skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
John McWhorter has a book about this called The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language in which he's extremely skeptical of Sapir-Worf, particularly the sort of stoner linguistics "what if we're all, like, made of language maaaaaan" as it's usually described in what seems to be the biannual Popular Science article.

In fact, time perceived as volumetric rather than as a length is the specific example he uses and includes the actual research. There are extremely specific cases like this where it does in fact hold up but the effect is extremely minute, to the point that it's difficult to even measure properly. In most cases it doesn't hold up at all. But these very tiny barely measurable cases are often used as evidence for frankly nonsense claims so it's important not to extrapolate this to "Japanese blue and green are the same word so Japanese people must be colourblind", which is where people often take this.
I really wish he compared an m3 Mac to a 6 year old intel chip and not some random processor I’ve never seen or experienced that I’m not sure is even available in the usa
> apt is unpinnable, as old versions get removed

not necessarily, eg snapshot.debian.org

> pinning on hashes is architecture dependent

can't you pin the multi-arch manifest instead?

I still like StableBuild for protection against package deletion, and mirroring non-pinnable deps
> Housing is close to a perfectly-competitive market.

Pick any US jurisdiction (with the possible exception of Puerto Rico? I’m not very familiar with how taxation works there) and contemplate the tax implications of selling an appreciated property. Further contemplate how those implications are different for different potential buyers and sellers of that same property at the same price. Then say again that it’s perfectly competitive.

Hint: there are all manner of effects here. Capital gains. The basis step up at death. 1031 exchanges and their associated rules. Transfer fees, title fees (which is pretty close to being a tax).

(I’m not the one who downvoted you.)
I can't say I'm sad about properly pricing in the externalities of the world's least efficient and most wasteful food delivery mechanism.
While will AGI work for humans doing coding ?

Will you pay it a wage to incentivise it to produce work for you ? lol
I cannot speak for all the COBOL implementations, but what I've seen is that a company will purchase and implement a new COTS ("Commercial Off The Shelf") back-office application such as ERP - Financials, HR, CRM, EPM, etc. Something that's boring to techies but critical bread and butter for a company.

That application may well have some COBOL in it. It's sold as new, but such big applications will have bits that were written 3 months ago and bits that were written 20 years ago.

Now the company has a shiny new application that has some COBOL.

ERPs are living applications. Legislation changes, markets change, company's needs change, so ERPs are both customized and updated and expanded. So you need some COBOL expertise depending how active you want to be about it.

(note: a typical techie, including myself a decade ago, will typically see insanity in this and think something like "Payroll???? How hard can THAT be??". Like being a parent or living through a civil war, nobody can truly explain this to another human being that hasn't been through it :-)
Google (in its heyday)
HN doesn't really deal with hardware much so it's not surprising that it hasn't been discussed. In the server world CXL has been a big topic.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240316234109/https://forum.ope...
I understand that old programs are extremely stable, but I don't understand why they are relevant. The world changes so much, why are these programs still useful?
Eh. There are ways in which their lives are easier and more zen :)
(I am using Wayland right now while posting this. Also, there was an MR for GTK4 for months, as it turns out.)
> WiFi works fantastic, iCloud is perfect but Messages/FaceTime wouldn’t connect at all.

This stuff is just bizarre. Are those apps not using the OS for network services or something?
Why is truly hard to believe a fact, or two?

Last I heard, facts don't have to be believed; they just exist.
Apple no longer self-hosts their open source code and moved it all to GitHub
Meanwhile, the rest of society is better off because they're no longer paying the societal cost of effectively subsidizing the infrastructure of rich people who're paying to have a single lukewarm diet coke hand-delivered from the McDonald's down the block.
Apple seems to have just stopped self-hosting their open source code and all old links 404. Google/DDG still have it in the index and Apple doesn't offer a redirect or warning. GitHub is now the only source. They link to various projects here: https://opensource.apple.com/releases/

I'm slightly sad because I used to appreciate it that when I searched for obscure macOS internal strings that the source code would come up.
Food delivery has been happening for many decades, if not longer, and the price for delivery as a percentage of the overall cost has never been higher. Why has it become so much less efficient recently?
As a web developing illiterate, I wonder how hard would be writing a browser extension that loads a page, does infinite scroll in memory and in background, then while it is still loading the infinite stuff, splits the content in pages and shows them instead, so that the user can go back and forth to page numbers. This wouldn't reduce the network and system load, however navigating the results would be much more friendly.
PUBG is now a very special beast: It's CPU bound = we are unlikely to ever see a "AAA" game with anything beyond it's complexity for eternity. You can run it on a 1030 GPU at 60 FPS.
I’m uncertain what your point is. Like I said, in ZFC, there is no bijection from A to its power set. I don’t think anything you’ve stated contradicts that. Are there alternative axiom systems in which you can construct such a bijection?
How is this a solar problem? The article clearly states there’s diesel pumps as well that do the same thing.
(But don't under any circumstances break the four other trackers already running on the site.)
> competition

It's this. Ghana and Kenya have some of the most robust fintech industries in Africa.
Discourse, not Discord.
Yes, on Thursday Google ended their only viable "product".

