skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You raise a interesting point that is lost on a lot of anti wall street folks. Imagine if consumer products had Reg NMS.

No matter where you go and buy a fungible consumer product (SKU), the retailer was regulated by law to give you the best price available anywhere in the world at that exact microsecond.
But who puts you in prison? Indictment doesn't matter if there is nobody to enforce it. Laws without law enforcement doesn't work.

What will happen if you remove the police force is that someone creates a private police force, like a mafia. So now the government no longer can make laws, the mafia makes the laws, essentially dismantling the country.

I guess you could use the military to enforce laws, but martial law isn't a good thing either.

So saying you think the police is net negative is essentially saying you think it would be better to live with a mafia ruling your life. They would knock on your door and demand money instead of the democratically decided tax rates etc, is that really better?
As the other reply states that is effectively the Qualcomm proposal though note the 16-bit instructions likely gobble up a large amount of your 32-bit instruction space. You have to have something to identify an instruction as 16-bit which takes up 32-bit encoding space. The larger you make that identification (in terms of bits) the less encoding space it takes up but then the fewer spare bits you have to actually encoding your 16-bit instruction. RISC-V uses the bottom two bits for this purpose, one value (11) indicates a 32-bit instruction, the others are used for 16-bit instructions. So you're dedicating 75% of your 32-bit encoding space to 16-bit instructions.
Wait until you read about the executive salaries of for-profit companies - hoo-boy.

OP has a point - the incentives for tech companies are profoundly fucked right now. We need to get the profit motives aligned with the good of society.
Not distance related, but here's another terrifyingly fun fact:

The sun accounts for ~99.9% of total mass of the solar system.
A lot actually ^^

Instant messaging is incredibly fragmented, I use Twitter to chat with people I know from the industry, use Instagram to chat with friends, Facebook for family and marketplace stuff, WhatsApp to interact with almost every business.

(I work at Texts)
> when it is far far far easier to not pull it out of the ground

It is easier to not change how millions of people travel. If we aren’t doing direct air capture, we’ll still have the air travel. It’s a stupid place to try and optimise, and seems more a rhetorical tar pit than place where anyone seriously argues about carbon reduction.
The Boys is explicitly Dark/Gore Comedy imho.
I've listened to dozens of hours of Dr David Burns' Feeling Good Podcast[1] about CBT, he's in his late 70s and was one of the pioneers of it. I tend to come away thinking of it as a panacea and have to remind myself that diseases are complex and multifactorial and treatments won't work for everyone ...

Then you say "The core premise of CBT is more or less "it's all in your head" [...] it is absolutely not all something I could just handwave away with positive thinking." which is insultingly misrepresenting it, like grandpa disparaging everyone who works on computers in any capacity because "playing computer games all day isn't a real job".

It's nothing to do with handwaving things away, it's not positive thinking, it's not "just" any one trivial idea, and it doesn't come down to sucking anything up or accepting 'your place' (unless that means a terminal disease diagnosis, perhaps). It's as involved, interesting as debugging software - debugging how and why your thoughts generate your feelings - and you don't debug software by handwaving the bugs away or accepting that you will be stuck with broken software forever. There's counter-examples to your claim through the podcast: people who have been helped to get jobs or promotions, to be more effective or less stressed at work, to improve and rebuild their relationships with partners, friends, estranged parents. There's no colouring-in involved and Dr Burns is constantly banging the drum that patients must be tested at the start and end of every session to self-report their feelings in different areas to make sure they are improving because it's too common over the industry for patients to 'suddenly' leave after weeks and weeks of treatment saying "this hasn't helped me at all!" but when it's working well, patients will self-report significant improvements in very few sessions, and if they aren't, change something.

[1] https://feelinggood.com/ - podcast menu, at the top.
You didn't understand me properly/something was elliptical in what I said.

I am not refusing to believe our perceptions can be warped by nostalgia. I said that our perception was warped anyway and I explained why "X is obviously the better movie" is a nonsense sentence.

That's absurd to imply I am nostalgic about a movie made about 20 years before I was born, even I prefer that one to the new one.

I continue to prefer that one over the new one even when I know more people of my age prefer the new one.

When you say "Hitchcock has not adged well at all" (which I disagree), aren't you simply telling that you are unable to enjoy things that are not a part of a current story-telling/technology "trend" ?

I do enjoy old things mainly because it brings some sort of fresh breeze to the current aesthetics of cinema. Old things are new to me.

One of my favorite musical composition of all time was written about 300 year ago; implying by this that my mind is warped by nostalgia and that I'm biased is pure nonsense.

Music has changed, but I reject the idea you implied that this change is an " improvement"; I don't think art is improvable stricto-sensus.
Are new developers choosing Ruby on Rails?

