skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It shows what some people want, and what at the time only white people could aspire to.

The criticism that the space program came at a social and economic cost that primarily burdened black Americans while only reinforcing the narrative of white supremacy and racial inequality seems legitimate. The Wikipedia article links to a paper that quotes MLK on the matter:

Today our exploration of space is engaging not only our enthusiasm
but our patriotism. ... No such fervor or exhilaration attends the war on
poverty. ... Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking
absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while
only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated
slums. If these strange views persist, in a few years we can be assured that when
we set a man on the moon, with an adequate telescope he will be able to see
the slums on earth with their intensified congestion, decay and turbulence.

I mean yeah, why should black people have given a damn about the moon landing when American society was still permeated by the remnant effects of slavery in many places?
This is really concerning. I wonder why they couldn't have looked into what (if anything) prevents the private sector from offering this service, and fixed those obstacles instead?

It seems to me like a government run shoe factory, or a government run mail service.
Why is a fairly-distributed welfare program worse than an unfairly-distributed one?
It's also not like bitcoin because the exchange doesn't own dollars deposited at them and isn't run by a guy living in Dubai who's going to steal all of it.
To add to that, if I need to support the conversation moat of the time and feel like it's work just keeping it flowing because the other person just doesn't have an interest in me or what I'm saying, that drains me.
did they announce that anywhere? it does appear like progress has slowed down quite a lot.
I agree with the after the conversation point. And as long as one person chuckled the downvotes are worth it.
Google trends would disagree with you there [0].

Anecdotally, I've only ever heard the name Fermi in the phrase Fermi Paradox. Oppenheimer I know much more about, and I only know there's a movie about him because it's all over HN this month.

I'm sure that the red scare did tarnish his name for decades, but it looks to me like those decades had ended by 2004 when Google's trends pick up.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
1) In general, older code tends to have security patches

2) it costs money to run a business, and saving money through gross negligence, leading to real people having real impacts through massive data leaks while suffering zero repercussions for that needs to end. “It costs money to keep software up to date” is a shit argument for why businesses should not be managing their software.
Nobody has kept any interest in the last 13 years because interest rates have been 0%.
Laravel Livewire 3: The most productive way to build your next web app
I think getting rid of this will cause more disparity in the outcomes. Rich parents can afford tutors and poor parents can't, so poor kids come out even worse off.
Information density matters.
After almost 20 years of writing the best code I can muster as much as I can, I’ve come to understand that most people won’t ever really appreciate it for the effort you put in. Many won’t even notice; they’re too preoccupied with their own lives to open their eyes to what is there. Nor do they give a damn about mastery. But, that doesn’t mean it’s a waste.

I don’t think I’d do much differently in retrospect, except be far more cautious about where and who I spend time around.

Even this very thread has some pretty bad vibes: “who can say what good code is?” “good code can’t exist with deadlines.”

I feel really bad for junior/intermediate devs that read this stuff and internalize it.
Compare https://structuredprocrastination.com/

> ``. . . anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." -- Robert Benchley, in Chips off the Old Benchley, 1949
Nice, you really showed him.
I'm having alot of fun with this. Spoilers for level 6:

https://imgur.com/a/1vR5N3v
I made one before (https://dheera.net/projects/einkframe/) that used ShanShui (https://github.com/LingDong-/shan-shui-inf)

I'm thinking of making a Stable Diffusion version of this, and preferably with a larger eInk screen.
Behind like most other Verge posts.

Lots of discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799059

Please search before you submit
SICP is absolutely worth reading (and even working through in your language of choice!)
I mean, fair. I meant that in order to use the TurboTax we had to pay for it.
I think you meant 32GB+
If you are a Dart/Flutter dev then come and vote in the Dart community choice awards.

You can win $100 for voting and leaving a review.
The winner, with the best FOSS Dart package, wins $500.
Singapore might be another interesting example. They are very much living the future.
> Maybe it would work better if the local government runs the app (contracted out obvs) and bans all the others.

I like the idea of that but the issue is software that people have to use with no alternative end up having no real motivation to be user friendly or stable or anything like that. They own the market and nobody can ever leave it
Imagine how many solid gold cathedrals the Vatican would build.
The crypto wars never really ended.
Yeah, that was interesting take... that the actual smart kids are there to make the rich kids look smart.
Using that ridiculous definition, there is no conceivable method of transaction that DOESN'T have fraud protections in place, which makes it a meaningless distinction. When people say that a system has fraud prevention methods, they obviously mean something on top of some vague notion that people shouldn't send money to people they don't trust.
Reading this really helps illustrate why and how a font is considered a computer program and thus eligible for copyright protection. I don’t think most laypeople (and even many programmers) intuitively think of it that way because they seem like a collection of little pictures, but so much work goes into these fonts. We are fortunate to have so many good ones to choose from today, and that someone has footed the bill for their construction, since most people never directly license a font.
This is an incredibly stupid comment.
Well, C sucks at code re-use. People just re-implement eg a linked list from scratch whenever they need one (with a new chance to introduce bugs etc).

