skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concept is SmallTalk-ish. Control flow, object frames, and GC in one unit and all higher level math, array, function, FPGA, GPU cell are in one or more adjoined units. The control unit keeps the higher level units fed in a hyper-threading sense. Both unit sets are independently scalable so a unit-pair can be as small as a 8x8 pixel block in a display in a mesh network, an 8-, 12-, or 16-bit device controller, a 32-bit display GPU driver for the pixel block units, etc. All cores talk to other control cores through message passing, with object ID mapping at the interface. Security for small cores is also handled generally at interfaces through capabilities (access to certain core object mappings). The highest levels run as processes on existing OSs.
Why? They could be used as really cheap offices eventually as demand falls.
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yea im thankful he shared all the failures and redesigns etc
There is also the 6809 and 68HC11 which were primarily used in embedded applications.

An absolute truckload of car computers used the 68HC11, plenty of I/O, interrupts etc but only 8 bit. Maybe a good thing.
Thanks! Great resources and well explained
FDA clears DermaSensor's AI-powered skin cancer detecting device
Mostly OT, but related to emergency staircases.

We visited Glasgow (Scotland) last summer and the hotel fire alarm went off the middle of the night (for whatever reason we seem to attract fire alarms while on family holidays)

After getting the kids dressed(ish) we exited the rooms, totally missing that there was one emergency staircase immediately opposite. There was a sign at ceiling height, at 90 degrees to us, which was basically invisible. There was no sign on the door to the staircase itself :/

So, we went all the way down the hall, along with a bunch of other guests, then I carried my 7 year-old down seven floors' worth of the secondary staircase stairs to the ground floor, really pretty slow progress due to the number of people, on exiting the building we met four fire engines plus a significant police presence, and hundreds of hotel guests. Turned out it wasn't a fire, but a disturbance, and a fire alarm had been activated as part of that. We were outside for ages.

Lesson learned: just as you hopefully do immediately after boarding an aircraft, check your exit routes well before you need them...
I was part of a church choir as a boy, and we'd hear "Schickele Mix" on WFYI 90.1 Indianapolis on the way to or from practice if we were lucky.

"A program dedicated to the proposition that all musics are created equal. Or as Duke Ellington put it, 'If it sounds good, it is good.'"

Hilarious and educational show.

"This is another installment of Schickele Mix's ongoing in-depth survey of every march ever written..."

Thank you, Peter Schickele!
you might want to entertain the possibility that, due to these limitations, there’s much less families in the city, as a 3BR apartment is rare and a 4 BR apartment unheard of. In Europe and even south America, that’s not typically the case.

Having lived in both Santiago, Chile and San Francisco with a family, I’d say generally the quality of life is higher (schools, restaurants, opportunities) in major cities in the US, but it’s easier live as family (without a car) in Santiago. Having relatives in Europe I think this is also true.

I’m not sure if removing this limitation fixes that, but without high density 3+ bedroom housing you don’t get families (especially middle class families)
i think if you take a look at human history, the animal kingdom, etc, you will find that in fact it is you who has something strange going on in your brain
I commend anyone for trying to make the tooling ecosystem better, but I’ve never once thought Prettier was too slow. It runs in a fraction of a second on file save.

The performance comparison on Biomejs’ site shows a Prettier run taking 14 seconds, which I can imagine on a very large code base might be true - but that’s a one-off case surely? Once it’s run, it’s just a case of format on save or commit which is back to near-instantaneous.

What’s the use case I’m missing here?
Yes, they are.

Even something as minute as considering a collection of atoms an "element", i.e. organizing things into discrete clusters, is a social construct.

The human brain has a CPU limit so it has to cluster things to interact meaningfully with material reality.

Glimpsing beyond this is nearly impossible because it goes outside the bounds of our abilities, but you can scrape at it if you abstract it enough like I'm doing here.
You cant escape data fusion and browser finger printing via canavas, fonts, plugins.
The Instagram API lands in a very gray area, so as the whatsapp API as well. Personally working with reverse engineered Instagram APIs, A.K.A private APIs, There are high chances of accounts getting banned immediately after using these APIs for automation.

How do you plan on sustaining such a project for a long time when you can be easily killed by the platform and pose potential risk to the users?

(I had to shutdown a service used by 100K+ users due the same reason)
Yeah, that'll happen when no one thinks about women for a few hundred years. What year did your state make it illegal for a man to hit his wife?
also fire suppression system (sprinklers) and pressurized stairwells are mandated.
Some of his phrasing sounded like he hoped the parole board would be reading it: I accept responsibility for my crime, I'm using the skills I'm learning in prison, etc. etc.

