skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the French Pléiade edition is a scholarly/critical edition? Montaigne himself said that the main changes between editions are additions. From On Vanity (Penguin translation):

>I make additions but not corrections: firstly, that is because when a man has mortgaged his book to the world I find it reasonable that he should no longer have any rights over it. Let him put it better elsewhere if he can, not corrupt the work he has already sold. From such folk you should buy nothing until they are dead. Let them do their thinking properly before they publish. Who is making them hurry? My book is ever one: except that, to avoid the purchaser’s going away quite empty-handed when a new edition is brought out, I allow myself, since it is merely a piece of badly joined marquetry, to tack on some additional ornaments. That is no more than a little extra thrown in, which does not damn the original version but does lend some particular value to each subsequent one through some ambitious bit of precision. From this there can easily arise however some transposition of the chronological order, my tales finding their place not always by age but by opportuneness.

Although I agree that a digital edition that allows you to toggle between the different editions would be a wonderful idea. Charles Rosen talked at length about the inadequacies of the Pléiade edition in this regard in his review[1].

[1] https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2008/02/14/the-genius-of-mo...
> No known bugs

That's too high a standard. If nothing else, differences of opinion over the design are sometimes classified as bugs. No known bugs worth the effort to fix and deploy is acheivable.

Most NES software is done, none of the bugs are worth recalling to update roms.
I run a product development consulting agency that works with entrepreneurs and early-stage companies.

For the past 8 years, we have mainly used Elixir. It is good for building straightforward web apps and APIs and great for more tricky things like chat.
We also use Ruby on Rails, mostly for existing projects.

A lot of the initial work of building MVPs does not need to be fancy, it's just CRUD. Traditional frameworks are great for that. We also use React where it makes sense. The JavaScript world has a lot of accidental complexity that slows you down and doesn't add much value. Tools like Phoenix LiveView are great for adding fancy UI without overhead.

For mobile, products need a first-class user experience, and getting access to native platform functionality can be critical for some apps. Because of this, we have historically done native development. React Native is the first framework that is really competitive, but it still has its weaknesses. React Native may allow you to share code between platforms and use web people for native work, but it can result in somewhat generic apps. If you follow the "full stack teams, not developers" approach, then speed and cost of development of native is fine. After the initial development phase, the bulk of development work ends up being on the web.
It’s written in x86-16 real mode because all immediates are smaller and switching to 32-bit mode takes a fair amount of code.

I would have preferred 32-bit mode because real mode is awkward with its seg:off addressing scheme.

Using the bios functions just allows it to have “not-boring” examples easily.
read true history how Korea war started. and no, USA army did not enter China, they were surprised to be ambushed by Chinese soldiers there out from nowhere, then both started killing. china "volunteered" to start killing Americans first in Korea and USA never even entered china.
what seems obvious is still very difficult. Zig-zagging at hypersonic speeds creates insane G forces on the projectile.
McArthur also wanted to nuke Manchuria and poison the ground from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea with radioactive cobalt to create a DMZ which the enemy could not cross. He was relieved by President Truman.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/douglas-macarthur-atomic-b...
Is this true? Consider:

> Elliptic researchers received offers from more than 90 China-based companies to supply fentanyl precursors, 90% of which accepted cryptocurrency payments.

But if they bought it, would the fentanyl precursors arrive?
After reading this paper and the comments on HN, further googling (actually braving) led me to buy this book:

Why Stomach Acid Is Good for You: Natural Relief from Heartburn, Indigestion, Reflux and GERD
by Jonathan Wright

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Stomach-Acid-Good-You-ebook/dp/B0...

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> Or because they've chosen to spend their limited resources

You mean their limited supply of ink and office paper? Or their... limited political capital to make laws which inconvenience the rich?
As someone who used to administer an ADSM server back a long time ago -- I'm curious what the gap between spectrum protect or whatever it's called now and commvault/netbackup? I've haven't really looked at that space for at least a decade.
For reference, comma released a new version of openpilot today, and we now sell comma threes.

https://blog.comma.ai/092release/
Doesn’t even stop to consider that perhaps the AI pair programmer will actually helpfully answer your questions about how something actually works, thus enriching one’s deep understanding.
Same with the Firefox Developer Edition logo. Damn near the same logo. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
You are definitely right! Thanks for pointing it out.
Ignore that link. Their implementation doesn't even run and seems to be almosy entirely chatgpt-generated.
It’s ok, this government is perfect.
Human-out-of-loop self-programming systems are coming. Philosophical opinions of craftsmanship and understanding are orthogonal and thus moot to the impending replacement of human labor with automation. Beyond prompts, NAI applied to capturing and apply requirements, feedback, feature requests, and bug reports will be the tipping point.

