skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
\Device\Afd, or, the Deal with the Devil that makes async Rust work on Windows
completely agree. terrible.
I can incredibly easily listen to the views of deranged people who are actually Neo-Nazi's and Tankie Stalin loving leftists without too much trouble. Independent media has never been bigger and more influential. Social media remains largely out of government control and loosely controlled in general despite much whinging over this by would-be autocrats.

These are not things true to the same degree in China where they actually have a degree of centralised control over the media and snitch culture.
What recreational drug can be made from TB medication?
All the forms I ever had to fill were in block letters. In fact as a kid we only learned cursive so I wasn't used to writing in block letters when filling in forms which was weird.

Are people referring to cursive as any type of manual writing?
That's all very well, but what are they going to do with the rest of the washing machines after they have taken the chips out?
No. I believe it has to do with the greater richness of motion involved. Writing a letter involves more effort and a specific motion of the hand for each letter and these are different for each letter (pushing keys on a keyboard is largely undifferentiated; what really varies is the position the fingers have to go, not the motion needed to produce a character which is the same). This, I think, exploits spatial memory as well (note how mnemonic devices like the method of loci work).
Redbean – Single-file distributable web server
Apologies for being off topic but does anyone know technically how they’ve implemented their 3 modes (creative balanced and… was it factual?). Is it just adjusting the prompt? Or are they doing something like adjusting the temperature, or fine-tuning the output layers?
I'm not an expert, but that looks very much like the handwriting I was taught at primary school in England in the 1990s.

I think we started learning it when we were 7-8 years old, and could be trusted with a cheap fountain pen. Before that, it was printing with a pencil.
> Pretty clear to me after meeting a number of very successful people in NYC/SF that some people "just have it". Meaning, they can identify opportunities that have a high probability of success and execute on those opportunities. There are absolutely personality types/genetic backgrounds where stumbling into 100M based on thinking of an idea is a real thing.

Yeah, I very much doubt it and I would bet a whole bunch of $$$ that there is no genetic basis, only a background/privilege correlation with some Gaussian noise. Do you have any papers to back up your claim? Or is this all anecdotes of "meeting people in NYC/SF"? We all meet people in NYC/SF but I see no such trend, I only see already rich people investing in things to get even richer.
Honestly I picked Ubuntu at random. My point is there’s something intrinsically old school about something being tied to expensive proprietary hardware and while that remains true, it’s still a (possibly very lucrative) cul de sac.

I’m pretty bullish about the importance of COBOL, but while I have a lot of respect for the people working with it right now, it’s not something I’d recommend to someone at the start of their career.
Close up of pup's face. Heavy rain. No music. Close up of main character's face, crying with open eyes, looking at pup. Close up of main character's hand over a tablet. Close up of main character's face.

"Everything I've done..."

Close up of pup's face. Close up of main character's face.

"... I did for you".

Close up of character's hand tapping the tablet. Cue soft ethereal music with female choir. There is a very bright explosion in the distance. The main character turns back. Camera zooms into their eye, where you can see the reflection of the blast wave fast approaching. White screen.
That could be interesting! Curious: are you taking about a plain object spread, or are you talking about JSX spreads? The latter has more overhead. Also, which JS engine?

BTW. I recently measured the spread operator in a microbenchmark. Interestingly, while the native spread was faster on Hermes and JSC, it was slower on V8/Chrome, and it's faster there to use `Object.assign()`, i.e.:

['@babel/plugin-proposal-object-rest-spread', { loose: true, useBuiltIns: true }]
>That's exactly what I'm saying

>they did not replace Hemingway and Kipling

In fact, they replaced Kipling.
This was a good phone in its day.
https://www.gsmchoice.com/en/catalogue/htc/spvm1000/

Stylus touchscreen, so today that could be a full size edge to edge screen, with a slide out keyboard with tactile dimples to help you locate the exact key being pressed easily.

