skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
COBOL (or at least some of its dialects) has some really weird features I’ve never seen anywhere else. For example, only just the other day I learned that IBM mainframe COBOL has a “REVERSED” clause on its OPEN statement, which opens an input file for reading backwards. Apparently it only works for fixed length record format files, and only for files stored on tape. It relies on the fact that the (non-SCSI) IBM mainframe tape command set has a “READ BACKWARDS” command which reads blocks off a tape in reverse order, by playing it backwards.

Back in the day, memory was very small, and hard disks were unavailable or very limited in capacity, so many COBOL programs used tapes as input, output, and temporary storage. OPEN INPUT REVERSED meant you could write out a temporary file to a tape, close it, and then immediately re-open it to start reading it back in (albeit backwards), without having to wait for the tape to rewind in between. It was particularly used to speed up external sorting algorithms (although those were more commonly done in assembler than COBOL, to maximise efficiency)
> GraphQL you wouldn’t need to make a new endpoint for the same resource just because you’re calling it for a different purpose.

Yes, but I'm saying that's a feature, not a bug.

It's not absurd to make new endpoints. Each endpoint is a different need. You can optimize them independently...or not.

> If you’re querying different fields on the same resource 50 different times it’s rather absurd to keep making new endpoints.

In my career, I can count the number of times that a field has mattered in a response on one hand. Usually the problem is the joins, or the total number of queries. Point being: you don't generally write new endpoints just because the number of fields in a response is slightly different.
> This is just fundamentally not true or else all software would be sold for next to nothing.

How much have you spent on purchasing software this year?

For the past 15 years, pretty much 100% of the code running on my personal laptop and work desktop is opensource. The few remaining non-opensource programs, such as UEFI and wifi firmware, came free of charge with the hardware.

The only software I directly purchased in this decade are videogames on Steam, and that's closer to purchasing artwork than a computer program.
Perhaps not many in this audience are dealing with having to mitigate the prospect of dementia. How about something close to the horizon for almost all of us?

> Vitamin D deficiency can cause over‐activation of the pulmonary renin‐angiotensin system (RAS) leading to the respiratory syndrome. RAS is regulated in part at least by angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which also acts as a primary receptor for SARS‐CoV‐2 entry into the cells. Hence, vitamin D deficiency can exacerbate COVID‐19, via its effects on ACE2.

— Vitamin D and COVID-19: Role of ACE2, age, gender, and ethnicity. J Med Virol. 2021 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33990955/

> Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a part of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS), serves as the major entry point into cells for SARS-CoV-2 which attaches to human ACE2, thereby reducing the expression of ACE2 and causing lung injury and pneumonia. Vitamin D, a fat-soluble-vitamin, is a negative endocrine RAS modulator and inhibits renin expression and generation… Therefore, targeting the unbalanced RAS and ACE2 down-regulation with vitamin D in SARS-CoV-2 infection is a potential therapeutic approach to combat COVID-19.

— A brief review of interplay between vitamin D and angiotensin-converting enzyme 2: Implications for a potential treatment for COVID-19. Rev Med Virol. 2020 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32584474/

Here’s a caveat to remember when taking vitamin D:

> Majority of the adults are deficient in both vitamin D and magnesium but continue to go unrecognized … Mg is essential in the metabolism of vitamin D, and taking large doses of vitamin D can induce severe depletion of Mg. Adequate magnesium supplementation should be considered as an important aspect of vitamin D therapy.

— Magnesium Supplementation in Vitamin D Deficiency. Am J Ther. 2019 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28471760/
I see

One Medical - $199/yr ($144 first year)

Galileo - $249/yr (or $348 paid monthly, or $45 single visit)

Is there something else in the pricing that makes Galileo cheaper for poorer people?
You would be surprised. Don’t get me wrong I would love for companies to not show prejudice based on a candidate’s current tech stack.

However once you are outside of the SV bubble you will notice a lot of companies dismiss candidates based on their tech stack. The only time I’ve ever seen an inexperienced tech stack hire is from personal referrals from someone already working at said company.
No way!

The only thing interesting about this sword is who made it. And the person who made it is known as an author.

Plenty of actually interesting swords cost less than $55k and some have real stories and history.
It may be an old article now, but the point still stands all these years laters. Like, I get it. If the site shuts down, then the URLs are obviously going to change there.

But the sheer amount of times where sites get redesigned and somehow every link to the site breaks at once is utterly ridiculous. There's zero reason to change your URLs every time you change CMS, and there's even less of a reason not to redirect the old URL format to the new one.

Yet somehow it happens constantly, especially on news sites which seem to love changing their site structure every few months or something. Sigh.
> It "knows" about a thwarted plan for an attack.

