skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you 100% there. The Datapoint 2200 (which the 8008 cloned) used octal for its instructions and the instruction decoding is almost trivial to understand. Unfortunately, Intel used hexadecimal for the documentation. In hex, you can kinda see some patterns in the opcodes. The 6502, on the other hand, arranges the fields 3-3-2, so octal is no help even though the fields use bit triples.

Discussion of "x86 is an octal machine": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30409100
There’s definitely some truth to it, and it’s exposing humorless gadflies on both sides - those who feel the need to argue against it to justify their success, and those who can use it to feel better about their lack of success.
Wiktionary says 馬鹿 is "probably originally a transcription of Sanskrit मोह (moha, “folly”), used as a slang term among monks".
Learning to summarize from human feedback (2022)
As a consequence, probably not that either.
Yeah... I kind of vaguely remember having an issue with this sort of thing 20 years ago, but I don't remember if I even knew about force detach at the time. I definitely haven't experienced a screen session I couldn't detach--and I use screen a LOT--in at least 10 years... probably 15.
Ask HN: What do you think about my “BeReal, but for video” idea?
Firstly, thanks for actually reading this. I wanted to get the feedback from the HN community to see if it's worth pursuing.

IMO, BeReal would make sense to add video, but they haven't, which leads me to my idea. I've long thought that video should also be utilized for "social" and not only for "media" (TikTok, YT Shorts). I believe that there's an opportunity to create an app revolving around video content that is entirely made up by friends.

The app would work like this: you would open the app and be greeted by the camera, you would then have to upload a video of what you're doing to get access to the feed, and then every 24 hours it get reset. This wouldn't involve a notification telling you to get on, but instead whenever you want to browse the app, you would need to upload a video of whatever you're doing to get access. Now, it could be possible that people will post videos of a black screen to get access, BUT, you would think the same thing for BeReal, yet no one does that. Everyone uses BeReal for its intended purpose.

So what do you think? I'd love any feedback.
This is not quite right though.

In objective collapse theories, there is an "us" to do the observing, and there is a collapse event which samples randomly from the possible outcomes. Both the "us" and the sampling are additional things that we have to add to the theory.

In MWI, there is no "us" in an objective physical sense. "We" are on all the "branches" of the wavefunction, spread out in such a way that it isn't possible for any observation to see both events having happened.

We don't "observe a random part of the universe", we do observe all parts of it. It's just that "we" aren't classical in the sense that you are implying.
I think one of the main problems is that for a lot of people, starting a business basically has a 0% chance of success.

Some people may be able to increase their chances, but maybe not everyone.
My friend's company got the interest of investors, and was acquired, after his blog posts got to the top of HN three times in as many months.
This isn’t about quality or legibility of handwriting. When wiring 馬鹿 on a computer you type the 4 characters “baka” (or the two character ばか” if your phone supports Lana input) and get an autocomplete drop-down with the kanji.
I don't know that it's fair to characterize it as "protecting" so much as a good faith argument in someone's favor. I think most people would extend that favor to their peers, not *just* police.

I've had plenty of debates with opponents that talk about rape stats: they're pretty high, and assumed to be undercounted, and predominately it seems like it's men perpetrators and female victims. Now I'm not a rapist, and *to the best of my knowledge* nobody I know is a rapist, or a perpetrator of domestic violence, etc... But these are also things that can and do happen behind closed doors and are secreted away and swept under rugs — fair point. So when someone makes broad-strokes accusatory statements about men as a whole, acting under that assumption, I defend myself and my peers because me, my friends, my family are all being called to task over something I have *faith* we were no party to. And I've heard ballpark figures from some of these interlocutors that indicate as many as one-half of all men are perpetrators of the aforementioned crimes or their kindred malefactions.

And I think this kind of extension of trust is fundamental to society and civilization. I think it is also a considerable hazard as a population grows. Bystander effect but at scales inconceivable to any individual.
It's not a "free" region, just a remote, poor province where the central government is less relevant. As the Chinese say, 山高皇帝远: the mountains are high and the emperor is far away.

If there was a genuine insurgency, as in Xinjiang and Tibet, the central government does get involved and stomps down hard.
China is seeing a somewhat similar phenomeno too. The ubiquity of pinyin-based digital input methods is causing a lot of younger generations to lose the ability to write Chinese characters by hand without looking them up online. Abbreviated acronyms due to a mix of censorship/laziness is also becoming common making a lot of online messages look rather cryptic to anyone who doesn't know the lingo.
It’s a big deal. Fungi use ergosterol for what we (animals) use cholesterol for. Almost all antifungals block the synthesis of ergosterol much like the way statin drugs block the synthesis of cholesterol. We need some new drugs.
I find roller ball pens to be almost as good, but easier to maintain (my fountain pen at work would be dry after leaving it cap-on over the weekend).
Let's do some math:

10 btc = $22300

$0.43 = one basic meal per person per day.

