skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When Alpha became really good, DEC the company was going down. Then DEC became Compaq and then Compaq was going down. Then it became Intel and Intel didnt care.

Then the Alpha team went to AMD and kicked Intels ass.

Over the next couple years Intel spent billion in rebates and got into anti-trust lawsuits in lots of countries.
How is the sealed sender feature obscure and unverifiable?
I wonder how effective is this strategy, and is there a name for it? Reminds me of people planting 20 dollar bills in their auto seats before a oil change/car repair. If the money is missing, what does that actually say about quality of the car repair? Also doesn't trust go both ways and you risk damaging the relationship with the vrndor? I'd be very reluctant to repair someone's car again or who plant judgmental traps.
Similarities: In both cases, people are offended that their religious sensibilities were hurt, and many of them want to lash out angrily against those who offended them. Some of them say that no one should have the right to offend them this way. Some of them try to find a way to retaliate against those who offended them.

Differences: In one case, a dozen people are murdered; in the other case, not.
Scientific breakthrough harnesses mRNA technology to develop malaria vaccine
Still brand new, but alternate real time rails are available [1] [2]. I know that finding banking in the cannabis space can be...challenging. Hopefully policy gets fixed soon [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491 (FedNow Is Live)

[2] https://www.axios.com/2023/07/20/federal-reserve-fednow-paym...

[3] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1996
Money is moving without the politics of Washington being involved, favors are being "gifted" to orgs for access to novel tech. If that can't get power brokers in Washington to force some change, nothing will.
Yes, but also no.

You are correct that there are lots of things that you can't do without grouping codepoints into grapheme clusters. And it is unfortunate that the Go standard library doesn't have utilities for grouping codepoints into grapheme clusters; the Go team's response to that is largely "don't do those things; even if we had utilities for grouping codepoints into grapheme clusters, those things would be hard to do and you are likely to get it wrong; human-level text is complicated, so treat it as opaque as much as you can."

But also, there are still lots of things you can do with just codepoints. You can tokenize. You can trim whitespace. You can do case-conversions and comparisons. You can transcode to a different encoding (whether that be a different Unicode encoding, or something like a JSON where some codepoints will need to be \uXXXX-encoded).

So yeah, codepoints aren't always what you want, but they're what you want more often than Java's "usually codepoints, but sometimes surrogate pairs". Especially because I suspect that very few Java programmers bother to test their code with surrogate pairs.
It is really irritating that debit cards get treated as second class payment. It was particularly galling that the IRS wouldn't accept them as ID confirmation for corona stimulus. Ultimately, US debit cards can use the same credit charge rails. It's just silly turf wars that make them sporadically unusable.
I don't care either. They'll probably fix it at some point if they themselves get annoyed by this behavior. But TBH, very few people will be inconvenienced by this at the current time. I have exactly one C to C cable in my house, and a lot of A to B or C cables. So what if it violates the USB C spec? The Nintendo Switch violates the C spec too. Perhaps they should have made the spec a little more straightforward?
Craigslist is toast in the US. Still operating but FB marketplace is an order of magnitude more effective and popular.
There are enough GoDaddy horror stories online for people to stay 6 feet away from them. Quite fascinating its still a thriving business...
To be fair, this is just debt cards. While I don't approve of them blocking this at all, I am guessing there was also a bit of fraud involved, even with the pin numbers.

On a more personal level, I'm not sure why people would use anything other than cash to buy weed... who wants these companies tracking you anyway.

Update: The comments below prompted me to look a bit further into my fraud speculation... quick google search found this:

https://digboston.com/no-more-atms-is-the-smell-of-money-com...

Cash back is a laundering problem.
don't forget about shocks and pinch/crush hazards, hooray
AMD kicked Intels ass, Intel literally just used its monopoly and lawsuits against AMD.
> Seems it is a tracking of children bill that advertising companies would love to have access to.

Downvoted - where is tracking in this bill[0]?

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/366...
> In other words, I believe that, today, the only reason to pick a language is likely something like: It's what I know and it has the libraries, frameworks and support I need.

I would take it even further and say that in the near future, everyone will have their own beloved DSL completely customized to their needs and the AI will be able to translate any code to your favorite DSL. You’ll code and commit the changes and the AI will take care of that and convert it back to other peoples’ DSL’s.
> without external power.

The radio transmitter is the external power. The crystal set is a way to grab a tiny amount of the electrical power being paid for by whatever entity is running the transmitter. You can play around with the inverse square law and figure out how little power the set is grabbing, but it's working on the basis of what it does grab.
I pay you to produce for me a drawing of a Blorgen.

You think on this for a while and decide that instead of drawing a Blorgen, you are going to grab a random Google image and send it to me. That's fraud.

But let's say you draw the Blorgen instead. What's a Blorgen? No idea. Maybe you draw a lizard person. Maybe it's an abstract piece.

