skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned COBOL in college circa 2001 for one of the CS courses and it was so much fun. The task was to do a project together with another person in our class and then present it to the rest of the class. I remember loving the simplicity and how much "Plain English" the language was. Good toy project.
> As someone who uses both very frequently, tooling on dotnet is better. Jetbrains has Rider.

OmniSharp barely works at all outside of VSCode.
I don't know what DeX is, but if by thin client you mean the computer is somewhere else then I would say that doesn't sound like Apple at all. Apple is the last company that seems to still believe in personal computers on the desk.
$700k? I see that human idiocy is a large untapped source of wealth...
By burning fossil fuels and causing a catastrophe.

Easy solution anyway: Unlimited kwhs, for £100/kwh, controlled kwhs for £0.05/kwh
This sounds like a bad anime title
> What I've learned from debating this with people, online or offline, is that we apparently do not talk about the damage cats do to wildlife.

There's a whole food chain going on on the outskirts of cities, where you might occasionally find foxes.

There's a fox living in my neighbourhood and from the yapping and hissing at night it seems to be actively at war with the local cats.
As much as I want to like things like dex, I always find myself thinking that the real world application isn't really any better than carrying around a laptop.
> ... I care about Ruby’s future. The reason why I decided to write a book is that explaining all the new concepts we’ve introduced in various libraries is close-to-impossible without a book.

Thank-you. Any word on the book he has been working on? Last post was February 2022.
It's 75k, but I believe I could be receiving 95k if I was either smarter, better at interviewing or better at negotiating.

As to other benefits: it's 30 days vacation and they mention profit-sharing, but nothing concrete.
Freshly ground light roast blew my mind the first time I drank it. It's so fruity and interesting. Totally different drink from medium and dark roast, pre-ground, generic beans.
My wife made a COBOL mortgage calculator back in college for her CS programming languages course. She said it was more verbose than she would have liked, but it worked nonetheless.

We keep joking maybe she should apply for one of those high paid legacy COBOL jobs that make their way into the news cycle now and then.
Why would it be a 'nightmare' if they recorded everything down and understand their software, what it does, what it doesn't do, how it operates, etc.?
>The government coerced Twitter to delete posts. That's not nothing.

>5th circuit court of appeals just had a ruling that this indeed violated the first amendment.

"A group of social-media users and two states allege that numerous federal officials coerced social-media platforms into censoring certain social- media content, in violation of the First Amendment. We agree, but only as to some of those officials."

That's on the first page for reference.

Edit: Site says I'm posting too fast, but the provision 6 is a very important provision (pp 69) and the remaining defendants are quite a long list. It seems the plaintiffs named everybody they could think of and the judge whittled it down to the ones that are actually violating provision 6 (pp 72-73) and are still under injunction. If that is correct, this is certainly not a "nothing burger" as many in the media are reporting and the government was actively violating the first amendment. Defendants who violated provision 6 and are still under injunction include members of the White House, the FBI, the CDC, the Surgeon General, and others.
Nobody really wants that feature. It’s too niche, even among enterprise customers.
You can find a picture of what the data you capture looks like in the "Taking Data" page in the tutorials.
Unfortunately the "Analysis" page is "under construction". But you won't get photographs, like you would get from an optical telescope.
Especially in the world of supply chain attacks
Except it's a java copy. And java sucks
My expectation: It's about the history, present and future capabilities of "robots"/"automation processes" specifically designed to neutralize enemy targets; one of the optimization being, of course: to kill as many humans as possible.

Alas, it's about the unintended dangers of ever sophisticated and fully automated tool use. Is this satire?

Yeah, something heavy on wheels can roll you over, crush you and kill you.

I'm not trying to dismiss any safety regulation but isn't the big elephant in the room one of the main driver of all technology: military use?

Maybe most people gave up on that and try to focus on things in the civilian sphere that they can potentially impact. A "healthy" compartmentalization of sorts.

