skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the blog post is about Matrix, not Element, hence not dwelling on layoffs at Element - which are more to do with the challenges of running an commercial open source business in an economic downturn (ie persuading commercial users to pay for a supported distribution and value-adds rather than using FOSS for free) than a reflection on Matrix, imo. That said, if the Matrix Foundation was financially selfsufficient then Element would be under less financial pressure, and not be having to prop up the Foundation, and both Matrix and Element would obviously be in a better place.

With my Element hat on: I am obviously gutted that we have had to restructure the company to get back towards being break-even, and can only apologise to everyone who’ve we let down through layoffs.
Retrospective scraping of historical data from Internet Archive snapshots
Locomotive BASIC was also a very good BASIC implementation. I wrote a multiplayer game with background music in it, without having to resort to any PEEKs or POKEs like you would on a Commodore 64.
You are putting too much into the word "expert" here. Experts are just people who can reliably solve standard problems in a field, that is the bar. You pay them to be reliable, not to solve novel problems.
For approved choices :)

> AUTO10,1000

Silly

> _
It’s really a matter of opinion so I wouldn’t say you’re wrong, but IMHO a scene like this looks beautiful:

https://i.redd.it/3sm84daxpai21.jpg

Even though the actual models are relatively low detail compared to something like HZD or RDR2 (which also look great).
Well, I have to take that back.

Latest release of newpipe seems to crash on CCC videos :(

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10698
I've never come across anyone outside the US who messaged me via iMessage. Almost exclusively used in the US. Recently Apple claimed it didn't have to apply DMA measures to iMessage in the EU because it has less than 45 Million users there, or less than 10% penetration.
HC-BASIC, the common BASIC implementation on East German 8-bit computers (KC85/1../4, KC87, Z1013) has a RENUMBER command. Without args, it simply starts at the first existing line number and increments by 10. With args it was possible to move an existing range to a new starting line number and interval.
> Stored indefinitely until a curious explorer decides to investigate the unknown tomb of the gods of the third millennium, and… voila.

Voila what? If you're concerned about people degrading so far down that whatever we leave behind is "tombs of the third millenium", then storing a truckload of nuclear waste isn't really an issue.
This article is written terribly with a headline to get angry clicks. Tesla may be bad, I dunno, but an article like this isn’t helping the author
> Except in, say, China, where none of that applies and education works great.

Yup the school system plagued by epidemic cheating where cheating is even accepted to some level (you are an idiot if you don't cheat).
Elite Chess Players Keep Accusing Each Other of Cheating "Seeds of doubt have grown into a disturbance among some in the game’s top ranks."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/crosswords/chess-hikaru-v...

The lure of money, where the risk of direct detection remains minimal makes cheating inevitable. Incentives are strongest with chess content creators, such as Hikaru.

Securing direct evidence is a near-impossible task. Direct evidence means, tracing through game statistics and behavioral cues. The evidence should be rock solid before starting to accuse any individual.

This is a systemic problem. While Kramnik and Carlsen might be right, their approach poisons the game deeper.

Perhaps a better tactic would be to abstain from naming culprits. Instead, they could have provided anonymized statistical evidence and explained their methodologies. Public consensus before naming the names could have been a plausible.

Systemic problem requires systemic solutions. Top players might have to play significant amount of their games in secure "SCIF" under observation, or something, to keep playing.
I kind of think it is worth smashing out a few quick ideas to “get it out your system”, and the process of being in motion makes you spot more opportunities.

Thus you may be “selling shovels” - your customers are software devs etc. Since the problems you face building are the problems you aim to solve.

This is something you can’t get at your day job unless it is a true startup, est. 2023 because they are probably doing things the old way and a very peculiar way to boot :-). The work problem is usually solved by convincing the team to do something less dumb :-) rather than another SaaS sub.
> KVM users are underserved for sure.

