skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I know you hired me to murder the competing gang, but I thought designing a new multi-paradigm type-safe VM-driven LISP-like automatically verifyable programming language would be much better use of the money".
Once I casually mentioned dimensional analysis/quantity calculus to a programmer who worked at CERN, doing scientific computing. They had never heard of it. They had already worked out the hard way that you could do this stuff, but they thought of it as a hack. They were pumped to find out there was a theory behind it and it wasn't just ad-hoc duct taping.

That really surprised me. I'm not that smart or educated. I think they either had a masters degree or were a master's student (can't recall precisely).
Or they could be referring to the opposite - the unquestioning adherence to all things Science, as long as those things fall within the progressive orthodoxy that has a stranglehold on academia.
That's not fair at all. Snapdragon 8 gen 2 was ahead of Apples best offering, just a few days ago [1], in gaming. That's not "mediocre". That's much closer to "head to head". Thermal throttling is also a significant problem with iPhones, for anything real world [2]. A new snapdragon will come out shortly, and the battle will continue.

[1] https://beebom.com/snapdragon-8-gen-2-vs-apple-a16-bionic-be....

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSzwefx_TXU
At least I got guido right…
9/10. Sorry, Guido, I knew those were the dead eyes of a programming language inventor but I still decided to go with serial killer.
What you are thinking of is limited to electrolytic capacitors. There are different kinds of caps.

Tons of dead Tantalums, those will explode in your face. Found in old gear from 1970-90.

MLC ones will burn so hot as to turn surrounding PCB material into coal, sometimes even causing open flame fires.

Small ceramic ones will dead short but not explode like tantalums, leaving you with dead weight of a product - this is the most common failure scenario in modern phones/laptops.
Just because you can't run whatever software you like on it, does not make it non-general purpose CPU.
https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_cvpr_2018/html/Van_Hor...

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2021/html/Van_Horn...

Etc.
I used the HP48 family of calculators for most high school and college science classes, so it was easy to keep track of units throughout the entire chain of calculations with automatic conversions and a degree of type checking (not quite fully automatic dimensional analysis). I developed a very strong habit of always being explicit about units for any quantity, and was appalled at how lenient many students and instructors were. Worst were the textbooks that defined obscure domain-specific constants without explicitly stating the units, often forcing the reader to reference several pages to be sure of the units in use for that context.
I got 9/10 (sorry Sussman!).

In a previous version of this game on another site, Phil Wadler was one of the computer scientists and I was able to say "I've met that one! I hope he's not a serial killer..."
https://archive.is/0ueUU
Up to that point, their marketing had long been derisive of Intel parts and overstating the supremacy of PowerPC. (Supercomputers, anyone?)

It's marketing, that's what it does, but an about-face like that is eyebrow-raising.
It's hard to see the line here: if a lawyer has a 1:1 meeting with someone and tells them that using certain terms can be legally risky that's protected? If he has a group meeting with 10 execs to advise the same? One lawyer gives the same advice to 100 people, 1000 people, 10000 people what is the number of people receiving the information where verbatim the exact same conversation isn't legally protected anymore?
> None of the mechanism is visible at all, certainly no wheel, motorized or not. How does a motorized wheel accomplish this?

Probably a simple spinning wheel inside of the ball collection area.

Spinning rubber wheel in the hole the ball drops through before getting on the track. Notice how the ball doesn't differ in speed at all after it's fallen, vs the original feels natural (gaining momentum) until it gets close to the bottom.

Edit: In one of the Amazon review images[0] you can see a black spot in the ball drop hole, maybe there.

[0]: https://i.imgur.com/xb65ljL.png
Probably because many people around the world participated in classifying what was posted?

I am guessing. Please tell me if that is correct. How do they prevent false labels ?
https://archive.is/Z8u13
this is usually where i get frustrated with capitalism. Not everything has to be about retaining customers. If i hire someone to build a brick outbuilding, i probably won't need another brick outbuilding.

