skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
68k was good, but with extreme flaws, and late. This was enough so Intel become first.

Most annoying flaws: sophisticated memory interface and very limited old companion chips (from 6800 family), and for original 68k need second CPU to make virtual memory.

So what happen? - When appear first 8086/88 and 68k, RAM was small in all machines, but 8086 was simpler and 8086 system was cheaper, and near same speed.

Then appear 286, which was improved 8086 with much better speed and bigger possible RAM, but Motorola answer with 68010, just fixes flaws, this was good, but not enough in race.

Fortunately for Motorola, 286 was not fully compatible with 8086, some programs need to be modified, but many old programs from 68k family also does not work on 68020, so this was good time to think, why bother too much about compatibility, if it is not achievable.

To be honest, on PC I first seen real compatibility, most programs run without any modifications on 8086/8088/80286/80386/80486, just on each iteration faster.

First really significant issues with compatibility on x86 appear on Pentium, as I remember, Pentium-Pro was first Intels microarchitecture on which 16-bit programs was slower then on previous Intel CPUs.

But all these facts was future when was first competition of 8086 and 68k, and nobody could be sure about Intel future before 80386, even many people think 80286 is unfortunate CPU.

So I think, if Motorola made simplified 68k with fixed flaws (to be cheaper and may be to integrate more on CPU chip), it was really possible to gain momentum and overcome Intel on PC market.

Unfortunately, Motorola decide to make 68020/68030, semi-compatible with 68k, but not cheap enough, and stay second in race. May be this because Motorola that time have good sales in military, so they don't bother about future.

And after 80386 for Motorola time was lost forever. PowerPC was totally another history.
Japan's debt is mostly domestic isn't it? It's foreign debt a country needs to be more wary of.
You're describing genetic programming and a very simple neural net, which is cool. However, the utility of transformer models should not be discounted, and if that interested you 20 years ago, you would be blown away by what's possible today.
I love how the author is just too busy solving problems brought about by idiots (not him, of course), but never mentions solving problems via:

1. Improving dashboard engagement through awareness. Maybe through something like periodic email blasts that showcase metrics from the dashboards.

2. Mentoring some of the subpar engineers to help them improve so that future issues ebb and overall quality increases.

But, no, the author is too smart for that nonsense...
Hardly a renowned professor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

Nurse practitioner who went of the deep end re: COVID with hundreds(?) of youtubes is closer to the mark.

For reference, actual "renowned professors" have bio pages that look a little more like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiona_Stanley

Note the discussions about using population data to prove stuff, that's kind of a thing in epidemiology.
Tasmota looks interesting. Interested to hear your thoughts on it if you've tried it or have compared it to toit/jaguar?
There's currently a "split" between districts on whether or not banning ex-felons from gun possession violates the Second Amendment. It might eventually get decided by SCOTUS. If it goes his way, they'll need to find something else to charge him with, such as destruction of property, which would impose a lessor sentence.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-courts-o...
I remember an old slashdot thread about a pedophile who took pictures of his victims and then tried to obscure it by swirl-distorting the faces. Police were able to sufficiently unswirl the faces and identify the victims and get a conviction.

The comments were all like, “well, duh you have to use a randomized Gaussian blur to make it irreversible”. “Yeah or black out the faces entirely.”

Finally someone said, “right. Or, you know, you could just not molest children.”

Edit: this might have been it but I remember a more involved thread:

https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=321921&cid=20908895
The fact that echo green writes to stderr mainly just means that you can see the non-determinism happening, because if it wrote to stdout its output would be invisible.

The big part that's not deterministic is whether echo red succeeds or dies, along with which order the programs exit in. That would be nondeterministic even if you just ran "echo red | echo blue". But in that case you would always see "blue" so it would be hard to tell.

In powershell, it would be deterministic. It sounds like echo red would always succeed.
A good example is the 100s of conversation histories I have with GPT-4 where it does everything from help me code entirely novel and original ideas, or develop more abstract ideas.

Every single day, I get immense use out of modern language models. Even if an output is similar to something it's already processed, that's fine! Such is the nature of synthesis.
>How do specs fit into this if every browser is just a UI shell around chrome?

The browser engine is open source. You can make changes and proposals with your own fork. If you are making a browser for musicians you could try and advance the WebMIDI spec and add new functionality to it and then try to get it standardized. But as a browser developer you don't want to me spending your time implenting specs that other people have already implemented, but rather spending time working on things that improve your browser for your userbase.
The "sign up" button's hit area is only on the actual text and not around it within the button. So it took me a few times to realize why my tap on the button wasn't working. Only when I tapped the text itself did it work.

I really like the art. How did you make it?
https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?srch_scene_type=main...
I found these items by entering "*" into the search box, they have no way to just search all items on the site and sort by price.