RIP Google.

The new Reddit is unusable, and the old is well too old.

Twitch is borderline usable, with chat and video stream problems...

The list is long...

All changes are bad when you have the final formula because they are job security.

Eventually the monkeys on this ball of dirt will realize that jobs and money don't exist, but then it will be to late... oh that is now!

RIP Humans.
SOC 2 compliant. Tells you exactly how useful SOC compliance is.
And there are gasses other than Oxygen that can make flames. For instance look up youtubes of Hydrogen & Chlorine flame. So even if flames are necessary, I'm not convinced that Oxygen must be necessary.
thing is, boss is not a dev. He is a business man.
Now that's the anti-corporate side the original comment was trying to say these stations weren't. Sounds like they had good fun.
Why the hyperbole? Restaurant delivery service has been around for decades but it’s never had such a high overhead as it does today.

It’s amazing how throwing all kinds of computing power and fancy apps at the problem has made the process so much less efficient than when someone picked up the phone and called the restaurant and food would show up at their door.
Seriously.

>> On cue, news stories started popping up of $26 coffees, $32 sandwiches, and $35 Wingstop orders in which taxes and the new fee comprised nearly 30 percent of the total.

If people aren't leveraging below-minimum wage labor to get a single coffee delivered by a driver, whatever will we do?

There was a time before food delivery apps, and it was better.
Sounded more like like they choose who their bosses like so they don't have to do as much convincing, to me
My buddy's wife has a business degree and her first company had her learn Cobol for a couple of months (never had programmed before). I'm not sure where that went after the training, but apparently it's still a thing (this was only a few years ago).
Db2 actually implements SQL/PSM, which is more than can be said for Sybase/Microsoft SQL Server.

I'm not sure if this extends to all three Db2 variants, namely Mainframe, AS/400 derivatives, and UDB for Linux and Windows (I hope so).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM

IBM supposedly got the PSM code from EnterpriseDB/Postgres.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/news/enterprisedb-and-ibmr-coll...

https://www.internetnews.com/blog/ibm-gets-compatible-with-o...
What do you mean by voice and video?
Why would I want to have voice in a forum? I think that would be akin to receiving voice messages in messengers.
Or do you mean, that for these kinds of things a widget can be displayed? That certainly is possible in old style forums. It is just HTML, an embed code away.
It’s an expression
Food delivery has existed for a long time at much lower cost than today. What recent developments has made it so much less efficient?
> The difference, of course, is that my order wasn't the only thing on the boat.

The difference is the Universal Postal Union. China gets preferential treatment including $1 terminal fees and the ability to subsidize the cost for export. It’s only cheap because everyone else is required to pay more than their fair share.

Sounds a lot like food delivery.
VC money dried up, and lighting piles of cash on fire stopped being as cool.
What about "printing" braille characters on a continuous rotating reusable tape?

Those silicone "popper fidget" toys come to mind as something that are flexible, could be cheaply mass produced, and could hold a given state at the "print" head. It might be possible to embed small metal ball bearings inside that are moved between the outer & inner surface to increase tactility.

The print head just needs enough actuators to change the state of a given column of dots as the tape is rotating past, and a feed motor to move the tape.
All SOC tells you is that there is a process being (mostly) followed. Always review the reports for your vendors and follow up on any findings or gaps that show up.

It's surprisingly common for places to be SOC compliant, yet their latest report has half a dozen or more gaps/findings.
For those who are claiming they should dismiss this paper because it was written by Credit Suisse (who have collapsed), I will weigh in as someone who works in a bank. The people who wrote this would have had absolutely nothing to do with the banks risk management or corporate decision making, and so exist more or less orthogonally from the people who caused its collapse. This is doubly true given European regulation which requires segregation of business lines within the bank: you even see the report is produced by ‘credit suisse research institute’ which will produce+sell research separately from the risk taking parts of the business. Not saying it’s correct/not prone to groupthink but the people writing will be some of the top economists/research analysts out there.
Perhaps this will be an unpopular opinion but I would like to see this go a step further. If I paid for a digital version of something and later I decide to get a DVD, I should get a significant discount on that DVD or some digital credit that is at least half of what I paid for the digital content.
This opens the door for supply chain attack. Removing mintlify and auditing other integrations ASAP should be considered as #1 priority.
We stopped exploiting high school kids?
That's a very techie view (and I speak as, largely, one:)

Core accounting principles don't change so much. Core payroll principles don't change so much. Core finance principles don't change so much.