This is true; but it also struck me as being very similar to things I've heard from recovering addicts going through 12-step programs -- I'm an addict, I'm sorry for all the harm I caused through my addiction, I'm learning skills to help me overcome my addiction, etc. -- so my hunch is that it's there as a result of the anger management program he's going through in prison.
All it takes is docker compose up -d. But yes, it can take even hours if there's no prior experience. Worth the cost I reckon.

Edit: turns out umbrel is even easier to install. Suppose that and a trusted remote webdav install will serve most storage and file management needs.
This argument does not take bandwidth into account. If the goal is to download a lot of different files, you will be effectively limiting your download with keeping (especially very popular) torrents seeded. I stand corrected if somebody could please disprove me.
> Didnt you just agree with me that it is dependent on the impl/end product?

No. I'm saying that it may be theoretically possible to tune performance in some cases, but not practical.
I used to crash my FWD Sienna into snowdrifts next to stuck vehicles, dig them free, then wobble my way out. Fond memories indeed!

That being said, I would not trade my AWD Mazda 3. I've had to rock it once so far this season the morning after I plunged it into an unplowed slot during the last lake effect storm.

AWD isn't a necessity, but it sure feels like a cheat-code. No bricks, no kitty litter. I haven't had to exit my vehicle in the last years I've been driving it around upstate NY.
They are unknowns until they encounter them directly. As Apple and Microsoft receive their revenue growth from advertising and subscription services, they will all get worse and encountered more frequently by more users.

I got a few 'what the fuck' messages from distant contacts when they discovered that Facebook modified or deleted messages, which they believed to be private. This drove significant growth in Signal (which probably was under or not reported.) I'm not sure if people don't actually care about privacy/security, or rather they don't really comprehend how this stuff works.
You actually have a very valid point: given that there is such a thing as the maximum ttl at some point that 'logically connected' network will become more and more sparse depending on how 'wide' the network really is. I wonder if there are already parts of the V4 net that are so far removed from each other that this is an issue.
Hearing aid wearer here. There's a certain element of salesmanship that happens at hearing aid centers, but audiologists do use science to evaluate your hearing levels and they should be more than happy to show your hearing charts to you. You can take that chart to someone else and get a second opinion, if you really want to.

I don't frequently get upsell attempts by my audiologists, but they will lay out some options. They'll say "This one is what you need. If you want Bluetooth, this one works better for most people. This one over here has a really great iPhone app but doesn't work well with Android." I never have had someone say "You absolutely must use this one, because I said so."

TL;DR: Take your dad to an audiologist, get a professional opinion, get a second opinion if you want to. I would recommend getting your hearing aids from an audiologist and not a "Hearing Aid Center."

Good luck to your father! Hearing loss is tough, but treatable!
For a moment I perceived that as "Flutter" and immediately thought, "Of course, Google is shutting down another project." Perhaps that's enough screen time for today.
and how do you do it? user reports? and how do you verify those user reports?
At the end of the day you need an automated system for scale that probably wont be better than what's in place already.
Which is fine but it doesn't change the fact that: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202401185680084 exists.

That's a clean condition 12 year old, 2 owner car with only 37k miles on the clock. Listed for only £3500. The downside is it has a 100% to 0% range of 50 miles and in real world usage more like 35-ish in good weather. A quick google suggests 15 mile range is not unrealistic in cold weather with heater turned OFF.

What use is that car to the general public? This isn't a fast charging car, after you do your grocery shop you need to plug that back in for 10+ hours.
More and more I see corporate work as a fall back until you stand up your own business. Why would you stay somewhere that takes from the margins of your labor forever ?
The two-staircase requirement leads directly to apartment buildings being big, with long corridors. Given my choice of living in a small building with a few families, with one staircase, where people know each other (the one-stair architecture does in fact lend itself to residents knowing each other) or living in a big building, with long corridors, where people don’t get to know each other, I’d feel a lot safer as a woman living in the smaller building.
Lower costs for everyone. Including people you don't like. Yes.
While that is a "real" solution, it not necessarily a possible solution.

1. It may be cost prohibitive.

2. Some systems don't scale horizontally. (In particular, databases.)

3. Many systems do not scale linearly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU6nsfoNWDI for a trip down memory lane (and coincidentally, an apt example of how far we've fallen).

Can you think of a single modern US-based industry/association which produces educational, instructional, and/or historical videos like this one anymore?
I mean, it might be that there’s an empty lot outside your own home that could use some houses built on it but no one does because it’s easier to pay a pittance for taxes and leave it sit until it’s worth more. There are many cases where land could be put to better use but it’s not. A few people might get priced out of an area, but they’ll be able to sell their land and buy something elsewhere easily. The downside is certainly there but I think the upsides outweigh those.
Most housing was wood framed and there was tragedy after tragedy from inescapable fires.
I think that was the reminder that I am very much middle aged now.

You are right, however I would say that raids and coordinated e-sports were on the periphery when I was playing. I had to set up my own teams and lan tournaments.

