skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty much every implementation does reduction mod pi/2. Switching polynomials is basically free (and halving the domain significantly reduces the number of terms needed).
This law is so overdue and needs to be extended to all 50 states (and all modern computer-reliant equipment, not just cars).
Dropping to unsafe rust is quite easy as long as you understand what you're doing (and reading pointer is generally unsafe).

In the case of automatically upgrading from int to bignum, or green threads, going lower level would be much harder.

I just wish Rust stayed focused on being the best systems level programming language (for example finishing the SIMD package, getting into stable Rust, getting language level GPU integration similar to CUDA / OpenCL).

PyToch, and now the newer GGML for example is still written in C++ for example

I still like the changes being made in the language, just not the focus.
>> My understanding is that Clojure is meant to be Scheme like, but it is not fully compliant to a Scheme spec, my only guess is due to JVM specific nuances, but I could be wrong.

Clojure's syntax and semantics are quite different from Scheme and Common Lisp:

https://clojure.org/reference/lisps

https://www.more-magic.net/posts/thoughts-on-clojure.html

Most differences are due to design choices, not merely JVM nuances. A few differences are due to JVM limitations at the time that Clojure was designed.

I don't think any attempt was made to comply with a Scheme spec.
The amount of traffic a website can handle is a function of cost not experience.
So this "bug" you've found is literally that a machine being remoted into doesn't lock out physical input?

Apple would have to be staffed by idiots to pay you for "noticing" that.

Sure, it should be fixed, but if you expect any more than perhaps an apple sticker in the mail, you're deluding yourself with the grandeur of "hacking a multi billion dollar company"
The problem being that public spending for new shiny projects is much easier to sell to the public than required maintenance. Without a strong voice how would public workers ever get enough leverage to earn even cost of living adjustments?
I’ll get straight to the point I want to make: Rust is suffering from an identity crisis. Much like Javascript.

Realizing this, I thoroughly feel the need for a “Rust, the good parts” doctrine.

A good portion of use-cases could be successfully implemented with a small subset of language. The small subset doesn’t need to be any more complicated than Go. And in doing so, we’d be reducing the entry barrier for masses and encouraging wider adoption.

Edited: For clarity
It seems obvious to me the importance of organic results has fallen over the years. There's plenty of queries where you have to scroll down a fair amount to even see them. Pushed down in favor of ads, various widgets, content sourced from Wikipedia and published on google's urls, etc. Things that sit below the fold get less overall money, time, and attention.
I heard that. And you don't need to overpay all the talking in heads.

In England, they are called newsreaders because that's what they do. And if you pay them as such, you'll get a lot closer to break-even.
That's a much smaller proportion of people than are served by welfare programs, and as a group, they're often not able to access current programs due to mental health issues or lack of knowledge.

Some initiatives still need to exist but UBI obviates the need for the majority of them, simplifies the administration, removes bureaucratic expenses, and reduces the "othering" of people who depend on the support the most.
Discussing outliers on nearly every topic these days does get exhausting.

Everyone knows if you are Michael Phelps you can eat 8,000 calories a day and not gain weight. It's just not interesting to discuss.

What is actually useful is advice to real people. You cannot outrun the fork. If you are a hobby distance cyclist racking up 600 miles/week, these types of articles and advice is simply not for you as it obviously does not apply.

And to be honest? This sort of thing is really non-obvious to many people. I've witnessed many folks in my life who spend hours in the gym who quite literally think that means they can have that donut no problem - not realizing they just wiped out that hour workout plus 50% more in that single act.

The energy efficiency of human beings is not intuitive to many, including myself.

It may be hyperbolic - but for 90% of the population stating something like "absolutely nothing else matters for weight loss other than diet" is a true statement.
> It's just a specialized lisp interpreter that has primitives for handling things like frames, buffers, and other UI-type stuff like detecting key chords, plus some math and stringy stuff, and a few other bits and bobs.

One day, it may actually include a decent text editor too! But for now, it's the end-luser's responsibility to cobble one together from the provided parts.
The rules are already different for humans and machines. If I memorise a copyrighted book then that’s not copyright infringement, but if I store a copy on a hard drive then that is. You ask why distinguishing between humans and machines matters and then answer your own question: “we end up in a dark place”.
I think a big part of any successful endeavour is alignment of authority, responsibility and competence. The problem with group decision making is responsibility is very diluted. If a bad decision is made, no one in particular is responsible.
Military personnel move where you tell them, manufacturing jobs can train people up just about anywhere, but research isn’t so simple.

It’s a real chicken and egg problem around local talent. Bethesda/Rockville/Baltimore has several different organizations doing medical research which makes the attractive locations for researchers to live. Locate in say Boise Idaho and positions are open for longer and you will need to compromise more in terms of talent.

