skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They weren't really "APL Machines" but computers used to run APL like IBM's APL2 had special keyboards like: https://www.clickykeyboards.com/product/1989-ibm-model-m-139...
Google Cloud SQL does support quite a few postgres extension, but unfortunately it does not support TimescaleDB, that's quite sad indeed. I hope that at some point in the future TimescaleDB could be merged into postgres to make it a native feature.
If you think about the structure and condition of SF Bay, as well as the abilities and limitations of sailing vessels at the time- San Francisco was the only place in all of Northern California that was realistically accessible for a Spanish settlement supported by supplies coming from at sea.

The author is incorrect about the other areas in SF Bay that could be "alternatives for bay area capitals." The rest of the areas marked are naturally very shallow tidal mud flats and peat bogs, and are only nowadays navigable by boats due to a combination of dredging, and building raised structures out into the bay with landfill.

SF is the only viable location for a protected natural deepwater port, which is likely why the Spanish settled there first. There may be a few small rocky points on the Marin peninsula that would have worked for docking a ship (e.g. near Sausulito), but these had very little build-able flat land, and lack reliable drinking water- a big problem Marin faces to this day. Those areas also face massive tidal currents right up to the shore, which would be dangerous for an unpowered sailing vessel.

As an SF Bay sailor, this is what I know about deeply... the author getting it so wrong makes me question the reasoning in the rest of the article, which I know nothing about.
Fails twice or can't win - it's hard to figure out which.
> some people still having service for various reasons.

I assume roaming being one of the top reasons no?
I don't understand - can you explain?
> which in my anecdotal experience is not something that most people really consider

Thankfully I’m in Canada where it’s not impossible to end up in the sticks with no service.

Chewing through your handful of gigabytes/month of data wasn’t hard. Only in the past year or so have double digit gigabyte/month data plans become cost-effective.

And our roaming prices are extortionate, so for jaunts over the border (or internationally), I’ll sometimes go “naked”.
HumanEval can be skipped at this point ...
It's Wine, but with additions made by full-time developers who are paid to work on it, backed by a support team that you can go to and say "Hey, help me get this Win32 app running".

What you get here is Wine and some level of guarantee that what you want to run will run. The focus is on applications rather than games.

Codeweavers contributes back to Wine upstream. Most changes that go into the Crossover fork of Wine end up in the main source tree, so this is a very good way of supporting Wine development and getting something out of it, but if all you're doing is playing games then you're mostly covered by Proton.

When Win10 EOLs I think CrossOver will be very important for allowing organisations to keep MS Office.
That's Friendica. Bluesky apparently will be available in next release
I mean, it is a glaring issue for me, but often it causes the most frustration in another task, so I didn’t personally report it much sooner, but it has been broken for a while.
The "Here" app or whatever it is called did offline maps and offline routing decently enough. It wasn't perfect, but it worked for "here to there", even if it didn't find the best possible route.
AI Companies Are Getting the Culture War They Deserve
Fork() takes more than a second! how so?
> only white men

Why?
Rapid disposal of unwanted guests as a bonus; just shuffle them to an open window.
Actually it's very hard, and becomes tiring after some point. I personally always keep a hope that I'll be wrong in the long run.

Sometimes I'm spot on, sometimes I stand corrected. The problem is, as time goes, your free time reserve starts to decline. You optimize things, consolidate services, etc., and these kind of migrations start to take tons of time.

Because of this, I gave "big web" up and moved to "small web", and always have plans to evacuate any service in a moment's notice.

It's like being a doomsday-preparer from a point, but at least I have backups and backup plans for everything.
Those are explicit regulatory requirements and not just "well a lot of cars have this and I didn't bother to check" as in this case.

And if you were going to do that in this case, the thing to require is the ability for third parties to fix the manufacturer's software mistakes. Otherwise the carmaker goes out of business, as happens from time to time when they don't make a decent product, and then you can't go to them to fix something like this when it subsequently comes out even though their cars will be on the road for many more years.

Whereas if anybody could patch the code in their own car, you wouldn't have this situation where Kia ignores the issue, because third parties would have done it already, the same whether they're incompetent as bankrupt.
CrossOver is a WINE implementation for people that want a really nice and simple interface. I used to beta test apps for them ages ago, which was nice, as that got me a free copy of the pro product. They recently just cleaned house on that program, and I lost my access, which, you know, fair, but also it happened right as I was wanting to check them out again after having managed WINE with other tools on my workstation.

By default, it makes brand new prefixes, has profiles for well known apps to configure the prefixes accordingly, including managing downloading the installers.

Their fixes and changes to their version of WINE are almost always upstreamed, so eventually you do get those features in OSS WINE, but that's honestly never been the reason to get it. It's the much more friendly UX, and for those using WINE in business environments, a channel to get support for the framework.

