skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's because fax machines in Japan were much more widespread than in the west. It is easier to let go of fax machines if you don't really use fax in the first place.

One reason I heard is that in Tokyo at least, the usual way to communicate a location is to draw a map, often with directions from the nearest subway station. Postal addresses are hard to work with as most streets are unnamed, and usually, only local postmen and policemen can comfortably navigate with them. These maps were often sent by fax. Maybe kanji has to do with it too.

Also, it is common for people who have good access to at a time modern technology to take more time to get to the next advance, may even skip it entirely. For example Japan was along the last in the technologically advanced world to get to smartphones, because they already had really advanced featurephones while we were stuck with Nokia 3310s. So while for us, the first smartphones brought us a lot, for them, it was in many ways a downgrade.

So, for us, email was a replacement for slow and expensive mail, for them, it was a replacement for already pretty fast and effective fax machines. There is less of an incentive to change.
Garbage in, garbage garbage garb garb ggggggggggg
Oh Win 3.11 is a modern system compared to support PDP-11 until 2050. https://web.archive.org/web/20161022133810/https://vcfed.org...

(GE Canada tried to headhunt me for that but I don't want a job where a typo turns Toronto into a parking lot. Thanks but no thanks. I will stick to web pages.)
The only countries that successfully created a local industrial ecosystem did it with massive natural and/or artificial market entry barriers/regulations (Korea, China, Japan, Russia).
I believe that until the EU doesn’t dump its absolutist free-market ideology, it will never be able to create an environment suitable for local players to emerge.
Technically, yes it does adversely affect the electricity company. It's not 'just overspill', that's how electricity moves from one place to another.
> They are free not to develop for the platform

Bad faith arguments never end. You don't like us dumping toxic waste in your rivers? That's easy, just move to a different town!

This technology is too entrenched in our daily lives and Apple is too dominant for any business to be able to ignore their users, which is roughly half of the western population.

Apple is however free to leave the EU if it deems these rules to be unreasonable.
i'm honestly annoyed that you don't have example checkboxes that i can toggle
They're not only living off google money, they also fired all their engineers, and google is required by court of law to supply money and engineers to help maintain Firefox, ridiculous!
Self-imposed limitations are key to being effective. I was referring to pointless self imposed limitations.

I was reading an interview with Andy Matuschak[1].

> One of the things that I think is kind of weird about this memory system stuff, or like memory champions, or something like that is “Oh, if you do these things, will you start to forget other normal human stuff?” And what's weird is, no. I've been doing this memory system stuff for years and I just know more stuff now. This is aligned with the experimental literature, which seems to suggest that, there's probably upper bounds but we're not close to them. Some of these memory champions have memorized maybe two orders of magnitude more things than I have practiced. Certainly people who are multi-lingual have really, really absurd numbers of things memorized. So there isn't a resource management argument.

The notion that stuffing your brain with trivia will be damaging is merely an unwarranted fear.

[1] https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/p/andy-matuschak
Ah, ok, so that's the good faith reading. It's not "don't fix things" it's to triage issues that do need to get fixed. That is, don't give in to competitionist tendencies or "fixing things right", but to fix them well enough and to make sure to prioritize well.

That makes a lot more sense, thanks.

The article didn't really say this all that clearly.
But you could also do it with Java or Go as well and it would be a lot easier to find programmers for it.
In the "countermeasures" section of the linked paper[1], it mentioned that there are some new techniques available, but repeatedly mentioned that they are not yet available in consumer systems. Maybe rowhammer will eventually be a thing of the past despite the increasing chip density.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02545
So true! I remember calling Chase one day on the way to the airport a few years ago to tell them where I was going and hearing “yeah we are actually good enough now you don’t need to tell us”.

Banking lumbers along but this is definitely something I’ve seen an improvement on in the last decade
I've had a similar experience comparing the two.

>It’s great for configs or repeating data structures

It saves me a lot of time adding logging statements too. Unfortunately, it's pretty hit or miss with doc comments.
aren't new exoplanets being discovered at a monthly if not weekly basis?
Absolutely.
Hold my beer while I buy another round of F35.
Because they see the competing company paying so much?
You can't stop me
It’s also an early example of the medium being the message. Socrates and his interlocutors are sometimes a parable on the transition from oral to written culture.

I find that it is true that new mediums and new technologies for language have a numbing effect on certain senses and an amplification of others.

