skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a natural experiment going on just 50 miles to the south, in San Jose. New mayor Matt Mahan won by promising "pragmatic" solutions to homelessness, including building very cheap housing for them, and putting them to work cleaning up the city
I see a juggler handling an unspecified quantity of balls. They will not tell anyone how many balls are being handled. How do I know what they accomplished? How would I replicate it without knowing?
Looks like my Blackberry and my KeyOne with that keyboard. I like small dedicated things like this. I have a BT keyboard the size of a credit card I bought in Shenzen in 2012 that still works great with tiny joystick with a small thumb rubber pad on it.

I am currently using a Numworks calculator with color screen for fun small projects with the latest Omega OS for it. Python scripts, GB stuff, etc. I also do engineering/technical work, so the Numworks is used for both business and pleasure!
This is very astute.

I'd like to add that the pipeline for child/adolescent hackers that existed in the pre-00s is basically non-existent. The only major path that still exists that I can think of is game modding.

I'm a third-generation techie on both sides of my family (my paternal grandpa (b. ~1915) got started working with TVs and their mechanical parts and my maternal grandmother (b. mid 1920s) learned C in the 70s) and there are several parts of my upbringing that I don't think could be replicated. For instance, I got started with web work in the 90s, which meant that a.) nobody knew what they were doing and the lack of formal structure combined with the cultural appreciation for competence meant that children could do 'real' work and I loved helping with 'real' work and b.) there was no age limit to participation and no legal liability since most of it wasn't commercial.

There were also child-specific parts of the Web that were built by actual children instead of corporations meant to siphon money from parents. A large draw was being able to act without needing adult intermediaries. I could make a website about Sailor Moon or toys or start a chat/IRC room and control the discussions I had and kick adults or anybody who was inappropriate. (10 year olds are great dictators).

There are almost no pathways into tech now that revolve around tech as play and I think that's where a lot of hackers came from.
Acting "properly" socially is exhausting for me. I mostly avoid social gatherings because of it. For stuff for the kids I just focus on them and let my wife handle the adults.

For things my wife wants me to go to (without the kids), I will go, but I tend to just sit there and not talk. I'm fine observing. People find that socially awkward, but her friends are used to it by now.

My friends are used to me sometimes saying weird/crazy shit.

Think about it like this: yes, I can act properly. But it's like work. I would rather leave work at work.
> the PCC compiler published A Retargetable C Compiler by Fraser & Hanson

You're thinking of LCC. PCC is AT&T's compiler and the work of Johnson who also did yacc.
> The tech titans will be joined by political heavyweights including former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

I rewatched The Inventor[0], sounded like Kissinger should be no where near these tech talks. One of the interviewees mentioned something along the lines of having his experience of speaking with other leaders as an asset, but had no room to speak when it came to healthcare/tech. They then proceeded to play an audio clip of Kissinger not being able to easily turn on the speakerphone. To be fair on the latter, if the interview was from around 2019 when the doco came out, he was in his 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inventor:_Out_for_Blood_in...
Generational differences affect consumer attitudes towards ads
I'm surprised they're quoting you $60-80/mo. Verizon's 5G home internet is $50/mo (or $25/mo bundled with one of their premium wireless plans or $40/mo bundled with Visible's $35/mo Visible+ wireless plan).

Why would you want DSL? In my area, Verizon's DSL is 3.1Mbps which really isn't good for much and costs $75/mo ($40 for the DSL and $35 for the required home phone service with it). You also have to pay $3.50/mo for the router or buy it for $100.

Verizon stopped expanding Fiber for the most part which is a shame. AT&T is doubling its fiber deployment in their markets.

Do you have a cable provider that's your broadband provider? Verizon is generally only offering 5G Home Internet in areas where there are other broadband options so it seems curious that you'd be interested in DSL over a cable connection offering 100x the speed.
I wonder if they'll end up with specialized subunits for different processing tasks, like the old "lizard brain" model with the neocortex on top of other layers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triune_brain
I'm not blaming both sides, I am saying there aren't any sides. It's a systemic issue that in recent history has transcended whichever party controls congress or the executive branch.
Really? That is very different from my experience.

If you're talking about the actual City of London then maybe, but most other places I have found quite lively and active in the evenings, especially around where I live.
I think there were several factors.

While Tk (one of Tcl’s major killer apps) looked good on Windows and Mac, it retained the Motif look and feel for too long on UNIX platforms. This gave the impression of it being obsolete technology and made many people dismiss it for use in serious applications.

It lacked a major company championing and investing in it.