But for me the contrast is so stark that the examples mentioned in the article are unintentionally comical and forced, even if the underlying questions valid and transferable to military use.
Thanks for the feedback! That's a great point.

I'll try to work on making my writing more concise, based on the comments here.
I think the "never use comments" trend came from folks who'd realised "comments lie, code never does".

E.g. developers might forget to update comments when they fix a bug.

There are also the "// set b to 0" brigade, which is an exaggeration but makes the point that commenting the painfully obvious is a trap too many fall into.

I think there was also an argument that methods called "setWidgetsToMaximumSoThatStartOfDayChecksWorkOnWeekends()" were a Good Thing, and definitively Self Documenting, a viewpoint which seems (thankfully) to be losing popularity.
I've read a few and sat through a few video courses. The book that made the OTP part really click and appreciate why and how was Elixir in Action [0]. There is a new edition in MEAP at the moment too.

[0] - https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-third-edition
Worldwide, estimates suggest more than 70 billion chickens are killed each year, not including chickens killed by the egg industry: https://sentientmedia.org/how-many-chickens-are-killed

Worldwide, around 7 billion male chicks are culled each year in the egg industry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
Agreeing with you and expanding. The law gives a government department the ability to ban the sale of washing machines (or perhaps heat pumps) that don't have this remote control facility.

Although I'm quite sure that there will be a class of appliances available for people who don't perhaps want their heated pools to become cool.
Using lignin and a catalyst to create an alternative to bisphenol A
What a surprise to discover that emotions are able to be controlled.
You edited your comment, but the comparison of Microsoft to Oracle is pretty fitting. They're both the worst of the worst.
If there's enough threads on the web server being blocked by waiting for WordPress (99% of the websites that HN hugs to death are WP), then once the HTML has loaded (which, in curl, would mean the loading is complete) you are still waiting for threads to serve you the css, images, and scripts.

I think in total, the curl loading time was about half of the in-browser page. Both loaded in the end, I just happened to be more patient with curl because I know the server is busy and it's not just a stupid javascript dependency that I'm waiting on.
The lead turns into bismuth, the bismuth into polonium. And if you don't run it above the annealing temperature, you have to care about the neutrons creating internal stresses from directly dislocating the atoms.
This Quanta piece is from May and is talking about work that came out in October 2022 so if Aaronson was going to write a piece he probably already did (maybe, obviously my assumptions could be completely wrong).

But the abstract of the pre-print (https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10255) covers some of what you are asking:

"Despite the well developed mathematical description of non-Abelian anyons and numerous theoretical proposals, the experimental observation of their exchange statistics has remained elusive for decades. Controllable many-body quantum states generated on quantum processors offer another path for exploring these fundamental phenomena. While efforts on conventional solid-state platforms typically involve Hamiltonian dynamics of quasi-particles, superconducting quantum processors allow for directly manipulating the many-body wavefunction via unitary gates."

They created a collection of quasi-particles that has different statistical properties that we don't see in 3D (the Non-abelian anyon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyon). So simulated or created becomes a tricky word here, the quantum processor is putting these qubits into a state that acts as a quasi-particle so they can study it directly. So no a classical computer would not be able to do this in the same way it would have to use classical bits to simulate the quasi-particle.
Comanche Language
As a computer enthusiast I don’t want a desktop in my pocket. I want big heavy rigs, that simply have to be big to do the kind of computing I want to do. I’m not looking for a thin client.
This is a bit much. Attention is not that hard to control if you want to. It's sad if people allow their attention to be captured by doomscrolling/notification-clearing/etc but no more so than if they did so playing Solitaire or reading trashy magazines.
Except Google. Google backup codes are near useless because a Google backup code will let you log in, but won't allow you to disable 2 factor or add a new 2 factor device - meaning if you ever lose a 2 factor device and have to use a backup code, there is no way to recover your account.
Is this a ai generated page? I'm not sure it's all that reliable.
> A 22.5meg .png image on that page. How?