Writing is beneficial in one regard but does have an impact on memory. Epic poems of great length were memorized in their entirety, a skill that would be a lot easier to develop in a world without writing.
Yeah, but you caught my meaning, right ?
Really struggle to understand the thread from Rowhammer.

It would seem to be particularly dangerous, but then I don't see everybody getting pwned.
Aeromexico passenger opens plane door and walks on wing
A carbon tax will not be politically viable for two simple reasons: 1) Some people who would need to pay can't really afford it: It's people living in old houses or who have to drive very far to work or rely on cheap energy for heating and electricity - It's not gonna affect the software engineer who drives his Tesla to work.

2) Another big chunk of the working population would lose their jobs because their industry gets shaken up: Those working in polluting industries (coal and gas) or the huge part of the economy that's surrounding petro-chemicals (gas stations clerks, heating engineers, fuel truck drivers), etc.

You would need to redistribute the CO2 tax income as welfare checks but again: That's not a politically viable solution because the fear of job losses pretty much outweighs anything else.
Yes, I remember writing a print spooler using interrupts as part of my first job.
The real delight point for me was how painless it was to mark 700 words as already known and pickup a bunch of fairly common words i am not comfortable using (like “allerdings” and “eigentlich”) using that scroll-to-set-learned control.
Tribal or not, Paternal worry is also fundamental genetic strategy if you spend any resources caring for your children, as many mammals do.

The person who raises only others children is not longer expressed in the gene line
Didn’t Hulu used to do that in us?
Ah, the Back to Future scenario!
Bloomberg’s reporting has gotten shittier - entirely by choice
I think the FAANG acronym was created originally to distinguish companies that paid really high salaries for tech. And for a while (if not still true), they paid the highest.
Objectively there was no attempt to damage. They threw soup at glass. When was the last time you heard soup shattering glass? I’m not even sure why you’re so upset when the Mona Lisa is mid anyway
Yeah. Pretty much any writer, painter, musician, or performer, will gladly tell you that, when they started, they were really doing something in the style of X as best as they could. In some cases we even have proof (youthful manuscripts, recorded schoolplays, early works). That's effectively fanwork. It takes time to modulate one's original contributions to any art.
> Oh, the case glue is a known issue?

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_--wQvPxyA>
So sad to see once-great and authoritative BBC has been reduced to a clickbait farm.
I've always thought of having a yak shave level, and then you decide how many yals deep you are and cut it off at some point.

Maybe 3 yaks is a reasonable limit in some places, other more urgent things can only support 1 yak

(Seth seems to be advocating 0 yaks, that... probably isn't possible? Sometimes shit just won't work until you do something else first)
I think this is probably true for most things. Math, engineering, sciences; all need more than just memorization.

But some other topics it may be enough for purposes that you would want to use something like Plato for (history, etc)
is the bridge open when it's up or is it closed when it's up?
https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102434/a...

Pre-existing conditions

For 111 of 194 PCC patients, we also obtained their history of pre-existing neurological/psychiatric conditions.

31 of them (27.9%) had pre-existing neurological or psychiatric conditions.

16 of them had a history of depression (n=14) and/or anxiety (n=3).

One had a suspected addiction to alcohol.

One had a history of bulimia.

Nine of them had various neurological conditions, for example, migraine, tinnitus, trigeminal neuralgia, rotatory vertigo, amyloid angiopathy, fibromyalgia, polyneuropathy.

Unfortunately, we did not acquire the information about preexisting conditions from our controls but based on their self-reported no history of neurological and psychiatric diseases, suggesting that they would have no pre-existing conditions.
I have this problem with a lot of media in general these days, both fiction and non-fiction. Although it's enjoying a huge cultural resurgence today among young people, I feel like if American Psycho were to be made today, Bateman would have to be made comically evil with his faux liberal (to use the language of Bankman-Fried) 'woke shibboleths' left behind lest readers get mad that Bateman is being used as a tool to bash those beliefs -- ignoring the interesting commentary that Bateman actually uses it for status within his social circle and as a disguise for the person he really is.

You see this a lot in coverage of very contentious issues too. I'm purposefully not naming any directly here (I'm thinking of at least 3 varied topics where this is particularly bad), but there are a lot of very complicated, hot-button issues where if you read any article that goes against the 'established' narrative in a nuanced way, there are usually several paragraphs of throat-clearing where the writer feels the need to go "We all know x is important, for reasons 1, 2, and 3".
He's having to hide in his own country from violent foreign colonizers.
Agriculture in general is less than 15% of the US and the US likes to eat meat. Agriculture including farming plants in total is 10-11%. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
If the plant farming was higher than animal farming, would you suggest they not farm?
The hard part of my job comes when I’m not coding.
Oh, absolutely. don’t start drinking for the health benefits!

