skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I view the von Neumann architecture as more of a reference. When you get down to it, there's so much hardware trickery at play that it isn't easy to cleanly say that any specific computer fits precisely into what Von Neumann was describing. Consider multi-layer caches, CPUs that execute directly out of RAM, mapped IO, or even micro machine code design where the instruction set of the CPU is really an emulated layer on top of a deeper processor, and it's really hard to reconcile these modern machines as a Von Neumann architecture. I'd say that computer design has taken all the pragmatic approaches available. We have had wholesale architecture reboots every ten years or so. Even modern x86 doesn't resemble the original all that much.

However, as a conceptual bundle to teach aspiring computer science students about hardware? It's great!

Requiring that our software be able to simulate a Turing machine has probably held us back more, although that basic abstraction did get us to this point so in no way am I besmirching the work of Dr. Turing.
There's a very reasonable double standard between private citizens using encrypted messaging tools and their ostensible public servants using them in a public capacity.

Put another way: there's no sense in which the public is made safer or society is made to function more wholly when the police are less accountable due to un-subpoenable communications.
Forget the math, the tech, the error you made-- that lots of people made-- is we must evaluate the trustworthiness of the people running the show, and run like heck from any whiff of lack of integrity. My impression of the FTX folks was they exhibited catastrophic lack of maturity, at minimum. Now, the cynic says that perhaps folks were desensitized by shortcomings of crypto culture in general... which to my mind is a cautionary sign for anyone speculating in that area who has not yet been separated from their stake.
From the Science section, there is a headline "Metallic Object Falls Through New Jersey Home's Roof", which is the desensationalized version of "Possible meteorite crashes through the roof of a New Jersey home, lands in bedroom still warm".

The ambiguity of "metal object" kind of makes it more sensational than "possible meteorite".
I had no prior experience running Pharo. I wanted to see what all this was about, so I downloaded and ran the launcher (the windows one, since that's what I'd expect most people to be using). It starts with no images. Does Launch work anyway? No. How about New? That lets me select pharo versions. What happens if I pick regular pharo 11? It looks like it's downloading. What happens if I Launch that? Success.

Once the image is run, a "welcome" window appears (which you can get back to, if you already closed it, through the Help menu). The first two panes are a brief description and theme setting. The third pane is how to learn pharo, which lists a few resources and then tells me I can learn Pharo by clicking on the ProStef link. I do.

ProStef tells me to highlight the text below and right click and select "do it". It takes me a couple tries because I'm curious what happens if I select one word or the other. Learned: the entire expression has to be highlighted before telling Pharo to run it works, and both words were part of the expression.

The tutorial proceeds fairly obviously from there, teaching print and inspect. Some additional experimentation reveals that selecting the entire page runs everything, kind of like you might be used to in an IDE that sends things to a repl, and double clicking before the first character on a line selects the whole line.

If you're expecting the sort of tutorial where a guide not only tells you what to do, but shows you what to do before you do it to avoid any ambiguity, so that all you have to do is mimic it, ProfStef isn't that, but mimicry is a weaker form of learning. I'm not sure I'll like Pharo, but the tutorial looks like it starts okay to me. The launcher takes a moment to figure out, but if it's so difficult how do you get anything done that you've never done before?
It is very high population density surrounded by some places with very low density. But the places with best wind resource in England tend to be AONB, national park. Areas like Lincolnshire, East Anglia have plenty of space.
You’re getting a little doddery, old man. CMYK support was in 2.0, and Layers came about in 3.0.

…I say as someone who used Photoshop 1.0. (And HyperCard.)
Elon Musk has found his replacement as CEO of Twitter
People are allowed to report crimes to the FBI.
Interesting - though for nearly £1900+VAT for the FM-206 (including hot-air and soldering tools as well as desoldering to be fair but excluding tips and nozzles) I'd hope it performs a lot better indeed!
I'm reminded of a verified famous person talking about their Twitter experience and how other famous verified people's responses would be highlighted which made them feel part of a cool club.

Has Elon effectively broken that?
The opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-468_c0ne.pdf
> I'd just think if you write something like a programming language of all things you'd want others to use it and have a pleasant experience getting started.

You might be surprised how many different nuances exist in what motivates humans.

I have even avoided to share code in public repositories, because I didn’t want to be bothered by feedback like yours, because I didn’t bring the documentation up to a level that someone farther away from my little niche need and use case can understand it.

While such feedback isn’t going to kill me, it’s nonetheless one of a million tiny little cuts that my life is more pleasant without.
If you say what you’re trying to actually achieve I can help with a solution, but asking if it supports an arbitrary feature is not going to get the answer you want because depending on what you’re actually using an archive table for, Postgres might have something already built in but it will almost assuredly not be exactly like an archive table storage type.
I think there's a good case to be made that being the first non-founder in a startup is one of the worst risk-reward profiles in the industry. The people who got there before you have far more upside (which is entirely fair, but still mathematically true) and the people who join later as the company grows and evolves have a lower risk profile.

