skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've lost more than I saved, but Lars Brinkhoff and others have restored lots of stuff off of old backup tapes!

ITS had no file security or privacy, and users were encouraged to learn to use the system and programming by snooping around in other people's directories and email.

I remembered having run across a Universal Turing Machine written in TECO in Marvin Minsky's home directory on MIT-AI, but didn't squirrel away a copy. I mentioned it Hacker News years ago, and Howard Ancell (HGA@MIT-AI) saw it and gave me a copy he saved!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161002

DonHopkins on Sept 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The most obsolete infrastructure money could buy –...

I remember running across a Turing machine emulator implemented in TECO in Minsky's home directory that I'd REALLY love to get ahold of.

hga on Sept 2, 2015 [–]

Ask and yea shall receive:

MSG: APL 1
DISTRIB: *BBOARD
EXPIRES: 03/17/81 23:08:54
MINSKY@MIT-MC 03/11/81 23:08:54 Re: too-short programs
APL is compact, I suppose. So is TECO. When I wrote the following
Universal Turing Machine, which works, I actually understood it.

[ I've interpolated the non-printing characters as displayed by (Gnu) EMACS, escape is ^], ^^ is one character, as is \356: ]

i1Aul qq+^^0:iqm^[29iiq\356y0L1 00L1 11L2 A1L1
y0L1 0yR2 1AR2 AyR6 yyL3 00L0 1AL3 A1L4 yyL4 0yR5 11L7 A1L4
yyR5 0yL3 1AR5 A1R5 yyR6 0AL3 1AR6 A1R6 y0R7 0yR6 11R7 A0R2
^[j<sR^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii^[ciuq'^[>
j<sL^[;-d-2ciql-^^^[ci"ed^^^[cii-2c^[ciuq'^[>jxblx1lx2lx3lx4lx5lx6lx7hk
iyyAyyAyy^[32<i0^[>ji110101110000010011011^[ 1uq<htmbqq=>

I do not advise attempting to understand this code, which is
almost as bad as that for the Universal Turing machine.

ADDED: or http://ancell-ent.com/share/minsky-TECO-turing-machine.txt

Please ack receipt of this and/or send me email (in my HN info); for others, note this is ITS TECO, which I was told was by far the most powerful version of it (fortunately, by the time I showed up learning it was no longer really necessary).

DonHopkins on Sept 3, 2015 | parent [–]

OOP ACK! It was a shot in the dark, but I am SO GLAD I asked!!! Thank you Harold!
It looks just like I remember. ;)
Here is one: i don't have to commute for 2 hours each day and out of those hours I spend 1.5 hours working. So i work 5*1.5 morr hours in any given week.
Or use Fooweasel in the source code and Foobar™ in the binaries.
> There are thousands of them coming off lease for sale here in Australia.

Where would I find one and what do they go for?

As a Plex server, do you know if they can handle hardware transcoding?

Thanks!
> I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated for deletion yet.

This being Wikipedia, you can change that if you want to.
> the first company that really focused on algorithmically recommending content to people was not hosting user-generated content, but rather was Netflix

Does that sound right to anyone?

Netflix's online movie incarnation started in 2007, which sounds a bit late for really being the most prominent pusher of algorithmic feeds.

Amazon for example has been trying to sell stuff through its website from much earlier 2000's, and Youtube launched in early 2005.
So no major app developer has been motivated enough to create a PWA to avoid the “Google tax” even though the experience is suppose to be so much better on Android?
Cellphones were for the Uber rich. Us pleebs had pagers.
> anything imported will surely not be cheaper

Possibly not, but that can't be solved purely by employers. If a country for whatever reason does not have the economy to support this, this can't be solved quickly. Companies won't pay $15/hr to overseas workers; they'd probably just not spend the money there at all. That's the choice you're giving them.

