skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of great stuff here.

> In the 1950s, a small city might have only one or two dozen trunks for outbound long distance calls. This means that only one or two dozen simultaneous calls outside of the city could be connected.

What this usually meant in practice was not that you'd get a "fast busy" and have to try again later, but that the only way to get a trunk (make a long distance call) was to call the operator and book ahead -- the operator would call you when a trunk was finally available to you, possibly hours later.

Even when this infrastructure was built out domestically, it remained for international calls in the US into the early 70s at least.

> In the UK, where telephone service was a state enterprise until 1984 and the first and second World Wars created a more expedient need, some type of basic telephone prioritization scheme has long been in place. Through WWII and the Cold War it was a simple one: in cases of emergency, all local loops not flagged as being required for emergency service would be disconnected. This had the dual benefit of freeing capacity for government traffic and denying an invading enemy the use of the telephone network.

These dual benefits were both true and terrible.

During the 1983 Grenada invasion, a navy commando's comms broke down, but famously one of them was able to use his phone card to call back to the USA and call for air support (https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2023/o...). So yes, enemies do use existing infrastructure they encounter.

But more to the point, we learned from all sorts of disasters (not just 9/11) that a lot of useful comunications happens ad hoc and if you cut off people from calling their spouse to check in ("are you OK? Do you have the kids with you?") you also cut off important unplanned communication ("Hey, this is hospital X. We're out of type a blood -- can wer get some from you or send some patients your way?")

> During the Cold War era, an attack on the US was assumed to be a nuclear one, and most likely an all-out nuclear campaign. The end result is that civil defense in the UK tended to be viewed as a practical system oriented around sustaining operations during an attack, while civil defense in the US was viewed as more of a theoretical exercise in preparation for reconstruction.

Despite the constitution's claim that the government should "provide for the common defense" it seems that most people interpret that as meanig uncommon threats (atomic war) and not common ones like fires and floods. As a result there is no defense in depth at a national level, so the main tools the government has are either bureaucratic (not a bad thing, gives us FEMA and the like) or with teams equipped for invading a resisting country.

> and although users might have to wait a while it is expected that after taking their phone off-hook they would get a dial tone eventually.

I wonder how many people know this. I'd think most people's response would be to toggle the hook, or just keep retrying. Which would just send them to the back of the queue.
Seems like the bad DSLs happen when one attempts to express a subset of general purpose imperative computation in an application specific way.
It could be much worse - you could install the official vendor binary, which is known to contain spyware.
While I do agree that the desire to be in the industry is higher than it can support, there is still a real inequality problem when the top people make what, 10,000x-100,000x more than the others?
Sadly it is not even means of intergalactic hydrogen. The game is over once the hydrogen in the core is fused :(
Tidal energy would probably never go mainstream to cause major issues (too easy to break during the storms, not all places are good to build it, other types of energy sources are more attractive).

The whole article sounds like something that fuel companies would sponsor to make the renewable energy look bad (look, tidal is not renewable too, so buy our gas/oil).
My comment was specifically in reply to whether it should be illegal. Obviously trade secrets are protected by law. My response is that indeed that law is bad, and society has no reason to protect trade secrets by law, and good reason not to (other than some limited protection through contracts maybe, but that should be a civil matter).

The patent system exists to incentivize sharing information through a limited time monopoly. Giving trade secrets an unlimited time monopoly protection by criminalizing someone sharing them undermines that, and means that patents will only be used for low-value ideas that are obvious/easy to independently reinvent or reverse engineer.
> If you have nothing to show or demo after a 2 week sprint, during which you were surely assigned tasks to do, it's clear you haven't actually done anything.

Having just gotten out of a role like this: It's not.

It punishes doing backend / infra, tech debt, planning, or any work that isn't customer-facing (ie: stuff your senior+ engineers typically are expected to do). The demo day audience is largely non-technical people rather than it being a technical demo.

If you spent the sprint, or a large part of it, helping others or laying the groundwork for future projects with a company that treats demos like you've stated, you'll quickly push out anyone who is doing anything but blindly working on product.

I didn't leave / get pushed out because of the above, the cycle and meeting-heavy schedule drove me up the wall frankly.
Kirin 9000 was TSMC's 5nm process. The new chip is on a presumed 7nm process and is only 2% bigger, which confirms that for finfet processes transistor density is decoupled from claimed feature size.
The only thing launched for Amazon's Project Kuiper is a lawsuit
almost nothing has done well making an engine and an airframe at the same time. I hope they can get flying long enough to upgrade engines.
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n 1856, a 17-year-old girl named Adeline Harris started making a unique quilt. Over the next two decades, she sent pieces of silk to famous people from around the world and they signed them and sent them back to her. She assembled them into a quilt with a tumbling blocks pattern (aka, the Q*bert pattern).