(10x22300)/((0.43x3)x365) = 473

This would help 473 people a year with 3 basic meals per day.

It is a number greater than zero, which is good, but we're also not talking about huge amounts of numbers here either.

Let's re-allocate funds away from militaries and politicians who create needless wars and worry less about Jack.
some entries in the same column:

should I quit my job -> 5.203
should I start my own business -> 5.256
should I propose -> -5.125
It's not ADHD, many people do not have any inner monologue.

Here's an interview with someone like that which goes into detail on how she experiences the world:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/inner-monologue-...
Look at the board of trustees from your very link. They are all highly placed execs in multinationals and political world leaders getting together to discuss Stakeholder Capitalism - ie; how to make capitalism palatable enough so that revolution does not take place.

They dress it up to make it sound like they're only interested in being ethical, but it's really about how to ensure that their position in society is maintained.

I'm not saying they will be sitting in dingy, cigar smoke filled rooms discussing how to crush the working class, but I am saying this is far more coordination than you will get from a mixture of people from the general population.
Yeah, if needs must, you can even attach a remote debugger to a process i prod. Pretty crazy.
I had people insisting I had to learn cursive up until 6th grade and it magically stopped. I always felt I was hiding something until about right at this moment.
"but not guarantee" is almost the entire point of what folks are pointing out and what the OP meant - you could do literally everything perfect and still it's VERY likely you will fail.
Cursive is faster than print, but I'm less sure that the cost/benefit is there.
>They persisted with covid 0 well into mid-late 22. It was very clear 2 and a half years into the pandemic that covid was not ebola.

It was not clear what omicron was.

Anyway I don't entirely blame them for maintaining the hardline even well past the advent of conflicting evidence. This is actually normal human behavior. People cannot flip their opinions and beliefs in the exact instant they are presented with opposing evidence. Humans just don't work this way. There's no individual or government that will reverse a policy and admit a mistake instantly. Literally not one. It's not right, but I don't expect any other form of behavior from a human or humans running an organization.

>The other conclusions seem off too. Other Asian and South Pacific countries demonstrated their willingness to lock down and turn more authoritarian in the face of an unknown threat. They pivoted though.

Naw not at the scale of China. It's easy for a small island to execute lockdown. It's extremely hard for a landmass as large as china to execute the same thing.
Handwriting in cursive with a fountain pen is a pleasure, not a chore.

I use a simple pelikan jazz (nothing fancy) but still it’s pleasant.
Certainly, and there are numerous REPL environments (LINQ Pad springs to mind), including via the console.
Hahaha you really think the daily mail sells 40million newspapers a day!
You don't talk to yourself? I have like at least 3-9 minds in my head at anyone time.
> cursive […] isn’t taught in US schools any more.

I was dubious, so I googled.

According to this[1], 21 states require cursive as part of the curriculum, and some admittedly older data[2] suggests that 90% of students get some amount of cursive handwriting instruction.

[1] https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/great...
[2] https://drs.dadeschools.net/informationcapsules/IC0916.pdf
Structs. Regular objects. If you haven't heard the term "algebraic data types", searching it will probably give you an idea of how the "algebra" part fits in.
For so long as the GIL persists, you are correct, and thus Python does not have data races and is able to achieve memory safety in this regard.

It is conceivable (but extremely unlikely, 'cos it was really, really hard) that after a GILectomy Python follows the Java path, in which data races are technically safe†. However it is most likely Python with a GILectomy will behave like Go or C# or numerous other languages and lose memory safety properties if a data race occurs.

† Data races can happen in Java, and astonishing things might happen, but objects always remain in some valid state, so there is no loss of memory safety whereas in most languages with data races you can e.g. race a hash table and mess up its internals and cause chaos.
Not sure what you mean exactly? Nonlinearity in what? If you read an introductory textbook the first nontrivial quantum system you will study is the harmonic oscillator, which has potential V(x) ~ x^2.
Using an iPhone with continuity camera as webcam for work. Can't remember the exact reason why the iPhone can not receive network time in my setup but it effectively can only rely on its local circuits to meassure time. Time is ten minutes off just after a few weeks. It really blew my mind when I first saw this.
Writing is an entirely different mental process. I find that I remember things far better if I write them on paper instead of in a text file. If anything, schools should go the opposite route and be as computer/tablet free as possible. I suspect the richer ones will.

This would be a better thought out argument if I weren't typing it from the toilet.
One advantage of kanji is writing long tweets. You can say a lot in 140 characters when most words are 2-4 characters.
I'm not at all making that argument.

I share your ideals and agree with what you're saying.

