skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the type of book.

Airport thrillers, supermarket romance novels, pulp horror, Agatha Christie mysteries, and so on along such lines -- these don't really require any reader participation. They're the print equivalent of film and TV; they pull you along a narrative, and you're a passenger for the duration. These sorts of books work very well as audiobooks.

Anything that requires thought or reflection -- and this includes "hard" science fiction, as well as anything of a technical nature -- is very difficult for me to consume in audiobook form. I frequently lose track or zone out, and then I find that I've missed something important. Also, I can't take notes in an audiobook.
Game Developers Share the Human Impact of over a Year of Mass Layoffs
Here is one instance

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich

We talked to the cops (not in this instance but in another homicide)
Cannot CRUD cookies in SvelteKit from another port
Work pretty well for all classes of problems?
Hey, thanks a lot for sharing Nick's video! I hadn't seen it before, but the details about colours, light and atmosphere were super interesting, especially if you are into photography and painting.
I remember Sun running around advocating their thin client tech. I did not understand why anyone would buy into such ultimate lock in. I understand execs have their wet dreams but it does not mean we have to follow. Same thing now happens with the cloud. Maybe at some point people / companies will realize what is going on.
You and I discussed this before -- the phrase Draper used was "Let's execute some 1802 instructions". And yes he creepily and obnoxiously insisted on back exercises with me too. Yech! Beware.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_stair

Back in the days of the SFRaves scene, I and others would always keep some tobacco on us a "John Draper Repellent" in case he saddled up and tried to schmooze some weed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26040778

Stratoscope on Feb 5, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dunfield 6809 Portable

> Sign extension (SEX instruction!)

We were definitely into SEX in those days.

In the late 1970s I was working at Tymshare, and one of my tasks was maintaining the assembler and linker. (I think this was on the PDP-10 but it could have been another machine.)

We wanted a "weak external" feature, somewhat akin to a "weak reference" in modern languages: instead of failing to build if the external symbol was not defined in another object file, it would link OK but leave a null value that you would check at runtime.

The assembly directive for a regular external was EXTERN. I thought of calling the weak external WEXTERN but that looked silly. So I decided to call them Secondary Externals, with the directive being SEXTERN.

And as far as I know, no one complained!

cjak on Feb 6, 2021 | next [–]

I just finished a project that introduced features for both signal injection and signal extraction. So now we can enjoy both SIN and SEX, sometimes at the same time.

DonHopkins on Feb 6, 2021 | prev [–]

The 1802 had a SET X REGISTER (SEX) instruction, as well as a GET HIGH (GHI) instruction.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/computeii/issue3/page52.php

John Draper (Cap'n Crunch) once creepily invited a friend of mine (who was a strapping young lad at the time) into the back of a van to "execute some 1802 instructions".

Stratoscope on Feb 6, 2021 | parent [–]

Ah yes, I knew John well in those days. Not nearly as well as he wanted to know me!

We used to drive around in his VW microbus finding interesting payphones. Then when he was learning to program, I visited him once in a while at his place in Berkeley to help him with his code.

My motivation was that he usually had some decent weed. Then one time he asked if I wanted to "work out". That lasted about two minutes until I found out what he really meant.

Many years later, I ran into John at the Homebrew Reunion. He didn't recognize me at first, so I reintroduced myself and mentioned how we used to hang out and write code.

His eyes lit up and he asked, "did we work out?"

https://www.flickr.com/photos/geary/10861963196/
> fortune | cowsay

Definitely be careful about using fortune in a corporate environment or public space if you don't know what dat files you are using or you might just get an extremely unwelcome surprise.

I was practicing a presentation and used to use fortune all the time. I forget exactly what it output but I remember being absolutely mortified about what could have happened if that had popped up during an internal company tech talk.