I'd rather a "pay for 3-6 months of full access upfront, a 3 day trial option" than a subscription model for anything where there's a chance i won't be using it in 3-6 months. when i see a dating site ask for a year upfront i know they're not going to actually help me.

I met my wife (and two close friends) on OKCupid over 15 years ago, so i remember what it was, and what a site could be again, just not OKC
ScienceHub as usual?
Not feasible on even 240 Volt AC at all, would have to be high voltage all the way to the charger as the cabling is unworkable. Its completely impractical otherwise and its going to require big changes to the grid.
Many Americans don’t know key facts about U.S. Constitution: study
Speaking as an entitled boomer raised by and with the ethos of a mother who went through food rationing in WWII this article is a lot of hot air about nothing important.
Amazing work

Would love a VST frontend as well so I could drop a song file into a plugin and have it spit the stems out directly into my DAW
Spending time on alchemy is, to me, symptomatic of a curious mind that was open to experimentation where his peers might reject things altogether on presuppositions.

If he had no been that easily distracted by weird things I expect he would have pushed the envelope of knowledge significantly less.
Writing is memory dump for me. I do it to free memory
It does? I'm confused
I didn’t know this. I saw the reply below that it’s not enabled by default. Maybe that’s why I haven’t seen this
So if John Carmack, Guido, Rich Hickey, Donald Knuth wanted a job, they would first have to leet code like everyone else?

The reason the failure to invert a binary tree story was notable was because the dude invented Homebrew. He was supposed to enter though the back door, but someone screwed up and made him go through the regular mechanism.
These numbers are a harbinger of what to expect when Apple brings 3nm tech to the M-series, especially the Ultra with 24+ cores and much more lenient thermal envelope (not to mention active cooling).
Should we be worried about older politicians?
I like the one I'm in but only because it's a condo. The HOA deals with the shared spaces, pipes, and outward doors. Unfortunately this is likely coming to an end. Recently the board president has decided that the two unit maximum ownership is a bad idea, removed that rule, and bought an additional 15 units.

HOA's have a place but that space is narrow and people like to push out of that space when they get an ounce of power.
Toyota has absolutely nothing for the EV age having bet the house on hydrogen and failing that just ICE. Now they are scrambling and making promises on research when they have nothing remotely to suggest they can do what they are promising, not even a prototype.
Games made with a controller in mind are miserable experiences on a touchscreen. Phones are awkward and uncomfortable to hold like a controller, the lack of physical buttons provides no tactile feedback on where to press, the lack of shoulder buttons means overloading your thumbs with even more inputs, and your fingers obscure half the screen.

And if the implication is that they'll port those iOS games to Mac, then I wouldn't count on it if it takes even a single iota of extra effort on their end. There are more Linux gamers than Mac gamers, and yet game devs still can't be arsed to test their games on Steam Deck.
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, what is the benefit of being able to match at compile time?
The english wikipedia article for elsevier has an hint.
Never heard of it before. Thanks!
Definitely don't agree. There's a difference in people who need support groups to tell them if a game is "too woke" for them / send death threats and people who have RGB.
I get why people do ad business models!

But if I were a user of your app, I would personally prefer to pay you $5/yr for whatever "fancy upgrades" it would require for that to get you enough subscribers to be workable.

But this is a personal preference! It's definitely the case that most people prefer to use free (apologies, I don't know if this applies to your app, but it usually does) crap.

But I do think a niche of people like me totally exists, and is actually not that small.
When I used it (and Kolibri, Floppix, and QNXdemo) in the mid-2000s it was mostly down to the speed of the floppy drive. So about the same as loading Windows 10 from a conventional (spinning rust) hard drive.
If you collect vintage compact Macs, you can literally see the hardware transition from the original Macintosh designed like any other random 68k project within the reach of homebrewer with a PAL programmer, to highly compact gate arrays and “if you don’t have the ability to design and obtain custom silicon, good luck”. VLSI giveth and VLSI taketh.
Amazon trains employees on this too. It's all about customer obsession, not the competition.
iPhone alarm as a piano ballad [video]
Slack is accessible by third parties in the same way that phone calls and emails are, namely that many employees of the companies that own the infrastructure can observe all of the communication but are told only to do so under very specific circumstances.
It's a good library but be careful as it can significantly increase compile times. I added a couple of reasonably long regular expressions to a c++ source file and it increased the compile time from near instant (below to 1 second) to 30 seconds. Might be wise to move these to dedicated source files so you don't pay this penalty each time you make changes.
Ask HN: Why was Docker first launched at PyCon?
Solomon Hykes famously launched Docker in 2013 at PyCon with this talk (amazing 5 minute watch if you haven't seen it yet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW9CAH9nSLs&ab_channel=dotcloudtv