Havent seen anything since which is a shame.
C# FileInfo uses reference equality, because that's the default for objects and they didn't override it. Why? I suppose they thought of it as a helper to get information about a file (or open it), rather than being a file handle itself. Or perhaps it wasn't clear what value equality meant for FileInfo. If two FileInfo point to the same file, but use different paths (relative paths, case insensitivity, hard links, etc.) should they compare as equal? Java just string-compares the two paths, but that's not what I'd want it to do. (I wouldn't want reference equality either. I'm not a big fan of reference equality, personally, and C# has gotten more value-equality oriented over time.)

Doesn't Java also have things that use reference equality? Arrays?
They either cap them at the “always safe” level which results in much less volume, or you actually can blow them up but you just haven’t played the right sound to trigger it.
Yes, don't forget to be lucky. And don't forget to rewrite history once your idea is a success. If its a failure, its someone else's fault.
Wow the photo at the top gave me “a good type” of chills.

I’ve read about the “Jesus nut” which was used as a singular nut to fix a helicopter blade and the Bathysphere definitely has a single nut on that shackle from what I can see
I mean, if snort is an example of what can be expected its blindingly obvious it wont be successful.

Average users arent about to sign up to a "Censor-Resistant Decentralized Social Protocol". Most people wont even have a clue what that means.

It seems to be the same people that were convinced NFT's were going to be big that are backing it.
> People said the Wii was just a gimmick and that shifted more than a hundred million units

This is several orders of magnitude less than the problem Zuckerberg is facing right now: in order to prop up the stock price, he needs to keep attention of 3 billion users who will otherwise slowly drift away and ruin the main business.
> And you are saying we are anywhere close to the maximal energy that humankind can harvest?

Nope. But any exponential growth in consumption of energy will hit the existing limit very quickly. Even if that limit was magically increased by 10x we'd still hit it very very quickly.

> higher efficiency even becomes an issue. By then, nuclear fusion will be paramount and/or our use of the energy that comes from the sun will be magnitudes improved from what we do today. Just look back 100 years

Technological gambles are speculative. The failure of fusion is unfortunately just as realistic of a possibility that must be considered in a logical analysis.
> I just don't see lower prices increasing demand.

What makes insulin - or any drug - immune to basic economics?

- Given the current cost certainly some have been "forced" to make lifestyle changes and avoid the treatment. Lower the cost and you "encourage" these people not to change their behavior.

- Given the current cost certainly some have not been able to afford the treatment, but lowering the cost will change that.

Cost of X has "side effects". Prescription drugs are no exception.
Technically it's not archived, but just the live wordpress install is no longer accessible. From a web users's perpective, nothing changed (aside from the pages maybe loading a touch faster).
No, there really is a neural predisposition to language--not particular sounds, but language. I looked at the Wikipedia page on feral children. Many in fact do learn language when they're rescued. The ones that don't may bark like a dog, but that's not something that requires a language faculty!

That said, there is as you say an example of a boy raised in a room with birds and neglected (not exposed to human language) who did in fact chirp and flap his arms like wings! This isn't relevant to the point I was making above though. If the language faculty were not hard-wired, then normal children would be just as likely to display these behaviours as to speak their parents' native language. As far as I know that happens in not 1 percent or 1 tenth of a percent, but in 0 percent of cases. To me, this indicates a hard-wired tendency, rather than a perfectly general system with some optimizations or soft predispositions.
Over years I've found that "top performer" is not purely about skill, often it is *just* about motivation, desire to move stuff ahead, to get things done, to improve current state of affair.

