skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isn't putting this onto the consumer a little bit of a cop out?

It is the other way around, consumers wanting to keep consuming and feeling good about it while blaming someone else.
Me vs. the VNC Guy
Thanks. I went off of what they had posted on GitHub and the linked issues and reasons.
The "Re-analyses and alleged failures to replicate" section of that Wikipedia article is really rather important - the idea that inequality causes problems independent of poverty relies on a lot of questionable assumptions and analyses.
> historically they always lost to progress

What you call "progress" is what led us here. Remains to be seen if "here" is a trap. You seem to think that everything is fine since everything will be fine, but that opinion doesn't have a consensus right now. I prefer to remain more doubtful.
You're attaching your design to the Mac layer inside the FPGA, not to the IO pins, so it's the PIPE interface or something similar that you would need to communicate with. And yes, you can bypass the PCIe or Ethernet controller on various models of FPGAs.
I call dibs on this new concept of singularity-as-a-service.
Not mosquitos?
Works fine on my end.
"the utoronto unix blog in general is enjoyable"

Didn't know it was called the utoronto unix blog. I've always called it CSpace like the author calls it here: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/FrontPage
Uber's Go Style Guide
No worries, glad it's helping. AWS Console will automatically discover the thumbprint when adding a new provider, so I just grabbed it from there.
MagSafe supports my 'entire phone' bouncing around in my truck, and hanging on my headboard at night - it's more than strong enough to hold a phone to a keyboard.
A policy decided on through a collusion between government and the private central banks, which benefits both of them and steals from the population through the Cantillon effect and the stealth real wage reduction.

Workers are getting pay cuts while thinking they are getting pay rises, and they then blame the shops who have to ask for increasing numbers of the the devaluing units of currency in exchange for the same item.
I think the main issue with Python tends to not be performance (though it can be hard to speed up certain bottlenecks), but rather there's a point where maintaining it goes from very easy to very difficult due to lack of static typing. Where this occurs can be pushed further back with very careful programming discipline (or by adopting mypy et. al from the start). But I could see a world where something go-like with a little more expressivity could've become that glue language instead of python.
This is a straw man by people who are afraid of fair regulation and market dynamics.

Myself I am from Denmark. Here we don't have a minimum wage, but we do have a strong union culture. This ensures power dynamics on the labor market ensuring that everybody gets a fair wage.
Right, also keep in mind Costco can afford to treat their employees well. A small mom and pop with the owner(s) and maybe one or two clerks may not be able to in the same way.
I wonder the developers' chat app from what feels like 5 years ago will ever come out [0]. (edit: it's 6 years, according to the HN thread I found it on! [1]).

By the way, you should really close that Patreon (which in fairness isn't generating much income), considering Volt is clearly never coming out or being developed on, and you have another Patreon for your language!

[0]: https://volt-app.com/

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778263
Does he write his own books, though? [0] [1] [2]

It's his name on the front of the book, but he is not necessarily the primary author. That sounds a little unethical to me.

[0] https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/books/380231/James-P...

[1] https://theconversation.com/why-you-dont-need-to-write-much-...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/featu...
Goroutines use thread-per-core but run stackful fibers on top of that. (A similar model is sometimes known as "Virtual Processors" or "Light-weight processes".) This is unlike the use of stackless async-await in other languages. This peculiar use of fibers in Go is also what gets in the way of conventional C FFI and leads to quirks like cgo.
That's not really the Geneva convention though, chemicals weapons are just not effective for any actual warfare (aside from committing atrocities).
It would be cool if we accepted that while the technology is getting better, it is not there for some use cases and people.

28% more is significant and just understand that we are not just talking about time spent. You factor that into my trip and suddenly I am awake for 2 more hours, more chance of a crash. Multiply that across the population and see what that does to death rates.
I see the measurements on the homepage lists zed and sublime as basically the same. Anyone know how they measure - and how helix and neovim compare?

I'm not bothered at all with helix startup time...
Based on some googling, the latest iphone is 15, so that means it works on 2/15ths of iphones, or an even smaller fraction if you count all the variants apple has released.

If we're looking at non-iphones, the fraction likely gets even worse. Remember 3g was only shut down a couple years ago. And this requires 5g to work? As in 2 entire generations newer?

But yeah, I also haven't found any confirmation it would be free for T-Mobile customers (who have the right phones), so I think it's safe to assume it won't be until we get that. It'd be cool if true, though!
Oh, absolutely! And let's not forget, you're not a real musician unless you've got a Musician's License. All those unlicensed folks playing in orchestras and bands are just faking it, obviously.
If Zed plan to open source the editor, what is the monetisation strategy? Paid features like "multiplayer"? How does that feature work for companies that don't allow code to leave their networks?

