skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And who is obligated to provide these resources? There is a big difference between the government not being able to restrict you in some way, and some party providing you with something (general purpose computing in this case). Presumably someone should have provided printing presses as well.
CHERI project [0]. Look at figure 2.1: it's an improvement and further development of the segments of yore but the origins are quite visible.

[0] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-941.pdf
Those are all 80% polymers.

Ghost Gun != 3D printed firearm
Yes, most EU countries directly elect the parliament and the government is formed from the parliament members - usually the winning party/coalition, but not always. In some it's a tradition that the winning party leader gets the first shot at getting their cabinet approved by the parliament, then a second shot, and if they can't do it the president appoints somebody else.
> Morally, you are depriving the content creators and Youtube of revenue (if they rely on Youtube ads)

In my 20+ years on the internet I have never clicked on an ad. I might have been made aware of a product that I went and purchased later when I actually needed it but never at the moment I saw the ad, meaning no affiliate revenue for the platform/creator. Am I allowed to block ads then, since there is a 100% guarantee that you won’t be getting any money from me?

(I pay for YT premium so it doesn’t directly apply to me but the point still stands)
> A digital euro would be an electronic means of payment. It would be a digital version of cash, available to the general public and backed by the European Central Bank (ECB) the same way your physical banknotes and coins are. You could use it anywhere that you already use physical euro cash.

https://finance.ec.europa.eu/digital-finance/digital-euro_en
This does seem like where composable fine-tuning / memory-encoded knowledge graphs will end up.

Couple related things in this direction that may be leveragable:

- WikiData: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/

- Knowledge Futures' Underlay: https://docs.underlay.org/history
> Yea, this post is not about how to use hammer, but more like curious consideration whether using hammers everywhere is not limiting us (C design)

Maybe it [EDIT: the post] is, but the title is obviously nowhere near accurate - if C is not a portable low-level language, what on earth is?

[1] It gets reposted everywhere so often I have read it multiple times, and the one thing in common I see is how every know-it-all crawls out of the woodwork to comment on the title, as if the title was something new, deep, profound or even correct.
It is a fundamental truism of American "capitalism" that, if there is a law for something, it was written to protect established "capital" from competition. There are no free markets in the US.
This also shows a severe lack of understanding of history.

Microsoft invested a whopping $250 million in Apple. Apple already had secured a $4 billion line of credit and didn’t become profitable until losing billions more. The $250 wouldn’t have saved Apple.

Also, Apple turned around the next quarter and bought PowerComputings Mac assets for $100 million.

And Office was not charity project for MS, it made a hefty profit. Also it was much easier to convince corporate buyers to buy Office if they could use on Office Suite across their entire organization - even for those hippie Mac users in the corner
I'm not entirely sure how this affects my ideal customer.

What matters is how it affects your actual customers.

To me, being on-premises means you get to talk to your customers...because why not have a service contract?

Good luck.
openssl x509 -noout -enddate -in apple-pay-gateway.apple.com.cer

notAfter=Oct 16 11:03:06 2023 GMT

It's been expired for almost 2 hours. Some light googling suggests Apple Pay represents about 5% of all worldwide transactions.
This is what is happening with my "Android for Work" profile. Since it's all Microsoft and "segregated", Outlook (for work) refuses to open links because I don't have Edge installed, even though I have Chrome and Firefox.
You mean expertsexchange.
Even before that, this is ultimately about that fact that an ISA for a general-purpose computer can be seen as a way to abstract away parallelism. Even in your favorite assembly language, the effects are largely supposed to happen one after another.

That abstraction is leaky, but the alternative is VLIW machines - even in that case, you probably end up using a compiler so that you don't have to worry about parallelism. Reasoning about parallel things is hard, that's why we spend so much time trying to avoid it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Low level means close to the processor, not small in scope.

You could argue brainfuck is machine language for a theroetical infinite tape machine, but such a machine can only exist when implemented in high-level software.
This is a very interesting podcast about stablecoins

Nic Carters' Bull Case For Stablecoins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iecFhe2THeo
YouTube has an easy way to ensure you never see an ad: pay for premium.

Remember, this is private media, not something you have a right to use. Not liking the terms offered by the owner doesn’t conjure up a right any more than my not liking the dress code at a restaurant means I have standing to sue when they kick me out.
I'm not into social media either. But unless you want to live like a hermit, you don't have much choice nowadays but to visit these sites from time to time.

1. I can't use anything else other than WhatsApp for messaging with families and friends. Thank God my kids' school still uses good-old email for communications.

