skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked with what was arguably the first large-scale CORBA product (IBM/Tivoli's TME10 product).

The main problem with COBRA was speed. At the time, authentication was brutally slow...and there was a separate problem with figuring out which object was canonical.

OTOH, being able to patch/override any function with any language was pretty handy. Of course, that because a configuration and operational nightmare, because custom configured overrides would get wiped out when upgrades happened. And it made it difficult for support to figure anything out, since many places were heavily customized by consultants.

It's an interesting idea that foundered on the technological limitations of the era, like OpenDoc, Telescript, etc.
Not the commenter but in Sweden I get almost zero unwanted calls. The only ones I do get are from services I have or that I've previously had.
Input is an obvious example, as it's impossible to predict the value of an input.

Do you mean this more abstractly or literally? In the example of PacMan, for every frame, the only possible input is nothing, left, right, up, or down. So you are be able to predict it is going to be one of those five, though not which one.
Why stoop to baseless insults? Even if you don't want colleges to be accountable, surely you can't deny that transparency regarding student outcomes would be useful.
Who's the lucky customer?
But the 2020 incident could have just captured the media attention arbitrarily because of good timing. If there had been a similar attack in 1980 would it have captured the media attention so much without the internet? Probably not.

I dont know every incident but this one in Scotland involved an orca ramming into a boat and causing zero injuries and no actual damage to the boat. How would this even have been reported before the internet? A tv anchor decides to dedicate a minute of their broadcast to describing a boat that collided with an orca?
SBCL is on sourceforge, CLISP is on Gitlab, McCLIM is on Codeberg, Common-Lisp.net with its projects is on Gitlab, ...

Example: Microsoft owns Github and uses the hosted code to train its AI offerings.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...

https://www.osnews.com/story/136052/microsofts-github-copilo...

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/09/github_copilot_lawsui...
> There's only 50k orcas in the world, they're more valuable than us.

Species diversity is unquestionably important. This small population of intelligent aquatic mammals is unique and beautiful and valuable. The eons of evolutionary hill climbing that led to them cannot be reproduced. They're a distillation of all that has happened to their lineage up to this point, and that's beautiful.

That said, the only apparent species capable of getting us off this rock and avoiding the total annihilation of all life are humans. If we die off and another intelligence emerges later on, all of the easily accessible energy for industrialization and getting us out of the gravity well may be gone. This is our one, best shot.

When our sun dies, none of this will have mattered at all. If we're still stuck on this earth, we may as well have never even existed. A brief brilliant flash that led to nothing and was forgotten.

The existential counter to that is if we can make it beyond our solar system. Maybe we evolve beyond our current biological forms, maybe computers become our custodians, who knows. Maybe some future super intellect revives all of the state leading up to it, and maybe we'll become (or already are) holographic simulations of what once was: memories of our world.

With respect to the geologic timescale and the fate of earth intelligence and biology, humans matter way more than orcas. That isn't to say we shouldn't go to great lengths to preserve orcas. But there's a much bigger story at play, and we shouldn't discount our place in it.
I don't really follow. You've quoted a few statements and I also don't know what you mean by a specific object level problem.

Is it that it would be hard to convince people there's endless complexity in this domain while they're deciding what to get for lunch? Yeah, probably. They're too hungry.
Awesome write up. Great seeing a talk on functional programming with more technical details and examples.
The History channel is junk, sadly. They're perfectly willing to promote false things. Both of the two recordings shown are likely not ball lightning.

I personally agree that ball lightning probably exists. However, there is another interesting phenomenon where a brilliant blue/white "spark" of electricity can travel along a wire. I don't have a name for it but power companies are certainly familiar with it. I've seen footage of it happening repeatedly along the same stretch of wire after a storm as an automated system tried to restore power a few times before keeping the power shut off.
Is there a public price list anywhere?
Yes, this is the philosophy behind which I structure my programs. Elixir has been great for this model.
I guess PFAS in the water doesn't count?

Another way...what about the corporate military industrial complex, which wages disinformation campaigns (2003 Iraq, anyone?) to _go to war_ to generate them profits via manufacturing weapons? What about all the families that are torn apart from those weapons? The soldiers who lose lives, lose limbs, lose a peaceful mind?

It all leads back to corporations that rule America, and now to a larger extent the rest of the world via the globalist trade agreements they lobby for.
Or maybe the orcas will restrict their boat-ramming, people-eating behavior to refugee boats. The powers that be will be happy, just as long as they leave the billion-carrying submarines alone.
What is your back end? Do you want to create 3D art for games? I think Rhino owns that space. Want to 3D print with parametric dimensions? A lot of CAD packages can give you a file that you can feed to your favorite slicer. Have a CNC milling machine? Look for a post processor that works for your machine and work backwards to select the CAD package.
Steam Deck now the global #1 top seller on Steam
> Abstinence would mean no sex at all,

No, it doesn't. If you have to change the definitions of words from what is in a dictionary to make your argument work, it's your argument that is broken, not the dictionary.

