skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you only have 2 GB of RAM, you are better off with 32 bit.

I have a 2007 MacBook and it runs 64 but EndeavourOS no problem but I have 8 GB in it.
val fullName = with(miltonFriedman) {
"$firstName $lastName" <-- slick!
}

That's a famously poor idea; these designers must have been playing hookie when the issue with the Pascal WITH statement was discussed in compiler class.

Yeah, it's slick allright---like an oil spill in a hairpin turn.

When we bring into various scopes throughout a program all of the members of an object, we allow the definition of that object, from a distance, to manipulate those scopes.

with (thisObj) {
with (thatObj) {
fun(foo, bar, xyzzy);
}
}

Today, foo and bar come from thatObj, whereas xyzzy comes from thisObj.

Tomorrow, thatObj changes and suddenly has a xyzzy member, so xyzzy now refers to the one in thatObj. You have a bug which is distant from the definition of thatObj.

The bad WITH is still found in Modula 2, but the late Niklaus Wirth dropped it when designing Oberon.

https://www.modula2.org/reference/withstatements.php

Oberon-2 has a WITH statement that is something else entirely; some kind of switch that dispatches branches of code based on the dynamic type of an expression, such that the value is then considered to have a certain static type in each of the branches.

Modula-3, dsigned by Luca Cardelli and a few other authors, has a sanely-designed WITH statement:

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/hosking/m3/reference/with.ht...

This has the property that all the identifiers it introduces have to be explicitly mentioned. It's like a kind of aliasing let. Not exactly like symbol-macrolet in Common Lisp, but similar.

When a construct does implicitly bind identifiers, they should be fixed, documented ones: e.g. anaphoric if macro binding the it variable, or loops binding a break or continue.

Constructs that create a wormhole whereby a distant part of the program elsewhere controls the content invite bugs. It's like the scoping equivalent of the COME FROM statement in Intercal.
(Captain Ron says "Boss")
Yes. Actually, my son is currently applying for a job in that region.

Havin said that, Asse is not really a great location for long term storage and it is the correct decision to shut it down.
Makes me wonder what the m88k instruction set was like, sadly a quick search makes it look like the only programming manuals were (now expensive) physical books and there's no simple PDF online.

edit: found it..

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/88000/MC88100_R...

Looks moderately clean and easy
What I remember was mostly minimum and standard requirements listed on the product pages.
I'm a little shocked you would tell someone "[I] don't care about your history," and "they don't seem to want help." Did you ever hear people tell you that? Did it help? I certainly feel insulted by your 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps sonny," tone.
You’re telling me I just need some radical stories to get better support? Noted.
1.2B lines of code (end of video) strikes me as really a whole lot for an industrial control system.

Yes, these machines are awfully complex, but 1.2 billion ? Really ?
I've heard a similar story but about SimCity.
... and arrays that don't decay to pointers. (Which, in my opinion, is C's real million-dollar mistake, not null pointers.)

Oh, and less undefined behaviors.
This article falls into the common pitfall of over rationalizing "the market". It's true that from first principles you don't want to establish the bureaucratic apparatus it would take to effectively eliminate all forms of fraud, this is the intuition most people tap into when they say "you can't catch every crime". This is in fact not a surprising observation, most people just understand it as common sense. It's also not the main motivating factor driving the enforcement of monetary fraud prevention.

The monetary system doesn't care about fraud. Banks, credit card companies, and the rest of the financial sector make money from transactions, with no regard for who spends the money, who owns it, or if the transaction was legitimate. Bad actors need banking too, and their transactions are just as valuable as the ones your grandmother makes.

Here we find the sharp divide that fraud controls try to bridge. The social cost of fraud is extremely high. Yet the proportional value, defined in a capitalist sense, of fraud is close to 1. A transaction that happens to be fraud is almost if not as valuable as a transaction that happens to be legitimate. For a bank, the optimal amount of fraud is not just non-zero, it's basically as much as possible.
And there are no file formats that support it, unless you go to something like Markdown.
Maybe you should be more pissed about that 1% who are using every trick in the book to avoid paying taxes.

Also as a side note why you think economic policy from hundreds of years ago is the pinnacle of excellence is a more than a but confusing.
Does that get continuously updated? I don't recall the chart about chicken consumption, that's kind of funny.
I honestly think that subtle and accepted incompetence is becoming pervasive all around, and airplane manufacturers aren't excluded from that. We need to strongly move back to a meritocracy otherwise our civilization will fall, one airplane door at a time.
SentinelOne acquires young Indian security firm PingSafe for over $100M
but this link specifically says bitcoin does not use proof of burn?….
Find My works in airplane mode.
I've played cards with friends in person using Trickster Cards (https://www.trickstercards.com) on our phones. It has a very nice, simple UX for friends to join your games and to set various options to lock out randos if you want to. The iOS app is free IIRC and the paid options are mostly if you want to play with others online in more ranked, league-type play.

