skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The actual title is much better than this gore.

A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops
One of the ideas of Lisp is that you can extend/change the language to bring it near the actual domain level. The so-called "Embedded Domain Specific Language" is common in Lisp.
HAKMEM: A bizarre and eclectic potpourri of technical trivia
Wait, you've never been in a hot tub?

One of the greatest luxuries of life my friend.

I've sat in hot springs on the side of the Colorado River and watched rainbow trout jump out of the river as the sun set.

I've sat in man made springs that channelled natural springs and watched snow fall against a firelit canyon wall.

I've experienced traditional Korean Spas, Japanese Onsens, on and on.

All these people, with variations on the same theme, can't be wrong.

One of our life goals is to have a hot tub, on a deck, somewhere remote and beautiful. It'd be nice of there was a cabin attached, but not necessary.

There are lots of people of think this is the pinnacle of existence on earth, give it a try, you might like it.
This is the worst piece I've ever seen from the Register, by far. Far from being objective, this article seethes with anti-Catholic bigotry and contempt.
I honestly think the book is so bad that it's not worth a lengthy critique, but in short:

1. Dalio doesn't understand what a "principle" is -- but I can understand that "Aphorisms, Cliches and Hunches" is a less arresting title, if much more accurate. (See [0] for a fuller review on this.)

2. Dalio's version of Bridgewater doesn't line up with the experience of others -- which I have heard from so many people as to completely undermine whatever he might say.

Now, in the book's defense: I didn't get through it and perhaps it got suddenly palatable or interesting. However: I also couldn't get through it -- it was just that bad.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2233988523
LumaFusion/LumaTouch is one counter-example, and I‘m certain there are others. At the surface, you may describe it as a „video editor“, but I totally agree that it‘s really about „Story Telling“. I use it on iPad, and I am mesmerised about how ideas click into place every time - there must be serious, long earned expertise at work at the makers of this app. „Designed for consuming“? LumaFusion is the most fun (for me as the creator and my tiny audience of family & friends) creator‘s tool on any device - be it programming on/for small or big iron, writing on Windows, photo editing… you name it.
Your statement may be true for anything knock-off or underpowered, though. Your sentiment just not generalises to premium.
> The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites.

Is there a single person on this planet who wants to host a website but can't and will start doing so if their mobile phone supported it? I'm going to guess no.

99.99999% of people want to host nothing at all (and probably don't know what web hosting is). For the ones that do, it is still a lot more cost effective (and reliable/performant) to buy a $5 VPS or a Raspberry Pi than rely on a device and network connection that aren't meant to be used for web hosting. Cell phones have limited battery life. Mobile network connections are spotty, and they allocate the vast majority of bandwidth for downloads because that's what people are using their devices for.

So the ecosystem doesn't support running websites on mobile devices because (1) it is a terrible idea, (2) the demand is non-existent and (3) there are a hundred better options.
>if you're holding out for changing the world before you can be happy, you're (statistically) going to die miserable

You bring up Japan yet they're known for being excessively and pointlessly overworked to the point of depression and suicide. It is a culture that rewards obedience and prostration to your job above everything else. So many were peer pressured into finding meaning in their work to such an excessive extent, and of course didn't become happy because its a system that optimizes for cohesion and stability, not happiness and meaning.
That’s what’s class-validator is for. You can ensure your apis are doing sensible things.
Oh settle down.

Stump v. Sparkman, 435 U.S. 349 (1978), is the leading United States Supreme Court decision on judicial immunity. It involved an Indiana judge who was sued by a young woman who had been sterilized without her knowledge as a minor in accordance with the judge's order. The Supreme Court held that the judge was immune from being sued for issuing the order because it was issued as a judicial function. The case has been called one of the most controversial in recent Supreme Court history.