And, disregarding your attempt to shut down discussion by shaming language, the fact still remains that mandating what sex consensual adults have with each other never works.

Legislating consensual sex is a primitive and regressive opinion, mostly opined by a few close-minded but loud and vocal puritanicals.

The government should not be getting involved in consensual sex between adults.
I don't think it's about servers getting hammered so much as it's about AI causing them to rethink the value of their data, then deciding user hostility is the best way to extract said value
What environment are you working in where single-user file sync has the same requirements as a thousand-tenant database? Why do I need atomicity here?
If I have this right, you think MRIs are a scam because you expected them to fly through the MRI of your shoulder and find out exactly what was wrong and you think they are an insurance scam because they had netflix in the waiting room?

Have you considered that maybe your expectations just don't line up to reality?
you mean like this? https://github.com/knqyf263/go-plugin ;)

wazero under the hood, by one of our awesome community members
The Final Hop is giving away FREE memberships
The minute you introduce the concept of "key pair", you've lost 99% of people.
> We're talking about marriage, which is a very specific thing with a legal definition.

The study is on marriage, true but the same trends are applying to couples in general - so the same conversation applies there as well. Given the likely causes, there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to look at marriage in isolation.

As paths to affordable cohabitation decline, relationships are declining right along with them.
in this case correct action would have been to attack russia preemptively /s
Yup, while they aren't problem-free they seem to be a lot less of an issue than the illicit stuff.

Also, here in Las Vegas outcall prostitution is quasi-legal. The outcall organizers make it very hard for police stings and the result is so long as they keep their noses clean otherwise (the old adage of commit only one crime at a time) the police ignore it. It's been a long time since I've heard of a case of trouble from it. (But I've heard of multiple cases of trouble from bar pickups in that time.)

I'm sure not everything makes the news--but that applies to both prostitutes and bar pickups.
It's a brilliant plan, AI means the data is more valuable (for today at least), users generate the data, so punish the users until they flee and... profit?

Even for Musk, even for a debt-ridden Twitter with no hope of survival, this is impressively terrible.
France endures fourth night of violence and looting after police shooting
https://archive.ph/TH1ZT
Hilarious! The website is a little clunky, but this call in particular had me laughing: https://www.lennytroll.com/snd/lenny_004.mp4

I felt a little bad for the telemarketer at times as she was so patient with him, but I literally LOLed when the ducks started quacking toward the end :-D
UEFI, PC boot process and UEFI with QEMU
I can't use Twitter today after about an hour of browsing my feed this morning. Which is hilarious because it's the first day I stopped using Reddit.
6000 posts/day is still nothing because I probably consume faster than 1 post/second on Twitter.
Small sailboats don’t have that much power available. 1000W solar, 6000 Wh batteries, and separate generator on medium size. Running AC is challenge away from shore for most boats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsdrunk
Op made the distinction that non technical users are put off, my position was that it doesn’t matter, I’m technical and I still don’t want to. The user experience and understanding the proposition are barriers to entry, of course the vast majority of people could sit down and “get it” after not long.. I’m at a point where if it’s not a website and it’s trying to be something more, I just really don’t care.
Piorun is Igla with usability enhancements. The hard part (propulsion and warhead) is mostly unchanged and this is why Piorun is slower than Stinger despite the warhead being at half the weight.

Most of East European mods of Soviet weapons are "easy" upgrades, where they change electronics and optics packages.
Yeah, I felt that in cases (like when doing COM programming) where the true result is almost always returned in a parameter and the status code as the return value, it made a lot of sense to me to combine those into one line wherever they appeared. But, like the article says, this is a lesser-known operator. In libc style, a similar thing makes sense, e.g.

return errno=ENOENT, (FILE*)0;

I don't know if anyone uses this style.

In K&R, they say that it's mostly used in for loops, such as

for (i = 0, j = strlen(s) - 1; i < j; i++, j--) ...

So that is where I use it now.
As far as societal problems go by far the biggest is the need for people to only consume entertainment because then they start using it as an argument. It was funny enough when people were using Jon Stewart. It was bad enough when people started using John Oliver. But Mitchell and Webb? Really?

Identity theft is not a joke Jim.
Nothing is more likely to drive people away from social media than trying to put a dollar value on it.

None of them are worth paying for, not a single one.
Look into onshape - all online (read, no installs of any kind required), free for personal use, and really what fusion 360 should have been.

Still missing minor advanced features of fusion360 but imo worlds better even if so
Died in 1930 when a whaler tried to bring the carcass in early, before Tom had his share (there was a storm approaching). Tom lost teeth grabbing the tow rope and washed up deceased with oral abscesses some time later.