> GPUI rasterizes the entire window on the GPU

Other programs I have seen do this on Linux and Windows tend to have blurry fonts. I hope that is not also the case here.
The linked article explains exactly this
Reducing the wealth of the ultra rich is not just about resource allocation. Its also about how much power a single person should have within the community they live in. With that kind of money people can buy off regulators, politicians, law enforcement, whole towns, financial intuitions , etc. You really don't want a person or group of people to have that much power over a community.
I really, really appreciate key people taking the time for retrospectives. It makes a huge difference to people now who want to make a real difference.

But I'm not sure Rob Pike states clearly enough what they got right (IMO): they managed the forces on the project as well as the language, by:

- Restricting the language to its target use: systems programming, not applications or data science or AI...

- Defining the language and its principles clearly. This avoids eons of waste in implementing ambiguity and designing at cross-purposes.

- Putting quality first: it's always cheaper for all concerned to fix problems before deploying, even if it's harder for the community or OS contributors or people waiting for new features.

- Sharing the community. They maintained strict control over the language and release and core messaging, but they also allowed others to lead in many downstream aspects.

Stated but under-appreciated is the degree to which Google itself didn't interfere. I suspect it's because Go actually served its objectives and is critical to Google. I wonder if that could be true today for a new project. It's interesting to compare Dart, which has zero uptake outside Flutter even though there are orders of magnitude more application code than systems code.

Go was probably the key technology that migrated server-side software off Java bloatware to native containers. It dominates back-end infrastructure and underlies most of the web application infrastructure of the last 10 years. The benefit to Google and the community from that alternative has been huge. Somehow amidst all that growth, the team remained small and kept all its key players.

Will that change?
This was outside of Boulder, in Westminster, just west of 25 on 136th.
If they weren't able to objectively assess the quality, they surely wouldn't be complaining, would they? But you mean pre-sale assessment, and that's again not an issue of skill because this is a repeat game. They are well aware by now that they're being manipulated but still price wins over quality.

I'm not going to argue the political metaphor because I feel the parallels there are too far apart to be a useful comparison.
What was your process for developing this into a real product? I saw an early post about this being a raspberry pi prototype. I have the ability to prototype something like this, but I have no idea the process for turning it into a physical product, so I'm curious what that was like for you.
Password fields with max character counts
Does Arch handle Nvidia's drivers properly? I'm using Open SUSE and it's a horrible experience, they provide multiple ways to install them and none work, so ended up just having to use Nvidia's installer directly.
Because you can just increase minimum wage at the state level
That's a hell of a claim to drop without sources.
Thanks for this comment. I was going to make a similar one, but you beat me to it. Standard of living tends to be relative because of gentrification. Say you're making $X/yr and spend $Y/yr on groceries, gas, housing, and so on. Then a bunch of people making $5X start moving in to your neighborhood, slowly prices for everything are going to rise and now you're still making $X/yr but costs are approaching $5Y/yr on all your stuff.

Also, at least in the USA, money is efficiently convertible to and from political power. So outsized wealth translates into outsized political power. Satya Nadella having far more money than I means he also has far more political clout than I have.
You think that is big. Mark Zuckerberg received ~436x the average US worker. Elon Musk received ~462x Mark Zuckerberg.

Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg is bigger than the difference between Mark Zuckerberg to the average US worker.

To be fair, Mark Zuckerberg does probably make more money from the appreciation of their existing stock rather than their new compensation. David Zaslav, the second lowest listed on the website does ~630x the average worker and Elon Musk makes ~320x David Zaslav.

The average S&P 500 CEO does ~270x the average worker and ~1110x the minimum wage. Elon Musk makes ~750x the average S&P 500 CEO. Elon Musk makes the average S&P 500 CEO look proportionally poorer than the average worker and almost makes enough to make the average S&P 500 CEO look like a minimum wage worker.
> What did the author ever do to you?

Made incredible claims, did not fulfil them. Ergo, heightened scrutiny.
Don't know about Rob Pike in particular but Ken Thompson, who probably had the same reasons for "hating" Stroustrup, had this to say about him (from Coders at Work):

Seibel: You were at AT&T with Bjarne Stroustrup. Were you involved at all in the development of C++?

Thompson: I'm gonna get in trouble.

Seibel: That's fine.

Thompson: I would try out the language as it was being developed and make comments on it. It was part of the work atmosphere there. And you'd write something and then the next day it wouldn't work because the language changed. It was very unstable for a very long period of time. At some point I said, no, no more.