As someone who wasn't involved in the industry at this space, it's curious to me that PyCon was the place for Docker to launch, given the talk seems to have nothing to do with python / docker itself doesn't seem to have anything to do with python specifically (although of course python devs use docker a lot nowadays).

Anyone remember this / have insights into why PyCon was the launch site for Docker?
I read the title, skim the abstract and jump directly to the tables/graphics. There is a lot of bullshit in the introduction and conclusions.
If you're assuming it is compressed, to say 700 bar, then it would have a higher volumetric density.
The phrase ["not even wrong"] is generally used to imply a stupid or unscientific suggestion.

An unscientific suggestion is exactly what was offered. Forgive my ignorance, but why was the tone of the message misplaced, and what was the tone?
https://archive.is/ka14y
There are hundreds of thousands of "false' labels. Pictures can be classified many times.
> Otherwise you could just store the whole text in the decompressor.

I don't think GP was asking about the decompressor, but specifically the compressor.

The FAQ has a fairly detailed answer for this though: http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#addcomp
The guy wants her to buy or found a music company. That's the point, I'd you were wondering.
This was the case. There were no pristine laptops. Some kids are gentle with them, but things happen outside their control, kids play destructive pranks, or are just clumsy. Theoretically possible to make it to 5 years? Sure. Practically? No.
Which is why you can stream your iPhone to a TV and connect a controller. There are also many controllers that clip onto the iPhone itself for a Switch-like experience.
Check out this NIST technical note on implementing quantity calculus (the broader topic in which dimensional analysis resides - it has nothing to do with integration or differentiation, don't let the 'calculus' part turn you off) in software.

https://www.nist.gov/publications/architecture-software-assi...
I set up the vision health plan for my company, and you can certainly waive that (and save some out-of-pocket $$ as well, as employer cannot pay 100% of the insurance, ot at least I couldn't find a 100% option).

And buy the glasses at Zenni et al.
The antitrust laws and regulations don't change.
It's not necessarily match at compile time, it's compile the regex at compile time to eliminate all superfluous runtime costs.
christianmingle, grindr, ashley madison, and then all the ones for more, uh, enthusiastic relationships. But from that list and the catchall at the end, Match may own all of those as well, seeing as how OKC was designed for people who weren't compatible with match.com, and around the same time, plenty of fish was the main competitor. Match bought both.
It sounds like you've made up your own definition for something you already disliked and just call it gamers. Anyone reading resetera will know you don't have to be a right wing troll to be toxic.
I think OP meant clock speeds don’t matter, relative performance does.
Hydrogen in a car would be gas the whole time. It is just compressed high enough that the tanks can fit in a car.
Were you given training not to kill your competitors? Were you?

I think my concern is that the important thing is not to do illegal things. If training focuses on just not sounding like you do illegal things instead of just not doing illegal things, that’s the problem.
Spielberg should sue for copyright infringement.
That's how SaaS pricing was invented!
I bought mine for $50 years ago and they are perfect. "Objectively" better I would say.
My second mini DIY IKEA Backpack
They don't want a competitor to control ARM.
I have been using an Intel samsumg chromebook for my dev machine and it is great. <$500. When I lose updates, I will buy a new one and still be ahead. Never buying windows or Mac again. Thinking about framework linux or chromebook
XNA is only a framework that does some basic low level abstraction. It is no where near a game engine
It's a pretty interesting statement. I used to be fine with "microboredoms" and think about other things, such as a book I'm reading, a game I want to play, or even work.

