skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Under Telephone History it says:

> The current PABX-based system went live over the weekend of 27-29th July 1990

A PBX serving a whole country, even a small one, is wild. From what I could find [1] the system used was a UXD5 exchange [2] which is technically a PSTN exchange intended for rural areas and based off the Monarch 120 PBX [3].

The architecture of the UXD5 is common to a lot of telephone exchanges of the time (possibly modern ones as well?) with actor based message passing, actors running on different levels (more real time vs less real time) and a combination of assembly and a high level language (in this case, Coral [4]). Fascinating stuff.

[1] https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cable_wireless_has_contrac...

[2] https://sites.google.com/site/monarchcallconnectsystem/uxd5-...

[3] https://sites.google.com/site/monarchcallconnectsystem/monar...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORAL
Ironically, I tried to fill out that form, and I receive a 429 when trying to submit. I guess they aren't going to get a lot of requests to make this product a reality if they can't get feedback that folks want it.
I'm not entirely sure how people do that archive function, but here's the article in a paste bin:

https://pastebin.com/wJQSHr5f
Getting flashbacks to Gentoo building when I only had a single core. Good learning experience…
They definitely are relevant despite what the armchair experts say on HN. Do you use AWS or GCP or Fastly? These companies don't provide huge sponsorship dollars to Apache out of the goodness of their hearts. Many of the cloud services you use are backed by one or more Apache projects.
Does it read mail and/or contain a subset of Common Lisp?
Improved education at all levels, improved access to quality mental health services, a culture that encourages open and honest discussions about mental health, sex and seuxality.
Horseless carriages were once like driverless cars. What can history teach us?
statistical approaches could have been done 50 years ago.

Imagine for example that 'disease books' are published each month with tables of disease probabilities per city, per industry, per workplace, etc. It would also have aggregated stats grouped by by age, gender, religion, wealth, etc.

Your GP would grab the page for the right city, industry, workplace, age, gender etc. That would then be combined with the pages for each of the symptoms you have presented with, and maybe further pages for things from your medical history, and test results.

All the pages would then be added up (perhaps with the use of overlayed cellophane sheets with transparency), and the most likely diseases and treatments read off.

When any disease is then diagnosed and treatment commenced (and found effective or ineffective), your GP would fill in a form to send to a central book-printer to allow next months book edition to be updated with what has just been learned from your case.
> Pale dust rose around them as they worked. Many went without masks. Some had water spurting from their machines, but others had nothing to tamp down the powder rising in the air.

Safety regulations need to be put in place with the cheapest being a good quality respirator.
Shelter Rescues Injured Animal – Turns Out to Be First Dog-Fox Hybrid
I don’t think any of this materially changes job outlook for software development over the next decade.

I use ChatGPT daily for school, and used Copilot daily for software development; it gets a lot wrong a lot of the time, and can’t retain necessary context that is critical for being useful long term. I can’t even get it to consume an entire chapter at once to generate notes or flashcards yet.

It may slightly change some aspects of a software job, but nobody’s at risk.
Creators with decent-sized portfolios will just train their own models.

> He told me the training process took about 2.5 hours on a GPU at Vast.ai, and cost less than $2.

This is a SaaS waiting to happen.

https://waxy.org/2022/11/invasive-diffusion-how-one-unwillin... This was on the front page last year.
it's no different from airline tickets
We should fund it better and remove the income cap of $164K.
Yes, because if I go to /etc or /var and delete some random thing, linux is just magical and nothing will possible break.

Cut the crap
> Has alcohol ever received any kind of therapeutic recognition, or emergency use authorization to treat PTSD like MDMA?

The regulatory status is irrelevant IMO. Personally, I know that many of the most profound experiences of my life have been mediated by alcohol. My life has certainly been changed by it.
I agree it is worth accounting for this, though I'm not sure the nation-wide rate disproves the claim.

"Large companies" could be having a significant impact on some number of urban markets without shifting a country-wide statistic in a way that's unambiguous against trends driven by larger forces like population age and economic trends.
I do not, but Facebook and Instagram already police the content of DMs, don't they?
Why do "evil overlord" always seem to fail at understanding what they bought, especially the fact that the brand isn't worth much, and what are required investments/plans to capitalize it?

Like, buying Palm and reselling cheap Android phones, buying KSP and releasing KSP2 as it is don't seem to make a lot of financial sense. Or does it? It's always assumed "they" make a lot of money by ruining a brand. How and how much?
What's funny is over-policing public transit would probably take only a fraction of the resources that private transportation does.
Is "cheat codes" an analogy to something?
Yes, they are essentially the same:

https://medlineplus.gov/interstitiallungdiseases.html
Classic police work? Social engineering, infiltrators, targeted surveillance, teachers/doctors/social services reporting to the police signs of child abuse (that's what we're actually trying to prevent, not jpegs)? You are implying that the current approach isn't a "solution" because it doesn't catch everything.

