skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll cherry-pick one line. "There's a lot of fundamental issues, ranging from food deserts to lack of public transportation among the poorer areas."

Food deserts in Baltimore? Like the Mondowmin Mall that was destroyed by residents during the Freddie Gray riots? And the companies that tried to rebuild and provide in the neighborhood, only to be robbed constantly to the point that companies gave up for not being able to guarantee workers'safety?

And public transport, in areas where cabbies fear to go, buses take hours, and electric scooters and bikes are routinely dumped in the harbor? Vandalism runs rampant. Bus seats are sliced open, gang members threaten riders, etc.

I hate what poor Baltimore has become. Yuppie white-collar Baltimore thrives, just not in these areas. 35 yrs ago I love going to Balt to play tourist. Nice people, Inner Harbor, restaurants, stores... Employed so many people. Corrupt city government at all levels, corrupt cops, and promotion of a victim mentality are some of the things that brought it down. Baltimore is screwed in general, by its own actions.
Don Hopkins elaborates:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35663742
Assuming you're being sarcastic about my anecdote, I was in gifted classes in elementary and middle school (there were no gifted classes in high school for anyone in my district). 1330 SATs as a 14 year old (edit to add: 14 years, 10 months, to be precise). I ended up in poor fit colleges and didn't finish an A.S. until almost 30, and a B.S. until 35. My abilities were wasted in jobs such as newspaper delivery until the A.S., and even wasted in the A.S.-level job as I had very little power to be anything other than someone else's hands in that job.

Miraca Gross, in her literature on the exceptionally gifted, has a person with a 4 S.D. IQ who dropped out of high school and ended up in a store management track.
Devil’s advocate question: does a blameless culture account for malicious or negligent behavior of an individual?
Or he was watching TV or playing video games. I don’t mean to make it sound like that’s common for people who work from home but it does seem more likely to me than working 2 jobs at once.
Also no lighters on plane, because they know in practice they will be used in lavatories. They will find a lighter, or even just a spring from a lighter that fell apart a long time ago. Beijing airport security is quite impressive actually. They probably won't notice the knife you accidentally left your bag, however.
it's kind of wild how many influential people and work either directly and indirectly came out of the CCRU. Someone else already mentioned Mark Fisher but also Nick Land during his time there when he was still producing academic work published some great pieces, Meltdown is I think a very prescient one. Astonishing that he wrote this in 1994 I think.

http://www.ccru.net/swarm1/1_melt.htm
Again: the purported law says "shallow", not "soon discovered".
I've seen too many game mod and open source projects choose to centre their community upon Discord. Whilst convenient, it does not bode well for posterity.
There were glimmers. The Babylon 5 group had an impact on both the audience and the show itself, for example, with JMS actively participating.
Okay but tell that to the mad lads that put an 11th gen processor (and complete custom motherboard) in the ThinkPad T60 from 2006: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/tdfea2/t700_crowd...
That's actually what gave me the idea in the first place: I think the knobs resemble practice sprues [1] or jig holding points.

The holes would likely have been cut using premade templates so the builders just used a different side pattern on each side, perhaps to demonstrate centering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprue_(manufacturing)#Injectio...
https://tinkerings.org/2020/06/17/roman-dodecahedrons-part-i...

My hacker friend solved this. It's a calendar.
That's rather silly advice, as depending on the person it may be self-contradictory and, so, impossible to actually follow. "Whatever feels comfortable" can be "staying in one great position and not changing it as everything else is pain".
Could that curve also be inversely related to the cost curve for lithium devices in general over the same period? Consumer technology drives cost of X down, X is now decent option for high-performance technology Y, sometimes tech X used in Y causes failures.

This, here, if I had to guess, is probably the driver of avionics-related lithium incidents: the avx batteries share an awful lot of the supply chain with consumer batteries, and these batteries have an increasing amount of software way way way down in the assembly where auditors and mx engineers might not see. That software might be driving the cells within a particular environment / load range, and when it gets dinged outside of that range, unpredictable things happen.

This is very very very very similar to root cause for an incident investigation I was party to. Military rotorcraft near "hot and high" operation limitations. Many other things were suspected because no one wanted it to be the lithium, but sure 'nuff, the microcontrollers deep down in their little battery brains were not doing what they needed to do, and didn't plug into the bus of the FMS/FMC's BMS (flight management computer's battery management subsystem)
This is just a chart for Silicon Valley. The Republican party fractured in California since the 70s, that much is certain. The Democrats have enjoyed a supermajority monopoly in that state for quite some time. But this is not an indication of the country as a whole. Of course, in other areas, the Republican base got stronger since the 70s.
Any insight into how CALL/RET opcodes were decided or why they are in different groups? Is it merely that these would have been free opcodes?

