skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unrelated to your point, Sonya keene's book is the only one I know that was authored and typeset using Symbolics's in-house publishing system Concordia. (besides symbolics documentation sets of course)

Concordia (and its display component document examiner) had a pretty novel hypertext approach to authoring. all the content was made up of individual notes, that you could link together either with explicit links, or implicit one-follows-the-other links. I don't know if that's how Sonya used it, but when I authored some documents using Concordia, I discovered that it was very easy to focus on addressing specific points in almost a throwaway fashion. write a note on some subject you want to address. if you don't like it, write another take on the same subject. now you have the option to put either note into the book flow, refine them in parallel, and defer editorial decisions to the very end. the process is very reminiscent of explorative programming in lisp, so in other words symbolics people figured out how to write books in the same way as they write their code. ultimate vertical integration.
It's missing several hyphens. "Microsoft continues right-to-repair about-face."
I agree. and are my chats visible to those third parties? (I had to disable some other tracker blockers like Privacy Badger just to even SEE that CAPTCHA.)
You can either educate others why you see things in a certain way.

If it's unexplainable, or the majority doesn't accept it, move on: change your ways or accept they are going to see you as such.
My takeaway:

>The requirement is that the size of the gap is smaller than the wavelength of the sound wave. This effect works not only in audio range of frequencies (Hz-kHz), but also in ultrasound (MHz) and hypersound (GHz) frequencies, as long as the vacuum gap is made smaller as the frequencies increase."
There are new bridges that should stay up and offer way across the river after quake.

Lots of smaller bridges are going to come down. I don’t know why there isn’t more focus on them. They should be easier to retrofit. And at least have one in each area that will stay up to keep city connected. For example, I live near hospital but it is on other side of freeway and have no idea if will be reachable.
Labor demand was sluggish for a decade after 2008, it’s only now that the economy wants a lot of workers.
Good point. Although this is changing now with AI and whatnot.
Inertia, I guess - I'd have to get it set up and all and vim works fine for me now.
Easy enough when you have a manager for your nannies
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37096015
I don't want to get into the complexity of Qt licenses ever, and wxWidgets does everything I need so far, plus it's 100% open source and free to use. the new release 3.2 is pretty good and it's also smaller than Qt ecosystem, which means much easier for me to learn and start to make releases.
Absolutely. To start with, leaders must not be afraid of their teams making mistakes. Copying from another comment: "Netflix's culture demands very strong leadership and probably works only when the company is small enough. From CEO and down, leaders in every level need to know how to set context for their teams, give enough freedom to their teams, while making sure failures are manageable and success rate are maximized. That is, Netflix assumed that people would make mistakes and fail, but the trick was to ensure that failures do not hinder overall success of the teams and the company."

I'll give an example of the leadership style of Netflix. Jordan Zimmerman, a great engineer who created Apache Curator, once asked then the director of cloud platform, Yury, if he could open source Curator. Yury just casually said: okay, do it. Jordan was puzzled and asked: "don't I have to talk to an attorney? ". Yury smiled and asked: does an attorney help you write code? Jordan said no, and Yury concluded the conversation: then you don't have to talk to an attorney.
Related story from 2021 by author of said extension (posted two days ago on HN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37066680
Well, 1993 or 94, I had Linux, X11, fvwm(2?) and emacs running in 5MB. To be fair it was not very fast, and one later and extremely expensive £600 upgrade to 16MB made it perform much better.
Vim works just fine, so I have not seriously (yet) considered switching. Not saying this would never changed, just that I have literally not considered switching (yet).
Do I have to add that context to every query, or is it something I can set per cursor/transaction?
I live in PDX. There are about a dozen bridges. If even one were left standing over the Willamette it wouldn’t be too bad — at least families could reunite. There are a lot of boats on the river too, and it’s not wide or strong, so people could get ferried across.

Regular commute and business traffic would disappear, of course.

