skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I, too, was once quite interested in Bohm's work and dug up what I could on his personal life to understand his career trajectory from USA to Brazil to England. While I think he was genuinely brilliant, he seemed to have a personality that led him to escalate social confrontations. Career progress depends not just on the quality of your ideas but also on how well you interact with your community, and I think that's what hurt him.
weird is an odd way to spell brutalist ux.
Please try hypothes.is . It's really quite good. I wish it would take off. https://hypothes.is/
I'm older. But I also saw my first Mac in 1984. ;-)

My first exposure to a computer was in 1981, when I took a high school programming class. So I was certainly not intimidated by text entry or errors. While in college, someone came through and demonstrated an Apple Lisa in the big lecture hall, and of course the Mac came out soon thereafter.

What I can say is that complete familiarity with text based systems didn't make me any less impressed with the GUI. It might have made me in less of a rush to go out and get one of my own, but my bank account had its own opinion about that too.
> Sadly, just because something is 40 years old doesn't mean it will fetch a high price. Especially microcomputers. There's a bunch of rare and also cheap ones.

> Rare because almost nobody wants them and cheap for the same reason.

> For an equivalent today, think about some low end random model android phone from the early 2010s. Both cheap and rare

There was an episode of the Dead Zone that had a twist like this. The main character and some others were out in the woods and came across some people who took them hostage while trying to look for a plane that had crashed nearby a decade or two ago and was rumored to have really expensive cargo. In the end, they plane turned out to be full of computer chips that were high end at the time of the crash but virtually worthless in the present.
Do you have charging where you live? (Private garage or parking spot?) All you really need is charging where you live, and charging along highways. I have literally never gone to any of the chargers within 30 miles of my house.

Hardest part is for apartment buildings. No big incentive to install chargers for public use.
For all the trash talk about how Tesla will implode, the stock is at ~5/8th of it's peak in 2021.

Pretty good considering the tech stock drop.
A good step. Will they move to the main competitor? What can we do to make that happen? Do Lemmy instances already have high-profile moderators that could attract moderators like these?
They're literally responding to someone commenting about stock price

Tesla sales growth currently seems limited by their ability to produce, so that's fairly bullish

Market cap isn't meaningless, though. Neither is debt. Market cap should be a function of assets, so presumably if Toyota had as little debt as Tesla it would be ~480b market cap.

Why is Tesla higher? It has a better story (not saying I buy it, but at least I can explain it!):

Better self driving prospects (data + compute), licensing charger design, huge growth numbers
so, canadian Minitel
> The first thing is that the Smalltalk environment wasn't really an operating system the same way something like Mac OS was. It’s more like an IDE that runs on bare hardware.

This was true of Xerox’s InterLisp-D environment and the MIT Lispms and their descendants as well.

For the Lispms we typically didn’t save the world (essentially the memory image) but instead used cloud storage.

As the article says on the PARC machines we mostly saved a band (memory image). Filesystems and many other things we would consider local services were (LAN) cloud services instead.

This was late 70s/early 80s and mostly took decades to become mainstream.
The first time I saw a personal computer was at the home of a friend. His father was an engineer for Ping and they had a computer at their house. We weren't allowed to touch it but we watched his dad play a Star Trek game on it for a little while.

A couple years later I'd get my hands on a TRS-80 at school. I loved it.

When I went to high school in 1983 we had the Apple IIe in our lab. I spent hours on them doing basic and later Pascal. By then I had a vic-20 at home.
I was a part of a nerdy group that hung out in the computer lab any time we could and we had a pretty good relationship with the head of the match department. When they go their first Mac, that was the first time I saw gui in person.

We were given a few minutes to play with it and I really liked it. I don't think it was so shocking though. While the command line was my normal initial interface, I was used to playing games that provided a GUI of their own to interact with the game. The gui on the mac was another program like a game running on top of the OS.