Nice distinction to highlight though, thank you! The skill set would require specific coordination skills, not just being able to play team matches occasionally.

I suppose its proof that the skill exists, just not its distribution in the workforce.
Can't use my desktop in bed.

More importantly, I need to bring a computer when traveling but even then I'm not using it during the trip, I'm going from plug to plug.
this is called "tragedy of the commons" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
The more bondage your language has the more information your compiler to make optimisations.
> they're failures of judgement or knowledge by not relying on other facts or by relying too heavily on the tests.

I think this is well put and I really appreciate your response. I generally agree and I'm generally one that is quite critical of metrics. But I do not see this article as solely about a failure of test, but the interconnectedness and reliance on poor metrics rather than using them to update priors.

Particularly why I like the last sentence is I find this being one of the key points that distinguishes us humans from machines. Because we are able to do such things as "I see the rules, I understand the rules" and more importantly "I understand why the rules were made, and while this violates the rules it was clearly not something the rules were intended to prevent." Because rules __are__ made to be broken. Because rules are imperfect. Tests are imperfect. Literally everything is imperfect. We have a strong desire for order and perfection which helps us decrease the noise but I think we all could do a bit better at embracing the chaos a bit more.
Yes, no surprise that a standard won the battle, over several competing choices. That seems to happen a lot.
The pay may be average, but the work doesn't have to be boring. Many of the big players in those industries do quite a bit of in house R&D, much of it every bit is interesting as what is happening at your average 'cool' software companies.
That's an interesting thought. The semantic tokens we get from Whisper serve a similar purpose – you can convert existing speech to different voices, I did not try with accents yet.

There is still a lot to explore in this space – we certainly don't have all the answers yet!
> my conclusion is that some of what's there is playing to an invisible audience

My impression was that he got an assignment in class to write a letter where he reflects on bad interactions in the past, apologize, and try to put them behind him.

I also got the impression that he really wants people to write/call him and discuss computer stuff, so this might be part of the motivation for writing it.

But I don't know him, so who knows what's going on in his head?
We just need to make builders more liable for issues caused by their own building.

Building codes are just a way to say, you won't get in trouble for bad things that happen, in return you have to follow these rules every time you build a house.

Instead if we just say, if you build a house that kills someone, you are now a murderer, then yeah I think the markets can figure out how to not get people killed. But that's not going to happen for lots of reasons.
Even something like Patreon is a hard sell. I donated for a couple of years to an author I liked because he had a proven track record of delivery, so helping him concentrate on writing rather than a day job let him create more works. But him aside, I mostly see Patreon used to fund authors that are stringing along patrons with promises of "You'll be a few chapters ahead of free readers" vs "This can make the difference that will let me finish." To that end, at least for me, I just go between a few so there's usually something new to read, and if not, oh well.

If I were to publish in that space, I'd stream chapters slowly but regularly for free and the top donation tier would yield the completed work, but priced at the median payment I'd expect to get stringing people along for a few months. That's probably not a good business model, but I think it would prove less frustrating.
multiple streams of people converging on a choke point exit is poor planning in general, but often lethal in the case of fire.
The "shouting fire in a crowded theater" referred to the Italian Hall Disaster [1], where union busters did precisely that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/5g-usb-dongle-recommendations/13...
Ah, that makes sense. The Foresters I owned were 2002 and 2010. Everything else about those cars was great, glad they got the oil burning issue fixed.

Thanks for clarifying!
Well I for one, bet my ass that, if we are still using mainframes in 700 years, those will still be running legacy COBOL, they will still publish the mandatory, by-annual "COBOL developer shortage" article iteration on HN.
Sure, and that's why I was asking to learn what exactly do those people do that they need more than 8h+ of battery life.
Large sectors of the tech industry simply don't interact with the broader economy as a whole and was propped up by low interest rates and free VC money.

Once free money went away, everyone realized they actually need to make money and couldn't just sit on a army of developers not doing much to make money.

The economy as a whole is doing great according to pretty much every single measure.
> In what other ways are they suffering?

In Europe they are also suffering from too long toilet stalls and as a result there are mass drug use problems as well as all sorts of unsavory characters having sex in there.
> Consider a company that manufactures its product on lathes. Assume that it has ten lathes that can just meet production requirements. Assume also that each lathe wears out in ten years and that the company has its investment plans so well organized that one lathe is replaced every year. Now consider what will happen if there is a 10 percent increase in demand for the product. The plant will need eleven lathes to meet production requirements. It will have to buy two lathes: one as a replacement for the worn-out lathe and a second to increase capacity. Thus a 10 percent increase in the demand for the product has produced a 100 percent increase in the demand for lathes.

