skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a fair and interesting read, acknowledging its own short-comings but still worthwhile. Swift is probably the biggest "mistake?"

At any rate, I think it really just boils down to their first header:

>Code Written Before I Joined Is the Worst

That's obviously impacted by what people are using and what's popular (thus the written piece) but at the end of the day that's what it really comes to.
I believe tape was chosen mostly for capacity reasons. The Voyager DTR can store 109 megabytes, which was impractically large for any other storage medium.
> There is a pattern in this list [of green and brown, or most loved and most dreaded, respectively, programming languages]. Can you see what it is?

HTML, which isn't even a programming language, is in both of them.

Just make sure your data is clean.

Also:

> Old code is the worst. Find me a file in a codebase that has been under active development for more than three years, and it will be hard to follow.

Not if the developers have basic good practices and understand how to maintain a codebase, which presupposes that they were ever allowed to do maintenance.

This is fundamentally a "manager" article, in that it summarizes a technical concept such that it seems the underlying issue is nontechnical, and it gives managers an excuse to dismiss the technical concerns programmers might have about "technical debt" or "picking the wrong language for the job" with something you can use as a handwave dismissal: "Oh, programmers always grumble about old code. It's harder to read than write, so they dislike our POS system written in pre-RAII C++ with fragile templates."
Paris to Rome can be done with only one stop, for example

Utrecht->Milano (transfer in Zurich) can also be done with one stop, and Amsterdam<->Utrecht are only 30 minutes apart and have at least 6 trains per hour. Quite a lot of international trains in NL terminate at Utrecht rather than Amsterdam, I'd imagine because of rail congestion on the leg to Amsterdam. Only Amsterdam<->Berlin and Amsterdam<->Paris are direct links from the capital FAFAIK.
How much does a solution like this cost?
Part 1:

> They cannot prevent websites from requiring X to access their sites.

They can by lowering amount of signals site gets - so to make it impossible to guess what client is running.

> There is no workable solution to force someone to accept traffic against their wishes.

Not give someone way to disallow traffic based on OS or Browser.

> If they only accept requests with some custom header, that's their prerogative.

And it is users prerogative to not give you any custom header which they do not want - or if you force them to do so give you not real one.

>Many features of browsers have been (ab)used for "nefarious" purposes. Should we get rid of those?

Yes we should. Or at least we should do risk assesment on those to check if they should be part of standards and Browsers. We should do more risk assessment of any new feature and standard.

>Anything Google does is automatically bad.

If they start championing privacy and less pro-corpo bs - I will applaud them for that.

> This whole thing feels like since Trump is not president in the US any more, certain people need a boogeyman and are using Google in his place.

Don't bring your (USA) bs politics to this - if anything it is your fault to not make proper regulations on your market.

> even though there is no proof

If you understand even tiny bit of tech - you will see the definite proof - the proposal.

> "and stated goals which are the opposite."

PR is irrelevant.
Seriously? To me this looks like a chip of graphite glued to an invisible thread. The way the object moves is not what I would expect from magnetism (see second 10 for instance)
if that were true, you could have answered the question directly

you couldn't, suggesting that it isn't true

by the way, you forgot to respond to [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36984443
That's about $3,000 a month, which is a little cheaper than an average apartment in Mountain View.
RIP :q
I had interacted with him over the mailing list a few times and he was always very helpful. I'll miss him.

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It'd only benefit if the latency of the external memory is bad enough to keep the cores waiting, sure, and certainly you're right regarding a single-CPU system. I think this fantasy experiment only "makes sense" (for low enough values of making sense) if you assume a massively parallel system. I don't think it'd be easy (or even doable) to get good performance out of it by modern standards - it'd be a fun weird experiment though.
Rest in peace, Bram. Thank you for Vim.
> It probably couldn't hurt to get a diffuser and some oils.

How did you come to the conclusion that this couldn't hurt? If you believe it could help, that means you believe it has a psychoactive effect and therefore you should also believe that it could hurt.
That was google's demo for the AI in gmail. You write 3 words explaining what you want to say to an AI, which inflates it; and on the other side another AI goes back to hopefully the same 3 words that were originally written.