I've found it nice for situations where everyone is in the same room and physical cards are possible, but one player may need to leave the room to monitor a dish that is slow-cooking or check on kids or work or whatever.

edit: the other time it came in really handy was in conditions adverse to cards (super windy, no table top, etc), but we all really wanted to get some hearts or euchre in :).
Idea: you're in a chatroom with two other participants. One is ChatGPT, one is a human trying to act like AI.

You'll have to find out who's the human and who's ChatGPT
Yes of course, I would very much appreciate that, if you’d be so generous — thank you! You can email britt [at] bl3 [dot] dev
Noted on the lack of guidance and onboarding. I can see the confusion you had with the board module and have some ideas on improving it. Thanks for giving it a try.
that ain't it. here on a better source

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/07/us/alaska-airlines-faa-plug-d...
They would, presumably, just need to release the header files?

All file formats are, in the end, just memory structures written in binary.
If I was the passenger I’d want to know it’s found and have the possibility of finding the finder. Best would be to post it online like this—I’d see it that way. If they turn it in to the airline it’s probably going to be stuck in bureaucracy for months. If they turn it in to the NTSB, it’ll be gone for years.
"A set of beliefs and practices that aim to improve the genetic quality of a human population"?

That just describes sexual selection in general. Of course you think with your big head when choosing a mate, not the small one that's easily fooled.

You make it sound like choosing good genes for your offspring is evil or something.
ASML have a defacto monopoly. These machines being this complicated is a giant plus for them.

edit: To give an example from another industry, Dave from EEVBlog has a nice teardown for a DLP projector from the upper price segment.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3eGqjV9yG0

You can argue that an important design criteria building this was often the pricetag of the end product.
Looks like it was in a protective case — can anyone tell what kind?
This is a great question.

I love htmx but in situations that have to work offline I can't use it. Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.
Show HN: Blocks: AI-Powered Custom Function Builder from Structured
Hello HN community,

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We believe Blocks could be a valuable tool for developers working on a range of projects, from internal tools to customer-facing features. Its aim is to ease development tasks while offering flexibility and power.

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It’s reactive/declarative UI programming, which Android does with Jetpack Compose, and iOS and MacOS with SwiftUI. The other way is doing imperative UI, like the web was doing with jQuery.
Oh, just run-of-the-mill full-text search of web crawls.

Some web pages update frequently, so I would need something that can handle that.

I do understand that you seem to be targeting the log use-case of Elasticsearch moreso than the "Apache Solr" use-case.

I would be in passing curious of what about the GDPR makes infrequent deletes a design choice. My understanding of GDPR is that the "right to be forgotten" aspects would if anything require deletions to be inexpensive.
Or: some fund managers just get lucky, and when a lot of people start to invest into that fund at some point that luck will simply revert to the mean.
No it won't. They'll log where it landed and that's about it.

What kind of of evidence do you think it has on it?
OpenAI Banned EpsteinGPT
I find that even something like the 15 Pro is borderline too big. It’s already quite hard to use one handed, adding a few mm from a case makes it noticeably worse - for me at least.
In particular, this is limited by:

* reducing the number of neighbors to 8 on a rectangular grid, thus making many useful cluster behaviors impossible, and also rounding percentages but not showing any sign of the rounding

* not counting "self" when counting the "how many are like self" percentage. As a result, if everybody desires not to be a minority in their local cluster, a 50-50 population mix will be simulated as all unhappy permanently instead of all happy.
> There are definitely hedge funds outperforming the market

Of course there are, but for how long? Long enough to rule out chance?