On top of this there’s a huge pool of government contractors which again provides significant advantages.
Is it a human right to be fed & sheltered by others? Without giving anything in return?

What about human rights of those at the other side of a stick? Is it a human right to demand something from another human being? Is it a human right to have to provide to someone?
Just Orange Pi brand has like 30 different boards. And Linux kernel has 6 different LTS versions, stable version, and master branch. If you want to ask about mainline support, you can pick the board and just go to whichever Linux kernel version you intend to be using, and check for yourself.

Corresponding dts file will be in either one of these directories for 95% of Orange Pi boards (the rest that don't use Rockchip or Allwinner SoCs are better ignored):

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm/boot...

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm64/bo...

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/arm64/bo...
Here's one option:

Right now you sell services.

First, try and sell productized services - take the most standardized problems you solve, where you've built things to solve them easily and can do so with minimal manual work, and package those up into productized services for companies. Try and sell those as an option when you work with companies.

If you can sell the productized services successfully, then explore selling them as a standalone product.

If you can't sell the productized services, it's unlikely you'd be able to sell them as a product, so then in that case give them away with a permissive commercial OK license and make sure that people who use them know that they can hire your firm for official support, at premium rates.
Or, to lose the Monty Python snark, "Aside from the same handfuls of projects, counted on the digits of two hands, and always reiterated anytime somebody asks for high profile Lisp projects, what other high profile code is there from a language whose proponents always advertise its huge productivity gains?"

"Oh, there's also Crash Bandicoot".

"Wow, color me impressed".
When we were having a short in-person google cloud training session, we used Qwicklabs. From my understanding, we were trained by a Google contractor. I don't remember if the trainer described themselves as being from Qwiklab or Google.

In the same session, we were also introduced to AWS, and for that training we were trained by someone on the GovCloud team. The target for the training was in the field of proteomics and bioinformatics with machine learning. As a University there were on campus clusters we could use, but this was for using with smaller projects. Most people I knew ended up preferring AWS and sagemaker.

It was an open secret, and discussed off the record, that AWS will always give you better customer service than GCP, regardless of being a University scale client.

I don't think the team is going rogue, it's just another weird way in which Google refuses to provide direct customer support.
Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin
As someone who has been learning forth over the last like... 2 weeks... yeah. Somehow my brain was like 'this', and it just sorta clicks really nicely in a way that no other language has so far. I also really like Lisp fwiw, so if you see me in a room, you've seen a Lisper and Forther in the same room ;)

What's interesting to me is that I see Lisp and Forth as extremely similar-in-spirit languages, though FORTH is definitely "lower level" (pointer arithmetic everywhere) than Lisp. Depending on your implementation, I bet you could squeeze out nearly every bit of performance to be had on a given system with forth (given enough time), but I'd be really surprised if you could with any lisp.
Honestly I blame the community.

The transition was slow (Python 2 was supported in parallel to 3 for a long period of time so there was more than enough time to migrate), relatively easy to do, and brought huge benefits to the ecosystem.

It could have been done and forgotten in 2 years if some community members had not been dicks about it.
In the 90s I used to edit out CSAM related groups, from the downloaded list in Netscape's built in NNTP client. Customers who were surfing usenet for the first time were reasonably horrified by the group names.

After a time I got unhappy about this and went to see if I could determine a physical hosting location of the content. I don't recall the particulars, just that I came up with an AT&T subsidiary - something polkadot - sitting at a Canadian address, near the US border.

I wasn't willing to reach out to the FBI blindly and couldn't locate anyone who know anyone in the bureau. I knew someone who knew the head of the [state] Family Association and that person was well connected politically. After some back and forth I gave up on the whole thing. That guy was fairly obsessed with stamping out homosexuality and couldn't be bothered with abused children. I moved on.
Twitter exposed no corruption, just the same worn-out conspiracy theories Fox News has been peddling for some time now. Users have seen the writing on the wall and realizing what the new Twitter is - a Fox News social media outlet. So they're abandoning the platform as a result. As the users leave then so are the advertisers. That's just how the advertising business works.
The cost to host a blob of text on the internet is ~0. Not being able to serve a handful of HN requests is 100% about effort and experience.
Your comment made me buy a whopping 512kB GeoRAM expansion on eBay, just to be sure :)
It's the right comment - it looked like you took the negative viewpoint that down 60% is bad.

I'm saying that down 60% looks good against the backdrop of the dramatic cost-cutting that they have done.
NIH isn't in NoVA. It's across the river in Bethesda, MD.

The problem with opening remote locations is attracting people. Montgomery County, MD (where Bethesda is located) and the broader DC metro region has lots of biotech, medical, and software opportunities.
If you're referring to the "Twitter Files," Twitter's own lawyers just admitted that it was all just a viral marketing campaign and didn't actually show any evidence of wrongdoing[0].