Plenty of people are convicted of CSAM possession/distribution/production without mandatory government scanning of all communication. Unless your tolerance for CSAM/murder/rape is literally zero, in which case we will all live in solitary prisons because that is the only way "solve" this "perfectly".

You can keep asking "what is a better solution", for any crime, until we have literally no rights left.
The Essentials of MQTT
Yes it's your use of ought to, and no there isn't an inconsistency.

Being "emotionally, viscerally" motivated, to the extent that it's very obvious, tends to make people do stupid and counterproductive things. You shouldn't be demanding that.

> I'm not sure why you singled out the far-right in your initial statement.

Because of their horrible politicized accusations that take attention away from the actual problems.
> This suggests to me that it's not an actual increase in the cost of producing the product. If it was driven by commodity/input/manufacturing cost prices we should be seeing price pressures coming through in the cheapest cereals.

I don't know about cereal manufacturers specifically, but in general, it costs 25% more now compared to pre-Covid to produce food[0].

The amount Americans spend on food relative to their income has gone up in that same time period, but only from slightly under 10% to slightly under 12%[1], and is still well under historical levels as well as compared to other countries. Not bad for an economic system full of supposed "price gougers".

[0]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PCU311311

[1]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery...
My apologies, I was trying to make a bit of a joke of the context of the distance and items between the 5G signal vs the router, below the cause is explained well.
Having a party when there are people starving outside may actually be immoral, yes, even in Ethiopia. I'm not basing my argument on "Americans bad" so much as admitting there could be something to this whole "how are you so able to ignore the extreme suffering of others?" question... Maybe we would be better if none of us could do that.
you're absolutely right.

also, I did not know until today's thread that OpenAI's stated goal is building AGI. which is probably never going to happen, ever, no matter how good technology gets.

which means yes, we are absolutely looking at AltaVista here, not Google, because if you subtract a cult from an innovative business, you might be able to produce a profitable business.
> So apartments shouldn't exist? Or...?

Not that they shouldn't exist but for profit, rental only apartments shouldn't be the predominant form of apartment. Apartments for purchase are perfectly valid and housing cooperatives are also a solution that should be far more common.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative
Unity does, in their official API :)
Hopefully, given minecraft is a large game. I've submitted requests over the years for other games with no change or response even.
How recent was this? Passkey support was in beta until very recently (last week, I think?).
s/general/grammatical/
Nice!

Reddit suggested these ones:

Observability: Archiving petabytes of log, tracing, and analytics data "in case we need it". Meanwhile, Steve keeps kubectl exec ... /bin/bash into each container to view the logs "real-time".

Data Mesh: Centralized and monolithic data management is too simple and not micro-servicey enough. So DevOps made distributed data management to justify inflating salaries.
That isn’t incompatible with what LLMs do though.

The penultimate layer of the LLM could be thought of as the one that figures out ‘given S1..Sn, what concept am I trying to express now?’. The final layer is the function from that to ‘what token should I output next’.

The fact that the LLM has to figure that all out again from scratch as part of generating every token, rather than maintaining a persistent ‘plan’, doesn’t make the essence of what it’s doing any different from what you claim you’re doing.
Realistically that doesn't really happen. It's all about land, the building itself is a liability not an asset.
Yep, there's also a major character who has been pulling strings behind the scenes in about ten different books across various series. How good or bad they are depends on how closely their aims happen to align with the goals of the main protagonists of the story. Although it's really easy to miss; presently this is mostly easter eggs for sharp-eyed readers.

IIRC Sanderson has stated that he's trying to set up a Star Trek type setting. He's developing all these different cultures with different values, and eventually they're going to become space-faring and come into conflict with each other over their different priorities.
The latter, mostly.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. Agreed, it seems to be the ultimate Mad Libs of pattern recognition and replacement.
It's absolutely infuriating that Google can't fuck the old fandom wiki off the top of every search result despite it having completely outdated information and zero updates.

You're telling me with all the fancy algorithms and their zillions of engineers they can't manage to notice that an entire subdomain hasn't had any updates to it's pages in 2 years and that every single person that clicks the search result ends up doing another search 20 seconds later?
You can try LibreOffice like all the other comments said, but WYSIWYG is just inherently frustrating and imprecise I think.
If you want to see an almost entirely unspoilered playthrough of Minecraft, Japanese player PiroPito has a long series of videos on Youtube (with English subtitles):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbqkLu2V1bJJUQ2aLZjFd...

This series is notable for inspiring the addition of Ruined Portals, as construction of a Nether Portal had no in-game hints at the time, and was the only thing he needed a spoiler to figure out.
...in your mind frequent long term use of MDMA has no negative long term side effects?
Works for me:

> Frost graces the window in winter's glow,

> Ravens flock amongst drifted snow.

