skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't my experience. I just went to a Computer museum and they had a TRS-80 from the 1980s. The keyboard latency was incredibly low, and text editing (typing programs in Basic) felt a lot more responsive than using Google Docs, Microsoft Word 365 or a modern IDE.

A lot of things used to be slow, but they involved doing a lot of math or loading data from external storage. The computer "staples" of simple spreadsheets, text editing, using a calculator etc had a faster user experience than today's computers.

But you are actually right that software "did less". The thing is that most applications don't need to "do a lot". What a lot of users need from computers changed little, but we added a ridiculous amount of overhead to it.
> If you tune C-states for energy conservation in the BIOS, they idle at just under 100W each.

That's quite a lot for idle. For comparison, my tower idles at around 25W.
That's far too reductive. The law is abstract, and still needs to be interpreted and prudentially applied to specific situations, and you cannot capture all of that in the law a priori. Furthermore, having a computer crunch through a bunch of predicates is easy compared to getting the facts expressed in a form that is crunchable. So for specific and narrow applications where such representations are not costly to produce or already exist, such an application of computational law is feasible. But broadly? No.

And then there's the distinction between lex and ius that I think needs to be considered in this context.
Graphics3D[{Gray, phone, Black, Thick, xaxis, yaxis, zaxis},

This has always seemed an odd API to me, in that the arguments can alternate between "the objects being drawn" and "stylistic configuration params" which act like imperative commands setting the current state of the color or whatnot.

With that said, Wolfram as a whole seems well-designed, so I wonder if I am missing something deeper, and curious to hear the rationale from Wolfram experts.
I hadn't written SQL in 10ish years (while working in embedded, etc where I didn't need it.) and when I came back SQL had added the recursive stuff to the standard and OMG, is it ever awkward.

Their rolled out linear English-like syntax makes stuff like this so awkward, and this article is evidence of that, including the reach for the imperative style with the procedure and loops and so on.

I'd love for someone to rewrite the examples in here in Datalog (or RAI's "Rel") just to show how much clearer and brief they become.
Even it's latency is outclassed by ZGC and Shanandoah.

The GC monoculture is great from a simplicity and out of the box experience but there is a very good reason to a) want multiple different GCs tuned for different workload types and b) have competition so that the best designs can be found rather than having to fight to be the only implementation.
woah periods, so aggressive

apple employees: blink twice if you’re okay
Well deserved. By reading the code you can tell there is a lot of analysis and knowledge required to make that exploit happen.

OS development, security, shader programming, computer architecture, etc.

The code is clean and has plenty of comments explaining what is happening at each step.

And for the ones do not know, Asahi Lina is the same person who made it possible to run GPU-enabled Linux on Apple Silicon, among with other contributors.
The Picross series on 3DS is perfect. The stylus makes the whole solving as close to paper as possible with all the upsides of being a digital game.
Radeon is working great these days and with better support on Linux.
Wayland works perfectly on it.
Google doesn't even properly handle emails sent by Google Groups subscribers to a Google Group! I have seen many cases where Gmail spam-tags a post to a group, when the list is closed for posting to any but subscribers...
Europeans want decisive action against disinformation on the Internet
MS Word 6 for Windows was a bit of a sweet spot. Enough features for a word processor without any extra fluff.
There's something symbolic and fitting about one of the groups that helped build the Internet being eaten by the Internet.
Flexer: CSS Flexbox Playground
Once again, my respect for the work of the Asahi team and especially Linas GPU related efforts grows further. Great to see that she was officially recognized[0] and received a bounty for her efforts.

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-md/HT213488
That used to be a lot more true back when game studios treated a finished game as almost immutable.

These days it's quite common to see new patches and even new content for single player games.
> The problem is to some people sugar is also more addictive than alcohol or their favorite recreational drug.