Tons of pollution for this shit.
Cydonia (Mars)
I spent a month travailing in Europe this Spring and while not horrible, I can see why most people want to take planes or drive. If you are traveling between countries nothing matches up. You land in Europe and decide to take a train from Frankfurt to Prague and the schedules don't sink up. You spend an ungodly amount of time waiting or sitting on a train in the dark. Then if you want to travel to Poland from Prague you end up arriving to your destination 10 hours later in what would be a <4 hour car trip. I can understand why most Europeans I spoke to would much rather fly or drive and leave the trains for tourists. Tourists also don't have time to burn adjusting their schedule to the train schedules. With the Schengen Zone you only have 90 days every 180, where as before you could spend a year travailing across Europe you're now screwed because you have 90 days instead of 90 days for each individual country.
To me it sounds like a tongue in cheek remark because creativity is obviously needed in poetry and is strongly associated with poetry. Sounds like the type of thing a teacher says to get a laugh out of the students. You can give Hilbert more leeway without more context.
> Just don't buy the "e" models if you're shopping elsewhere

Ah yes, “just” add another highly specific thing to your memory so that sometime unpredictable in a next x years you don’t get completely screwed by the giant corp. And for all those people who don’t spend their days on a computer reading HN, sucks to be you, HP got ya.

The sarcasm in this comment isn’t directed at you (thanks for sharing the ‘e’ tidbit) - I’m just so so tired of giant corps actively trying to screw the consumer at every possible turn. It makes shopping for anything besides the absolute basics exhausting.
https://humbletoolsmith.com/2017/07/08/learning-from-the-ata...
There is a collection of people and cultural artifacts that are contemporary to us, though usually not our exact age. They pass away, one at a time, until we are all that is left of the world we once defined, a world that eventually is gone.

Bram’s passing is another chip at the passing of the world I knew, where vim was new.

Thank you Bram for your excellent and enviable contribution to computing.
https://www.historicacanada.ca/productions/minutes/marshall-...
I learned and mainly use the cli but I would say it's true that most devs I've spoken to do not. Whenever the topic comes up I feel like I'm the minority suggesting the cli as a good way to use git.

The problem is if you mainly use a UI and get into a bad state then the UI tends to make it worse and you have a bad mental model so you're left asking for help and finding it hard to describe what you need. That's my experience anyway, I see that happen about once a month among my peers.
There’s nothing odd about that thinking. You’re just scratching the surface of philosophy and you should continue.

Nothing is an inevitability and tomorrow will look different than anyone here or anywhere else tries to predict.

Don’t stop wondering. But I definitely recommend exploring others’ wondering. Especially when it has nothing to do with tech and all to do with your own existence.
I think the examples on this page are clear: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger where cot/caught is the same difference as don/dawn.
EPA Approved a Chevron Fuel Ingredient That Has a Lifetime Cancer Risk
Mostly, but they've still got propietary "pro" drivers for certain feature sets. I certainly trust Intel more to work with the open source community on driver support for their hardware, based on the history. Intel iGPUs had open source Linux drivers from the beginning. AMD and ATI before them ignored us for decades, and they're still not fully there. I applaud them for finally having made some progress, but it's been slow, and they still have a ways to go. Intel are poised to overtake them quite quickly in this respect(Linux driver support) despite the added work of having started completely from scratch.

Of course they're still behind on hardware performance, but that's to be expected from a first gen product. I definitely think they could make a mark on the mid/high(but not top/enthusiast) tier market within a couple gens, especially when price vs Nvidia is taken into account.
As revolutionary as this stuff is, it fits within our current understanding of the universe, or maybe a tiny bit outside (for now).

Intelligent interstellar aliens using unfathomable technology, secretly interacting with humans doesn’t.

What you’re asserting at this point is that all of science as we know it is wrong, and everything we’ve built was just incredible, one-in-a-trillion fortune that any of it worked at all.

It’s like looking at a plane or a helium balloon and deciding gravity is wrong.
A very large quantity of discoveries in science are a combination of "well, that's odd" and the "sheer luck" associated with the circumstances producing that statement.

(This isn't a commentary on the truthfulness of the superconductor claims.)
The post just says the video came from BiliBili. Does anyone know the actual source? I want to believe but this video is suspicious.
I'm not saying we need a global chop/removal, I'd be happy if i had personalized filters for me (using my logged-in account + removal settings) to remove pinterest just for me. Same for Quora and ExpertSexChange or whatever that other technical site was.

Same for youtube, a simple blacklist would make my search results much nicer, but youtube seems to push a few large media companies as hard as possible.
DRM Dead Server: Any startups that resolve this issue?
I was wondering if there is any startup that deals with DRM Servers that are shut down once a company goes under. If i have purchased a online product which I wish to use years later. I was wondering if it technically and financially possible to archive this online product in a standardized format, for a insurance premium. So, that if and when the company goes under, the users can continue to access the product. All users will anyways not be interested in ancient products, but it still gives the users satisfaction of having their products available.

I feel that there are 2 major issues with this idea (feel free to add other). Firstly, the company has little incentive to insure for the shutdown scenario. Unless they want to protect their brand (in case of parent company). Secondly, files can simply be distributed to the users before shutdown.

Just wondering if an ever-present archive of digital products is possible or not.Or if there are companies doing something similar.
Does it matter? Even "rigorous" research depends on luck in many cases, because there are so many unknowns. Theory helps reduce the search space, but there are situations when a brute-force attack is the most efficient way to answer the all-important question: is this real?
I've read good things about lavender oil aromatherapy preventing cognitive decline.