For those that want better prefix management for their home projects, there are plenty of OSS projects doing that now. Whisky for macOS, and Bottles for Linux are two fine alternatives to help keep WINE prefix hygiene without it, but neither come with the "we can install this business app for you with no hassle" concierge features.

These folks do know WINE well though. There's a reason they're working with Valve on Proton, and why so many of the commits to WINE come from them.
"embrace" would be the rise of decentralized social media
Hi, what is the status of integration with the activitypub protocol? as its currently the most popular protocol in federated social media
I think you can be aspirational for the future but I can't see how a request for an image in historical context can ever be desired to be aspirational instead of realistic?

On a second thought, maybe for requests like "picture of a crowd cheering signing of the declaration of independence" the exists a big public demand for images that are more diverse than reality was? However, there are many reasons to prefer historical accuracy even here.
It would probably be worth clarifying in that repo what the license is for both the code in that repo and the code that it's actually running. It looks like it's just a very thin wrapper around @atproto/pds, which is MIT/Apache 2.0 [0], but the repo you link to has no license.

Edit: now it has one! Thanks!

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/@atproto/pds
Right, I Have family living in Wyoming so took the opportunity to see the 2017 eclipse there, amazing sight, totally worth it, But those poor Wyoming roads, completely packed for hundreds of miles, gas stations overwhelmed, with them still open having a correspondingly high price. If I did it again I would plan to spend 4 hours after the event just hanging out, rather than join the traffic.
This is just for a brief period during polishing/debugging since this is the first time third-party PDS hosts have been added to the network.

The goal is just to help PDS operators join the network and make sure that if there's a problem we have a channel of communication open.
One actionable thing is to organize your department and more widely to accept more async style communication and non-urgent/urgent style communications where you can comfortably disconnect without fear of missing out on something urgent
That's no accident: from the Static CMS readme:

> Static CMS is a fork of Decap (previously Netlify CMS) focusing on the core product over adding massive, scope expanding, new features.
On the Nature of Creepiness
Hope dies last
Yeah, if I'm going to travel internationally or if I'm somewhere I know I'll have spotty cell service, I'll download maps. I should probably be better about doing it in local areas where I "assume" things will be fine.
On the J website the first sentence is:
'J is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that is particularly suited to the mathematical, statistical, and logical analysis of data.'

So I can see him thinking he has the correct language.
As for treatment/healing:

[from the article -- BBB is Blood Brain Barrier]

"We have three on-going, major follow-up initiatives. First, we are assessing, in a temporal manner, whether symptom resolution in patients who had long COVID and brain fog is accompanied by the resolution of BBB disruption. Second, we are screening novel BBB regulators to specifically target and treat the BBB disruption observed. This is exciting as we do not need to develop therapeutics to cross the BBB per se, but rather only to stabilize the structure. Last, we are expanding our clinical research into examining BBB integrity in other post-viral illnesses in tandem with functional neurological disorders (those conditions with no current observable basis for them). It is our vision that targeted regulation of the BBB will change the landscape of how neurological disorders are treated in the future."
I understand why they’re doing this from a cost and dependency perspective, but I’ve pretty much stopped using Phind since they switched over to their own models. I used to use it in the past for thing like API docs summarization, but it seems to give mostly wrong answers for that now. I think this is mostly a “RAG doesn’t work very well without a very strong general model parsing the context” problem, which their prior use of GPT-4 was eliding.
I like that metaphor, I hope I remember it.
For historical reasons, a moon acre is approximately 16.7% smaller than an earth acre.
If your model were accurate it would imply high IQ and psychopathy would co-select wouldn't it? I know psychopaths tend to think they're smarter than anyone with ethics but doesn't the opposite correlation tend to hold?
They most certainly are investigating the root cause, and probably there's a witch hunt developing, but as far as customers go I would expect AT&T's attitude to be "none of your business." I've worked with many of these types of companies before, and outside of the occasional cool CS rep, their cultures are lots of information hoarders and responsibility dodgers. Taking responsibility for a problem is a good way to ensure you never get promoted.
> if the same colors play the same notes for years, if not months.

I wouldn't be so sure. As I stated, I have an association between book<=>music which was made within the days it took to read said book
Looks like Unicomp even makes a Model M with APL keycaps: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/product/00UA41P4A
> Also, with this comment I hope to get some pushback

More of a push forward, really: if error-handling guarantees are what's driving you away from dynamically typed langauges, Go is pretty much the worst place you can land that isn't C. It doesn't make you check nils, it doesn't remind you to check error values from functions that you call only for side effects (though the linter will, admittedly), and it doesn't have sum types so there's semantic ambiguity even in the common case - that is, in `data, err := fn()`, it's common to assume that at most one, and perhaps exactly one, of `data` and `err` will end up non-nil, but that's not a constraint you can express with the type system.
My kids also love Turing Tumble. (Me too!) Highly recommended.
They sold 1 million of the things in a year. The device had plenty of flaws, but by the millionth customer products are mainstream.
I’m going to need to see the actual products at this point. The times when we trusted Intel to deliver what it promises ended many years ago.
Sounds like a Neal Stephenson beginning.
Any Sublime Text plugin? I can't stand how distracting VS code is.
That's great, thanks!

