skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A local ice-cream and bagels café had extremely loud music. It was also the only place you could go at night which wasn't a drinking establishment, so it was packed with students and people like me reading books or with their laptops, or couples talking.

The music was so loud I found it painful and when I sat in there I wore earbuds plus noise cancelling headphones over the top to block out some of the sound.

One day the music got even louder and stayed that way for weeks.

Eventually I asked them if they could turn it down. They said no, they had decided to play the music louder so that customers wouldn't linger after eating their ice cream or drinking their coffee. Making room for more people to come in.

The same place also had a 30 minute wi-fi access policy after each purchase. It took me longer than 30 minutes to drink a mug of hot tea!

Amazingly the music is still painfully loud and it's still popular. I waited outside recently while a friend got their bagel, because I was holding a baby and we both felt the noise level was dangerous to the little one's hearing. It's just an ice cream and bagel café ffs. I doubt anyone enjoys the music and I expect the staff's hearing is damaged by their policy.
> an Acorn Pocket Book

A rebadged Psion Series 3.

https://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/Computers/Pocket...

256 kB RAM.

Psion 3:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_3#Psion_Series_3

Important note: the pic at the top of the Wikipedia article shows the later, improved 3A with a much bigger screen.

> the additional memory of the Psion 2

I do not understand this. The APB was a Psion (Series) 3. The Psion 2 (Organizer II) was an older, smaller device.

The S3 and APB take memory cards: 2 slots onboard, for Psion SSDs (NOT the modern usage of the term "SSD". See:

https://pulster.de/Psion-Solid-State-Disk-SSD-memory-cards

The Psion 3A had more memory. The 3C more still, and the 3MX more still.

When you say "Psion 2" do you mean Acorn Pocket Book 2?

http://superdecade.blogspot.com/2017/12/acorn-pocket-book-ii...

That was a rebadged 3A, so with from 256kB to 1MB RAM as stock.

Psion did a 2MB model, but Acorn didn't.

As an owner of a 3 and 3A, the 3A was the usable version. The 3's screen was too small, and its storage meagre (but expandable, and I did.)

The 3A was 2x the speed, a much bigger screen with better contrast (but no backlight) and versions with up to 2MB were available, which for this class of machine was a vast amount of storage you'd never fill. Thing 2TB for comparison now, plus 2 drive bays for more if you need it. A laptop with 6TB? That is plenty for almost anyone.
Do they have mainline Linux support?
What's a good textbook intro to these methods?
Then your issue isn't bias but trust.

The article is written in a very straightforward manner, if these facts are in fact true. According to this alleged document.

This isn't an anonymous source. This is a leaked document from Twitter management. Presumably NYTimes can eventually release more details if pushed on this issue and offer more solid proof.
I find it hard to feel sorry for a company that has somehow found a legal-ish business model based on screwing artists. Their demise cannot come fast enough.
I would argue that Facebook had a much bigger impact pulling users there.

As did multiple independent web forums (based on phpBB etc.) which allowed closed communities and moderation and we're more approachable for beginners.
There are subjects where the UI matters.

Eg, I don't see the HN UI ever be used for anything graphics related, because there's no image embedding.

This is fine for many subjects, but greatly constrains others.

It also has social effects. HN makes usernames very vague compared to say, Reddit or Slashdot. Which means that after more than 2 years on this site I still don't know any. The site is extremely impersonal to me, compared to Reddit where I can recognize regulars in some of the subreddits. Whether this is a good thing or not varies, but it certainly affects the dynamics.
Here's the full talk[0] from a Microsoft lead researcher that worked with the early / uncensored version of GPT-4.

Simplified, tuning it for censorship heavily limits the dimensionality the model can move in to find an answer which means worse results in general for some reason.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbIk7-JPB2c
Fate in AI: Towards Algorithmic Inclusivity and Accessibility
Well it does seem like Canada is moving from accepting euthanasia as the last resort to something that the doctor would prescribe when person can not afford treatment [0]

0 - https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/woman-with-disabilities-nears-...
I've used Usenet quite extensively in its heyday. At one point I even ran a Usenet site with dozens of peers and thousands of users. All on a very beefy (for its time) Sun E450.