The 100% increase doesn't seem to make sense in this example.
If you read the article, you'll see that they're specifically talking about Google News including these rip-off sites, not Google merely indexing them. I would consider that a form of "boosting," especially considering that some actual news sites that create their own content are excluded.
That seems even more monopolistic?
I started reading the accepted answer on Stack Exchange, found it unconvincing and went to Wikipedia to look at the entry for axe. There I found that Yue is a type of Chinese battle axe.

The ball is probably Chinese-made. So I believe the answer that talks about Yué as the Chinese word for battle axe is the right one.

Wikipedia has an image of this rather odd-looking, but beautiful Shang dynasty Yue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_axe#/media/File%3ACMO...
I have not experienced this in any form and I build security, bot detection, and similar products.
Fyi im pretty sure LinkedIn has had a major data breach in recent months q4 2023 but its been on the hush hush...

See:
https://www.troyhunt.com/hackers-scrapers-fakers-whats-reall...
> “We’re using hundreds of millions of assets, all trained and moderated to have no IP,” said Costin.

This article has lots of talk about IP, trademark, copyright, etc., but doesn't speak to the rights of artists. It's good that they're paying contributors, but are they given the choice to opt out?
it would increase the tax rate on land to be much higher. In the most extreme case, the annual tax on land value would so high that vacant land could be purchased for close to zero purchase price because the holding cost of the tax is high enough to capture all the value which is capitalized into a purchase price.
Well, not just that. Not everyone can have a house on the beach. How do you allocate that resource?
My son has been born with brain damage due to chromosomal abnormalities. He is just 2 years old. He can't walk, talk, he is feed through tube and doesn't seem to be interested with surrounding very much. And, he is scheduled medical procedure to treat another congenital condition in couple weeks. I understand your pain and suffering. I understand how much you and your family have changed over this difficult period. We also got healthy 5 year old daughter. Devastation, strangeness, changes and hardship that is more hard that anything.

I am glad that this forum raises human suffering issues and topics beyond bits and bytes. Before my son was born I was so unaware of how much support society has built to help cope and threat complex medical issues. I had no idea we got: feeding therapists, swallow studies, sleep studies, endocrinologists and literally hundreds specialties in health industry.

Gob Bless You and Your Family
Niklaus Wirth and the Importance of Being Simple
The 'weird nerds' defending Reiser brought this up time and again during the trial. But Reiser showed them all up by leading the authorities to where he had buried the body afterwards so I guess that that particular angle is now settled.
Good point, thanks. And I was thinking it will show that the model can really synthesize very varied samples... ;)
Be careful with taking stuff like this every day. Miralax in particular is indicated for occasional use. You're supposed to stop and consult a doctor after 7 days of use.

I overused a popular fiber supplement for a few months and wound up with a kidney stone. I kept my PCP in the loop for all of this but it wasn't caught. An EMT is the only one who blurted out "kidney stone" although EMTs aren't supposed to diagnose anything. And nobody in health care drew the connection to the habitual supplement usage.
How to design a house to last 1000 years (2021)
To be fair, crisis is when you suspend existing laws so you can move fast and break stuff.

See: martial law as a legal precedent.
Software is like plants in a garden. Maybe the garden lasts, but the plants are born, live and die, and have to be tended to regularly to survive. It won’t be the same garden eventually.
Probably with all the LLMs out there and AI gadgets popping out, it wouldn't be too far to have a new kind of Human Computer Interaction Interface, maybe not voice, but maybe even thoughts or some sort of new ways of interactions, subtle but way more context aware and versatile with the amount of input required to be very very less.
People already get locked out of their homes regularly. Imagine how much more frequently that would happen if they keychain also had a security key they had to take out regularly.
Webb Telescope detects earliest known black hole – it's big for its age
It's the same for many European cities and towns. Many cities started to reduce it down to 0.5 parking spaces per flat or less, because many of those parking spaces tend to be empty in bigger cities. And just increase prices for housing.
It really depends on what you're looking to get away with.

If you're looking to get away with orchestrating the murder of someone you know, it can be difficult.

However, if you're just looking to get away with murdering someone in general, that's surprisingly easy. Just go a town or two over and knife a random someone in a random parking lot. Police success rates are comically low.
But they exist, have jobs, and are producing things of value for other companies. You still have to deal with them.

It is not realistic to fire people who don't align with someone's preferred management style.
> Can you elaborate about what you define as "used against you" even if it is entirely inaccurate?

Hypothetical: $company you're trying to use needs to "verify" you using $inaccurateData from $vendor.

You're absolutely screwed if the verification questions you're asked are relying on the "polluted" answers

Similar vein: if the "polluted" data indicates you might be gay or replublican or musilim or into some seriously unhealthy lifestyle choices like smoking and $someCompany decides that you're a smoker and therefore your too risky to insure.

no data >>> polluted data.
For whatever reason, google does not want to translate this.
Beyond Left and Right
Management by parasitism. Lovely.