skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Was wondering why this site looked so familiar. Very vercel-esque, which reminded me of paco.me, and that's when it clicked both of you worked on vercel!

Gorgeous sites, wonderful little details all around. As another example of this article's very message!
The PM is not the EM. Accountability is driven by the org head through the EM. If none of them care then this system will not work of course.

This system is good because it gently targets multiple stakeholders.
> But there’s a nuance in that OS/2 1.x used 286 protected mode the way Intel had intended it, by booting into it and never returning to real mode (

OS/2 had the ability to run DOS programs in a DOS box. my recollection was that OS/2 had to switch back to real mode to do this (thereby suspending all the OS/2 native processes.)

Windows 3.0 in standard (286) mode did something similar.

All this was done with triple faulting, iirc: http://www.rcollins.org/Productivity/TripleFault.html

> Steven Sinofsky writes about it in his personal Microsoft history:

You might like Larry Osterman's recollection of this, if you haven't already seen it:

https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/ms/davidweise.html
When people say that every story has two sides, it means that you as an observer might not know the full truth. Not that the full truth does not exist. Again, I gave a pretty good example of a story that was pretty solid "truth" but turned out to be a complete lie. Without taking a step back and wondering if there was more to the story than the obvious(tm) truth, you are completely vulnerable to believing bullshit as long as it's credible bullshit

Again, the saying means that we as mere observers of huge, complicated geopolitical moves cannot know the full context and are vulnerable to propaganda. Yes even from the good(your) side. No conspiracy is required for that.
The Pixel Density Race and Its Technical Merits (2014)
They study in a field which has a high likelihood of loan repayment, or study at a less expensive school.

If a really smart poor person wants to become a really smart rich person by pursuing a degree in film studies, it's reasonable (in my opinion) for a bank to say "borrowers whose only education is a bachelors in film studies tend to have trouble paying back loans, so we won't lend you very much".

If that very smart poor person is pursuing a degree in accounting or engineering, though, most banks can do the actuarial work to determine that the likelihood of payment is pretty good.

This all seems totally fine and fair to me. And if the really smart person does have trouble paying back their loan, bankruptcy can be the absolute last option they resort to, just as it is with most other loans.
And yet they’re doing it anyway! Maybe their goal actually isn’t to monetize the user this time. They haven’t even put ads on the platform yet, and senior leadership said ads weren’t even in the conversation about product development yet.

Maybe the goal is to create a new social network to fill the void that Elon’s Twitter 2.0 left. Maybe a company can actually do a genuinely decent thing every once in a while…
>These days I doubt anyone is getting $50K for a summer job.

Enter Citadel: https://fortune.com/2023/06/28/wall-street-citadel-summer-in...
> I don't think whitespace is all about aesthetics. Personally, it makes it easier for me to read and focus on things.

And for me, having too low of information density makes it harder to use the software.

The obvious answer is to allow both sorts of UI aesthetics.
Copyright [and the textbook cartels] is the reason why my kids' highschool is using social studies textbooks that are 20-30 years old.

"Japan's incredibly strong economy is responsible for the manufacture of Datsun cars, boombox stereos, and touch-tone phones..."
Oh sure. Java should have had function pointers sooner. The functional interfaces are just ok. C#'s actions and delegates are a bit better, imo.

But the parent went so far as to say that scoping functions to a class name is bad and I just don't see it. I think a pure global scope would make Java worse.
When should you start to learn how to solve math and science problems?
20? I'm up an average of 200.

For those wondering how that is manageable I use Firefox with multirow tabs. And how it gets so high is that I always open links in new tabs in the background when doing any research.
Definitely great examples. Those games are fantastic, so unique, so full of heart, and just gone.
Sometimes it feels like economists come up with these ideas in an ivory tower, detached from reality. Any kind of price control seems to make economists very upset, rent control being another example.

Reality is that there are so many other factors that it’s probably better to have some sort of price control as a form of regulation, instead of only focusing on supply/demand levers.