In my opinion Usenets greatest strength was also its downfall. It is a distributed system without central authority over who could connect to the network or firm control over groups and their contents. To connect to it as a peer, you just had to find at least one Usenet site willing to exchange messages (peer) with you. Usually that wasn't a problem. ISPs, universities, organizations of all kinds were running their own servers, offering Usenet client access to their customers and members for no additional charge.

In a distributed system without central authority, innovation is exceedingly hard though. The protocols and features were basically set in stone. Taking the concept of offering discussions among users to a centralized or closed system made it possible to innovate very fast and offer superior features to the users.

As the article pointed out, that wasn't the only protocol which got picked up that way and innovated upon until it displaced its origins.

Since Usenet is still frozen feature wise were it was 30 or more years ago, I don't see a revival coming anytime soon.
The main thing is how when representing the 3D looking orientation as multiple angles (pitch=up/down, yaw=compass direction), you lose control over the yaw axis when looking straight up.
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2023
Lol, the parent is not serious. People who love to hate Java please take a look at the status quo and stop regurgitating outdated arguments.

You can take vim out of my cold dead hands but there’s no way one will be less productive in Java with modern IDEs unless they willingly choose to
Where do you think company profits come from if not from customers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_notation#Explanation
Trump was more left-wing than Bill Clinton, it's just that one party has actually turned into extremists while ironically labeling the other side extremists.
Inb4 it was ChatGPT. lol
The E part of STEM is typically the commercial application of STM, so why would that be a surprise? This is the nature of research: most efforts will be pretty useless, and even the useful ones will need significant additional focus, effort, investment, and labor to create a viable commercial product.
The union is actually for the 10 other people who will fill this staff position.

> The union, called NIH Fellows United, would include about 4,800 research fellows, such as graduate students and postdocs, who hold non-permanent staff positions at the agency’s 27 institutes and centres.
> crime -> enforced rehab

Right, exactly. We concentrate people on what they do, not who they are. It’s harder to abuse the system that way (although it is abused still).

Right now the system is such that we try to be as specific as possible as to what is punishable by imprisonment and for how long, and the system results in imprisonment only if a jury is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt about the guilt of a defendant.

We can’t apply this same system to mental illness, for the reasons I stated in my other post. You see how it’s working in Florida; you tell everyone that you want to protect the children, write some vague laws to “protect” them, and then you use them to wage an ideological war against your political enemies, leveraging the vagueness of the laws you’ve passed. That’s the legal mechanism by which fascism works to corrupt democracy.

You see a lot of people eager to leverage the criminal system to get rid of homeless people by criminalizing homelessness on streets. This doesn’t work for them though, because it just drives homeless people into parks. That’s when you see the “well, let’s just ship them to the desert anyway” kind of ideas pop up. But there’s no legal mechanism to do so, I which is where the fascism comes in. “We will just label them as ‘undesireable’… I mean ‘mentally ill’ and that should be enough justification.”

I’m wondering how many of the people proposing such concentration camps are themselves diagnosed with a mental illness, and whether or not the absence of such a diagnosis may make them more likely to suggest such an idea.
There's a slump, but not down 30% to 60%. Google, for example isn't down for Q1/23 ad revenue, just slower than expected growth.
> It's apparent from TFA that isn't happening.

I guess for me it's a question of 'where you fix the problem'. In many machines, social machines included, you have a variety of stages where you can mitigate issues. Most of those 'solutions' are dirty hacks, and there are a few that will achieve results with a minimum of complexity and effort. I think fixing the extreme socialization problems of teenagers by making a significant chunk of teachers in normal schools double up as amateur MMA fighters is the wrong way to go about it.