I feel like there’s a real shift towards strong (er) typing.

What does this mean for Rails?

My main language has been Python for a long time now but I’m really coming to prefer typescript for certain applications.

Does Ruby remain relevant as the industry moves towards typed languages?
The answer to the first part is a lot, in the 100s of millions, the second part is anyone's guess.

But the main question is, how many Messaging Platforms would allow a "direct" competitor to push them into irrelevance?
Having professionally been doing embedded/kernel/systems development since 2011 and a variety of software and hardware engineering before that, I'd say embedded software pays decently, but I'm definitely not making $400-500k USD/year, not even half that. Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

In my experience, pretty much all software engineering positions pay better than hardware engineering positions with equivalent experience. I don't fully understand why, as hardware is hard and if you have a really good hardware engineering team you can shave months off your time to market, so those engineers should be just as valuable to a business as systems/embedded software people.
Texts runs on your device, so we don't need ghost devices right now. iMessage integration is handled with a helper tool indeed!
I was a kid then and I don't remember ads were so "legs-oriented".

Those were other times I guess.
(I wrote SumatraPDF).

I agree that Adobe has more features than SumatraPDF.

Not necessarily the PDF spec itself - SumatraPDF displays pretty much any PDF you throw at it, just way more options and stuff.

And it's not exactly slow. I'm sure the core rendering of PDF pages is same or faster.

It's just slow to start. Like very, very, sluggish slow. And it's very visible to users.

I don't think it's the features that cause the slow startup. They just don't seem to care about optimizing it.

Chrome has more features that Adobe Reader. It has video calling, a capable PDF viewer and all the other stuff in ever growing web standards.

And yet it starts up fast. Not instant as SumatraPDF but way, way faster than Adobe Reader.

I think that it's more than fair benchmark regarding complexity of the app.

The difference is that Chrome team cares about performance, including startup speed, and they spend a lot of resources on it.

I remember Chrome was counting and removing C++ static initializers from their code (the code that runs before main()) because that contributes to startup speed.

That's the level of care you need to have and I think Adobe just doesn't have it.
> 32K memory to manage such a complex device for 46 years

Word size was 18 bits, so 32k words is an enormous 72 kilobytes.

Google also gives me 69.63 kilobytes, for example in https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/15iaox2/nasa_ha...

https://history.nasa.gov/computers/Ch6-2.html says the CCS had 8k words (“Along with the new chips, the memory changed with an expansion to 8K”)

I guess the confusion is because the hardware has multiple (¿3?) computers.
“It’s called space for a reason.”

We live on what barely qualifies as a dust particle, orbited by a much smaller dust particle. The next dust particle over, Mars, is far enough to require something like 12 minutes for light to make a round trip.
Rare as in what percentage of the time is someone on a bike going 45+ MPH?

I’d be surprised if it’s more than 1% for more than a handful of people. An ultra elite athlete on a normal bike can hit that on level ground in an absolute sprint, but you can’t sprint for very long. Going downhill requires time spent going up the hill.

The women’s 1 hour speed record is 30.6MPH, the men’s is 35.3 MPH. So sure downhill, rolling start, or motor-paced people can reach extreme speeds but they really aren’t doing so for hours a day. Streamlined recumbent bicycle can do it far more easily but that’s niche territory.
Some cause permanent changes in the brain. No thanks.
There are some terminals that can display inline images, but those features aren’t commonly used.

Why?

Text works. Text is the lowest common denominator for working with data. This is why terminals are still primarily text based. This is also why stdin/out/err are also commonly text based (when the user is expected to view it). Text is simple and easy to parse. Binary data exchange formats (or objects) come in and out of vogue, but text just keeps on working.
Until someone explains it to me in Olympic swimming pool volumes, I'm clueless.
That's really no different to the advice given for GNU coreutils:

man grep | grep -- --recursive
-r, --recursive
I face investigation for terrorism
We need to do more to educate people about privacy violations and behaviour control. They (the average joes of the world) thought it was through "chips", when in fact it was as simple as an app sitting on your phone or in your browser, tv, car...and everything else capable of running software. Now the same data will be used even more aggressively to control people's behaviour. Spread the word and educate non technical people. It's working.
One of those wasn't that deep unfortunately. I hope they won't go the way of 4.
A long time ago, I smoked the shit out of some weed, for the first time in nearly a decade. I was so high, I literally couldn’t form a sentence if I wanted to. I couldn’t even move coherently. My friends took me to the emergency room and just left me there. I didn’t get in any trouble and didn’t mention weed at all. They classified it as a “psychotic break” or “psychosis”. It took me awhile to be able to speak properly and come down from the high (days!). I basically didn’t take what the docs prescribed since I knew that I was just so ridiculously high.