Kudos to brew for keeping unsuspecting people safe

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/commit/3fb3c4c3e55...
His thread is amazing. Most pilots worldwide speak English, so naturally, all pilots are basically from the same country...
Mathematics had concepts of convergence/bounds of infinite sequences since antiquity. Big-O is just mathematical notation that you can use for whatever you want. Big-O is useful because most of the time we want to reduce time complexity for algorithms when inputs get large, where constant and lesser terms usually become insignificant.

Some people measure steps, but we call it "time complexity" because they're essentially the same thing assuming that time taken for each step does not depend on `n`.

There are occasionally philosophical implications when you prove a complexity bound, so in those cases making stuff run faster isn't the goal, but unless you're deep into theoretical computer science, usually making code faster is your goal when you have to deal with time complexity.

FWIW, for loops isn't actually a primitive of CS or even programming. Of course you can achieve Turing completeness with C-style for loops, but that tweaking for loops isn't usually how people think about reducing time complexity...
ilo could likely be made to work, though with some limitations.

From a quick reading of the linked system:

- ilo is little endian (for block & rom format); if you wanted to keep external compatibility, this would need to be dealt with. It's not difficult to do this; e.g., the 68k Mac version does this: fossils.retroforth.org:8000/ilo/file?name=vm/ilo-68k-mac.c&ci=tip

- this system presents some memory limits that would necessitate changes to ilo. Two aspects stand out to me.

First, separate code & data sections, with a limit of 64K each. ilo's standard memory area is a flat 65,536 32-bit words, needing 256K. This can be reduced, but will then not work with a standard Konilo rom. (The memory layout in the Konilo rom can be edited by modifying the assembly, but the overall reduction in available space will be very limiting for a full Konilo system. It'd be fine for using just the basic wordset in the rom or for assembly programs).

Second, memory is divided into 2K banks, so a bit of work in ilo may be needed to deal with that. The previously linked Mac version can deal with this as well.

- performance will be slow.

ilo is internally a 32-bit system. I've built & run it on an old 8088 MS-DOS system, but it's very slow there. I suspect it'd also be quite slow here as this is another 16-bit system.

I don't have the timings for this, but starting up a minimal Konilo system on an emulated Mac Plus (mini vMac @ 1x, emulating an 8MHz 68k CPU) takes 1m8s. It took quite a bit longer to start up on the DOS system.

Though again, this is when running Konilo. It'll be much faster with smaller assembly programs or things that do less i/o.
>But assuming the Browser is secure, the browser communicates to the internet "hey here is an IP" that fact alone is a security risk as the attack may come directly to the OS not the browser. Heck, this Browser may even send a user agent that actually says it's some old windows that is no longer supported, lol.

Can you sketch how you're going to hack a windows XP SP3 that's behind a NAT firewall?
"Willy's Chocolate Experience" Nightmare: What Went Wrong?
That video is showing the Russian side looking for people.

While it wouldn't be weird for the Ukranian side to be looking for draft dodgers, I've not heard of them doing it "very violently".

Totally possible I've just not seen something though.
I'm pretty sure these problems were noticed, but reporting it risks your job and getting branded a racist. Nobody needs the hassle.
Homebuyers need to make about $50k more than they did pre-pandemic
Since yesterday I have put some meaningful effort into looking into what a Farnsworth Fusor is. At this point, I can confidently say that what is in the Safire type 2 plasma chamber is significantly different.

Perhaps I am biased because, most of my experience with plasma chambers has been involved in physical presence in laboratory settings.

>> I did my masters in Tokamak simulation

I think "simulation" is the key difference between what you did and those who are doing real laboratory work. Tesla lamented that too much in theoretical mathematics was being done in place of lab work.

I am honestly very disappointed that the essential characteristics between a Safire type 2 chamber and a Farnsworth Fusor are so clear to me, yet someone who has a "masters" (implies master degree) seems to struggle to spot the differences quickly.

