skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, thanks. Thinking Machines was much in the news back then and that idea of multiple relatively simple but highly interconnected CPUs was "in the air."

I had gone to the trade show to look at computers for the research group where I was a student - physical science, not computer science. We ultimately bought something more conventional which was obsolete in about 18 months when DEC workstations started appearing. It wasn't until I was firmly midcareer that I realized our (actually my) limitations had to do with lack of imagination and not any intrinsic limitations of the PC/XT/AT machines of our time.
I'm not talking about breaking things and having downtime.

I'm saying that if you have the same infrastructure over 13 years, and you did not have to upgrade it, or replace its parts, or even migrate off it, you're likely not growing.

All the above things can be done with minimal disruption for the customers, ideally in a completely transparent way.
I will buy your shares for 0 if you’ve got any
A single bitcoin is currently valued over 25,000 USD and has shown to go up to over 60,000 USD. It has literally made tons of crypto million and billionaires. Ethereum has shown it's able to replace a lot of middleman banking with smart contracts but being turing complete is difficult to make secure. There are many profitable and successfully operating DAOs exclusively managed via smart contracts. Saying cryptocurrency space has failed to provide value is provably false.
That article didn't touch on what happened before JGR/JNR. Prior to railway nationalization around 1906-1910, most lines beyond Tokyo-Osaka were built and owned by private companies. This includes Sanyo Main Line (previously built and owned by Sanyo Railway, not to be confused with today Sanyo Electric Railway), and Tohoku Main Line (previously built and owned by Nippon Railway).
As DevOps Borat put it: “To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is devops.”

Sorry this happened, I’m sure it’s gut wrenching.
You can just patch the call then, right? I.e. turn it into NOPs
> On the other hand, due to advancements in trading tech, I've seen commissions drop to zero. I've see better price discovery available to professional and retail traders and there has been a lot of people introduced to stock markets because it was accessible via their phone.

Ok, but how much of that is due to HFT specifically? Or more relevantly to the article, ultra-low latency HFT? A bit of the price discovery, maybe, but retail commissions hit zero because Schwab decided to finish turning into a bank and their competitors had no choice but to follow.
When args are positional-only, you can rename them without breaking callers. The names of the kwargs can be considered "external" and the names of the positional args remain private to the function.

This gives authors flexibility to rename args, or even convert all the positional args to variadic `*args`, without affecting users.

It also gives authors control over argument order. Like you write `def pow(x, y)`, conventionally meaning "x to the power y", and you don't want users to call it like `pow(y=2, x=3)`.
We are building a GUI and not a CLI for a developer facing service
I have been using ChatGPT for generating these kind of small CLI like this. My prompts look like this:

- use jq to count a nested array "a.b.c.d"
- find and delete empty folders using `find`
- find and replace text using sed/awk

I found that using ChatGPT for these purposes boosted my productivity tremendously.
The internet main purpose is sharing content through a network.

Crypto is a currency.
The deal is worth $90M for Astro to be acquired, great job for the Astro team!
The Westinghouse Time Capsule, buried below Flushing Meadow in New York in 1939, is rather banal. That was a elaborate project. It's supposed to stay buried for 5,000 years The contents should survive; the outer shell is a very durable alloy, and the contents are sealed in glass in nitrogen. But the site will probably be under water in this century.

To keep track of where it is, thousands of copies of "The Book of Record" were distributed to libraries around the world. If you want a copy, it's about $10 on eBay.
US study shows electric cars have more tech glitches than petrol cars
I have never used Bun before. I tried to create a nextjs app with it and it hangs for me when it gets to the Tailwind CSS step. I am using WSL and following the official nextjs installation docs for installing nextjs using Bun.