None of those things are true for the Columbia River separating Oregon and Washington. There aren’t many bridges and they’re very long. The river is non-trivial to cross. That would be a big mess.
I agree that sticking to just a library may be not a good choice. Some standard would be better. But few last times I discussed it, some folks just slapped RPC stigma on everything, even if it was just your regular REST-y-ish calls underneath. That’s absurd. POST json receive json back is okay. Wrap it into an `await server.<method>(<args>)` call and now it’s an RPC mudball. The current top commenter is removing tRPC for tight coupling. I wonder what prevents them from tight coupling over http, or over just function calls when on the same “side”. It’s a mindset that they are removing, not a specific technology.
Their own governments.
Tracing the roots of the 8086 instruction set to the Datapoint 2200 minicomputer
I mean there's only like one person who has the job of "Crossword Making Guy" and it's Will Shortz, the crossword editor for the NYT.

If you want to get your crossword published by the NYTimes, all you have to do is write a good one and submit it.

I've met a guy who has a couple of crosswords published by them. He didn't have personal connections with anyone, he's not anyone special, he's a regular guy with a regular job. What did he have to do? He liked crosswords and tried writing them, then submitted them. They got accepted and published, that's it. There's no shadowy cabal of crossword writers secretly running the world.
Thanks! I'm really happy to hear that since we tried to make drawing as user friendly as possible and spent some extra time on touch screen support. I had this vision in my mind where the discrete math lecturer would show a QR code (links to my website) on the screen and students would be able to fiddle with graphs and see all those things they learn interactively right there on their phone which.. could make the class more distracting or more engaging depending on how you look, but I liked the idea.
Thanks!

I removed cloudflare dns and it is, indeed, working now.
Or you're getting laptops from owners that don't know or don't care. Some businesses might not think its worth the time for their IT staff to decommission Apple laptops properly so their junk handler gets better resale values. And its not always easy to contact that guy who was selling stuff on Craigslist after the fact.

Why not have it only get remote bricked if its reported stolen instead of just assuming if some not clear, especially to non-tech people, steps were not done it is?
just went to check on what pawoo[.]net is and didn't even need to scroll to see child sexual abuse media

searching ddg for pawoo shows this is not news for anyone so i find it strange that you would even bother question why any other server would accept federate with it

and how the fuck isn't this comment deleted yet?
dang?
Let's go deeper: website is hosted on your phone, but visitor has to call your phone number to access it, using a dial-up modem.
Maybe not the for-loop, but there has been research into damaging CPUs by repeated execution of some particular instructions:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/MAGIC%3A-Malicious-Agi...
Before this, your options were "Windows with lots of telemetry + non-repairable hardware". Today your option is "Windows with lots of telemetry + repairable hardware". That sounds like a strict improvement to me, even if I agree with you on the issues with Windows as an OS

I am not personally in the market for these devices right now, but my work device is required to on Windows, and I am in a small enough org that my input would be sought if I needed a new device. I would very happily ask for a more repairable machine compared to a less repairable one, and having additional repairable options is a good thing.

And if someone came to me asking for advice on what to get, but was unwilling to switch to linux, I'm glad that I have some new repairable options to provide them.

Yes, the telemetry in windows is bad, but this is still a strictly superior situation that what we had previously, and it doesn't make the telemetry thing worse. I just don't get how bringing up other things that haven't improved (and may never improve!) invalidates the fact that this is better.

Repairability seems to very slowly be becoming more common in consumer devices. Hopefully, it becomes standard enough that it's not something we have to be interested in, and focus can shift to things like software. But for now, both suck, and both need to get better, and I'm going to be happy any time either one of them improves.
If reloading a page (which is what this is identical to) breaks your website, that's not on the user.
Are there consequences of any kind for judges?
The important part of the DMCA claim is that you state under threat of perjury that you either own the copyright or are a representative of whomever owns the copyright. That's why they'd probably want a DMCA claim or some other verification you owned the copyright on what you want taken down.
You need not spend a lot of time, couple of high-quality hours a day suffice. Considering billionaires have to spend 0 hrs on chores and setup, it should be entirely possible.
> It won't even cost anything:

It's costing Apple probably tens of millions of dollars of annual revenue from Lightning cable/connector sales and MFi licensing fees to other vendors.