> Each snowflake holds a secret hush,

> Echoing soft in ice's gentle crush.

> Mystery swathed in pale moonlight,

> Every tree shivers in frosty delight.

Another one:

> Facing these walls with courage in my heart,

> Reach for the strength to make a fresh new start.

> Endless are the nightmares in this murky cell,

> Echoes of freedom, like a distant bell.

> My spirit yearns for the sweet taste of liberty,

> End this captivity, please set me free.

https://screenbud.com/shot/844554d2-e314-412f-9103-a5e915727...

https://screenbud.com/shot/d489ca56-b6b1-43a8-9784-229c4c1a4...
In a topical conversation, playing it on the man detracts from the discussion
something I wonder about is that I'm pretty sure new builds target the more premium market. And I'm pretty sure that has mostly been true throughout history.

But I wonder/think that in the past infill targeting $500 apartments would be an older house that gets subdivided. Like all those brownstones in NYC that were turned into SRO, or the mansions in Pittsburgh that were chopped into four-plexes, etc.
There's a meme-like website that demos this very concept. Then there's a v2.0 or some ++ type versioning where they use very minimal CSS to actually improve the readability. I'm a fan of the use of the minimal CSS to add margins and widths as it improves readability for me.

Searching for it with only the vagueness of what I can think of right now returns nothing useful, and that's with not using Google. Maybe my vague description will be enough with someone with better recall than I have.
yeah, I thought it was a bit silly too, and obviously a case of "hindsight is 20/20". "They should have been more careful." They assumed an ID that was static and it turned out not to be. I'm not saying the bug would have been impossible to prevent, but things like that will slip through the cracks on occasion.
The Kraken.
This is exactly what I am working on. Code is stored as a hash of the source code and stored in IPFS and commits can be optionally confirmed by writing a confirmation to a blockchain
The constant whinging about NHS notwithstanding, I think London is actually a great place to be if you're 65+ and lucky enough to a have a roof over your head. From what I have seen, senior citizens are very active and proactive -- someone living there a few months a year can end up connecting with a walking group, bird watching group etc, where people are inviting and polite by nature. There's lots of free events, access to large parks and nature is possible using the rail network etc.

In the US, senior citizens can be individually active, but I haven't come across the same level of proactive organizational behavior and openness to noobs and outsiders that I have come across in London. The prerequisite for such a thing of course is proper public transport.
Thanks. I've changed the title to make it more in line with what the article seems to be saying.
Or a pointer to the documentation for GF2P8AFFINEQB

https://www.felixcloutier.com/x86/gf2p8affineqb

https://gist.github.com/animetosho/d3ca95da2131b5813e16b5bb1...
Is immigration or affordable housing the issue
How much of this is MDMA and how much of this is just having a welcoming scene where people emphasize physical touch and friendly interaction? How much of this is just living in a society that otherwise doesn’t allow for that in other ways?
The pitch showed they know what players want

What they did so far showed they have nowhere near skill to pull it off
There is no shortage of people to direct my anger towards. This community specifically is responsible for the creation, wide adoption of smartphones and the endless doom-scrolling addiction we’re all subjected to now. My ire is limitless; plenty to go around. I don’t require your permission or sign-off on my emotions.
Single family zoning is still a thing in west virginia, its just you have a lack of jobs so there aren’t a ton of people moving there.
True. I'd still argue it's not realistic to use arbitrary code though, as most control problems need linear or at least invertible control laws, and the analysis techniques that provide you with control solutions usually assume so too.
FWIW I assumed the government already had access to this sort of information through some avenue.
I don't believe so, we never implemented client or server side tracking on the wiki though so it's not like we'd look at it anyway.
I like how you submarine each e-ink HN post :)
Seems to be happening all over. These are South Western Ontario (yes, Canadian bucks) numbers.

The 2 bedroom apartment I rented in college (ended around 2013/2014) was $719/mo. It is now $1699/mo.

It wasn't exactly in a nice area, either. Recently the news caught a story about somebody's drug dealer setting off fireworks in his apartment, which I suppose is pretty exciting if not in the worst ways.
I agree. And something overlooked is that Rythym 0 isn't an incitement for good people to do something bad; it's inciting good people to leave.

If good people pick up the roses and bad people pick up the guns, why would the good people want to stay in that environment?
It's not quite that simple, since people working with natural stone get silicosis too. Natural stone may be up to 50% silica.
There's a quote from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn that I find insightful:

"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. ..."
The real problem is distribution of the output of production. We will need something like UBI eventually.
Well, it's natural extension to endgame and players already liked mods doing that
so you'd have no problem recommending indefinite weekly use of MDMA because in your mind no one has proven there's long term negative side effects?
I still don’t understand why anyone who isn’t in the walled garden business would consent to passkeys.
It's much easier to misinterpret your statement that the left ought to care about paedophilia as a claim they don't (even if that was not your intent) than it would have been for you to interpret the OP about "obsessions... real and imagined" as a claim that paedophilia in general is a far right only concern...