After high school I didn't have a pc of my own for years. When I did get one is was a Packard Bell sx386 running DOS. I had that for a decent amount of time before I got my first copy of windows. For me it all just fit together and I would say to this day I think of a computer and it's operating system as the CLI it provides. The GUI is an abstraction that runs on top. I like a nice desktop ( KDE is my favorite ) but I get very frustrated any time I can't get underneath it and do what I want. My first instinct any time I hit a problem that feels difficult, is to drop to the shell.
I learned to code on a TRS-80 Model 100, in BASIC, when I was 7 years old or so. Nothing Unix-like about it, but as an introduction to programming concepts I got a lot of mileage out of it. The upside is, there are no distractions, and it basically doesn't do anything except let you write text or short BASIC programs. It's essentially a big keyboard with a little chunky LCD display and it runs a long time on AA batteries. I dragged it everywhere with me as a kid, along with the BASIC manual, trying to figure out how to get it to do things. The portability was a big plus, cause I could just keep experimenting whenever I had ideas.
Cultural context is a major multiplier of quality, productivity and efficiency.

I had to replace an overseas software team with a US one and the US one outperforms beyond measure. Given the quality, the reduction of work and rework, it is actually cheaper at close to double the hourly rate.
Now do the math with 48 months
If we're being pedantic the traditional userland isn't mostly implenented by GNU. systemd, X.org, pulseaudio, gnome, KDE, qt, gtk, etc are not GNU.
Ask it to write a backtracking sudoku solver with coroutines and/or fibers and let me know how it performs in your language of choice.

We are nowhere near generally intelligent software systems.
Your first two points seem legit, but if you pay attention to the measurements they're taking it's pretty easy to notice that your periodontal pocket depths increase or decrease based on whether you've been flossing or not (mine do at least). And it's pretty obvious that deep pockets are a decay precursor.
To add to this, you pay to park at DC Metro station parking lots (though you pay less if you're taking the Metro than if you're not).
>Otherwise, it's just a matter of time before any doctor (or layman) will be able to pull damaged teeth and then easily regrow them

I'd sure like to know that the person pulling my tooth knows how to evaluate it with an x-ray to see if it really needs to be pulled (and to see if the bone structure beneath it is healthy enough to regrow a tooth), and is trained to administer appropriate dental painkillers. If I asked my primary care physician to do it, I'd expect him to refer me to a dentist.
BYD literally sold more cars than Tesla in 2022. [1]

[1]: https://www.ev-volumes.com/country/total-world-plug-in-vehic...
The apple trackpads support multi-finger clicks and swipes, though of course the chording is different (you can’t simply press the “middle” button by itself).
Federal does not
Made ~$10,000 from that bet last year. I was pretty pleased with myself.
https://www.semianalysis.com/p/zen-4c-amds-response-to-hyper...
Which agencies? Police department that not understand how AirTags work?
The market cap tells you what you need to know. Is there a way in which Tesla can grow the total vehicle market, expand alone into adjacent protected, high value markets, or reasonably exceed Toyota’s market share? If not, they’re over valued.

They are still valued on $300k per car future numbers from when they were supposed to be renting cars with AI drivers in 2020, and the exuberance and “playing with house money” crowd has just kept the music going.
Of course there are use cases when Mint don't replace Ubuntu.

You probably can use Mint on a server but for me, the obvious Debian-like server distro is Debian itself. I can't imagine one advantage of running Mint on a server. Mint is focused on the desktop.

On the desktop, Mint really seems like Ubuntu without snaps, and a specific package management that is way more conservative when it comes to upgrades. And a focus on Cinnamon and Mate.

On the desktop I would formerly advise Ubuntu. Today, I would just suggest Debian, which is the distro I trust the most, or maybe Mint. I just don't see any scenario where Ubuntu could be better than either of them.

I use openSUSE Tumbleweed myself. I would not recommend it to a novice user. openSUSE Leap might be a solid choice but I never tried it so it's difficult to recommend it.
The brother doest protest too much.