It doesn't matter if someone thinks they're special when an algorithm can and does take their job by spitting out disgusting Javascript that happens to accomplish business needs well enough to not hire the human. Business value is all businesses care about.
Apparently I as a human (or so I thought) would fail this test because I read it as the second: “Push To Open”. The blind person being on the other side of the glass from me and the instructions telling me to push to open, I would’ve answered that I need to push the door to open it for them.
It’s voluntary.
The only way they can shut you up if you don’t agree to is to kill you.
I wouldn’t put JS on a device, but I’d sure as shit put TS on a device.
Good tip! Yeah, there’s ~20 bytes unused at the end. I kept finding ways to squeeze out a few more and had to tell myself to stop and just publish it already. You could take this further if you really wanted. But it’s already sufficiently absurd.
I like that thought. If he earns a bonus in good times he should also suffer a cut in bad times.
It is niche, but it's almost always a cost center role and heaviest users of GIS are govt and utilities, which have constraints on remuneration.

It can be lucrative in the right industry with domain knowledge (eg mining or oil&gas).
Except this is PRC being largely passive and watching fallout of American drug war failing. First opium war involved UK forcing, via military, Qing to stop domestic enforcement of ban on opium trade. Current Fenanyl "war" is PRC no longer actively cooperating with US on transnational drug war, which PRC did when relations were good - they scheduled fentanyl, a legal drug, on list of controlled narcotics in 2019 at US request. Now that relations are bad, there's no reason to commit state resources to enforce or support US antidrug efforts, especially for otherwise a legal medical product or precursor. Even less so when it's routed through third countries like Mexico - who to be fair asked PRC for help to get US off their backs, but why bother. Not saying PRC doesn't indirectly benefit, but at this point dead Americans is more side effect of allowing PRC triads to build network / influence in LATAM. Ultimately Americans will find some other supplier or substance to kill themselves with regardless and PRC inaction is cheap.
Thanks. This was very informative. Would you mind telling us the magazine title? I'm just curious.
> without requiring an email, phone number, login

That's precisely what Apple's App Clips are. I've used these on several restaurant receipts and they're amazing:

https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/

You basically just scan the QR, checkout instantly with Apple Pay, and nothing to sign up for, and no horrible App to install.
Most FE engineers I know have a very deep understanding of react’s inter workings. It’s the full stack engineers that think it’s JS with extra HTML sauce and call it a day.
The C Star (C*) language from the selfie project also does not support structs, yet in 12KLOC of code they implemented a C Star compiler that can compile selfie (and outputs ELF files), an emulator that runs RISC-U (RISC-V subset), and a hypervisor.
I wonder how this compares to homomorphic encryption? If I understand correctly, I could give someone a computation with an embedded key that operates over encrypted data, and they wouldn't be able to decrypt the data other than for the computation I gave them, right?
Hard disagree.

I think we primarily make progress as engineers (and a species) by making better abstractions.

Yes there are some leaky abstractions, SQL is a great example. But there are plenty of systems that don't leak (e.g. harddrives with constantly dying sectors), and the more you think about all the abstractions the more you have to admit that nobody could get their job done if they had to understand every bit of the computer and the cloud platform and the software.

I think progress is made by standardizing on the right abstractions. What the purest and best form of progress is is something like half of the internet being wordpress. Progress is building tremendous things with the least amount of learning expense necessary.

AI will help get us there. Some day soon AI will write queries and it'll do it better than most companies need before they're profitable.
Welp. Guess we can't have taxpayer funded roads then cuz all the forced labor needed for free roads. Guess we also can't have a right to K-12 education.
[ ] I am not a human
Because you usually don't have a single email provider. Thunderbird allows you to have a unified interface for all mail accounts instead of having n+1 UIs and apps for each of your accounts.

Having your mails accessible offline is more of a protocol question.
> It's user space Go, which seemed to cap the data transfers when I tested it out.

Compared to another VPN? I’d be curious to know whether the kernel mode byte shuffling solves that problem. But even so, a kernel module is a pretty big ask only for connectivity.

In my experience, UDP in general isn’t as performant in practice as one would think. Not saying you can’t push the limits, and even outperform TCP, but to do so with a reliable cross platform way isn’t exactly trivial today.