The page in total is like 36 MB: https://gtmetrix.com/reports/newsroom.tiktok.com/ZezM7two/

I don't think I've ever seen a page that large, outside of streaming videos and such. What an interesting time, especially because this could have been avoided by downscaling two images to fit the actual plausible display sizes.
It's pretty good, about +/- 5 mmHg. At worst it can bump you up/down a category- drinking a couple glasses of water can do that too, and the medical treatment would not be any different. The electric cuff machines can be over twice as variable- about 1/20 person-measurements will read off by >20 mmHg, which is a hugely important difference.
FTR there is a WebP decoder implementation in safe Rust in the image crate: https://github.com/image-rs/image

It used to be quite incomplete for a long time, but work last year has implemented many webp features. Chromium now has a policy of allowing the use of Rust dependencies, so maybe Chromium could start adopting it?
Again, just take a look at the postulates: Schrödinger equation describes the unitary time evolution of the system under a given Hamiltonian, wavefunction collapse describes the outcome of the non-unitary measurement process.

> Without explaining more precisely when I should use unitary evolution and when I should collapse the wave function, the Schrödinger equation together with wave function collapse are at the very least an incomplete and maybe even an inconsistent theory.
I don't think that QM postulates are incomplete, you just take the set of things that constitute a measurement as a premise.

Let's put it this way, we have never designed an experiment where this has been an issue. So long as we define which part is the measurement beforehand, QM always predicts the results we measure. Usually it will be a photodiode or something of the sort. If QM were incomplete or inconsistent, surely we would be able to find contradictory experimental results?

To summarise, the 5 basic postulates of quantum mechanics, which contains unitary evolution and non-unity measurement collapse, form a microscopic theory which no experiment has ever been able to contradict.
ABMS is sensor fusion, relax. You’re not that important.

Don’t worry, the pentagon is totally incapable of breakneck speed.
They are more dangerous than gas fires and many people do not understand this yet. While it might be 10 years old, most people have not used nor understand many parts of EV's, like regenerative breaking, the lower center of gravity and the dangers of the batteries.
I'm fairly sure it is. You can literally write to tape.
This doesn't match my experience using Apple Watch.
> Might be the kick in the pants FF needs to figure out funding,

First they need to stop wasting money on silly side projects and funding activists and political activities
You should use the best tool for the job, but also consider the ramifications of supporting monopolies/cronyism and exclude those options.
> other companies such as Microsoft can’t perform enough searches to improve their product

Big belly laugh at this. Literally a boohoo moment. Apple, et. al. are going to throw MS a bone or something? Shitty products don't "deserve" anything IMO. What was OpenAI able to achieve without having 90% dominance in the ad space market?

Anti-competitiveness is still a problem so Google will have a hell of a battle ahead. I am curious what MSFT's stock did in the different phases of their antitrust suit.
Thanks for the comparison.
Did you read my comment at all before answering? Note: You answered AFTER my edit.
>Free lunch/snacks/video games is not even a perk if you’re over 30

The effort of commuting to the office is far less than me preparing lunch for myself. Financially too since I just ride a bike. Not sure why my age matters.

I don’t understand the appeal of video games at an office at all. Do people actually play them? If I didn’t have any more work to do I’d prefer just to go home. I guess playing games with teammates might be fun, but I’d rather just have free beer or something like that.
I'm always curious on new takes - I wonder who they have partnered with on all the back end integrations.
>Counterpoint: neocons keep getting elected to Washington every other year.

Because the choice given to a voter is this:

Vote for a democrat, who destabilizes foreign countries as a matter of course, and puts their energy into rewriting a health care bill.
Vote for a neocon, who destabilizes foreign countries as a matter of course, and puts their energy into keeping gas prices and taxes a little bit lower.
Vote for Trump, who actually attempts to stop destabilizing foreign countries, and gets impeached and called a terrorist by everyone who suddenly thinks NATO and aggressive foreign policy is the most important thing in the world.