Here's one such paper:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5424179/
Please. Aliens are only a cover. It is well known that the pentagon has had a supercomputer that reached superintelligence decades ago and has used to slowly tickle advanced technology to the masses.
>Any politicised science should be treated with extreme. skepticism

Proximal Origin[1] and the deliberate manufactured narrative of conflating criticism of it's blatant flaws to a conspiracy theory[2,3,4] was diabolical, I personally hope Nature's reputation is destroyed because of it.

[1]
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

[2]
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/12/covid-documents-house-re...

[3]
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/19/covid-origin-nih-emails/

[4]
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/why-proximal-origins-mu...
Do you have have any good book recommendations?
Half the surface is still 23km².
Arguably the key point for Christianity and Islam wasn't that they were monotheistic, but that they were _proselytising_; their adherents had a strong incentive to spread them. Granted, a polytheistic religion is probably less likely to be proselytising; "those people over there have our gods and we have our gods, that's fine" is an easier proposition if you're okay with multiple gods in the first place. But it's not universal; notably the Romans tended to actively try to spread aspects of their religion to other polytheists (while also adopting foreign polytheistic concepts; Roman religion was messy). Conversely, Judaism does not proselytise.
I am likewise surprised by how hard this hits. I shouted out loud when I read the headline! Quite a reaction to somebody who I only ever saw one photo of and read the occasional release notes etc. Yet as a vim user, he has been part my daily activities for years.

The name Bram Moolenaar has hovered across all my work…

Thank you Mr. Moolenaar.
Even a breakaway civilization of ancient Atlaneans living under Antarctica makes more sense than aliens. Do yourself a favor and look up how far away other stars are, consider how many times astronomers have looked into space and not seen aliens, and then ask yourself why aliens would be so good at cloaking themselves in space but would ostensibly let themselves be seen on Earth itself.

Spoilers: it's not Atlanteans either, it's just a big tangle of hoaxes and self-delusion from people who want to believe.
The problem is, reading the methodology can only give you a negative signal or a null signal. If the methodology looks good, that still doesn't speak to the correctness of the study's conclusion, for exactly this reason:

> Frankly, I'd expect industry to simply discard studies that don't support their product (null or negative result) and publish the studies that do promote their products.

There could have been a hundred attempts at this study before, all with a negative result, and none of them got published because they didn't have the result industry wanted. We simply don't know. But theoretically, this is something peer review should be able to fix: Researchers without industry support should be able to get the same results if they run the same methodology. Until then, being skeptical of the result seen, even if the methodology is sound, is completely reasonable.
> This is fundamentally a "manager" article, in that it summarizes a technical concept such that it seems the underlying issue is nontechnical, and it gives managers an excuse to dismiss the technical concerns programmers might have about "technical debt" or "picking the wrong language for the job" with something you can use as a handwave dismissal

After reading the article, I had the same conclusion
Those things require energy. Incremental efficiency improvements will not make a big dent. Either we continue to use the same level of energy, or we start giving things up. It’s simple arithmetic.
I meant that this video is a hoax. I don't hold any opinions regarding LK-99.
At least AI is legitimately solving real world problems. I'll take that over crypto-hype any day.
Holy fuck… what… no!
Many things were discovered out of luck in the course of research.
My hypothesis is that everyone here is at least intelligent enough to understand it's a joke, but they downvote it because either they feel it's a low quality / low effort joke, they don't get the reference, or because that style of humor makes them feel uncomfortable.
RIP, thanks for all the hard work and care.
It seems to link to a closed job ad for just Gumroad. If I understand, that's because this is a new side business created by Gumroad.

I assume that once you have a few businesses sign up you will switch to a more generic page under the Join Team link?
Paranoia is pretty common but I think in this case it is more realism than defeatism. After all I feel no defeat at all about this particular issue as I don't have much hope in the internet really.

But don't you think quantum computers are mature somewhere by now? If you had one and you had secrets to maintain, would you be the one to spill the beans even if a VIP planning a war? I doubt the news will come as a result of a bank heist or a 51% attack. This is a Jinn that will never go back to the bottle it came from.

RSA was passed on a long time ago and AES is pretty old. I don't think people can really grasp how much progress has been made. Most people I encounter have no idea that video can be completely faked. Recently I heard an old lady explain that video evidence is basically truth. Notice how easy the eyes are fooled.

For those who have ears, may they hear.

Hopefully my parent post doesn't vanish. I realize this is a tough pill to swallow. I am pretty sure we will all have to swallow it soon.
Perhaps Dan is more of an Emacs guy.
There's precedent that would make it in Pinterest's best interest. IIRC Google's "Panda" algo update basically wiped out search referrals to certain content farms overnight, can't recall specific examples but there were some at the time. They were labelled as low quality and subsequently faded into obscurity.