I agree that you can learn a ton by being the first non-founder into a startup. You can learn even more and have more upside by being a founder.
I know exactly who this will be.

I will eat my words if I am wrong.
Thanks for giving it a try! Glad to hear it was working for you with 3.5.

If you exceed the context window, it will just throw an exception and fail.

I will add a config to disable auto commits. But I find it liberating to use the git history as an undo stack. You can do experiments on a branch and discard it if things don't work out.
Regarding point 1, USB-TMC is just as good as LXI, really. Completely industry standard, just like LXI or GPIB. LXI is great if you need it, but you probably don't if everything's on the same desk.

And there's even more instruments that just create a virtual COM port over USB and allow SCPI commands over that, and that's perfectly fine. You just have to configure it via something like [Keysight's Connection Expert program](https://www.keysight.com/us/en/lib/software-detail/computer-...) first.
/glances in the direction of the US Senate
Thanks for following up.

I think there are different forms of hearing loss (hidden hearing loss, noice induced hearing loss, middle ear hearing loss, ...). I think noice induced hearing loss is most common nowadays and is caused by structural damage to hair cells. Regenerating hair cells might cure this particular form of hearing loss but not others. I think the one you mentioned has a different root cause for which new hair cells are only part of the puzzle.
How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creating one (2021)
10 months ago when Voyager blew up, I've pleaded with people not to believe the FDIC status these crypto firms were claiming [1]. The misrepresentation by these firms was straight fraud.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31954115
ibracorp is a great resource for the homelab and self-hosting community. I have found their discord community to be especially welcome and helpful to anyone getting started.
I'm not talking about virus research in general, I'm talking about the specific type of research EcoHealth Alliance was doing. You're not arguing that their research helped us develop hospital PPE, are you? My question is whether pre-pandemic research into hybrid coronaviruses was essential for the development of the vaccines or other treatments for COVID-19.
Oh no it "accidentally" did the thing that gets people to pay for it. How strange.
Having used both in production, I agree with the above. It's not going to make or break your business or project.

I will also add that their are giant companies relying on both databases with great success. Facebook still runs on MySQL, and contribute back to it. Youtube I'm not sure about, but it did run on MySQL for a long time, well after it got massive. I'm sure examples exist for Postgres (Amazonm since they moved off Oracle?)
Nr of people is irrelevant. Nr of people speaking same language and having similar culture is relevant. Also nr of steps to break into markets of each eu country
The copyright notice on Twitter now points to X too.
There's a serialization overhead both on dispatch and return that makes multiprocessing in Python unsuitable for some problems that would otherwise be solved well with threads in other languages.
Breakdown of functional integration =/= different parts of the brain can independently conduct behavior and gain knowledge.

Still not sure what the contradiction is, is it regret now? Cause that isn’t contradictory.