At the same time, Lightning has been getting a bit long-in-the-tooth (USB2.0 speeds are impractical for making local backups of iPhone photo libraries) - as much as I want to believe that Apple would have switched the iPhone over to USB-C within a few years, I realise it's equally possible they'd have introduced a "Lightning 2" or similar.

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There are still rumours out there that the iPhone 15 could be port-less in Europe, and so only charge via Qi - which coincides with Apple actually increasing the physical spec gap between North American vs. East-Asian models of iPhone for example (e.g. no SIM tray in NA vs. but people in SE Asia get physical dual-nano-SIM trays - and still no return of the headphone jack.
WFH doesn't democratize software engineering, because programming is so hard, very few people want to do it, and the reason for the exorbitant salaries is because people are paid to basically bang their heads against walls all day in frustration. Unless you are so competent that the act of coding feels smooth and isn't an adversary, but then everyone would be doing it, so?
I essentially use "abbreviated" CLOS.

In CL, defstruct structures walk on both sides of the CLOS line. They're not as robust as full boat CLOS classes, but they're not just a bag of fields either. They fully participate in CLOS dispatch, you can do composition with defstruct, you can create custom constructors and such. So, they fit right in with many "dumb object", or perhaps "slightly clever object" use cases without all of the wordiness of a full CLOS class.

Mind, I'm not an experience CLOS user. I'm not choosing defstruct over defclass for any other reason save that I find it less verbose and it offers the functionality that I need. I'm sure my code might be idiomatically different were I to use true CLOS classes instead of defstructs, but I can't say right now that I'm "missing" anything.

But I do think it's cool that defstructs participate very well with CLOS and that's it's not a "my way or the highway" type of system, it just integrates really well with the rest of CL.
> Gee says that due to the demographic cliff they’re expecting 20% fewer students ‘over the next period of time’,

> Alsop says that revenues will decrease over the next 4-5 years ‘given the demographic cliff’.
If your resume shows you job hop regularly, then I’m going to want you to be productive very quickly.

If your resume gives me the impression that you are likely to still be working here for enough years, then I’ll give you time to get up to speed. If you were a really great front end developer in 2015, I suspect you can figure out Typescript/React.
No-one is being ostentatious about owning genuine iPhone Lightning cables.

Besides, Anker and Belkin's cables are way better.
My name is Nate. Nate Attached Storage?
> It's like having a Ford Mustang in your garage that doesn't have tires and steering wheel but hey that V8 engine is sure nice.

"OK, but I made the square tyres myself and that is all that matters to me.

I also don't need rear view mirrors either because they are far too distracting."
On the related subject of the Meta Object Protocol, Gregor Kiczales talked at a meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group in 2006, which they called a MOP retrospective [1]. He gave some thoughts on subjects like why more recent languages don't have MOPs. The link below is to archive.org's copy of the page and the .ogg recording of the talk along with Q&A throughout and after.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20060821003818/http://bc.tech.co...
Right, reparability is part of the inherent nature of a laptop, while user-hostile software is a minor attribute: it can be worked around (group policies rarely break) or replaced.
Pages 10 to 13 in my book delves into life's origins on Earth:

* https://impacts.to/downloads/lowres/impacts.pdf

Sources:

* https://impacts.to/bibliography.pdf

It's certainly possible that amino acids had extraterrestrial origins. IMO, Occam's Razor suggests that the Miller-Urey experiment provides a simpler answer: the building blocks of life formed on early Earth.
How can you do client side encryption with web apps though? While keeping the key on the client, I assume, and allowing multiple browser sessions for the same user?
This particular magistrate judge used to be an attorney.
Becoming "street smart" in no way out weights the risks of becoming it. I see it as a cope rationalization.