$ bun x create-next-app
What is your project named? … mytest2023
Would you like to use TypeScript? … No / Yes
Would you like to use ESLint? … No / Yes
? Would you like to use Tailwind CSS? › No / Yes

I let it sit there for 30 minutes. No go.
Another way is to load a eBPF program or kernel module for this purpose.
Nothing but a pile of linguistic ignorance and the authors’ weird peeves. See http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/LandOfTheFree.pdf
It seems we are still better than peak poisoning a few decades ago with heavy metals, asbestos, arsenic, etc being used in everything.
Another weapon that will be used by both sides. Who can stop Russians to produce the same drones?
Aside from sympathy, I also feel a sense of awe, admiration, and respect for the fighting spirit this guy has.

He had his tongue removed to increase his odds, is struggling with the basic sensations of being alive, is also acutely aware of staring death in the face, and yet he's talking about clinical trials and the future.

Even if he loses the battle, I feel there is something gained by having fought it.

But of course, no matter how grim the odds, a loss is never guaranteed. I hope he someday writes a post titled "remission".

Godspeed, Jake.
The first sentence also contradicts the first image.

It is really hard to continue reading after spotting such glaring mistakes at the beginning of the article.
Epic does not claim that Unreal Engine is open source. That's the point here.
What can a village made up of AI chatbots tell us about human interaction?
Bitcoin is still this
Really!

My God. If I had presented a paper like that to my dissertation supervisor she would have thrown it in the bin and told me to do it again.

The finding "suggests"

"may" play a role

more studies are needed

"may be" a response to

"could" look to

isn’t clear yet

"hopefully"

"seemed" to show

the study "suggests"

"could" reduce the chances

most people "presumed"

Whether this memory of COVID-19 is contributing to Long COVID isn’t clear yet, but the research could inspire additional studies to better understand how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 affect the immune system, both in the short and long term

WHAT IS VIROLOGY?

When startled, the bird will take off and fly around in ever-decreasing circles until it manages to fly up its own backside, disappearing completely, which adds to its rarity.
The mythical ‘oozlum bird’.

It is hard to know exactly what to call virology, but it is not science. The current practioners are engaging in some form of algorithmic or statistical speculation added to circular reasoning and confirmation bias, with a complete absence of what should be the corresponding process of refutation that lies at the heart of the scientific method.

However, this is simply another distraction as the postulates require the physical isolation of a microbe rather than assertions that one exists through means such as computer simulations, imaging vesicles of unknown biological function, or claiming that unpurified biological soups given to animals contain “viruses”.
Perhaps you don’t need to grow? Growth is not the only business model. I mean failing to do maintenance is a sin of course but anything else, there is no one true course.
The native ads module on both Android and iOS can do that...so, I dunno, ZERO?
> But according to Lane Fox he was not simply a poet. He may have been a charioteer – ‘I like to believe he drove a racing team himself’ – a hunter, even a ‘putative gardener’. In fact, as he sharpens into focus, this Homer increasingly becomes a mirror image of Lane Fox, himself a great horseman

who also writes a gardening column.

Quite amazing what he believes he has uncovered.

> Homer increasingly becomes a mirror image of Lane Fox
Java has functions, JVM does not :)

Records are indeed a serious change. (Fibers, too.)

JVM runs a bunch of languages that are pretty dissimilar to Java, like Clojure or JRuby. It takes certain creativity, but it works pretty well.
> Doesn't sound like a good idea

Which is why the CGPM changed the definition of the metre to:

- the length of the International Metre (a 9:1 platinum-iridium bar) in 1889;

- and then to 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum in 1960;

- and finally to the modern definition, the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299792458 of a second in 1983.

This means the realisation of the metre depends on the definition of the second.
Here you go (scroll down): https://www.fsf.org/givingguide/v13/
Apparently you deleted one of your previous comments on the topic, so I'll repost it here as it illustrates wonderfully how "pragmatic" your own thinking is, especially the part that matrix multiplication in a loop is "literally what your brain is doing":

"Ah it's you again! It's quite funny seeing the dearth of knowledge you routinely insist on displaying whenever this topic comes up.
Consider doing some reading on the information theoretic view of cognition and neurobiology. You'll find leading theories for how our brains work have many similarities to NNs.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_coding

Another thing, you don't seem to understand that all physical processes can be modeled completely through matmuls.