Its creator Dr. Ousterhout, moved onto other projects.

Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and PHP won out on the scripting language popularity contest at the expense of Perl and Tcl.

Richard Stallman had very strong opinions about Tcl that also did it no favors. This was known as the “Tcl War.”

https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/
Same here, it's a shame they don't support the PC market. I bought the game for my wife to play on Switch, but I'm playing it at 4k 60fps on my desktop via Yuzu with my saves being synced to my steamdeck which can emulate the game at 1080p and 25-40fps.
The audio seems to be a mispronounciation. I bet the speaker knows how to write it down correctly.
It's not just the lack of HSR (trains, power, etc), it's the lack of passenger trains in general. The tracks that exist are simply not suitable for greater than 50mph (80kph), and those that might be are dominated by stupidly long cargo trains.
> What if a genuine part is modified. I am not sure it is a solvable problem?

Same problem as it is now, nothing changes.

> However if you are a phone, how would you distinguish between a legitimate repair and malicious swapping out of parts? Sounds like incompleteness theorem would say you can't

If your threat model is malicious swapping parts, an iPhone isn't for you anyway, you need a device more secure than that.

And I doubt that applies to more than an handful of individuals, even targeted attacks themselves usually don't go this far and prefer to just exfiltrate the data by software.
> spending a billion dollars on a thousand artists so that every tree can have ten times as many polygons and each texture is 16kX16k

Absolute realism is a tedious goal.
We don't even know how stuff is pronounced in Latin. So for all we know, "crow" could be the correct pronunciation!
What, no free t-shirt? ;-) Just kidding, thanks for fixing this so quickly.
Buying power and taxes means $50k goes as far in the US as £50k goes in the UK. Possibly more.
> Photoshop will be eaten by generative AI in the next few years.

This is a laughable idea.

Even if professional artists want to use generative AI in their workflow, it won't be by replacing a tool like Photoshop. It will be by enhancing it.

And if you think the entire art profession will be "eaten by generative AI", then you clearly know very little about human nature.

People will always want to create art. People will always want to see and own art.

Even if some of that latter desire is satisfied by generative AI in the future, I guarantee you not all of it will be. For one thing, there will also always be people who feel that the human touch is more important—that AI art isn't "real" art—and thus, in a world where AI-generated art is ubiquitous, human-created art will become even more prized.
"Softening kids to the mechanics of gacha isn't good."

Let's go back a hundred years or so and ban gumball machines and half of the machines in arcades, then...

In this case you're describing a randomization game mechanic as gambling. How deterministic must a game be to avoid that, then?
Don't forget the money printing machine at maximum speed.
No, western loan sharks are trying to get chinese loan sharks to forgive more debts via propaganda. There's many more poor countries on the brink of collapse with majority % western loans due to covid, a lot of multilateral negotiation on debt forgiveness right now where everyone needs to take haircuts. But west trying to pressure PRC to forgive more / higher burden, and PRC is going lol nope. Some useful idiots buy it, like they do debt trap narrative, meanwhile those in charge still flock to PRC loans where available for infra build up, because no one else, especially west, has capability to stepping up.
Cool, I'll check out your repos. Supabase also has Postgres CRDT (https://github.com/supabase/pg_crdt).

But, in general, I think searching in and across documents and database storage is going to a thorny problem even with existing, hyper-optimized CRDT algorithms. For example, if you just store your Yjs document as a binary blob in a Postgres column, Postgres becomes the bottleneck and all the fancy range-tree or b-tree optimizations are no longer that helpful on the server. Plus, it'd be great to have an document edit just be a tiny insert into the database that can be streamed to other clients rather than a big row update.

This may because the focus of CRDTs seems to be rooted in a fully decentralized, P2P system but many developers want collaborative text editing in a more traditional client-server model.
You don't need to release the Alt key. Not sure I understand any other points either, as "clumsy and awkward" sounds really opinionated. Ribbon tags are just ordinary vi-style modal shortcuts that were proven to work well before Microsoft even existed - you memorize mnemonics/syllables, and utilize your touch typing skill with them. Unlike Win32-style menu navigation shortcuts, they're mostly on the home row, and/or represent a mnemonic.

For the speed, you should really use the traditional non-modal shortcuts (which never went away), not Win32 menu navigation. However this question is discussed to death in vim vs emacs debates - the minuscule speed difference is irrelevant for one-time actions, what matters is the cognitive load and muscle memory.