It’s pretty simple, drugs feel really good when you take them so a single consciousness prioritizes that feeling over long term interests. When one is not taking them and facing the consequences of those decisions they feel bad. To make the bad feelings go away one takes more drugs and the cycle repeats.
Oof, got access to the 8k model recently and was wondering what costs would be on the 32k one. That's brutal.
Their tagline at the end:

```MemComputing is available today and is delivering the performance expected of quantum computers across a wide range of valuable optimization problems in industry. ```

Quantum computers unfortunately are not expected to do well against traditional OR algorithms in most (all?) OR problems (Grover search only helps in brute force search; Shor it not quite an OR application, and relies on quantum effects), so not really a strong selling point in my view
At some point this gets unsustainable. No bike will support a 400lb person. Obesity is the number one voluntary disability and all cause mortality factor. If you are overweight, you are still an amazing human and deserve dignity, but some things are going to be denied to you by physics.
I never said to be driven by the emotional reaction, but rather that the emotional reaction to current world events is the expected outcome. Still plenty of room to attempt to fix things rationally and through careful consideration
"Mastodon users",... jeez, thanx. Yeah, we really are pretty dim, but at least we never generalize.

(Edit: You see it’s funny because this is a generalization, pretty dim right!)
"On this day in 1993, Bare Bones Software (not yet "Inc.") released the first commercial version of BBEdit." https://mastodon.social/@bbedit/110350464886512663
> avoid Oracle as if it has herpes

herpes isn't that bad. most people will get it in their lifetime. 1 in 6 people have hsv-2, the less common variant. trying to avoid herpes is like trying to avoid chickenpox (although herpes isn't nearly as harmful as chickenpox).

you should avoid Oracle like it's a blood pathogen.
They did mention that the inference time to answer a question about the book was something like 22 seconds, so perhaps they are indeed still using self-attention.
It’s a leveraged investment with a tax benefit and some government subsidy. Living in it is the tax Benefit portion.
It is a very common occurrence, since you can print/photocopy two pages side-by-side on one sheet without any loss.

Photocopiers and printers outside America include buttons for this.
He said he's in the UK. So his net income is somewhere around 120k USD. It's big money, but not that much.
Always PostgreSQL. Unless if MySQL protocol is absolutely needed.
This is interesting. Can you share some practical examples of Hobson's choices that you gave your children?
When I first starting doing more research I was surprised by the low funding and the fairly big number of affected patients. Why is there not more funding? Research is making steady progress so the field doesn't appear to be a money sink with nothing to show for.
I’ve found much leverage by giving a choice to my kids in an orthogonal dimension.

Eg :
“I don’t want to eat broccoli with dinner!”

“Well, would you rather eat it on the pink plate or the blue plate?”

Maybe I’m missing something or likely I’m diverging from the actual Hobson’s choice paradigm, but the Take-It-Or-Leave-It example in the article is clearly not a choice (that’s the point presumably). But letting my kid choose the color plate to eat the broccoli is a real choice although inconsequential to the act of eating broccoli itself.
Or a bad time if, like me, you only had a 286.
I came to BBEdit from TextWrangler, and from Alpha before that. I don't think anyone remembers Alpha (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21240488).
I mean there is a different between 'getting some rain this weekend' and 'life threatening flooding'.

The atmospheric river post would be an example of the second headline and should still maintain the necessary urgency and implied danger.
I didn’t actually do anything with FTX, at least not directly; I did not realize that the Gemini Earn program had anything to do with FTX or SBF until after everything collapsed.

I didn’t feel like the Gemini people were terribly unprofessional; at least not outwardly.
This is genuinely thrilling. I know it’s likely to be a C++ codebase, which I don’t have a huge amount of experience in (yet). But having open source access to a music machine of the Deluge’s calibre is phenomenal.
They are not. Attributes are metadata that can reflected/accessed at runtime: https://php.watch/versions/8.0/attributes
No, the system is not designed to be a two step process. The debt ceiling was created to give authority to Treasury to issue debt to X limit so that Congress did not need to approve every single bond (think of it as a way to keep the separation of powers yet also run government debt in the more efficient manner needed in the modern world versus when the United States had 2.5 million people). It was not created as a Sword of Damocles. It was purely for administrative purposes not to replace actual budgets being created by a clearly incompetent Congress and horrible political class.
Sure, enough is enough, but why this mechanism and not during the budgeting process? One allows the overall system to work, the other showcases to the world (yet again) that the US can't be trusted with systems necessary for international collaboration.

It is boggling how many in the US blithely hand wave away the incredible damage this exclusively inward view does in the long term.
Not to be confused with the BitTorrent client: https://deluge-torrent.org/
My goodness.

> supporters cited difficulty navigating seating at restaurants and theatres, getting turned away by landlords, and butting up against weight limits on the city's bike sharing programme.

I don’t see how that is the city’s fault at all. The bikes’ weight limit has nothing to do with discrimination, and entirely to do with the way that F=ma and we can’t change physics.
Google has multiple horses in this race.

They invested $300m in Anthropic in late 2022: https://www.ft.com/content/583ead66-467c-4bd5-84d0-ed5df7b5b...

(Non-paywall: https://archive.is/Y5A9B)
And if you have experience with one and try to use the other, you may end up foot gunned by something you didn't know about.
There's already - https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

It's shows left, center, and right bias of new articles.

Read the 'From the center' version of articles, and the bias and sensationalism has been removed - https://www.allsides.com/story/media-industry-cnn-staffers-c...
And don't miss that clicking the displayed bits will flip them. Can be handy at times, debugging flags for example.
Ghidra 10.3 has been released
