skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meditation and complementary practices that helped me relax and become more aware of my thought patterns and habits. Therapy also helped.

Basically, I become aware of unhealthy habits and attitudes. In some cases, just becoming aware of them allowed me to stop doing them. I also learned to set boundaries and communicate them in a non-aggressive but firm way. In the past I found it hard or next to impossible to do this.

Frankly, I still have the feeling there are people who find me intimidating, but I don't know what to do about it.
I work at a large state university in the US, and none of this is a surprise. It is in part general population trends, in part a significant drop in birthrates around the 2008 recession. COVID didn't help -- the number of foreign students paying out-of-state tuition (which subsidizes everyone else to some extent) also dropped. These trends do not hit all universities and colleges evenly however.
Doom can run on anything...
Yes, the complete impotency of anti-trust and big business regulation over the last 50-60 years.

And any political willpower that exists is constantly used for smearing campaigns for either side of the political spectrum (e.g. look at them, they are the bad guys).

Automation tax is also the worst possible outcome, since it both stifles innovation AND doesn't address the redistribution problem.
> ...taking real territory away from Unity or Godot

I used to think this too. But having written a lot of hobby code using Godot (via Gdext, an excellent Rust wrapper for it) I feel the editor is a nice to have but not indispensable.

Very soon into the game you'll find that you need an editor that lets you add your own game abstractions into the game. And at that point you're better off writing an editor "in game" than shoe horning your abstractions into the game engine editor.

There's a bit more nuance I probably outght to the above description but too tired to type it all out on my phone now.
You seem to characterize universities as passive players. Who are the folks sitting on the grant committees? Who shaped the current system? Universities are there to shape societies and to lead in the first place. Not to seek a perfect system to play a passive role.
„Real“ Firefox is now possible in EU.
You still have to solve this in USV.
> If you make your own sausages and deli meats, you can just skip the nitrites; they are not really needed for the taste, just for the red color.

That's not completely correct if you don't cook the meat quickly afterward.

Apparently the safety issue is mostly botulism. Certain meats (especially sausages) create anaerobic conditions while curing that allows botulism to grow. Nitrites prevent that.

It is possible to cure meats without nitrates (see: Prosciutto di Parma), but it's not a straightforward, blanket thing.
Hey y'all! My name is Shabab and I am a full-stack Python SWE based in Austin TX. I'm early in my career and looking for my first major role. I'd be excited to work at a start-up or health-tech company; however, I'm open to most experiences (except web3, crypto, casino/gambling companies). I would love to chat regarding open full-time opportunities or internships.

Location: Austin TX

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Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Django, Node, React, Bootstrap, Tailwind

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Email: See in resume

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A lot of these improvements sound like the code will need to be rewritten anyways. Granted, it might allow for a more gradual rewrite.
things are moving away from other things the faster the farther away they are, uniformly across the universe. everything is moving away from everything, not just two particular points.

is there a difference if there isn't a difference?
I was thinking why is this one guy on HN so deeply interested and discussing technical details from a minor remark. Then I clocked the name. Great work on Gemma bugs
I still, for the life of me, can't understand why Google doesn't just start selling their TPUs to everyone. Nvidia wouldn't be anywhere near their size if they only made H100s available through their DGX cloud, which is what Google is doing only making TPUs available through Google Cloud.

Good hardware, good software support, and market is starving for performant competitors to the H100s (and soon B100s). Would sell like hotcakes.
CHERI claims that the amount of changes are exceedingly small.

Fil-C is getting there.

So, C has a path to survival.

> The problem with fixes on things this low-level is that they carry the potential to break lots of code. Since broken code has to be fixed, you then get into the "why not just rewrite it in <insert new hotness here>?" argument, which is headed off by just not fixing it.

“Lots” is maybe an overstatement.

Also, if there was a way to make C++ code safe with a smaller amount of changes than rewriting in a different language then that would be amazing.

The main shortcoming of CHERI is that it requires new HW. But maybe that HW will now become more widely demanded and so more available.

The main shortcoming of Fil-C is that it’s a personal spare time project I started on Thanksgiving of last year so yeah
If you don't think it's a general property of things worth doing, what in particular about going to Mars means it's only worth doing at scale? It's a frankly bizarre claim that you've so far made totally unsupported.
Probably averting billions in damage.
Coffee, bathroom trips, pacing around to think...the steps add up quickly. Or maybe our step counters are inflating the number.
Hi there!

> Will this just look like yet another language, with versioning and release processes, database connections, blah blah... like every other language, only this one is small and weird and different?

no.

Darklang is still deployless, with no infra setup, and centered around trace-driven debugging. All the good stuff that made the product good. We just got rid of our editor, and weren't clear enough in the post that we're maintaining all of the good stuff, but putting it into a different box. Will clarify further in the next post, thanks for your input.
Depends on whether or not there are economies of scale.
This is another video on grass rendering but in the style of Ghost of Tsushima: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp7REZBV4P4
>You'd need to add in the turbulence or some external force for it to be a problem.