All my benchmarks (albeit user space) have shown that pushing bytes over udp has a higher CPU overhead, and that’s even if you omit retransmission, congestion control, etc etc (ie just push garbage bytes). And even if your cpu can handle the throughput, the congestion control can still bite you for god knows what reason. When I ran quic benchmarks they got deprioritized in the presence of tcp traffic. Don’t know all the reasons why (sorry, just didn’t have the time) but at least to me TCP wins the bang-for-the-buck-throughput-on-commodity-hardware category, hands down. Maybe this changes with platform-specific optimized vectored IO, but that alone would be a huge effort. No, the more time I spent on it, the more I appreciated all the things TCP gives me for free, and it’s remarkable resilience in complex conditions. I am also happy I don’t have to worry about bulky 3p libraries. This is what the OS is supposed to do, imo. So this UDP-hype-renaissance we’ve seen over the last years is a bit premature or at least not as obvious as people hoped (including myself).

Another fun fact (for anyone who read this far): contrary to popular belief p2p TCP isn’t harder to do than UDP, not really.
Archival grade optical disks have an expected life of 100 years in archival conditions.

The cloud has a very low bus factor. Miss a payment and the data is gone. It provides high availability but low permanence and requires active management. It is inherently a poor archival medium.

“Tape” is a cluster of incompatible specifications and implementations. I know you don’t mean Quic 40, but that’s tape and about the last system that sold to regular computer users in big box retailers.
Of these only Linux kernel is the thing that can take down the whole machine.
How/why is it that their copyright law allows them to literally make a copy but not scan and send it?
Case law doesn’t exist in the United States of America.
You might be thinking about medieval England, or ancient Persia, where a king or judge’s word becomes law.
In the USA, people are judged individually and are equal before the law.
One exception, that is traditional, but not enumerated in law, is that the Supreme Court can strike down a law that it deems unconstitutional, but may not amend or make new laws itself. Lower courts havee Ed no such power.
Completely agree, wasn't it Meta that hired a guy from India, who sold everything there and moved to the US only to be laid off a couple of days before starting?

Now that destroys lives and is a dick move.

There is no indication that any of the people that Lenovo hired are part of the layoff. Elsewhere I read that Lenovo have been doing all of the hiring in the R&D dept which was not included in the layoffs.
Until is great. I use it to remind me if Docker Desktop isn’t running when I try and deploy an app

until docker info > /dev/null 2>&1; do echo ”docker isn’t running…” && sleep 2; done
I have fewer problems reading my C64 tapes and 5,25" floppies from 1984-1987 than reading my 1994-2001 CDRs and DVDRs.
> How/why is it that their copyright law allows them to literally make a copy but not scan and send it?

Total speculation: but maybe there's a narrow fair use exception that only applies to photocopies. Which makes a certain amount of sense: a photocopy suffers generation loss, but a digital scan can be infinitely duplicated perfectly.
You are hopefully aware of the difference between a right granted to all citizens and a project funded by the government?
Every chip and computer company knows the problem of their sole dependence on TMSC and other chip manufacturers in Taiwan and that China may one day put all of that entirely at risk. The point is, it is always possible.

Thus, it is not about 'if' but when, and worse when 'even if' since almost no-one has a plan when that happens.

It will be a sight to behold when high flying euphoria and hype in the stock market prices not accounting for that possibility which will end up correcting once that happens. Especially with the major chip companies, experiencing euphoria in AI.

Given that Nvidia's CEO knows this, then the rest of the computing world should plan ahead over that possible risk and not wait until it is too late. Apple is already de-risking this possibility and is moving its manufacturing outside of China, which is a great start. [0]

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-04-05/inside-ap...
I always recommend https://qrmenucreator.com/ to restaurant owners. I feel it is simple enough for them to get started, gives features like instant changes and comes with a sane default layout/ui and is free of charge.
Payment and ordering would still be done in the classical way, but you get the chance to at least have an always up to date menu with the possibility to reflect when something is sold out or temporarily unavailable.
Two benefits comes to my head instantly:

- I can search all of my emails at once.

- I don't need to worry that much about account management.
One half is better than nothing. Even if it just made users wonder what it was, it was better than nothing.
Why is denying or promoting something considered hate?
Where is the list of things we are allowed to deny or approve of?
these all seem like arguments for standardizing on a particular implementation of any given functionality, rather than having many different implementations

they don't seem to bear on the question of whether to put that functionality in userspace or in the kernel

you are presumably aware that at times these advantages of standardization on a single implementation are outweighed by its disadvantages; see http://akkartik.name/freewheeling for some interesting exploration of the opposite extreme from the kind of high modernism that seems to be your ideal
From what I understand, the SR-71's black paint did radiate thermal energy, but also made the plane harder to see in visible light at night, and on radar. It was a RAM coating impregnated with iron to reduce the radar cross section. The characteristic chines along the edge of the fuselage were also meant to reduce the radar cross section.
Iirc amber alerts aren’t great either, and have big unintended consequences, possibly to the point where it does more harm than good. I remember reading a long article about it, but can’t seem find it right now unfortunately.
My pro-tipping comment on Reddit broke my record for most down votes ever. It's kind of cute that, even in a highly polarized environment where every comment has high stakes, we still have issues where people can simply be disgruntled. It feels idyllic, like the kind of comforting, thoroughly canvassed arguments that we'll have in Heaven.
Lasers that shoot down missiles from space can also shoot down laser satellites in space. Lasers on the ground can be larger and more energetic, but do have to shoot through atmosphere.