The guys from the LLNL team were keen on immediately recognizing the differences, so no need to lose faith in humanity or anything here, but still, do they just give out masters degrees like candy now..
Sequel: https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/11924
Oh, it does pretension very well, as it should given the market in which and to whom it's published. The Hedgehog Review appeals to aspirant biens-pensants of a notionally resurgent school of cultural conservatism notionally in the mold of Mencken and Buckley. Which is a sad joke, of course; say what you would of either man, both knew the value of firm principle, and of concision in honing the sharp side of a tongue. But however footless the pretense, it should be pretty well gratified by an article that takes the parable of the blind men and the elephant and dresses it up in five thousand or so mostly unnecessary additional words. (The effort at history is at least justifiable, if little more usefully pursued.)

What galls me is really just the lack of critical engagement. Whining about an article being "too long" is the tantrum of a Tiktok-addled child. Complaints that add up only to "this isn't meant for me" are well suited to the self-centeredness of a teenager. The questions of who this is for, then, and why, and what that might say about something else, are actually interesting, and around here somewhat tiresomely rare in the asking.
my first thought was that it might be an AI generated image and someone might have to issue a correction soon. Anecdotal proof AI is continuing the trend of flooding the channels with shit. Or im paranoid.
This was the intent.

But like OP pointed out, "reputed" could also mean

> generally believed to exist or be something specified, but not definitely the case. "a reputed budget of $165 million"

For now I've replaced it with the less ambiguous word ("reputable") to remove any confusion and will pick a better way to phrase this the next time we iterate on the landing page.
I agree, it’s easier to ride the waves than to fight the ocean.
Yeah, our government here spent years pouring money into low performing high schools to revitalize them, to little avail. Here's an interesting article on a very expensive (they spend $63,000 a year per student) boarding school they sent some kids to for free, that didn't have much of an impact[1].

Finally, what they did was they decided to split in half the high performing cohort from the best/wealthiest high school into two high schools. This cohort was now much smaller than the maximum capacity for either high school, which allows for a lot of out of boundary seats.

The problem is, even still they don't seem to be able to admit how important a high performing cohort is. If they did, there are plenty of things they could do to attract more of them to public schools and neighborhood high schools. For instance, there's at least one high school in the city that is very low performing, but has a large number of very high performing students in boundary. The parents want the school to guarantee some high level classes for their students, but it won't. They want the school to provide a safe environment, but the school can't commit to that (it's hard to remove students even if they are repeatedly violent). And if they do, they run the risk of national media reporters (who would never send their kids to these types of schools themselves) going after them[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/notcomplex_/status/1762607726817923545
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...
"We don't know what we don't know", comes to mind as an answer. Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity explain a Whole Lot, but since they haven't yet been "meshed", there's more to come. The James Webb Space Telescope is providing data that is upending many things in cosmology. Dark Matter: As a phrase, it's not even clear that it's "matter". There's some phenomenon that causes stars to be attracted to one another independent of our current notion of mass.

Richard Feynman said "Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts", and Carl Sagan said the "Science is a way of thinking more than it is a body of knowledge". Both of these point to the reality that our current understanding of the universe is riddled with errors and omissions. We do our best with the data we have, and try to transcend our own prejudices and history.

How much or our current understanding is "just as wrong?": Well, like most things, it's on a continuum, and to some extent a matter of opinion. Was Newtonian mechanics "just as wrong" as Ptolemy, when considering Relativity? I wouldn't say so, but maybe you would. Ptolemy's conception explained almost nothing and glossed over contradicting facts. Newton put mathematics around observations available to him, but named the reality that he had no understanding of how action-at-a-distance happened. "I make no hypothesis".
The problem with the article (besides rewriting history to remove Free Software), is that Open Source often turns into single-vendor software too.

And what's worse, it is often the wrong vendor!

In [1], he refers to it as "getting Jeff'ed," a reference to Jeff Bezos.

In other words, Open Source lets dealers [2] eat the lunch of the original authors.