You should also read up on the definition of intelligence because you seem confused on what it means.

Pretty much every assertion you make here is wrong and you don't even know it.

You assert "it's common sense" something that does matrix multiplication in a loop can't be intelligent, yet get this, it's literally what your brain is doing.

Please have some epistemic humility and consider refraining from forming strong opinions on topics you don't have a clue on."
In my last company, when the idea of T-shirt sizing came up, I legitimately thought whoever mentioned it was joking. As if the rest of the excruciating processes, and petulant passive-aggressive behavior of my managers weren't patronizing enough. "Ah yes, now I get it, it's like clothing! I have some clothing right here next to me, now we're speaking a common language"
I need to double check what you're saying, how do you show the FPS in your WASM port?
HN as a whole used to love anything crypto/NFT... the tide shifted as more and more ICOs, token offerings, exchanges and whatnot turned out to be pure rug pulls and at the same time, none of the promised benefits of cryptocurrencies failed to materialize.
they are agnostic. they make money from fees either way, up or down.
If you're inclined to write fast code in assembly, you will. If not - not.

The thing is, optimizing compilers don't actually do any optimization in the classical sense. They don't do run-measure-modify loop as programmers do so all they can apply to the code is the heuristics some other programmers taught them. Some things are trivial like loop unrolling or function inlining. Some are not, like trigonometric approximations.

In the long run, when a compiler stops, a person goes further. That's why empirically, hand-made code is still faster than the compiled one. Of course you can write slow code in Assembly, but if you already decided to go low, you'll optimize your thing until satisfied with the result.

One particular thing comes to mind, C is ridiculously bad with automatic superscalarization (try VTune's HPC characterization on any code you like and see). Sure, you can use intrinsics and implement things manually, but that would be essentially the same as writing in assembly.

There is another contender though. Spiral (https://spiral.net/) that actually do solve the optimization problem can in fact be as effective as a human programmer and at a fraction of the cost. Spiral is overly specialized, so it's not a threat to all the HPC, but a more generic thing may indeed become a gamechanger.
My experience with scrum is: metric driven development.

Not metric as in the measure of the effect of your code, but Jira (or whatever your task manager is) metrics. It systematize the process, without taking the actual work into consideration. This is why you get a "but you did the other similar project with just 50 points."

The metrics always win because developers end up working overnight to complete the project on time. So it validates the metrics.

My teammates message me when they find issues with their task. We discuss, hop on calls, involve other teammates, the works. But then on the daily stand up, we repeat the issue to the scrum master, even though this person could care less about the issue.

Scrum is a fantastic tool if your job involves making reports about the work being done. Except, it doesn't reflect the actual work being done. And my poor reader, you are probably not in a position where you can do something about it.
> and fund some wonderful social programs with the money.

That's silly. The whole point is they're a zero-sum game with semiconductor-thin margins. Any meaningful taxation will make them evaporate.

That doesn't mean they shouldn't be taxed! But it would be a pigovian tax, the kind that serves as a soft interdiction and not as government income.
I find the newer Japanese stuff a bit much, honestly. The duck bills are just...ugh. They look good from these sort of angles, but looks pretty dumb from the side.
It's bs. OP has only copy pasted what we all can read. Not the subscriber part.
That's not what efficiency means in this context. People who say the market is efficient mean one of:

- You can't beat the market

- You can't beat the market without insider information

- You can't beat the market using only information about historical prices.

(Insert "approximately" and "by enough to be worth it" as appropriate)

1 is certainly false, 3 is probably true, 2 is controversial.
Are you talking about “animal farm - a fair story” (loves the subtitle) by George Orwell ? A great read indeed, brings both brain food and entertainment.

Mostly became a vegan anarchist after reading it. It directly criticize revolutions and totalitarianism but the parallel with any regimes is logical. The roots of injustice is in power and control, which happens in any regime even the most democratic and liberal ones.