It should be easy to make a hedge fund that outperforms the market, as long as you make two more hedge funds which over the same period, don't.
I actually wondered about this. My iPhone can be located even when turned off, so long as I haven't deactivated that functionality at shutdown (has to be done each time). Is an iPhone in airplane mode really less trackable than an iPhone that is turned off?
IMO this is splitting hairs, and no one will take you to court because you changed the snippet language across the entire site for the session
Assuming they only got as far as their residency (and didn't end up as attending physician), it's possible that they didn't see themselves spending a full 7 years as a resident doctor (making under $100k/year working 80+ hour weeks) only to spend the rest of their lives doing more of the same except with a much higher salary. If they already graduated their residency then the reasoning is the same except it's be a much harder decision because of the sunk cost.
Boeing should cover Alaska’s costs.
ULA Vulcan Rocket Launch [video]
ULA Vulcan Cert-1 (live broadcast) [video]
Do you have a source to say most of the money goes to middle management? My understanding was management employment numbers and costs have reduced over the last decade, but I’m happy to be shown to be wrong via up to date evidence.
It could be cool if there was a WASM container built in Rust that could run in this OS. I don't really have a sense of how complicated a WASM container is, though it seems non-trivial to even decide what such a thing is, so it would be nice not to treat the WASM container itself as the OS (i.e., more room to safely experiment). WASM also seems like it dodges the ABI issue by being more explicitly about composition instead of shared binary data structures.
I just read the complaint and the question we are trying to answer here is moot. This part of the complaint hinges on verbatim copies of their articles being intermingled with fake excerpts from fake articles making it impossible for a reader to differentiate the two.

If I wrote 10 fake headlines, I might be protected. If I copied 9 from NYT and then made one up, it's a lot harder for me to argue I didn't intend to deceive.
> You need to also do something concrete, at which point you cease to be just a philosopher and become also a mathematician, physicist, historian, economist etc.

That's the point. And the converse is true as well.
This equates roughly to 1k developers writing net 1000 lines per day, every day for 5 years.

While it's unlikely, the numbers aren't actually as far off as I expected. Maybe they have 10k developers. Maybe the systems have been worked on for 20 years, maybe devs are only doing 100 lines a day. Lots of combinations come to the right order of magnitude here.

However, most engineers in teams of 1k-10k aren't this productive (not necessarily their fault), and much development is rewrites, so I suspect that the actual amount is about an order of magnitude lower.

What might make up the numbers in order for this to be the "headline" summary number, could be that only net lines were counted, or that they use some sort of monorepo where they have e.g. all of Python committed in, all of GCC/LLVM or other toolchains, etc. Add a few toolchains like that and you'll quickly make up the numbers I'm sure.
Grifters rely on shame for the con to work. It’s a trip watching marks double down and reenforce the narrative. Those talking points become your mantra because you don’t want others finding out how far in the hole you are.
You can never trust the client. The only thing that you can do is warning about bad input, aka UI decorations.
I also thought that seems implausibly large. My guess, based on some quick research, is that a large fraction of that is procedurally generated, not human-written. Here's one example:

> Formal verification tools allow those teams to be confident that their solution is complete and error-free, and the code itself is then automatically generated... With such a model-driven engineering (MDE) approach, software developers at ASML recently replaced half a million lines of code that had been built the conventional way.

https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2017/knowing-how-to-cod...
> All of these things have loopholes. For physical media, depending on the quality of the output, one could pay a sufficiently skilled person to reproduce an AI output on physical media in a fraction of the time it'd take to come up with and draw for real.

Um, that's a real work, you know? In what way does this differ from people who take a photograph and then, for example, creating an oil painting?

Now, there are some weirdnesses because of the copyright of the source photograph, but the oil painting would be your own work.

Yeah, you might get called into court to demonstrate that you can produce the work. But so did Michael Jackson.
I would say that the spirit of the test is that it should be able to demonstrate human-level or above profeciency in every mental skill.

Being able to fool the man of the street for a few minutes is a neat parlor trick but nothing more.

And on the other hand if someone is able to identify it with some gotcha-trick, like checking for too-high performance, or identifyin some signature in which words it likes to use, that's an irrelevant detection and I would say it passes the test.
The phone was in airplane mode, so not actually trackable.
+1, while looking into wireless networking options for an area of 0.5 x 2.5 km with medium bandwidth requirements in Europe, 802.11ah looked like the fitting standard, but with no hardware available.
I missed this, but after reading Steve’s comment, I don’t see much in his “little time machine” theory of function that conflicts with the original article’s ideas, except on the classical conditioning point.
If with defines variables which are not mentioned in it explicitly, and which are controlled by an entirely different part of the program, possibly in another file, we can make the argument that it is not actually lexically scoped.
I have all 3 of the major consoles since their respective launches and a well-spec'd gaming machine from 2019. In the year I've had the Steam Deck, I've played more games on it than all other systems in my house combined. Second place goes to the Switch. I can't even remember when I last turned on the Xbox. I've also started and finished more games this past year than the couple years prior to getting the Deck.

There are a couple things I've noticed that makes me play the Deck more. First, being able to play on the couch while others are watching the TV helps a lot, although this is also true of the Switch. Also, emulation is so easy on the Deck, I find myself picking smaller sessions of older games (mostly SNES and GBA).

I have a couple of other hobbies that consume my free time. Since getting the Deck, I've allocated more time to playing games on the Deck and a bit less from the other hobbies.