But I also know the world doesn't 100% work that way, and am open to the idea that this is because it can't.

Maybe you and I actually can't "handle the truth", as the Nicholson line goes, so some essential things to preserve our civilized polite life has to be done is secret for the bigger good.

I don't claim it is that way, only that I can't be sure it isn't. And neither can you.
If you want to learn to write in a way that isn't painful, learn to use a fountain pen - a $20 Pilot Metropolitan, or a Lamy Safari for I believe about the same, will do more than well enough.

Pencils and ballpoints, and to a lesser but real extent most rollerballs, require so much force to mark the paper that you can't help getting a cramp. Fountain pen ink is thinner and flows more easily, so all you have to do is steer the pen. This makes a very significant difference.

Don't start with a gold-nibbed pen - both of those I named use steel. Gold admittedly feels nicer to use, but you need the transitional step to learn better habits; steel is much more forgiving of excess force, and you'll know on your own when you're ready for a more delicate and expressive nib.

I used to hate to write longhand, too. I've been using fountain pens for about half a decade now. A few days ago I used one to work out a complex idea over eight A5 pages with no need to pause save occasionally for thought, and my wrist wasn't sore afterward. Here as elsewhere, choosing the proper tool makes all the difference.
If they actually sold 40 million papers a day as this guy believes I wonder how much wood they'd consume in a year.
Can you identify a specific bot when you talk to them repeatedly? Isn't that identity?

Do they present a gendered name? Then why not use it to refer to them?

What's bothering you about it?
It really isn’t, but not in the way you think. Starting a business is a _demonstrably_ worse idea than informed gambling.

Winning at horses is much lower variance, is easier to learn, and depends enormously less on accidents of upbringing and social class. VC has historically been a fallback for people who couldn’t hack it in proper finance, and while that’s a little unfair, it’s only a little unfair.
Closer to Fox+TMZ
How am I missing those? Yes those are cases of the Chinese state being insane.

But what does this have to do with the Chinese response to covid? My comment is specific to the example I quoted in the specific post.

I think there's a bit a team mentality going on here. Pick a team. Team China or Team USA and the opposing side is a villain.

What's really going on here is not a team situation. Just two different fruits: Apples and Oranges. Both can and Have gone rotten at times.
Cool. Let’s stop people from discussing these ‘amazing’ projects then. That sounds productive.
Why not just keep exactly the same address but add an update to the contents?
The Cheapest Bookstore in the World: The Temple of the Muses (2017)
> Take the timestamp "1677951565000123456" for example - If I put it into the link you posted, it just gives me "Saturday, March 4, 2023 11:39:25 AM"

It looks like it only gives millisecond resolution in the output, and only displays milliseconds if there is at least 1 millisecond. Give it 1677951565020123456 and then you will get 11:39:25.020.
Phone scammers tried to rob a grandma in Canada. She foiled their plans
I've heard that the Kanji make Japanese and Chinese much easier to scan quickly once you're fluent.
> paid for MSDN license

I believe a lot of companies are not directly paying for MSDN licenses, but retrieve them for free through a Microsoft partnership and by fulfilling conditions to obtain silver and gold competencies. I think this is the case for a lot of smaller companies.

Microsoft however is changing their partnership conditions by focusing more and more on Azure. To be able to stay a partner with similar benefits, you basically need to generate more and more revenue on Azure for Microsoft. Something that will not be doable for a lot of smaller companies in my opinion. And this also depends a lot on the focus of the company, whether it is a pure software development shop or also a reseller of Azure services.

Besides that, .net development is no longer necessarily windows development. My current team consists of 6 people. 1 uses Linux, 2 use OS X, 3 use Windows. We use Rider, Webstorm and Datagrip. We develop .net backends that run on a Linux app service plan. The front end is in Angular. The database is postgresql.

A lot of the .net developers in our company asked to use Rider instead of the VS they get through an MSDN license. Most of them are Windows users. Some people clearly think Rider is superior to VS, myself included…
I thought the paranoid Bing chat was fun and it got me interested in the product. Sounds like an immensely inept manager decided that bland was what Microsoft needed.
I have to say, she is a damn fine writer.
Here's how I fare on that. Each checked box is something I have.

[X] "The trick is to have parents",

[ ] who are alive,

[ ] "who aren't homeless",

[ ] who have housing that is safe and functional,

[ ] who have room for you not already occupied by other family members in greater need,

[ ] who "had a sofa",

[ ] or if they're dead, at least left you with enough money as an equivalent
The level of training you need for basic swimming is only a couple hours. The teaching for handwriting is a lot more than that.

Anyone who uses the latin alphabet will have the character shapes memorized, so I'm sure they'd do just fine for emergency use even if they'd basically never written before.