We have a technology-oriented view that "world changes so much", but there are domains where that's true, and domains where that's not true.

Several times in my life I had the luck to have a mentor ask me, when I propose some obvious technological change and improvement, "what's the business advantage? If I let you spend X amount of hours over Y days to accomplish technical change Z, in which way will the business be better?"

In the world of startups and ___-tech, technology stacks matters and change and it's a whirlwind world of frameworks and languages and webapps stuff.

But in the core, back-office, cost-centre business of the company... the rules are complicated and numerous but in a way stable enough that solid stable complex software from 30 years ago still has value.
Expiry of near zero interest rate.
Modern cloud backend data processing is 5 9s reliable too, for very core stuff, not all the app frontends and minor features.
US prosecutors are investigating how Meta played a part in illegal drug sales
The big difference is I think Cobol typically (but not always) requires knowledge of the mainframe as well, while Java more or less requires some basic OS knowledge, JVM, and all the boilerplate.

Edit: mainframes seem neat, but I wouldn't want to code in either personally.
Cheaper to run constantly.
It's cheaper to extract the water than it used to be.
Diesel has a consumable that must be purchased when the pump is run.

With solar, there's presumably less difference between "run the pump 24/7" and "only run the pump when cost efficient."

It's essentially the same argument in favor of solar power generation. Fossil fuel generation = plant-capital-cost + fuel-per-generated-unit. Solar generation = plant-capital-cost + negligible-wear-per-generated-unit.
But the VC backed apps had much higher delivery charges than the old “call the restaurant” approach, even when they were being subsidized. Why was it so much more expensive?
Food delivery used to be arranged by source, and multiple orders per outing. A pizza delivery driver would usually do 3, maybe 4 orders in a run. Similar with other places, if they had enough business to justify a delivery driver. Good delivery restaurants would coordinate kitchen and drivers so neither orders nor drivers would wait long for the other. Pizza in particular is ideal for delivery, because most people want to let it sit for a bit before they eat it.

Food delivery as an external service from anywhere has poor coordination. Many restauarants don't get enough orders to have a batch delivery. Many food items need to be eaten right away, so the driver needs to idle at the restaurant for best service, which kills efficiency.
IMS is a hierarchical database.

Under OS2200, DMS is also a hierarchical database, and (unfortunately) we use it.

My developers have described it as the Fort Knox of databases, being very difficult to get data out.
Linux is for work. I wouldn’t consider running anything else (Windows, MacOS, FreeBSD, etc.) for my services.
TBH I was expecting something about plugging humans into a huge bioenergy farm and letting them live out their lives in a simulation.
Food delivery used to be done mainly by employees of each restaurant. Not every restaurant offered delivery and the delivery area was usually limited to a few miles.
They definitely didn't, at least at the beginning.

You could often get $0 delivery charge, with no order minimum.
Making a per order tax/fee isnt the right method to achieve their goals, and actually hurts these delivery drivers. To write a living wage law, you need to look at the income not a fee/tax on the task performed.

Thats why route delivery (like grocery/elderly meal delivery/lunch runs) can keep the costs down.

Truck drivers are also having lots of issues with lowering incomes also, and corporations are trying to push the expenses on them. Another area you need to look at the entire model and figure out how the truck driver makes money and what is hurting them. (dispatch services, gas prices, insurance, lines, etc)

Long wait times are hurting many delivery type services with rising expenses.
It's not, really. I mean, at the margins, sure, I'm sure the "Meat Industry" does some lobbying. But this is 99.42% culture war. Florida republicans aren't trying to do a random favor for a niche industry[1], they're banning their political enemies to excite their base.

This would be like trying to get woke votes by putting "Pronoun Choice" as a field on your government tax forms or whatever. Except of course that this is actually happening.

[1] A quick google says that the USA meat market revenue is about half of Apple's or a quarter of what Amazon pulls in. This is a real industry, but not a big one.
The worst part is that you can't even leave the store without buying anything, without having to call security over to get them to open the receipt gate for you

The people in charge of these moves need a hard kick in the ass
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Inspired by recent post about how bloated is the www today.
To be fair, it is usually difficult to tell the difference between 243 tracking scripts and 244.
I agree that bitcoin is definitely in trouble if there's a powerful totalitarian world government that can unilaterally hack anything, stop any internet service via backdoors and packet manipulation, potentially break double SHA-256 encryption and send invincible commandos into any location without any kind of repercussions.
> Remember this the next time marketing asks the frontend team to implement that new tracking script and everyone assumes that users won't even be able to tell the difference.