I’m not an economist so I’m happy to be proven wrong, but the stance of “x,y and z policies need to be implemented so supply/demand is changed to mitigate these issues”, but the reality is that politicians and the business landscape doesn’t incentivize such changes. For example, colleges aren’t incentivized to keep the cost low, housing construction isn’t incentivized because NIMBYs control what can be built where, etc.

So when someone says “well the economists don’t agree on that”, it really rubs me the wrong way.
Nice to see MacPorts love!
Our point was a but more nuanced. We pointed out the problem (and also value) of the collaborative innovation. Then, we also noted that with some care, we think a carefully customized distribution could be shown to be sufficiently safe.
People who refused the free 7 -> 10 upgrade aren't an oppressed minority; they're the infosec equivalent of anti-vaxers. Why should Mozilla support you if you refuse to maintain your computer?
People forget that fundamentally, these are services that become relatively more expensive over time (as other things get relatively cheaper). Both healthcare and education don't really benefit from cost-reduction from scaling. At the end of the day, its still one service provider to few service consumers. Productivity in that sense is unchanged in 30 years. Meanwhile, consumer goods can continue to drop precipitiously with technology and scale. As technology improves productivity in other sectors, Net result over time, is that things like healthcare and education and other services which don't scale will continue to get relatively even more expensive (i.e. grow faster than inflation).
Congress May Not Renew Low-Income Broadband Program Birthed During Covid
Sure but then it depends on *when* you die. Let's say you graduate at 22/23 and live till 70. For almost 50 years, you will be chased for that debt. Is that a good way to live ?
Pod Genie: Listen to your news on the go
As far as I'm aware Copperfield never claimed to have psychic powers.
The problem being that availability is a function of popularity and age. If you want something older that isn't a celebrated classic, it can be a lot more difficult to access...
OS/2 1.x did switch from protected back to real mode by resetting the CPU, in order to run a single DOS application in the "penalty box". Device drivers even had to be able to run seamlessly in both modes!

That article is paywalled, but what you quoted reads like pure bullshit. PrestoChangoSelector was used in protected mode to make code segments writable, and had nothing to do with DOS compatibility:

https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/089/Q89560/
> I didn’t say it’s a constitutional issue. It’s a political non-starter

And I said your argument for that is nonsense, since the government does lots that has racially disparate impacts.
In normal operation, Mastodon doesn't send all it's public posts to everyone. It only sends posts that someone on the receiving end has subscribed to.

This can be confusing for beginning users. There is a link in the interface for "global posts". It doesn't actually show all posts, only the public ones that someone on your instance has subscribed to. For someone on a small-ish instance with like minded people this is a good thing, as it means there's a higher chance of a post being interesting to me.
It only makes sense if you believe education is just like any other commodity whose price should be driven by market forces. Should government have any say in whether its citizenry gets educated? Is there a public interest in it?

I can’t think of an easier way for e.g. China to win the 21st century. American undergrad enrollment is already down. As the world gets more technical, that is not a good sign.

When an entire generation of Americans are priced out of higher education, who is going to develop the technologies of tomorrow? Should we assume foreign students will always want to come to our schools and stay to work in our companies? It’s not sustainable.
I'll write a 1000 word essay about something technical I've worked passionately on. What is that, ~100 lines of text? Trivial.

About loving your company? I'm pursuing employment, not trying to join a cult here.
Some companies even pay your study. You do a regular BS at a university (or college), work as an intern at the company between terms, and the company will pay you 1000€+ per month over a period of 3 to 5 years. This is not a scholarship, but a mixture of apprenticeship and study (called "dual study"), which is becoming increasingly popular at least in Germany.
If I were a betting man I'd say black holes have no singularity, but rather a core of extremely dense exotic matter (probably formed from top/bottom quarks) which we haven't detected because it decays quickly under less extreme circumstances.
Alright, through some trial and error, I've found all the bytes that are fully modifiable without the program crashing:

00000000: 7f45 4c46 cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc cccc .ELF............
00000010: 0200 3e00 cccc cccc 0100 0000 0100 0000 ..>.............
00000020: 1800 0000 0000 0000 1800 0000 0100 0000 ................
00000030: cccc cccc cccc 3800 0100 0000 0000 0000 ......8.........
00000040: 0100 0000 0000 0000 cccc cccc cccc cccc ................