An actually democratic decision would be giving citizens a plebiscite, "Do you want to stop foreign intervention in X country: yes or no." It would be quite a long list, but the results of that vote would be nice to see.
The rebuttal I've heard to this is that they're not killing the same birds. Cats kill small, common birds like robins and sparrows whose populations can easily absorb the loss. Wind turbines kill larger, rarer birds like eagles and owls, whose deaths have a much bigger ecological impact.

Someone more qualified than me can dissect this argument and crunch the data. Just mentioning it to illustrate that the "they kill birds!" argument might be more nuanced than you think.
you can create apps for free on apple platforms, just can’t publish without a sub.

google most def supports CCP since their re-entry into china

apple invented webkit and clang/llvm among others

maybe look at things with a more open perspective. google and apple both do good as well as bad; it’s not a competition in terms of who abuses capitalism, the answer is everyone.
If you self-host I think you can implement Google meetings integration in no time. It's just Python. And integration with Jitsi is built-in...
Pixel Fold and I still have my old Pixel 5 just in case.

I've used Pixel phones since the first Pixel came out and I've been in love ever since. I'm also on Google Fi so that might skew things a little bit because everything is just so seamless and it works so perfectly. I love the camera on the Pixel phones and I love the fact that I can get the latest beta updates for Android and that my Android experience is basically as stock as can be. I don't root my phone because it wouldn't give me anything that I don't already have. I use all of the Google features quite extensively so I don't need to like remove anything from the phone.

There really isn't anything I look for in a phone. My current upgrade schedule is... Well, I had the Pixel 1 and then I went to a pixel 2 and then when that stopped getting software updates entirely I bought a pixel 5 and then I bought the Pixel fold and I'm going to keep this until it also stops receiving any updates. Then I'll buy whatever the just launched pixel is at that point in time.
Their biggest achievement was getting other companies to sell through their store. This allowed gamers to build up their back catalogue on Steam. Their launcher has all the problems as the other ones but they're forgiven because most of us have large collections within Steam now. Even when the same game is on sale via Epic for a slightly lower price I'll usually get it on Steam because that's where most of my other games are. It is a choice, but a warped one.

It's kind of like Netflix vs other streaming platforms except Steam has a much better moat.
I'm very aware that he is literally trying to copy WeChat, my comment was quite facetious but that is probably lost through text.
Some iPads already have thunderbolt ports. I think any advancement in hardware integration would happen there before it happens in iPhones.
Okay but also if they do violate GR that doesn't really tell us much either, since we expect QM to not obey the rules of GR
Why does this read like an Onion article?
Interesting how "search" for AI may someday be synonymous with always finding something, since it will be generated too. Your UI immediately made me think that.

No more 404 Not Found, only content.
No, this is a bug. The 'enginesize' data structure member is a float and not a pointer to a float.
Tauri plans to ship for mobile.
Tech companies need to move into new markets to keep growing revenue streams. Seems only logical.
>If devs aren't developing for Linux, what are they supposed to do?

Then you...Encourage devs to develop for Linux? Easier said than done, but I don't know what answer you're expecting, nor why we're phrasing it as if Valve had some legal obligation to use or support Linux. They are also free to do nothing and target the 97% market share. That's not a decision I would blame them for either.

They made a decision and I simply wish they made a different one. Their decision isn't bad, I simply have my own reservations about that direction and reasons to prefer my direction. But if you want my insignificant crackpot theory on how I'd leverage such a position as a market leader to support linux:

- Reduce platform share rates from 30% to say, 15% if you choose to implement native Linux support into your game and maintain parity with the Windows platform (I know that AAA games selling over X million already have reduces share rates, this may need to be under negotiation).

- Talk and work with AAA developers to properly port to Linux. This may or may not involve having some developers onhand to send out to such studios and work directly on such ports. These can be extra services Valve provides.