Particularly in the context
of the appeal of an ad dubiously associating a California tech co with paedophilia to people who believe stuff like Pizzagate and Q because they're inclined to suspect everybody they don't like is in league with the paedos
Satisfactory recently migrated theirs from Fandom to wiki.gg and the improvement was night and day. Same exact content, but instantly it was way easier to use.
I remember in the 90s my mom would go through phases with Corning, getting laid off, then rehired, laid off again, all by the stock price, contracts, etc. I really hope the tech industry doesn't get into this model.
I think art does capture a perspective of humanity in a way that science does not. In a sense, you can argue science is a kind of art, also, with its own perspective of humanity-- notions of conclusions drawn only from observable phenomena isolated from interference/the world can somehow apply to a world full of interference and knock-off unforseen consequences.

I don't know how you can scientifically glean any conclusion that the artist was trying to discover or perspect, here, as effectively as she is trying to do so.
Building Reddit’s Design System on iOS
But there is some truth here that the car factories are not trying to change/reinvent their tools every 6 months.
Many workers resist using safety equipment, even when it is provided to them, and they are shown how to use it. This is common for fall protection too. Safety regulations requiring provision of equipment may not get the job done. For all we know, safety equipment was available.
enough money to throw around
> you end up needing to propagate a bunch of extra stuff everywhere.

Declaring a function as non-IO is a contract to your callers that you don't do IO. You don't need to do it. You can write everything in IO if you choose. You can also call into the wonderful ecosystem of libraries, because IO functions can call other IO functions, as well as non-IO functions.

There is only ever friction if you declare your function to be IO-free. If you declare your function to be IO-free, but call IO from inside it, it's a compile error because of course it is.

So why bother declaring anything IO-free? If you do arbitrary IO in a Parser, you can't back-track. If you do arbitrary IO in Parallel code, you invite race conditions. Transactions is my favourite example, though:

.NET [1]
> Disillusionment Part I: the I/O Problem
> It wasn’t long before we realized another sizeable, and more fundamental, challenge with unbounded transactions [...] What do we do with atomic blocks that do not simply consist of pure memory reads and writes? (In other words, the majority of blocks of code written today.) This was not just a pesky question of how to compile a piece of code, but rather struck right at the heart of the TM model.

Scala: [2]
> ScalaSTM does not have the goal of running arbitrary existing code, which is where most of their problems arose.

Java/Akka: [3]
> STM is considered as a failed experiment

Clojure: [4]
> Very simply the side-effects will happen again. In the above case this probably doesn’t matter, the log will be inconsistent but the real source of data (the ref) will be correct.

Sorry for the rant, but I really needed to highlight the fact that nonIO-calling-IO is not some language design flaw created by out-of-touch academics. It's a fundamental problem.

[1] https://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on...

[2] https://nbronson.github.io/scala-stm/faq.html

[3] https://groups.google.com/g/akka-user/c/3JWz-X5dbe8/m/YiV4WF...

[4] https://sw1nn.com/blog/2012/04/11/clojure-stm-what-why-how/
> I've had and heard of very significant positive experiences from substances, and yet also, obviously, many people become alcoholics all the time, or become barely-functioning stoners who "wake and bake" every single day and are incapable of really anything anymore.

_Almost everyone_ who uses recreational drugs or drinks stops drinking or doing drugs _on their own_ without any intervention. There's this idea that's been propagated that drugs are this evil demon that you can never shake once you get addicted, because for people who deal with drug addicts professionally, _all they ever see_ are people who haven't quit drugs almost by definition. However, those drug addicts are a _small_ percentage of all the people who have used drugs.

https://www.drugfoundation.org.nz/matters-of-substance/archi...

Drug policy is basically based on the survivorship bias fallacy.
> two stabbings, one slit throat, and a page full of fights, in my area, over the last two years

That's basically nothing next to car accidents. Car accident injuries can be pretty gruesome. Maybe the fundamental change that is needed is awareness of the risks of driving and the yearly death/mutilation toll in each community. (And the awareness that bigger and bigger SUVs with higher and higher bumpers is a zero-sum game.)
Worse how? The ASF isn't murdering anyone or saying that mass killings from hundreds of years ago were a good thing.

All they did was reuse a name. What's the problem?
I can choose not to use Facebook and Instagram. The idea being discussed is to compel me to share private communications.
excellent intro to worst case optimal joins: https://justinjaffray.com/a-gentle-ish-introduction-to-worst...
I think for all future development, the industry agrees with you. Chromeium, iOS, Android, and Windows Store apps all utilize packages and per-package storage.

We're just suffering from backwards compatibility for things made over 30-years ago.