Even if you and I disagree on what a Blorgen is, the situation is no longer fraud.

If I hire you to do a psychic reading for me and you decide to get naked, walk around a bonfire 3 times and then stream of consciousness pronounce whatever is in your head.. great. You did the commission.

Even if your psychic fortune is "electric badgers like rock n roll radio", man, I have some issues but fraud ain't one.
Sure, but not all (or even most) chrome features are web standards, so it makes sense that those are deployed without consensus, because there isn't anyone to get consensus with.
I haven't done it in a while but I was cranking images out at 11s/output on a 3080. But it depends on your workflow, too. I started low res/low samples (32-64) and scaled up or used recursion until I got a desirable result or found a nice seed. I think I was doing 512x916 or something close to that.
When there is a lot to do and you are understaffed the highest priority things are usually obvious. For instance, we keep getting repeated requests for X from dev, let’s automate it or make it self-service. Software X is severely out of date and preventing us (or dev) from implementing X, let’s upgrade it.
As much as I would prefer to believe otherwise, the only way to completely eliminate trash is with a gigantic step-function increase in energy usage. Lowering consumption won’t do it alone.
Performance, approachability

Someone's going to argue with me. Fair enough. Provide your explanation.
In the state of PA, it's illegal to be a psychic - for just this reason
You're underestimating the loudness of pickleball. It's a very comment complaint all over. Way louder than tennis, for example. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/sports/pickleball-noise-c...
Good luck with your samples and in the very least it should be good fun to play a small part in the replication of results. If documented well enough you might even wind up in a meta-study some day.

The bigger the impact the more of a splash it will make in social contexts consequently we see a lot of blatant and cautious naysayers with various explanations and individual explanations for the logic of their refutation.

But it’s If it’s shocking enough, groundbreaking enough, anyone with the expertise to try will do so either to see if it’s right instead of waiting around for someone else to do it and write it up and publish it, or to prove that it’s not and for something this big at least, give BobbyBrocolli a new possible video topic to consider.
True although I'm not talking about Ethereum smart contracts, I'm talking about Bitcoin ones which are very limited and not Turing complete. The lightning smart contract is like 20 lines and has been live since 2018, I feel the probability of the contract getting hacked is very low(famous last words!) https://github.com/lightning/bolts/blob/master/03-transactio...
> the question of whether historic emissions somehow entitle a country to future emissions

As a national of a developed country, I am entitled to make more greenhouse emissions than the poor.

As a national of a highly developed country, I refuse to, or otherwise fail to, make the changes to achieve 'different growth' that I demand of significantly poorer countries seeking to up their living standards, because these changes threaten my quality of life.
Even if true, your comment is against the site guidelines.
One can read the article and read the prosecution's argument and still disagree with it. I do.

In the end you're buying something that doesn't exist. If you want to believe it exists that's fine. Complaining that you bought magic and someone sold you fake magic though? C'mon now. The fake predictions were just as real as the real ones would be.
I know I'm stating the obvious, but we're screwed.
On the subject of substitutability, the element chosen to examine in that paper was mercury. According to the paper, "about 2250 tons of mercury were used [in the US] each year [in the period of 1964-1973]".

How much mercury does this US now use? According to the USGS, the domestic consumption of mercury in the US in 2018 was 9 tons.
JetBrains IDE update previews “deeply integrated” AI Assistant
The computer needs to be super cold anyways so you might as well use a regular superconductor.
No need to prove! Any well calibrated bullshit detector should ring at 110dB when applied to claims mixing AI and quantum computing.

(that said, "may eventually be possible" is so weak a claim it's already meaningless. Quantum fluctuations may eventually turn me into a potato but it's not keeping me up at night)
PR - pull request
Just because it was decided a long time ago doesn't mean school administrators have stopped being petty authoritarians. The school district I was attending at the time tried to push mandatory recital of the pledge every morning and after pushback (nothing in the courts, unfortunately) settled on the absurd policy that you don't have to recite the pledge, but you need to stand, put your hand on your chest, and pretend to recite the pledge. I wish I'd had the insight at the time to do an end-run around my parents and contact the ACLU about it, but oh well.
This is hilarious, and also terrifying (for his feet!)

I was not at all surprised to see one of his toes had electrical tape (?) on it, but boy is that dangerous for any unprotected skin. Anybody interested in some compartment syndrome?
> So I need to figure out where the data for it is stored and figure out how to ensure it is being backed up.

As a user, this is why I love Docker. The configuration is explicit and contained, and it's well documented which directories and ports are in play.

I don't need to remember to tweak that one config file in /etc/ which I can never remember where is. Either it's a flag or it's a file in a directory I map explicitly. And where does _this_ program store its data? Don't need to remember, data dir is mapped explicitly.