- Work with major 3rd party tools/engines to fix the cruft in their linux deployments. To be honest, this alone may be the biggest fix if we somehow pull it off.

- Make a not crap version of AppImage to help allievate package management issues between different distros, and bundle in a fork of that into Steam (similar to what they did with Proton). Or fix AppImage, whatever is easier.

These inevitably make less money but luckily I as this alternate Universe Gabe Newell am not beholden to shareholders forcing infinite growth. So may as well leverage that power while I have it.
Already huge in Thailand (at least going by my gf's purchasing habits). Didn't realize it wasn't already a thing in the US
I took a mainframe class in college (2016) after my mom encouraged me to (she just recently retired as a COBOL/JCL developer of 35+ years). We learned COBOL and JCL on zOS and completed IBM's Master the Mainframe challenge. It was a very interesting experience and a different paradigm than any other CS/information systems classes I took.

I could have gotten a job doing this work very easily. When I was applying and interviewing at my university career fair, I got a lot of interest and a couple job offers from having this class on my resume, but the pay wasn't good (small city it the south US that I wanted to leave), and I didn't want to lock myself into mainframes.
Cellular Apple Watches can make phone calls even if your iPhone is turned off.

You do, however, need an iPhone to initially setup an Apple Watch, even the cellular version.
Okay but once again that is an extra postulate that is not really much less crazy than postulating the Born rule
Law 1.0

> being able to approach a set of facts concerning a dispute, and apply legal rules to determine the likely legal outcome ... to order the conduct of otherwise free citizens.

Law 2.0

> Legislatures ... delegate power to administrative agencies or technical experts ... to make ad hoc, flexible rulings; issue guidance and recommendations; publish codes of conduct; give and revoke licenses; and so on as and when they see fit - often with a very wide discretion.

Law 3.0

> Making it impossible not to comply, through the deployment of technology. And in its way, this is the worst affront to the dignity of man out of them all, because it destroys the very conditions of moral agency. I reiterate: if one does not have the freedom to choose, because one is compelled to act morally, then one’s moral conduct is not really moral at all. The Energy Bill 2023 is therefore not only bad law because it is unclear, because it mostly delegates authority to make ad hoc decisions rather than rules, and so on. It is bad law because it seeks to automate compliance.
I can't say that I specifically learnt COBOL for fun because I did it in 1997 or so in India when the entire Indian IT industry was bidding on a host Y2K migration projects. I only graduated college in May 2000, so I never actually used COBOL to solve any Y2K problems, however, I did figure out that you could use a large number of paragraphs in the SCREEN SECTION to build animation frames and use that to build fun animations. It was tedious though, so I wrote a C++ program to generate the SCREENs for the COBOL program.
For .Net, there's an established pattern of careless deprecation that produced enough frameworks to date codebases like tree rings:

- this year's correct way to access your database is...
- this year's correct way to serve dynamic web pages is...
- this year's correct way to make a Windows GUI is...
A curiosity, nothing more. And those high paying COBOL jobs pay a lot because the applicants have 20+ years of COBOL experience, not just because they happen to know COBOL.
You're paying them to not have to see the ads. It's one of those services where it's really easy to calculate if it's worth it by just roughly summing up hrs/month you spend on ads vs content. I have never found a single service that's has "pay-to-remove-ads" as a business model ever deliver on the HN wet dream of "pay them to not track you."
> remember we already have a work computer provided by our employers

What a ridiculous and privileged thing to say. Most people do not, in fact, have a computer provided by their employer.
> Large corporations have a tendency to develop computer technologies to self-servingly shift the burdens of their own shortcomings onto society at large, or to claim that safety regulations protecting society impose an unjust cost on corporations themselves, or that security baselines stifle innovation.

You can say that again. Also the first part ("technologies to self-servingly shift the burdens ... onto society at large") is frequently the very innovation they're talking about in the last part.