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> They've been an NIH company since the beginning

So who did Woz copy for the Apple I ][ and ///?

> and now you & few others are desperately touting the one, or one of the few areas where they embraced standards. Assuming they did.

They were one of the first adopters, if not the first. They have been involved in the design of nearly every USB standard since; Micro USB being a notable exception.

> I believe that is just wrong. Mac users might have had an outsized impact, but the mass market always refrained from jumping on things until they were available for Windows.

Go get a copy of a computer magazine from around 6 months after the iMac G3 was released...

The thing is that on one hand, you're claiming that they're not innovative and on the other, suffering from NIH syndrome, so by implication, innovating. Which is it?
Submitters: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
Hell, with cell phone AI capabilities these days it wouldn't be too hard to shove an android in one of the larger dones and say if you get jammed and see something like this list of pictures, blow it up.
Conjunction used to be called logical product, and disjunction logical sum, for the reason the other commenters pointed out.
I think, particularly with the advent of AI and modern computer technology as a whole, Gödel would today be a simulationist of Bostrom’s cut.

If we ever have the means to accurately simulate reality - which we already do, at small scales and with significant time dilation - then it becomes almost inevitable that we reside within a simulation, as the simulations would vastly outnumber physical reality, and therefore the balance of probability is that we reside within a simulation - possibly nested within many other layers of simulation.

It isn’t necessary to simulate an entire universe at utter fidelity - just that which is observed - which rather neatly ties into the current understanding of quantum mechanics, and waveform collapse. It also isn’t necessary to do it in realtime, as from within the simulation all would appear synchronous regardless - aeons could pass between states, while the substrate orbits a white dwarf whiling away the cold eternity at the heat death of the parent universe.

Whether that implies an afterlife is another matter - perhaps we are ephemeral after all - but taking Gödel’s argument about the wastefulness of imbuing consciousness only to then snuff it out, half baked, it would stand to reason that any simulator would seek to accrue that experience, and use it for other purposes.

Perhaps there is only one consciousness, asynchronously living every life, every existence. I find this useful to bear in mind, as the person to whom I am asshole today may be an aspect of me from another iteration.

I prefer to look at this not as woo-woo, or belief, but rather logical deduction based on sound premises.

Of course, it may all be bunkum, and we may be alone in the universe, and life may indeed be meaningless and fleeting - but we cannot know, as that would foul up the simulation no end.
Forths often use -1 as TRUE so logical and bitwise operators coincide.
The drone wars have just begun and it's going to be years before the new paradigm shakes out.
I do a lot of work with SQLite, and I do sometimes use one of the GUI clients (specifically sqlitebrowser.org). However, I mostly use the command line client that comes with SQLite, not because of how many features it has (not a lot) but because I use Bash and everything that comes with it, across various sessions managed with Tmux, as part of what I do with SQLite. It’s the same reason I usually use Vim in a terminal session instead of the GUI version. Using the GUI version means stepping away from a lot of my best tools.
Connections can be made in kids show without referencing sexual preferences, that's my point.

I just fail to see why you need to make a pony a lesbian in a kids show.

Why bring that up at all?
I would strongly assume that a big chunk is made using generative AI with the purpose of spreading one particular religion, or just making the population more spiritual and therefore less opposed to certain changes. With all due respect, we don't know everything, but know enough about our brain to be fairly certain that there is nothing even close to any afterlife, with all respect to people's own beliefs that they are entitled to. It is wishful thinking, it makes humans feel good, gives them hope and is a pretty significant psychological relief, especially given the current mental health situation on earth, but what happens after life is fairly certain - nothing. I suspect the letters were written with the exact goal I have listed above - to give hope, to make happy and to give psychological relief. After all, you want people you interact with to be happy. If you will tell them the truth in cold blood, well, that won't be a very pleasant moment and it will lead to sadness. I do the same to be honest. Small lies that make people that I care about happy. It makes me happy in return. Is it bad? What even is bad? Everyone defines bad for themselves. Making other people happy is definitely not bad in a system of values where bad is on the opposite side of happy. But what do I know.
The smallest model your users agree meets their needs. It really depends.

The retrieval part is way more important.

I've used the original 13B instruction tuned llama2, quantized, and found it gives coherent answers about the context provided, ie the bottleneck was mostly getting good context.

When I played with long context models (like 16k tokens, and this was a few months ago, maybe they improved) they sucked.
Yeah I just added that. I was hesitant initially cause you have to also note they're nonnegative, and that you're treating them like real numbers rather than mod 2.
> But these computation graphs are similar every time.