Also - it probably will be cheaper, for three reasons:

- the local market won't bear the real price, and while this means less profit, it's still some profit, or presence, or whatever reason the vendor is selling for

- a similar but slightly different product might be offered. E.g. I bought a car in South Africa and it was a slightly simpler spec compared to the UK equivalent, despite looking identical

- local labour, fuel tax, sales tax, and other costs all increase prices. Driving the goods to a shop and buying them from it is a pretty different cost in different countries.
That's a good point, but the array of devices supported by the DietPi team is extensive: https://dietpi.com/
It is slower and more error-prone. But some people enjoy that and it's a hobby, which is fine.
This shouldn't be a new feeling. It hasn't stopped since Pearl Harbor.
One thing I like about hand designing schema is it makes you sit down and make very clear choices about what your data is, how it interrelates, and how you’ll use it. You understand your own goals more clearly.
your opinion of doctors is probably off. i'm married to a doctor (in the US) and i would say 4/5 doctors i meet spend most of their time talking and thinking about money. there are lots of reasons for this (some valid), but assume your doctor has money on the mind
Eldest or only children often prefer the company of adults over other children, 2nd and further or kids from bigger families tend to be more comfortable hanging out with other kids. I think it's largely practice / what they are accomodated to and it's pretty normal.

It's also "point of reference" - kids more isolated from other kids will latch onto adults as their "reference people" they compare themselves to and model behaviours from while kids more socialised with kids will reference more onto near peers.

Isolated kids are commonly more intellectually precocious but less directly practical and (naturally) tend to have a bit more trouble connecting with peers. It's not unusual.
Unlikely, the story clearly says "Elmore did not have insurance on that property".
I love ramen, it's one of my favorite foods.

There seems to be a pattern of ramen shop owners/operators who are obsessed about every aspect of their product, work insane hours and refuse to relinquish control because nobody else could meet their standards.

I understand that no employee could have the same obsession and commitment. But I wish they'd hire some staff anyway.
AGPL wouldn't prevent any of the abuses he describes, though.
I actually thought it was. Apparently not. It's still part of Adobe's Creative Cloud. Have not used it in 10 or so years, so don't know if it's similar to what it used to be.
If you use MySQL, Planetscale’s branching is really amazing. Not using them, but wish I could for that. Gives you a complete diff of what you’re doing, and can also pre-plan migrations and only apply them when you need with their gating.
that's cool, do the harm reduction shit, just keep it confined to SF and Oakland so the rest of us don't need to deal with the aftermath
I have that book, it's interesting but it isn't a particularly enjoyable read.
You are assuming that the raw cost of the chips are 100% of the cost of selling one to the consumer. Other costs are fixed like quality control/testing, marketing, delivery, overhead for the distributors profit, etc.

I'd also expect RMA costs to be lower since you can be sure which DIMM is bad, and that it's not CPU, CPU socket, motherboard, powersupply, etc.
Cell phone technology existed prior but Cingular Wireless (the first cell carrier in my area) didn’t exist until 2000.
> No specific requirement for negative consequences, just a habit.

If addiction is not a psychological or physical dependency with harmful or destructive consequences, what should we call those that do?

The American Psychiatric Association has this to say about addiction, which tells me they view addiction as something worth fixing and hence is harmful: https://www.psychiatry.org/getmedia/e25c07ae-7333-4466-9add-...
Linux ABI Tracker
A long and rich chronicle about the #neoludites. They are growing groups that fight not only the development but the acceleration of #AI. #TheGuardian releases this juicy text to learn more about his ideas. I like the contrast, I value it as part of the debate. Speaking with friends, I commented on the possibility that soon anti-AI rebel groups will be able to articulate physical attacks against large #data centers. It's not something original. We have already seen it in science fiction films (Transcendence / Terminator / Matrix... others) And here, in this text, the proposal jumps out, in a slightly more elegant way, for now... "close the computer farms where AIs are trained." Says a researcher from #Berkeley.
Except neither GPL, nor AGPL, would do anything about the case described. And that's even with AGPL violating freedom 0 through its tangled text.
There are so many behaviors that fit that description that few would count as addiction. For example eating sweets or junk food, procrastinating, not drinking enough.
Automotive ethernet, particularly for high data rate sensors like LiDAR or radar in autonomous vehicles have a predefined 1500 byte fragment size and then expect fragmentation of larger datagrams to be done in sensor firmware. This prevents clogging the routers with huge packets and preventing time-critical messages from waiting in a queue too long while a large message sends.
Millions of donkeys killed each year to make a traditional remedy
Seeing alot of online reviews that the AVP is too heavy. The front loaded weights but pressure on your cheeks and the straps put pressure on your temple.
I like the idea of multiple monitors at high resolution, but not worth the pain on the face.
Related, "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by by Jake Adelstein is absolutely fascinating. So too is the drama produced by HBO based on the book, but I am partial to the book. Adelstein becomes friendly with the Yakuza and comes to understand them. Very eye opening.
Emirb – Run IRB in the Browser
Yes. I tried that with some software-based synthesisers (like the SWAM violin and Reason's Friktion) which are designed for human-playing (humans controlling the VST through a device that emits MIDI CC control messages) but my understanding is that the modulation that skilled human players perform with tends to be better/more desirable than what software modulators can currently achieve.
I've been using goreleaser-cross for cross-compiling Go apps with cgo
https://github.com/goreleaser/goreleaser-cross
Scroll down, there are two images.