Like, rarely stuff is so hard that it requires some outstanding skills.
Signatures have no rules, cursive is not needed.
I don’t think this is great advice. I think this is an overly certain and overly cynical take that does not apply so well to the kinds of jobs that many people have at HN. I think the main way that money (above a point) matters a lot is that it tends to correlate with other good qualities like not being stressed or overworked, being respected by your colleagues / bosses, etc. So I think it mostly isn’t like you choose between company A and company B where they are equivalent except company A pays less to have beer and ping pong, but rather that they aren’t equivalent and company A probably has beer and ping pong and pays more. Indeed, I think one should be wary of abnormally high pay (compared to competitors) as the high pay may be required to compensate for poor conditions. Given the amount of one’s life spent working, I think it’s good to find a job you like. Certainly, I wouldn’t knowingly trade a $100k raise for e.g. being yelled at every day or working 6 days a week, but I think this isn’t a commonly offered trade for the reasons above.

There do exist companies that value tenure more than others. An easy example to describe is that Amazon backloads their stock awards so if they say they will give you $X over 4 years when they hire you, you might get (made up numbers) 30% in the first two years and 70% in the next two. One explanation is that this is to make it cheaper to hire people because many will hate the job and quit after two years, but another is that it expresses that the company values long-tenured employees. One can survey salary reports online and get an impression of whether the company more values people with a lot of experience at the company or people who were recently hired.
Beginners tend to shoot themselves in the foot fairly often.
They may be mopeds. Pretty broad definitions of what is legal in NYC. https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/ebikes.shtml

Is it possible that you just don’t like what is defined as legal?
Making a half witted quip like this is far easier than actually trying to build a business. You just convince yourself that success is out of your personal control. Easy…no hit to the ego.
This seems right at first; however, about half of the armv8 spec is taken up by a copy of the armv7 spec and info about interop between the two ISAs. So armv8 isa is considerably constrained not only by the interop requirements, whereby an armv8 OS/hypervisor must be able to control the environment of an armv7 process/OS, but also by the need for implementing both ISAs without excessive duplication of silicon. For example, an actual v8+v7 implementation must surely have a single pipeline supporting both ISAs.
My grade school did indeed require the use of fountain pens at one point. Didn't help and probably ruined a few shirts.

These days I mostly use fairly cheap gel pens. I actually prefer them in general to some more expensive pens I own.
My experience from living in Hong Kong for 10 years was also that hand-written forms were often some kind of cursive/shorthand. I'm familiar with both traditional and simplified characters, but I'd often encounter written forms that were more a shorthand/cursive form of traditional characters. I'm not sure if there was an official system, but reading handwriting was much different than reading my textbooks.
> Can't we, at some point, be done with wheel re-invention?

You do realize how much of technology and coding is literally re-writing things constantly until they work for [insert stakeholder here]. Right?
Prototyping Active Disk Antiforensics (2012)
It'll be pushed to others, just like every other social company. You'd be posting it to the feed where friends can see your video.
Interesting. But to be clear, I was only linking my loud internal voice to my adhd.

It is that voice that is always pulling my thoughts in different directions (or just narrating the journeys my inner mind is taking).

I used to play music to drown out the 'noise' and focus, but these days I either 'use' it by myself narrating what I am doing or wanting to do, or tune it out through activities like walking or cycling alone. When I talk (in person) to others it goes away, also.
How do people tend to get metrics off of embedded devices?

I’m working on autometrics (https://github.com/autometrics-dev/autometrics-rs) and people asked whether it could be used in embedded contexts but I wasn’t sure how you’d hook up the device to something like Prometheus.
What do you think GP meant with "By all means test your work on a similar machine..."
This is also another thing everyone says, but I took notes in one class alone: Algebraic Geometry. And that was the class I was the worst at. Usually, all the way through undergrad and graduate school I'd just go home and do the exercises at the back of the class and type up a LaTeX cheat sheet. Then, during exams whole memories would return. Even today the Nullstellensatz comes to me in full form complete with lecturer at the board and where I was sitting in the class. But everything else is an unreachable haze. In fact, I remember the shapes in the class and writing in my notebook but I don't remember the actual content.

Does anyone else have this experience? Where note taking was deleterious to learning the content?
My pet theory: just because you don’t ‘remember’ you dreams doesn’t mean you didn’t have them. This would result in wildly in accurate correlations (lack of coffee = more dreams, weed smokers = don’t dream). There are always counter examples to any correlation you can come up with which can’t be ignored.