The most controversial case in recent Supreme Court history being from 45 years ago speaks directly to how rare this level of controversy is.
The problem with this type of article is that Jobs and Gates have no real world limitations whatsoever. They can do anything with their kids and it won't matter. So that's not relatable to me as a person not in that position.

Example: pretend Gates & Jobs decided to remove their kids from school and teach them full time to be musicians. Completely impractical for me and would not set my kids up for success financially. But for them? Easily done, and their kids would still have hundreds of millions to fall back on at maturity.

Why does that matter here?

Because if their kids don't have screen time, and they get bored and complain, they could hire a dozen people to entertain their kids and look after them (and while the number is probably not that high, they do, actually, use that type of solution). Whereas for me giving kids device time is a practical solution, without those resources: it keeps them entertained, while I work to make money.

These kinds of articles are basically just fun trivia if the people in them have no constraints on their resources.
Run for your life. It's too late to save me from Nix but you can still save yourself.
i’ve never heard someone say that it’s a human right to run a webserver.

i understand that you want to own the stack on your tech, and i would argue that if custom OSes were allowed, that fulfils that need. it’s not apple or google’s responsibility to let you do anything with their OS, in the same vein that you often are limited by stock router firmware or what’s on your ps5.

as phones are hyper-personal it makes sense people want more control, but most average users do not. and as someone who works closely with smartphone tech, i want it to just work and i don’t want to worry about whatever nonsense is enabled by disabling security or os-level by guarantees.

just get a fairphone or whatever. it’s not a human right to force tech companies to embrace your vision of computing
RTGs have been going to space since the 60s [1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_...
Communism ≠ Stalinism.
Normandy is the name of Mozilla’s system to run A/B experiments in Firefox. You can check if you are or have been enrolled in any experiments by entering about:studies in your Firefox address bar. Here are instructions for opting out of experiments:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/shield

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-opt-out-studies-fir...
Personal website hosting is 100% free from many, many vendors.
Exactly that's the big takeaway: he didn't learn what he should have learned: that it was his horse to lead. A CEO that slavishly follows the VCs has abdicated.
It's very old school and discounts how many problems can actually be corrected faster and less expensively than by firing ASAP.

The reason "fire quickly" may be appealing advice to some is that solving problems takes effort without a clear guarantee of return, and leaders usually end up trying easy solutions that diffuse blame or create the illusion that something has changed. Then they wonder why productivity is not up or why employee sentiment is middleing.
Yeah!

Reminds me of a project life cycle cartoon I first saw in a software book early in my career.

Just now searched for "systems analysis tyre cartoon" and selected this page, which seems the best, on a brief look, since it has both some history and multiple versions of the cartoon:

https://www.businessballs.com/amusement-stress-relief/tree-s...
Surprised there still isn’t a dirt cheap service that lets me run a single instance for myself to get a proper custom domain (not an alias).
No, mixing boxed and unboxed types is very typical for garbage collected languages. As the article shows, you can distinguish with a bit whether something is a boxed type or not, so you do that during GC.

Both languages I mentioned use regular 8/16/32/64 bit size values, which is why I asked.
Let’s assume that this is true. Then is the solution to go back to C where it is hard to get concurrency running correctly? Seems backwards thinking.
To quote Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 3, Line 87: “No.”
Just goes to show when devs push back, push harder.
But none of this would stick without judge, jury and lawyers colluding, surely? Seems to me the problem isn't the police but is systemic.
The enrollment cliff is well documented and real and does not impact all universities equally. A college that has a very high acceptance rate, such as WVU will likely feel the impact of the enrollment cliff more than others.

Initial enrollment is also not the same as enrollment at census. Colleges experience some level of "melt" which is the number of students who end up not showing up or otherwise leaving in the first couple months of their first year. Again, I would imagine that WVU with their high acceptance rate would experience outsized melt compared to their peers.
I think Nix should fix their horrible UX before trying to market it too much.
You could use Rain to cool down your CPU.
That tool was useful under VM's and DOSBox too.
Because when you get away from the center, you've often chosen a "team." Choosing a team clouds your judgment.
Fantastic idea!