Then filter results. This was literally first time using the site and I was not logged in or anything.
> The argument here is that ancestry already covers caste so it’s unnecessary.

It seems that there is caselaw in California indicating that courts do not believe ancestry covers caste (?)

It's unclear really; nobody in this thread has posted any caselaw either way. It could be that the issue is so unsettled that maybe it would make sense for advocates of the law to first try to establish that ancestry covers it--or build up some clear precedent that ancestry is inadequate in the process.
My first computer was the PET in 1978. Tape drive and all. I let my cousin use it when I went away, and he sold it. I'd love to get one for nostalgic reasons. I loved the ASCII character set on the keyboard. I programmed a horse racing game for my parents with betting and using the random function to increment the 6 horses on the screen. Just characters, not graphics like this one.
Your concern about not wanting to send bytes is totally valid.

As it happens (if memory serves) telnet can send some bytes on connection also, in attempting to negotiate terminal settings with the remote “telnet server”. That said the /dev/tcp trick is indeed great for bash though!
I heard a similar complaint not too long ago about "keepa"-prefixed usernames.

Might just be a fad.
Anyone find it kinda sexy?
Do people really use protection that often in the heat of the moment?

I'd say the primary use case would be sex work, outside of that I know a freakin ton of people who aren't slightly interested in missing out on the full experience.
"There is another system." (worst demo ever)
To me it seems ISP CGNAT is the only thing keeping people relatively safe on the internet.

> What are noobs like me supposed to do?

I'm not about to claim I'm some kind of expert on security but...

Don't let your computers talk to strangers. Your computers should only be talking or listening to you really and maybe other people who you trust and have authorized. If someone is not in that group, they should not even send back an error page, they should not even answer pings.

So set up single packet authorization so that your machines literally drop all network packets unless you send a cryptographically signed packet first. To these bots, it will be like the servers are not even there.
There’s no money in telling a politician he can’t be president.
What you are describing is also known as “The Peter Principle” which holds that everyone will eventually be promoted to their level of incompetence. Smart companies know this and make sure it doesn’t cripple their business.
When breaking an expression into multiple lines, it is best to place an operator at the start of a line.
Edsger Dijkstra calls it Mozart vs Beethoven style of programming in an interview.

https://youtu.be/-Uae9_pgZzE
So is the issue that they'd have to work at McDonald's or that they don't want to return to their pre elevation job? Or that they want a cushy retirement job somewhere? Something else? Be clear if you're trying to make a point please.
TF2: A Distinctive Lack of Team Recognition [video]
If it was "harassing" him, he did the right thing.
Before the Matrix there was also Welt am Draht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_on_a_Wire), great Fassbinder two-part movie/miniseries that very few people have seen.
I often think about the huge amount of economic displacement that would occur if organizations had a detector which could determine who was in the 80 vs the 20.
I don't think the world knows what to do with all the imposters in tech alone, let alone white collar jobs broadly.

We might wake up tomorrow to a startup marketing just such a detector. It certainly doesn't require AGI to determine who is adding value. Everything is online now, patterns of git commits, slack communications, call transcripts. It's totally feasible that AI can figure out who is good at solving problems before it can solve those problems directly.
Most likely spam
Sort all of Temu by price, low to high. I just got a $0.31 "AirTag" w/ shipping.
So TL/DR, the author works for a large org with a less than perfect culture? I’d simply move. Even in keeping to companies of similar scale, there are definitely highly successful enterprises out there that wouldn’t entertain entire departments doing meaningless work, and have a generally good culture of accountability and feedback. This before even considering smaller businesses and startups where there’s simply no room to have these sorts of inefficiencies.
Wow. I just got access to Claude v2 model in 5 mins on the AWS Bedrock service. I’ve been waiting months directly from Anthropic.
I remember in one episode of Silicon Valley, Gavin was lecturing Richard on a similar topic along the line of “so you don’t want your startup to be an big corporation, and what’s next for you? Taking vc money? going Ipo? And then becoming a big corp?”
Yeah what's this about?
This is the real danger.

We can control human emissions but not these feedbacks.
> "Increasing efficiency" is mostly a theater meant to demonstrate effort during low/no growth periods and without viable products in development to validate such dynamic.

That really depends on the business. I worked with a manufacturing client a few years back, and millisecond process improvements could translate into millions of dollars increased annual profits. They manufactured parts that would sell for about $0.75 a piece at razor thin margins.
>But we would be arguing pointless nuances at that point.

If you're going to categorize in explicit budgets it's very important to understand what that money means to each individual. Especially if considering individual skill. It'd be best to normalize it or simply use time span instead of budget as a metric.