The top image is indeed from the video.

The bottom image, taken in a different season and with the radio tower present, was released by the station themselves.

The buildings are exceptionally similar.
Interesting timing.

Just watching 'Tokyo Vice'[1] on Amazon Prime now.

There was an episode or two where Jake is chasing down a Yakusa Fan Magazine author to get intel on Tozawa.

Amazing Show! Reminds me a bit of 'The Wire'.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vice-Season-1/dp/B0B73QR4TM
That's not really an endorsement: to a first approximation, Adelstein is full of shit when it comes to all things Yakuza. He's made a career out of claiming they're super powerful and pulling strings across Japanese society, when all actual evidence indicates that they're weaker than ever and declining.
Thanks. That is super helpful info on a post about Raspberry Pis.

The number of posts on this site that people want to turn into “show & tell” is very high.

Just make a Show HN post about whatever you want to show off and let the voters decide the fate of the post.
A lot of people use hosted git solutions. And even hosted databases!
the messy challenge here is that the trade-offs shifted, but persist contrarian arguments. packets are too small to be efficient without doing excessively tight loop optimizations, which is what makes fragmentation "slow" (it's not such a big slow down in a simple software implementation, it's a disaster in a highly common case optimized device). On the other side in order to move away from those excessively optimized systems while still delivering on user demand for higher throughput we need larger payloads - but we can't get to larger payloads without transparent solutions for fixup (ICMP, fragmentation, etc). Sprinkle in some stuff that has never been formally fixed (bad parts of ICMP concerns), and it's an ongoing recipe for ossified non-progress.
Middle America is dying hard
They don’t have a FM license, they have a translator license that is contingent on their AM license.
AGPL does not stop that kind of use at all, though. As long as you stick to making the application have a quine functionality on all channels, it doesn't matter if the link is 0.01% of text on page compared to SEO spam.
You can disable the speaker output in the AVP, I don't know why you think you can't.
It's closed source for now, but it's based on llama.cpp and I'm planning to improve the included android example in the llama.cpp
The HN title says “package manager” but that’s nowhere in the article, so it’s a bit confusing for sure.
Philadelphia hopes year-round schooling can catch kids up to grade level
I'm a bit mixed in this. I get the desire to be interpretable with npm. There's a massive ecosystem out there. I kind of liked the everything is a fixed http endpoint. I also get the desire for compatible versions across need dependencies.

I have access, but haven't worked with it yet since my personal time has been spent more on rust recently. Should probably convert one of my libraries to Deno first and see where the pain points are both with jsr and deploying to npm as well as checking npm compatibility.

A lot of what I've worked on has been feature complete and only updating dependencies now and then. So rolling into Deno testing and formatting could be interesting. I've been using Rome/Biome for a lot of this the past couple years.

TS/Deno first is definitely easier than the other way. I've also found Deno to be great for shell scripting.
> I've always thought that economically, fairness would be "all the natural wealth is shared equally" with "all the man made wealth accumulates to the man doing the making" seemed like the most fair option.