This was after most of the pod of killer whales had disappeared - thought maybe hunted down in Norway. Whaling is fascinating history. But it is very sad.
I think you should read https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Extended-Asm.html#Input-O... and the link I gave earlier, if you think my example is something novel of my own construction. It's basically straight from the GCC docs.

If your point is that I don't use result, that's because it's a snippet written into Hacker News. I didn't write the code to convert it into an errno and return -1 on error, etc., but doing so would be perfectly valid, and safe from your reasonable optimizer concerns.
They should not be negotiating with Reddit they should be migrating to Lenny or Kbin, some place where the blind can lead the blind.

On Mastodon there is talk of Black people running their own instances and maybe that it is a good idea, but the Blind very much have distinct needs in social media and could use a forum where they have complete control of the whole UI.
> Do you prefer ad-supported internet over paywalls?

Does it matter? OP just wants a search results-set to not have content that he cannot access.

This is perfectly reasonable: when I search for something it's pointless showing me a result that I cannot access.
We don’t call HTTP servers sentient because that’s not the definition of sentience. Having a subjective experience defines sentience.
Government should be charged with identifying services and goods that benefit the public domain so much that it adds it to the Library.
When you don't want to talk to someone on the phone, you hang up. What was suggested here goes out of the way beyond hanging up to expressly cause annoyance or potential damage. It's not just speaking loudly into the phone, it is starting off quiet with the intent that the telemarketer turns up the volume on their device, and then screaming into the phone.

It's not even close to your suggestion. A papercut would be a potential injury in normal use of a fax machine, from wanted or unwanted faxes. That would be like someone hurting their wrist when holding the phone up to their head.
But note that it's the drugs that are trapping them, not the lifestyle.

I do agree there is a problem with the easy money trapping people but I don't think that's enough to warrant making it illegal.
This is a case of 100% violating the spirit, and perhaps also violating the letter.

The GPL requires that the distributor place no restriction on redistribution of the sources or binaries by their clients. The subscription agreement, however, is terminated if you exercise this right, despite Red Hat not being allowed to restrict the exercise of this right. This is on the very edge of legality and may be found illegal - they're shifting the consequence somewhere else to say that it's not redistribution that's restricted, but that if you redistribute then they restrict everything else.
Tweet from Elon:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672
Iconic Hollywood sound effect, the Wilhelm scream, was in an archive [video]
Yes, I understand your point about the past. But at least since 2020, these things are news, and widely reported.

And if it were normal behaviour, we'd see it reported from everywhere.

Also they damaged a bunch of ships near Gibraltar, and sank three. That would have been reported before 2020.
It's like an on prem AWS for devs. I don't understand the use case but the hardware is cool.
And she tried to settle with McDonald’s for $20,000 to cover her actual medical expenses, but they refused to offer more than $800.
I guess my presumption was that algorithmic trading was a very tight feedback loop, with as many controlled variables (i.e., GC) as possible, so I think it just subverted some of my misplaced expectations.
> Bad parents are not the victim, they are the problem.

Parents make unwise choices in disclosing information about their children on social media. Certainly. One can debate whether it is for "Likes" as a measure of social capital or something else. But the social media companies and their symbiotic ecosystem have been anything but forthright about how they use the digital trail of such disclosures. The cohort of readers here understands it well; the wider world not so much. The dramatic asymmetry of information (what I know about their usage practices vs what they know about me and my children) virtually guarantees that I can't make a fully informed choice about what I disclose or whether I choose to do it at all.
I do pay for YouTube. I don't know if it's worth it, are ad blockers working well there these days?
It's kind of funny that there's an old trope of people showing friends or strangers slides from their vacations or pictures of their kids from their wallet and the friends kind of awkwardly feigning interest.

Not much has changed with social media. If I had to guess, many people that get pictures of kids shared with them like and comment out of politeness, not genuine interest. So I don't get why the collateral damage of also sharing those pictures with Mark Zuckerberg and various ad companies is worth it.
Why is this better than a normal k8's distribution or just buying vm's from Amazon for someone who doesn't need high security or other boutique features?
When people do want to take pictures of me in, I usually say I prefer not, but if I let them I say "this does not go on social media okay?" and it's never been a problem and nobody's asks me why I object.
What do FinOps and parametric insurance have in common?
Funny, isn't it. They ruin API access and overcharge for it, so everyone scrapes, and in trying to stop that they ruin the product for the users, without whom it's worth nothing.

Reddit, take note, this is you in 6 months.
Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds
"...This paper experimentally demonstrates and analyzes another widespread read-disturb phenomenon, RowPress, in real DDR4 DRAM chips. RowPress breaks memory isolation by keeping a
DRAM row open for a long period of time, which disturbs physically nearby rows enough to cause bitflips. We show that RowPress amplifies DRAM’s vulnerability to read-disturb attacks by significantly reducing the number of row activations needed to induce a bitflip by one to two orders of magnitude under realistic conditions.In extreme cases, RowPress induces bitflips in a DRAM row when an adjacent row is activated only once..."
> it is only practical for situations where the write rate (<100/s total) and data volumes (<10GB total) are low.