100%

I want to share keyboard, mouse and monitor between a PC and a MacBook. A KVM with DP+USB on one side and Thunderbolt on the other doesn’t seem to exist.. I feel like this has to be a common use case :(

I know I could break out on a dock first, but I have a particularly high-res monitor which most of the docks baulk at, or only support at 30Hz
That's the cheap hardware I'm talking about. What is in your hands is the most important thing of all because without it you can't serve your customers or increase ROI.
Most sandwiches are made with two pieces of bread. Buns happen to be two-pieces-in-one, which isn't disclosed in the question. Somebody who has passing familiarity with sandwiches but not hotdogs or buns specifically might think it takes two buns to make one hot dog.

Thankfully I think most questions usually aren't like this. Cultural loading in questions is a popular excuse for discrepancies in testing outcomes but those discrepancies have a nasty tendency to persist even when tests are redesigned. Usually there's something else going on which causes the outcome discrepancies, particularly bad parenting.
In 1981, a study titled “Tear Expert” conducted by Dr William Frey at the University of Minnesota claimed that crying releases endorphins, subsequently promoting feelings of happiness and wellbeing

So does eating hot peppers. Maybe you just need a jalapeno.
Way back in 2018 they were able to optimize the game enough to bring up the PS4 build from locked 30 to locked 60. Few games have ever had a feat like that performed, so I don’t think “horrible optimized” is fair.
As much as I enjoy linux.. it's just a real pain to use daily for work.

Hackintosh a T480 and it's the best of both worlds.
Well that’s flat-out wrong, and stupid to boot.
I find concerted efforts to silence political speech disturbing in general, but restricting reporting and commenting on the deaths of thousands of recognizably innocent people (children not old enough to participate in the conflict) is downright heartless. I do not want to live in a world in which opaque companies control public discourse.
I don’t think you’re reading these articles in the right spirit if that’s your take away from them.

What I find more interesting is to compare how complicated the tech we don’t think about has become. It’s amazing that a cable, not a smart device or even 80s digital watch, but a literal cable, has as much technology packed into it as Apollo 11 and we don’t even notice.

Playing devils advocate for your comment, one of the (admittedly many) reasons going to the moon is harder than charging a USB device is because there are not off-the-shelf parts for space travel. If you had to build your USB charger from scratch (including defining the USB specification for the first time) each time you needed to charge your phone, I bet people would quickly talk about USB cables as a “hard problem” too.

That is the biggest takeaway we should get from articles like this. Not that Apollo 11 wasn’t a hugely impressive feat of engineering. But that there is an enormous amount of engineering in our every day lives that is mass produced and we don’t even notice.
Gonna fall behind the new curriculum using perfume houses to craft real code smells.
Level1Techs does the same thing for DisplayPort if you want fast monitor switching. Just be prepared for the price: https://www.store.level1techs.com/products/p/14-kvm-switch-d...
>you can be a fresh junior with much better foundational knowledge than an average expert.

you can. I wouldn't bet on it unless you had exceptional education from other experts AND were extremely self-motivated to keep pushing yourself. Companies spend millions trying to find such students to mixed results, after all. It's not an easy source to find. May not even be worth finding unless you already have billions in capital.

>The ability to apply knowledge is intelligence.

If so, it goes against the sentiment that intelligence is innate. your ability to apply knowledge is a product of your experiences and how/if you can connect them to new concepts. All of that is a product of learning and time.

that's what makes teachers such an important aspect to this "intelligence". A good teacher helps to connect these pathways so knowledge is stored. But traditional education does not allow for teachers to tailor to everyone's own mental map or experiences. Traditionally "intelligent" people in this case just happen to be people compatible with traditional teaching.

(there is also internal self-motivation to learn and practice. But I don't think we disagree that persistence is mechanical practice orthogonal to "intelligence")
I’ve had multiple side projects over the years, and every time I got a little bit further with them towards a commercial success. My latest project is the one I’ve been working on the longest.