The signatures that Harris was able to acquire are astounding
I would have expected HN users to have learned their lesson after this superconductor fiasco. Expertise in a field grants you no expertise in another.
And good riddance to the bubble. I say it as a homeowner too
> Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world.

Yes, I believe that's one the reasons reinsurance exists.
Hey! I don’t understand enough abt llms. Fine tuning seems like something great but I feel locked out of it. I need to prepare data in a question answer format? I have started to play with taking things like text, articles, tweets and converting them to questions but I don’t think I’m doing best practices. Can you help explain how to take different data sources maybe like a list of documentation for an open source project and fine tune using it?
"You will be working on difficult problems in software, including but not limited to web development, systems programming, database administration, algorithmic programming, and cloud infrastructure."

Hm, almost nothing there sounds like "difficult problems in software" it sounds like very routine IT stuff. Of course a lot depends on scale, but even scale is pretty well commoditized these days except for the few companies that are on the leading edge of providing it.
Please don't accuse me of being a boomer, but I view interest rates as finally getting back to normal.

When I bought my first house in the early 2000s, mortgage rates were in the 6-7% range. I remember my parents had a 13% mortgage in the 80s. Its only in the last few decade or so that we've seen these 5% or lower rates. I think we just have to get used to it, and maybe the AirBnB crash will help at least lower the price of the house and make things more affordable..
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most of the game subs are the same and I don't think any really revolted. r/gaming had its jokes but jokes are short-lived. r/games infamously did not, despite the wishes of the user, and despite the fact that they have closed the sub as an April fool's joke.

Anything smaller probably didn't have much effect. Either they gave up when nothing happened, or they were stealth replaced with no news story to report on.

It also doesn't help that wrt games as a medium, you rarely had actual industry veterans as mods. simply "gamers". There wouldn't be as much domain knowledge to lose in such a process since many places are there for news (i.e. reposted regurgitation of game studio PR, reported by sites that were never held as the bastion of quality to begin with).
> Perhaps a sufficiently large insurer could dilute the risk of an earthquake destroying a large percentage of homes in Los Angeles by also covering large swaths of other high-risk parts of the country or world.

This exists and is called "reinsurance."
It's multiple dimensions folding down into a single vector.

If a bunch of paratroopers just landed outside my facility I need immediate assistance.

If what look like incoming nuclear missiles are spotted that needs to override a call about a bunch of paratroopers.
Additionally, the funds could be applied to restitution and fines.

Of course given fair wages, there would be outcry from the unincarcerated as to why they can't do those jobs for the state.
For me it was the chart for investor house purchases. It's not shocking that investors are not excited to purchase properties with 7% interest rates when returns on investment properties are less than 7% usually.
Why do you have to remortgage?
They were always a terrible deal for schools. They were just a less terrible deal that the original status quo, at least here in the UK, of overpriced education supplier sourced PCs and unnecessary use of VMware.

Surely we can do better than this both software and hardware wise.
Ye well you need to sleep too. I just ment that you can do longer shifts than other occupations.

I worked 12h shifts, 13 shifts per month, and that is probably in the higher end of what's doable.

Some people got really strange from working at night. So it is probably not very healthy ...
Compiling Arrays
They can be as cheap as $89 at Walmart.
They are not easy to jailbreak. Many can't run Linux natively due to hardware restrictions.
Your audiences imagination is probably even worse!
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Crypto casino Stake hacked for over $40M
I was thinking more about second hand ones. i'd love to pick up a bulk of 10 or 20 them if it wont be an enormous pain to jailbreak them all
All laptops become e-waste, why are chromebooks different? They were made with low specs, presumably they become obsolete sooner. But then again, I doubt most laptop users have their laptop more than 3 years.
Will the world's mangroves, marshes and coral survive warm, rising seas?
Yeah there have been times in my career I've given the discretionary effort to work extra hours. I enjoy the baseline work. But only during the times I had real autonomy, never during the times of micromanaged bullshit like this.
General programming languages were meant from the start to be something like what they are today. They're intended to manage complexity, not pretend nobody will ever want to do complex things.

They are also not application specific. Language design is hard. DSLs are made up by people who's main project isn't the language.