On the subject of the Russian military, I do kind of agree, but I also think it's worth thinking about how much the extreme hazing culture of the Russian military contributes to the rot. It's been a repeated theme from the Afghanistan war on, that the violent 'toxic masculinity' of Russian military culture leads to tactical paralysis, a culture of hiding problems and mistakes, timidity at all levels of leadership, etc.

An observation that's been occurring to me with increasing frequency in recent years is that machismo is, in very many roles, a very impractical character trait. In roles where physical strength and physical courage are prized, like special operations, I can see the advantages, but most roles today, military or otherwise, are very technical, and so all the nonsense and communication issues that goes along with machismo is pure baggage.
the discussion would indeed recurse over whether to reimplement lisp over forth or forth on top of lisp
There are some nice Lisp related comics on xkcd, e.g. https://xkcd.com/224/ and https://xkcd.com/297/.
Yeah is it really a "hack" if they left an open AWS bucket. I'm sure some would argue so, but I think access that is entirely read-only and works entirely within the intended access controls of a system is pretty much fair game, at least morally.
That’s just how it is these days. Companies are all getting their social media teams to do this because it generates attention.
Honestly I wasn't sure how much that point applied. However with people that suffer chronic illnesses or disabilities that require special consideration I would be surprised if it was always possible to adequately communicate those needs without also mentioning information that the employee might not want to share publicly.
Thank you for the share! I went ahead an applied to one of the PM roles
I believe they used the fuel flow monitor that cars have anyway to just shut the fuel pump off after 7.1L when there is actually 9L of fuel in the tank. It's a pressurized tank, so the extra fuel you can't reach takes way longer to go foul. Happily the software fix to remove the restriction is easy to find.
Doing those things, as needed, for yourself or your immediate community is very different than performing the same task on a factory line for 70 hours a week so that a person you've never met can earn more than your yearly salary playing golf with the board members.
I use Twitter to keep up on AI and the new space industry (there really is no alternative).

Revenue could shrink further and none of that would be lost. Growing revenue could let them improve things I don't care about (spaces, video, payments, etc). I guess yay for them if they improve revenue, yawn if they don't.
Yes, they happened in the past. Over 3 years back. Times change.

You can use this and crenedials rotation, amazing, I know...

https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo...

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/application_security/secret_...

https://circleci.com/blog/detect-hardcoded-secrets-with-gitg...

https://www.gitkraken.com/media/events/azure-spring-clean-20...

edit: used config/secrets management for as long as I can remember doing this cloud stuff (several years), so the excuses are very, very poor imho.
>I am not a Twitter user, and at this point, my idea of "what's Twitter's content" is pretty much "mostly MAGA."

what makes you think this?
China's growing comedy scene feels censorship chill
I wrote this intro for a friend and since then more people have found it useful:

https://xn--2-umb.com/22/approximation

If you want a proper textbook, I recommend L.N. Trefethen (2019). “Approximation Theory and Approximation Practice.” Which is available online here:

https://epubs.siam.org/doi/book/10.1137/1.9781611975949
No idea. I run NetBSD, and in NetBSD, everything has mainline support.

No matter - there are many different kinds of Pi out there, and a non-trivial number of them have Linux mainline support, and most are substantially cheaper, better specced, or both.

I just got an 8 core, 16 gig Orange Pi 5 for $120. I might've been able to get a 4 gig Pi 4, which has 1/4 the memory, 1/3 the overall performance and lacks NVMe for that price.
Twitter under Musk complies with more government demands than it did previously [0]. It was a Republican governing party making the requests prior to Musk taking over. How do these facts fit with your preconceptions?

[0] https://restofworld.org/2023/elon-musk-twitter-government-or...
That's one of the struggles for the union to conduct. Part-time, junior, temporary staff - are staff, and should be recognized as staff, with the full set of rights and benefits befitting their position and their needs as people and as professionals.