> It's also not required on the Bluesky service any longer, in most cases.

That's also nice to hear - when last time I tried to register an account (shortly after the free registration launch) the phone number field in the registration form was marked as required, if I am not mistaken.
If there can exist an "extinguish" step for the concept of decentralized social media itself then decentralized social media has already failed. The whole point is supposed to be about changing hearts and minds to embrace self-governance, a rug pull should just result in people moving somewhere else.
Nah, Luke's story in the TLJ was actually interesting; he lost his faith, and had to be reminded of it by the next generation. It kind of mirrors Obi-Wan's story in the original 6 movies, where he no longer believed that Anakin Skywalker could be redeemed. It's the pointless side quest to space vegas, and Holdo's pointless refusal to tell anyone her plan that made the movie crap.
I've had times where the AI saved me lots of minutes of typing. Example:
I have a piece of data that need to be mapped to an almost equal piece of data, but types differ slightly enough that I need to type the equality for each of them. Having it auto complete all of it (tens of lines) at once is such a relief.
This is good and all but, sigh are we really celebrating letting self hosting get into the hands of bad actors to federate with Bluesky?

And don’t say “lets defederate with said bad actors” since they would still exist and anyone can join said bad actors instances.

It’s akin to telling antelopes surrounded by lions to close their eyes and the lions are ‘gone’ yet the lions still exist around them.
there is kvm switches (or just usb km without the video), but your suggestion sounds intriguing
Here is the ruling: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/20-1199_hgdj.pdf
Well, he's the author of Zsh, for one ...
I will likely never be paid to work with it, nor will I ever justify working with it, but I still have a VB6 'COMPLETE' book I am probably never throwing away, it is a lot of fun to go through it over the years and look back at how things used to be. I wish VB had retained its ability to build native apps instead of becoming a .NET language that eventually got dropped. It was a fun first-time programming language, and I'm sure there's plenty of apps still coded in VB6 out in production right now...
That would be consistent with the symptoms. Big telco networks are hierarchical with most functions pushed to regional data centers with a very small number of services in a redundant pair or trio of central data centers. Subscriber database (HSS, UDR) would be one such function.

The cause of a failure of the HSS could be manifold, ranging from router failures to software bugs to cyber attack (databases of 100M+ users being a juicy target).

One slightly scary observation from NANOG was that FirstNet, the network that ATT built for first responders, was down. That would be ugly if true and I'd expect the FCC to be very interested in getting to the bottom of it.
TIL. I thought this would be related to King Biscuit Time, "the longest-running daily American radio broadcast in history", but apparently it's just a coincidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Biscuit_Time
Their foundry business is a tiny fraction of their revenue at this point and I'm not sure their overall gross margin is particularly relevant here (also Intel has lower gross margins than AMD or TSMC these days?)
I'd put blame on App Store policy and its highly effective enforcement through iOS. Apple did not even aimed to be a neutral third party but was always an opinionated censor. The world shouldn't have given it power, and these types of powers needs to be removed ASAP.
Sounds like instead of accepting the rationale you've concocted a "forced hand" narrative in order to outsource blame to a 3rd party

How do you account for all the other distros that picked up systemd independently? Particularly the "community" distros like Arch or especially Gentoo
Yup, it's MIT/Apache 2.0. We'll fix that. Thanks for the heads up.
Genius: The right mix of submissiveness and rebellion (2009)
Classically, you wait until your name is said three times, before appearing before the supplicant!
I switched to Bluesky but then moved back to twitter. I'm glad that they are trying to compete with Twitter (Twitter is a conservative cesspool), but all of my non-technical friends have stayed on Twitter. So, I end up going where they are.

I think the reason my friends did not join Bluesky despite me inviting them is that it just isn't as good of a product as Twitter. You can't post videos or DM.

I am not a tech executive and have no idea about corporate strategy, but it seems like Bluesky should focus less on technical differentiators and more on building killer features that have mass appeal and a community that people want to join.

IMHO this milestone, while cool, means absolutely nothing to people outside of the hacker news crowd.

I'm rooting for Bluesky, but it seems to me it will die without a critical mass of users.

Again, I'm kinda dumb, so this may all be wrong.
I looked at the site and I see a lot of comparisons to 'old social'. But for people who might run their own node or decide to commit to the network and encourage their friends to join them, it seems your true major competitor would be projects like mastodon.