I’ve personally decided my conscience mind doesn’t need to bother myself with what my meatware is doing while I sleep. People tell me I don’t dream because I don’t remember them.
I think that’s false. Sometimes I remember that I dreamed for a few seconds after a wake up, then it fades. I’ve rolled with it and intentionally forget my dreams. Not my (conscience kinda) business. When I wake it my turn to go get food and water so we can come back to sleep 18 hours later.
While true, one distinguishing features is the sheer number of unicode binary and unary operators that can be used and overloaded. Take for example ∪ for set union and ∩ for set intersection (eg `set1 ∪ set2`).

(You can also type these easily via latex-style completions, e.g. with \cup<TAB> for ∪ or \cap<TAB> for ∩)
It already happened with Stable Diffusion vs Dall-E vs Midjourney. It makes me very sceptical how much of a moat these companies actually have when their business models fundamentally kneecap their products and the genesis of tools that make their products better.
If everyone is running a deficit why have there been record profits
...interestingly enough, they have been publishimg this same "story" every few years for a long time now. He seems to be very carefully maintaining the image of a frugal billionaire. Either that or making sure to initiate every new generation to the personality cult of granpa-genius/uncle/frugal investor/ Warren Buffet.
It's almost as if "Linux" said very little about what software people are running, in what configuration.
East Palestine Update – 3/3/23
Indeed. Going back to a ballpoint pen feels awkward, disorienting, and ham-fisted.
Twelve Monkeys.
He comes from emerald wealth in South Africa for christ sake. Maybe he cleaned manure, but not out of dire need
Counter anecdote: my partner has been a coffe drinker since the age of 5, multiple a day, even right before bed (cultural norm is South Africa). She dreams a lot. Extremely vivid and remembers a lot.
N=1 counterexample:

I stopped drinking caffeine for a few years (maybe 3?) and have restarted also for a few years (probably 5 now) and I dream fairly rarely both when drinking caffeine and not.
Using the subheader instead of the innocuous "Building a Disk from Scratch," as this talk is really about making USB drives do bad things, like wiping itself if it detects that it's being imaged.
I learned cursive in 3rd grade in the US, but I didn't use it since except for the specific letters of my own signature (which no longer really resembles the original letters anyway), so I've largely unlearned it. In hindsight, it was a huge waste of time. They should just teach enough to write your own name and then spend the rest of the year on reading, math, or typing.

You could say the same for Spanish. They teach it K-12 in a lot of districts but somehow the students never become fluent and rapidly lose any skills they gain.
Would rather put that in AWS.
Demand, like supply, is not infinite. While demand is not (and likely can not be) constrained by local law, supply often is. This imbalance results in high prices.
I would think way less than 0.1%. conspiracy theories are firmly in the domain of the bullshit asymmetry principle. When the real reasons many people engage in conspiratorial patterns of though are examined, it's generally unrelated to persuing truth and has much more to do with seeking community and acceptance.
There exists no society at all without marriage. The reason marriage is absolute central in all cultures and civilization is not because it's been forced onto people by bad men or because people think it's better, the reason is that cultures or people who don't practice marriage die out quickly.
I disagree. I'm writing on paper almost daily, for three different type of tasks: journaling, writing and language learning. The physical act of writing and contact with paper somehow appease my mind a bit when journaling in a way typing doesn't. For writing (scientific or one of the book I'm working one), I start on paper first if I want to reach quality. I also sometimes do handwritten revisions on printed paper instead of using only computer. Finally when learning another alphabet (now Thai) or language (Thai and Sumerian currently), I find it easier to memorize content by writing letters and words.
Oshpark?
I don't understand the point you're trying to make with your example. Is the concern here that in C# `FileInfo` does not override `Equals` and because this is inconsistent with other standard lib objects this is a trap for developers? If that's the case, well, Java has its own share of weird and inconsistent behaviour that developers simply need to be aware of.