I noticed these days that I spend more time during those "microboredoms" on my phone. I have 10 seconds? Check out reddit!

I've been trying to kick this habit, enjoy my surroundings more, or get lost in my head like I used to.
Singer publishes his book, "The Life You Can Save" for free -- it was revised for the 10th anniversary. It is available in various formats, including an audio book. It is a short, easy read. It is also one of the most impactful books I've ever read.

https://www.thelifeyoucansave.org/

Along the header there is an item "free book" if you want to get the book.

In short, there are a few theses in the book that combine in a compelling way. This isn't his summary, this is the summary I got out of reading it. (1) the suffering of someone you don't know is just as real as the suffering of someone you do know. (2) there are many worthy causes, but we aren't allocating enough resources to address them all, so it is best to allocate them such that they do the most good for the worst off (3) if you are reading hacker news, you are likely in the 1% (worldwide) and your primary needs are already being met and you can make meaningful contributions to help those most in need without affecting your lifestyle much.

Each chapter tackles a topic. For instance, part of it brings up many the counter arguments about why someone might not want to donate and then debunks them. Eg, in a poll, most US citizens believe that 10-20% of their taxes are going to foreign, and say about half that, say 5%, would be reasonable. In fact it is well under 1%. Or people will say there have always been poor people and there will always be poor people (counter argument: to the people who are helped, aid makes a huge difference to them personally, and there have actually been great strides in the past 30 years at reducing global poverty).

Another chapter talks about the typical feel good news item about someone in the community who has gone blind and so the community pitches in to pay for a seeing eye dog for the person (it costs up to $50K to train and vet such dogs). Yet that same $50K could have prevented river blindness for thousands of children, or been enough to perform cataract surgery on thousands of blind adults.

People often say, why give to a charity in Africa? It will just end up in someone's pocket before it helps anyway. The book talks about the effective altruism movement and describes how charities are vetted and monitored. The website above has links to many such vetted charities.

Another chapter talks about where to draw the line? Sure, I can afford $700 to pay for corrective surgery for a woman suffering from fistula and feel good about myself. But in reality I could afford another $700, then another $700, etc. Do I need to keep donating to those worse off until I am one of the worse off people? (spoiler: no)
Things are changing with Windows. Windows 10 will only be supported until 14 Oct 2025[1], and Windows 11 explicitly does not support some relatively recent hardware configurations, e.g. 7th generation Intel processors[2].

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

[2] https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/08/27/update-...
woah, what a throwback. haven't thought about this in a couple decades
For a direct answer, this[1] is a good starting point discussing the difficulties with hydrogen (as a medium generally).

Hydrogen fuel cell vs combustion isn’t a settled issue. Combustion is more familiar but Carnot Efficiency is going to reduce range (even further). Fuel cells are more efficient but more expensive. Anything with hydrogen needs to worry about embrittlement. It’s also very difficult to contain so the GWP of 11.6 shouldn’t be overlooked; methane is much easier to manage and still our natural gas infrastructure leaks all over the place.

The electrification of industrial processes have allowed for increasingly-cheaper electric motors to operate efficiently at any size, from toy RC cars to massive (diesel) electric trains.

Even barring any energy density breakthroughs, electrification with batteries for light duty applications seems inevitable. Having a gigantic battery (compared to residential electrical use) as backup is quite useful. Virtual power plants [2] and stationary deployment of secondhand battery cells should lessen the substantial cost of vehicle batteries — we’re at least a decade away from EV trade-ins being common outside of Norway (and maybe China).

For heavy duty applications, we have an existing solution that works fairly well. We’re just going to end up reinventing catenaries for this era [2]. The operational challenges of maintaining catenary wire systems (especially with shared electric right of ways) is just easier than overcoming the chemistry. That is of course, unless we get in our own way [4].

—-

[1] https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/features/the-unbearable-....