That's not a sugar problem, that's a consumption problem. It's also a necessary nutrient to function, so it's addictive somewhat by definition, like water is addictive, or oxygen is.
See also: Quartz Composer
Sure. But it don’t matter much
I think the article does a good job in then showing ways it's not necessarily that the act of funding something removes existing cooperation in all cases, rather of the ways to fund something holding a bounty will foster competition at a loss of not fostering cooperation instead.

For the second question: you may wish to increase time allocation to a project. Showing up with a fat wad of cash doesn't guarantee something can be done faster but if it'd make a bounty do it faster it'd almost always make the standard development process faster too.
C is the less worse alternative, the less worse compromise.

C syntax is already way too complex.

My opinion: a real world wide standard and royalty-free average modern ISA (for instance 64bits RISC-V), then significant system components get a native assembly version, and then some very high level interpreters (javascript?python?ruby?lua?tintin?etc?) written themselves in assembly. If the pre-processor is not abused (aka they are not trying to code c++ with the assembler pre-processor), we should reach a state much less toxic than what we have today.
I don't think there's much of a problem with actually reasoning about a law's text that a computer can help solve. The complicated bit is weighing equities, which still requires humans and lawyers.
The origin of life: a new theory suggests physics holds the answer
No, they haven't?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_surface_temperature#/med...
The lack of a Leak-style trait is so painful for me that I’d strongly consider switching to a different language that was basically just rust + Leak. (Adding move and removing pin would be nice to have too.)

The problem with not having Leak is that it forces all futures to be ‘static, which effectively disables the borrow checker whenever you cross an async spawn boundary.

Arc is the standard solution, but, for multi-threaded code, it can be expensive (though also more predictable, in fairness) than having a GC.

The only other solution (which I prefer) is to use an unsafe version of spawn that assumes the future it returns will not be leaked.

This certainly breaks the rust promise of supporting safe, zero cost abstractions.
Junior officers had a higher death rate than enlisted in Vietnam. Junior officers lead their men and suffer the same risks. It is the senior officers that command behind the lines.

That might be changing with smart weapons. 15 Russian generals have died in Ukraine, enough to have Wikipedia page.
It took, depending on when you say who the first "engineer" was, several hundred years (let's go from Christopher Wren to the 1828 charter of institute of civil engineers).

So we have time. But we could easily establish minimum best oroactises for computer security, data security, PII management etc (we more or less have with say SOC2). This is why the people that asked "when was your last penTest" got it wrong. They should have said "show me your SOC2 certificate". Then whatever lies the salesman says are obviated by going and asking the accreditation agency.

All we need to do is migrate the SOC2 from a paid for box ticking exercise into something valuable
Teaching newbies 'independence' by downloading random untrusted files off the internet and running them as system admin...not a cool guide i would say.
Can you even host your own SMTP server in 2023 without it being shadow-blocklisted by default? What's your experience?
True but at this point if you don’t do that most e-mail servers will reject you.

Spam pretty much destroyed e-mail as an actually open protocol. Spam destroys all open systems.
> No, "killed" still includes intention of the killer.

Not as I understand it.

If I lost control of my car and ran you down, I would have killed you, but not murdered you.

If I step on a landmine, it is grammatically correct to say "I was killed by a landmine", even though a landmine cannot have intention.

Murder requires intention. Kill does not. The article, written by (presumably) a professional writer and edited at a professional publisher, almost certainly wanted to achieve the sleight-of-hand effect that they have achieved with you - to make it seem as if those deaths were intentional.