Wonder what Jesus would think of Trump?

Too bad I can't find out since it is only available for Apple.
YouTube Shorts is disabling clicks for comment links in effort to fight spam
The pp implies there are manny more things, as opposed to just some more things. https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/etc._pp.
"...or even de-Googled Android, on a normal Android device can absolutely tank your battery life."

Not necessarily. About eight hours ago I was having trouble with the GPS on my main phone (I cleared GNSS on GPStest app and it wasn't refreshing fast enough), so I found another in my assortment of phones that was still running and had some charge left in it and used it (it also had GPStest installed)—and I'm using it now to post this comment.

It's a Huawei GR5 Honor from 2017 with original battery that I've de-Googled, and when I picked it up earlier the battery indicated 22℅ remaining which surprised me because I've not used it for some weeks.

When I read your comment I thought I'd ckeck the battery and phone usage logs and I'm now even more surprised. The phone was last used on July 19 (24 days ago) and the battery drain graph shows a very gentle and almost perfectly linear decline from then (until I put it on change and started using it).

Moreover, it estimates remaining battery life in standard/default power mode at 8 days 23 hours (but it's since been on change). Note: the phone was set to standard power mode during those past 24 days. If I switched to 'Power Saving' mode the estimate is 11 days 16 hours, and in 'Ultra Save' its estimate is nearly 33 days (778 hours 44 mins).

Incidentally, the phone has 346 apps installed.

It's amazing what battery life one can achieve when one stops both Gapps and user-installed apps yapping back to Google-Central.
Oh, l@@k:

"Meta ditches open plan office structure to bring back cubicles"

https://www.chargedretail.co.uk/2023/02/21/meta-office-space...
I’m pretty sure having enamel mugs with facist slogans from the thirties would be frowned upon. Somehow if it’s communist slogans it is completely kosher.
"Soviet"? They look pretty Chinese to me.
Capitalism = slavery to the state. If you don’t have enough money you literally die of hunger and the system says it’s your fault.

Hitler was a devout capitalist.
Russia is a staunchly capitalist country.
All of the poorest countries in the world are capitalist countries.

People often lazily confuse specific ideologies and political theories with autocratic regimes and despots.

And before anyone says communism causes despots there have been more capitalist dictators and despots than you can count.
> I haven't come across an instruction set other than Datapoint that treated register and memory accesses identically. (If you know of exceptions, please let me know.)

The DEC PDP-11 was launched in 1970, slightly earlier than Datapoint 2200.

While DEC PDP-11 also had additional addressing modes, its two most simple addressing modes, register direct and register indirect correspond exactly with the addressing modes of Datapoint 2200.

The only difference is how they were encoded. Because PDP-11 had longer instructions, they could afford separate bits for encoding the addressing mode.

So 3 bits encoded the 8 registers and a separate bit encoded whether the register is used as data (register direct) or as the address of data from memory (register indirect).

Datapoint 2200 needed shorter instructions, so they have dispensed with the bit needed for encoding the addressing mode, by using only 7 registers, so that the unused register number could be used to encode the register indirect addressing mode, where the register holding the address had to be implicit, as no other bits were available to specify it.

So what is special about the addressing modes of Datapoint 2200 is this encoding trick, which saves 1 bit of the instruction encoding with the price of allowing only one of the general-purpose registers to be used for memory addressing, while the addressing modes themselves are not new.

This encoding trick, where it is avoided to have additional bits for encoding addressing modes, by reserving some register numbers to encode those addressing modes, has been reused repeatedly by Intel when defining the 8086 and 80386 ISAs and by AMD when defining the 64-bit extension.

