skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes definitely, I also worked there during that time, and agree with the idea that Google didn't get JS. This is DESPITE coming out with 2 of the greatest JS applications ever -- GMail and Google Maps -- which basically started "Web 2.0" in JS

I always found that odd, and I do think it was cultural. At a certain point, low-level systems programming became valued more, and IMO it was emphasized/rewarded too much over products. I also agree that GWT seemed to be more "staffed" and popular than Closure compiler. There were a bunch of internal sites using GWT.

There was much more JS talent at Yahoo, Facebook, etc. -- and even eventually Microsoft! Shocking... since early Google basically leap-frogged Microsoft's hotmail and I think maps with their JS-based products. Google Docs/Sheets/Slides was supposedly a very strategic JS-based product to compete with Microsoft.

I believe a lot of it had to do with the interview process, which was very uniform for all the time I was there. You could never really hire a JS specialist -- they had to be a generalist and answer systems programming questions. I think there's a sound logic in that (JS programmers need to understand systems performance), but I also think there's room for diversity on a team. People can learn different skills from each other; not everyone has to jump through the same hoops

---

This also reminds me that I thought Alex Russell wrote something about Google engineering not getting the WEB! Not just JavaScript. It's not this, but maybe something similar:

https://changelog.com/jsparty/263

I don't remember if it was an internal or external doc. I think it focused on Chrome side things.

But I remember thinking that too -- the C++ guys don't get the web. When I was in indexing, I remember the tech lead (Sitaram) encouraged the engineers to actually go buy a web hosting account, and set up a web site !! Presumably because that would get them more in touch with web tech, and how web sites are structured.

So yeah it seems really weird and ironic that the company that owns the biggest web apps and the most popular web browser has a lot of employees who don't value that tech

---

Similarly, I have a rant about Google engineering not getting Python. The early engineers set up some pretty great Python infrastructure, and then it kind of rotted. There were arguably sound reasons for that, but I think it basically came back to bite the company with machine learning.

I've heard a bunch of complaints that the Tensorflow APIs are basically what a non-Python programmer would invent, and so PyTorch is more popular ... that's sort of second-hand, but I believe it, from what I know about the engineering culture.

A lot of it has to do with Blaze/Bazel, which is a great C++ build system, while users of every other language all find it deoptimizes their workflow (Java, Go, Python, JS, ...)

So basically I think in the early days there were people who understood JS (like paul) and understood Python, and wrote great code with them, but the eng culture shifted away from those languages.
Don't think so

that's why it's only a dream
I can't help but be amazed how many people think they have any agency at all over what the government and their employers can and will gleefully do.
One rationale is this "You can reduce complex node-related shell scripts into simple one-liners".

But I can also do that with my own script and make the one-liner even simpler. ie `node deploy` is simpler than `npm run deploy`. I can even just run `deploy.js` with a shebang.
They don't think people in Argentina are flocking to Gold, they wrote:

> and people are flocking to ... US Dollars. Not gold,
It was a viable fair use defence right up to people decided there was $ value in LLM.

Once there's value, then the IPR laws come to bear. It's beyond academic use, and into productisation. It's an unlicensed downstream use, exceeding any prior agreement.
Easy—it sucks bigtime.
That Wikipedia section is uncharacteristically bad. It doesn’t even define or explain the notation, it’s just some examples and a long quote. I’m sure that there was more to it than that.
> There is a belief that there exists a lot more paper gold than actual gold. So when the run on the reserves starts, the price of gold will explode as billions of dollars worth of gold in the market disappears.

very good sales pitch!
Talking to the pilots costs about $200 and is really easy, though very illegal - just find out which ATC freq are they currently on and transmit, from a handheld radio or a HackRF. You could also transmit on Guard.

If you prefer to text rather than speak you can send them ACARS, with roughly the same hardware. Though if you use a handheld radio you'll also need a laptop to generate the baseband signal, as I don't think there are any commercially available ACARS transmitters.

(Please never do this, you'll go to jail for a long time).
There's a huge difference in desirability for white space significance depending on whether or not it is used for code or data storage.
Because the best practice is to decompose your code in functions and classes, space significance isn't so much a problem in Python.
YAML on the other hand, is a visually atrocious way to store tree-like/multi-layered data.
Asking out of curiosity, not to be cruel: I wonder if he's willing to use medical equipment that uses non-Free software? To my knowledge, his stated position against using non-Free software is pretty much absolute; but given that medical equipment's software is almost universally non-Free, taking that stance here would seriously endanger his ability to receive necessary medical care.
This is very cool, and I was reading the paper when I noticed they call it an open-source model, but wouldn't a better term be "open-weight model", since to make the model weights you'd need the document sources and lots of compute? Or did they actually open source it fully so people can pull the same sources in to build the same weights and I didn't get the memo?
You've probably got the fan setup incorrectly, or the fan needs to be replaced. Once booted the fan speed should drop to s normal inaudible level.
Ah yes, my gun and my gold will protect me against the organised army out to raid for food.