That said, a huge amount of handwriting curriculum is actually motor skills practice, and that's pretty important!
Even if the goal isn't to learn handwriting. Learning handwriting is an excellent means to develop fine motor movement. Many of our modern tools utilise the precision we learned in handwriting to perform other functions. Whether that's a painter using a brush, or a surgeon using a scalpel, or everything in between.

Our non-dominant hand almost gives us a preview of what this could be like, so it seems that spending time to upskill the articulation of our hands is necessary: so we might as well use that time to learn handwriting since it has the benefit of working without electricity and translates well into the aforementioned tools.
(Note that “winning at horses” is not significantly different from “winning at hedge funds”.)
> writing in cursive is much, much more efficient

That is very false. It’s kind of slow compared to handwriting print-looking letters (eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Nealian)

Source: https://theproductiveengineer.net/is-it-faster-to-write-in-c...

And also for many years I wrote cursive, then I switched to something that looks like D’Neal, and it was somewhat faster and easier to read (but not super fast)
Cool link for the PyQt project example!

My daily calculator is `jupyter qtconsole` (formerly `ipython qtconsole`). I've had it binded to Meta+Q forever and it is very handy to have a full Python REPL which can occasionally display graphs and stuff that can pop up at hand.
No, the workers have generated billions, not him. But he and his ilk damage the society by pressuring the company mgmt to perform layoffs and cut costs until shit hits the fan. Have you not heard of the struggles of workrs at one of "his" companies regarding the sick leave, have you not heard of the East Palestine, Ohio disaster (I know - not his company, but may have been as well), precision-scheduled railroading and how it completely messes up the lifes of the workforce affected. Did you sleep over the increasing push for RTO so the billionaire class could keep the value of "their" real-estate? The lives of people and environmental impact be damned! The letter of that investor to Google CEO, asking for even more layoffs, commending him for a well-done round one? Finally, have you been living under the rock and have not heard the steady talk of "incoming recession", well for more than 12 months now, the Fed's Powell openly calling for higher unemployment rates and lower salaries. That CNBC talking-head from a few months ago, saying effectively, people still had too much money in their savings accounts? One gets an impression they seem to really, really want to spark the next recession. Are you perhaps too young to remember the credit crunch of 2008? Hint - do a bit of research on Uncle Warrens wise investment decisions leading up to that crisis. Well yes now, one does wonder, how the hell did the likes of WB exactly cause economic damage to the society?
Tribes. These are likely the descendants of peoples pets left behind and isolated which combined with a short lifespan has treated a fairly unique population.

It’s a fairly unusual situation where winter is a larger issue than the radiation: https://www.newsweek.com/meet-dogs-chernobyl-these-wild-anim...
> when using an ACID RDBMS, you can also very trivially use a CQRS/event-sourcing approach for some flows with append-only event log tables and a separate process applying them to query tables that other clients only read and direct update for other flows.

Sort of. You can't opt out of transactionality (transaction isolation settings are often global) and you can't defer index updates except by making your indices "manual".

The first job I worked for essentially built an event sourcing system on top of an RDBMS. We still had the production system brought down by an analyst leaving a transaction open for weeks (we weren't big enough to have a separate analytics datastore at that point). They should've known to enable autocommit (even though their queries were read only!), but it's still a footgun that was only there because of the ACID RDBMS.
Doesn’t he come from a South-African diamond family or something?
I admit I haven't really groked it, but the author of the article hasn't groked it either (why these 2 states are special - is the main question he's asking).
I'm not a physicist, so the following question might be naive.
Suppose there are 2 entangled particles - one goes to Andromeda, another - to Earth. Somebody on Andromeda (for whom the evolution has different "priorities", for we are talking about a totally different world) measures. They detect a glorph, so due to entanglement, we are guaranteed to detect a hibble when we measure. But we can't detect a hibble (by your theory). What gives?
Sorry, let me be clear. Existing features feel abandoned and neglected. CSS styles are getting out of whack, margins and padding are way off in many places as they shoehorn in new features.

You can neglect something's foundation while strapping new bells and whistles on.
There are pens that will record audio and you can make a short note that will take you straight to the location in the audio recording when you review.

I don't do enough these days where I need something like that but, when I did more journalism where I was quoting people it might have been useful. A lot of meetings I'm in are recorded anyway and recording is pretty routine for interviews anyway.

The other thing with taking written notes versus typing is being behind a laptop screen can be a bit off-putting.
Show HN: AI Generated TikToks and Short Form Video
I’m building a software platform that allows creators to make short form music videos using generative AI.

Here’s an example of a TikTok video I was able to create so far:
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I am looking for:
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DM @melodizeai on Tiktok if interested!
DHH: SaaS startups will have to care about productivity again