For instance, there are no instruction bits to encode addressing modes where the address is computed by adding a base register and an index register. Instead of that, the SP register cannot be used in the basic encoding for memory operands, so using the SP register number denotes that the address is computed by adding a base register and an index register, where those registers are specified by an extra SIB byte. There are a few other cases where some registers cannot be used with certain addressing modes, but when they appear in the instruction those register numbers mean that the operand must be accessed with some different addressing mode, like memory relative to the instruction pointer or memory absolute.
If you had 5MB you would just spawn Emacs in a tty and use SVGALib stuff to display images.

Today I do the same with Gemini/Gopher/light HTTP pages and nsxiv to display the pictures and mpv+yt-dlp to watch videos/music/podcasts.

That on an Atom N270, which today is like having 4MB and a 386 back in the day in 1999.
I created a child, what can be cooler than this? :)
This is a great overview of a RAG workflow, and also composing a complex task down into simple tasks that fit within the context window!

I'm really interested if there is any software or open source projects that make this type of thing easier- specifically the idea of creating multiple "phases" or "tasks" that each has their own LLM prompt and validation rules (like each node in the flowchart.) I think something like that could be very helpful!
I don't think the VCs are to blame at all. This is a one sided story but that side already gives off so many signals of not being cut out for the job that it isn't surprising to see them heaping the blame on another party. If you're the CEO and you are looking for capital you don't do that whilst giving the capital providers a mandate to run your company by proxy. That's on him. If VCs tell you to do 'X' and you don't agree you're well within your rights as CTO to tell them to shove it. (But more politely, of course.)
Some of those block diagrams were a bit oversimplified. One cannot address 9 rows with only 3 address lines, for example. Or do block graphics with just 4 NOR gates.
When a dark raincloud is rolling in we do not need a citation to say we will be very wet soon. If a person never developed the fundamental ability to anticipate future events based on present observations, I cannot help them with that.
But the option is there, rooting. As long as that is reasonably available I don't really see problem. Of course the seven hells of apple ecosystem is another matter

You can argue all you want about what the normal joe shmoe should be able to do but most joes shmoes will use that to hurt themselves more than help.

Limitiations are essentially OSHA of computing, by making it hard to do the wrong stuff it makes most people least likely to hurt themselves.
Often we are so focused on scale and quantitative data we forget to value impact like this. Sounds amazing!
Envelope encryption, where you encrypt a data encryption key (typically symmetric with AES) with other keys (typically asymmetric with RSA). This is how most password safes like bitwarden work.
A rare combat vehicle appears in Southern Ukraine: a high speed trench digger
That's an interesting question. The Economist attempted to answer it with their series "The Prince" (https://www.economist.com/theprincepod), and I believe their conclusion is that Xi has indeed consolidated power around himself and is nearly an autocrat at this point. Two provisos on this, however:

- The author, Sue-Lin Wong, is something of an outsider, and outsider reporting on China typically misses some subtleties of the real situation in the country.

- Given the nature of China, there will never be a fully autocratic leader there, though it may appear that way to some, and the would-be autocrat might be deluded into thinking they are.
Doesn't match my experience at all. I love that packages are always up to date. Also, in my experience, having a rolling release cycle leads to significantly fewer issues than having to upgrade everything at once. Using Arch has been a net time saver for me compared to something like Ubuntu where I've wasted a lot of time fighting package upgrade issues and trying to get newer package versions than the distro provides.
>remaining lucid and further sobering up.

That's easy for yourself but not for a population that considered Trump's advice to inject bleach.
In such a dynamic a lab leak would have been interpreted by some as bioweapon attack.

And I didn't see much fear of Corona among the scientists, but despair about the reaction of the population.

Just look how some don't take COVID serious but think of the vaccines as either mond control or mass execution device.
Some even belief nobody died of COVID but the hospital killed people and claimed Corona.
Some also wonder what evil motives are behind the fact that unvaccinated people die more often from COVID. Is it to punish them for their disobedience?

It's the same with climate change, the problem isn't necessarily the science or the technology but the people refusal to act accordingly.