The article seems to talk about strategic hypersonic but I’ve mostly read about them for attacking ships and bases that are likely to have defenses. Ground point defenses might be cheaper than space constellation.

I think lasers have potential to change warfare. For example, naval warfare gets really weird if lasers can shoot down missiles and maybe even shells. Do they use torpedos?
As somebody who has been using TB for many years and still think it's the best mail client for my needs around, I... don't care? I mean, old logo was fine with me. New logo is OK too I guess. Neither is really on the top of my concerns. I'd rather have calendar integration working (still can't see stuff from my Google and Outlook calendars in TB). Or stuff like QuickFolders integrated.
> Hotz is a wiz kid but why should we expect his talents to be universal?

No of course not. But this is literally his field of expertise, and there's plenty of reasons to think he knows what he is doing. Specifically, the combination of reverse engineering and writing ML libraries means I'd certainly expect he's had reasonable experience compiling things.
That design looks not portable... cloud only.
Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them.

– Alfred North Whitehead
My favorite SR-71 story. Must have been sight to behold down on the ground seeing the plane blast by at full afterburner.
So what? Dont the vast majority of companies that take VC funds.. burn through it before generating profit?

George is courageous, inspiring, and highly intelligent. He stands for what he believes in. He stands up for himself and his beliefs, and talks back to powerful people.

How many tries did it take to invent scalable electricity, or the light bulb?

George Hotz is frikkin awesome
Reading with the term "moving goalposts" leaves a really bad impression.

It is like it is wrong to stop working on one idea and start working on the other.
The first amendment must be a lot longer than I thought.
When I was a kid, I watched a slug eat a dandelion leaf. I could hear the snap as it took each bite. I hadn't really thought of them as having mouths before. I must have imagined they somehow absorbed their food through all of the slime. It was also a revelation as I'd seen so many of those leaves with holes in them and suddenly I knew how they came to be that way.
I picked up Ubuntu 14 years ago because it ran twice as fast on my parent's Dell laptop as Windows XP, and because I didn't have to worry nearly as much about getting a virus on it.

I didn't learn Linux using it that way, but I was immersed in it in a way that made the whole thing much easier when I finally took the plunge last year and started seeking work for real as a software engineer, instead of as an electrical engineer, which was what I went to college in.

I rarely read the manpages. I know a handful of switches and I prefer to ask the live Internet for easier material.
Waymo and Cruise have burnt through money like no one else. They want to make their own cars, thier own Ai chips/lidar, their own self driving tech. Delusional at best, malicious at worst. They made a hard SW problem into hard HW+SW problem. They are zombies unless some magic happens in the world of nn (which is not unlikely tbh)

Whereas comma is taking the right approach of a nimble team, iterate fast and ship a working product (even if not L4-5), get cash flow, next milestone.
Ignoring English seems a little silly. Doesn't modern standard Arabic function as a lingua franca between people who natively speak something else (even if mutually unintelligible local Arabics)? That would explain it's popularity, but on those grounds English would be even more popular.
Human-out-of-loop clothing has been a thing for awhile now. And if business only wants to wear one-size-fits-all t-shirts and tube socks, then they are in for a treat.

Those that need something more bespoke, that fits them better, that isn't disposable because the problems it's trying to solve aren't disposable... they might still need the tailor.

I know a few human programmers who would make really good LLMs. And they seem unable to come up with non-absurd code at all. If you define the specs with enough details that they haven't screwed it up, then you're at a point where you've basically already written the software anyway. Should I be worried that robot programmers will do any better?
Add to that:

QR code gets printed at different resolution and or ratio, and or laminated glare, and now not getting scanned.
I did not something similar, but here’s my catch after reading about 3/4 of the comments as well as your reactions to it.

I think you should do it! Follow your passion!

I see all the arguments of people say “nah” but I think this career switch will bring you joy and happiness. Also, you always have the ability to go back. More likely is, that you grow into the coffee business and might end up building your own company.

Having a small espresso machine at home, I brought it to a espresso machine maintenance company. I entered the shop and I immediately felt the passion for good coffee, the craftsmanship of maintaining and fine tune coffee machines and finally make a good espresso. Pure joy to see and experience!

Good luck and have a wonderful ride!