It’s been almost 4 years now I think, and within the past year, I’ve started getting traction commercially. (But the first paying customer was after two years or so.)

I guess what I’m saying is that it’s okay to abandon ideas when you feel like they don’t work. Your gut feeling may be right.

You learn something from it, you move on and eventually you hopefully find something that sticks. It’s almost like love.
There is a big difference between when you are starting out and once you are established. If you have any kind of success then there will be an endless queue of people knocking on your door with "opportunities". You soon learn that most of them are worthless and the sensible thing is to default to rejecting them.
I know it's suboptimal, but can't you do the split on the macbook? The TB port should output pure DP, so you plug that on the DP-in on the KVM. You plug a second USB-only cable that goes to the KVM USB in.
You can’t remove your last option. It’s probably happening because her Apple ID is her real email so she’d have to first change that which is way unintuitive.

I think it’s best with Apple to log in with an iCloud email address even if you don’t use it.
This is a little difficult for SPL,SPL is a little versatile. For example, it can be used as middleware to solve mixed computing over multiple data sources, Implement hot-swap microservices, Substitute stored procedure, Act as a data warehouse for high performance, As a computing engine for implementing the true lakehouse, accompany with OLTP database to achieve low-risk HTAP, ..., It can even be used as an Excel plugin to help with desktop analysis.
Because computing is everywhere!
Everyone only cares about their own issues, that's a fraction of what SPL is used for. But we can't predict what people will care when they come to the homepage, we have to list a little bit of everything, so, the home page is somewhat cluttered.
Simply skip the items you are not interested in and read the links to the items you are interested in. Thanks very much.
I mean ... technically creativity is just propensity for low probability actions given the context which the broader society evaluates with a high score because it identifies some kind of value in the outcome. If society deems the result as devoid of value, well, you reach "insanity", and if the variance is low, you reach fixed and standardized patterns.

The novelty in "creative" efforts / endeavours is just enough to excite our branch predictors without being too chaotic. Too chaotic, and you reach insanity, or "garbage" until the broader society catches up. One can argue that, in part, this is why many of the greats only became so post-mortem.
Or maybe not.

Is there a difference in body reactions (releasing endorphins) between tears as a result of inner emotions Vs tears as a result of external irritants.

ie. Is it the tears that release endorphins or do both have a common cause (emotions -> tears + endorphins) whereas sand, pepper, or onions in the eye are just irritating?
German political heavyweight Wolfgang Schäuble dies aged 81
which BASIC for CP/M did you use? (there's a few, and there was no standard, so feature parity is not guaranteed)
> cmake generates makefiles (or ninja) so it doesn't replace them

That make happens to be a possible target of CMake is irrelevant to this discussion, it replaces the usage of make. make becomes an implementation detail.

No one should be writing Makefiles. You also shouldn't be using make as the underlying task runner but for a different set of reasons.

> There's nothing fun whatsoever about fixing build problems with cmake - because you have to understand make/ninja AND cmake

You need exactly zero understanding of make or ninja to use CMake. Ninja explicitly is not meant to be understood by end users, and only as a target for generators like CMake:

>Where other build systems are high-level languages Ninja aims to be an assembler ... it is designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build system [1]

You cannot name a single use case where it is beneficial to know the mechanics of make when using CMake, much less the mechanics of Ninja.

[1] https://ninja-build.org/
Let me guess, sample size of n=1?

There are many reasons why students don't learn everything they can from a class and inability to grasp the material is only one one of them, yet it is the only reason that ensures they won't learn more the second time around.

it is massive punishment due to social consequences with peers.