It's not thwarted. Look at the picture from the previous comment. Does that look "thwarted" to you? ChatGPT confuses a lot of things here, and now you're confused because ChatGPT is confused.

There is a terror attack, but it's NOT the case that "the player must thwart a terrorist attack on the Statue of Liberty". It's merely something that happened in the fictional setting, before the story even takes place.

In many ways this thread demonstrates my point quite well: it's kind-of roughly correct, but mixes up some crucial things which does make a meaningful different, and now someone unfamiliar with the subject matter is confused as well. In this case, it's just a game and of no real importance, but it goes to show ChatGPT should now be used for anything of any importance in its current state.
Could you please be a tad less vitriolic? All this comment makes clear is that there’s absolutely zero point engaging with you because anyone that does is going to become your new outlet for…whatever this is…which is somehow justified by your feelings about UBI?
We’re all adults. Act like it.
So how much longer before it can discover how to use cloud-provider APIs to (assuming you've given it a credit card number or cryptocoin wallet) get more hosting for itself?
> Why is it [APK and PKGBUILD] make it so much easier while the juggernauts of the Linux distro world have such complicated, poorly documented messes?

If I had to venture a guess, I'd point to 3 factors:

1. They're both much younger than their 'juggernaut' counterparts.

2. They both have explicit commitments to simplicity, perhaps even at the cost of other virtues should push come to shove.

3. The documentation exists primarily to facilitate the maintenance of the distro itself, which is done sustained by inducting members into a community and documents are referred to users in a process of inculcation.

Documents that work well enough for (3) may not be that helpful to someone who expects to be able to sit down by themselves and slap together a package to maintain for their own usage or to submit as a drive-by contribution.

In the Arch world, at least, drive-by contributions play a crucial and esteemed role in the ecosystem, namely in the AUR. Perhaps similar is true in Alpine, as well.
I strongly believe that you cannot be a good python or any other language developer without first a good linux shell use knowledge. Specially python of runs in nix environments. How can you ever develop without knowing these systems is beyond my understanding.
Because that's what the linked example showed? Is there a similar example of a more complex case?
Yes. If you need reliability guarantees (guaranteed in-order delivery and retransmission of lost packets,) TCP provides that, and by extension, anything built on top of TCP, inherits TCP’s reliability guarantees.

If you cannot accept the overhead of TCP’s reliability guarantees (or just don’t need it,) but still want service multiplexing, you’d typically use UDP for your protocol.
How much longer till it can get its own wallet, spin up some alt-coin miners and pay for itself while it does other things on the side?
That was a specific fitting/optimization step and not the whole algorithm.

Fractal Image Compression, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Barnsley
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> Efficient String interpolation is hard without macros

Not quite. It is hard without some compile-time computation, but what's compile-time for languages relying on AOT compilation (and requires macros or compile-time introspection as in Zig), happens at runtime in Java because that's when the optimising compilation happens, and Java has a user-exposed mechanism for defining call-sites (https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/19/docs/api/java.base...). It's just that, as with most of our new features, we expose a simple API first and a sophisticated API later. No need for macros.
Well there's one clear example of the undoings of totalitarianism right there.
How do you suppose that scenario comes about? Are people just going to be put down when not in the workforce? No, there are not 40m mouths not being fed. There are 40m mouths still being fed, except they don't do the work anymore.
In case it's not entirely clear, Part II is already out: https://kvetch.substack.com/p/conquistadores-the-age-of-hero...
What's the program you wanted to package for Nix? I'd like to know more about what you mean about daemonizing being a problem.
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If x is signed and happens to be negative, x/16 will round one way, and x>>4 another. x/16 can still be implemented more performantly than a general division with unknown (or even known but non power of two) denominator, but it will be marginally slower than a plain shift. It depends on which semantics you desire.
> Apple didn't destroy our privacy.

Tell that to its threats to do client side scanning on what's supposed to be our devices. The fact they can even get away with even suggesting such crap points to the fact their crimes are a lot worse and more fundamental than privacy violations: they destroyed our fundamental computer freedoms by denying us the capability to run or not run whatever software we want. Under Apple and its peers, we are oppressed at a fundamental level by being forced to accept whatever bullshit whims a corporation decides to impose upon us with a software update. They have the keys to the machine, they determine what code it runs and doesn't run.

> The others, this law is trying to force interaction with, not just did, but actively and aggressively do.