In an interview I said exactly that, that I didn't use it just because it wouldn't stay still for two days in a row. When Stroustrup read the interview he came screaming into my room about how I was undermining him and what I said mattered and I said it was a bad language. I never said it was a bad language. On and on and on. Since then I kind of avoid that kind of stuff.

Seibel: Can you say now whether you think it's a good or bad language?

Thompson: It certainly has its good points. But by and large I think it's a bad language. It does a lot of things half well and it's just a garbage heap of ideas that are mutually exclusive. Everybody I know, whether it's personal or corporate, selects a subset and these subsets are different. So it's not a good language to transport an algorithm—to say, “I wrote it; here, take it.” It's way too big, way too complex. And it's obviously built by a committee.

Stroustrup campaigned for years and years and years, way beyond any sort of technical contributions he made to the language, to get it adopted and used. And he sort of ran all the standards committees with a whip and a chair. And he said “no” to no one. He put every feature in that language that ever existed. It wasn't cleanly designed—it was just the union of everything that came along. And I think it suffered drastically from that.

Seibel: Do you think that was just because he likes all ideas or was it a way to get the language adopted, by giving everyone what they wanted?

Thompson: I think it's more the latter than the former.
Have you seen you have this track in Exercism?

https://exercism.org/tracks/pharo-smalltalk

And this if you want to feel not alone in the first steps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ-kAQWMMTQ
Neat idea, but at $140, being phone specific, and just the ergonomics of holding the phone from the bottom when it is now an extra 2 inches taller all sound pretty bad.

Also concerning that no where in the landing page does it specify how it connects, or show an example of how "easy" it is to put on and take off (On second glance - it is shown in passing 2 minutes into the 10 minute long intro video.)

Not to mention being called "clicks" but no audio demo of what the keys actually sound like?
I've been on a physical iPhone keyboard quest since I got my first (4S). I have a pile of BT keyboards and one keyboard case. Still looking for something I would actually use. Indeed, my primary use case is for SSH (via Terminus).
If hard work were accurately linked to monetary benefit, poor African substinamce farmers would be some of the richest people on earth. Clearly that isn't the case, money come from more thanjust hard work. Luck has a lot to do with it, such as not being born an African substinamce farmer.
I'd be surprised if Sony Ericsson didn't have a patent on it, because that was exactly how the numeric keypad worked on their early smartphones. They were resistive displays though, so they just required something hard on the back to register a touch.
But people have bought EVs despite the lack of public chargers, both in Australia and all over the world, so that’s clearly not the full story.
With FPGA, unlike with GPUs, you can achieve significant speedup of algorithms where parallelization is very difficult. This is thanks to a technique called pipelining, where you can perform several steps of a sequential computation at the same time.

An example of this is video decoding/encoding, which is commonly implemented by dedicated hardware.
this looks great! would be interested in snagging a keyboard
I think that's it.

Today I saw a sign above the dropbox: "please park your returned trucks <in the lot>"

So I think what's happening is: U-Haul keeps the vans in the strip mall parking lot. (Do they have to pay the mall for that? Who knows?)

Possibly some of the mall tenants rent it occasionally, and this lets them get the van right at their place of business, instead of having to go somewhere and pick it up.

Maybe the keys are always left in the van! I could test that, but I don't want to get in trouble for car theft. Maybe U-Haul doesn't have to worry about someone stealing it, since they could have a locator device in it.
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The nature of this type of research is that there are long term goals which are currently unachievable with no clear concept for how to approach them, so researchers need to start putting small pieces together and working out how to make it all work smoothly as a single concept. It looks like someone had a neural network for mouth movement. Someone had one for body movement, etc. Composing multiple systems in to one teaches us how we can approach more complex problems and how to better tie things together than just inserting the output of one in to the input of another.

Long term this type of work helps solve big problems even if the intermediate steps don’t produce exciting results.

As an example, early image generators were pretty uninteresting but today they are widely utilized and generally considered impressive. The thing that researchers in the field know that the public doesn’t is that there’s 100 boring steps before the exciting release, and some of the boring steps are very exciting on a technical level. Those intermediate achievements represent 99% of what machine learning research actually is and others in the field appreciate those works.
They could totally do that via lightning or USB-C (iPhone 14 vs 15), but it doesn't appear that they have.
What would even prompt Business Insider to launch an investigation like this?

The whole thing is ridiculous.

The primary ridiculous fact that it's OK to say genocide against Jews is OK depending on the circumstances, but not OK to omit quotation marks around some non-substantive descriptive passages copied from other academic works. But that's old news now.