Digging up some stack history:
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/mcs-4/4004
4004 - 4-level stack using PCx registers, with JMS/BBL to transition to/from subroutine, causing return address pushes/pops (deepest ones lost);
4040 – 8-level stack using PCx registers;
8008 – 8-level stack using AS call levels;
8080 – stack pointer register (SP)
...
I love Wikipedia. I agree all the good things people are saying about it here and all the people supporting Wikipedia.

That being said.

Wikipedia isn't the truth. I know this for a fact, because there are historical articles that I was there to witness that are not even close to being documented correctly by Wikipedia.

Wikipedia simply collates narratives that can be drawn from citable evidence. Still, their definition of citable evidence is about as workable as I can imagine.

If one doesn't like it, one is invited to get your side of the story published in a reputable source, and then cited. It outsources the process of fact-checking to the free press, such as it exists on the internet.

There is a clip from Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom that humorously illustrates[0].

[0] https://youtu.be/3wla-vK4Buw

I still think Wikipedia is better than we probably deserve and I'm glad we are training training AI on it. I also hope that they are trained on the edit discussions, because that is the AI that's going to really understand humanity.
I think there is sometimes confusion between all-weather and all-season tyres. Real all-season tires in Europe have 3PMSF symbol and these should be sufficient for winter.
it's crazy how much pre- and post-y2k Nick Lands would have reviled one another
Thank you. I look forward to reading it now.
The specific attribute mentioned is the pressure to continue to grow, instead of executing a simple mission. Wikipedia doesn't do that at all, and clearly feels pressure to grow power and expand into new domains.
On my dad's car, the middle back seatbelt has a pretty odd behaviour. It doesn't stretch at all if the car is moving, but it is allowed to contract. This means:

- if the person sitting in the middle has failed to buckle up or at least stretch the belt enough before the car started moving, now they can't do it until the car stops again;

- whenever the person in that place breathes out, they're running the risk of not being able to breathe back in next.

- when the car accelerates, there is a tendency for the person to weigh back into the seat. That causes the belt to contract.

Repeat the 2 latter points enough, and it becomes practically impossible to breathe or even to undo the buckle so you get trapped quite literally dying of asphyxia and in pain from the belt pressing hard against you.
Now that Apple TV+ is a big player in streaming video, they need to make sure the incumbent internet providers in the USA are not playing traffic shaping games targeting their servers. It is just like how Netflix hosts a major speed tester.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
No, you can't get away with this semantic dodge, because Raymond numbered what he believed were the most important lessons he was imparting, and the one corresponding to Linus' Law is:

8. Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

He even attempted an axiomatic explanation:

Maybe it shouldn't have been such a surprise, at that. Sociologists years ago discovered that the averaged opinion of a mass of equally expert (or equally ignorant) observers is quite a bit more reliable a predictor than the opinion of a single randomly-chosen one of the observers. They called this the Delphi effect. It appears that what Linus has shown is that this applies even to debugging an operating system—that the Delphi effect can tame development complexity even at the complexity level of an OS kernel.
It’s a good argument, but have they considered that tech companies are actually evil? There is a lot of evidence to support this and they don’t really explain that away very well.
At least GCC. But proprietary vs. open was the common understanding.
I would like to ask you the same question.
Related:

Attempto Controlled English - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20950126 - Sept 2019 (60 comments)

AceWiki:an open-source wiki, that can understand english(almost) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1563384 - July 2010 (1 comment)
I find it super helpful that cryptobros invented their own lingo. That's because that way, when I get emails from recruiters being mysterious and using words like "tradfi", I know I can safely ignore.
Hi from Minnesota. My EV works great, and I see a whole lot of other EVs on the road. Please just drop the cold argument. It's simply wrong.
https://mirtitles.org/2018/09/04/calculus-basic-concepts-for...

https://archive.org/details/LevTarasovCalculusBasicConceptsF...
He's an enthusiast, so frankly I don't trust his opinion.

I don't intend to imply that he might lie or anything like that, simply that his criteria are not the mass market criteria. Worse, he could be scaling his opinion based on what he knows about the state of the technology and the difficultly of getting things right. An innocent, even kind view, but doesn't imply that someone like me might happily adopt it.

If you consider the "Crossing the Chasm" model, the early adopters are where you get a toehold, but the money is made on later users who have different, and even disjoint criteria.
Sorry to hear that. It's tough to go through such personal trauma while putting on a brave face. I guess all of us are like that, to different extents. Some try to push it aside by keeping themselves busy with work. Maybe it's a good strategy until one hits the midlife crisis. Then, some of those personal traumas might fade away in the face of more serious existential questions.