I don't. The world is not so simple, person "making" something sure creates something. Who prices it? How do you price it? Is a man entitled to the price he sets? How do you ensure a man who mines silicone today is pricing it correctly so that he does not "unfairly" disadvantage a man who is going to be born 300 years later that will live next to the now depleted silicone mine? Would that man born 300 years later even matter?

Where should people live? Do we maximize the utility for the average? Do we maximize utility for the most productive?

> So, the question we should probably not asking while stroking our chins is not "what is the precise level of wealth inequality that is fair?"

No, we're still there, you can't pretend like you've convinced me with jumps in logic and then continue talking past me. Or you can, see how far that gets you in getting support.

> It is "who are the parasites? and how do we kill the parasites?"

You haven't even established what a "parasite" is, and you're jumping to culling them already?

When does someone turn into a "parasite", exactly? See, we're back to asking what amount level of "wealth inequality" is OK again. This is what happens when you skip or ignore questions.
I know, what I mean is that I think if you want it to be source available at all (not even 'Open Source' necessarily) you have to accept that this is going to happen.

(Or at least could, and the more it sounds like a small helper lib / WordPress plugin type thing the more likely. As much as some dislike it, this is a big selling point of GitHub and its stars etc. OP's things sound like something I'd find on Sourceforge, and not really be able to work out if it was original or not.)
A good article, and something that deserves more attention. One aspect that the article didn't cover (or possibly glossed over, or even got wrong) is that the interchange fees are not flat, but actually set per card.

If you use a card with a high rewards program, someone on the charging side directly pays more (or rather, receives less) than they would have if you used a non-rewards card. Sometimes this is the merchant, if they have an agreement to pay the true costs plus a small percentage. Or sometimes this is the merchant's processor, who charges the merchant a higher flat fee and hopes the averages work out in their favor.

In my mind, it's easier to think of it as the merchants who are bearing the brunt of the rewards program costs. Their rational response is to raise the prices for everyone, which causes inflation. A few people with good credit who play the game right come out a little ahead, the card networks make billions, and everyone else pays 1-2% more for practically everything they buy off the shelf.
has been fixed seems.
Courts probably aren't going to enforce any promise of money for nothing or responses prompted by obvious trickery, but they might enforce promises of discounts, and are very likely to enforce promises of rebates as the court in this case did.

If that means companies can't use chatbots to replace customer service agents yet, so be it.
If that was the case then to what parallel technology in Tasmania were you alluding to as "ratcheting downwards" ?

Also, population growth in the early stages of human history was important to establish enough labour to create an "idle" (as in "people|time not spent scrabbling for food|clothing|shelter") class able to advance technology for progress.

That's been increasingly non essential since post WWII with the rise of semi and fully autonomous mining | processing | production.

Smaller and smaller numbers are people are required to extract resources and meet demand for what is a population excess wrt strain put on the planets environment an atmosphere by current and growing consumption demands.
> Nobody was harmed by this policy

If nobody is harmed then why do you suppose anyone wanted to prevent it? Why don't we just continuously forgive all debts of any kind?
UUIDv4s are fully random, and btree indices expect "right-leaning" values with a sensible ordering. This makes indexing operations on UUIDv4 columns slow, and was the motivation for the development of UUIDv6 and UUIDv7.
We had that solved by people laying down a deposit with their initial purchase, and would then exchange their empties for full bottles at the point of sale. The same trucks that delivered full beer/soda/ect bottles can return with the empties back to the distribution center and another truck take them back to the bottler on the return trip. Those trucks all have to go back anyway so its not an additional burden.
How many billionaire pharmacists do you know? If you extrapolate from chefs, you have farmers and then you have Bill Gates profiting from hunger.
It isn’t a sister station, it is a translator station. If it were a sister FM, it could stay on the air.
It’s in googles best interest to maximise the amount of time people spend on the web not viewing their adverts?