I'm not sure what would make me buy the next generation of other consoles. It'd need to be something fairly compelling, but I don't see a gap in my personal gaming that's going unfulfilled. I think I could slim down to just the Deck or its successor for the next gen (and maybe the gaming PC, depending on performance).

One significant attribute that I suspect separates me from many other gamers is that I have nearly zero interest in games that are heavily oriented towards online multiplayer, like most FPS. This keeps social network effects from pulling me into any one of the consoles. Some of these have games cross play, but that wasn't the majority a few years ago.
Ask and ye shall receive:

- cognitivescience.substack.com

- seantrott.substack.com

- understandingai.substack.com

- neuralnews.substack.com

- brain2mind.substack.com

- biomedworks.substack.com
Digital trickery to sell ugly architecture
> Would be a great hack to be able to just run your server code in a worker.

This is exactly why some people build heavy offline-first SPAs in JS. HTMX tries to avoid this entirely. Conceptually (seen from the perspective of HTMX), it makes zero sense to put the server code in a worker and run a client-server architecture in the client‘s browser.

This would be an over-engineered thing that HTMX explicitly tries to avoid in the first place.
Absolutely. The real original term was "hedged fund" and not "hedge fund". I can only feel the pain of the guy [0] who invented the term, when he saw that his entire industry dumbed it down.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Winslow_Jones
On Firefox anyway, I was surprised to see that the <meter> element does not have a tooltip to show the value.
I cannot picture how a grillwould be used
> Fixation on how your present circumstances might be better if not for the wrong done by others to the extent that you describe it as a severe and chronic issue is neither inescapable nor particularly factual.

So your stance is that I imagined the whole thing? You're not making any sense here. It's absolutely, undisputably factual that when a child lacks basic necessities for development, they don't develop properly and will suffer as a consequence.

As a consciously conscious being, I have awareness of that suffering. That's not a "fixation", it's an actual chronic issue that makes life 100x harder than it needs to be, and awareness of the issue is the antidote to preventing something similar from happening to others, especially by my doing.

You are attempting to null my experience, I don't know why, but you're failing at it because you cannot null the cold, hard, objective, measurable facts simply by saying "nuh uh".
this raises the question; what do people do with their iPhones to crack the screen? terminal velocity is not enough speed it seems.
I like to guess the "timeless-ness" factor of a book. If a book seems to have it, I'm likely to shelve it to build a library for my kids. Filter question: will this book have any value in 10 or 20 years from today?

A late theologian from my country, truly wonderful and witty academic, used to say something like: it would be insulting for a book if you grab it from a store and start reading right away. A well-mannered, civil reader will first let the book mature in the shelf for a good ten years or so. :)

This was said tongue-in-cheek, obviously, but it's a good line. She was a classical philologist, translated works by Platon, Hieronymus, Martin Luther etc. So I suppose she lived in a somewhat different time zone as compared to the rest of us -- as in, if your mental horizon expands to some 2000 years, a decade of waiting for a book to "mature in the shelf" is, indeed, nothing. :)
> Of course there are, but for how long? Long enough to rule out chance?

Over 20-30 years.

Private equity in the US averages 15% annual return, including funds that close/died with a total loss of capital.

Citadel hedge fund was 20% annual return to the investor after fees (individual years range from -10% to 50%). Before fees (that is; their stock picking ability) returns about 40-50%.

Not to mention quant/HFT firms that consistently do 40-80% annual returns over 15-20 years. No wonder quant TC is 2-5x the TC of FAANG AI SWEs.

All the above is closed to “retail” investors, though. It’s not fair, but that’s life.

For most people (less than $10M net worth), VTI/VTSAX/VOO is the best you can do.
Specially this https://anjielo.com/products/wireless-signal-wall-through-et...
I wonder whether there a California, Ontario.
I built an offline smart home, and why you should too
The Biggest Smallest PNG
How can i test that [or LazyGit, btw] in my GitBash environnent, under Windows?
If you get your useless information from some of the world's top scientists and mathematicians, it might turn out to be useful.
Find My is bluetooth-based, which is fine to use on airplanes as well.
Very cool. This kind of data visualisation can really help understand some of the intricacies of how the disk format actually puts things on disk. e.g. the metadata carefully prealloced for at least some usage. I was interested to see what would happen when it ran out of space but unfortunately the animation stopped before that time was reached
They drop it on harder surfaces than grass on mud or hit corners of furnitures with the phone in the pocket for example. I tend to do that.
D'oh! Missed that when I was looking for the page. Thanks!

Still, it shows the idea did reappear. :)