skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The IBM 360 was supposed to be a “universal” computer but IBM struggled to make a “universal” operating system, particularly competing mainframes and minicomputer supported timesharing by the late 1960s but IBM got into the early 1970s without a real product.

Turned out they never developed a universal OS but they did develop virtual machines and could run just as many OS on a computer as they liked. The CMS that they demo here is a single-user OS a lot like MS-DOS or CP/M and if you wanted to develop software you would call up an editor (I think XEDIT) and run a compiler on the command line. It was IBM’s answer to systems like RSTS/E which ran on the overall less capable PDP-11.

The 370 had slow interrupt handling compared to the PDP-11; most minicomputers could respond to and echo individual characters that you typed, the 3270 terminal worked more like web application where you would fill out a form and submit the whole thing, for instance if you typed in a command the terminal would send the whole command when you were done typing.
More accurately, everything we learned is a lie.

Diamonds are plentiful and now easy to mass produce; we even accept the reality of blood mines. Mainstream news media is by and large lying to us for their owner’s gains, whether that be politically, economically, or culturally. And finally most of the dietary information the government drilled into us about things like the “food pyramid” was wrong from the beginning and we’re again only just accepting that. Just like how we’re finally accepting that eggs and meats are good for you and that maybe the multi-billion dollar food industry selling us delicious bags of pure calories is evil in every respect.
> I’ve also thought about doing a really low and slow extraction, say by using a sous vide machine. You do run into food safety issues, since the chilies can contain botulism.

Sous vide was my first thought, since that avoids the evaporation and oxidation that decreases the intensity of the low and slow method. However I don't think botulism is any more of a concern here than any other sous vide dish and high heat doesn't kill botulism spores so it doesn't really matter how you cook the chilis.

Just keep it above 140F while infusing and keep it out of the <130F danger zone past a few hours. Quickly cool it below 45F using an ice bath after infusing if you're paranoid or cooking for someone that might be immunocompromised.
Could have been a well calculated move. "how can I get back to prison without hurting anyone"
It's a model that mostly reflects reality. I find the alternative much more unbelievable (e.g. that this trend is the result of general ignorance and dumbness). It's simply more likely that your personal preference simply isn't shared by the majority.
Yeah, and lootbox gambling should be regulated too, what's your point?
There was push to use newer and better designed CPIO format with limited success...seems tar is just too ingrained.

edit: looked into it a bit and it was not much better in fact.
My bank is now y2.1k bug ready: In their CSV export, they changed the date format for the year back to 2 digits.

It only takes 23 years to forget history.
Thank you for the answer. What would be a more CO2-efficient way to produce steel?
Fees like a browser extension could block such posts if someone’s really bothered.
I don't know, I think the unpredictability of how much you will owe Unity each month will be a big sticking point for all developers, big and small. A percentage of revenue is easy to account for; if we make this much money we will pay this much to Unity. A bill based on the vague "number of installs" calculated by a black box at Unity themselves is a financial disaster waiting to happen.
Just use these cereal that say "Contents: corn" with no sugar. I believe that some Kellog's qualified, but that could be some time ago. Bingo: They will have some sugars, but these are natural corn sugars which would absorbed slowly.

Milk also contains slow-ish sugars, not refined sugar.
I live there personally, I can provide any documents requested if Stripe needs
Orca Life
AFAIK the default config on Windows to install a program is still downloading an executable installer on Windows.

On Linux, the default config is you install most programs from the "trusted" distribution's repositories. Flatpaks and Snaps are increasingly used for apps that are not in the repository. They are not perfect, but they are improving.

I don't know how it works for macOS. You'd download a program image but I don't know what the program can do and if there's a sandbox.
https://archive.ph/2023.09.15-080203/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Fun fact.

AppLovin was IronSource’s main competitor, in fact it’s the market leader by a significant margin.

And yes, while it’s true that AppLovin decided to mess with them a bit by making an unsolicited offer that would make Unity a minority stake holder at 49%, their offer was significantly higher than IronSource’s and significantly higher than market value.

I’m sure the fact that IronSource’s CEO Tomer Bar Zeev was (and still is) on the Unity board had little to no influence on Unity passing up on the offer and going with IronSource instead.

> (As a side note, I think it’s a shame that BigTech can’t really do strategic acquisitions anymore. A company like Meta or Microsoft would have been a much better home for Unity. But some regulator around the world would have blocked the deal for sure. Meta can’t seem to acquire a sandwich these days without FTC or the UK competition authority trying to block it.)

I think this cheering on of companies gobbling up each other, is bad in general, whether it’s Meta or Microsoft doing it or Unity.
Ultimately it’s a bad thing for everyone if in the end there’s barely any competition and everything is under the umbrella of a few companies.
You want something like a ticket/bug tracking system for customer support, not an email group
Takeaway from article.