It was all smoke and mirrors bullshit, like Hunter Biden's briefcase, like the "treason" hidden within the DNC hacks, like Pizzagate, like the Benghazi hearings.

[0]https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1664634500343529472.html
I got back on a bicycle when I ruptured a disc in my lumbar spine and had to stop running. My only intention was to stay in decent shape. I've lost 40 lbs. since 2019. Weight loss was not a goal but it still happened. If you expend more calories than you take in, you will lose weight, but probably not at a rate like you see advertised.
Lose money online working from home: Job scams spike in India
Those are public repositories.

I do not see the benefit of forking private repositories and have disabled it in the company org that I manage.
However, most UBI theories rely on taking all welfare funds and redistributing them evenly. If you take unemployment welfare only, you're looking into massive tax increases or UBI that won't provide even very basic living.
Yep. As the saying goes: great operating system, just needs a decent text editor :P
> Not 100% clear about actors -- I was weirdly focused on that model that in practice has many issues…

Any ideas what he meant here?
I AM NOT AND HAVE NEVER BEEN A ROBOT
Their revenue is massively larger than the cost to run their servers (I used to run 3000 physical servers with a small team, it doesn't cost much)

> advertising revenue for the five weeks from April 1 to the first week of May was $88 million
Everything has to be an “experience” nowadays.

I don’t want an “experience”, I just want a button that’s visually distinguished from the background that responds at 120 fps!
Things are pretty bad with Google in this department. Over the last two years they have been constantly updating and changing their algorithm, there are now updates such as Core, Product Reviews, Helpful, Spam, Link Spam and God knows what else. And they are rotating them 24/7. Literally.

You could be up 20% one day and down 40% the next and you are none the wiser as to why.

If you are a small time publisher with no budget or no craftiness to attract links from other sites - you are pretty much doomed.

I have a few sites that are in the 200k monthly visits range (from Google) and Google only fetches the homepage/feed every four hours or so, sometimes it takes longer than that. It’s a lot different from what it used to be.
I have to agree, the scrolljacking on this site is beautiful and horrific.
Not bad. I did see a racial slur on the first post I clicked on though (it was a comment)
I checked after posting and I was partly wrong! Sorry!

The Psion Series 3 range -- 3, 3A, 3C and 3MX -- ran SIBO, later renamed EPOC, later renamed EPOC16, a multitasking GUI OS written for 8086.

SIBO = SIxteen Bit Organizer. Not OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Organiser#Subsequent_han...

The Psion 5 range ran the later and largely unrelated EPOC32, a native ARM OS written in C++ which later became Symbian.

But SIBO did not become Symbian. EPOC 5, later EPOS32, did.

There was even more renaming than I realised.
I started working through Crafting Interpreters, building up a language syntax and grammar from scratch. A lot of work and 75 pages of lex/parse logic and we now have a AST... that we can debug and inspect by looking directly at its sexp representation.

It was the ah-ha moment for me... why not express the source cost directly as that AST? Most languages require lots of ceremony and custom rules just to get here. Sexps are a step ahead (inherently simpler) since they're already parsable as an unambiguous tree structure. It's hard to unsee - reading any non-Lisp language now feels like an additional layer of complexity hiding the real logic.
Me too. But I don't claim to be an authority on web internals.
That's hard to reconcile with "regularly fallen short of its U.S. weekly sales projections, sometimes by as much as 30 percent". They set their own projections.

Sounds roughly like they expected a 30% drop (for the reasons you cited) and got a 60%-ish drop instead.
> It's great if you like 'shake and bake' style open source projects that barely work and have a lot of time to tinker with them.

I think this is a cool way to relate to technology. Is there a word for technology that people enjoy because it's broken all the time?

I have a good friend who has been in management for twenty years, and he maintains a complicated home network like he was head of IT for a circa-2000 small business. Mail server, printer server, FTP, etc., mostly bare metal with a couple of VMs for things like a Windows domain controller. The most modern thing he has is a media server so he can buy music and movies on physical media.

It takes a moderate amount of tending, and once a year or so, something major breaks and he has to spend a weekend or two tinkering and fixing things, solving a complicated puzzle of software and hardware compatibility. I think it's a therapeutic outlet for him. If you talk to him, he'll give you complicated reasons why the whole thing is extremely practical, but nothing that would justify the dozens of hours per year he puts into it. I've probed for how he feels about it ("I bet it's nice to get hands-on every once in a while, eh?") and from his answers I'm pretty sure he has no awareness of it serving any emotional purpose for him. I bet it drives his wife crazy when she wants to watch a movie and he has to run into his office to tweak some configuration, but from my distance, I think it's pretty cool.