So, What I could do in, say, 1000 hours (so, ~6 months of full time work) and is that worth the opportunity cost? Be it giving up my job and pouring 80 hours a week for 3 months (in your case, giving up 30k in wages), or working 10 hours on the weekend for 2.5 years (which has zero loss financially)? If you have a team or commissions you can split that time up further (so, in this case maybe 10 hours of code and 300 hours of labor from art (including finding an artists and giving feedback). It's a similar angle to your argument but 1000 hours is an universal measurement, one that is improved by one's own skills, and less influenced by cost of living.
Yes? And you can still get an average fee per transaction to get a rough idea of how expensive it is.
Pixel 7 WiFi does not work in certain countries
> Step up enforcement of existing laws so you can deal not only with caste-ism, but also sectarian strife among other groups. Shia or Sunni, Catholic or Protestant, Orthodox or Reformed, etc.

That's a pretty good point that nobody here has raised yet

If there was a way to ensure basically that people didn't discriminate against people of their own broad religion who were of a different sect, and that such a law would automatically cover caste discrimination by people of upper caste background against people of lower caste background (whether or not either claim to profess any specific religion termed Hinduism), that would certainly be better.

There are a couple issues with this in practice, however, and this suffers even more strongly from the conceptual problem that discrimination between a Shia and Sunni or between a Catholic and Protestant, etc., is almost certainly already covered under religious discrimination, whereas caste apparently isn't.

A big part of the problem with this bill is that we actually don't seem to have a clear answer on the latter question--it seems like almost everyone is kind of just assuming that caste is or isn't already covered by existing law based on their preferences. Doesn't seem to be a lot of definitive caselaw either way.

From that perspective, it's pretty reasonable for Newsom to veto it for now until the situation becomes more clear (though it's probably the case that his move was driven more by political calculation than wise leadership).
I saw this headline and thought it would be yet another case of some tourist or similar vandalizing a site but it’s talking about election graffiti from the time.
> Bodybuilding is something where you cannot shape your reality - no matter how hard you work - if you don't have the right build for it (genetics).

I am a tall, very thin male who struggles to gain weight. I can eat 5,000 calories a day while working out hard and barely gain a pound every month. I was made fun of in highschool and university for my body, and that made me very self conscious and shy. Typical "computer nerd" stuff.

From about age 20 onwards I've enjoyed and benefited from Bodybuilding immensely. It has changed how I view myself, how I view the world and changed my personality. I gained a lot of confidence, and I gained a perspective on the world I never had - doing difficult tasks and slow and steady improvements were important lessons for early 20s me.

I'll never compete, I'm not "huge" and was rarely even "big". (A few times people asked if I compete...) but I got stronger, fitter and for sure my body became a lot nicer to look at.

I'm 41 now and I'll never stop. I don't have incredible genentics, but I didn't let that stop or even slow me down.

Yes, you absolutely can shape your reality through bodybuilding.
I think every PAC is legally required to list its officer(s) in their public incorporation documents. I tracked down the officer for one spamming me and publicly asked the guy (on Twitter I think) along with a screen-cap of the email to remove me from their lists. I never heard back, but it’s been a long time since I’ve been harassed. It might have to hit their doorstep…
Don’t forget the scales :)
I think the case of the Cottingley Fairies (1917) should be included here. Concocted by a pair of teenage girls with a camera and paper cutouts, it fooled many including Arthur Conan Doyle. It's featured in the first chapter of James Randi's book "Flim-Flam!".

One amazing thing about this case was that many believed the photos to be authentic simply because they believed the girls were incapable (both in terms of character and skill) of this level of deception.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingley_Fairies
Watched this recently and was pleasantly surprised. I found it pretty gripping, and the 70s tech actually plays right into that. The communication with the computer via text is really well handled to build tension.
> the books are even better.

The first one, yes, but by "Colossus and the Crab" it's gone downhill.
> Meanwhile the damage of outlawing drugs is mainly from imperfect enforcement and inflicted on people who willingly broke a law for personal enjoyment.

That's omitting the murderous drug cartels that wouldn't otherwise exist.

> A person that gets permanently mentally damaged (e.g becomes schizoid) from drug use is causing an 80 year long drain on society in every way.

What about a person who gets denied necessary medication out of overzealous enforcement, or can't get access to it because they would have to already be on the medication in order to navigate the bureaucracy necessary to get a prescription?

> People apparently have to find out the hard way before they can understand how bad drugs are.

This is like pointing to a stabbing victim and saying "people apparently have to find out the hard way how bad knives are."

Yes, cutting tools are dangerous. No, we shouldn't ban cutlery.

But maybe we should teach people how to safely use sharp objects.
> I would question whether any of those count as useful.

You don't think running the 5th largest economy in the world [1] is useful?

Wow, you must be achieving incredible things! Please let us all know what you are doing that is more useful!