This is partly why I am skeptical about the narrative they are selling.
I think the answer is that when you break compatibility for an old compiler, you rev the major version. The folks on the old compiler then get to use the old library forever. Yeah, they can pin (and should) but it makes it a little cleaner.
I walk by this all the time. There’s a big glass entrance on one side with a doorman and everything so it’s not exactly one giant slab on concrete.
I love the way LaTeX output looks and so I've dabbled. I've been very happy with the results using templates written by others. But I occasionally need something slightly customized and I feel a bit hopeless. I've just never taken the time to get comfortable with the details.
Yes. The primary reason would be the obvious one: if the company is less valuable in the future (there are many reasons this could be true, even if it grows), or fails (bankruptcy), you’ve prepaid taxes that would otherwise not be due (and there is no recourse).
no mention of china of course
Most contracts are intended to be enforceable by law, as far as I know. Which kind of non-enforceable contracts did you have in mind?
That derek.jpg sure looks shady.
I find that writing my thoughts is my antidote to this problem. Circular paths of thought are quickly squashed and I have something to visually audit when I ask myself if spending more time thinking will likely enable me to make a better decision.
I would also assume this to be largely true, mainly because of how language in media has gone from being formal and informative to casual and less expressive.
Blender has been around for 29 years, to be fair it’s only been open source for 21, but still it took an extremely long time to get to a point that was comparable to other tools. It’s still definitely not as used as Maya. I do genuinely feel Godot can be adopted widely because it’s better than any other open source game engine that has been around, but blender took an absurdly long time to be competitive.
This reads more like a list of successes, rather than failures
The manufacturers in the US don't do it voluntarily because there would be 5 rows of F's down almost every isle.
I can assure you that the person who wrote this is very well aware of the subtleties involved with formalising the law. Law + Programming is an active research field (https://popl23.sigplan.org/home/prolala-2023), and it is very far away from anything like smart contracts, it is full of brilliant people who have no pretension of replacing the law with computers, but simply be helpers where they can.
I respectfully disagree with your viewpoint.

Many Russians disagree with your viewpoint.

This reminds me of the devil's definition of a moderate: A moderate is a person who holds the reasonable moderate position, which is the only reasonable position. Therefore, anyone who disagrees with a moderate is a screaming, bomb-throwing radical ideologue, who must be silenced no matter what it takes. This is the only reasonable moderate position.
There are good reasons to use a third-party mail server, IMHO. (I recently made that decision again.)

But the reader should be aware that these writeups of how to do X often involve the writer/publisher getting referral kickbacks from the commercial service they're describing.

I'm about to be in a position of doing something like those writeups, as a microstartup, and I'm not entirely comfortable with the affiliate programs. But the companies monetizing with privacy-invading ubiquitous profiling trackers (sometimes euphemistically called "showing ads" and "analytics"), and otherwise selling personal data, have spoiled most potential willingness of readers to pay for content. So, affiliate programs with an obvious potential conflict of interest is the only way I've thought of to fund the work.
My hunch is, in any sufficiently large rule set, there will be inconsistencies. Handwaily think Gödel, or just the need for bounded domains in DDD.

Humans (or, well, AI) is needed to cope with inconsistencies.

That said, pointing out the fact of existence of inconsistencies could be very valuable. But a system needs to embrace them, not fight them.
Deliverability from a cloud host IP is not going to be good.
> They are contracts—just not legal contracts

I think this proves op’s point of goofy confusion for what things are.
Old West Virginia Steel Mill Becomes a Green-Energy Powerhouse
Apple's iPhone 15 and 15 Pro: Imaging tech examined
I mean, this is the company where the only security certification advertised on their website for macOS [1][2] only achieved the lowest possible level of security, EAL1.

A level only fit for products where [3]: "some confidence in correct operation is required, but the threats to security are not viewed as serious" which is one level lower than "demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a basic attack potential" [4]. Which is four full levels below "demonstrating resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential" [5].

Apple has never once, over multiple decades of failed attempts, demonstrated "resistance to penetration attackers with a moderate attack potential" for any product. It should be no surprise that the systems, processes, and people who lack the knowledge, ability, technology, and experience to make a system resistant to moderate attackers, despite nearly unlimited resources, have the security of their systems completely defeated by moderate attacks like small groups of skilled researchers. Apple positively, absolutely, 100%, certifies they can not. Though, it would be nice if their marketing were restricted to what their engineering can prove.