And the same goes for junior research staff at universities (assistants, fellows, post-docs etc).
Thanks, I didn't realise the usable address space was so "small", those numbers are well within reasonable usage so that's definitely too limiting to just say it's infinite and not worry about it.
That's bytes, if you want bytes you need to specify what order you think the bytes are in, Rust's to_be_bytes, to_ne_bytes and to_le_bytes gives you bytes (in Big, Network, or Little endian)
> Please give a visual description of 6 dimensional space.

And one's manager says "no":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg

Artificial stupidity merely automates mismanagement.
Mine certainly did, plus we supposedly had purchased the domain until 2030. NXDOMAIN today though!

There's really no transparency about this, and I've no idea if my business has just been destroyed (or mortally wounded) overnight...
Ask HN: Productising Frameworks
Over the years as a software consultancy, we've built frameworks, templates, conventions and tools for development that have solved many of the issues and inefficiencies that we had. It made it easy for us to keep consistencies of approach and a rich feature set across projects.

For context, they're modules/packages built on top of .NET Core and React, add some patterns, functions and tools we've found useful, and basically make things more opinionated.

Obviously this IP has value to us internally. We have some samples, templates, documentation.

I'm considering seeing if there's a way to share this with the wider world. I'm also wondering if there's a way to productise the thing - it'd be great to be able to pour more engineering time into them to complete the vision, but in terms of day-to-day "bread and butter", our consultancy projects are what pay the bills and demand more time.

Obviously these frameworks are built 'on the shoulders of giants', and we benefit a great deal from the open source ecosystem. We have also spent many tens or hundreds of days of research, design and development work. But I would also guess that the majority of developers would only really look to open source frameworks, for a number of important reasons.

I was wondering if anyone had words of wisdom, or experiences, about the path of productisation. Some thoughts I've had include:

- Open-source, but with a license for commerical use (depending largely on good will)
- Provide compiled/minimised code, require license keys
- Build the frameworks into an online dev environment product, with SaaS pricing approach: web-based/remote VS Code experience with nice integrated features for creating FE/BE, hosting resources, monitoring, etc
- FOSS, but paid support plan(s)

My gut feeling is that, in terms of deriving more value from these frameworks (or an income), it's going to be difficult and a limited market. That our best bet may be MIT licensing the lot, and feeling warm and fuzzy about doing so for the Greater Good.

Just looking for thoughts and opinions!
Oh I live near "Baie des anges" in France, no wonder it's hard for them with all the people on beaches, pollution, noise
Compiler enforced memory safety*. Games in particular tend to have their own allocators and memory management schemes which don't play well with global allocators. Using memory pools, frame (arena) allocators, system specific memory management, and so on. Handling memory in a very systematic way (avoiding the "malloc everywhere" anti-pattern) where ownership is clearly tied to systems and handles (integers (maybe with metadata)) passed instead of pointers helps keep this all sane. That and you can still throw a GC/Ref counting at things which have non-linear lifetimes if needed but there's no need to do so globally.

One-shot programs also don't always need it as they're often fine with a less sophisticated scheme of arena allocation or reusing memory by resetting temporary buffers.

You also have the option to classify pointers if you absolutely must pass them with similar techniques as https://dinfuehr.github.io/blog/a-first-look-into-zgc.
I tend to agree with how you framed culture, but I was thinking about how culture emerges. Monkey must first climb the stairs to have everyone blasted with water, the outlier act must comes before normalization.
I was thinking last night the only way to properly build a unified community yet not run out of servers/bandwidth is to make a singular messaging system with signed authentication checksums universally distributed and if you want it to remain free and open you have to put your money where your mouth is by everyone buying their own servers and bandwidth.

Not quite Mastodon, more unified singular like Reddit where it is seamless integration and frictionless BUT every user/post is authenticated by a cipher signature and everyone runs their own server pulling down the newest updates every minute.

At most it would be minute behind?

Maybe best comparison is the old FidoNet with the forum backbone, I forget what it was called.