For now I'm testing one-after-another because failure of previous (overflow, too-small-transfer, etc) gives a hint about which part can be changed in the graph.

I've been thinking about vectorizing over multiple guesses at once, but don't see a fast reliable way to merge several graphs (also that induces significant burden on other parts of the project - autograd is just one component).
The case of the vector with an impossibly large size
Reflecting deeply on Gödel's Completeness and Incompleteness Theorems, I'd like to contribute to the discussion. The essence of Completeness lies in the notion that a system, constructed on foundational axioms (such as facts, truths, or mathematical operations), encompasses all possible facts derivable within its framework. Interestingly, this completeness paradoxically begets contradictions. It implies the existence of 'axiomatic islands' - distinct realms of truth where a fact valid in one may contradict another in a different realm. Hence, Completeness inherently entails contradiction.

On the other hand, Incompleteness, which targets a specific subset of all possible truths or derivations, can achieve absolute consistency by avoiding these contradictions. This is because it deliberately excludes certain 'axiomatic regions,' maintaining coherence within its defined scope but at the expense of being incomplete.

Gödel's genius lay in unveiling the deceptive nature of mathematics when navigating these axiomatic territories. His theorems present a profound duality: the local context, where truths are confined to specific axiomatic systems, and the universal context, which can be akin to an 'ultimate truth' in spiritual terms. This ultimate truth transcends individual systems, offering a broader, more holistic understanding.
> Can you be more specific about which subcultures have ingrained criminality? It's better to have the courage of your convictions and just state outright which groups of people have a criminal nature.

Not op, but…

1. Very low SES folks.

2. Very high SES folks.

Different types of crimes, different levels and types of enforcement/convictions, but seems to be true from my experience.

The absence of race in my two groups is intentional — SES is typically a better predictor of behavior than race.
I'll just leave this here (emphasis mine)

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

> The primary distinguishing characteristic of systems programming when compared to application programming is that application programming aims to produce software which provides services to the user directly (e.g. word processor), whereas systems programming aims to produce software and software platforms which *provide services to other software*, are performance constrained, or both (e.g. operating systems, computational science applications, game engines, industrial automation, and software as a service applications).
Oh Jesus Christ, here we go again.

> Imagine every novel written in the same style, Hemingway indistinguishable from Dickens, Tolkien from Rowling. It would be awfully gray to enjoy the English language if there was only a single shade of prose.

Code is not a novel and your run off the mill developer is NOT Hemingway, Tolkien or Rowling. Code is a plumbing, nothing more, nothing less.
That explains why Africa and parts of Asia are not on the charts. But it definitely doesn't explain Europe. I don't know how much you know about Europe, but it certainly that third-world country you're making it out to be when Flash peaked....
>And they have no useful levers to pull, so they invent a useless one and yank it as hard as they can.

From my understanding, Bing hasn't stolen any marketshare from Google since integrating ChatGPT. I think this could.

Pressing a key is easier than typing in Google.
Keep in mind that the law only requires salary to be listed. Large companies typically only list salary, because it helps them hide the true compensation numbers.
Reddit isn’t known for having great software though.
I disagree with this. When chrome was released the ideal target for a web developer was Internet explorer, because everyone who wasn't a technology enthusiast just used the built-in browser. Many business related websites still required internet explorer to function properly years after IE was discontinued.

Additionally, this video shows FireFox's marketshare was still increasing, even two years after chrome was first released.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/internet-browser-market-sha...

The reason google Chrome succeeded is because it was a better browser. It syncs all your favorites, passwords, and history with the google account you already have. It works on every platform. And Firefox had several years where it just wasn't very good. I was a Firefox user but around the time they killed legacy extensions I bailed.

I remember helping many family members when their Internet Explorer was filled with spyware toolbars taking up 50% of their screen. I would just install chrome and log them into their gmail account and never have to fix it again.

As others have mentioned, Safari was available on windows for many years.
I'm doing the CTO thing for a <10 person start-up that is actively building our initial product. I am rapidly and randomly switching from anywhere from 0-80% coding during any given week depending on what my team and the company needs. Probably closer to 20-30% on average.

I come from a history of being an individual contributor (15 years of that) and I would say overall as I've gotten more senior in my positions I've done less coding as a % of my time, but the coding that I have been doing is individually more impactful or sensitive.

The non-coding part of my time has gone more into mentoring, reviewing, design, business discussions & goal setting, policy writing and implementation, team organization & management, and interactions with operations.

I think that about covers it, but feel free to follow up if you have anymore questions.
Because different languages give different focus to different features. I'm not saying there can't be a language that supports multiple goals well, but it's a bit like" Jack of All Trades".
Any model newer than iPhone X (XR/XS and up).