[1] https://support.apple.com/guide/certifications/macos-securit...

[2] https://support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/CE...

[3] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 14

[4] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 16

[5] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/files/ccfiles/CC2022PAR... Page 20
https://archive.ph/eIrVG
Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Stringrays – Is It Enough?
As always, don’t just read the title.

> told the SCMP that FIH employees are often paid higher but that the group that makes iPhones "typically offers better welfare programmes for workers than others," suggesting better benefits.
Ask HN: What software should I rewrite as open source?
I'll probably rewrite it in Rust, but I would like some ideas on software to rewrite and make open source.
I’m disturbed that you have a lot of bathroom pics in your texts
If I shot you 57 times you'd be lousy with gunpowder residue. Bullet holes and gunpowder residue. So trace amounts of gunpowder residue on a bullet riddled corpse is not in any way conclusive evidence they fired a gun.
In a profits interest where the taxes due are zero, it probably is required to make the 83b election, and as far as I can see there is no downside (though a profits interest can come with other downsides).
So okay it doesn't really matter if the engine is open source or source available, I see.
Yeah, I'm not sure why they used a blatantly broken example, but here:

>>>

The public key is like a math answer that is easy to compute if you have the whole equation, but really hard if you only have the answer.

Kind of like "if 2^x mod 32749 = 29640, what is x?"

You can figure it out, but it requires testing lots of numbers (a brute force apporoach) to figure out that it's 12345.

Say Adam sends the public key of 29640 to Bob. (Note that the public key was chosen to be two to some known power, modulo a shared and public prime number).

Bob chooses a new number - say 22222 - and computes 2^22222 mod 32749, too, and the sends it back to Adam.

Now we have 2^22222 mod 32749 => 12883.

When Adam gets that public key back, he can raise it to his own private key, 12345, and get (2^b)^a = 2^(b*a) (mod 32749) = 31458.

Meanwhile, Bob can do the computation (2^a)^b = 2^(a*b = b*a) (mod 32749) = 31458.

Even though Eve listened to both numbers being transmitted:

Adam: "29640"

Bob: "copy. 12883"

Only Adam and Bob can know the result 31458 without doing brute force exponentiation.

Brute force exponentiation is easy for prime numbers less than 33k, but a sender can choose a prime number that's long enough to satisfy their privacy needs, based on their estimate of Eve's resources.

So the bottom line is that the secret is easy to compute if you have one of the private keys, but incredibly time consuming (brute force) if you don't.

<<<

There are still some problems with this (really, Finite-Field Diffie-Hellman just generally kind of sucks, even without quantum attacks), but it's basically the right idea.
With that mindset, I'm really curious on how you view the industry trend in AI tools. Obviously its hit the art industry sooner, but there's more and more tools for game developers coming out now too.

If you think the way you do about game engines and javascript, then if someone uses AI to generate a game by typing a paragraph about their game, do you really still see them as a game developer? Maybe that term isn't as important to you, but I'm willing to bet you would agree that artists would find it highly offensive if people who generate art using AI call themselves artists with as much authority as those who have disciplined themselves in the field for countless years.

And that's avoiding the fact that with higher and higher level abstractions that people know what's even going on at all. Bro, have you tried debugging modern javascript frameworks? What a nightmare...The call stack dump alone is like 3 full pages of shit that nobody knows how it works, all built on shit that also nobody knows how it works. Absolute nightmare. Oh, but don't worry! Someone will build yet another stack of technology on top of that to give it a Band-Aid! Yikes.
You can definitely see the difference in ownership that Gabe Newell brings to Valve, just as Tim Sweeney has to Epic, as founders that have been with the companies from the beginning. They can do things just because they're interesting. They clearly feel free to explore. It's a remarkable luxury of their financial success. Mojang perhaps had that potential (due to how hyper profitable Minecraft was), but, well....
What is your point? I'm saying that stock markets are driven by perceived future value rather than some economic reality.
They sold software tools at the beginning and further down the line used the tools to become the platform of choice for corporations. They controlled the OS and the tooling and this gave them great advantage in business software market share.
You could get Windows source (or parts of it) if you needed to work on low-level stuff from MS and their MSDN was and is miles better than Apple developer documentation and tooling.
Man for a second I thought that that first package on ctan actually included defining the map as well - looks like it’s just a static image though. They really did nail the design.
I live in Winnipeg, way south of Finland, and I've seen spectacular northern lights not far from here.
Ctrl-F. "China". Yea, figured.