I meant that there seems to be a never ending “one glass of wine is good for you” vs “all alcohol is bad”, with the former probably from alcohol lobby funded research, i guess.
Yeah completely fair to point out that in this particular case, Lewis is completely over the top in his support of SBF, even well past the point that his crimes are clear.
The best tool for that kind of thing is developing good note-taking skills.

When I'm doing language study, for example, the backbone of my memory reinforcement strategy is a plain old pen-and-paper notebook. Anki is only used for specific, targeted reinforcement.

Most my time with Anki these days is learning Chinese characters. That's arguably an ideal use case for brute-forcing with SRS, and that is indeed a very popular way to learn them. But I prefer to start with good note-taking there, too. I keep a notebook where I write down new characters and make some notes about their composition, etymology, and the nature of any relationship they might have with other characters that have a similar appearance or show up as components in this new one. IME even the simple act of physically jotting down a handwritten note to not confuse 买 with 卖 or 找 with 我 is worth some large number of flashcard repetitions all by itself.

I also create cards for hanzi in Anki, but typically only after I've already encountered it a few times in my reading and it's starting to feel familiar. Leech cards are a huge waste of time when tackling a large subject, so I don't really like to add a card to my deck until I'm reasonably confident that I won't be hitting the "again" button on it more than once or twice, if ever.
You can do research without experimentation, but then you can't call it science.
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!

I wonder if this has implications about the sense of agency people from different backgrounds feel (or not) in their lives.
Article has no US prices. What is the current best price for uninstalled modules in the US at, say, a 7kW buy level?
From the article, it seems the issue isn't immigration per-say but a lack of social services (education, housing guarantees, family benefits, healthcare, childcare, vocational training programs, transit accessibility) amongst the poorer strata of Americans.

That is, we could minimize immigration to perhaps produce a constrained labor market (though that would induce negative population growth, which comes with a host of economic issues), or we could simply redirect capitol to turn unskilled workers into skilled workers.

IMO improving economic (and de-facto social) mobility is a much more sensible policy than inducing negative population growth. An added side benefit would be an overall increase in worker productivity and commensurate economic growth.
Momentum does depend on frame of reference, I.e. it is relative.

(change in momentum, however, is another story.)
Someone in a comment suggested ...

> gcc -DRND1=0x$(openssl rand -hex 4) ...

That would cause grief to reproducible distro initiatives.

It is perfectly good enough for the error code enumeration to be statically randomized into hard coded constants. The attacker is very unlikely to flip every single bit of one valid value so that it resembles another valid value.

Even if the values were randomized at compile time, if the executable is readable to the attacker, the attacker can learn what those values are.

If the executable is not readable to the attacker, the attacker can just pull a copy of the executable from the distro package: executables are installed from widely used binary packages, not freshly compiled for every system.
> These people are idiots who do nothing but hurt their own cause

Maybe.

Why do you think activists trying to raise awareness about food safety are idiots?

How does barely having any time before barriers surrounded them and the MSM not explaining who they are or what they're about hurt their cause? I can see those things not helping, but lack of attention can't hurt, can it?
I suspect the reason the USA couldn't do that was because of strong land ownership rights. You couldn't "just put cables up" without people getting restraining orders to keep you off their property.

I always figured there was more value in the easements (rights to access and run lines in property) than the actual physical plant on a lot of the legacy telecom companies. They had to do a lot of legal and commercial effort to get those for POTS phones, and trying to reproduce that effort for fibre seems near impossible.
Original research author here. It's exciting to find so many thinking about long-term code quality! The 2023 increase in churned & duplicated (aka copy/pasted) code, alongside the reduction in moved code, was certainly beyond what we expected to find.

We hope it leads dev teams, and AI Assistant builders, to adopt measurement & incentives that promote reused code over newly added code. Especially for those poor teams whose managers think LoC should be a component of performance evaluations (around 1 in 3, according to GH research), the current generation of code assistants make it dangerously easy to hit tab, commit, and seed future tech debt. As Adam Tornhill eloquently put it on Twitter, "the main challenge with AI assisted programming is that it becomes so easy to generate a lot of code that shouldn't have been written in the first place."