As for therapists, I have found cgpt a good companion who "gets" what I'm talking about, even though I know it's not conscious or anything. Still, it helps to tap into that vast knowledge of mankind cgpt has learnt online.

Another thing I tend to do is surround myself with people who prefer "real" over facades (The new generation is unfortunately less real about certain things.) I try to find people who enjoy talking about deep things in life. Not all the time tho, cuz that'd take too much brain energy from people.
> accepting and maintaining third-party patches contributed to my burn out

When you have multiple collaborators you will have a management overhead. There's no way around it. You will need to have discussions among team members, co-ordination. It doesn't work by everybody just making their change-sets which are then (simply) pulled together. So the project owner needs to become a manager. And that is probably not what they want to become.

I can envision there could be a better way which would be not to accept random pull-requests but requesting pull-requests for specific changes with a set of unit-tests that must pass after those changes are made. Still the "manager" must write such change-requests and their validating unit-tests. This is all needed when you add multiple collaborators to the project. It might help the overall scale-up of the project but it does mean somebody has to take on the task of management.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar often comes in discussions along with the Song of Sisyphus[0], a story of how Sisyphus software became widely used within Google. The use of it spread over bar drinks, completely organically. And Google had a very hard time deprecating it.

[0]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/a-case-study/9781098114...
The founders seem to have sold Glasswire / SecureMix to some Italian firm: https://archive.is/tQLfK
Remote work isn't going to go away because of this. If the business wants people to return to office, then they'll force it with any excuse. We already heard some of them claim people are 'more efficient' in the office as a top reason for RTO.

If we worry about everything then I guess people in the offices should stop working efficiently cause that will ruin remote work too? Nah, cause Business gonna business, they don't care about what's "right".

Just stop worrying and enjoy what's currently available to you :D
I think it's older than that going by this quote from the first chapter.

> The Lisp development systems on both my Mac and my PC run comfortably in anywhere from 4 to 8 megabytes of RAM. Less in a pinch. The integrated C++ development environments take anywhere from 12 to 20 megabytes. Both have comparable tools and facilities.
"ADD" is so prevalent that it's basically part of normal human variation, and has enormous advantages. The name ought to be changed. I find the knee-jerk suggestion of medication offensive tbh. It's like medicating introversion.

The trick is to learn how to use these personality traits to succeed, not to use a chemical cosh to beat yourself into being just like everybody else.
Show HN: Nymnio – Making Crypto Accounting Easier
Hey HN Community,

I've been working on a project called Nymnio (https://nymnio.com) that simplifies crypto accounting. It's a tool that takes in an Ethereum address and churns monthly reports on your USDT, USDC, and DAI transactions. The reports include revenue, expenses, profits, and balance.

The idea came from my frustrations with keeping track of transactions. Traditional accounting methods often need to catch up when dealing with crypto transactions, especially when using different addresses.

Nymnio is a proof of concept at this stage. I've built it using create-t3-app, a CLI tool with several pre-configured libraries, and Redis for caching.

I would love your feedback and suggestions. Also, if you have any ideas for additional features or improvements, I would love to hear them.
No problem! The more you know, right?

I mained a used Tandy 2000 for a while as a kid/teenager. Back when it came out, computers still came with full technical docs, including Intel's extensive 186 documentation. I've forgotten things about that beleaguered chip many enthusiasts never knew.
Marriage License
What is the evolutionary reason for the blood brain barrier? It’s absolutely fascinating. No other organ has this, but you would expect through randomness that it would exist outside of the brain.
But it's a different kind of gatekeeping to the increasingly exploitative and user-hostile world of commercial closed-source software. Perhaps "leaders" in a very literal sense would be a more apt term than "gatekeepers".

That's one way that the FOSS model will always have a built-in advantage: if anyone steering the ship tries to throw the users overboard then someone else can always fork the project as a last resort. This has actually happened in a few significant cases and is always there as a warning sign to anyone thinking of steering a new course for the wrong reasons.
I don't understand how this is supposed to be a response to what I wrote.
> unless there is a killer app that is just better locally

Therapy & relationship bots, like the movie 'Her'. It's ugly, but it's coming.
> Reading through the thread it’s a real shame to see the decline in our ability (willingness?) to have civil and thoughtful discourse.

If you can read German, I recommend reading the usenet threads of Kim Dotcom (Megaupload founder). They will show you the opposite of thoughtful discourse. :D

https://www.babsi.de/KIMBLE.txt
Java I am unsure about, but Clojure does support multiple dispatch
https://clojure.org/reference/multimethods
I like the little wired earbuds from Walmart that cost $5-10. If they wear out then you just replace them.