This comment from the GitHub project page is pretty important. Configuration data often sees slow change, and isn't huge so a custom approach seems viable. I wonder how close they are to that 100/s ceiling.

There's also an unmentioned transition to eventual consistency happening here:

> The implications of this decoupling is that the data at each instance is usually slightly out-of-date (by 1-2 seconds).

> The reader API provides a way to fetch an approximate staleness measurement that is accurate to within ~5 seconds.

That's could lead to more complex application logic or risk of confusing users with stale behavior. No free lunch here.

[1] https://segment.com/blog/separating-our-data-and-control-pla...

[2] https://github.com/segmentio/ctlstore
Is Youtube social media? I mean it has a comment section, but to me it's always been a content delivery service for videos, first and foremost.
Secretive hardware startup Humane’s first product is the AI Pin
"That are still software based" is interesting. Are there hardware-based trading systems?
Anyone willing to disclose minimum pricing? Are we talking tens of thousands? Hundreds? I hate when people say, 'If you have to ask, you can't afford it.' Please don't be that guy.
I’m not American. I’m Swedish(who live in Switzerland).
> Nothing else involves as much invention.

That's quite a unique take.

> You cannot overbuild for software.

What does that even mean?

> But we don't have plumbing, electricity, foot, space, structural capacities as numerical behavioral properties that we can overshoot.

Sure we do. Ask Texas how the Winter was the past few years. Ask Arizona how their water's doing.
I didn’t understand the business opportunity of Oxide at all. Didn’t make sense to me.

However if they’re aiming at the companies parachuting out of the cloud back to data centers and on prem then it makes a lot of sense.

It’s possible that the price comparison is not with comparable computing devices, but simply with the 9 cents per gigabyte egress fee from the major clouds.

If I was marketing director at Oxide I’d focus all messaging on “9 cents”.
> you can't address these failure modes properly.

Again, total nonsense. There's nothing special about a promise. Whatever logic you can build on promises is easier to build synchronously. Everything that applies to building distributed systems applies whether you use rpc stubs or promises. Promises are just noisier and harder to reason about.
> he doesn't know why that patch isn't on his desk

Because then anytime a program links to a vector-supporting library such as glibc, there’s a high chance they’ll be pinned to a P-core when an E-core and AVX2 would’ve sufficed.
People getting rate limited message cannot see that due to rate limit.
Yeah, I didn't expect that.

UPD HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552324
The Gross Spectacle of Murder Fandom
Why do you think the universal goal is to get off the planet lol
So, this is an account-associated limitation, even when browsing with the official app and website.
That only works if the code was written in a semi-digestible format; I've met my fair share of monstrosities that were propped up by race conditions -- you're not going to briskly digest them in a week (especially if you're in the unlucky circumstance of only having a single breakpoint per run and the engineers who had any understanding of it haven't worked there in 20 years).
confused how the author is defining 'application'.

Is it a server-side or a client-side entity? Seems to use it interchangeably at different points in the text, perhaps purposefully, perhaps not. Or if there is another property that that defines it as an "Application", what is that? (and how is that different from a 'Resource')
Seems well aligned with the dictionary definition of great. If you are maintaining the status quo that is pretty much by definition not great.
> The subscription agreement, however, is terminated if you exercise this right, despite Red Hat not being allowed to restrict the exercise of this right.

This one. Though they can add any restrictions (like asking money for the sources, which GPL is fine with).
Interesting that he doesn't even want my ad revenue anymore. Well good riddance. The sooner I can be off this addictive website the better.
Sadly FOSS tends to suffer from an effect that isn't quite a tragedy of the commons but feels related. If everyone who stood to benefit from a good FOSS solution in a given problem space did invest a fraction of what they currently give to extremely profitable commercial entities for the proprietary equivalent then almost everyone (not the over-greedy corporations) could be better off. But many of these dominant software products are defended by powerful lock-in and networking effects that create very high barriers to entry for would-be competitors.

In cases where there can be "good enough" solutions that can be achieved with more modest resources and then grow after gaining some traction we have seen some success stories. But for a lot of professional software in specialised markets it's almost an all-or-nothing proposition and that defeats the incremental adoption that has been somewhat successful elsewhere. Even well-capitalised commercial competitors have failed to make dents in the market share of the established giants in some of these industries and the odds are stacked even more heavily against any FOSS effort building up from the grassroots.
Looks like the orcas in Scotland are taking their nautical skills to the next level! Seems like they've got some new ideas on how to navigate the high seas. Watch out, sailors!