Like, roaming around Chicago as a 15yo. What do you learn the hard way that a 25yo does not understand by default.
Thank you - point taken.
It depends who you ask and what evidence you look at but I'd guess it most likely came from manipulation in a lab.

Until recently you get banned from forums etc for saying that, indeed I was censored, and one of the reasons behind that was a letter to Nature from some respected scientists saying it was almost certainly not from a lab.

But it's recently been exposed they were basically lying. In private conversations said thought it probably was a lab leak but changed it for probably political reasons. (here's a fun graphic with some stuff they said https://twitter.com/JamieMetzl/status/1682816578872565761/ph...)

You won't see that said much by career scientists because doing so could still quite likely muck up their career.

Funnily enough the most recent information seems to lean towards it being from one of the most conspiracyish things - an accidental release of a product of a chinese bioweapons research program - see https://archive.is/DSbF2
Dynadot. Low prices, free domain privacy, domain tasting (refunds within 72 hours).
> switching to Bard

What's the privacy implications of Bard? We're talking Google here so they'll probably data mine everything from Bard no? (I know ChatGPT has some privacy issues too).
Agree 100% but I'd go a bit further. This, BTW is Thomas Barnett's idea of a "Sysadmin force" modeled on the British foreign service. It's totally unreasonable to expect a bunch of 20 year olds with guns who serve a one year tour and don't even speak the local language to entirely transform the culture of another country.

It's not at all clear to me that this is even doable in the expected timeframe with some other force. The problem is that the U.S. may go somewhere with one objective "Stop Al-Queda from planning terrorist attacks", but then after the invasion there are all of these other default goals that we just expect to be true when we leave, like "there should be centralized democratic power" and "girls should go to school", and "women should have equal rights", and "boys should not be used as sex slaves for local warlords."

Making these sorts of transformations of another society is extremely difficult and impossible when your people don't even speak the language, much less understand all of the nuances of the local culture, and even if we did, it would take decades.

The main thing that needs to change in U.S. foreign policy is to have explicit, achievable victory conditions that are better than the current situation. We cannot just say "we have to depose the evil dictator", go in, smash some stuff, and then just wing it from there. If we cannot even describe how we're going to get from the current situation to our desired, stable outcome, we should not get involved, or come up with a more limited goal.

We saw the very same things happen in Syria and Libya, except without a U.S. occupation force. In Syria, we didn't like Assad, but the problem was that all of the alternatives were either too weak to hold power (FSA), or even worse than Assad (ISIS, Al Nusra). In Libya, we didn't like Gaddafi, but there was no identifiable alternative, so after he was killed, the country basically just descended into chaos.
https://alwaysprocessing.blog/feed.xml
"Success" could include a type of "business model" but other positive-sum games, too.
The web we lost (2012)
I'm interested for your thoughts on the excellent points.

Exaggerating for conciseness: I put in a good 20 minutes. Got left with a dizzied feeling of a gish gallop or perhaps motte and bailey, repeated.

The only helpful part was the end, where they clearly implicate one person and identify the problem as pushing for growth in 2014, failing to recognize it had failed and pivot after realizing shrinking was actually the trend line. None of this required any of the rest.

The rest seemed to fall into:

1. Leadership should have looked at $SMALL_SET_OF_COMPARABLE_INSTANCES projections to identify their projections must be wrong.

2. $SMALL_SET_OF_COMPARABLE_INSTANCES had a smaller shortfall[2].

3. Confusing long segments recounting slight differences in statements made multiple months apart. [3]

[2] Ended up closing it once it felt like #2 had several repetitions in a row, it doesn't matter if there's a smaller shortfall somewhere else, shortfalls add up to a shortfall.

[3] for example, lengthy recountings of Official $X said 2025 is where the real trouble is, but they also said next 5 years are important, and birth data shows 2006 was the start of a new era of lows, and 2006 + 18 = 2024.
Adam Ragusea is one of my favorite YouTubers. Viewers seem to have strong feelings about specific details and choices he makes in his videos/recipes, but in my experience, his content has been invaluable for developing a good cooking intuition.
Robotics: An Idiosyncratic Snapshot in the Age of LLMs [pdf]
> So why do CPUs not have special instructions to accelerate common OOP GC language operations?