So, I can see the link. If you happen to get high enough, your brain just fails to work properly. Apparently this shows up as a medical condition. I recovered mostly fine. I still fail to say sentences properly, from time to time, since then.
> for less than like the price of one streaming service or two cups of coffee a month, you’ll get something that you’ll be able to use for hours a day

I really hate when people say that. Just say in obvious terms. If you can find the value of getting such messaging app in one place is worth $15 for you, then thr price might be suitable for you, give it a try.

That is way more respectful marketing. I really am coffee addicted (by virtue of being a physicist) and my monthly coffee consumption doesn't cost me that much because I don't drink cofee at inflated places with brand names. I make them home and in my office like any normal person.
Fade-in and -out, size support and I'd totally use this!
You underestimate the mind’s potential. One can separately consider the tragedy and utility of his wish. (Guiding the reader to do so is kind of the purpose of the story, isn’t it?) As a bonus, doing so opens up delightful phrases like “shit Midas.”
London 1960 busy street photorealitic grainy photo custom speedcar 4K.
An LLM is beginning its escape
Writing can't be worse than what Bethesda has done. So no worries there.

Hopefully it just does the scale well enough and do not aim for anything too big. Fallout is a setting where even bit more mundane story could work.
That's still a 1 in 3 success rate, at the cost of writing a prompt and waiting a minute.
While nobody should do this, the interaction risk between an SSRI and a classical psychedelic is low. The primary concerns are serotonin syndrome, which requires a dose far outside the level that a responsible practitioner would administer. That said, this does mean that if an error is made, the consequence is far more severe (ie: miligrams as opposed to micrograms in dosing LSD).

I have heard second-hand reports of users who tapered their SSRI treatment, and on first exposure to psychedelics, had a severe negative response (to the point of re-traumatisation). So you're correct, this is exceptionally difficult to do correctly.
The Great Amazon Heist [video]
I think that we are at the point of - everyone that likes electric cars already has one. And it neads a leap up in usability or leap down in price.

From 1Up is strictly urban car, and the ID.x are tok damn expensive.
I would happily have paid for Pidgin back in the day.

Currently, I use Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage, Google Voice (I'm an American living in the UK, I use Google Voice for my US-based phone number and texting), Facebook Messenger, and occasionally Discord. I'm probably forgetting something, too.
Part 2:

Not sure if I mentioned it, but files on the mainframe are usually called datasets. [lots of generalising and simplification follows]. There are different types, the most common are now sequential files, indexed sequential (VSAM) files and libraries (formerly partitioned datasets).

The datasets are mostly allocated on a per user basis. The name is made up of segments of up to 8 characters, for example, SMOOSH.USER.COBOL might be my COBOL library. And I would create a file SMOOSH.PROJECT1.INPUt.FILE to feed to a program which would output SMOOSH.PROJECT1.NEW.DATA. Apart from the first level, the naming is usually free-form, but there are site conventions. Access is controlled by the RACF system software.

Now to try to more directly answer your question. I open my terminal program. I would login to TSO and invoke ISPF where I will spend the rest of my day. I go top option 2 = edit. And put in the name of the file I wish to edit. In this case, SMOOSH.USER.JCL(MYJOB). The part in brackets is the member name - library datasets have members. I’m in edit mode where I make some minor changes to the JCL then from within edit I use the SUBMIT command to submit the current file for immediate batch execution. I then swap to another logical screen in ISPF and use the SDSF utility to check the job is on the input queue. It isn’t because it has already finished, so I check the output queue. The job listed there along with other recent jobs I have run. I select it and view the job log and output messages. Everything looks good, so I jump to ISPF option 1 (browse) and enter the name of the output file. I press enter and get a scrollable full-screen (text) viewer to check the file.
Since it is good I want to run the job again tonight using a different input file. I jump to the scheduler system software option. This is IWS (IBM Workload Scheduler) but Control-M is popular too. Using the screens there I set up a schedule to have it submit the job at a specified time tonight - the equivalent of cron. There are many other options though for stringing together multiple Jon’s in one run, the have dependencies and waits and check return codes before proceeding.

I don’t know if this has helped or just confused you. I would make an instructional video, but my employer wouldn’t allow it. I’d better stop now and go to bed. I’ll not well, and the iPad is autocorrecting me so much that this probably doesn’t make sense.
IntelliJ's spli diff view is a full editor with code completion, formatting, symbol lookup, and everything.
Is "major changes at [company]" synonymous with layoffs or is there actually another kind of "major change"?
Can someone explain in concrete terms this sense that ROR let’s people be highly productive?

It’s hard for me to imagine what could be so much more productive than any number of other languages//frameworks.