They are not excused either. They should be sanctioned even harder until they cease and desist all exploitative behavior.
Same here! I've been looking for an open alternative to 010 for some time now, and to have this just fall in my lap is amazing.
The difference is that Julia makes it easy to insert these characters (\symbol) so programming with them becomes more natural.
It is important to co-administer Vitamin K-12 with the D due to its effects on calcium.
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I think the distinction is that Julia's parser does a relatively good job assigning code-points to unary operators/binary operators/identifiers as appropriate, combined with the fact that multiple dispatch inherently looks more like math.
GCP spot price for A100 80g gpu is only $1.25 and they give you $300 of credit when you open a new acc
With all the amazing advances we've seen in the recent years, I'd hope people would now stop thinking "there will never be X".
I've taught a bit at Arizona community colleges, which also rely heavily on part-time faculty. There are many more people with grad degrees than demand for them from universities, resulting in the obvious when supply exceeds demand: https://jakeseliger.com/2016/02/25/universities-treat-adjunc....

In the 1945 - 1975 period, demand for faculty exceeded supply: https://jakeseliger.com/2010/01/21/problems-in-the-academy-l..., and many in or adjacent to academia yearn for a return to those days. But it's probably not happening.

The administrators and Boards who control budgets are also keenly cognizant of the fact that birthrates fell off a cliff in 2009 and haven't recovered since. Those of you who can add 18 to 2009 will know what's coming for an industry that depends heavily on 18 year olds for customers. Tenure is, in the absence of mandatory retirement ages, a 40+ year employment promise.

And one dark truth is that academia insiders with tenure accrue far more power over their adjunct colleagues than they do over their tenured colleagues. Academia insiders rarely emphasize this, for obvious reasons.
Is it a version of the Knuth airgap? Single tasking with few distractions?
I wonder if lowercase "str." will work. Should be easier to type. I didn't find anything about that.
How is this specific video evidence of those claims? It might just be a loop of print sleep repeat.
When you need to get units on shelves as quickly as possible, you take whatever's already available and bend it to the particular project's needs. This has been game development since forever.
This matches my impression and experience, and I've been surprised to see many commenters here write that they found DEB packages to be simpler to write.

Perhaps as openSUSE users we both found the whole process easier because openSUSE drew us to OBS, and that made actually building the package easier?
This is awesome.

Here is another good template - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v6o_1QjEacnniHhPWWIPGuVy...

A good article on why "regular updates" - https://www.fastcompany.com/90812499/how-to-turn-investor-up...

Also, I really need robots that plant trees.
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Too many gardeners neglect to acquire the necessary mineral rights to prevent broken lilies. Lamentable lack of forethought.
With all the power of Microsoft and AI at hand... they still managed to make a crappy unoriginal design.
EM noise is something that someone would notice, so I'm sure Apple would have nuked it from orbit until it's completely imperceptible.
Unless its for something you want to happen whenever and don't mind be dumped in process, shouldn't we look at on-demand, not spot, prices?
Of course, banning words doesn’t work. You can’t ban speech. As in you literally can’t make humans not say certain words. It’s like banning certain thinking. Just won’t work.
I had that experience over and over as a kid reading about early human development, going out and trying to find my area's equivalent of some material and ending up with nothing but a mess.
I feel like I'd take anything Rubin says with a huge grain of salt. He has built up a mythology about him, but several artists have complained about him from being either too controlling in terms of applying the same style he applies to everything or nowhere to be found in the recording process. He honestly doesn't seem all that creative to me and seems to be a bit tunnel visioned.
> I think this is a lot of it. The office has always been a rather unpleasant place to work for a whole lot of people, and things like the open office fad make it borderline intolerable.

Are these aspects less common outside of America there? Over here in the UK, just about every tech related role I've had in the last decade has involved an open office environment, and none of these have been particularly pleasant to work in. Yet somehow the numbers of folks returning are supposedly higher here than in the US?

Doesn't seem to make much sense, unless somehow other parts of Europe haven't gone that direction with their office designs or something.
Interesting, but what is the purpose of %short-namespace%? To me, it just adds the noise. Or maybe it's there to separate e.g. articles vs. products?
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With this app, you can save ChatGPT responses, format them, and find the useful notes later. Great for storing knowledge while research Beta is still available for free.
Didn't he have JARVIS before all that? I'd expect the missiles he was demoing earlier in the movie to have had AI help in design.
Whoops! The Gentoo use flag on swayidle says

elogind : Enable support for rootless session via elogind

I think this is just a generic description shared between all packages with this flag though!

Maybe I can suggest that this be fixed to reduce confusion.
I've been a windows user forever, played with Ubuntu for a little bit years back, but I definitely don't know Linux well.

The only times that I ever use Linux are in docker containers.

I've spent years writing java, python, php, and only occasionally need to use a Linux shell. When I do, Google and stack overflow are good enough to get the job done.

Sure, maybe in some domains it's incredibly useful, but to be a decent developer? Not at all.
Allowing boomers to post on the internet was a mistake. Absolute clown tier article.

It doesn’t know who you are. It’s a markov chain. There’s no thoughts there.
That's a verbose way to say 1mW, and I wouldn't have guessed from the title that the chip is being trained to play Doom, rather than running the game at that power level.