That's what I meant -- people get organised very quickly. In Rwanda, people quickly formed armies and militias, the same in Ethiopia, Columbia, and literally every other time this has happened before. One guy is not gonna accomplish much.

Civil war is also, by most measures, the least likely outcome. Usually civil war causes the breakdown, not the other way around. Usually it's really a deterioration of state capacity that leads to a powerless central government (see Venezuela, Yemen, Syria), or repeated coups that lead to unstable governance (all of west africa basically). Things are mostly stable, by and large.
i'd bet many machines run on old Linux kernels with some shitty blobs and software on top.
It's a difficult balance to do "partially cooperative, partially competitive multiplayer" as the author describes their game. Almost every year there is at least one thread started on the boardgamegeek forum where someone wants to discuss "semi-cooperative" games like that, and every time it ends in a complete meltdown and thousands of posts. There are very strong opinions about it.
I finally got around to watching The West Wing. There's a lighthearted small subplot of exactly this in S01E19.

By the way, it is so refreshing nowadays to watch a show about extremely competent imperfect people that legitimately strive to do as much good as they can, as they see it. Likewise with Sorkin's writing, while unrealistically witty and fast, it is a delight watching someone so obviously talented give their all to their work. Granted, as in other Sorkin writing, it does sound a bit like all the characters are just versions of him with different voices. But it seems to me like an intentional stylistic choice, a somewhat heightened reality.
WebAssembly Changed My Perspective on Web Development
It was trained "mainly on text" according to the article. So there might as well have been 100GB of images in the training data, too.
I do not like teasing from friends either.

The world needs more signal and less noise.
I got a slight feeling that most equipment runs on windows. Could also be wrong.
When I checked this a few days ago, Nitter wasn’t returning the latest data, so aggressive caching would be one of the tricks they’re using.
Yup, sorry, fixed.

The search trends are the same for Dollar vs Bitcoin. Strongly in favor of Bitcoin.
This level of realism seems impossible in AR as of today, if path tracing a single frame takes a minute or more.
Carnegie Mellon University Launches WebAssembly Research Center
Good. Jamboard was unusable anyway.
It's not a binary decision, there are different dithering algorithms with different noise frequencies.
"Obnoxious and miserable", swimmers and cyclists? Really?
Hey, thanks for trying it out! The app is currently optimised for desktop viewing (anything other than mobile really) but I'm planning on rolling a patch to make it fully responsive over the weekend. Appreciate the feedback!
Windows is common from what I've seen. When I did a brief interview with Abbott Medical Devices in the 2010s, Windows experience was mentioned.
paying with a gun seems like a perfect recipe to get hold up for the things you just bought.
Does that mean he doesn't drive/fly/ride in/on any cars/buses/trains/aircraft? Because the same applies to those.
If you're interested in diving deeper, the History of Aotearoa New Zealand podcast ( https://historyaotearoa.com/ ) is a great resource, very well researched and engaging.
sadly there's also a lot of QNX :(
No worries! I didn't think you were griping or anything. And your comment prompted me to say, historical biases aside being ignored in the post, I thought you were right that it was weird to attack Hypatia and Theon. And when you look at the historical context, it seems even weirder to punch down at knowledgeable people and teachers.
>no getting groped by a TSA agent

Don't worry, they're working on remedying that.
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Way back in the day when I was doing a lot of Exchange consulting work, we would recommend removing permission to send to all except for one or two specific accounts. This was to avoid reply-all meltdowns, for security (viruses couldn't send to all), and also from an HR / internal communication perspective. We would recommend something similar for department-level groups, but often with a bit more freedom.
These are just as fun at large corporations. A bunch of people you've never met, all very mad at each other. (I always join in on these. I simply cannot resist.
One time, someone emailed me privately to say that I should know better. Oh, I do. I just want to watch the email server burn.)
Things I have paid for have disappeared from store but I can still download them. Is there another level of “disappear”?
There’s no need for a cut-off date; just take highly upvoted comments off Reddit and find similar comments on HN as determined by word vectorization, and then train a model off of that. Or maybe even skip the similarity step; after all the goal is to find Reddit like comments.
Note that it wouldn’t be him using (operating) the machines.
Ah right. Clang will warn if you actually try to call such a () function with arguments: https://www.godbolt.org/z/qEa55PdG9

Both GCC and MSVC don't care though.
GNU existed without a kernel for a while, RMS did not stop using computers. If there is no free alternative you use what you can.
This is what's on his personal page, stallman.org:

`Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.`
"Mature content. To view this, open in the app."