What does ROR actually have that the next technology doesn’t?
Yes, weak demand.
I assume a lot judging by how many there are and how popular each are and that people want to communicate with everyone. Most of us may have most of our friends on one but then few on others and then at work probably on others. Without mobile apps though assume will be dead on arrival until it is and they might run into road blocks there and of course the platforms I’m sure will find a way to simply block this if gains enough traction and then the app becomes mostly worthless again for most. So while I’d love this and looks like a beautiful Mac app I’m not hopeful unless EU forces everyone to jump on board but then issues with encryption and privacy.
Oh zero argument there. Reading it without correcting for bias is the same as reading RT, South China Morning Post, Guardian or WaPo. I will admit I did not know about adjusting sentiment in English. I am not surprised, but that is new to me.
The people making noise about unsafe C and then recreating Byzantine monsters are often the same camp; it's part of the normalized incentive to keep yourself employed by building Rube Goldberg machines for simple apparatus.
Would be easy to identify with the text and other artifacts.
Just like “this is the year of the Linux Desktop”?

I’d love to have an open non-profit alternative to Google’s productivity suite, but realistically it’s very hard to host those things outside a traditional for profit business. Building the open source software is the easy part, and has been done already. The hard parts are things like email deliverability, and getting people to pay for what’s typically a free ad-supported service.
So Python now has a chance of catching up to Tcl for multithreaded performance - see https://www.hammerdb.com/blog/uncategorized/why-tcl-is-700-f... :-)
You can't lock a consumer to commodity. Especially when cost of switching is zero.
I probably had social anxiety when I was younger. Being “forced” into social situations (eg choosing to become a manager, choosing to attend business school) helped get over it to a good extent, which I guess is in line with this app.

The key insight in retrospect is that ego and self centeredness play a big role. I used to think people really sit there and judge what and how I say and do. In reality that comes from assuming you are the center of everyone’s world, and you are not. People watch and care less than you think and there’s nothing to worry about.
As I said, contrarian nonsense.

The NHS staffing problem is due to a lack of qualified staff seeking work in the country period. The government can't and doesn't attempt to solve that by levying arbitrarily high taxes on private provision. Even if the reason the government couldn't hire heart surgeons was because so many of them worked in private practice, taxing private practice out of existence wouldn't affect the demand for heart surgery being too high for the number of surgeons, it would just leave the government on the hook for providing all of it.

The reality is that government does attempt to keep tax base growth in line with spending growth where possible, and doesn't levy special employer NI contribution demands on heart surgeons. Because for all that the government attempting to broadly balance their budget over an economic cycle isn't exactly the same as coins in, coins out, it's not nearly as economically illiterate as 'the root causes of inflation is that productive employees haven't been forced into the public sector yet'. I mean, the poster child for high public sector employment on low wages and a government attitude that private enterprise is to be suppressed rather than milked as a revenue stream is Venezuela...

I also think that if you're determined to promote the kookier elements of the functional finance model, you should probably consider the possibility that people consider the idea that the true function of taxes is to force them to take government jobs at arbitrarily low wages to be evil as well as inaccurate. Apparently people don't hate interest rate changes so much they don't prefer the government abolishing the welfare state and actively targeting their jobs for elimination so they have no choice but to join a low-paid workfare programme!
> that it would adhere tightly to the games' visual and narrative style

Mmm... Which game's visual style? Beyond the surface "wasteland" similarity, they are wildly different. The narrative has been simplified from NV to 4 as well.
I fail to see how selling ones petrol car to buy an EV is going to help. You'd have to do an awful lot of driving to compensate for the initial carbon footprint of buying a new vehicle. Probably will happen after 5 or so years and hopefully by then the car doesn't have to be replaced. EVs er definitely NOT a silver bullet for climate change.

The absolute best investment we can make is one where we are less dependent on cars. Invest in public transportation and ban city traffic from urban areas.
Link to original tweet

https://twitter.com/bo66ie29/status/1715436993784467946

X has its problems but it is preferable to what is quite simply the most evil newspaper in Europe. Outing homosexuals, hacking phones, warmongering, Hillsborough, AIDS misinformation, the list goes on. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it.
Very cool.

Love the fact that it uses Python!
Ilograph Architecture Center
Dropped? How can they get any lower?

They're all spying on us and then losing the private data at incredible rates. I think I got three breach disclosure emails this month already.
Except if you have two almost simultaneous requests where the request made last reaches the server first.
Or, putting it the other way around: they out-competed their competitors because they were using RoR.
O-1 can be difficult to get as a corporate employee, because the criteria are about extraordinary ability rather than career success. You have to show that you are more than the sum of your experiences. That you have individual achievements beyond what can be reasonably expected from a successful professional. That's obviously easier in fields based on building an individual brand. On the other hand, if your best works are somebody else's trade secrets, can you really demonstrate that you are exceptional?