"Before Elon Musk, Twitter would regularly evaluate and eventually push back against government requests if they were a threat to dissidents or free speech," Yoel Roth, the former head of the company’s trust and safety team, said in an interview. But that requires vast resources. "Compliance, on the other hand, is the easy option."
A class is a module/namespace. You can make a class just to have functions in it.
> The earliest JVMs weren't really thread safe at all but machines were single core so it didn't matter, you could just cooperatively multi-task.

In the 90s we didn't have multiple cores but we had multiple CPUs. I started using java in '96 on a 2 CPU SPARC and the lack of real thread support was limiting. When green threads was dropped in favor of real (OS) thread support there was much rejoicing. I worked primarily in server performance back in those days.

> Virtual threads are M:N threading.

Solaris had M:N threads early on but it also was dropped.
Microservices: Why We Did It by Mason Jones from Credit Karma [video]
Everything is relative. But imo it’s VERY unlikely to matter “a lot”. Everything is trickier if you’re trying to lose weight, but white rice vs brown is a tiny offender relative to the more common culprits
I was honestly surprised I had to create a WD account to finish a job application. WD is a horribly slow piece of SW that I hope I won't have to use again. Sadly, it is getting very popular.
> It is not a just transition if thousands of jobs are sacrificed in the name of short-term environmental gains.

I'm never happy to see people lose their jobs, but "short-term environmental gains" strikes me as a ridiculous way of framing a significant reduction of carbon emissions.
Random bathroom selfie seems pretty standard.
Oh my. How does this not get abused all the time?
Aurora that looks grey is simply too feint for your eyes to perceive the colour[0][1]. One way you can confirm whether what you're seeing is aurora or not, is to take a picture with a digital camera. Camera sensors can discern the green (or whatever) hue, whereas the cones (which perceive colour) cannot pick up such dim light.

Once the aurora becomes stronger, you can absolutely see shockingly-vibrant green, pink, purple, and other colours, literally streaming/swirling/dancing across the sky. It's an unforgettable experience. I hope you have the chance to see this at full-strength sometime, and I absolutely recommend seeking it out if possible. (extra-recommended to watch while sitting in an outdoor hot tub at midnight in -10*C in Iceland, of course!)

[0] https://www.neworld.com/blog/2018/aurora-borealis-and-our-ey...

[1] https://futurism.com/how-we-see-the-aurora-borealis-camera-v...
So far we have only recruited early clients by hand, from the people we know and referrals and landing pages don't play a role there. Have you seen Stripe's first landing page called /dev/payments?
I hope there always will be a big enough minority of software engineers who will be actively working against all the complexity and resume driven development (RDD) and pushing simpler and more scalable solutions instead of Rube Goldberg machine of the cloud (there is a lot of use for a cloud, but most of the companies just doesn't need it).

On the other side, loosing deployments to some "cloud solutions" will make things worse for everyone and general PC computing - right now macOS and Windows is only usable for development and general PC computing because of software engineers needed it. The moment it will be fully replaced by cloud - all major OSs will be locked down as much as possible.

Branding "serverless" as a cloud feature was a huge marketing ploy - there were serverless software before cloud existed, it was running on your personal computer, not on someone else's server.

Same for localhost.

Localhost should be alive forever.
> Most European countries will happily punish you for your speech if it offends the prevailing sensibilities, religious or secular.

O.o Europe is a pretty big place. Most countries will let you speak your mind freely because free speech is a thing. As long as you don’t break any laws (hate speech etc)
This can be problematic when working on a project where updating the version of rust is difficult, limiting what libraries can be used - or ci/cd where devs may not have direct control of the environment. It’s less of a language compatibility issues and more deployment logistics issues.
> “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

This is the quote from the last powerpoint slide by cute girl from consulting agency. Sweetheart I wake up every morning, eat and drink the same, and yes I expect this day will be different.
You have to be honest: that's the perfect architecture to create paranoia. As usual, it doesn't mean it's Evil. But it's perfect to create story since it's "mysterious"!
So you're telling me that if I bring, for example, a pig into a synagogue I won't face any legal repercussions?
Not really, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_Unite...

Can you name even one case?
Your license doesn't override copyright law.

Given that Google successfully used a fair use defense in Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc., I think it's likely OpenAI and the others will also win in court.

I do think it's possible for specific uses of the output of LLMs to be copyright infringement. That's why it's interesting to see Microsoft to indemnify customers of their commercial products in the event a case is brought against the customer. This is smart on Microsoft's part; the risk probably isn't very high and by making it a non-issue for their customers, many more will feel comfortable using their LLM-based features and services.
To Build Ships That Break Ice, U.S. Must Relearn to Cut Steel
Yeah the tradeoff here is that this is intended to replace the use of a wildcard certificate which wouldn't benefit of logging every hostname anyway
Your link indicates the US has no blasphemy laws, btw.
No idea why you are comparing Java, which is BE, to React, which is FE.