//added
EHow is an example of a site that was flagged
Here's links to the figures that also should work:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w/figures/2

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w/figures/3

Seems like a pretty stark difference, but even if someone doesn't want to be a vegan or vegetarian, then simply consuming less meat seems like a pretty sane course of action.

Reminds me of the very simple advice (apparently by Michael Pollan): Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

That's more or less what I'm doing, getting a varied diet with lots of nutrients, but also exploring all sorts of plant options and dishes.
Wonderful, but I'm moving to the Netherlands Monday. It checks the boxes except for NL's annoying dependence on gas. Where is your spot?
RIP Bram. Thanks for creating the best text editor the world’s ever seen!
Bram was an inspiration, not just for developing vim, which so many of we programmers used to get into a flow state programming. But also for his work on charity. Deserving of the black banner!
You know, this all could've been prevented if the CCS was written in Rust!!!!!
> Even simple things such as fixing a typo require a Command to be stored as an Event etc etc. Fixing fuckups ...

Event sourcing is a completely different way of thinking about business information. Of course you are going to run into things that look like "downsides". Consider the desired semantics of event sourcing and how your concerns run directly in the face of these semantics.

If you aren't comfortable with what qualitatively seem like "trivial" updates, then I don't think a large enough leap of faith has been made. We like to empathize with the machine but sometimes we take it a bit too far.

Event sourcing absolutely works and it works at the most massive scales the best. If you can dedicate an entire wing of your 15th floor office to "enterprise messaging and events", this stuff 5000% works. It seems to be at the small scale that it fails most frequently. At small scale, it's usually just one developer who has enough motivation to see it through, and the moment they shift their focus it falls apart.

I saw it work in manufacturing in ways I cannot do justice in HN comment size limits.
Getting a chinese captcha lol
Tangentially related, but it got me thinking. Does this mean that Copilot and friends are always writing old code?
It looks convincing to my naive eyes, but how would you differentiate between this and diamagnetic levitation of something like pyrolitic graphite?
I don’t imagine she’s reading Ulysses, Faust, or A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu. Point being, if you read lots of trash yes you can put away lots of books in a year, but what have you learned or gained from that effort? Other than social media “cred”?

I think it would be more beneficial to read five really really good books per year and try to understand, internalize, and recall them.
Same. Variations of Vim have been my go to editor for many decades now. Stellar achievement.
I didn't even say stop eating meat. But we certainly could do with less, and make what we do eat better quality.
I work for a company that tried to put RHEL on the high performance server equipment we build, and we’re quoted about 1 million dollars per license, non-negotiable. That would have made our product far too expensive. So we ended up going with CentOS, and then Rocky, and hired a team of about 30 people to manage it (and some other projects). I appreciate Red Hat and their right to manage software as they see fit, but given my experience over the past several years, it feels they are just trying to squeeze the brand for as much as they can get. I’m curious to watch what will happen to it over the next five years.
So throw a couple extra bones to the poors and maybe the race thing will solve itself? Why tax the fucking rich? Academics and politicians need to change the message to simply that: tax the rich. You can't fix one extreme without addressing the opposite extreme, in this case. Tax the rich and less tax for the poor (everyone else).
Headphone jacks are no longer common on Android phones either so this is a very strange dig at Apple. Samsung, Google, and most other mainstream companies haven’t included them in years.

The official adapter from Apple costs $9 and works flawlessly.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
Trying lots of stuff for years and years until something works, aka rigorous research and sheer luck.
For everyone reading this who has ever adored vim, or any of the editors that would go on to be inspired by vim, I can think of no better tribute to Bram than to make a donation to the charity that he spent the better part of his life advocating for.
Because they want to avoid sending your IP to Twitter if you aren't going to watch the video, and the way to do that without JS is to only render the video embed if you actually request it.
> [...] if the developers have basic good practices and understand how to maintain a codebase, which presupposes that they were ever allowed to do maintenance [...]

In that parallel universe, they wouldn't need modern programming languages, since that universe's divine developers working unhampered by deadlines and business constraints would surely be able to write bug-free code in Fortran and C :)
That is certainly true of good coffees that have been “washed”.
more likely a close relative simply got access to his accounts.
Trams or buses to your friend Bob's flat or rowhouse would be helpful here.
> homo sapiens was happiest in the hunter gatherer era

I get the point you're making (progress is an illusion etc.) and have some sympathy with it, but starvation and the constant threat of being killed or dying slowly of a toothache is surely not a 'happy' life.

Personally I think a fulfilling life doesn't need much happiness at all, just contentment with your situation. There isn't much contentment these days, it seems.