The valid use case for non-modal shortcuts (as opposed to combinations) is manually repeating the same command multiple times over and over, but in text editors this is the strong anti-pattern, and in Word you can use F4 for that, which is much more convenient and can be done just by holding the key.
Given the ridiculously small percentage of student basketball players who will ever be paid to play basketball, it would be good idea to study more than that
And yet they were still more competent than the Austrian secret services because they, you know, managed to kill their target.
Microsoft could start trading ad views for “timed slices of games”
Even with your own apparent line of reasoning, this would be absurd. Why on Earth would the world "elites" desire to establish a "new world order", given that the current "world order" seems to be working just great for them.

I'm so sick of conspiracy theories that aren't even self-consistent, even if you do take at face value the cartoon characterization of the bad guys.
I ditched pricey iPaaS to build my own workflow tool
I was sick of expensive iPaaS solutions and decided to build an affordable and highly customizable embedded workflow product. After developing custom workflow solutions for seven years and many lessons learned, I created Embed Workflow. This solution takes minutes to set up and provides startups with the necessary automation capabilities to succeed.

I’d love for you to check it out at embedworkflow.com and let me know if you’d ever consider using it.
I have no dog in this fight - but your actions give the appearance of probing for weaknesses if you already knew this was not allowed from your prior accident.
This past summer one of the Trail of Bits interns worked on a project to test BPF programs from userspace, independent of kernel version: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/01/19/ebpf-verifier-harnes...

It is still very much a proof of concept but could be a starting point to make future BPF testing easier.
It takes some time to index.
First party Nintendo (at least mainline Zelda and Mario) are all about quality. You might wait six years between games, but it'll always be worth it. I haven't had a "I wish I wasn't working so I could play this game" in years, but I have it now with TOTK and I couldn't be happier. Neglecting sleep to play just one more hour - I feel like a kid again.

They've always squeezed a ton out of the hardware they have, especially since the Wii, which, in my head at least, is when they started being notably behind hardware wise.

I'm just glad that they're a fantastic example of a company that really prioritizes quality over quantity.
Awesome! Super appreciate it and this project looks extremely interesting.
You've proven that the juggler's instructions alone are insufficient to juggle five balls. In this case, the juggler presumably has muscle memory you don't, which is equivalent to running an experiment on equipment that behaves differently. Or perhaps the juggler didn't convey the special trick you need for four or more balls.
From the official website https://bilderbergmeetings.org/

“The Meeting is a forum for informal discussions about major issues. The Meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule, which states that participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s) nor of any other participant may be revealed. Thanks to the private nature of the Meeting, the participants take part as individuals rather than in any official capacity, and hence are not bound by the conventions of their office or by pre-agreed positions”

Sounds explicitly secretive to me.
Where's the lie in the title?

Are you saying that the meeting is not secretive or attended by people who are elite?
Great, so when time travel becomes a thing, I'll add you to the list of people to have a chat with about needing to envision longer term visions for how nefarious people can be. I love that at one point in a not so distant galaxy, er time, that there was a thing of innocence. Now, that innocence can no longer be tolerated and every new thing must have more time invested on how the new thing can be abused rather than just used as intended.
This grossly oversimplifies centuries of history between the conquest of Baghdad and whatever your interpretation of “radical Islam” is.

At scale and in detail, the parallel that you’re trying to draw is null.
It's very powerful individuals having a meeting, and what they decide, in secret, can have wide-ranging repercussions for people who lack their power—which is almost everybody else. It is not "conspiracy theory bullshit" to be highly skeptical of the motives of these individuals and impact of such meetings.
I find this extremely annoying as well. None of these meetings are mysterious. It's a group of people with shared interests talking with each other -- much like all of us do in our own lives.

The difference is only that those people are very wealthy and powerful. That means we should pay attention to them, but it doesn't mean what they're doing is some sort of shadowy mysterious conspiracy.
You should absolutely. How would you do it?
> Today, we're afraid to do anything that's not JavaScript, Java, Python, or Ruby. I have a feeling 10 years from now it'll just be JS. We all read that excellent McKinley article about "innovation tokens" and we decided to be floor-avoiders instead of ceiling-breakers. Engineering leaders lead from a place of fear and risk-aversion instead of optimism and believing in their team. Where have all the c̶o̶w̶b̶o̶y̶s̶ hackers gone?

I think this reflects a larger cultural trend of fear, pessimism, and scarcity.

When we have spare capacity and a belief that we'll have spare capacity in the future, it's psychologically much easier to take risks, be whimsical, try things, explore, and give the benefit of the doubt.

When times are lean, the natural human response is to hunker down, hoard what we have, hustle, and do our best to survive.