Stallman weeps.

Edit: link to old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/16ts15z/stallma...
Funny story: when we bought our second house we found the previous owners had left high in a cupboard a small trumpet case containing a trumpet, a set of freemasons regalia and about 20 krugerrands.

We took it round to the old owners new house and passed it all over. They seemed happy. I think I'd have struggled to keep it the law not withstanding.

Three months later we found a box of (from what I am told, illegal, modified) small arms bullets hidden behind the wardrobe. We handed that into the police.
Apple ‘Punishing’ iPhone 15 Users by Disabling New iOS Battery Feature
Why not both? You can write config-looking Kotlin code so that user won't even realize it's Kotlin. But type-safe and with auto-completion.

Something like

server {
port = 8080
addr = "127.0.0.1"
development = true
}

db {
url = $DB_URL
user = "app"
password = include(".secrets/dbpass.txt")
}
As Yanis Varoufakis so famously joked, German price negotiators will skin you alive. Maybe they just are more effective at reducing prices than their US counterparts.
Ah QNX, one of the few remaining vestiges of the microkernel.

I know it's not foss, and I'm aware of mach, but QNX still holds a place in my heart.
>> it's unsupported by the evidence.

Freight train interference — a dispatching decision made by a freight railroad to delay Amtrak passengers so that freight trains can operate first — caused 1.1 million minutes (about 2 years) of delay in 2022. [1]

[1] also lists Percentage of On-Time Customers by Route – 2022 which clearly shows that it's abysmal.

See the report card [2] where they have put in 80% as the benchmark.

IIRC, I had also seen a full historical report across multiple years but can't find it now. We recently did a trip going from SFO to LAX to San Diego by Coast Starlight and the Surfliner. Thankfully I had read these reports and dropped the plan to do the Zephyr as it has only a 25% on time performance (in 2022). It would only be slightly better as 2022 reports state it has deteriorated further as compared to 2021.

The lesson we learn from looking at all this on time data and checking out some other forums was that when traveling by Amtrak, budget for delays, cancellations, re-reouting by bus and all the pain that comes with it.

We come from the UK and are train lovers, having done most of the train travel in UK and Europe, Amtrak has a lot to do to catch up.

[1] https://www.amtrak.com/about-amtrak/on-time-performance.html

[2] https://www.amtrak.com/content/dam/projects/dotcom/english/p...
He is the one who we need now, in the era of saas/cloud run by big tech. So sad.
Just installed a gas boiler that only has a 7 segment LCD to display the water temperature. Yet it runs Linux. And it takes 30 seconds to boot up.
From what I know in the industry, Windows for the UI and some real time OS for control like VxWorks.

But things are changing and linux is getting some traction.

The healthcare industry is very slow moving (as it should be).
> simplify with […] better placement

Have been designing PCBs off and on for 20 years. This is what I use the autorouter for. I put together a placement that has logical clustering and flow to it and try running the autorouter. If it has a really hard time with lots of vias, I focus on tuning the placement in that area until it can get a relatively ok autoroute. Then I tear up the traces and manually route. I figure “I can do cleaner routing than the autorouter, but if it thinks the best it can do is 20 vias on this group of traces I don’t stand a chance”
I think it's used so you can easily run a command using the same environment other npm commands run under.

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v10/commands/npm-run-script

Which is to say... I think you can do everything the `npm run <foo>` command does from the command line, but it would require typing a lot more characters. You would have to do something like this to get what running `npm run` does automagically:

NODE_PATH=./node_modules/.bin node -r ./node_modules/env foo.js

which is more characters to type than

npm foo
The question is at least on his mind: https://www.gnuhealth.org/
I remember Stallman claiming he would use non-free software if there was no alternative, providing an example of software use without alternative at some conference. His position isn't "absolute" to reject everything non-free, in his example he'd use Windows as long as there were no alternatives and usage had to be performed.

Unfortunately, I can't find a link with this claim to share.
It's a dark pattern but you don't have to use the app, if you log in it will let you view.
And then a PoE+ jacket to go with the active cooling hat and M.2 shoe.
Europe here, and yes, that's what people do.
The user you were arguing with is running multiple unsubstantiated fights in the comments.
Why are you being so obtuse? No, devs don't have to include the source to vim in their repos. They have to include the source files for their product in their repos. I'm confident this just isn't that hard to understand.
> Perhaps a naive idea, but: wouldn't it be better and simpler to simply state that you can only discriminate on factors of actual relevance?

No, that would be much more complicated, because it would make literally every decision in the subject domain presumptively invalid, because every decision discriminates on some grounds. And relevance is highly subjective, where its applicable as an exception to laws otherwise liniting discrimination on particular bases, the relevance analysis is the complicated part of applying the law, the identified categories which narrow where that even needs to be done are the simple part.