2. Almost all the useful video tutorials/mini-documentaries/science-shorts are on Youtube and nowhere else.

3. Family and friends always send me links to videos and posts on Facebook, Twitter and Tiktok. I don't usually click when it's just some meme or for laughs but sometimes it a post that matters to me/them enough to click on it.
There are some studies about the effectiveness at least: https://yukaichou.com/gamification-examples/gamification-sta...
This is a great article (worth reading if interested in performance/parallel computing) but the complications it gets into are mostly in the CPU architecture/hardware to which compilers add additional complexity. Even without the compiler optimizations there's still branch prediction and associated parallel execution of serial machine code.

To anyone debating whether C is low/not-low level language note that this discussion is at a much lower level so 'low' has a lower than common meaning.
Hey, thanks for jumping in. I personally don't see anything wrong with cloning and open sourcing projects for educational purposes.

However, one thing that is concerning for me is this:

> The employee used his access at Vercel to find his personal email, location, and the list of his projects.

(from https://twitter.com/nico_jeannen/status/1713139186474406206)

I'm unsure if this tweet is 100% truth, and I certainly don't believe it's "normal" as the tweet implies at the end - but it would be nice to get some sort of feedback on this, ideally. (e.g. "the employee was let go" + "we've reiterated internally that this is absolutely not something anyone at Vercel should do").

Last piece of thought - maybe the ToS need some clarifications to see if you could make it less permissive w.r.t. data and content? I understand you need to distribute it etc but would it be an option to e.g. rephrase "you hereby grant right to distribute data and content [...] only to provide you the customer with Service".

Note that I'm typing all this in good faith and I appreciate the work you folks do at Vercel.
Interesting that they say that users should select to install applications from "Anywhere", but don't tell the user to revert the changes afterwords, or explain what the implications of this change are.
"Investing all power in his individualistic, sometime eccentric, but always benign, A.I. Minds, Banks knew what he was doing; this is the only way a liberal anarchy could be achieved, by taking what is best in humans and placing it beyond corruption, which means out of human control. The danger involved in this imaginative step, though, is clear; one of the problems with the Culture novels as novels is that the central characters, the Minds, are too powerful and, to put it bluntly, too good."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
With how good local models are getting this might not even be necessary. Code Llama derivatives aren't quite there yet for me but if the $20/month meant much to me they would be.
CuGraph – GPU-accelerated graph analytics
Realistically you can’t expect one company to dominate like before. The days of buying up all the researchers and giving them unlimited compute are over. Now that there is more investment, it will mostly be about who is lucky to make discoveries, and who is willing to bend the law enough to get breakthroughs. Google’s status as a large multinational may end up as a disadvantage.
"General" isn't right, "searchable" is.

A great SO question ① is about programming, ② has a factual answer and ③ if other people need that answer, then their search terms match the wording in the question. It's that simple. Answering that kind of question is worthwhile for people like me, because many people will later search, find the question and benefit from the answers. Spread the knowledge!
Few people had a need for it, so few people used it, so Google didn't care.

That's just changed as they try to bring the hammer down on ad-blockers and people are scrambling around looking for new ad-avoidance methods.

Having multiple profiles with separate channel subscriptions is a nice feature. Google should have added some way to organise/group subscribed channels long ago really.
By interesting question I mean that ones that I did not know and were not a simple read the manual. They would be ones I would have find fun in researching the answer.

Your definition of interesting is a discussion which is not what SO is for - even if they did then they do not have to tools to help this e.g. threading being able to vote on interim comments etc.
Individual NVMe drives are also rather small – the biggest I can find is 30TB, which is still more than what AWS offers me as RAM, but not much. Once you start adding custom algorithms to spread your data over multiple "raw" NVMe drives to get more capacity, the latency gap between your custom solution and existing, well-optimized file system stacks starts to erode. Might as well stick to existing kv stores on ZFS or something, rather than roll your own project that might be able to beat it, maybe.
A Few Notes On The Culture, which Iain M Banks posted to rec.arts.sf.written on 10 Aug 1994 should be much higher up in this thread

http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/banks/cultnote.htm
Sneaky Footprints, a smarter header footprint - Sparkfun Electronics (2008)
Why would they continue with on-prem? It has to be a support nightmare.
It'not like Youtube premium stop the tracking ... And it would mean linking to identifying informations.

As opposed to using YT without any account or multiple ones, linked to a minimum of information, if you want to curate your recommandations.
It does not need to be a relative statement in order to be correct.

The statement "C is not close to the instruction set of a modern CPU" does not need to be validated by specifying examples of languages that are closer.
Much advertising is psychological manipulation.

The creation of a vacuum that didn't previously exist but now needs to be filled.

Or the pointing out of a vacuum that previously went unnoticed, but is now noticed and therefore must be filled.
But no one said not watching youtube ads is a crime.

The more accurate analogy would be reprinting a newspaper without the ads.
What part about Google accounts and tokens did you not understand? Bots can’t freeload if your services are protected by service credentials and fees.