At some point you either need to give up or enforce action.
> Now would be a great time to talk to them about the importance of secure, redundant, off-site backup and archiving.

Also encryption.
Life is not a movie. These things happen all of the time without some Hollywood feell good ending. You dont get to just go "oh good old journalism will just fix this". Did you even read it? They can't publish? They were decimated. The Kansas state governors office needs to getting involved and I have an alarm set to call Kelly's office when it opens tomorrow.
Do you have any advice on avoiding or fixing this problem?
> whatever arbitrary thing the various elite classes think today

No one here has said this. Stop hallucinating.
This is making the same mistake that @Blackstrat made; the existence of subtleties doesn’t change the primary high level outcome. There is pretty much absolute consensus on whether doctors should wash their hands. We have lots and lots and lots of evidence that using any reasonable disinfectant cut hospital mortality rates by multiples compared to what they were before hand-washing was protocol, while soap poisoning in hospitals today is extremely rare and difficult to find (and BTW doesn’t even mean soap is the problem, it more likely means the doctor didn’t follow the rinse protocol.)

What disinfectant product to use does have a minor effect on the margins of the outcomes, sure, and there is still some side-discussion about that, but there is no discussion about whether to wash hands. If you’re going to challenge the idea that there’s consensus, you must present and examine the magnitudes of the effects of each decision. I do not buy the argument that a sliver of a marginal effect challenges the primary outcome - and I especially don’t buy the argument that because you imagine there “could be” some cases, then consensus isn’t clear enough. One person in a million dying of soap poisoning has no real bearing on whether doctors should wash their hands, and doesn’t change or challenge the scientific consensus that doctors should wash hands.
And you wouldn’t be wrong to do so! That said, I was legitimately underwhelmed by the protagonist’s (?) arguments for why cash was the superior medium of exchange.

I say this as someone who never uses cash, but deeply dislikes both gift cards AND the trend of non-cash-accepting establishments.
"I have stock in Western Digital!"

"All the fun of Haskell and dpkg!"

am I doing this right?
Haiku OS Support Upstreamed into GCC Compiler
I'd believe the thing about the carrots was about marketing for carrots before tricking the Germans.

It's not like such things haven't been done. In the states there are plenty of scams (marketing) to convince us to eat more grains, or drink milk, or consume more {product}. Don't see why it wouldn't be the same anywhere else.

We had a whole cartoon character dedicated to convincing people to eat spinach, which we were wrong about being particularly beneficial as well. These kinds of things, even when well intentioned, have secondary, harmful effects, that far outweigh their purported benefits.
We get more rockets (literally), faster.

We get Tesla, SpaceX, Google, Facebook, AirBnB, Stripe, etc...
NixOS takes PL concepts from the 80s such as {structured, functional, declarative} programming and retro fits them onto a modern Linux vehicle in a miraculous fully-reproducible way.

Once you've had a taste, using anything else will feel like poking your hard drive with a stick.

Also:

NixOS: Be the distro maintainer you never wanted to be.
I think the obvious concern would be failure scenarios. There will always be failures in space technology. As space expands exponentially (as it is likely to do so in the future), failures will become relatively regular. So the obvious question would be what would happen if a nuclear rocket, with reaction in process, crashed to Earth. Or even if it broke up in the atmosphere.
The documentation is very good. The Getting Started[0] page has all you need for basic operations. I haven't watched this particular video[1], but Prot's other Emacs content is great.

[0]: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Getting-Started.html

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-0OwGTt0dI
I’m not:

If you don’t prevent at least one serious case per serious side-effect caused, your treatment is a negative contribution. That’s what QALY negative means — that you’re doing more harm than good.

This government information clearly says that the number of immunizations needed for young people to prevent one hospitalization is far above the number at which we’d expect a serious side-effect, eg myocarditis.

Please stop denying government health data to promote your kook theories. You’re hurting people with misinformation.