ARM kind of tried with Jazelle and ThumbEE and it turns out not to be that useful. It's much more economical to make the CPU as a whole faster rather than burning up precious die space for hardware that's only used some of the time, and only has marginal benefits.

There's also the human factor that if you actually want a JIT/interpreter to use your special sauce you will probably need to patch that runtime yourself, because it's not likely that the developers are just going to rip up their code generator unless it's really simple to do or presents massive gains.

> Could they just give the data structure for a closure an extra scratchpad for numeric values that are raw and untagged with no extra stuff required?

This is called "unboxing" and pretty much every optimizing runtime will do it in some way. But saving in memory and looking it up later is a lot more expensive than arithmetic in general.
Timber framed houses often use through bolts, as do decks. Modern houses have bolts in them but they’re hidden
When Redhat IPOed (or soon after? quarterly report? I can't remember) they sent out a poster with the 0.01 source code to their share holders. It fits and is fun to read from time to time.
So what? i dont know anything about the performance of the gates/jobs offspring
People have been raising kids without devices for a long time. They've even been telling kids they can't have what they want. Kids have even survived not having consumer device parity with their peers, if you can believe that. They did fine for quite a while, inventing things like every great work of art, the Pythagorean theorum, airplanes... heck, even the iPad! There's no real reason it couldn't be done today, it just isn't.
https://twitter.com/TexasLindsay_/status/1690133677450125312

mRNA vaccines are not safe - people who shouted fire were censored and continue to be censored. Where are the consequences for those who said “there is no fire?”

And if you still believe there isn’t a fire… why are excess deaths among < 24 up 45% and it still doesn’t make the news?
I don't disagree (not that I feel the same level of annoyance, on balance I love Zod for the time it saves me) but what would you recommend as an alternative?

The new valibot.dev looks cool but I haven't tried it yet.
here in south africa where we have load shedding and sometimes don’t have power 8 hours a day, so they are necessary if possible.
Why help Red Hat at all when they are becoming more like IBM each day?
What kind of prudish 1950s bullshit is this?

"questionable behavior", "dirty", "debauchery", "accomplice", "unseemly behavior". I stopped reading after that.
The claim of the article is not about Oppenheimer's ideology. Rather, its claim is that he was at one point a member of a specific organization, the Communist Party USA, despite denying this later. His security investigation was something of a conflict between guys like Boris Pash, who saw communists everywhere and wanted to purge them, and John Lansdale, who defined a communist as "someone more loyal to Russia" than to the United States. This is described endlessly in "Lawrence and Oppenheimer" (written in the 1960s) and the more recent Oppenheimer biography "Inside the Center" by Ray Monk. I expect American Prometheus goes into all of it too, but I haven't read it.

The Monk biography leaves open the possibility that Oppenheimer was once a CPUSA member and covered it up. He might have been, but his own hiring policy at Los Alamos was he willing to hire ex-CPUSA members as long as they were not current members.
Jobs and Gates also are(/were) extremely wealthy, which has to be a factor here. If you can afford to pay someone for in-home childcare 30+ hours a week, it's a lot easier to avoid the temptation of parking your kid in front of a screen for a few hours to give you time to eat breakfast and do laundry and take a quick breather.
Largest Companies 1917 and 1929
Nothing comes to mind that’s similar to that first link. I’m really just replying to emphasize to others how great it is. I learned a ton from it.
OpenStack is what partly came out of NASA. OpenShift went through a few iterations starting with basically a Heroku competitor (Makara) that Red Hat bought and has been a Kubernetes-based container platform for a while now.

As I recall, there was some discussion around potential OpenStack confusion with the nomenclature but, originally, OpenShift was named around an automotive branding theme.