(The words at 0x1c-0x1d and 0x2c-0x2d can also be modified, but they have to be equal to each other, and there are other limitations on their values.)

From there, some careful assembly golfing gives me a 91-byte Hello World that exits successfully:

00000000: 7f45 4c46 b001 488d 3540 0000 0050 eb38 .ELF..H.5@...P.8
00000010: 0200 3e00 0f05 eb18 0100 0000 0100 0000 ..>.............
00000020: 1800 0000 0000 0000 1800 0000 0100 0000 ................
00000030: b0e7 31ff 0f05 3800 0100 0000 0000 0000 ..1...8.........
00000040: 0100 0000 0000 0000 b20e 5feb c748 656c .........._..Hel
00000050: 6c6f 2c20 776f 726c 6421 0a lo, world!.

The main annoyance is that I have to use a 7-byte instruction to load the RIP-relative address of the string into RSI, since the program can't be placed any lower than 0x000100000000 in virtual memory with this offset. There may yet be some way to shorten it that I haven't thought of, though. The four blocks of instructions are

0x01:
.ascii "ELF"
mov al, 1
lea rsi, [rip+0x40]
push rax
jmp 0x48
0x14:
syscall
jmp 0x30
0x30:
mov al, 231
xor edi, edi
syscall
0x48:
mov dl, 14
pop rdi
jmp 0x14
0x4d:
.ascii "Hello, world!\n"

Perhaps I should make a write-up about the exact constraints imposed by the kernel, and how they limit the possible offsets between the ELF header and program header.
Indeed. I attended a talk by one of the presidents of a local state university about a decade ago, and she showed a plot showing that the overall cost to educate a student hadn't changed in 30 years (inflation adjusted). What had changed was the state support per student. As it dwindled, the university continually increased the tuition such that the overall cost remained constant.

It's one university, so I don't know if it applies to the others, but drops in state support is often excluded from these conversations.
I just bought a Quest Pro this weekend and was hoping to get something like this running.

Apple should do the right thing and support early VisionOS development using the Quest Pro.
April 2022, after 10.5 years there.
"1. Yes they are microcontrollers.

2. Yes they use C/C++"

So how it is?
Product Manager here. The answer is because we are tied to the ESR release cycle we have to release at a certain time (we are working on changing this). So we're shipping all the work that is done and stable. There is still work to be done to the front-end and as much as people want to trivialize it, it's not so simple. To make the changes we did, we had to rewrite a very complicated front-end with some code that has been there for 20 years and had entire systems built upon it. We are going to get to what the mockup showed. But we're going to build it right, and that means rewriting large pieces of our codebase. We'll ship the remaining stuff when they are ready.
Universities are the gatekeepers for good white-collar jobs, and will charge whatever the market will bear, which is quite a lot. Government subsidies are absorbed as pure profit. The money goes into cushy salaries for administrators and empire-building, specially in real estate.
I somewhat agree with you, but you could apply this same logic to Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp. At the time they "made a big deal about" keeping the app separate from Facebook and maintaining users' privacy, but they were lying.
> I think there's a literal psychological disease

To slightly validate this thought for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disor....

I've personally known people who strongly exhibit these symptoms. There is no accountability (and no "good faith" arguments) for such people and I notice a seemingly similar pattern of thought in the linked blog post. Some excerpts which seem to intentionally shift blame:

> It’s a peculiarity of GitHub, to put it mildly, that making a repo private permanently deletes all watchers and stars.

> GitHub’s conceptual model treats users and organizations as very similar entities when it comes to profiles and repos.