Even worse, dealers can often turn Open Source proprietary, actually proprietary, so end users are shafted too.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ3w_jec1v8

[2]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/is-source-available-really-t...
Building that gigafactory in the area was a mistake. I wish local legislators were more resistant to the carrot in the first place. So much controversy and borderline illegal activities have come to pass since it has been in operation.
I live in Texas. As soon as the sun goes away the temperature drops considerably.
I dislike bash because I'm not good with it. It sucks but is still often the best solution available. Actually, one of my regret was not to invest more time on it when I was a student (a while ago) because it's one of these rare tools that accompanied me my whole career.
I think the argument in favor of the Florida and Texas is the the various Social Media sites are less platforms and more common carriers.

I don't buy it but it's totally crazy. When I'm DM'ing someone it's hard to say X isn't acting like a common carrier. It's the same tool used in a different way for it to be a platform.

When it's a platform the moderation may or may not be legal depending upon what the Supreme Court says but honestly - everyone wants that moderation. It's a pipe dream to think that people aren't going to get it one way or the other.

Common carrier traffic is moderated (see mail handler spam filters) but everyone knows the rules about what gets allowed and what doesn't. If common carrier traffic was moderated like platform traffic everyone would be horrified - and so it's not.
Generally that might be true, but I think if carbon black ink caused cancer with any nontrivial probability, the cancer would be likely to start where the tattoo is placed, and people would quickly decide that tattoos were dangerous because they would see the tattoo melting into a cancerous lesion. I’ve literally never heard of skin cancer that come from a tattoo. Tattoos are so common that we would see this effect if it happened.
Are we though? All I see is a lot of effort followed by a lot of reaching (yet again) for the aspirin and/or whiskey.

Have you any examples showing recent convergence between quantum & relativity?
Listening to audiobooks is reading, end of story. Quit gatekeeping, free time to sit with a book & do nothing else concurrently is a huge luxury.

FWIW, recently I've started listening to audiobooks of nonfiction books while also reading along with the physical copy. Sometimes I pause the audiobook to jot notes down in the margins. I listen at about 3x speed so this helps me go a LOT faster than I could read myself and I also get the benefit of being able to write as I go, which imo makes a much bigger difference in retention than anything else (plus I can look back at my notes later). For fiction I just listen, usually while doing jigsaw puzzles at the same time.
> God damn you are stupid.

>> To make an analogy, ...

> The topic is not about CPUs, the topic is about plasma fusion.

I mean if you can't comprehend word "analogy" in a simple sentence, what makes you think you can reason about scientific claims?
Brilliant bit of UX work. I especially like the rotate or orientation feature. Once rotated 180 I immediately recognized similarities to the modern map. Very thoughtful design work
Get ready for getting downvoted, these people want to get hacked! I made a comment about how unsecure it is to run a 20+ year old OS and I got downvoted. These people hate facts, just like on Reddit.

They are so delusional they think some "sandbox" in the Browser that some dude ported back is fixing 20+ years of security holes in the OS, this is so funny.
It's true. The nice thing is that there are many many examples of how to use bash. Just open a script file in random repositories. Most scripts are super SUPER simple. But just copy-paste to shellcheck and it will give some feedback if you're looking to get in some really quick commits and PRs :)
This looks like a nice distillation of core DAG-running features. I really like the simplicity of `honcho` and will likely try it next time I have a DAG to run that fits in to its model.

I can not help but compare `honcho` to others in this space that I know, particularly `waf` and `snakemake`. I guess these do cover a larger feature space than `honcho` and that comes at the cost of rather greater complexity. I don't think sacrificing the simplicity of `honcho` to add features is necessarily a good thing but I do wonder if / how `honcho` might be used in these ways:

- Execution of a rule adds a new task node to the DAG (a `TaskGen` in `waf`).

- Implicit DAG forming and rule execution (akin to how we define a `rule:` for `snakemake` but it is the system that determines what rules to run and then runs them).

- DAG edge types besides files. Eg, run a downstream rule if some Python data object's value changes (instead of a file change). I believe neither `waf` nor `snakemake` supports this and but one can serialize the Python data to file to make it fit the DAG engine.