To me, it is exceedingly clear almost every other industry of this planet has far far better developed industrial practices and standards. They can go to school & learn how to do the thing.

There's simply no common accepted curiculum for how to actually build good software. There's too many possibilities, too many ways to success, and so few common threads that actually winnow down succes or failure. Software has a couple cobbled together Christopher Alexander style Design Patterns that can kind of inform some repeatedly usable ideas. And we have millions upon millions of libraries, each of which probably could become a library that is in the top 10% of usage, if conditions were right. But there's just so little rhyme or reason to it all. Software is all happenstance.

You can try to snark your way out of this & shade the difference out, but it should just be so obvious & clear. Software is not as mature. It's practitioners have infinitely more possibilities & exponentially less constraints. Most of it ends up working fair, in such a degree that it's near impossible to judge how far from optimal or how much better it could be working. Almost nothing else is so adrift, so unable to measure & understand how sucessful it is. This should just be clear & obvious. Your protests don't move me. It should be obvious.
This kind of info nugget is useful only for time travelers who can take advantage of it.
> Can't think of a single case where null terminated strings are more efficient

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/09/03/sentinels-can-be-faster/?a...
There were other systems like that. I used to find terminals for "101 Online" in Silicon Valley surplus stores. This was a US attempt to use Minitel technology.[1] There was the whole North American Presentation Level Protocol Syntax [2] thing, which was like having your terminal talk .SVG. Lots of dead ends from that era.

[1] https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/an/2016/01/man2016010...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPLPS
I have zero money on the line for either. Please defend PPP loan forgiveness vs student loan forgiveness. I'd love to hear your take.
You can play with another early Xerox GUI called Interlisp in your browser: https://interlisp.org/medley/using/running/online/

It was being developed in parallel with Smalltalk-80 (and earlier versions of Smalltalk): https://interlisp.org/medley/history/timeline/
>It's funny lore and it lead to the site having culture of a sort, but it points to a failure in upper-level administration. Reddit simply doesn't care about the product it's putting out

Does it need to? Reddit doesn't care about the local squabbles, and misleading sub names or bare minimum moderation aren't against their rules. it cares about ad revenue. So while it feels hypocritical to suddenly care about maliciously compliant mods, it's consistent in their goals.

I do agree that even if they don't care, they should fit in SOME ability to hoist a mod by some mixture of the community other mods who disagree but simply weren't there first.
I think one can (and should) look at some real repos to conclude it's not that simple, but if you're simply told it doesn't store diffs, what else would you think it stores?
No, There is no charging anywhere "near" my home. I park in an uncovered open apartment parking lot.

Same thing for at work.

And checking the charging maps shows very few options anywhere near me and the few places that do only have a couple plugs. Would be annoying to find it's in use by the time I get there so I would have to wait for them and then me.
Tesla makes their Chinese EVs in China and sources most of its supplies there. Almost all other foreign car companies in China are 51-49 join ventures (with 51 being the Chinese partner's controlling share) so they are also eligible for those subsidies.
Does anyone know what the appropriate type of statistical analysis would be if I wanted to try to discover groups of commonly used features?

Say I have a spreadsheet where the rows are users and the columns are "has used feature X in the past 30 days". How do I go from that to "there are three clusters of users who tend to use these distinct subsets of features"?
I'll allow it. Downvote removed
I have no way to charge at home though, being in an apartment. I don't plan to change that any time soon. I am certainly not changing where I live just for my car when a gas car works fine.
The cited paper[1] references "random circuit sampling" which is defined in [2] which then gets so heavy into abstract math, and I give up.