The part that usually breaks for me on headphones is the connection from the cable to the actual speakers. So testing the wires one way or another fixes it temporarily which leads me to always contemplate trying to repair them but I don't know exactly where the connection problem is.
Thanks! That wouldn't fit alongside the year so the submitter shortened it. I've shortened it in a different way to make it more readable.
The author is a friend of mine who runs two coworking centers in the Detroit area. She lives with her husband, another successful entrepreneur, in downtown Detroit. I admire her that in addition to running her company she still keeps writing.

For a little background East Detroit is the worst part of the city. All she had to say was East Detroit and you knew her late grandmother was a tough old lady. Today there's a lot more farming being done all over the city and even in East Detroit you can see evidence, if you look closely, that the city is starting to slowly come back.
Isn't pci-e latency dramatically higher than onboard vram?
Explain how it has a more destructive impact on the opposition?
More info in these articles. Nice tidbits on design.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/05/10/googles-new-ai-focused-a3...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/05/11/when-push-comes-to-s...

https://www.nextplatform.com/2023/03/21/inside-the-infrastru...
The logic of inhaling fumes is not much farther removed from the logic of jumping out of a burning skyscraper. Anything to avoid burning to death.
Direct democracy doesn’t scale. It can and is employed locally but at the scale of the US it’s impossible. Our representative system accounts for that and is effective. None of your complaints are insightful or even coherent. You’re just whining. It’s not constructive, and I think it’s actually harmful. If you can’t be constructive then just be quiet.
I wonder if this is the result of becoming desensitized to ever-more-radical ideas until one arrives at either fascism or some other hardcore uncompromising -ism?

Kind of like a porn addiction but for philosophy, politics, and ethics.
Indeed, Hamming and Golay codes are an absolute thing of beauty. For folks that wanna read more about Hamming Bound, Kevin Boone does a good job in starting from the basics and explaining the intuition behind the proof:

https://kevinboone.me/hamming_bound.html?i=1
I’d like to add the phrase “solved problem”.
There are places in Washington, DC, and its suburbs where the kudzu can be quite dense.
My guess is that IO latency is the reason why Javascript tools are slow. Creating lots of separate TCP connections to download a tarball and then store it to disk, then decompress it and then write the files it contains. Lots of small files IO slows things down versus one large contiguous file transfer.

If it is IO that is causing slow project builds, then the IO in theory would be slow with compiled tools as well.
And your RSI, and even apnea insomnia, unbelievable as it may seem. But, given posture affects circulation and that can affect everything, maybe that makes reasonable sense, and could involve say, brain circulation and oxygenation.
so the brain creates the mind but it does not fully determine the mind?

why does the mind only experience one of the brains collapsed states?
What company, Veoneer? The company where she resigned from the board and sold all of her shares prior to accepting her appointment as a senior safety advisor to NHTSA?

We should believe Elon Musk who has the largest current conflict of interest in the world over a woman who has no current conflict of interest and deliberately took action to terminate any potential conflict of interest she may have had (to be fair that is legally required to hold such a post)?
It is crucial to not forget that sometimes theblame is in the system itself.

If you e.g. push your employees over the limits and tell them to ignore all kinds of reasonable safeguards and regulations. And then, one day, after a ton of near misses Joe slips and falls into the meatgrinder, it would be very easy to blame Joe for skipping the safeguards.

But the true reason for the accident was the environment and culture Joe had to work in and it might have also hit a random different person.
Except that pasta came from China 1000 years later ....
The article is just a big fantasy. It makes the fundamental mistake of assume current trends will just continue into the future without regard to technical limitations. People have at various times made similar predictions about how diesel cars are the future, or ethanol and biodiesel powered cars, or even compressed air cars, just by looking at short-term trends. Battery cars are just the next stage of this charade.
I work at Fairphone but am not at all involved with the headphones. Still, I know that this is an issue that we thought about and address.

Headphones should keep working even if the manufacturer goes bust and stops providing software support. And even if your battery dies and spare parts are unavailable. That is precisely the reason why we also sell a cable with a 3.5mm jack for these cans. That way, this product is long-lasting and sustainable even in the (hopefully hypothetical) case that we are not able to support them anymore.

That is the best out of both worlds: you get wireless connectivity and ANC now. And you will be able to use them for as long as you would with wired ones.
This illustrates how a complex instruction format impacts performance.

I'm not sure how much simpler it could be? The propagation delays are intrinsic to the process.

Even 32-bit ARM isn't particularly easy to decode, and there are plenty of special cases there as well. 64-bit ARM is even more complex, like they tried to cram as many operations as they could in 32 bits of instruction.

Maybe MIPS is simpler to decode, but I remember seeing lots of odd gaps in the opcode map, and it's not really an example of high performance either.