[2] https://liftoff.energy.gov/vpp/

[3] https://www.carscoops.com/2021/10/germany-is-already-testing...

[4]
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-08-347r
> But the days of the garage hacker getting their hands on cutting-edge parts are long gone.

In the context of CPUs i'm with you (still tinkering with things like 6502s).

On the other hand, i just deployed Llama2 70B (with the help of [0]) on my home PC and it was fascinating, when it wrote it's first response.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37492986
I had the same question, and I think this FAQ entry answers it fairly well: http://prize.hutter1.net/hfaq.htm#addcomp
Isn’t a shotgun murderer a … parallel killer?
Following Russia at war is a source of enjoyment.
Google promises decade of updates for newer Chromebooks
Ok, great. Let's undo all those peaky 'big gubmint' deals you dislike so much and return the land to it's original owners. You're on the side of small government and historical ownership claims, right? Hard to imagine a smaller government or more viable historical claim than the obvious one.
The catch is that we can expect better performance when they increase the clock to be closer to the i9. However, it’s never clear how high it go safely.
You can still break anti-trust laws even with a 30% market share.
TidyBot Personalized Robot Assistance with Large Language Models
I don't think they expect people to seriously play Resident Evil 4 with touch controls. I imagine most people who actually complete the game will use either the controllers that attach to the side of the phone like a Switch, controllers that have a mount on top to hold the phone, a normal Bluetooth controls like a Dualshock with their phone in some other dock, or stream everything to an Apple TV.
For me what helped was creating a long white noise sample, then filtering it to have a peak around the frequency of my particular tinnitus and playing it in a loop at barely audible levels from a good stereo in my bedroom. I'm not exactly sure why that works but to me it seems like having an actual irregular audio signal entering your ears prevents your brain/ear from maintaining a self-oscillating tinnitus.
RISC-V didn't exist

ARM and Apple also go way back, it was founded a joint venture between Acorn and Apple (and VLSI)
I’m glad someone else feels this way. I absolutely hate those YouTube videos talking about the “4K 30min total render” bs. Show me a M-chip MacBook that doesn’t balk when running Docker, or chug when opening a fat codebase in WebStorm.

Sure the chips are fast when they run the stuff Apple designed for it, but they don’t seem any faster to me in my work. I will give them efficiency though. I love not having to carry the charge brick everywhere I go.
I always wondered how do you determine truth in such sites?
Develop Streamlit Apps In-Browser with GitHub Codespaces
> It seems that at the moment LLMs are not able to grok Oberon source code (although they are able to generate it).

This seems unlikely. The "knowledge" LLMs have is inherently bidirectional, so I suspect it's likely that one of the following is true:

- any model than can generate it can also grok it (though you may need to know exactly how to ask)

- that what it's generating isn't actually valid Oberon

- that it can only generate it for a very narrow subset of things (eg specific examples it's been trained on).
It’s not HTTP - the design uses a much smaller binary protocol (hardware tokens are very constrained) called CTAP:

https://fidoalliance.org/specs/fido-v2.0-id-20180227/fido-cl...

OpenSSH uses that protocol to request encryption operations. Mutt could do that the same way but it’d need a server which supports the same crypto algorithm FIDO2 specifies. That’d be great but also somewhat pointless if you’re using Yubikeys which support x509 auth which IMAP and SMTP have supported for decades.
> Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 scored 1490 in the single-core

> Apple’s A16 Bionic chipset scored 1879.

Both on the same 4nm TSMC process.
This works fine, except that apple can use xyz semiconductors widget Q and mandate to that supplier that they are the only ones allowed to buy that part.

This is a thing they definitely do now.
DC fast chargers are already 400V or 800V, so we’ve long since crossed the limits of AC charging at home.
It takes no effort to make an EV. They are the simplest type of car imaginable. They even pre-date ICE cars.
To be clear, when I say "pay for things", I mean subscriptions. I don't think one time payments work at all.
True. But it does make it functionally a non-general purpose CPU. I suppose you can load your own programs if you have a dev account or jailbreak right?