Get better peers? What you're saying is that it's better for students to keep failing so as not to upset their milieu. Oftentimes, the best thing you can do for a struggling child is to take them out of the environment that's holding them down.
That’d be interesting but I’m not the right audience.
In which ways is it better than Acrobat?
I'm happy for you, but isn't this more or less like a dive into the sea, like the early 2000 web page era? It is my belief that every front end will eventually disappear and become a part of the Chat*-Plugin at the most. In the long term, AI will use a template that it believes is appropriate for the user to display the data. If the user is dissatisfied with the template, it will suggest multiple new ones with a storage option for future use.
Beeper wouldn’t have helped here unless he had already set it up on his mom’s phone. And then it likely would have confused her.
I stand corrected. It used to be free to all but now wrapped under paid account which is fair enough.
The video in the Readme is well worth watching. I expected some kind of clicking to enable the kvm and switch devices. This is moving your mouse and keypresses across devices instantly. While I like Synergy, a hardware solution would work without much software and potentially much configuration.
Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files
WinterFest 2023 Festival of Artisanal Software
Quality software for on sale from indie software vendors.

I believe all the software is available for Mac. Some is available for iPad and iPhone. Some (Easy Data Transform, Hyper Plan and Scrivener) is available for Windows.
Yeah but hiding the information versus removing it is two different things. By hiding it, the information is still there but hidden.
I recently had the idea of making similar hardware with ESP32 (some of them has USB hardware). You may lose mouse acceleration, but many do not like this to begin with, so it's fine.

Does absolute mouse work correctly when two systems have very different (total) resolution? For example, one is a laptop with a single screen, and another one is a desktop with three screens.
I am regularly confounded by the existence of scientology; are cults just that popular? Are people really so easily duped? Is this all a social experiment that's gotten way out of hand?
The 97%-3% numbers came from the top of my head from an article I read some years ago (so slightly outdated) and obviously these kinds of estimates have a significant error bar, but also the ourworldindata page you link to talks about something slightly different; they talk about all mammals, which includes marine mammals but excludes other vertebrates, like birds and reptiles. My numbers were, at the time, cited (as I stated) as "terrestrial vertebrate biomass", which would exclude marine mammals but include birds and reptiles. I think all birds would be considered terrestrial vertebrates because even penguins have to come on land to breed.
I’ve had ADHD my entire life, too, and never tried medication until my early 30s. After being unmedicated for so long and learning to adapt with it as a superpower as you say, I found meds to mostly be ineffective. They do remove the random side noise that can sometimes be detracting, which helps when you need single-minded focus without much deviation. Otherwise, it makes me feel jittery when it’s active and physically tired when it wears off. I tend to dose when I need it as needed, which my Psych says is fine if it works for me. Eg. a quarter of a tablet 30min or so before I need the effect. This is with plain methylphenidate and not an extended release variant. I’ve also known others to start meds later in life and shortly thereafter be unable to work effectively without them. In such cases, I am unsure if having a strong dependence on a med is worth it over trying to work with ADHD. Dependence on meds can have lasting effects.

That being said, I quite enjoy ADHD outside of times where it can make focus or work harder. I see things in, IMO, more interesting ways, and learn and notice things I might not otherwise. Some of these things have significantly contributed to my personal and working life in a positive way.

As a side-note, I also take Wellbutrin for depression, though it has a stimulant effect. I am unsure if this effect contributes but I haven’t noticed a significant change when I forget to take it for a while.

TLDR; depends. Try meds, see how it is for you. Try not to entirely depend on them to be productive.
And Amstrad PCW had boot code in the printer controller, to save on ROM prices :D, and booted from a floppy only (by default to a CP/M as well)
Did you try Software Engineering Stack Exchange? Might be worth a try.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/
Speaking as an astronomer: what an oddly pointless (even misleading) press release.

Non-expert readers could be forgiven for reading that and thinking this is some sort of "discovery" ("Hubble observes something new and unusual!"), that the forbidden emission lines only appear in Type 2 Seyfert galaxies ("The spectral lines that Type-2 Seyfert galaxies emit are associated with specific 'forbidden' emission lines."), and that they only come from the active nucleus ("in the midst of an incredibly energetic galactic core"). But none of that is true.