The upside of that copy-and-paste coding is that you don't have dependencies. But I'd hardly call it a virtue.
And banks are still perfectly willing to issue personal checks, a form of payment that requires you to hand someone a piece of paper with your full name, address, bank account and routing info, your signature, and a brief handwriting sample.
Totally agree man!

But external chemicals may help some people (some people may be in a state where it's really hard for them to learn what may come a lot easier to folks like me and you~~not everyone is good at navigating their own internal terrain).

Just like you don't need a therapist to guide you, but everyone has different capabilities to do so themselves, and therapist can benefit. I know how to do this, sounds like you know too, even folks like us who know how to do it themselves, I think should be open to the experience of being guided by someone else to see what it's like.

This re-timelining can be used for many things. And it's not fiction. Your body makes it real, and it's more real than that, too.

I think chemistry helps, it's not strictly necessary, but there's a whole lot of psych (placebo etc), and structural (makes more sense as a therapy / economic activity in that industry to combine with an agent, probably lead to that therapy getting more traction and helping more people), and real (chemistry clearly helps, ancients have been using it) reasons that make the combination therapy of chemistry plus therapist a really good option to be generally available! :)

I am not with you on there's no free will. There's definitely free will. (and it can be a cope to pretend there's not, I think, because it gets you out of personal responsibility, a thing lots of folks have an issue with!). Because it's a choice. I mean, there's even a choice to rewrite your story in the ways we're talking about. That's clearly free will, to you, right?
They systematically use the English word for sex, yet I'm sure they'd been doing it far before contact with westerners.
Reviewing and editing if needed (often not) is dramatically easier than filling out from scratch, regardless of what you call "free tax filing".
> Oppenheimer was dragged through the mud during the red scare and his name is still tarnished because of that.

How would that tarnish his name today?
I had a similar thought about the hard sciences (physics graduate dropout) and the inaccessibility of hard sciences to amateurs. Then I moved to the desert and got interested in geology and much to my surprise learned there's all sort of stuff in geology that is available. It's the result of the need to physically go look at rocks (at least for structural). I'm currently working on a new description of the strata at the end of my street because the highest resolution stratigraphic map fails to correctly delineate at least two units of bedrock - eg the map does not show them, but they appear to be present. To figure it out, I've had to take several road trips to compare my neighborhood rock to the exposed units in those locations. I find it quite fun and entertaining.

Meanwhile, a colleague of mine found a new species of dinosaur using a radiometric detector he designed and got a patent on (https://ktar.com/story/4298984/arizona-volunteers-unearth-75...).

There's still some real science out there if you want it. :)
Nick Clegg defends release of open-source AI model by Meta
Surely not. Oppenhiemer "creating" the Atomic Bomb is pretty widespread general knowledge. Nobody outside physics geeks has heard of Fermi.

My context is from being outside of the US though.
This, more rules for thee but not for me.

Pepsi can pay $10MM for the main character in a kid's movie to drink a Pepsi.

But if a small board game company sends an influencer a free board game, an influencer is not allowed to review it.

Personally, I think having "background" props is much more insidious. At least with social media I know I can expect grift. Seeing someone drink Pepsi in a movie is more like seeing your friend drink Pepsi.

John likes Pepsi, and he's cool. Think I'll drink some.
The movie as in this new one? Are you serious?
Tsnsrv, or easily accessing services on your tailscale network · Andreas Fuchs'
Dozens of papers co-authored by Nobel laureate raise concerns (2022)
FTFY: Good code is a love letter to your future self.
Would be cool to play with this hypervisor on some lab hardware.
Thanks for sharing what you found there! I don't know, I get if you take that from it, but it just seems a narrow interpretation. And there's a wider view, that's a very useful one, that I think you've missed too.
Public perception doesn't change at the snap of a finger. I'm sure there are plenty of people alive today who grew up thinking "Oppenheimer bad" and would possibly perpetuate that perception down the generational line.
They don't mandate every keys to every door because they CAN break almost every door with force. The police can do it with a warrant and some "special forces" can do it clandestinely.

They can't break most encryption with force.
Yeah. It's both factually accurate and weirdly.... negative and insulting.
This kind of sounds like "Chinese Handball" which is a variant I've played way back. Not sure why it was called that though.
More than Pepsi; cigarettes. This is the only way tobacco is really allowed to advertise anymore. This is why you see scenes of characters enjoyint cigarettes prominently even though it does nothing to move the story forward.
I look a little white, I look a little Middle Eastern. When I was young, I absolutely hated how I looked. I was bullied. Taunted. Tormented. I wanted a nose job. I wanted different hair. I wanted a different build. But as I got into my late 20s, I started to get a lot more attention, and I realized that a lot of people found me attractive. For reference, I look a lot more like Yehuda Amar (an Israeli chef) than Michael Aloni (Akiva on Schtisel).