That said I haven't tried to use PostgreSQL myself directly, just tools that uses it like Gitea.
Won't take much mud to stop it.
The basic problem here is that it's not 'lawful', it's just mostly quietly ignored by the feds because people would riot if they actively did much about it. It's hardly surprising that big financial companies would want to be completely disassociated from the situation.
Show HN: Litellm – Simple library to standardize OpenAI, Cohere, Azure LLM I/O
I built this library because langchain was too bloated and I needed a simple abstraction to call multiple LLM APIs. litellm has two functions - completion(), embedding()
This is just more "handwaving with a bad analogy", which again only goes to show how hard it is for people to show any real utility for smart contracts.

It is very easy for me to explain and understand the benefit of ordering over Amazon vs. going to a physical store. When Amazon first showed up, I didn't think "Gosh, what is this really for?" or "Can somebody explain to me, simply, what Amazon is for?" No, I went to amazon.com, browsed a giant selection of books, ordered one and it showed up at my house a couple days later. "Wow, that's awesome" I thought.

If you say "There will be use cases where people simply prefer blockchain over the legacy alternatives because it's cheaper, faster or better and there will be "whole new world" use cases." then why is it so difficult for anyone to say what those use cases actually are?? You say it will be "cheaper, better, faster", but are able to offer no concrete examples or rationale as to why.
As opposed to that person who was actually psychic and just got paid for their work.
Can remember when the Elton McDonald tunnel in Toronto was discovered but still a mystery. All the “experts” making claims of nefarious this n that. Turns out was just some dude who wanted to dig a tunnel.
I normally would stick the one wheel in the bottom of my cart. I also could stick it under my desk at work which helped a bunch. Bikes got locked in a parking garage that was "secured" but would have a bunch of bikes stolen every 3 months.

I don't. I just can't take the escooter to the store. I can really only commute on it as I can't really do anything with it when I get to a store/bar/whatever. My friends may or may not be able to fit it depending the apartment size. Now that I'm laid off I'm probably going to try to sell the scooter.

Those trolley handles look great. My next PEV is probably going to be an EUC of some stripe. I like that there's more than one brand after watching Future Motion get more restrictive and have more problems with their recent releases.
You have tried Control+I (Cmd+I in Mac) with Visual Studio Code + GitHub Copilot? I didn't knew of it until yesterday and it is much better than the chat or wait for autocomplete approach.
Maybe you are using kubernetes or there are multiple things running on the box you want to keep isolated.
Although not really a hobby tunneler, one of my favorite people on this list is William John Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, the reclusive 5th Duke of Portland who built an extensive series of tunnels under his estate. His life is fascinating. Recommended reading:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-duke-who-loved-tun...

http://www.nottshistory.org.uk/portland1907/portland7.htm
Maybe I'm out of the loop here, but why would this be a reason to want to be in contact with someone? You can read accounts of this and imagine it.
Thanks! I’ll give this a try for sure.
I think it's closer to the truth to say that most progress comes not from invention, but in recognizing the implication of things that have already been invented. That can be borrowing ideas from another domain. It can be combining two ideas that never met each other. Or it can be seeing wisdom in something people take as a frivolity (literally turning toys into something profound).

But we also already suffer from a misapplication of this. Everyone wants to be the X of Y (which is basically trying to apply someone else's winning strategy to a different domain), and they think every pair of ideas will be the next Reece's Peanut Butter Cup. But it's still the champ.
And it was both of those things, just a bit more than anticipated. Economies are complex and difficult. Who knew?
I’m not convinced it’s levitating in the video, imagine a magnetic field strong enough to partially lift the fleck but also a patch of the fleck contacting the magnet with enough friction to keep it from sliding away.
> Why don't the policy nerds try to think about what a V-chip for social media would look like and try to come up with a more voluntary solution in that style?

Okay, wow. 1990s is a long way to go to find ineffectual tech.

For a more recent example (of law that was incapable of achieving it's goal), how about fosta/sesta?
Lack of this is insane. Gnome3 has a few such bad points iirc, that makes me to avoid it.
I’m dumbfounded by this game’s popularity among the able-bodied. I’ve tried it numerous times and find it deeply unsatisfying for someone who has enjoyed any racquet sport.

The plastic plinking noise is also pretty bad, I’d hate to have courts near my house.
And if you use flakes, it _is_ 100% reproducible.
Currently we have corporations with total power to control content. Having a (somewhat) representative system making the decisions may not be great but it is better than what we have now.
The article is pretty meh. The author seems a bit excited to map their own perspectives onto the experiences of millions of Californian students.

Those perspectives include some of the author's personal experiences (which I guess we should understand qualify the author to predict outcomes generally), an awkward set of entire countries against which we should compare this new CA program the author couldn't even be bothered to research patiently (let alone deeply), and some mention of how math made California prosper (actually it was history, no it was psychology, no wait it was geography, no wait...hmmm, these positions aren't just more of those "frameworks" the author was deriding, are they?).