Sometimes the motive for a DSL is something like "I don't like how this takes 5 lines of code in JS, if I made my own language it would only take 3"
I have an Acer Chromebook. It dual boots into debian but in order to remove the chrome OS I think I have to unscrew some part and then short a couple of pins somewhere. This is the best I can remember. I read those instructions like 6 years ago and never bothered to try and follow them.
If you solution begins with "throw away 100 trillion dollars in built-up infrastructure," the idea probably isn't very good.
> The person is being punished for the crime through incarceration

The goal of the prison system should be rehabilitation. Punishment doesn’t mean anything if you’ve got nothing waiting for you on the outside.
> Convince the current generation that working hard and pursuing your craft is inherently a bad thing

It's not. Pushing forward blindly largely builds tech debt either through paths that get abandoned or eschewing documentation & understanding. Most teams would benefit from going slower with many more small probes to figure out how to build the best feature vs throwing tons of big features out.

My opinion on this is that a slow Michaelangelo (eg: every stroke matters) is a better product than a really huge Pollock.
it’s 1/5th of the period under consideration, which is a pretty reasonable basis for extrapolation

not sure how any of those numbers have any relevance to projecting the growth of energy usage under industrialized society lmao. yes, if we extinctify ourselves in the next few decades, or return to an agrarian, pre-industrial existence, the earth will be fine and will eventually return to an equilibrium.
> Despite the constitution's claim that the government should "provide for the common defense" it seems that most people interpret that as meanig uncommon threats (atomic war) and not common ones like fires and floods.

I mean, you realize that's not what the word "common" means in that context, right?
Lol yes that's what I mean. Perhaps back in the day the day it was dramaticized script, but the overall story was based on historic record.

Nowadays it's completely made up reality TV bullshit.
the call stack during recursive descent is an ephemeral ast, for the recursive descent parsers I've written.
Yes, you could, but not verifying input usually isn't advisable. It's making a closed-world assumption that isn't warranted in an environment where there are no guarantees. Networks are all about sharing data with other organizations. Filesystems contain files with uncertain origins.

A type system should be designed based on what invariants you can reasonably expect in the environment where the system operates, versus what you can expect will change. For example, Swift has an interesting type system that's specifically designed to make upgrading dynamic libraries easier and safer. Apple can make assumptions about what sort of changes there will and won't be to the libraries that ship with its operating systems.

Contrast with Go, which makes the assumption is that there are no dynamic libraries; all Go source code is seen by the compiler.
> Wheat gluten (seitan) is protein isolated from wheat flour by rinsing it with water.

which has cost which we discussed already.

Also gluten protein is far less digestible than animal protein, Table 1 in this publication says it is less digestible by factor 4: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6723444/#:~:tex....

> even beef

beef is by no mean the best way to grow animal protein. Turkeys and chicken will be much more cost efficient.

> Remember, it takes 25 calories of cow food (like wheat or soy) to grow one calorie of meat.

I answered you already that calories intake is by no mean the important metric of nutrition value, and not interested to jump into this discussion again.
For some with Intel or AMD X86 chips, Mr. Chromebox offers a BIOS that will allow another OS to be installed. I got a few more years out of Acer Chrombook with this BIOS and an 2.5" SSD upgrade.

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I actually was at a Acrobat/PDF launch event in midtown NYC.
It was an embedded file type that could be generated at the type of publishing and all dependencies could either be embedded or not.

This made a coherent point in a digital workflow that could be saved and reprinted with ease. This was a big deal before the portable document format came to be.

I once made a workflow that took pdf files from Word, filemaker, excel, and mini-cad. This all got combined into a single 9,000 page pdf. The final pdf had a coherent thumbnails, page numbers and headers and footer.

Only took a couple of hours to get the final documnet after pushing the go buttton.
Is this book still applicable? Anybody have some other good computer graphics textbooks to recommend?
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The only customization app I use is Rectangle. Try to embrace the oddities of the system instead of trying to make it behave exactly like you’re used to. Make it yours but don’t bother trying to make it i3 or windows or whatever.

brew is probably the package manager you want.

For terminals I’ve used the built in, warp and iterm2. The built in works best for me.

asdf works great if you need multiple versions of programming languages.

I use and paid for Sublime Text and Merge. One thing about MacOS is it broke my idea to only use Free (as in beer) software. Paying for software that feels right becomes less strange when the rest of the system has the feeling that you paid more for the feeling of it.

I gave up on safari and switched to chrome, because I also use windows and the sync is convenient. If mac is now your only system I suggest giving Safari a fair chance.

Don’t feel tethered to your power cord or screen, M cpu macbooks have great battery life, use it.
Wouldn't energy available to be consumed become a limiting factor in our rate of using that energy?
Minus the tiny fraction embodied in global temperature increases, all of it.