Which is what I said :). The computer controlled flight control surfaces aren't just keeping the aircraft aerodynamically stable, they're keeping it comfortable/safe which is what "stable" means in this context (since it's a passenger jet).

Dropping 500 feet is nothing for the aircraft. That's a different story for the passengers.
Population pyramid is the new population density meme.

https://xkcd.com/1138/
And, really, I think he's referring to async I/O.

The thing is that Unix grew up w/o a network. Disk was slow though, so perhaps it could have had async I/O from the beginning, but... everything was slow, so maybe not. Most importantly the key is that when one is building something new, often one will build the easy stuff first, and synchronous metadata operations is definitely easier than async -- this is a lot easier to forgive 50 years ago than now because now we know that async matters a great deal, but 50 years ago it was a lot less clear.
Existing law surrounding anticircumvention already singles out game consoles as deserving special protection. i.e. the Copyright Office made it explicitly legal to circumvent the iPhone's DRM in order to install otherwise legal software, but they refused to extend this to game consoles. While you are technically correct that we should be treating game consoles the same as smartphones, in practice the industry treats game consoles as a locked down box to handcuff users with while smartphones are not.

I suspect if half the console market was unlocked ala the Steam Deck, the EU would be pushing for the other half to also be unlocked, too.

We also have to keep in mind that Epic sued Apple, not Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. A lot of monopoly maintenance involves obfuscating the business relationships that make the monopoly work. i.e. Apple doesn't report how much money they make from the App Store[0] because that information would be very useful to regulators looking to undo their monopoly. The discovery on the Apple lawsuit published a lot of this previously hidden information. In other words, the EU had Apple land on their plate ready to cook and serve.

Epic will not sue their console partners. The damage to their business would actually be a lot worse: instead of merely seeing Fortnite taken off the various console stores, the console manufacturers would be sending repo men to take away all the devkits Epic uses to test Unreal Engine, demanding they delete the console ports of the engine, and refusing to cert any new games using Unreal Engine, forcing all their partners to license different technology and rebuild their games from the ground up. It would be immediate and total financial suicide.

In other words, the console manufacturers are "getting away with it" because they had way more control over their niche than Apple did.

[0] Related note: there's an unenforced SEC rule that specifically forbids not reporting this information, to prevent monopolies from obfuscating their profit centers like this.
Actually, a lot of the kernel code has leaked in the past, so this question can be independently answered.

I know that there were a few leaks at different times. Some of it appears to be here:

https://github.com/0x5bfa/NT5.1
Personally, I feel your average student is likely to perform quite poorly for the first couple years at a real job regardless of the institution they attended.

It is all about the individuals!

I've worked with so many people who grew up poor or had other disadvantages, went to community college or their local city or state school, and then turned into fabulously productive and insightful people.

Conversely, I've worked with so many people who graduated from elite institutions who have not turned out so well.

I'm the first to admit that the elite institutions generate a higher hit rate, but not nearly high enough for me to discount people coming out of lesser schools.

One of the smartest (and richest!) guys I know graduated from San Jose State.

City College of New York has graduated more Nobel Prize winners than any other institution in the world!
Was this suicide by jumping out of window, like all of high profile suicides in russia?
Barnett spent 32 years at Boeing. This would be like everyone you've ever worked with in your career being against you.
The benefit of this is that you can use different emojis to denote content type.

e.g. if it's a frowny face you know it's an invoice.
> there was a demographic cliff coming up

Then ALL universities would see a drop in enrollment, except the ones at the very top of desirability list? Otherwise it could be attributed to other things like high cost of living or more useless degrees available in the university system.
There's a separate U.S. code for that which is not related to money laundering. The affidavit[1] another user linked accused the defendant of violating 18 U.S. Code § 1960[2], and D.C. Code § 26-1023[3] in addition to the money laundering law previously linked.

Those two laws make it illegal for businesses to transmit money without requesting all sorts of private information from their customers, and providing that information to the government under some circumstances.

In other words, under current U.S. law, yes, privacy is indeed a crime.

[1]: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.230...

[2]: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1960

[3]: https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/titles/26/chap...
Tuition and non-tuition costs have both absolutely skyrocketed and made CSUs unaffordable for a lot of people. I went to Cal Poly, my entire freshman year was ~$6000 in 1997. It was an even split between $3k tuition and 3k student housing/food. I could actually mostly pay my own tuition without finical aid, holding a part time campus job.

Today those numbers are $11.5k tuition and ~21.5k non-tuition (https://www.calpoly.edu/financial-aid/costs-and-affordabilit...) which is triple the inflation adjusted value from 1997. After 4 years (5 more likely) you're looking at > $125k in costs, which absolutely puts most people into massive loan debt. Even a part time job ($16/h) would offset barely a third of this.