That said, our research significance is currently limited in that it does not directly measure what code was AI-authored -- it only charts the correlation between code quality over the last 4 years and the proliferation of AI Assistants. We hope GitHub (or other AI Assistant companies) will consider partnering with us on follow-up research to directly measure code quality differences in code that is "completely AI suggested," "AI suggested with human change," and "written from scratch." We would also like the next iteration of our research to directly measure how bug frequency is changing with AI usage. If anyone has other ideas for what they'd like to see measured, we welcome suggestions! We endeavor to publish a new research paper every ~2 months.
Things to Know About Python Super, 1 of 3 (2008)
In your version of the future, we create the battery and the nuclear problems and we still have to deal with the hydrocarbon problem. In my version we discuss what to do about the hydrocarbon problem.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

> You can find more details on this at https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/13265.

Thanks for the link, my thoughts mirror those of certik in the thread, which Andrew answered well.

> at the very least, we can get our self-hosted codegen backends to a point where they perform relatively well in Debug mode without sacrificing debuggability

Perhaps a useful point of comparison: the lightweight qbe C compiler achieved compile times of around a quarter that of GCC and Clang, with the generated code taking very roughly 170% as long to execute as the code from GCC or Clang. qbe has roughly 0.1% the lines of code as those 'big' compilers. [0] This should presumably be possible for Zig too, and could be a big win for Zig developers.

Closing the performance gap with LLVM though would presumably be extremely challenging and, respectfully, I can't see the Zig project achieving this. Compiler optimisation seems to be a game of diminishing returns. Even if this were achieved, optimised compilation would surely be much slower than unoptimised.

[0] https://archive.fosdem.org/2022/schedule/event/lg_qbe/attach... (Relevant discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11555527 )
Yea, i thought that was studied, but perhaps not. Ie the knowledge we retain help us formalize larger more complex thoughts. Perhaps facts are a too small unit? Though i don't see why you couldn't also use Spaced Rep to memorize larger relationships.
Moreover — and this doesn't even need bettertouchtool — three-finger drag is a lifesaver. Not sure why it's buried in Accessibility.
I'm still alive. But I've retired or at least taken an extended hiatus from my writing hobby, which in retrospect was probably a pandemic coping mechanism more than a lot of things lol.

I only came here because my in box is blowing up due to the traffic hacker news is driving to my site, and so then I see that this article is like #3 today. Not bad considering I don't really remember writing it!
Apple "gets away with it" because it is what users prefer.

These users are the same folks who prefer and pay a premium for Apple technology.

If the market had a better product Apple's users would flock to it.

But the market doesn't. And we're left well meaning backseat drivers who insist on "fixing things".
Those are convincing arguments that internet has (major) downsides and bad consequences. The scale of surveillance it enables is another one.

They don't prove that it makes people dumber. You have to quantify and qualify people and to define "dumb".

Maybe people are not actually dumber because of the internet, but the internet is very good at spreading ideas, including incredibly dumb ones, especially (because of how human beings work) those likely to cause feeling of outrage.

Maybe people are not dumber, just too defenseless against the scale of bullshit they are faced with because of the internet. Maybe internet is an incredibly good tool, but strongly requires good learning / training of critical thinking and there's not enough of this yet.
Sure and a few years back some Dutchie protesters got in the news because they were gluing themselves to things. It was hilarious and I have 0 genuine recollection of what they were trying to accomplish, because most of this is ineffective flash-in-the-pan stuff.
I didn't realize that many people died per day, but it makes sense given how many people are doing the all black at night thing and playing Frogger with traffic.

I do think people underestimate how well the lights can blind you to pedestrians, even though I also think the safety driver should've seen the victim in this case if they were paying any attention at all.
I wonder how this changes with spirituality background - e.g. with Buddhism, stoicism and so on.
He is me :-) And yes, that's exactly right.
What's the big deal? Don't sell it on Apple's store.
> I moved a website to Kubernetes and its performance was absolutely terrible. It was loading for 3 seconds on old infra and now it spends consistently 12 seconds loading.

My guess is it has more to do with resources you probably allocated to your app (especially cpu limit) than any networking overhead which should be negligible in such a trivial setup if done correctly
What's your deployment model? I've had it deployed on Kubernetes for 100 users since June 2019 and it's been painless. We upgrade every month, it's usually just a helm upgrade gitlab/gitlab -f values.yaml

Once a year they do a major release, usually around May, and I need to upgrade Postgres or Redis but that's the extent of it.
Its a bath... Youre gonna float which takes load off the squat. Its not hard and as someone who acquired squatting posture later in life youtube is wrong. Also why do you need to be able to squat for hours? How long are you bathing???