It's true that being conventionally attractive made my life 1000x easier - it's almost like the trees lowered their branches to make the fruit easier to pick. I'm pretty sure it made it easier to get a mortgage and a job and definitely a partner. But I still think about what my life would be like if I had a different nose, different hair, different build.

Even in my late 40s, I still get a lot of attention from much younger women. A few weeks ago, a woman, maybe 25, openly flirted with me while she made my cappuccino. This has happened many times before, but I never make a move.

All I could think was how repulsed she would feel if she ever saw me naked. Or how fast she would disappear if she saw my crooked upper teeth. Or all my gray chest hair. Or my hairy back. Even if I played ball and gave her my number, even if she thinks I'm handsome, older-and-wiser, I just could never get past how I feel about myself, and see myself, relative to her.
That's pretty funny! Thanks for the laugh :)
An LLM is a tool. It is a very versatile tool. It can be used in many situations. It does not therefore follow that it should be used in all situations. Even if you wanted to use an AI to solve sudoku, there is no particular reason to begin with a model trained for language modeling instead of a model better suited to the task.
Texas worker accused of being on drugs was dying of heatstroke
Your coworkers must love you.
Then we would live in a high-trust society, like the United States and Europe used to be 100 years ago. Or like Singapore is now.

But we don't, and never will again, for very complicated reasons.
In writing this I was amazed how many government operated CAs there were in the Microsoft trust store.
A 16th-Century Astrology Book Tried to Predict the Future Using Wheel Charts
It was a recent and popular work of fiction, by a well known author. If you like anything related, I’d encourage you to check it out.
They're not the first company to do that. https://panzura.com/ did something similar.
It's more common these days (on the Internet) to accuse everyone you disagree with as being fascists.

However, even during the red scare, communism/socialism was (and still is) fashionable with the elites. Compare https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-new-su... and see how McCarthyism might have been a reaction.
Intent to Prototype: Web environment integrity API
An unkind assessment.

They used their brains to perform the calculations, I don't see how you could see it otherwise.
I'm pretty sure the "influencer" is allowed to review it, it just needs to be clearly disclosed. I'm not sure what would be actually prohibited.
"Petrodollars" are completely unimportant. They just mean Saudi Arabia's financial reserves, and KSA is not a large country so it wouldn't matter if they abandoned the dollar. It already doesn't matter that we stopped Russia from trading in dollars.

If anyone ever mentions petrodollars, CBDC, or crypto to you, they are crazy and I recommend stealing their wallet. (Since they're into crypto they're used to it.)
pot: kettle you are black!
I don't get it there are so many ways to solve sudokus why does anyone care about this anyways?
Well if it takes Newton to act as an example of "That level of insight happens very rarely in history", then the point stands. Unless that was what you were getting at?
You can use mine:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

You just put an image on some HTTP server and it shows it.
You could get an LLM to attempt this for the slowest shader ever
Something I'd consider for the good code is leaving open nice easy tasks for future developers to pick up so they can get a sense of how the codebase works.

Just reading isn't as good as interacting with it
Usually the situation is someone has meticulously crafted some perfect system which can be extended and reused in many coherent ways. And then that person leaves the company and no one else truly understands how it works or was meant to be used so it gets a series of hacks and patches applied to it which violate the original design which is known by no one at the company. For most projects this is not that big of a deal, the component gradually becomes less coherent and the original requirements change so much that one day someone will decide that the whole thing will be rewritten from scratch.
When you give someone a physical check, you are giving them your bank account info. It is written on the bottom of every check.
Please note that you NEED to have Go 1.20

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build .
# github.com/jmorganca/ollama/llama
llama/llama.go:141:31: undefined: unsafe.SliceData
llama/llama.go:172:52: undefined: unsafe.SliceData
llama/llama.go:211:45: undefined: unsafe.SliceData
llama/llama.go:274:10: undefined: unsafe.SliceData
llama/llama.go:275:3: undefined: unsafe.SliceData
note: module requires Go 1.20
Political Officer: “And the seventh angel poured his bowl into the air, and a voice cried out from heaven, saying: "It is done." A man with your responsibilities reading about the end of the world. And what's this? "I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds."”

Captain Ramius: “It is an ancient Hindu text, quoted by an American.”

Political Officer: “An American?”

Captain Ramius: “Mmm. He invented the atomic bomb. And was later accused of being a communist.”

--The Hunt for Red October (1990 movie, not sure its in the book)
> Einstein's insights were on a scale quite a bit beyond what anyone else has done since then.