Not saying we should abandon laws and governments, but let’s not defend them in the sake of justice and fairness.
It's a chronic disease and there are many chronic diseases that are treated with permanent medication - diabetes, blood pressure, mental illness, HIV, to name a few. You can't will yourself to stop being obese any easier than you can will yourself to stop being depressed. We simply aren't consciously in control of our appetite or metabolism.

And it's worth remembering that obesity contributes to many other diseases and premature deaths. Treating it long term will prevent a lot of human misery and billions in healthcare costs down the road, even with the high price tag that it currently has.
That is a strict constructionist view which is widely and appropriately mocked.

English common law informs literally every word of the constitution. "The People" are the demos. dêmos (δῆμος): “ordinary citizens, common people from a district, in a city-state.” It never included tourists. Also, the Privileges or Immunities Clause explicitly concedes that citizens have both privileges and immunities. Why would that be?

>It would be inappropriate, however, to require every statutory exclusion of aliens to clear the high hurdle of "strict scrutiny," because to do so would "obliterate all the distinctions between citizens and aliens, and thus depreciate the historic values of citizenship." Mauclet, supra at 432 U. S. 14 (BURGER, C.J., dissenting). The act of becoming a citizen is more than a ritual, with no content beyond the fanfare of ceremony. A new citizen has become a member of a Nation, part of a people distinct from others. Cf. 31 U. S. Georgia, 6 Pet. 515, 559 (1832). The individual, at that point, belongs to the polity, and is entitled to participate in the processes of democratic decisionmaking. Accordingly, we have recognized "a State's historical power to exclude aliens from participation in its democratic political institutions, as part of the sovereign's obligation "to preserve the basic conception of a political community.'" 413 U.S. at 413 U. S. 647.

Foley v. Connelie, 435 U.S. 291 (1978)

This means that there need not be a compelling government interest to justify discriminating between citizens and non-citizens. Nor need the discrimination be done via the least restrictive means available. At least not in the general case.
> If my server doesn't output anything AGPL-licensed to its clients,

The IP (intellectual property) of the code has no relationship whatsoever with the IP of the content being served by the served.

> where is the distribution?

You setting up a production server counts as “distributing the service” in AGPL's definition, as AGPL is aimed directly at the SaaS business model.

So if you use an AGPL software on your server, you need to provide the source code (including any changes/customization you've made) to your users. BTW this is a common misconception with GPL, nobody forces you to publish the code in public like on github or anything, it could be behind a login form reserved to your customers only. But you need to give them to your customers under the same AGPL license, so if they want to publish it on github themselves, or fork it and make a business out of it, they can.
"Writer hits quota of pro-return-to-office articles asked by his editor-in-chief"
I hope CUE Language become more popular so that we can have less config languages [1]. But the opposite can happen i.e. another config language to be content with [2].

1) Configure Unify Execute: Validate, define, and use dynamic and text-based data:

https://cuelang.org/

2) How standards proliferate:

https://xkcd.com/927/
This is pretty cool. May buy one and will provide feedback if I do.
that is not how bankruptcy works. it does not mean everything zero. it is process of paying creditors. what is left is paid to shareholders.
I'm confused. You made a statement that they're not licensing their patent. I'm asking you what is that based on. Who asked to license their patent and was denied? Surely you have that since you made that claim right? Just your imagination or actual verifiable evidence that the rest of us can check? If challenging your claim is trolling or sealioning or cat fishing or bear baiting or worm wiggling, then so be it.
> by having and consciously developing right personality traits.

Which takes a lot of effort and hard work.

> They mostly just tuned themselves into ability to get "into right place at the right time"

Which takes a lot of hard work

> then almost idle at 0-10 hours a week for the next 6 months

You have been tricked into thinking so, they just work so much more efficiently at some point and delegate a lot - at which point they are already successful due to their previous hard work
Is that why we have 90 degrees in a right angle, instead of 100?