It's the same reason that the Earth radiates exactly as much energy as it receives from the sun, just a larger number of lower energy, higher entropy photons. What the sun really provides is a source of low entropy.
Probably and ARM loan.
Sounds like a really cool project, but I would love to see some screenshots or videos.
Perhaps, but it needs a proper competitor before it truly fades to irrelevancy.
Or, maybe if you’re a politician, don’t do actions that will cause people you represent to threaten violence against you. Just a thought.
No it won’t. This reads of straight fantasy. The idea that an extreme minority is going to panic the majority into selling at bargain basement prices is absurd. It’s far more likely that either

1. People simply choose not to sell their houses; as most people who own one or more homes have that option, or

2. The 64% of people buy the homes selling for cheap, and resell for a profit
I have through this discussion asserted that JeanHeid started this drama over a perceived slight for having his talk downgraded. I have separately mentioned that JeanHeyd is a person who has issue taking criticism, but I have not claimed in this thread that this rust debacle was precipitated by this trait of his.

I did provide enough reasoning above for all this, but you again ignored, and didn't address any of it.

You have claimed that people were sabotaging his work. The onus of the evidence is on you. All public statements we've seen are that there might have been concerns, but before these concerns were discussed, JeanHeyd went full nuclear mode over his talk getting downgraded.
Although Commodore went bankrupt in 1994, the Amiga was still better than the Macintosh and Windows in 1995.

Also, the Amiga could multi-task Classic Mac OS and it was faster than a real Macintosh due to the Amiga's custom graphics chips. It could also multi-task DOS, Windows, OS/2 or Linux using a Bridgeboard, allowing Amiga OS, Mac OS and OS/2 to all run at the same time.

That said, the Amiga OS could also crash due to a badly written app. At least if Mac OS crashed, you could just restart Mac OS as it didn't affect the Amiga OS or Bridgeboard.

Quite a few Amiga users didn't replace their Amigas until Windows XP came out.

As for the UI, the Amiga's Workbench 1.x was pretty ugly but later versions looked pretty good although quite minimalistic. Mac OS looked the best in color but not having pre-emptive multi-tasking was a major downgrade for Amiga and OS/2 users. I prefer the look of OS/2's Workplace Shell over Windows 95.
Probably the end of a fixed interest period approaching. This is the case for some %age of the total number of mortgages out there every year. It's also the moment you're going to be taken advantage of.
> Chat-GPT ... has provided a platform for doctors to communicate with their patients in a more natural and intuitive way.

Ciration needed, but unlikely.
Time. I mean it takes time to write a blog post and more time to write a really good one. I've burned more than one Sat morning writing. That's time away from hobbies, friends, family.

Opportunity cost. I could have made more money if I'd spent time writing courses or coding instead of blogging.
I consider JS a pretty great language these days, my only complaint is the lack of a batteries included standard library that does the stuff underscore et al do.
> If you like functional programming (like REALLY like it and consider it the "one true way"), React will likely appeal to you more since it puts programmatic logic above all other concerns

Forgive me for conparing frameworks and languages, but.

IMHO a person like that would love Elm. I use react, especially with Typescript, but it is full of leaky and competing abstractions. It has a "functional style" in the same sense as using map and lambdas, but IMO it is missing the elegance, consistency, and guarantees of a well thought-out system.

Luckily Typescript, nextjs, and the ecosystem make it one of the best options, but the hooks system is, IMO again, a hack.
> insurance companies can't calculate the probability of catastrophic weather

They can. They can also sell the risk through cat bonds and to reïnsurers.

There is concentration risk, in that if you have one hurricane claim you probably have many others. But that isn’t the problem. The problem is the price is too high, but the folks in the disaster zones can’t afford to rebuild on their own.
In that situation increasing the price seems more appropriate.

Not being insured for natural disasters to me defeats the point...black swan events like natural disasters
Totally agree. Cochrane is a dinosaur and can do more harm than good.
Presumably a 10/30 loan or something similar. Many homeowners are facing the same problem with the interest rate now being significantly higher than when they got a 10/30 initially.
They tie up carbon for 100+ years, they're hardly irrelevant
"Think about that: if energy consumption growth continues at the current pace, then in 500 years we'll either be using ALL solar energy received by the earth (leaving none for the biosphere), or we'll have figured out some magic technology to produce 5 million exajoules of energy per year."

So nuclear?
Quoting from the OP:

>it will take about 10.468 billion years for Earth to lock to the Moon naturally.
Wait till you hear what happens to all the other devices in the world!
As long as new supply is not being built, whether due to restrictive zoning, NIMBYism, or other such reasons, the bubble will not burst. Too many people simply want too few homes. The answer is to build high density housing in the places people want to live in, usually major cities.