I mean, maybe they can but the business doesn't care. If you polled "users" of cable television I doubt anyone would say they prefer the experience of commercials.
What are you going to do once Intel is no longer supported ?
Because teenagers are much better off staring zombie like at a screen, instead of earning money providing a service for people in a task that requires at least a little social interaction.
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Show HN: Interactive Smartlog VSCode Extension – An Interactive Git GUI
Interactive Smartlog is a graphical VSCode extension that presents a simplified view of the Git log, directly highlighting the branches and commits that are most relevant to your current work. And it's not just a visual tool — it's fully interactive, allowing you to add/switch/remove branches, stage/unstage files, and manage commits directly from the GUI.

This tool draws inspiration from Meta's Interactive Smartlog built for the Sapling source control system, and I've adapted it to work with Git. Transitioning the functionality from Sapling to Git wasn't just about a one-to-one feature transfer; it involved changing how data is queried & presented, as well as introducing UI interactions for several Git concepts (like branches, staging/unstaging changes, etc) which are not present in the Sapling source control system.

Originally a personal project to enhance my own workflow, I've published the extension on the VSCode marketplace for anyone who would like to use it. I'm keen to hear your feedback and suggestions, as community input is invaluable in shaping its future updates.
That's a pretty time limited sale. I doubt the stock of unsold M1s is huge. It's also $700 for a new but essentially 3+ year old machine.
Cellphones transformed Africa, by leapfrogging over the need to build wired infrastructure, even before many people had their own phone at all, let alone smartphone! A shared dumbphone at the post office was like the Oracle of Delphi, spreading information about weather for farmer, transmitting money, amd other applications.
no, i meant 11-12 in total suggesting that i've typically seen 6 fingers rather than 7 or 8. AI is clearly trying to mess with Iñigo Montoya
I also have a degree in CS from a Polish university, but my degree was actually taught in English.

I had a pretty good understanding of CS before I started college, so I assumed that a degree in English would be better because of how prevalent English is in this field. I... was wrong.

Most professors were not great at speaking the language. Funnily enough, the average student, whether Polish or otherwise, was far better at it than the average professor. Most of the course materials we had were direct translations of their Polish equivalents, usually done by the professors themselves, despite the fact that far higher-quality materials in English were available on the internet. Some of the translations were subtly wrong, one professor consistently used compresion[sic] when he actually meant conversion and twice when he meant times. I've even seen words, error messages and documentation snippets that were translated to Polish in the original materials, and then (badly) translated back to English.
The "mathsy" situation can be more difficult than most think.

GNU COBOL uses GNU MP by default for calculations, instead of IEEE-754, which came decades later.

Not understanding the math of COBOL has led to many failed porting attempts.

https://medium.com/the-technical-archaeologist/is-cobol-hold...
Yes, we need to go back to this. Delivery should only be available when it makes economic sense.
I think that everyone knows that's a pretty ridiculous statement. Installing Windows 11 is basically putting in a USB stick, waiting about 8 minutes, clicking a few things and typing out your login and password. I love Linux, first started playing with it about 20 years ago now. There's not a single dist I've ever seen that is that simple. Just a basic fact, sorry.
it wasn't.
> [June 2024] v6 MoE model

How does that work for RWKV architecture? Wouldn't you have to feed the same data through all the experts regardless if they're currently active or not to keep the rolling state consistent? Or am I misunderstanding that architecture?
> The COVID vaccine showed no efficacy for children

This is false. Please don’t spread misinformation here. Finally, please consider the possibility that your reasoning skills are not sufficient for the conclusions you’re making.
Why is it exploitation for a high school kid to have a part time job? Teaching youngsters the value of a dollar and giving them some life/work experience seems like a good thing to me.
I have a Palm Phone. I generally consider web browsing to be almost impossible no it at this point lol
Looks like they ran a Puma factory/office of some descriptions, would be very interesting to see what the software they made for them does.

https://www.ibm360.co.uk/?page_id=22
It's usually a poor reason.
Calling the GNU Image Manipulation Program "GIMP" was kinda funny and punny, and maybe humble, but not wise.

Inkscape or Krita have less poignant, but more reasonable name. (But yes, such an approach removes some of the teenage fun from doing a project.)
Professor Rafael Núñez (UCSD) wrote a bit about this:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-we-make-sense....
Best Buy recalls more than 250k Insignia air fryers
Intel's desktop CPUs do not support ECC, you need a Xeon for that. The Xeon E would be their cheapest option, if you're okay with 20 PCIe lanes on a Raptor Lake Xeon.

And yeah, AMD's Desktop ECC support is sketchy because it's basically "Good luck finding a motherboard that supports it, and also hope the BIOS supports it". That's why I went with EPYC, because it's guaranteed.
Indeed. These food delivery apps/services don't seem to be able to survive without screwing over outlets, drivers/riders, and customers... which says to me that they're not real businesses, they aren't a benefit to society, and the sooner they disappear, the better.