> The problem is that the box looks exactly the same for repos with no commits and stars and for repos with a decade-long history and 55k stargazers and watchers.

I could go on. Anyway, just trying to offer another voice in agreement. Also, that particular call-out of "psychological disease" is especially notable to me for personal reasons. (Not that I'm intending to diagnose this specific blogger; just that the tone of the blog post indeed seems to be blame-shifting, which is a characteristic behavior of those with NPD.)
>Remove this "free money guarantee" and watch how market corrects itself.

While I agree, I can't imagine what it would be like for the first generation of students under such change. The reason they are government backed is to make college a possibility to begin with.

First ones in line would probably get massively screwed, no?
lol... well here's one opinion
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36669480
I can vouch for this. My daughter went to Yale. I paid the "Yale tax" of 20% of my income. An that only because I made more than $100K. Below $100K parental salary and it's free.

"List Price" is meaningless at university.
In what world have businesses shown the ability to be responsible with money?
Quest 3 will (hopefully) allow for higher bitrates and maybe AV1 support but I don’t see it having a huge impact on overall wireless latency. Decode time on the old SoC is only a few ms with h264 and really the only thing h265 brings to the table on a bandwidth unconstrained local network is 10bit color.
I don't really have a need for home-manager on a single-user NixOS system. Whatever configuration home-manager would typically manage is now contained in my global configuration.nix.
Yes, that's it. We want to take advantage of the innovative technology in the "expansion" but need to carefully manage what we actually put on the airplane to demonstrate (with evidence) that it is well suited for the intended purpose. Which I think is what you mean by "consolidation".
I guess he is referring to all the softcore porn that shows up on the ig search tab, even if you don't interact with it.
Giving the benefit of the doubt here, I assumed the push toward trade school is because that makes the most sense for the child in question. College is not for everyone, including a lot of people pushed into attending.
I was able to get a credit card with a relatively low limit ($1200) as my first one, partly because I had a higher than average income during school as a private tutor. Many people do get secured cards if they are on a low income though.

That was a “student card,” so optimized for people who don’t have a credit history. After having that for a while I was able to leverage it into standard rewards cards.
Maybe I've been ruined by early exposure to C++, back when C++ was the new hotness, but I find encapsulation and even the namespacing aspect to be helpful. Encapsulation is obviously helpful, but it also comes in handy for some algorithms that are complex enough to require several functions, but which share a lot of state. If I recall correctly, Voronoi tesselation is one of these. Even though an "tesselate" is an action, putting it in a class just makes it easier to think about things. Otherwise as a user of the function I have to first create the shared data object, then know to call the three helper functions. Better would be a high-level tesselate() call, but then that call needs to do that. Now you've just pushed the complexity down to the next maintainer, who needs to figure out how all this soup of functions from all the various algorithms and whatnot that have collected over the years relate to each other. With an object, the newbie maintainer at least knows what the topic of the functions is.
> The PC market was very good at catering to every price point.

No wonder, it's because processors were actually cheap, but higher price points were created artificially. Great example is Intel 486SX ($333) vs 486DX ($588). In fact, they had to disable co-processor in 486DX in order to produce 486SX, so SX net cost per unit was higher. [1] Referenced article has many more such anecdotal examples.

[1]: https://www2.econ.iastate.edu/faculty/langinier/teaching2005...
Productivity:

https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=107229

Human Capital (let's take Pisa scores as a proxy):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...

GDP growth, JPN vs US

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/national-gdp-constant-usd...

(Worth pointing out that the US population has grown by ~1/3 whilst Japan has remained about constant, so per capita the effect is not as pronounced)
Remember XMPP and how it was embraced by both Google and Facebook?
Have we learned...nothing?
It's pretty general. Just draw the worldlines for some particles bouncing off eachother, and then perform a Lorentz boost, which means choosing a new tilted spatial surface to intersect the worldlines. If you perform a boost, then the spatial surface intersect fewer or more worldlines, and worldlines which were for particles in one frame can become antiparticles in another.