What on earth?
You have a beefy computer with lots of vram for testing locally, and then once that’s running you want to use the same thing from other computers or from web servers etc. that can’t run the models themselves.
Its an idealistic view which will almost certainly fail. Test suites, as much as we like to hope that they reflect real usage, mostly dont. A simple example: if function a gets changed from o(n) to o(n^2) but otherwise behaves identically, most test suites will still pass, but if a user has that function in its own inner loop you can go from o(n^2) to o(n^2^2) which can definitely break a lot of things (simple example: transaction was holding lock for too long and so the transaction was aborted). Being able to catch the above is a high bar for a test suite which I'm fairly confident most test suites are way below that.
I think its because of btrees. Btrees and the pages work better if only the last page is getting lots of writes.
Iuids cause lots of un ordered writes leading to page bloat.
Since we enjoy art, we have a lot of it around. That means that there's a wealth of training data available. If we're lucky, the techniques that we develop teaching AI to mimic what we like to do will also apply to teaching AI to do things that we don't like to do, or things that we can't do.

That may be a stretch, but it's the most charitable explanation for OpenAI's behavior that I can come up with. Art as practice for something else.

Perhaps later we'll be generating things like fungal species which leech lithium from the depths and bring it to the surface for extraction. That would be truly useful. But there's not very much training data for such a thing, so we're not focusing on it until we get our techniques sorted out in other domains.

Also, you'd have to be a double-specialist to work on such a thing. Both AI and Micology. Those are hard to find and take a long time to train. Much easier to find is the double specialist in AI and things-that-look-cool.
Wow-- multiple downvotes for asking a few honest questions.

I looked into getting my technician's license at a few points over the years remembering how much fun I had listening to my dad's friend talk to folks from across the world on his capable home rig. If you ask someone in the amateur radio scene what it's like, they'll paint a utopian picture of community bonding around a shared passion.

... But man, if that's true, y'all sure hide it well behind an incredibly frosty exterior.

Every few years I'll lurk on radio forums and social media to get a sense of the community-- as I do with many other current/potential hobbies-- and it reveals a punitive, cantankerous, spiteful, and patronizing stance towards anyone that isn't already 'in the club.' I've been using the net since about 1993 and have seen a whole lot of toxic communities in my life, but man... the online ham communities I've seen were bad. Then I see people in them blaming poor character among younger generations for not taking the torch. Yeah... sure. That's it, bud. Surely it has nothing to do with the people in your forum that race to belittle someone asking to be pointed in the right direction. And heaven help them if they have a feminine sounding username. It's like a perpetual feedback loop of the angry nerd crowd dynamic that's slowly becoming less acceptable in tech culture as the decades pass.
So like driving a car?
Not sure what your point is, but why would i care to learn about the laws of some other dude's country that he's using to support his bizarro arguments?
Oh, it'll probably understand ethics, that's not the problem.
The migration has to rewrite the whole table, bigint needs 8 bytes so you have to make room for that.

I have done several such primary key migrations on tables with 500M+ records, they took anywhere from 30 to 120 minutes depending on the amount of columns and indexes. If you have foreign keys it can be even longer.

Edit: But there is another option which is logical replication. Change the type on your logical replica, then switch over. This way the downtime can be reduced to minutes.
man, you really are putting a lot of effort into justifying stealing other people's content
It’s the 4th paragraph. First sentence.

Right under the heading “What is JSR”.
Ah. You also have reading comprehension problems, on the face of it, but I don't believe that either.

I believe that you are smart enough to understand the power dynamics in the House, and you understand that I don't think you're stupid. Quite the contrary.

Although... maybe you're a political "centrist"? That would explain a lot about your comments. Then I am sadly compelled to agree with you about what I think about you! I mean that means I'm an idiot myself for engaging with you. Sorry! Look around on the intertubes for what people who study this stuff think about US political "centrists".
Title is totally misleading. The article cites less than a dozen cities--a fraction of 1% of all cities. Instead it should say something like "A few cities change zoning rules to allow more housing". Across the country there is an overwhelming bipartisan consensus among Republican and Democratic home owners to keep zoning rules restrictive to keep housing prices high (and particularly the value of their own home).