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On a tangent, is there a reason why FileInfo does not override `Equals`?
I'd disagree with the first point there, they were very late to pivot.

The rest seems internally inconsistent with where you were initially. I think it's because you might have stretched the kernel of wisdom, "authoritarianism may have some benefit in the kind of disaster which is only mitigated by authoritarianism" a bit further than it goes on its own merits.

They screwed up by doubling down. Your main point would actually be a lot easier to defend if you separated it from the overextended Chinese implementation.
Google's intrinsic is auctioning a ton of robot assets
This comes weeks after Google shut down it's other robotics bet, Everyday Robots. Both Intrinsic and Everyday Robots are recent bets; first one launched in 2019 and Intrinsic robots started in 2021.

Intrinsic recent had a layoff that's 40 employees and 20% of its company - it's a small team and around 100 robots in a big number. Makes me wonder if Google plans to shut down Intrinsic too. If that's true, it's sad to see all the robotics initiative shut down, especially after Intrinsic acquired Open Source Robotics Corp, the team that developed ROS and ROS 2.
True, but you can remove a lot of the risk by inspecting the results of type inference with `@code_warntype` in places where you suspect it might be not be working.

I believe JET.jl can automate global program analysis, but I haven't used it.
My current system is using Python3.11

For virtualenv, you can create python3.10 using

virtualenv SOME_PY_ENV_NAME -p python3.10

This is the result:

which python3
/Users/user_name/tmp/SOME_PY_ENV_NAME/bin/python3
python3 --version
Python 3.10.10
My Digital Ocean cost is about $25 plus another $20(?) for mail provider.

If $45 per month is unachievable then what on Earth are you doing with your money?!
That there are successful entrepreneurs, or that some of them may give good advice, doesn't mean that he doesn't have a valid point about entrepreneurial advice as a genre.

I think there are three keys to the problem: 1) readers want feel-good success stories, 2) successful people strongly benefit from positive PR, and 3) people often can't usefully talk about why they succeeded.

The first, I think, is pretty obvious. The Hero's Journey long predates modern capitalism, but it very much gets applied. On top of that, add that readers want to feel positive, powerful, smart, enabled. So you can't just tell them, "Sure, you'd like to be rich like this guy, but take it from me, you're fucked from the get-go." There's a good critique of the corporate bio that relates: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2023/02/11/jeff-john-ro...

The second bit means that business heroes are not going to tell you, here's my secret: be born at least moderately wealthy and well connected. They aren't going to tell you that past a certain levehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-... of wealth, it's basically impossible to go broke. They're instead going to make themselves seem both extraordinary and extra ordinary. See, e.g.: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-...

And the third is something I'm sure many here have experienced. I started coding as a child, the son of a software developer. When people ask me how to get started as a developer, the honest answer is: I have no fucking idea. I have little recollection of how I learned, and I have no idea whether the parts that were easy for me would be easy for anybody else. I'll be positive and encouraging and give vague general advice. But if I talked about what worked for me, it would be very much in the vein of "here's the lottery ticket number I used", because my path was so personal.
Pentel, more like cartel, right?
Nonsense! If there's one thing we know inside and out in this
industry, it's cargo culting.
For back-office stuff, these days you can be really productive with Django/HTMX or Hotwire, both in the same broad paradigm as Phoenix LiveView.
@ghaff Check out cheap, disposable Pilot Varsity fountain pens. Quite good for what they are.
I don’t understand your point sorry ?
Anyone have a good example of an app, in production, that's publicly accessible, that uses liveview? I'd like to check out the experience for myself.
For me there was no connection. I could never really write legibly, but have always done lots of precise hand work (soldering, etc).

I think we spent a month+ working on cursive writing. Which for me was a waste of time. I did inform the teacher I believed it was pointless, as people would be typing in the future. This would have been maybe 1985, me in 1st or 2nd grade.