CSU is just beyond expensive compared to 20 years ago.
FYI there is a typo on the pricing page under the pro plan.

"Generate up to 1'500 documents per month without watermark"

1,500 instead of 1'500
> Even Merced is seen as above Cal Poly.

Seen by who, exactly?

See how many of the lists below UC Merced appears in, how many Cal Poly SLO appears in:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/top-colleges-high-paying-jobs-t...

https://gizmodo.com/artificial-intelligence-college-program-...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/still-want-job-tech-top-12000...

https://www.payscale.com/college-salary-report/best-schools-...

https://qz.com/967985/silicon-valley-companies-like-apple-aa...

https://www.businessinsider.com/top-colleges-for-working-in-...

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/20-schools-most-grads-apple-153...

https://www.businessinsider.com/schools-with-the-most-alumni...
Now I know the strategy for our next board meeting…
If we don't, all of this will have been for nothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gU41J86Rrg8
Can't they take all the money out a month before they are planning to refuse to pay fine? I am pretty sure EU could never block Apple's fund unless they want to totally remove all the business from EU.
This feels oddly written.

For context to non-Brits, "The Sun" is a trashy UK tabloid, part of News Corp. Infamous for their alleged part in the phone hacking scandal, and for their bullshit coverage of the Hillsborough disaster (so unfathomably offensive it still has them effectively blacklisted in an entire region of the UK decades later.)

"Unstoppable Russian advantage: Challenger tank keeps getting stuck" is the title at time of posting, which is weird given the Russian tanks also apparently get stuck. Hardly unstoppable. And it seems Russia has lost far more Russian tanks than Ukraine has lost Western tanks thus far in the war.

"British tanks are designed for military trade shows but not for the battlefield?" They were designed in the eighties, and have served the British armed forces for roughly three decades. Not without issues, sure, and not designed specifically for Ukraine. But we've not lost many of them.

AFAIK less than a handful of Challenger 2's have been destroyed in operations, and one of them was friendly fire in Basra.

"We should be asking: Why were Western tanks deployed in Ukraine in the first place?"

We've given them to Ukraine for a number of reasons. Not least of which are: "We have them, we have infrastructure to support them, we have experience in them and can train Ukrainians here in them."

They aren't perfect for Ukraine. Heck, it's probably not perfect for us either. Will the Challenger 3 be perfect? But we're all having to do the best with what we have available.

Russia has lost MBTs hand over fist. They've been kept in an inch-by-inch fight for two years. They're absolutely stoppable, if the West gets back to giving Ukraine what it needs. While the Challenger 2 isn't ideal, pretty sure they'd still be glad of more of them.
sounds a bit like what Iceberg does with writes on parquet.
One of the cool tricks we can use is that since the testing is all fully deterministic, once we find an interesting point in a test run - even if it is “deep” into the run time wise - our system can start many new branches of test runs off of that moment or moments just prior. So it is much more efficient than having to re-do the work to get to that rare interesting moment for each new branch.
Linux is GPL licensed and has CLA. And it is open source in most definitions of open source.
My way of learning about Lisp was based on first principles, after reading Norvigs blogpost many times and working through SICP. What helped is that I had just finished the nand2tetris book, which is very much a first principles speedrun of how a computer works.

So I built my own Lisp machine based on the nand2tetris architecture, with lisp instructions supported on the simulated chip level. I'm currently in the progress of doing a writeup of the project, you can see my attempts here if you are interested: https://deosjr.github.io/

I have an almost working version of a REPL running on the machine now, including garbage collection and parsing Lisp with Lisp and passing the output to an eval function written in assembly (the operating system, if you will).
That may be exactly the story I was thinking of, or perhaps the original of a story I encountered on a GCP cloud post or something.
I mean, this explanation seems valid - more of a symptom of a poor/uncertain economy:

> According to the Education Data Initiative, college enrollment statistics indicate that more Americans are forgoing higher education; “some may be putting off college attendance to build savings.”
that's a lot of buzzwords but I don't see anything about the "OS" part. My definition of cloud-native OS is Bottlerocket and friends, and doesn't have anything to do with typescript
Bytecode interpreters/JITs are indeed ancient. However, JITs designed to safely confine malicious bytecode are most definitely not. Java or .NET VMs are probably the earliest examples, and the WASM infrastructure is using experience gained there.

My problem with eBPF is that it just ignored all of it, and proceeded to feature-creep an initially "simple" solution into a monster. The initial justification for the NIH stuff was: "but we need those static guarantees provided by the verifier, nothing else can do that". But of course, these justifications were forgotten as soon as the verifier became the limiting factor.
> using parts from scrap bins

This is a good micro-example. Scrap bins! Sounds horrible! But is it? Do you know? Or is it just common practice? Is it called a scrap bin in the media to drive a narrative, when really it's just a parts bin like any other?