A significant part of the fees Ticketmaster charges goes to mitigating bots reserving seats and then reselling them on the secondary market. This problem can be easily addressed by requiring reserves and purchases to be made only from registered accounts. They choose not to do this because they’ve determined the cost of combating fraud is offset by allowing non-account holders to make purchases for events.
I once read that C is the new assembly, because all CPU have a C compiler.

I then decided to make a language that compiles to C, it's just about adding strings, list and tuple. I almost finished the parser and the "translator" will take more time (I encourage anybody to try lexy as a parser combinator). Basically it will use a lot of the C semantics and even give C compiler errors, so it will save me a lot of work.

Of course I am very scared that I will run into awful problems, but that will be fun anyways.
In what way did I imply that any of them were in any way closer?

That was not my intention at all.

You asked what alternatives there were. C is a systems implementation language, designed to be compiled to object code that will run on the bare metal.

I offered some examples of alternatives to that role, as I thought you asked. I did say that they explored different aspects of the problem.

As I said to someone else upthread:

It does not need to be a relative statement in order to be correct.

The statement "C is not close to the instruction set of a modern CPU" does not need to be validated by specifying examples of languages that are closer.
This remind me of when the BBC had to remove the clock from their Internet homepage. This was because it just used the local time on the user's machine, and so was considered to be inaccurate (and people would assume the BBC were authoritative!)

What surprised me looking up the story is that it happened surprisingly recently in 2013. I would have assumed that by that time the average person were sufficiently internet savvy to recognize that the clock was not remotely generated somehow. I wonder if the same conclusion would be reached today, or if BBC developers would instead sync the time between the server and website.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/bbc-forced-t...
Honestly I did the same thing with guns. All that propaganda about obama coming to take our guns had me hook, line, and sinker.
Please get out of your bubble. It doesn’t take much digging to figure out Google’s search traffic or revenue hasn’t gone down because of ChatGPT
>> what do you think apl and oberon can express that C cannot ?

> Bounds checking by default.

That's odd - I've written a C container library that checks bounds by default.

Are you sure that C doesn't allow you to check bounds?
Note-taking gluttony will kill you
Nah that already presumes that it's a separate thing. It could be a modification of gravity instead.
Ad-impressions as payment is one of the most accessible means of service monetization in the world. You only need eyes or ears to be granted access. Cutting that off, or somehow ruling it illegitimate to require, will raise the bar and cut off less affluent and less educated communities.
> Is parallel programming hard? Without any further details or specifics, yes it is. It is far harder to conceptualize code instructions executing simultaneously, than one-at-a-time in a sequential order.

If I program (map inc [0 1 2 3]) is it really any more difficult to conceptualize the (inc ) function performing on each element sequentially than in parallel?

I think the difficulty of parallel programming is less innate and more two fold:

1) languages often default to sequential so to do async requires introducing additional primitives to the programmer

2) knowing when to effectively use parallel programming

When I have a list or stream that I know has independent elements that require wholly independent calculations then parallel programming is straightforward

Where people get hung up is trying to shoe horn async where it is either unnecessary (performance is equal or worse than sequential) or introduces breaking behavior (the computations are in fact interdependent).
SATA also has multiple I/O queues. It’s called “NCQ”

The exact semantics vary per protocol but it’s a feature of most protocols at least in the currently used revisions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Command_Queuing
Research Rsc: Zip Files All The Way Down, a zip file with itself inside
Your claim was that Microsoft is as committed to accessibility as Apple is.

> I'm surprised to hear that "Apple has committed to accessibility in a way that no other company comes close to for decades" because Microsoft has already been doing that for over a decade"

The accessibility features built into Windows are just terrible, so your premise doesn't track.

Also, Amazon was selling an M1 Macbook Air for $750 this week, so you can get the hardware and the software cheaper than just buying the additional software you would need to make Windows at all viable for a blind user.
Protip. Sign up from the Philippines. You don't even meed to fly there...
My impression of stack overflow is they were looking for questions in a Goldilocks zone.

"How do I sort a list of US States in Python 3.10?" Too specific.

"How do I sort a list of strings in Python?" About right.

"How do I sort a list with my computer?" Too general.
Using Ansible to Manage FreeBSD Hosts [video]
> in exchange for payment under certain terms.

What terms?

I can go to youtube.com right now without an account, without accepting any agreement or contract, click on a video and it will send data to my computer.
How I process that data on my computer is entirely up to me and not anyone else.
What’s a good use for them? I have been on the cusp of buying or building one for many years, but outside of the occasional desire to 3D print a random replacement or enhancement part for something, such as a new back for my minidisc player, which I can do via mail order 3D printing, all the examples at say Microcenter are just admittedly neat-looking but ultimately useless chintzy plastic goods.
The pain and suffering bit. Most of the rest are less graphic.
A favourite of mine:

GCU Poke It With A Stick

I also like the name Mistakes Were Made but I don't think it's an official name in the cannon.