However old it is exactly, I've used this editor for decades and I love it. Most recently, I use the Worksheet feature to execute a series of scripts that do all the file conversion and make the RSS feed entries for my podcasts. It's easier to understand than a Makefile (although I do use Makefiles to build my blog posts) and it's all archived; if I need to regenerate anything I can just scroll back and re-run the commands right from the Worksheet file.

I know the Worksheet concept wasn't invented by Bare Bones - I think they borrowed it from the original MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop), which used to be what the cool kids used to build Mac software before there were competing IDEs. But Bare Bones definitely perfected it.
With an extremely literal reading you are correct, but there was clearly an implication.
(puts on tinfoil hat): the cia could have done it in order to display the over-reliance of supply chains on China causing a correction to more robustness. Plus they get to roll out some new tech and divert a bunch of money to their friends. (takes off tinfoil hat): bats are gross and labs are very leaky. hanlon's razor says something stupid happened.
I did mean bcache specifically. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/bcache.txt
Parent was observing that the Catholic Church was an exception to GP's point that the written word stiffened and froze monotheistic religious practice, as it blended oral and written transmission.

I was observing that the modern Catholic Church (post-printed word) has offified in exactly that way, with the printed word allow direct dissemination of the "agreed" canon (i.e. pope / hierarchy) to the entire church, thereby unifying them into a single practice.

In counterpoint I offered the number of papal crises and schisms that abounded during the medieval and pre-medieval period (i.e. before printed material became cheap and available).

Ergo, the use of the printed word allowed the Catholic Church to unify and standardize in a way it had not before -- GP's point.

It's indicative that the majority of monotheistic religious splits within Catholicism happened before the printing press, when intervening human parties could reinterprete the canon as it flowed through them.

For political-national-religious entity, the Catholic Church / Holy Roman Empire partnership allowed the Church to become a nation in all but land, by the power its blessing conveyed upon a chosen leader.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law#Catholic_Church
Its really just the reductiveness of your arguments.

I’m wondering if its it even worth listing the various strawman arguments and rebuttals because its not even clear if you realize they are strawman nonsequiturs. But I’ll continue on good faith.

The most obvious observation being that you wouldnt have received your 7% in a bank, so taking the least risk isnt really the gotcha alternative you present it as. Similarly there are many autonomous crypto services that function without incident, that also offer yield, exchanges and “staking services” like Gemini/FTX/etc were using behind the scenes alongside other things they shouldnt have been using. Many people use stable value assets to earn yield in those autonomous platforms and they are still fine. This has nothing to do with storing it on a hard drive and doing nothing with it. But we can talk about that too, people just use separate addresses: savings, spending, speculation. Savings would be the perpetually offline crypto.

Its really analogous to how you have the rest of your cash and portfolio. The reductive part is that you mentally had a “crypto” position (parked in mismanaged businesses) instead of using crypto. Like people would say they're “using cash”.

People are trying to point that out to you, you saying you were an idiot for considering cryptocurrency when you never actually did.
I know Matrix is struggling with funding, but I can see how people see things like https://mastodon.matrix.org/@element/110310853505977058 as supporting industries/agencies rather than just selling software.

However, most of the comments seem to be pure paranoia, but you see such paranoia on all tech sites. There are plenty of accusations of backdoors and government plants to be found here on HN too. The difference is that social media doesn't have downvotes to get those messages out of view when you first open the page.
It would be cool if they'd put some resource into Pypy as well. Feels like that project is such a great achievement, and with just a bit more resource it would've been an amazing alternative. As it is, it takes a long time to get the new language features out, which always hamstrings it a little.
> My role will transition to being exec chair & CTO, overseeing product, software & sysops.

What else is there? Sounds like the new CEO may be a figurehead just to satisfy his previous "promise" to step down.
Sorry, we all make mistakes. Some people do dumb things with money, others with relationships, some with their health, and others with their time.

It's hard to be successful at everything. Ask the friends of anyone here, they'll point at the things someone did right and the things they messed up to get their.

Glad you're doing better.
If you're a gigacorp you might have reasons to go with a customized version of MySQL otherwise pick Postgres.
Thank you! I do plan to extend this, if people are interested.

GPT-3.5 is pretty cheap and I'm able to keep the number of tokens small. https://histre.com/ has other paid features that users might find useful, so it might work out as a freemium offering.
Hwang couldn’t have unwound his massive positions without crashing the prices. There was no quitting while you’re ahead for him.

I still really don’t understand what game he was playing.
I fight with this a lot. Best solution I've found is add a 'bulk' label to the bin so I know to refill from my 'warehouse' stockpile when something gets low.
I mean the following more to elucidate than criticize.

A minor point of clarification (admittedly rather pedantic though in line with the many comments in this discussion which relate to scientific rigor) but the statements indicating lichen sourced D3 is plant-based can be misleading. While many lichens contain one or more algae species/strains (hence containing a plant) some do not. Some lichens contain cyanobacteria as their sole photosynthesizing member in symbiosis with fungi (ie. no plant involved.) I don't know the specifics of the lichen source for vitamin D3 production. So a plant may or may not be involved.

Based on vitamin D being produced by other fungi than lichens and no (known to me) plant source of D3 I'll venture a guess that the source of the D3 in lichens is from the fungal component. If this holds true then claiming lichen sourced D3 is plant-based is a bit of a stretch.

Of course a popular reading of "plant-based" as used in current diet marketing -which seems to mean anything not derived from an animal- could hold. But marketing speak is anything but scientific.

[Quick searches didn't lead me to clarity on whether algae are part of the lichens used for commercial D3 production. I do wonder why lichens were chosen over mushrooms. I'd have thought mushrooms would have multiple advantages.]