Thing is, Watts don't have a time dimension. It sounds like this is how much power was being consumed by the chip while it ran the model to play the game in realtime, but it also sounds like they were using the chip to train the model. From the linked IEEE Spectrum article:

>"After its first kill, it unloads the clip, but then it figures out that’s not a good strategy,” ...

It sounds cool, but some more details would be nice. This chip seems to use a custom Tensilica core like the ESP8266/32 family started with, but we'll also have ARM Cortex-M CPUs with neural accelerators soon, so this space will be interesting to watch.
Couldn’t you say that CSS is like a really powerful options dialog?
I worked with "senior" developers who were absolutely unable to run the project they were working on from a terminal. It was either the "play" button in the IDE or nothing.
> This is all based on a myth though, primarily the myth that "only COBOL" developers are a common thing

Anyone who knows anything about COBOL knows that there’s rarely such a thing as “only COBOL”. The majority of the remaining COBOL shops are IBM mainframe, which means it isn’t just COBOL-CICS, JCL, VSAM, IMS, DB2, TSO, ISPF are all in the mix as well (maybe not all of them at the one site). And if you aren’t doing it on an IBM mainframe, it is probably deeply integrated into some other platform - e.g. PeopleSoft still uses COBOL for some of its batch jobs (especially payroll), and while I’ve never looked at its COBOL code, I’m sure it isn’t vanilla COBOL either, it has some PeopleSoft specific calls in it. Or maybe you are doing Oracle Pro*COBOL (SQL precompiler for the Oracle RDBMS). It’s really no different than Java - who does “just Java”, as opposed to J2EE or Spring or whatever?
> committing a commit hash from a foreign repository in a text file (.gitmodules)

No, that file is just for submodule URL, path, branch and options.

The submodule's target commit hash is stored in the superproject's ".git/modules/[path here]/HEAD".
I can understand the rationale and still find it bizarre. I'm not criticizing his process, it's odd and unexpected to me.
Omega 3's precursors for endocannabinoids, which probably explains why the Dutch decriminalised cannabis to reduce the heroin epidemic and demonstrates what a state knew all those years ago, just like the UK got kids to take cod liver oil in the 50's or 60's.

Omega 3 also down regulates Dopamine receptor's 1 and 2, which over time resensitizes you to Dopamine especially if supplementing with Tyrosine.

Some hospitals give alcoholics mega doses of omega3's to reduce the chances of alcoholics going cold turkey dying on them.

Omega 3 can also reducing the craving for alcohol, and because it makes the eyes more sensitive to light, the blue light which is needed to increase serotonin in the brain helps with some forms of depression, knowing serine also now also being studied as an anti depressant. Serine also needed by neutrophils to be effect and omega3's enlarge neutrophils increasing the demand for serine.

Omega 3's also reduce the number of osteoclasts differentiating from mesenchymal stem cells (bone marrow), osteoclasts destroy your bones, releasing more calcium into the blood stream which amplifying the stimulating effect of the catecholamines, so short term over a few months you might feel your aches and pains as your bones repair, but long term things in your body get better helping to make later life less painful.

So this situation by Canada is interesting from a GDP and health care perspective.

Just how far does a country go to maintain GDP, by withholding knowledge, food legislation and healthcare?

Some country's don't appear to be serving the public very well!
In this case, I'd say I very much liked that the community colleges I attended in California had part-time faculty that were working in the industry. I feel the quality of education for some classes was better than what I received in university. (Thanks Mrs. Wong (Math) and Mr. Vedrin (EE)!)
Seems like a non-story. Some pro-authoritarianism students exercised their right to protest.

The idea that a supposedly serious university had a "bias response team" and "equity officer" is the most screwed up part of this. What kind of learning environment does that create? It's exactly the same as the political officers that the USSR used to have.
Ok, if your argument is that making a choice for Medicare isn't easy, I'll agree with you there. There are a very complex set of rules and it's not always obvious what is the best for a given person. It takes a lot of homework to figure out.
@dpttxt on Twitter. Here's a link to Nitter:

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I've done the >> 0 thing to make it very clear what's going on, but I hadn't considered the * 8 construction. That's actually easier to comprehend at a glance because the numbers become less "magic". (8 and 16 are obvious to me, but 24 always has me second-guessing myself somewhere in the back of my mind)
Good suggestion! Yes!

It wouldnt really be helpful building libraries that other wasm modules could use though (at least not in the near-future when component-model starts showing up). The types are important for wasm, & losing them prevents interoperability.
I don’t know about pricing, but One Medical’s locations seem pretty clearly chosen to be in the richest areas of each city.

https://www.onemedical.com/locations/