But then there's the secondarily ridiculous fact that some news outlet is trying to pull the same trick on the wife of one of the guys responsible for the original plagiarism issue.

I mean yeah, great, let's hold highly-paid superstar academics to high standards. If these examples are really on par with what Gay did, and with what would get a student kicked out of Harvard, then yes, anyone who wrote something like this should face consequences.

But is that really what's going on? Does the Business Insider editorial board all of a sudden care so deeply about academic honesty?
In this, they are still trying to get the person to meditate. To sit with very little and wonder what they are doing wrong.

A few months ago I created Harbor (getharbor.app) which played some sounds with some haptics and tried to get people to focus on the sensation of the haptics.

I'm a meditator, but I know many people who aren't and trying to get them to just "sit" and do nothing is a challenge. Some people get stressed out about are they doing it "right".

These are the challenges to try to overcome with meditation, so I'm not quite sure why Sit is different to other timers.
I actually don’t want the developer experience of co-location. There are millions of things that are totally irrelevant happening in my company’s (thousands of engineers) monolith. The noise in the commit log is considerable. Isolated repos are smaller, and reduce useless coupling.
Somebody bring back the OG Motorola Droid slide keyboard and I will switch to Android.
I'll never forget them; watching those launches had a profound impact on the course of my life.
Well now I feel dumb. So it's like Minuum but way earlier. That's pretty cool, then, and I can definitely see how it would be faster.
I dunno man. My claim was that for specific cases with unique properties, it's not hard to beat BLAS, without getting too exotic with your code. BLAS doesn't have routines for multiplies with non-contiguous data, various patterns of sparsity, mixed precision inputs/outputs, etc. The example I gave is for a specific case close-ish to the case I cared about.

You're changing it to a very different case, presumably one that you cared about, although 4096x4096 is oddly square and a very clean power of 2... I said right at the beginning of this long digression that what is hard about reproducing BLAS is its generality.
No one here realizes the sheer thumb strength of the guy in the pic.
We will always be beholden to Sketch for finally killing off Photoshop as a primary app UI tool. Dear god I’m so glad the days of Layer Comps are behind us.
As crazy as it sounds, the cuban revolution up until the late 80s. While their communist economic system was far from ideal, it saw significant rising GDP/cap vs the days when farm labor were like slaves and their output redistributed to petty farm masters under Batistas favored rich men.
So, is it Jepsen-tested?
I know journalists are huge proponents of free speech, but only for "licensed and bonded journalists" from reputable institutions like the New York Times; ordinary folks deserve the business end of the law.
The chart is likely way off and extremely optimistic. Based on a few key metrics, the 2022 UN report data has pretty much been debunked, and China's population will roughly halve by 2060, much faster than 2100 (what the UN predicted).

"The UN's projection, for instance, was based on the assumption that China's fertility rate would remain at above 1.7 children per woman. China had 12 million newborns last year, 25% lower than the UN's..."

These researchers showed a halving by 2065 based on a the official fertility rate of 1.3 in 2020.
:https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2190995/chinas-population-...

That's a big assumption to even believe the official birth rate, but it's much lower than the UN's number.

In 2022 the official number plummeted even more: "released data indicating that last year’s fertility rate fell to 1.09 from 1.15 in 2021, below Japan’s rate for the same time period and only slightly higher than South Korea’s, which was estimated to be 0.8."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/16/china-fertilit...

At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if China's population halves before 2060. I wonder how long it will take before the CCP, vowing control over any thing else, starts to implement a draconian multiple child policy (the exact opposite of a one child policy).
We were affected by the downtime, suddenly our VPNs went down and we started troubleshooting if it was a switch sudden reboot, a physical problem, anything. Odd for some of our VPNs to randomly shut down rejecting all traffic but just at the endpoint. Then we started having some very specific problems with just some FTP addresses and couldn't figure out what was happening.

Until our CIO went to the bathroom and came back saying "Hey, these websites aren't working from our WIFI network but they're working fine from mobile data? Could it be a navigation problem from Orange?"

Then we realized it.
It's ok that Go didn't work out for scientific crowds, since Julia works better for the scientific community as a replacement for hacky Matlab/c++/Fortran conbled-together scripts.
Something that I really like about go is how easy it is to make a monorepo, and how quick and easy it is to build all of the contained apps (go build ./...).

I also find it really easy to make CLI tools in Go that can form part of unix pipelines, since: you just need a single go file and app-named folder to get started, it gives you a self-contained binary as output, and the Reader/Writer interfaces make it easy to stream and handle data line-by-line. We have a couple of CLIs at work that analyze multi-gig logs in a couple of seconds for common error patterns - Go is very handy for such things.