump to an arbitrary label).
An uncomfortable and time consuming one indeed.
Maybe the answer is to turn your indoor crops into juice packets, and charge customers $700 for a machine to squeeze the juice out of them.
This should be higher. What's good for the individual is not always what's good for society.

I know a few "young spinsters" but I also know a ton of happy, successful single women.
> Hey Germany, if you're so longing for a digital champion, why aren't you massively lowering taxes for start-ups, flooding them with funding and cutting their red tape, instead of aiding the corrupt enterprises of well connected crooks?

What makes you think opening a firehouse of funding isn't going to be immediately siphoned up by corrupt enterprises of well-connected crooks?
The techniques of modern music production were developed for the movie industry and transfered to the music industry. Fantasia still has a pretty good soundtrack but music recordings before 1965 or (The Beatles) are unlistenable. The last year of music competes with 60 years of recorded music and that's a situation that just gets more extreme over time.
C++ doesn't have a lot of namespacing below 'std', so if you go around using everything you need, you end up with a lot of short, possibly conflicting names in scope.

Java avoids this somewhat because functions are always in a class, so there is a little bit of extra namespacing, even if you've imported the class.
Consider changing the title to "Worst case optimal joins"? Original title sounds clickbait-y.
Thanks, dad.

Funny enough, I reviewed your comment history and you seem to be of the same opinion as the person I was responding to…

…could that have perhaps motivated your patronizing tone?
> The gentleman who rents our family farm

It isn't your family farm anymore. In fact it's nobody's family farm. It's just farmland.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring Solution Engineers in Video in the US
30,000 apple trees per acre?
Actually I replied with another aphorism (attributed to Dick Guindon and later expanded by Leslie Lamport as "Mathematics is nature's way to tell you how sloppy your writing is")

What I try to add here is the fact that other forms of technical writing can be seen as forms of planning and thus there is a connection between the two aphorisms
Dept. of Energy announces $375M loan to create battery recycling plant
Profit, in dollars, per acre has gone down. You need more acres for the same profit. Modern ag-tech is much more efficient.
Deciding who to have sex with is definitely a form of discrimination. For many, it can even be racial, religious, etc. We as a society have determined that it is okay to discriminate based on personal tastes when it comes to sex.

That's not obvious though. One could imagine a society where we deem it okay to discriminate on those things when providing employment, but not when having sex.

As much as we want to believe Human Rights are some fundamental property of nature, the reality is they are simply an agreed upon social construct.
I won't be offended if you refer to me as an Occidental.
We are at least getting modules real soon now: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/modules
It's interesting how different peoples use of testing terminology is across teams/companies/professions. Vocab is standardized by various ISO's, ASQ, and ISTQB so we could all share the same language, then we don't have to debate about what integration/unit/smoke/component/regression/golden/snapshot testing means
> You are talking about Factorio players who specifically bought an 3D-L3 CPU

Factorio players don't necessarily know anything about computers. And you don't know if they bought this CPU or if it came with their fancy prebuilt.
Disclosed News Corp security breach lasted two years
Or it might answer with "git reset --hard" depending on the phrasing of the natural language version and the phase of the moon.
I've updated this joke just now, but they still haven't

-

Spoken as the magnanimous Stephen Wright the comedian ;

"We used to have schizophrenia, but now... only to them."

-

"schizophrenics used to make jokes to their friends... but now, only to us."

"I used to be afraid of schizophrenic's comments, but now I just dont know where they are coming from"

"A schizophrenic once told me this, and this is true, a Mayan saying is In'Laketch - which means "Iam another yourself" -- and this was my best friend.

So I had only one response.

"I don't even know who you are any more"
A lab leak virus that's been genetically engineered to infect easier, kill faster, etc. is quite different than a naturally occurring virus.

So, if we have gof research going on and it's being covered up we most definitely should be worrying about where it came from because it's likely to happen in that same area again if nothing is put in place to prevent in the future. In this case, every bit of political maneuvering we have in place to punish China and whoever else was involved in ruining the lives of millions for almost 3 years SHOULD happen.

No, we shouldn't just move on. The only people saying stuff like this are the ones that were wrong and/or malicious in their actions regarding COVID. They don't get off that easy.
While you’re right, and the guy is an incel, I want to mention that for longer periods of time women were forced into living with men just because it usually was the only way of survival. After emancipation, many men basically lost the single attractive trait they have - having a salary.

So many men who are now experiencing problems with finding a partner now, say due to being a nasty/abusive/uninteresting/unintelligent/ugly, 80-100 years ago would be able to land a wife just by being the only person in the family who could provide. So in 2023, when they have to date equals, who are financially independent, they are experiencing “celibacy”.
> However, they weren't even bringing enough value without subscription

In theory, anyway, it's a good thing that they get cut if they are not bringing enough value. Sure, downturns are a time when this happens in earnest, but you'll always get people complaining about the service and claiming "We could save X dollars here" if it's not adding value.

In practice -- sure, there's probably a lot of services that are low-value and got "floated" by the general upswing in the last couple of years. But to me, this is probably true of non-subscription applications and physical goods as well. People are going to be thinking twice about buying those as well during downturns, so the impact isn't limited or specific to subscription-based models.
Ahh SoftIce (and later WinIce for Win9x).. Great RING0 debugger..
I used it quite a bit for crack some games myself :)
Oh look, it still here on disk: siw405w9x.exe
Why I keep it... ;)
Most code will end up in .cpp files which don't get included (usually).

Not if a lot of your code is in the form of templates. You have to put those in headers.
5800x3D has a single CCD so no need to choose which CCD to use.