- Batteries included such as a cross-platform version of the `c_binary()` function in the `honcho` tutorial. (like `waf` "tools").

- In-system dependency generators (eg `waf` "scanner" pattern).

Thanks for sharing `honcho`!
Can't Get Things Done Without Background Noise? You're Not Alone
The Safire plasma team presented their findings. They did an experiment involving plasma, they found that a tungsten rod evaporated in front of their eyes. This is the most literal embodiment of the scientific method there possibly could be.

The Safire plasma team doesn't even announce "weRe doinG ScIeNCe", all they are doing is presenting "here's what we did, here's what we found".

If you believe what they did "isn't science", then what you believe is not "they didn't follow the scientific method", what you believe is they did not do Science™ which amounts to orthodoxy ie religion.

As far as I have seen from the Safire plasma team, they run experiments and share their findings, then make hypothesis and run more experiments and share more findings. I have watched them do this consistently over several years.

If you want to argue that they aren't doing the "scientific method" when you aren't even familiar with their years of work, you are very stupid and may God have mercy on your soul.
If he didn't like the attention, he would have adapted his PR face a long time ago. The truth is (realistic or not), people see him as the unstable leader of several companies coming up with a weekly fiasco to read about.
> It was frustrating to know the vacancy rate in the building,

Isn't the ideal vacancy rate always one unit? Any more than 1 unit and you could be collecting more money. Any less than 1 unit and you may be underpricing.
https://archive.ph/pqQlV
Take a moment to think about this please. I get this is a topic you're passionate about but you're making a number of false assumptions.

> NOPE, some "firewall" in a consumer router does not suddenly make a 20+ year old OS secure.

That wasn't the claim. The claim was it eliminates a chunk of risk (ie someone connecting to you from outside). So the risk is now "just" code you import and run.

> The OS accesses the internet, not the browser

Which part of the "OS" are you concerned about? Please be specific.

> It's funny how you just mention some 20-year-old technique that even grandma knows about.

I don't recall seeing you comment on any techniques. If you're so much wiser than the rest of us, then please do share these techniques that we've all missed.

> But assuming the Browser is secure, the browser communicates to the internet "hey here is an IP" that fact alone is a security risk as the attack may come directly to the OS not the browser.

How does it? A buffer overflow in the TCP/IP stack? Maybe. Have you got an CVEs to back that claim up?

Maybe DNS? But the Browser can easily bypass the hosts DNS resolver so this is a solvable problem.

Beyond that, the browser manages the rest.

> Heck, this Browser may even send a user agent that actually says it's some old windows that is no longer supported, lol.

User agent string is trivial to change. It's literally just a HTTP header and there are numerous browser plugins that support doing just this.

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As I commented in another reply, we need to be clear about attack surface and threat model.

In the case of the former, most (nobody said "all") of the security concerns are sandboxed by the browser.

In the case of the latter, if your threat model includes targetted attacks then this browser on an older OS would clearly be the wrong choice. But for most people this would appeal to, that isn't a risk worth accounting for. ie this is safe enough for anything not important.
Honestly I don’t have much to say besides the fact that this is nightmare fuel.
How would we know if this is true? For instance, is the source code subject to independent review, with verifiable builds made from that source so that all deployments have to show matching hashes? Or is more of a pinky-swear kind of a thing? If so, is the pinky swear even documented somewhere?
> engaging with the platform to spread or amplify specific kinds of content that are either programs or real people

If you were Twitter/X, how would you improve their current (probably state of the art) "malicious-content" bot detection + mitigation?

It sounds like it ain't just captchas and IP banning?
there are groups still working on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0
Ask HN: Can I find a technical co-founder here for S24?
Are people here willing to join?
Oops. I've seen worse free-market capitalist opinions held earnestly on HN, so it's hard to tell...
Check out:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/understanding-software-...