Sorry but it's not very interesting to read this unless you are looking for, let's say, more reinforcement for a rage-fueled position on how badly the new stuff sucks vs. back in the cold war days.

(Guess what, cold war education sucked too, go read Feynman talking about his textbook review experiences.)

(I do think there's a bit of a funny after-image you can see, if you read the article and then stare at a blank wall for a few seconds, so to speak--it's shaped a bit like pent up frustration about a lack of ideas to move ahead with. Very common recently, this phenomenon. It's one thing to crit, another to predict, and still another step to creatively address, correct, and emerge with a win.)
The FED needs to stop and wait.
Yeah, I was almost afraid to post my comment because it could indeed seem sarcastic to someone not in the situation, but I assure you it was genuine. We’ve had sprints where everyone was frustrated, exhausted, and morale was low, and they made it known, so I trust that they’re being honest. That being said, I also don’t think that gushing with meaningless praise all the time is necessarily good either.
So I think that thinking was good 20 years ago but isn't fine today. The difference is really the environments we live in.

20+ years ago it really wasn't hard to be private in a public space. You walk off the main street and if you couldn't see anyone then no one could see you, generally. Same would be true about audio.

But today there's cameras everywhere and microphones everywhere, so privacy is not verifiable by simple observation. Plus, you have a GPS tracker on you that's talking to all the GPS trackers that's on everybody else.

That's where the logic breaks down, but it requires subtly and a bit more nuance because the way we're tracked is covert and not as obvious. It can be automated and doesn't require someone to physically follow you. It can gather way more information that that person physically following you every could.

It's not that the former logic was bad, it's that it works on a certain set of assumptions. Assumptions that don't hold true today. The problem we face today with a lot of arguments we have (more than privacy) is that people tend to be working under different assumptions, assuming everyone else has equivalent ones. Additionally, our assumptions are frequently wrong and we end up fighting rather than discussion, which it's fine to disagree with.
For the last few weeks uBlock on my devices seems to have just stopped Youtube ever playing anything. I've read plenty of threads about it but gave up and turned it off for the domain.
Google DNS supports ECS https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/ecs
Abnormal temperatures and lack of humidity caused by the heat island effect of blacktop for miles and miles in every direction.

Adoption of greenspace and far more solar panels in Phoenix could significantly cut down on this phenomena.
This is standard in Gambit Scheme as well.
Eventually you need to work with other people, and using a common time-shared or multi user session is unlikely. Now consider that lisp images generally can't be easily diff'd or merged.

And with that the edit-and-continue paradigm loses much of its value. If you have to commit changes to a shared source file anyhow then you'll be not much worse off with debugging a core dump.
I was going to reply by suggesting emacs lisp as a candidate language, really making it a bet on how long emacs will be around. Will people (commonly) be using emacs in 50 years? I think people will, though I hesitate to say so. If it turns out that we converge on text as a necessary interface to a computer (at least in some cases), maybe the bet pays off.

But I think your idea that the expression of a program will become fungible or machine-translatable is much more salient. Though if the program itself depends on a whole chain of ancient dependencies and idioms (think a VB UI in front of an Access DB) might run afoul of infinite regress. So, to really future-proof on a long time-horizon, it seems you need to be preoccupied with a lot more than the programming language.
And now look at what they got.
Well, at some point you need to deal with a compiler that isn’t fixed yet.
Wow, wasn't expecting to see my post on here! Eventually, I want to write a follow-up, but I'm still a beginner.

Here's what I've liked about Common Lisp so far:

* The condition system is neat and I've never used anything like it -- you can easily control code from afar with restarts

* REPL-driven programming is handy in situations where you don't quite know what will happen and don't want to lose context -- for example parsing data from a source you're unfamiliar with, you can just update your code and continue on instead of having to save, possibly compile, and restart from the very beginning

* Common Lisp has a lot of implementations and there's a good deal of interoperability -- I was able to swap out implementations to trade speed (SBCL) for memory usage (CLISP) in one case (multiple compatible implementations is one of the reasons I've been leaning towards CL instead of Scheme for learning a Lisp)

* Even as an Emacs noob, the integration with Common Lisp is excellent, and it works great even on my super slow netbook where I've been developing -- this isn't as big of an advantage these days with fast computers, VS Code, and language servers, but it's definitely retrofuturistic

There's also a few things I don't like:

* The most popular package manager (QuickLisp) is nice, but not nearly as featureful as I've become accustomed to with newer languages/ecosystems

* Since the language itself is frozen in time, you need lots of interoperability libraries for threads, synchronization, command line arguments, and tons of other things

* I really, really wish SBCL could support fully static builds, to enable distributing binaries to non-glibc Linux distributions

I'm sure there are more pros/cons, but that's what came to mind just now.