I think I will check Java once they finally make coroutines… I mean “virtual threads” a stable feature. That actually looks exciting… being able to parallelize almost like in Go 5 years ago.
Show HN: A reference implementation of Turing's paper “On Computable Numbers”
Hey HN!

I've been curious about the history of computer science and decided to try to read Turing's 1936 paper where he conceptualizes the Turing Machine, etc.

I had trouble understanding the paper, read The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold (which is wonderful), but felt that reading a reference implementation would help formalize my understanding. When I couldn't find an open source implementation, I decided to write my own.

The implementation includes:

- Abbreviated tables (m-functions)
- Conversions to Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers
- A working universal machine
- A walkthrough of the paper section-by-section in the context of the codebase

I'm still working on sections 8-11 (the math/logic is a bit difficult for me) - if you understand these sections well enough to explain, I'd love to talk to you!

In general I am interested in new mediums for learning source material (web annotations, walkthroughs, reference implementations, etc.), and was inspired by Karpathy's Zero to Hero course in particular for this project.
Java was always a great language. It's the enterprisy ecosystem that make me want to throw up. To implement a line of logic, I have seen dozen classes and interfaces.
Eh, I mostly just see tech related content. It's what you make of it.
Your cash over time is guaranteed to lose almost all its value. While, if you invest in something, it could be even gold or silver, could be a house, could be a global market cap index fund, it holds more of its value than a fiat currency does. So no, fiat currencies lose everything and even with risks involved with other investments, the risks are still less than cash. Cash over time is one of the worst investments.
I) DEFINITION.

Magick is the Science and Art of causing Change to occur in conformity with Will.

(Illustration: It is my Will to inform the World of certain facts within my knowledge. I therefore take “magickal weapons”, pen, ink, and paper; I write “incantations”—these sentences—in the “magickal language” ie, that which is understood by the people I wish to instruct; I call forth “spirits”, such as printers, publishers, booksellers and so forth and constrain them to convey my message to those people. The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.)

In one sense Magick may be defined as the name given to Science by the vulgar.

- Aleister Crowley, "Magick in Theory and Practice."

The "magickal weapons" of the 21st century are technology, engineering, and computing; a newly emerging "magickal language" is the LLM prompt; we are building new machine "spirits" in the form of ChatGPT, LLaMa, and friends.
you are absolutely right, there is always a choice, but some choices are bad and they are at the end of your choice list, so deep that you don't even consider it anymore as an option.
> This is taking the argument to extreme limits, you have to admit?

So is classifying foods as "unhealthy" or "healthy" but people do that all the time.
Hey, same! (From ~2012 to 2014), but yeah.
I'm all for tech independence. But if you need to be spoon-fed the instructions like this and you don't get what most of it is doing, YOU DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. Best case scenario you'll get locked out of your own stuff or important information.

Yes, you should strive for that, and you start by learning. Contrary to popular belief, you don't need to be a linux ninja to be able to host your own website and calendar.

The stuff mentioned in this article are the bare minimum, and you should want to do it yourself without being spoon fed the steps.

With that aside, this is exactly the kind of guide I would expect a three-letter agency contractor or worker to spread in order to "help you" stay off the grid, then unceremoniously drop a disaster on your head.
>will happily punish you for your speech

getting drunk in a mosque/house of worship which is probably not this guys property is a very creative definition of 'speech'.

I'm not sure why speech in modern American discourse seems to have moved from actual, literal speech, to behaving like a crazy person in places that aren't actually yours. It's more like an 'in your face'-ism, like a license to pester people.
There are a lot of places with blasphemy laws. It's much more common to Islamic majority countries.[1]

Blasphemy is punishable by death in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brunei, Mauritania and Saudi Arabia. Among non-Muslim-majority countries, the harshest blasphemy laws are in Italy, where the maximum penalty is two years in prison.[2]

[1]: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/01/25/four-in-t...

[2]: https://theconversation.com/the-politics-of-blasphemy-why-pa...
Free Cyber Vulnerability Scanning for Water Utilities [pdf]
This is the true breakfast of champions indeed. Add some nuts and seeds for even more variety.
Ignore the snarky comments, this is a good initiative. Respect.
Free Competitor Research Reports
Just launched free extensive repository of competitor research reports. It offers product and marketing analyses with a specific focus on the target audience. These reports delve into the audience's requirements and conduct SWOT analyses for each featured website.

Any feedback is welcome
Yeah it feels like some kind of shibboleth to know that the way to get the good jobs is not through indeed but through direct contact or similar. On the other hand if everyone used that tactic I guess it wouldn’t be as effective or as good of a in group signal
Apple should take a page from Hollywood and create an Apple Cinematic Universe where there is continuity on the various storylines and characters created in their presentations.
That's not what the quote says.