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
It depends on how it's done, doesn't it?

If it's presented as a relevant result, it doesn't seem so good. If it's presented as "you might also be interested in" then it seems better.
Running Kubernetes Cluster with OpenBSD VMM
At the time of Nirvana, a new CD cost what, $17 to $20 in my memory.

Imagine today, paying $50 for any random album you wanted to own.
The actual problem is that merchants are not allowed to charge payment fees to their customers.

If you had to pay the fees as a customer, free market forces would do its job.
A note for those unaware, consumer grade NVME devices (basically all m.2 formfactor drives from my experience) only support a single namespace. If you want to explore creating multiple namespaces you will need an enterprise grade u.2 drive.

Some u.2 drives even support thin provisioning, like how a hypervisor treats a sparse disk file but for physical hardware.
The battle for general purpose computing (as opposed to locked-down content-consumption devices) is already lost.
I don't even understand their value proposition. "Hey here's our knock-off of a product we couldn't make, with a little bit of gloss on it". How does that make me interested as a customer??
I love clean air but I find the article's title and opener a little unrealistic. I probably missed the gist here of the article but it seems to me this number being calculated by the EPA is being used to go after local governments and commercial polluters. They have no control over pollution from wildfires. Do we measure the number in the AM and decide its too high and tell everyone in the plant to go home for the day? Pollution is bad but this to be going after it the wrong way, should we not be focusing more on the past few years of insane wildfires?
I just recently switched and am surprised how well it works.

Ever so often it'll serve me up some completely unrelated stuff, but there's kind of a charm in that. "Oh the thing I am looking for is really not that popular, neat". Unlike google where it'll hit you with tons of seemingly related results.
What bothers me is when I Google "Pepsi" and item #1 is a Pepsi ad, item #2 is Pepsi's website.

It's obvious what I wanted, neither I nor Pepsi are happy about that ad being there...
You know, the Spanish once found a whole country made out of silver, they called it Argentina (argent == silver). And they brought a lot of this silver back to mainland Spain.

While the value of silver coin did not shrink to zero during that time, it did shrink quite a bit, all across Europe. Historians like to write about 150 years of massive inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_revolution
How don't they manipulate you?

They are designed to get you to buy things you don't need, and they do that through manipulating human traits. They make you feel you will be lesser/incomplete/not as good as unless you have such and such product. This is not "appealing" to people - it's stone cold corporate manipulation with only one goal in mind.

People have way less control over how they react to what they take in then they think they do.
Funny how the top comment on "hacker" news is an *unsubstantial* comment about how, actually, TFA is wrong.

Even worse, adding a comment on how actually you shouldn’t be curious and understand how things really work.
I implemented a tool in Go based on the "Bag It" format spec for open data repositories. I remember investigating if it's possible to validate the contents of a very large ZIP file in an API without uploading multiple gigabytes, that is, drop the upload if the central index does not contain required entries. I learned that ZIP is an indexed format and that the index is (usually) at the end, while TAR is a streaming format (because it wrote to non-random access tape). You can inspect the index on the fly, but you will have already received almost all of the data at that point.

The ZIP format (and derivatives) makes sense for the purpose it was likely designed for, which is not useful for use cases where a streaming or incremental approach would be a better solution.
He has a point, though.

The worldwide supply of programmers has increased 10 - 100 - 1000x since the 1990s. The world has changed.

Quantity has a quality all its own.
Steve Bell sacked by Guardian in antisemitism row over Netanyahu cartoon
Hacking on FreeBSD with Apple M2 Silicon MacBook
Anything that involves high latency and/or packet loss. And in general: testing servers.

The question is also a bit odd, to be honest. There's no need to look for a beneficial use case to add support for the next iteration of the HTTP protocol.
A love letter to the Remix loader
Natural fires have been happening naturally for, what millions of years? All of the rest of nature seems to be able to cope with that, and even we've survived up until today...

The seas also get "polluted" by underwater volcanic vents, amongst other natural things, constantly...

It makes no sense to stand over a fire and inhale the smoke, or to drink the water from too close to those vents, but are we really trying to change the nature of the planet?

I mean, who's going to stop the sand from the Sahara Desert making it's way over to the UK for everything that breaths air to breath in, not to mention leaving a layer of red dust everywhere, especially on vehicles and the like, caught by the dew that happens naturally when the temperature changes.

Shouldn't the focus be more on what industry is doing to the air and water and soil, and what we seem to be inadvertently supporting with the present lifestyle?
> You have an annoying, stupid mindset. And you sound like a bot.

You really shouldn’t get this worked up by online comments. Its also not a positive contribution to the site.