It's a Facetime exclusive, though - no API so other videoconferencing apps can't use that.
No it does not, because thanks to atmosphere wings on an airplane generate lift. And they do it more efficient than any kind of engine known to the mankind
> Most apparent are the web programmers, most of them assume everyone has 10gbit fiber connections with 16 core CPUs and 128GB of RAM to feed to Chrome

Facebook marketplace. I don't know how you can make a grid of images max out a 5800x, but they've managed it. A markedly inferior product to every one of the classified ad competitors they've squashed out of existence.
It appears they submitted the app before the holidays?

> After spending 19 days to review our submission, causing us to miss a long-planned January 2nd launch date
Look at this insanity:

https://ccugame.app/star-citizen-funding-dashboard/funding-d...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tMAP0fg-AKScI3S3VjrD...
>Ok but you should at least have an idea because it's the central premise of your proposal. I'm not asking for you to split hairs between a percent or something but to provide something meaningful from a categorical standpoint.

The central premise of my proposal is that once a company reaches antitrust-size, it should be regulated as such. Perhaps percent of all digital transactions is one way to do it without writing company-specific regulation that could be worked around in the future, perhaps not. I categorically do not want a handful of companies to control our digital landscape, and we need regulators to step in.

>On the consumer side I don't see this as a big threat, it's more of a threat to developers. The vast majority of apps, games, etc. are junk and not worht acquiring for free or paid, and if those prices increase because companies are charging more then the likely scenario is they just die off which is good for the economy and the quality of the app stores. On the developer side this also has the added benefit of weeding out uncompetitive apps and poor products, and the cost burden is beared by developers instead of the corporations and personally I don't really care that much if, say, Epic gets more or less revenue than Apple because of these dynamics. Neither are lowering their prices so it's not relevant to me.

Just because you don't feel personally impacted doesn't mean others aren't.

> Nothing stops those new products or features today though so I'm not sure what the argument here is. Are you suggesting if Apple and Google open up their APIs then other competitors will... open up their non-existent APIs? If anything these things just further cemement Apple and Google dominance.

If you zoom out a bit, you'll notice the entire web is effectively controlled by 2-3 companies via Chrome/Safari. It's not about being able to build on particular APIs per se. It's that if Apple/Google want web browsers to have (or NOT have) certain features, it's them who get to decide, and developers will fall in line. Google in particular has been working on features that make ad blocking worse, thus protecting their advertising empire, for example [1]. Edit: Just to clarify, what can/cannot be done on web browsers directly impacts the kind of apps developers build for app stores. However, the takeaway here is that what these big corporations want happens both in and out of app stores for their own benefit, because consumers lack choice.

>Are you suggesting regulation overall due to company size or regulation within a sector?

I meant that if we lived in a world where 1 in 2 people had to pay Nintendo ~30% when buying a digital good (Costs are passed to consumers), they too should be regulated. The rationale is protecting consumers from harm via higher prices, which result from a lack of competition.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/12/chromes-next-weapon-i...
> Google chrome cast is a really bad example of something they could add because it is s locked down proprietary technology that you need to have permission from Google to use now and at all times in the future.

They have added it though, in Apple Music on Android, so they clearly already have both a license and a developed Cast “app” that gets loaded onto the Chromecast.

> The open cast protocol (miracast?)

It was DIAL. Why it died is anyone’s guess. Perhaps Google wanted more control, and Netflix et al didn’t feel like carrying the development burden.
How does that keep track? If it's calls to cloudflareinsights.com, I suspect a very large proportion of Firefox users will block it through uBO + tracker lists or other means.
Why bring up couples at all?

Are the heterosexual couples going to tell the kids about the sex they're having?
The only reason AirTags work is because every iPhone runs code that tracks them. There are thousands of different models of Android phones, 99% of them have software that will never see another update again. How exactly do you add code that detects "their own version of air tags that work with Android phones"? The answer is you don't. AirTags took off because Apple had the ability to retroactively make every existing iPhone start to track them. No other company can pull that off.
Looks super impression. Congrats.

A few questions ...

a. what caused you to start working this?

b. any particular reason why you chose to implement it the way you did (e.g. I see you use Python + Textual as opposed to something like https://charm.sh/libs/)

c. any major functionality you feel it's missing?

d. any limitations (e.g. doesn't work with Oracle?)

e. any reason why someone should not use it?