[1] https://bulloakcapital.com/blog/if-california-were-a-country...
Can it be built as layers - a flexible platform, with an opinionated product built on top of it? That way, simple use cases are easy and complicated use cases are possible.
Yes but only for a select few. For the rest of us... Nope
Are you involved with Thunderbird (or Firefox) in any way? Alternatively: have you polled for the opinions of longtime contributors?
How would that work? Quantity is easy to measure. Quality is not.
Maybe not novel novel but you can get it to write code in an application’s automation language and assist users using that application but with it’s general intelligence too (so it can figure out what the user intends, what to do in the app and generate the code to do that stuff). With a good UI that passes and executes automation code automatically, you now have magic in your app.
I prefer this related idea better

https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/StrategicScalaStylePrincipleofL...
HN is not saving the url correctly. But basically just use a wild card to search then sort by price.

https://www.temu.com/search_result.html?srch_scene_type=main...
Interesting examples you have there. The Last of Us is 10-15 hours long: Short by full-price standards. There's 100 hour games out there, many made in Japan. The issue with replayability is that the story is better than the gameplay, and few want to go through said gameplay twice.

Skyrim is a game that, shockingly, people still play today. There's players with 1500 hours. It's not my cup of tea either, but putting it as an example of a non-replayable game is more than a little dubious. Especially when GTA V and RDR2 have basically the same practical problem, yet you find them highly replayable somehow.

What a game needs to be replayable is a fun gameplay loop that is enjoyable when the novelty of story has worn out. Even simple gameplay loops like the one of Hades can make the gave very replayable. If you like, say, the gameplay of Spiderman for the PS4(another game longer than Last Of Us), playing it again will still be fun anyway. If you are going in it for the story only, it will not. Very few games spend the effort on making all the little decisions have relevant story consequences: Basically all you ever get is illusion of choice. It's the fighting, driving, shooting, or strategizing that has to be so fun that doing it for 100+ hours can be rewarding to some people.
Completely programmable microorganisms that interface with humans.

And in the research paper, in prominent display, will be the explanation of how this feat was accomplished using AI.
SIMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instruction,_multiple_d...

github.com/topics/simd: https://github.com/topics/simd

AVX-512 > CPUs with AVX-512:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVX-512#CPUs_with_AVX-512

AArch64 (ARM) > Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64#Scalable_Vector_Extens...
What would be the serious compromise with using Go?
> Likewise, Skyrim is a massive open world game that's incredibly linear and repetitive, giving it a low replayability factor.

I may not be the biggest Skyrim fan in the world but this is just patently false from my experience. I know tons of people who've played through Skyrim multiple different times with different playstyles and allegiances.

> GTA San Andreas, RDR2 and GTA V all fall into this rare category of long games that are highly replayable.

I can't say I've ever felt the need to reply any Rockstar games so much as continue playing them. The story missions are tedious compared to just messing around exploring the open world.
It sounds like people aren't putting into the effort to speak. It's the vocal version of the intentional bored look.

Some people have it at full volume and speed and that's just their voice. But a lot of people (and fewer men) it's not their real voice, but an affectation. We get to have opinions on people's affectations still, right?
> A compiler will not call you in the middle of the night to tell you how amazing your code is. A co-worker, however, might call you in the middle of the night during his on-call night shift to ask you why you introduced an object X that has the same meaning as object Y

What a treasure of an article. Definitely felt the leveling up happening as I was reading.
I’m surprised there is no mention of netcat (nc).
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Monopolies
“Pshhh what are you talking about, the blood alcohol limit has been .1 for years, officer!”
Peer to peer? Self hosted stuff? (not sure how these work with starlink specifically, but - they should work, even if for whatever reason they don't)
Perhaps it's a symbolic statement that their data should not be used for training, in the thought that these ML systems are configured to avoid training on AI-generated data.
There are whales who got into crypto at very low prices and are diversifying their billions in paper gains. It isn't necessarily net new money.
I feel that actually we are on the same page.

patterns as a concept for communication are helpful.

But I mean for people coding in in python & js creating singletons are overkill right?
Why does the radio antenna need to be outside of the body for energy harvesting? Why not just use a pair of terminals in that case?
He’s right about a couple things

1. Cybertruck is hella late. Lapped even by other makers

2. Cybertrucks don’t look great. The videos of them driving around just don’t quite live up to the hype. If the excitement for the car will be less after launch, why launch it ?
I am a tremendous fan of this film and could never explain the frission I felt when Colossus and Guardian began their mutual acceleration. It's in that short list of cerebral, glacial science fiction of a particular era that somehow never lost your attention, like The Andromeda Strain and such.

Demon Seed is also up there but in a different way.
I still don’t understand why things need to be this way? Like, people could not be worthless. It’s theoretically possible.