What I can't stand is the subset of people who keep trying to trick the rest of us into using their tinkerware, the "install Linux for your parents in 1999" crowd. When I bought a house seven years ago, I was really excited to set up some home automation, but after a couple of weekends of research I realized it was going to be a full-time hobby. I remember in particular being on Reddit and looking at the comment history of someone who had a pattern of saying "once you get it set up it's relatively pain-free." It was obvious from his history that it had been basically a second job for him for over a year. I decided to live in an unautomated home and invest my energy into other things, and I'm very glad I did. What drives people to lie about things like that to people who won't enjoy it?
I always wondered. How did we manage to run anything lets say 20 years ago. We should have multiple times more memory, cpu, bandwidth available... Or are we just that many magnitudes more inefficient?
> Usenet didn't even have avatar images!

Now let's not forget my 40-line ASCII-art sigfile.
My site seemed to have come up fine.

I wonder if it may be related to to the wayback machene "https://archive.org/web/" ?

My site is on it has has been there for a while. I also have these on my WEB pages:

<head>
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="MYTITLE">
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="COMMA SEPARATED LIST OF SIBJECTS">
<META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="MYNAME">
<META NAME="RATING" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index, follow">
<META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="90 days">
</head>

Maybe that will help out ? But I do notice google searches are not as good as years ago, and duckduckgo is close or maybe better than what google was.
> Is it that we're just wired differently?

very much so. Richard Feynman had once said that even the simple act of counting is perhaps completely different between different people. Some people count by visually seeing a count, some use a voice, and may be there are others who have a different system.
Ask HN: What is the best FreeBSD-based desktop “distro”?
Among the news in my RSS aggregator this morning is that there's a new ISO available for GhostBSD 23.06.01[1]. This got me to wondering what the state of FreeBSD desktop distros* are, what is the best, and if there is cross-collaboration between the distros* or if they are working in silos for the most part.

*I realize "distro" is not the right tern for variants of FreeBSD but am not sure what the proper term is.

[1] https://www.ghostbsd.org/23.06.01_iso_is_now_available
Great, now stalkers are going to be following me home to attack me.

(That's basically the scenario that opposition ads were depicting)
Should Google index every website? I think answer is historically been yes, but more and more it's becoming no.

Users of Google search want the best results, not all results. Customers of Google want their ad or site visible, not all sites.
well, I can't say for everyone but I did notice that google stopped indexing a few sites I manage. No technical reason, no error, just says "Not indexed - reason: Discovered - currently not indexed" and that's most of the content of the site (nothing fancy mostly technical articles, and others notes) Unclear why this is happening.
Do applications not typically make use of SSE3+?
Retrieved*
I suddenly stopped worrying about both LISP and FORTH, when my CS professor mentioned (around 1995) that it would be trivial to write a transformer between the LISP and FORTH.
Google is an advertising & data-collection business, not a search company. Search is their on-ramp for attracting sources of data. If your website is not worth much on either side of the business, you'll be a low-priority target.
From the linked article

"Conclusions: Regular internet users experienced approximately half the risk of dementia than non-regular users."
Moderation is likely something that ChatGPT would be very good at.
Sorry guys... I've been uploading all of every video I take to youtube... I should have known this would happen.
I manually rewrote the headline because it copied in all caps :( sorry. Fixed it.
Spain frets over German threat to boycott ‘drought strawberries’
https://archive.is/VW7Ef
Data Engineering might soon be a solved problem
going permanently dark would be the right thing
Master needs to be the LTS branch, at least for all things mentioned. Once I have an automation it needs to work for as long as I live in the house. I have better things to do than to maintain the system. I probably won't upgrade the server at all for many years until I buy some new device that isn't supported by the old version, and I expect my house to still work after that upgrade, without having to spend days trying to remember how that old automation was programmed.
How Wittgenstein Watched Movies
Not only predicting the presidency, but explicitly providing endorsement for them!
Not all public unions are the same, I would discourage generalization. Federal public unions are very different from local and state public unions.

My wife's public union in a federal agency is a great tool for them to leverage when dealing with exceptional issues outside the normal channels and processes. Federal bureaucracy can be slow, and it can also be impractical when dealing with various things. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread and the article, a federal public union and their members can't strike, and they generally cannot directly negotiate increased pay since it is congressionally controlled.
The underhanded way SE has handled this is a problem, but deleting AI-generated answers is silly. They should instead ask SE Inc. to automatically provide one AI answer for all new questions. Nobody wants to answer the same trivial question a 1000th time. Let AI do that. SE should be for questions that AI is unable to answer.

CodeChef gives you an option of AI advice if your submission fails to build. It's very effective at solving beginner problems. SE should do the same.

As a positive side effect, it would make spamming with AI-generated answers ineffective and thus save mods time on answers as well.
Usenet did not fail. It was killed. It's different.