Thanks in advance.
> (Main annoying thing: a lot of compilers, even popular ones such as clang and gcc, don't actually seem to know what the precedence rules actually are, and generate warnings asking you to clarify. Presumably the authors didn't realise that C has an ISO standard, that can be consulted to answer this question? Very surprising.)

The compilers do know what the precedence rules are, but they know that programmers don't routinely consult the ISO standard, so they emit those warnings to reduce the chance of error. Compilers are tools that are designed to help programmers avoid bugs. If they don't help programmers, they aren't doing their job.
The best camera is the one you have in your pocket when you need to take a picture.
It's a common tale, the golden handcuffs conundrum. What I'd suggest is considering the maxim: "The long run is made up of a series of short runs." Right now, you're doing short runs that don't satisfy you. That compensation, as glorious as it is, doesn't feel so heavy in your pocket when your day-to-day lacks substance and joy.

You were probably hoping to craft cathedrals, not lay bricks. This mismatch between expectation and reality is jarring and, sadly, rather commonplace. But remember, the skills you truly love can be kept sharp outside of work hours. It's not ideal, but it's a measure to prevent skill atrophy and keep passion alive.

The good news? The tech industry is vast. There's always a corner where code is king and where a day's work leaves fingerprints on the actual product. It might pay less—sometimes much less—but the intellectual and emotional reward can compensate.
Why don't they adjust the law so the total comp is also required to be listed?
I have used this tool: https://github.com/eddie3/gogrepo

I have a system with a bunch of VMs on it.

I run this script and sync all games to a games partition on the machine.

Then I can mount the disk in a VM and install and play the games.

For example, I have a windows 11 vm without a network device, and can play with no annoying updates, no nags, no games phoning home.

I got annoyed because some games phone home (anything built on unity), and others have spyware (check out kerbal space program)

I have a steam library from years ago, I wonder if I can do something similar to play offline
Sorry, there’s only one true formatter in Python and that’s Black.
There are also other interesting collections of TUI terminal tools like harlequin here as well:

https://terminaltrove.com/

harlequin is also featured there as a tool of the week on that site.
Go doesn't have PEEK/POKE
The neutrons are an issue because they slowly destroy the reactor materials [1].

Point is, even with better superconductors we'd still be a long way from practical fusion power. They'd be a step forward, but they're not the key that's going to unlock a world of cheap clean energy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_embrittlement
Show HN: Seedling – A Decentralised Medium
Initial version of my decentralised publishing platform for articles and blog posts - like a Web3 Medium. It's open source and [almost] fully decentralised. Runs on the Polygon network.

Current version lets authors publish markdown content from their GitHub account and lets users tip articles. No wallet or GitHub account is needed to browse content.

Authors link their GitHub account or organisation to their wallet address via oauth and an on-chain user registry, after which they can submit article URLs directly to the on-chain content registry. The content registry ensures only registered users can publish, and only from their registered GitHub account.

By adding different hosting options and expanding the feature set, the ultimate goal is to create a platform for independent journalists to publish without fear of censorship or repression, and to fund their journalism through direct tipping, subscriptions and profit sharing models.
> It makes me think maybe China's social credit system might be more effective than what we have now.

This whole Bird situation is horrible. Plenty unfortunate people made an investment in becoming fleet managers. Some are now bankrupt.

This is bad. However, if they were in the Chinese social credit system, their lives would be ruined forever. This black stain would follow them around everywhere, for the remainder of their lives.

In the US there is a liberal bankruptcy system. It allows people who for various reasons failed at their venture to have a clean start after some time passes.

Bankruptcy sucks. It’s a major life-impacting event, even in the US. But you can recover from it. You can have a fresh start.

I see the appeal of a social credit system. The US has some diminished version of it. But it is not as absolute and draconian as China’s, and that is a feature that many people fail to appreciate.

It’s not that hard to appreciate though. Imagine yourself failing at your business venture. Really picture it. Don’t make excuses that “I would be smarter than that.” Just imagine a really unlucky situation. And now think about which system would you rather be in.
> And because the correspondence was private, he did not feel the need to hide his true views, which he might have done in more formal academic settings and among his colleagues at the IAS

I don't think that being private necessarily means that it is showing his true views. In private, we often feel more relaxed and express ourselves differently than in public. But in private conversations, you can express a point of view in one conversation and a different one in another. We often tend to accommodate our audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_accommodation_th...
USB ZIP drive on a PC in 1999? Possibly with an added card. I called ZIP drives out specifically because I remember being surprised at how quick they were in comparison to SCSI attached ZIP drives. And how much less hassle they were.

I sort of agree with what you are saying, but don't underestimate the impact that the G3 had on the desktop computing landscape.