Note that for government discrimination, it kind of works that way, but different bases of discrimination have different relevance tests.
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The value proposition is there for me. I bought a "BMAX B1 Plus" for about 70$ including shipping from AliExpress. It's as small as 2 or 3 CD cases stacked together. It is a fully fledged PC that comes with windows 10 (no support for windows 11 but LinuxMint and other distro work well too), an hdmi cable, and a clever mounting bracket to attach it to the back of a monitor. It is passively cooled, pulls about 4 Watts. Biggest downside is the power supply with a cylindar connector. I use it solely to connect to my main PC using RustDesk and it is great for that.
You’re pointing out yourself the usefulness of being one guy with a gun.

Once you need to form a militia, you bring your gun and join your neighbors. That way you can actually resist the army. They will do more than just raid for food. They raid for people: conscription, slavery, and “comfort”.
pure gold does exist in nature, pure aluminum not so much
>But we are talking about messaging which has greatly displaced face to face conversation while email is flat or shrinking over the same time period.

That's irrelevant, IMHO.

If an exchange is recorded, then it's fair game for legal discovery.

I'll give you some (modified[0]) 25+ year-old advice that's just as relevant today to messaging/collaboration apps as it was to email: If you wouldn't want to see it on the front page of the NYT/WaPo/FoxNews/HN/Reddit/Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/tiktok/BBC/Deutsche Welle/YouTube/etc., then don't put it in any recorded form.

And that goes triple for anything shared on platforms you don't own and physically control -- especially those owned/controlled by your employer.

You might just as well just wear a GoPro 24/7 and livestream the feed everywhere.

I'd add that in a professional setting, anything that might even be tangentially related might well be subject to discovery in the event of a lawsuit.

Don't like it? Get the laws changed. And good luck with that. You're gonna need it.

[0] The original advice referenced "local newspapers" and email, but since the former are mostly gone and (at least you claim it's so) "email is flat or shrinking", I thought I'd update it for you.

Edit: Fixed typo.
I don't believe that Stallman would give up his principles. I suppose one could investigate whether has ever been to an ER. My guess is that he would rather stand firm and die.
I suppose your argument has a couple of things going for it. First you don’t need to change your own behaviour. Second you get to blame someone else for the problems you have created.

You will find it painful though, when you are inevitably forced to change.
Apple doesn’t seem to have much interest in competing in the low-margin/“low-end” cheap smartphone market. On the high-end their relationship (in US and some other rich countries anyway) seems to be closer to what Apple and MS had in the 90s and 2000s (i.e. Apple completely dominates the market with hardly any threats).

Also the fact that they don’t rely on ad revenue (their search engine couldn’t be profitable without it) seems like part of their appeal (privacy etc.). So getting $10 billion for not doing anything seems like a great deal compared to spending billions to undercut Google with limited return.
Also, old.reddit.com usually doesn't have all these shenanigans, so I just set up a redirect.
Primarily caps karma earning limits and voting limits, which should (at least I think) nudge people towards more thoughtful voting patterns and comments.

The unintended effect may be that high-contribution users are disincentivized from participating.
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I think what it means is that if there were open source airplanes he’d take those, even at the cost of an enormous detour.
What's cool about RMS is that he perfectly foresaw many decades ago the world that we live in today: your car or smart fridge refusing actions because its software says so. And you cannot change the bloody software! I cringe every time I see encrypted firmware running in trusted execution environment, DRM, DLCs for fucking physical products, websites or apps that scam you into signing up or giving up some other freedoms, or some other corpo garbage made in this era. Tesla literally sells car speed upgrade as an over the air update. My phone makes it hard or impossible to install the software that I want, unless some corpo bureaucrat from Google or Apple decided they like this software.
Sometimes it feels like there is still not a lot of humans here !

They mention immigration towards the end - it's pretty impressive the speed and scale at which the population is changing towards much more asian. There was a census this year (results to be released in 2024) so pretty curious about the numbers.
We’ve always needed him, and just haven’t listened.
> Can anyone tell from the video if he still has the big beard?

You can a video of Stallman's now without his beard in his closing remarks at GNU 40th anniversary.

https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/gnu40/closing-remarks-gnu4...
Here is an article from 1982 arguing that more video games should have a coop mode:
https://archive.org/details/Softline_Magazine_Issue_1.5/page...

Also there was a bit of a solo boardgame boom around 1980 with some games also supporting (or at least suggesting) playing together with others, but it was somehow forgotten and then someone rediscovered around 2010 or so. I find it strange that I never saw a coop game from before the late 1970's though, and it is not because I have not been searching for them.