That's because the underlying study, which extrapolates it's data from Rystad Energy's private production estimates, focuses exclusively on oil and gas. New coal plants and capacity are ignored entirely.

The idea that the US is "planet wrecker in chief" due to this single variable analysis and without considering how that energy is used both domestically and internationally is both comical and absurd. Particularly given that their only conclusion is, like all breathless climate reports, to just use less energy without any replacement strategy.

We live in the modern dark ages.
He forgot to mention the Apple ][ which had BASIC in ROM! (Both Integer Basic and Applesoft Basic.)
Is there a list of the critters suing AI companies so I can boycott them?
I think their actual strategy is to cut deals with vulnerable devs. They are waving a gun around and seeing who flinches.
Please see the story of Jack Welch CEO of GE.
Yeah, the iPod was a major step along the way to the iPhone. I guess the difference to me is that MP3 players were never something that literally everyone was going to feel a need to own. Not everyone listens to music or podcasts, but everyone needs to communicate. It's a size-of-market thing, the difference between "our market is anybody who listens to music" vs "our market is all human beings." A successful product in that second category feels much different to me than a successful product in the former category.
Also of note, the address you list in Colorado does not have your name on the property.
Yes, you can do it!
We are in the process of switching to Gradle at work and I'm not sure I like it. I used Gradle when building some OSS projects, but my experience wasn't that great.
I was about to comment that the article is missing FileMaker. Which comes with its own kind of “programming language”.

Apple even had a simplified version called Bento for a while, which didn’t really catch on unfortunately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento_(database)

In a previous job, I was looking after the in-house FileMaker application which basically managed CRM, finance and sales for a small company (around 60 users). Company got bought at some stage and the application got replaced by
Oracle counterparts. From what I’ve heard, many people were missing the FileMaker DB.
Valve seems like the only company that would do this reasonably. but they've got better money makers to deal with
Get up and running extremely simple online news feeds (noscript/basic (x)html, excrutiatingly simple json-based format). Declare those feeds "a truth sanctuary": any real disinformation getting there must have legally a out-of-proportion impact, like committing a crime.

Get ready to defend those feeds...

Only govs can do it.
Right, point being that's not a psychological hypersensitivity, it's a lower level subconscious physiological process.
from __future__ import Leak
All users with at least 31 karma can flag post. With enough flags, the post gets marked as [flagged] and with more flags it gets marked as [dead].

You can email the mods to get an official answer, but it's almost sure they will just reply that.
It’s not that much different. I was on Usenet from the late 80s till the web ate it. It was more like stack exchange and Reddit. But with far far fewer people involved. abpe was the best place for porn. Slash fiction was coming of age. Memes didn’t quite exist yet because posting images was not a thing. It the egos and attitudes were the same.
These people genuinely terrify me because they obviously don't have have the faintest idea of what consent means or what FRIES looks like. They don't see other people as equals, but mere tools to use and manipulate in any way they desire.
I do agree that it's not exactly "self hosting" when you use vultr.com

Once you've gone to all the other trouble, pay a little extra to the ISP for a static IP, and then any computer is your own "cloud"...
Great book on how one anesthesiologist discovered that drinking water was the culprit: Ghost Maps.