We don't know.
I don't think anyone actually believes Putin personally organises many individual operations in foreign countries. You're just getting hung up on a common shortcut: "Putin" means "someone under Putin's (not even direct) command" here.
I'll repeat it: just looking for ways to charge people is a sickness.

A whole lot of people commenting on HN suffer from that sickness.

The answers to the questions I suggested help decide whether it's driven by creating value for customers or yet another manifestation of the parasitic "extraction" mentality (aforementioned "sickness").

I even quoted the part to which I was responding, yeah?

Yeah.
Yes! This is much under appreciated.

Usually, it’s just some core calculus of the language that is rigorously specified and the rest is hand waving.

There are some exceptions like JS.

But even Java has the problem that if you just implement what’s in the spec, you won’t be able to run anything meaningful unless you also do things exactly how the JDK would. You can find out what the JDK does by reading its code and writing test cases and I think that’s what folks do, if they want to be compatible.

UB and memory safety are orthogonal. If we specified formally and super rigorously that a pointer is an integer and that memory is an array of bytes, we could have a UB-free language but memory safety would still be on fire.
Real time operating systems are expensive to develop for and require laborious system validation. That's why we decided to use a custom version of Android Jelly Bean running on the latest MediaTek quad core processors featuring Arm Mali gpus. Sensor communications are handled wirelessly with BlueTooth. Be sure to turn off all electronic devices before the flight. :)
Luckily corporations are not the only structures in society. Courts, unions, citizens rights and democratically elected parliaments exist to counterbalance the incentives of the rich.
They may have to pay a premium to secure ~¼ of the output; certainly unlikely to be that steep a discount.
You are so terrified of government, and yet you don't recognise how powerful government actually is. You're scared of some overreaching law and excessive waste, but actually that's not what's happening here. This is the White House using its Bully Pulpit to effect change. That is at once more effective in this particular case (because a law forcing the use of a language would be unconstitutional) and less harmful (because people can choose to ignore it).
I can imagine some companies being afraid of pissing off the NYPD. If you have a presence in new york, a police department has lots of tools at their disposal to make your life miserable even if you haven't violated the law
Fair enough, hotels don't fully cover the entire AirBnB usecase, but cabin rentals and bed-and-breakfasts in the country have been around forever, too.

My point is, commercial rentals exist because of the problems AirBnB are having. They're trying to "disrupt" the industry by not providing the protections and safeguards to save money, and basically running into all of the problems that led to the commercial rental industry in the first place.

Their innovation is collecting a fee while pushing the dirty work off to unsophisticated 3rd party property owners.
> you think today's technology is comparable to farming?

That’s a not what “since” means.

If a technology causes social change, it will create winners and losers. Those winners tend to autocorrelate (inversely to the magnitude of the shift). As a result, small technological revolutions tend to result in a shift against the broader “us” while broader ones disempower an elite that tries to gain sympathy by aligning itself with that broader “us”. If it doesn’t do either of those, it is—almost by definition—not a technological shift that resulted in social change.

As a result, complaining about technology working against a nebulous “us” is basically saying we had technology that caused social change. Which isn’t a novel point.
"Curated system", not curated apps. Words matter and I chose those for a reason. The "gotcha" you attempted just makes it clear that you have no idea why the walled garden creates an environment that is more attractive to the average user.
Astro DB
The Llama models have played a large part in fostering the development of the open source LLM ecosystem, and I expect Llama3 to put in performance > mistral medium and anthropic haiku while being fully open and able to be run on consumer hardware.
That’s why I try to do 150,000 steps a week, I’ll live to be 120.
sorry, but no automated bullshit machine is going to do my job.
The market was considered captured when Apple and Google entered the market in 2007-2008, too.

The reality is that nothing prevents a new entrant from gaining marketshare, especially considering that the vast majority of apps people use every day are associated with services not created by Apple. I wouldn't want to, but I could move to Android tomorrow with relatively little friction.
FDA Approves Wegovy as First Treatment for Serious Heart Problems in Obese
Astro Studio / Astro DB goes live
"Fundamental issue" doesn't imply "hidden".
While I am not a lawyer, I think it’s pretty apparent you can’t sue someone for damages for participating in an action that you conspired to be a part of.
The angle is that by releasing cutting edge AI research to the public openly, the relative difference between open source models/tech and closed source tech shrinks.

Whether or not you think the "value" of AI products is proportional to their performance gap vs the next closest thing or not is up to you. Very interesting PG essay I read recently talks about the opposite of this (Superlinear returns) where if you're half as good as the next competitor, you don't get half the customers, you get 0.

Essay: https://paulgraham.com/superlinear.html