Consider an electron absorbing a photon at spacetime point x, and then emitting a photon at spacetime point y, where (y0 - x0) > 0.

An observer in another lorenzt boosted frame would then say that they see in their boosted coordinated system (x' and y' with rapidity v), that (y'0 - x'0) = cosh(v)(y0 - x0) - sinh(v) (y1 - x1)

For large enough v, then you can have y'0 < x'0, so the observer in the boosted frame would see the events in a different order. One observer sees a negatively charged electron moving from x to y, and the other observer sees a positively charged positron moving from y to x.
lemmy.world

browse around, see how you like it
this is corporate greed, end-stage capitalism and Bush's fault. Or is it Trump's fault? And Elon Musk's mgmt of twitter
It's been fine when I've used terabyte instances for dynamic programming stuff similar to OP. You are babysitting it and waiting for a specific answer, not running a permanent service which will hemorrhage $$$ when you forget to turn it off. At dollars an hour, hard to forget...
First $100 = Trading TF2 Hats and then selling them

First $1,000 = Created an 'imaginary' local concrete company on Google and sold the lead(s) to a friend.
The US's healthcare system is so bleak because we quite literally fund healthcare for the rest of the planet. Taxpayers in the US get access to the best treatment decades earlier if they're rich enough. Prices are increased on US citizens to account for the strong arming other governments do to get prices lower for their citizens. If the pharma companies couldn't do this, for example, they'd refuse to negotiate with other countries. A microcosm of this behavior is medicare here is the US. Yes, the US taxpayers even have to be charitable to them.

IMO, if the US decided to actually help its citizens every country the average progressive considers "great at healthcare" would likely implode under the sudden increase in cost. The cost of medication alone would likely nearly bankrupt several governments. Imagine if the price of insulin, almost completely funded by US citizens paying absurd prices, went up to its US price.

Much like with defense, the US taxpayer is the hero of the rest of the world's healthcare. Without US tax cattle the rest of the world would not be as nice as it is. It's just like when prices go up at your favorite store due to theft. The US is punished by insurance companies because other countries refuse to pay more.
Erotic content posted on social media or inserted in suggested content feeds to attract/retain attention, from what I can tell.

I try not to use endless-scrolling social media too much, so I don't know to what degree it is an issue as the OP suggests, but it's not hard to see how it would foster pornography addiction.
Christianity also used to have many restrictions on charging interest, but that got lost somewhere around the 19th century.

It is where the whole "Jews are greedy bankers" stereotype comes from: during the Middle Ages Jews were allowed to charge interest to non-Jews, so they were essentially the only people who could act as bankers for Christians. Combine that with a large dose of racism keeping them out of a lot of other jobs, and you end up with a lot of Jewish bankers.
PhD students are paid as well, at least in research departments.
Sure, I wanted to be able to share a bit about how fundamentally differently life is for poor people or people with certain classes of problems growing up.
The specific amounts were for example only. I could see making it much flatter for the first 20 years, and then escalating rapidly after that.

But, yes, in general, if you want to prevent it from being copied you would have to spend ever larger sums of money to accomplish that.

The entire point of copyright is a deal to encourage author's creating a work *so that it can enter the public domain*. This scheme is designed allow _most_ works to enter the public domain much earlier than they do now, while still allowing the most economically valuable creations to be pushed off for quite a while.

But, you the author wanting to prevent your book from being copied is a _harm_ to society. So, the goal with this scheme is that the extension costs should _roughly mirror_ those harms of continuing to lock a work up. The idea, then, is that when the economic benefit to you the author is _larger_ than those societal harms, then you'll pay for the extension.

But when those economic benefits to you the author is _less_ than those societal harms, then you'll stop paying for the extension.
Hosting your own email has gotten worse not better.
The problem of having a "secret" computer (with an operating system) within your computer.

https://youtu.be/1seNMSamtxM

This embedded computer system has access to all your memory devices.

Disabling it? Not convenient.