I wouldn't quite say 'anyone else'. There's always John von Neumann.
This is the so self-serving and self-congratulatory! He had the nerve to cry on her doorstep, which says he didn't want to apologize, but to be forgiven and to make a show of it.

Amending past wrongs is about showing up without any regard for your own feeling and the intention to do whatever is in your power to set the wrong aright. You admit the wrong and then you listen.

I get it that to the author this is some cute meta-story about "we were both wrong!" But truly acknowledging one's fault is antithetical to this kind of fawning over oneself and infantile moralizing.
They should really bundle this with YouTube TV. Their offering has gotten weak over the past year — at least for me — and a YT Premium sub for free or heavily discounted would definitely make me more interested in keeping it. Otherwise, I find it too expensive in a world where ad blocking is so easily done.
Back when I use to run Linux as my main system OW was one of the games that ran basically without any problems (other than shader compilation at the start) sometimes even better than it did on Windows.

Funnily enough there have been a few times that Wine specific problems have been addressed by the BNet team (pre steamdeck) and when Linux players were accidentally banned they have unbanned them iirc in some scenarios.
I see it and am in the US
The difference is that I didn't presume I could give anyone easy advice about how to write good code.

The only thing you can do is gain lots of experience, constantly question if there are better ways to do things, read about ideas others have had (without getting religiously attached), make your own mistakes, hopefully learn from them, overcorrect, then learn from your overcorrections and so on. I'm afraid there's not really an easier way.

On the other hand "write obvious code" makes it sound as if there's an easy way to do it, and everyone who doesn't write "obvious code" is just deluded, showing off, or something like that.
As much as I wish Oxide the best, most of us here would probably prefer our own libre, hand-crafted OS atop Coreboot.

(Or maybe I speak for myself only...)
I wouldn't want the OS to do spell checking, but the OS having a config setting for which spell checker library and settings to use by default and for specific apps would be sweet, would it not?

> A spell checker used to take up an insane amount of memory

IMO they still do. At least anecdotally, with free software shipping with spell check that often makes up a hefty chunk of the file size.

And even ignoring that, for every program with its own spell check, you have all of the redundant spell check data, and then your corrections/additions aren't even shared. Nevermind importing them on a freshly installed OS, syncing them between devices, futuristic things like that :)
The birth of id software – Excerpt from John Romero's autobiography
Because it's easy to mess up claiming the EITC and only low income people can claim it. Also, there's a lot more (relatively) low income people than high income people.

This also depends if by "audits" you include every kind of correction letter the IRS sends you.
The US already has Zelle which does this. However the roll out was botched, many banks don't seem to use it and most people (including me until a few months ago) thought it was a paypal competitor - but it's actually a government based system system which renders free transfers between bank accounts (your own or others) with a cap of 3 or 5k/month.

The interface is very weird. Many people can't figure out how to use it. I ended up having to set up new email addresses and assign them to different bank accounts in order to distinguish my accounts.
Sometimes I go to change code to do a new thing and it is easy to do. The new cases fit in, the existing system doesn't explode, all is good.

Sometimes the code is beautifully factored and tested. Maybe even documented. It then proceeds to fight against the new change. Maybe the type invariants fail everywhere for reasons that price spurious. Maybe code far away makes dubious assumptions and breaks in response. In the worst case, it's beautiful nonsense held up by undefined behaviour and the language has come to collect the tax.

I like code that can be changed to do new stuff without everything around it exploding. That's probably what I'd call good code. It's in the context of tolerating future requirements well as the future is now.

I do not see such code often.
Its: John M. Logsdon
The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest

I think its out of print. I had to buy it used on Amazon for like 80 bucks when I bought my copy.
I don't think that's the case in proper MVC design. Perhaps in some web version of it. In proper MVC AFAIK view never triggers any changes to anything, it just displays things and updates only itself, not others.
I’ve used Glyphs before for drawing type and can’t recommend it enough. Reasonably priced, quite powerful, fast and fluid to use. Drawing—even re-drawing—type is almost addicting. When you get the Bézier curves dialed in just right it’s so satisfying!
And this is why Go lang exists... The trade off is screw brilliant engineering just make it simple so other people can build on it easily. Not saying it's my favorite, but it has it's merits long term.
What is your opinion of the FedNow Service bespoke flavor / enhanced message schemas vs what is formally defined in ISO 20022? Do you foresee any impact those differences having on how future versions of ISO 20022 can evolve? Is there an aspect of ISO 20022 you wish was different in some way?
> Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don't create accounts routinely. HN is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Using a throwaway account to make a needlessly incendiary comment is unproductive. If you're not willing to put your main identity behind a comment, maybe consider if it needs to be rephrased rather than hiding behind a throwaway.