More like usenet? But where there are independent owners of each subforum that can cancel/delete messages officially (of course people can still sift through the deletions unofficially)

Spam is the biggest problem but ultra-fast lightweight message cancelling is the answer to that?
> I have always found that they are almost instant for incremental builds (assuming you use lld or mold)

They are not almost instant once your project grows to a certain size, which is still well within the bounds of a realistic single company’s project (I work on Materialize which is all in rust).
Nassim Taleb: ChatGPT fills gaps probabilistically with *what makes sense*
Show HN: DayBrix, a daily falling-blocks webgame
This gets an "SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP" error on Firefox Nightly, I wonder what's going on..
So having "discovered" this approach as a young .NET dev retroactively gives me a smug smile that I came up with such a battle-tested pattern. Then again, it's also quite an obvious and simple pattern which is why it was used in the first place, I'm sure.
About the lightsaber thing: From my experience its worse, even if you are really knowledgable c++ will bite you out of knowwhere cause things never compose that well and something breaks for some arcane reason which you will only notice because your customers build segfaults randomly.

Also the amount of template voodoo necessary for certain things to be ergonomic to use is insane at times.

/rant off
WWDC23 Developer
Wait how do you get a N5105 at $75? The lowest I've seen still go for over $100 and they're barebones units.

x86 pricing is getting down to ARM SBC levels for sure, especially considering the recent rounds of decomissioning older non-Win 11 prebuilt mini boxes, but AFAIK it's not there yet.
Site is dead?
I get that. Poe's Law applies.
I also noticed it takes way more time to index sites.

When I moved bitecode.substack.com to https://bitecode.dev, I submitted the sitemap to google and was surprised that it took almost a week to even show a single page as indexed.

This used to be a couple of hours to a coupled of days.

So something definitely changed, but as usual we can only speculate until a googler come in this thread.
Of course it’s a competition. You said he is 10x a regular engineer so someone could be 10x him? It’s not insulting to know there are betters. After all you said he is better than us regular develops.
I don't know. With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency, it tells me Bluesky isn't going to be my destination.

In fact I'm at a stage in my life where the idea of social media participation just isn't appealing any more.
you can see a band of rocks in front of the beach, to cut the waves, so erosion is not strong
See quote from article:

> ... Since the Brexit vote and the subsequent collapse of the pound, independent food outlets of all kinds have been hurt by rises in rents, rates and food prices. Meanwhile, in families that run curry houses younger generations have moved away from catering to more lucrative jobs in medicine or tech. So long as there was a ready supply of new onion choppers from Asia, the exodus of upwardly mobile offspring did not affect curry houses too much. The real blow came when a harsh new politics of immigration came in, which made it harder for skilled south Asian chefs to work in the country, just as the wider British public were changing the ways in which they consumed curry...

> ... It is now dawning that under Theresa May’s government, the prospect of more Bangladeshi chefs being granted work visas is more distant than ever. A law that came into effect in April 2016 states that a skilled chef from south Asia must earn £35,000 or more a year, after deductions for accommodation and meals, to come work in a British restaurant that also offers a takeaway service. (The figure is only slightly lower for restaurants without takeaways.) Lord Bilimoria, the entrepreneur behind Cobra beer, is part of an all-party parliamentary group lobbying to reverse the law, which he calls “ridiculous” and “discriminatory”. No ordinary curry chef earns £35,000 (the industry average is £22-25,000 but the cooks who marinate lamb chops and mix raita get less)...

In short, while axing immigration from the EU we also made it impossible for any working class migrant outside the EU to cross our borders. I'm sure all these worker shortages in agriculture/industry/hospitality/services/healthcare/construction are doing wonders for our nations' economic growth...
Maybe they ran out of disk space
Ok, well, I was unable to load https://archive.ph/AM8OA.
What's the real power consumption under full load and idle?
The site appears to have been hugged to death.
Basal Cognition