It's just not a great time in the world right now.
Apple's chips are very power efficent, yes, but the article and parent are talking/asking about raw power. Despite all the Intel hate the past 5 years, I don't think there's been even a moment where another company's leading chip has outperformed Intel's in benchmarks.

See for example https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/4922vs5022vs5008vs5189/...
And the Islamic Golden Age itself is an oxymoron as much of the historical knowledge was Greek (large parts of these conquered lands had sizable Greek populations) and the many contemporary contributors were either non-muslim or raised in conquered cultures that had not been fully assimilated by Islam but instead maintained many of their pre-conquered traits.
actually pdf version is the most popular one. i will add .docx once there is some demand. Do you like this tool?
None so far! It hasn't even asked for my clipboard access.
There's a link to everything in the blog post, including crates.io in the sentence it talks about the crate the post is about, but no link to the crate itself :/
I mean I might be biased because this strategy worked for me. But how about, hear me out. Instead of not working you try working harder and providing unique value to your employer.

Hard to swallow for union types but it’s how I ended up being paid significantly more and having no issues buying a house.
Most things you mention are a matter of buffering and waiting it out, so those will work in a 'basic' fashion as you say. But video conferencing? Even in a 1:1 call, where you need to download only one audio and video stream, if you don't live alone (most people don't), I would be very impressed if you got a router that can recognise and prioritise the call traffic to the point where that works smoothly.
Yes, it's saved me hours of time -- with certain narrow tasks. For example, it generated these files for me:

https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/blob/master/auto/backup/sum*

It took a few minutes, might have taken me 1+ hour of some research, and mechanically typing it all in.
With lobbying, campaign financing, and regulatory capture, the rich and corporations effectively are the government.
Compute time is cheaper than man hours.
> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will join forces with key leadership from Microsoft, DeepMind and Google on Thursday as the secretive Bilderberg Meeting kick-starts.

This should be the title.

Want to bet this is conversation about AI regulation?

At this point anyone could still join and disrupt these titans. It's unclear where the moats are.

Open source AI is scrappy, but is pulling its punches.
I'm having trouble finding the list of the participants. Could you link it?
Yes, consume consume and keep consuming. Earn less and consume more!
One could always write the eBPF assembly by hand. I ended up doing that a few years ago when clang didn't yet have eBPF support. Would not recommend.
FWIW, I note emacs polymode's[1] poly-markdown, and pandoc's ast json dumps[2].

For decades, I searched for literate tooling for personal projects, but nothing stuck. Something about the design space seems to make it easy to hit design choices that are uncomfortable fits for one's use case, or personal taste, or preferences for tooling extension and customization. It reminds me of the personal information manager space.

My most recent foray seemed more promising. poly-markdown permits editing polylingual md files, and is permissive towards markdown dialects. So I could use a custom literate markdown, normalize it for rich-but-restrictive pandoc, then get the pandoc ast and emit custom html. With Julia's MLStyle[3] for pattern matching, and a bit of front-end pretty, it was unexpectedly easy to reach something comfortable.

Perhaps for literate tooling to gain greater traction, it helps that software dev progress permits folks to more easily cook their own?

[1] https://github.com/polymode/polymode
[2] https://pandoc.org/filters.html
[3] https://thautwarm.github.io/MLStyle.jl/latest/
I do the same with hard drives.
> This official app is free (no ads!), syncs your history across devices, and brings you the newest model improvements from OpenAI.

It now looks like the short term ChatGPT copycat grifter apps on the App Store are now going to start packing their bags now. If they don't, Apple will do it for them.

Expect this one to take over the app store and remain the top 10 apps for a very long time.
Or use Poe, which also offers GPT-4 at the same price as a ChatGPT sub.
I disagree; Zelda games have always been a major draw for Nintendo audiences. Link to the Past was the best-selling game of 1991; Link's Awakening - released in 1993 on the Gameboy - was a defining game for Nintendo at the time and was directly responsible for a massive uptake in Gameboy sales (and was the best-selling game of the year.) OoT was an absolutely industry-defining success; it was the best-selling game of 1998, and it's the highest-rated video game of all time on Metacritic. Zelda games have always moved consoles and sold well; in terms of Nintendo's unit-movers, it's second only to Mario.

Of course the raw numbers look more impressive for BotW - there are 122m Switch units worldwide (and 30m BotW sales), but the N64 only shipped 33m units worldwide over its 8-year lifespan, and OoT still sold 7.6m copies (with another 6.4m on the 3DS).