Forbidden emission lines are ubiquitous in astronomy. Any time you see an object with emission lines, some of the emission will be forbidden. So we see forbidden emission lines from Seyfert 2 nuclei, from Seyfert 1 nuclei, from quasars, from non-Seyfert nuclei, from the nebula of star-forming regions, from planetary nebulae, from supernova remnants...

You could pick literally any spiral galaxy that Hubble has observed and title the image "Hubble sights a galaxy with 'forbidden light'", and the title would be just as correct. Or swap "nebula" for "galaxy" and use any Hubble image of a nebula in our own galaxy. (There's even forbidden emission coming from the solar corona.)
Speaking as someone who has taught general problem solving, yes people absolutely can learn it.

Well, they can learn general problem analysis. Actually solving a problem pretty much always requires domain-specific knowledge.
Also, if you want to avoid wasting your time, you have to do everything to find paying customers as fast as possible.

It’s embarrassing to go out with a product that you know isn’t perfect, but if you are meeting a need in the market, people are willing to pay even for an imperfect product.

And it’s much easier to improve a product that has a market, then to find a market for a perfect product that has none.
Korean TikTok star Won Joeng arrested on sexual assault charges – report
What impact are you hoping it will have? If you're worried about losing your flame try micro-dosing it. I've found < 10 micrograms of ritalin can have a useful impact - gets rid of some of the background noise but without the negative effects of too narrow a focus.
> Personally I think Apple should just create Messages for Android and charge $5/month

I'd move to Android in a heartbeat if they did this. I think that is the reason why it will never happen.
> ...reach full usefulness at the command line

...that's pretty much what "booting" means though. Even on those hardwired machines with operating system and BASIC interpreter in ROM, the hardware still needs to be brought into a defined state (IO, timer, audio and video chips need to be initialized, interrupts need to be setup, the operating system needs to initialize portions of RAM used for keeping variable state, also checking what peripheral devices and hardware modules are connected and initializing those, and so on and on...).
Who Was the "Optimistic Futurist"? A Conversation with Ray Bradbury [video]
It has certainly felt like the limit is software/PEBKAC for a long while. Until lately with LLMs...that does make me feel "wish I had a bigger hammer" again.
> You seriously compare whatever this ninja thing is to valgrind with a straight face?

In so much as neither is pre-installed on a consumer operating system, yes, they are obviously equivalent.

> There’s value in not overloading your cognitive capacity with the most recent fads

Ninja has been the standard backend for CMake and other meta-generators for 11 years, it is hardly recent or a fad.

Moreover, you don't need to know anything about it, since it's a task-running backend format. You need to "know" it as much as you know the ELF object format or LLVM IR, your tools use it not you personally.
Some insights into the concept of resilience.
Thank you for your attention. I'm glad it brings back some good memories.
on the Amstrad computers, and that's the context, BASIC was an interpreter on top of AMSDOS, which is a DOS, and an OS (just without any UI) indeed.

It's AMSDOS that provided hardware and disk handling, while BASIC could focus on running BASIC code. I think even the graphics routines (like setting a pixel) may have been implemented in AMSDOS, but not sure - and the line between two is blurry from user perspective. While those are two ROMs by two companies, they were developed in cooperation.
is it possible that NetNewsWire (possibly other rss readers as well) don't show the favicon for https://news.ycombinator.com/rss anymore because of this change? I noticed this a few days ago
Couldn't you also do the substitution n times to make this ordinal emulate the fast growing hierarchy instead of the middle growing one?
> Ever tried to move that YT video slider to a specific position but your mouse moves too jumpy and suddenly you are moving your hand super-carefully like you're 5 and playing "Operation" all over again?

On YouTube specifically, you can scrub through a video frame-by-frame using the , (comma) and . (period) keys, no custom hardware required. :-)
> makes light of

I assume you mean "makes light work of". Making light of something means to disparage it, usually as frivolous/unserious/etc.