The interesting one will be the 7800X3D.
"my only claim to fame from that time is that I’m part of the final member list of ACiD Productions under BBS Modifications."

This is a pretty rad credential. ACiD and iCE were hugely influential in my early career and I looked up to the early and late members. Very cool.
Ask HN: macOS apps/utils you can’t live without?
I bought new MBpro (nice machine, m2 max, 96 gb ram, 2tb ssd) after running my original 2015 i7 machine down. I thought that is good time to revisit my tools.

I am using my machine for security research, pentesting (not so much these days), sw development - more like scrips and tiny apps/automations. I also use the machine for some video edits - mostly board sports.

After using mac for so long, I am wondering - is there some killer app I am missing?

I use so far (except mail, calendar, office and other “defaults”):
- iterm2
- pimped zsh
- sublime text
- neovim
- UTM
- little snitch
- wireguard
- monitor control
- synergy (to connect to corporate mac)
- amphetamine

In Safari I have:
- wipr
- super agent
- hush
- vinegar
- amplosion

Dear hackers, is there killer app you use? What can’t you live without? Thanks!
Is anyone doing R&D in northern climates? Curious how we're coming along dealing with obstacles like snow, sub-zero temperatures (potentially frosting over sensors) and more inclement weather.
I believe he is saying the COGS doesn’t work out in favor of small farms against bigger ag-corps.

Those bigger operations can afford to reinvest in technology and evolve to do more with less (people).
No, just the hypocrisy of "we're doing it out of privacy concerns"
> It's unclear (but doesn't sound like it) if that number is adjusted for Cost of Living.

It is adjusted--per another OECD page, "This indicator is in US dollars per capita at current prices and PPPs".[0]

> In the US education, healthcare and transportation are significantly more expensive than in most OECD countries. For instance, it's pretty much unheard of across the OECD for education to cost tens to hundreds of thousands of USD and workers to start their work life with massive debts. Healthcare-related bankruptcies are also extremely rare outside of the US.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics says the average US household spends ~5K per year on healthcare. The median student loan debt is ~30K (so ~5K per year for 10 years), but only ~20% of Americans hold this debt. I'm not sure where you got the info about transportation cost differences, but I doubt it makes up the difference.

> Healthcare-related bankruptcies are also extremely rare outside of the US.

That's true! But then, only a small number of households experience this. Meanwhile, the average European has a huge amount of household debt--far more than the average American![1]

> And the work-life balance rating of 5.2/10 is pretty damning. What good is that extra money (if it's actually extra money and not going to savings to be able to afford the next surprise medical bill) if you have no holidays and have to work 80 hour weeks so it's actually impossible to spend it?

I'm sure it's convenient to pretend that working 80 hour weeks is normal in America, but it's... not. Also, unpaid vacation exists. Take it if you want it. It's nice to have options, huh?

[0]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-disposable-income.htm
[1]https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm#indicator-chart
I just continued collecting. I especially like old albums that are not available on streaming services.
Having sold both subscriptions and CDROM based B2B software, I can tell you with confidence that it was easier to sell a $2,000 software package once, then a $200 monthly subscription. That was my experience in the B2B world about 20 years ago.
<< Which is not gonna happen. I like Dilbert, but Scott Adams has gone off the deep end and is saying crap that I strongly disagree with.

Can you elaborate on what, exactly, you strongly disagree with? I believe you, but I am curious as to which part, specifically, made you say.. "um, I am not touching that with a 10 foot pole".

<< I'm not going to run around defending him for free, and have made a choice to not read any new content by him. I might make a choice to stop reading and referring to his content in the future.

That is fair and absolutely your right to do as you see fit. Still, what did he do, exactly, to deserve such a treatment?

<< The guy should think carefully before talking, just like the rest of us do.

You accept it as if it was a given. I think it is a ridiculous way to live life. As always, all progress depends on the unreasonable.
What virtues you’re talking about?
Isn't "book" borrowed from German ("buch")?
I personally really enjoy the incentives that subscriptions create for developers. If you expect me to keep paying for your software then I expect you to keep providing value.

The other nice thing is the continuous revenue stream ensures that developer can continue working on enhancements, lowering the risk of it becoming abandoned.

I also get to be on the latest greatest version at all times.
This is very surprising to me. Type hints have been a feature of Python since 2015. How are you, and everyone you know, unaware of such a large language feature? I'm guessing you (and the "people you've been helping") either don't use Python that much, or literally do not care one single bit about any of the new features that have happened in the past almost decade.

I'm sure such people exist. I'm just surprised to see them on Hacker News.
I mean, Fallout and Planescape Torment.
No, I've had enough Jacobin readers misinterpret Adam Smith to me to form an informed opinion.
Depending on the numbers, I feel more comfortable signing up for a subscription than a one off payment. With the one off payment it’s inevitable that they will bump the version number and eventually cut me off. With the subscription I can pay the smaller fee for as long as value is provided.
Greater fool theory at work until the music stops. A story as old as the concept of investing.
Isn't that kinda already what Copilot is? Very similar product with a different name/label.
> The UT69R000 [has] a 64K data space and a 1M address space.

So the virtual address space is 1M but it can only physically interface with 64K of memory?
Having well defined terms, and using them well, is essential to any type of engineering. I don't know why aiming for precise terminology is only controversial in software engineering.
From a different culture none the less...
May I ask the reasons why you will not set foot in Germany again?
Amazon.com and AWS accounts are being separated
Drivers may develop target fixation and inadvertently steer towards something they want to avoid. It's thought to be one of the reasons that so many cars manage to nail light poles and trees dead-center.
Exactly. But, you left out lifting your kid into the galvanized can to stomp down those paper bags and make space towards the end of the week...