Can someone explain this in terms an EE or programmer can understand?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.11119

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07872
Wow market cap! What a great measurement...of what a bunch of gamblers on a secondary market say a company is worth is all its shares could magically be sold without affecting the sale price.
Altering public timestamps, with the effect of claiming that a particular person said a particular thing on a different day than you know they actually did, is potentially very bad.
Did they sell more in value? Huawei sells more phones than Apple, but apple makes way more money selling phones than Huawei does.
Highly rated Wall St analysts were saying the same thing in 2009 comparing about Apple with Nokia.
I strongly urge people to avoid regular dentists for serious work that there are specialists for. They don't have the tools or expertise, and often leave people with broken jaws and infections that lead to more surgeries. Pay the extra; you'll wish you did when your jaw is wired shut, or you have to pay again to re-do a root canal, or go to emergency due to infection.
This is not normal. It is 100% your diet.

Eat a carnivore diet and your tooth issues will go away. At least try to eat only real foods, never add any added sugar into anything and avoid all processed foods (treat rice and pasta as processed foods as well, they are not real foods!).

There are plenty of books out there that show that for all indigenous tribes, as soon as they got into contact with western civilization and started eating a carb heavy diet (beer & grains), their teeth rotted away within one generation.
Fair point I should make that clearer. I will review your proof and if you succeed (keep your pledge) nothing happens and your card wont be charged :) Would love for you to give it a try and hear your feedback!
I think this is what you're looking for:

https://github.com/NigelSmart/nigelsmart.github.io/tree/mast...
This is simply not true. Anyone can go onto Healthcare.gov and sign up for insurance. If you are low income because you got laid off, you'll probably get a pretty good tax credit to help pay for it. You pay even qualify for Medicaid.
That is true with driving in general. You might get lucky and avoid that 1 in a million chance of getting into an accident for a long time.
No TX fees here, since signing is not on-chain- the advantage is just that having eth accounts means people are already set up with a keypair, often without even realizing it.
Haven't thought about that yet, but the plan for V1 is to reappropriate all the proceeds to the right place and post a blog post highlighting proof ive done so, money in - money out.
More people have an ethereum wallet than a gpg keypair.
You’re either not in the market for a house or you’re extremely not picky.
Open Sauce Featured Creators (2023)
I was oddly shocked at how many(and variety of) YouTubers I subscribe to are going to Open Sauce 2023 & are featured. My guess is I will run into a few more of the smaller channel creators just attending.

This event looks like it will be pretty darn DIY/Maker cool.

Lots of the exhibits featured have been on HN:
Heading to https://opensauce.live/exhibits/

Surprised no one has submitted this.
I miss the large Maker Faire events!
Someone is trying it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296695

To call it bare bones is an understatement, but I do wonder how it or potential other similar sites may work in this modern era. Will people who truly want quality content and discussion put their money where their mouths are? Only time will tell.
Would you have made more if you were still holding that short position today?
Sun cannibalized itself as Linux cut into its entire server line except for the very top end, and their middle to high tiers were showing up on eBay by firms that went belly-up, further cutting their margins. It didn't help that McNealy followed himself with Zander(ok, but far from McNealy's abilities) and then the utterly useless Schwartz.

Many of the others simply could not move fast enough after years of ossified businesses that were lucrative but becoming more limited.

Yes, investors were confused (disclosure: I was at VA Linux Systems when it IPO'd) but that's never been a barrier to funding the right thing (anymore than being smart guaranteed you'd pick a winner...if VC's were half as good as they portray themselves, you'd think their win-rate would climb into double digits).

The guys holding the moneybags could hire people to do the vetting, but they mostly pick insiders that maybe hit once or have otherwise sucked up with the appropriate fealty to Sand Hill "principles" than much else.

When folks spend more effort fine tuning a PPT pitch than an actual business plan, it eventually shows.
In undergrad I took a graduate class out of Calculus of Variations by Gelfand and Fomin [0] that went deep into the math of classical mechanics but assumed students already knew the relevant physics. I hadn't taken a proper classical mechanics class, and working through Volume 1 of Livshitz-Landau in parallel with the lectures helped to ground the material for me. A brilliant classmate who’s now a successful mathematical physicist had recommended the series.