It'd be more like you waking up, eating the same thing every day, and expecting different outcomes from the eating, e.g. the level of satiety or the effect on your energy until lunch.
This is true. Bottom-barrel* retail food service gigs don't count. (And even then... I'm certain the manager at the Gamestop I applied to at 18 binned my paper app immediately because he was hiring his friends.)

People don't like to admit it, because it calls into question the meritocratic nature of our job market. American recruitment process are fair and appropriate, not corrupt, right? Well...

*not in the skill or fortitude required, but in how the employer treates you
A body is any outpost for our consciousness, it's something we can use to interact with the world. If the body has its own designated memory, we'll perceive that construct as our personality.
Thanks. Any good books that cover the current java performance landscape but is grounded in the history of what came before?

I used to be heavily involved in java-based server performance and scalability work back in the 90s and 00s but have been working on other things the last decade. But it would be fun to learn more about where things stand.
I can only conclude that they didn't know that. It's such a bad name; we won't even be able to google "catala lang" because ... Catala is also a "lang"!

Imagine someone creates a programming language called Russian. Good luck googling "russian lang".
Someone should gift him a VHS copy of Midnight Express.
The code is MIT licensed if and only if the copyright holder - not the author of the story but respectively Box or Uber - explicitly made it MIT licensed. Without a legally binding commitment from these companies, a "license.txt" at the repository can't make it MIT licensed, all it means that the author is lying about its license. He doesn't own the code (despite writing it) so his "permission" is worse than worthless (by being dangerously misleading) without an explicit blessing by the company - even an implicit "we probably don't care" doesn't cut it.
Bros probably just feeling the high interest rates. Powell got another one
> Arc is the standard solution, but, for multi-threaded code, it can be expensive (though also more predictable, in fairness) than having a GC.

Do you have measurements to back that up? I would expect it to be a lot cheaper than GC because GCed language such as Java/Go/etc. GC every heap allocation (and Java in particular doesn't have unboxed objects, so there are a lot of heap allocations!) where Arc<RequestState> would bundle a bunch of things together.

That said, I'm not in love with the Arc solution either. It's not just the performance impact. The programming model of scoped concurrency is just much more pleasant. Giving up that and then also having to deal with putting everything into an Arc, and likely also then wrapping it in a MutexLock, even when it should really be one thread at a time dealing with the value in question, just doesn't do anything good for readability and writability of code...
I've gotten leads through hired and linkedin pretty easily. You can also use them to just find job postings and apply directly.
Will it help?

On the one hand, I think it would be fantastic, if you had automated tests for the law. For example, when German politicians introduced the "hacker law", you could have pointed out that "This new law would break the 'security researchers need to be allowed to do penetration testing' test".

On the other hand, "Brexit is in conflict with the Good Friday Agreement, we need a solution for Nothern Ireland." was known without machine readable laws and test, but politicians ignored it anyway.

Maybe what's needed is a law that outlaws test-breaking laws and requires politicians to fix the tests first, but I bet that would just result in a lot of "commented" tests.
Workday = the absolutely terrible SaaS software that we have to use for quarterly evaluations and booking time off? That truly is an awful, awful piece of software.
> So it’s not like the internet is this unruly space that isn’t governed. It is governed.

To me this is misleading and a big overstatement. Internet regulation in the US is awful. Everyone in tech has noticed the countless lawsuits that the FAANG companies have been/are battling with the government. Usually they end in a settlement or fine that costs the companies a few cents, relatively speaking. For example:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/google-reaches-93-million-priv...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/22/23732461/meta-eu-privacy-...

Why in the world should we assume these companies will suddenly behave differently with this new trillion dollar opportunity that is AI?
And that's the story of how nobody heard from smath ever again.
(self plug) They published a paper describing the language https://hal.inria.fr/hal-03159939, and here's a short video summary of it: https://youtu.be/OiaFTFSAa1I
It's hallucination if you hate it, and creativity if you like it.
This link is to a thread where this title has been buried under updates. The correct link is https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news...
Would you walk down the aisle with someone who doesn’t share your politics?
Even if he owned a gun...

Even if he had it with him...

Even if he had just shot a cop with it...

It does not justify murdering him for it, especially since from what I've seen, when he was shot he had surrendered and was no threat to anyone.

We really need to stop letting cops control the narrative around their extrajudicial killings by putting blame on the victim. It doesn't matter if the victim is a pure choirboy or the worst, most hard-bitten gang member you can find: lethal force should be the absolute last resort when attempting to subdue someone.
Obligatory: Could we use LLMs?
City Hall clerk paid not to work – for seven-and-a-half years