90: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10, 15, 18, 30, and 45

100: 2, 4, 5, 10, 20, 25, and 50

If we used grads, it would be a nice even 100,000 meters per grad, vs 111,111.111 per degree.
>The reality isn't the point, the point is to angry at China.

Only because the mass media have used anti-China sentiments to generate clicks and fear and politicians have fed on that to acquire votes.

The fact that we can't have a honest, fact based discussion about China, even on HN, is sad. Let's just be angry at China because "China" is literally what you're suggesting.
Some people are naturally more formal/exhaustive in their descriptions. Especially a certain class of programmers.
Hi, do you have a recommended read for those of us who might inadvertently create race conditions?
I don't believe there was any intention to deliver a message to future humans (except maybe "don't rob this grave or else") when they were built. Or at least we don't have any evidence for that.
I’m no economist. But even without any training, all crypto including Bitcoin sounds like a scam. No regulation. Waste all that effort solving nothing of value. Can’t do refunds.

And it wasn’t just Luddites or the uneducated not understanding what was going on, but really smart people weren’t convinced and the benefits of the technology never solidified. In fact, turns out everything really was a scam.

There’s probably a bit of smugness from
Making correct predictions, and there’s also probably a bit of regret that we didn’t jump on the gravy train and sell at the peak even though we didn’t believe in it.
I originally answered to a comment about never becoming rich. No growth means not getting rich, this is what I'm trying to point at.

Of course growth and getting rich is not the only worthy target. Say, OSS is not about getting rich, but it's wonderful and worthy without doubt, in my eyes.
That's why we pay taxes in the EU...
The main innovation of Occam, i.e. the only one of its features that did not exist in earlier programming languages, was what in Occam (1985) was named "replicated parallel".

This Occam "replicated parallel" was based on the paper "Communicating Sequential Processes" by C.A.R. Hoare (1978-08), where it was named "array of processes". Hoare was an important contributor to the definition of Occam.

The Occam "replicated parallel" (1985) is the same as the "PARALLEL DO" of OpenMP Fortran (1997-10) and the "parallel for" of OpenMP C and C++ (1998-10), i.e. the concurrent execution of many threads that share the same code.

This structure is essential for being able to use CPUs or GPUs with many cores, because if a programmer would have to write one thousand different function definitions, or even just one thousand different function invocations, in order to fully occupy a processor able to execute simultaneously one thousand threads, that would be hopeless.

That is why "parallel for" is the main structure used by CUDA, OpenCL and by the graphics shader languages, even if for some weird reason all these GPU-oriented programming languages use an obfuscated terminology, where many things have different names than in the rest of the computer-related literature, without any rational justification, so they do not say "parallel for", but "kernels" or the like.
Can someone else not be the person you stay for when your mother leaves?
Much too x86 / PC centric. 8/10 are x86 (beside 68k & Apple M1). Not mentioned:

Intel 4004 - first CPU to integrate all logic in a single chip.

Intel 8080, MOS Technology 6502 & Zilog Z80 - powering CP/M, some industrial gear, early homecomputers & gameconsoles. 8080 regarded as common ancestor for 8086 and Z80 lines.

DEC Alpha - one of the (if not the) earliest 64 bit architectures. Driving design & system performance to new heights in its day. Instrumental in the spread of Unix.

ARM7TDMI - iPod, GameBoy Advance, Nokia 6110, coprocessor in Sega Dreamcast & PlayStation 2. Among many other uses.

Intel 8051 family - powering a plethora of industrial control systems, in some cases to this day. Integrated in many other products.

A variety of RISC architectures like MIPS, Sparc or the new hotness, RISC-V.

Sony's Cell cpu. Very remarkable design in its day. Not to mention its performance (although difficult to program effectively).

VIA/Cyrix C3, the MediaGX and their low power descendants. Powering many thin clients, handheld & industrial PC's.

Almost forgot the PDP series. ;-)

Related like DSPs, uC, Transputer, etc.

That's just of the top of my head. Feel free to add.