Later I tried to learn Quantum Mechanics while taking a course on Operator Theory, but gave up on using Volume 3 of Livshitz-Landau because it was just too impenetrable. I ended up going with Sakurai instead.

I found Volume 1 to be beautiful read and felt like I was learning something profound. Volume 3 was beyond me. The only thing I'd say these books have in common with the Feynman Lectures is a dearth of exercises. This wasn't an issue for me reading Volume 1 of LL because that Calculus of Variations course had many exercises which I just wasn't in a position to appreciate without knowing more Physics.
> This is a nice idea, but this line of thinking will lead to some very unusual results. The most famous is possibly the "ultraviolet catastrophe" that Planck resolved by developing a theory of quantized states and quanta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe.

Quantization is real. But I've never seen any phenomenon that can only be explained in terms of the full concept of a particle (which is a decidedly nonrigorous one in any case), and while the concept of a quantized wave is certainly counterintuitive, I'd argue it's simpler and more consistent than wave-particle duality.
You say "nobody", but consider how many people would be interested in posting content if they could possibly be paid. There was a time where people simply posted videos on YouTube for free as well, with zero expectation of ad revenue money
I always thought, inaccurately, that Javascript was simply the 'navigator' object and a few other objects, glued into the namespace.

I did not know that it was standardized, though .. duh .. it would have to be I now realize.

TY for the interesting comment @Freedom2, it's informative for me.
It works better than the impression I got from online commentary about it.
Thank-you. Reflection and web services (long-lived) are pretty big ones, the former for annotations, aspects, and mutation testing.

(Assuming one or more of those use reflection.)
In my ideal commute I'd be sleeping, so I would prefer the long first, short second option. That way I can get in a longer period of shut-eye before transferring and waking up for the destination.
I'd at least solder another diode across the terminals if I did that. An LED is a diode at the end of the day and breaking the circuit might break the device.
You're not questioning it. You're objecting to it. If you were actually questioning, you would have engaged with the fact that stories about hubris justly punished have been a staple of moral education for literal millennia.

But you're only objecting to it when it's somebody you like. When it's poor people, you're fine with trumpeting your imagined moral superiority. But when it's a famous rich guy, you're out here doing free PR on his behalf. You did not "go build something" then, and you're unable to even reflect on your blatant double standard.

You have no standing to moralize at me. And just to be clear, what I feel for you is not spite, but contempt, because you're not only a hypocrite, but you're using what might be otherwise valid moral points to derail discussion of one of the world's biggest jerks. Motes and beams, buddy.
LAX is maybe the worst one in the US though with its constant construction.

Maybe it’s different for non citizens, but I’ve had easy international transfers through SEA, SFO, ATL, DTW, JFK, and MCO.
Yeah I never hold out any hope for new miracle medical or dental treatments because there are far more profits to be made from treating symptoms.
I'll do it.

The PPP "loans" were always intended to be forgiven if used for employee paychecks (or some other more limited uses) - from day 1. I know because I thought about applying but decided not to because I didn't think I could get both that and unemployment.

That money was given to businesses, and then their employees, because the government essentially forced those businesses to close for a time. Their employees could have been fired and then given unemployment, but the program was put into place to prevent that from happening.

The reason it was called a loan is because if you didn't use the money in the way prescribed then it was in fact a loan and would need to be paid back.

So, unless you (generically, not you specifically) were forced to go to school by the government and your loans were always intended to be forgiven the comparison is absolutely ridiculous.
100% of people writing a database know about filesystem options like DIRECT and SYNC, and that is the subject of this paper.

Also, most of the network-attached storage we people use is in the form of things like EBS, which is very careful to imitate the behavior of a real disk, but with different performance and some different (albeit very rare) failure modes.
Kurt Gödel and the U.S. Constitution’s loophole
The F-150 Lightning is already popular and an easy sell to truck people. The only market for the Cybertruck is people who like the design, want a truck, and don't want to be mistaken for Republicans because they're in an F-150.