Yet there are no comparisons on the site. I don't see even see a mention. This makes it difficult to evaluate relative maturity, core competencies, limitations, and risks.
Thats easy, you don't have a structure made with a single large actor capable of changing the rules of the game mid flight.

You get something good system by sharing power, not by once again falling for "trust us bro." You get it by understanding power imbalances and avoiding them the same way my dog avoids objects with large amounts of potential energy, because they're predictably dangerous.
Historic Moon Mission Aims for First US Landing Since Apollo
In other words: "our 70B finetune is as good as a 8x200B model"

Yeah, right.
Why would any employee believe that "honest feedback" was safe after James Demore?
> I'm talking about something a little different.

Hallucinations are still a problem. The AI doesn't actually know "what options are useful for scoring ...", it's just regurgitating what someone else told it and when you ask it follow up questions it's unable to reason.

AI's main feature is the first thing we disqualify people for in interviews. It's knowledge is pure buzzwords and hype.

Example: I just asked chatGPT to tell me why framework X is better than framework Y. I am familiar with both frameworks. After the list chatGPT gives a disclaimer that starts with "However, it's essential to note that Y also has its own strengths". It then proceeds to list a few features that both frameworks share, a few features that are subjectively better and a few features that are actually bugs/code smell.

That's not the AI's comparison of the two frameworks, that is just someones blog post that has been regurgitated to me in a way that gets around copyright.
Because I think that they are all the same. Some just have better marketing.
i've been doing a lot of small circuit simulations in paul falstad's circuit.js lately

i've learned a lot of interesting things:

- it's free software under the gnu gpl

- you can download the repo and run the javascript locally when you're offline. for this purpose the 'export as text' file menu option is useful; it gives you a textual representation of the circuit you can copy and paste, so you aren't dependent on tinyurl.com to get your circuit back. like spice, it ignores leading whitespace, which is super convenient if you keep your notes in markdown

- you can set the background to white (under options)

- the list of available devices isn't extensive but it does include a tl431

- the svg export (file menu) is great for including in a web page, but it only includes 'undocked' scopes, and the data that's plotted in them may not be the same as what you see

- the simulations are generally in good agreement with the ngspice simulations i've done, but you have to use a smaller timestep than spice usually chooses (i guess because of the lower order of integration), and unless it's much smaller, it can still have some numerical stability problems

- they run slower than spice, but often the faster feedback loop for interactivity makes up for it

- you can simulate an avr in it at the instruction level with avr8js: https://hackaday.com/2021/06/11/circuit-vr-arduino-virtually... which i don't know how to do in ngspice or any other spice

— ⁂ —

i have some questions, maybe someone knows the answers:

- is there a way to convert spice netlists into circuit.js designs? because that would be pretty useful, especially if i could, say, import a spice model of a 7805 as a subcircuit

- is there a way to convert circuit.js designs into spice netlists? because i feel like the schematic view is a lot clearer than the textual netlist

- is there a way to import and/or export to kicad?

- is there a way to do monte carlo simulation in circuit.js? or at least sensitivity analysis?

— ⁂ —

here are some circuits i've put together in circuit.js this week: http://tinyurl.com/27m6usjw http://tinyurl.com/23u2y4w8 http://tinyurl.com/2cf5kgxc http://tinyurl.com/23qvuylw http://tinyurl.com/27agyg4q http://tinyurl.com/2bssxwjq and last week: http://tinyurl.com/2889h6o8 http://tinyurl.com/2a8by2mq (happy to explain any of these if anyone is curious)
Right, but you're describing the process of an open-minded person.

For the fuckwits in any given electorate, your maxim would be better phrased as "default to not having any fucking opinion at all on that of which you know not"
What is Google paying for, exactly? Reddit's content is already public. Even free tools like F5Bot are already continuously downloading all of Reddit, and I'm sure they aren't paying $60M.
Phind founder here. You can try the model for free, without a login, by selecting Phind-70B from the homepage: https://phind.com.
You don't go to an Ivy League to learn calculus. You go to an Ivy League for the prestige and to build a network of connections with people who are likely to be successful.
Compiler Theory and Reactivity
Well, just begin your typing with `(progn ` and when you’ve typed the lines you want just press `)`.

And/or run your repl inside emacs and you’ll have your whole history available right there.
It's wild how easy it is to not know that something exists.

One of my pandemic trips was touring Italy by Vespa, from the Alps to Sicily. I rode right past Gibellina without knowing it was worth a stop.

That was actually one of the challenges of the trip. If you're touring California, there's often only one road to get where you're going. In my case, I just took PCH the whole way north.

Italy has thousands of years of villages and paths between them. Their road grid is a spiderweb. Even figuring out what route to take on any particular day needed a lot of research and some random luck.