skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a surprising amount of good info here about very first IRISes. I ended up with 3 of the very first IRIS 1400 workstations mentioned in the post which NASA Ames bought; at least one of which is still in working order. They were my first unix workstations (running a Unisoft-based sysv/bsd hybrid pre-IRIX variant), and is where I first learnt UNIX, C, IRIS GL, vi and lots of other good stuff. Irritatingly they shipped with an XNS rather than TCP/IP network stack (although I did get hold of a beta IP stack, I never got it work). I did get XNS working on a LAN using their EXOS 101 ethernet cards tho.

In case anyone's interested, their graphics card (GE1, the world's first ever hardware 3D graphics card?) looks like:

https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/m...

...and the PM2 68k processor card mentioned in the post looks like:

https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/m...

...and one of the machines itself looks like:

https://matrix-client.matrix.org/_matrix/media/v3/download/m...

Suffice it to say that I have a very soft spot for these machines :)
That’s really funny for some reason.
I've always wondered why the family that pays full price for tuition does not get the tax credit for their charitable contribution to some other student whom they subsidize.

If I donated $20k to a university, I'd get to write that off as a charitable contribution in my taxes. If I pay full tuition and 1/3 of that goes to a student needing aid, I get no deduction.
I remember living on the 30th floor in Manhattan during Sandy. I grew up in a hurricane-prone area so remembered to fill the tub.

Watching all the water slosh around as the building swayed was... disconcerting.
Just in general I would like to say that flipping the question like this is a great way to look at all aspects of a problem. Similarly "why would the price of housing decrease?" etc
Very cool. The article talks about typewriter repair as a dying craft. This is no joke. In had a Hermes 3000 restored about 8 years ago, and even then there were only 2 shops in the LA area, and they charged an arm and a leg for the work. Totally worth it though.
I was at the MySQL conference when it was announced that Oracle was buying Sun. It just took all the life out of the conference. All the Sun folks were super pissed off. Truly the end of an era.
I would think classical mechanisms of price determination don't really make sense when there's a brand new market: customers don't know how much things "should" cost and businesses can't make decisions via comparison to competitors. So there is some arbitrariness in setting the initial prices - you can't do market research without an established market.

This is especially true with these data brokers, since it's not like "cost of materials and labor + a profit margin" makes sense. In this particular case data is more like a new commodity than a manufactured good.
Went to Prague last year and saw the very windows that at least one defenstration used. It was so high up and the window sills and leaves were combined about 5ft wide. So it's not like they just knocked someone through glass. They had to really push them off the ledge. Really sad how some hotheads triggered some of the wars in Europe.

If they really thought the guys were so evil, they should have tried them, not defenestrated them. They knew better.
Some versions of IRIX (4.x, maybe?) also defaulted to having X11 authentication disabled. Anyone in the office could "xmelt" your screen... or worse.
Ask HN: Strategies to teach 10 year old web development
My son ( 10 ) wants to build his own website and wants to do it using HTML/CSS.
He doesn't want to use a website builder as he wants to understand how it works fundamentally.

I set up a netifly hosted html file to start out with and have taught him the basics of HTML and CSS and how to link to other pages.

Any tips to teach him the fundamentals?
You can't say the market is bearing it when the college market is being sustained by government-backed funding via student loans. If the market were really bearing it, government's involvement would be minimal to non-existent.
Agreed. I would have thought that as well.
> It's completely ridiculous that households making 300K or whatever (which is barely enough to support a family in many cities in the nation)

...Is this /s? $300k is sufficiently enough to support a family of 4 in literally any city in the U.S., including NYC & LA.

Outside of those 2 major cities, $300k/y for a family is more than enough.
I could have sworn that config.cache used to be on by default. And indeed it was until autoconf-2.50 which was released in 2001.
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> I'd lean pretty heavily towards capitalism in a contest with communism or any other authoritarian system strictly based on personal liberty.

Freedom to form death squads, Banana Republics, establish indefinite [US] embargo and coup attempts, help out Pinochet & the Chicago Boys, freedom to invade countries just because they are communist.
That's interestingly exactly the case for me if I close my eyes. Through the eyelids I can tell dark, neutral and bright.
Yea they are limiting their growth by not giving a peek. It's a world of difference. Try it via API for $0.50.
The issue that's trying to be solved with std::launder is essentially around lifetime issues, which strict provenance doesn't really solve. Strict pointer provenance is about fixing the semantics of int-to-pointer, which requires tweaks to pointer-to-int. std::launder, by contrast, is trying to fix cases where memory is being validly reused after the language thinks the object is dead--it's the kind of thing you might need to use to implement an allocator, for example, although you already have screwy effective type rules breaking you that std::launder doesn't fix.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39941608
Why is this presumed to be a bad thing?

College attendance and graduation rates are higher than at any point in the past, so the cost isn't actually keeping people from going to college (or at least, isn't keeping people from going to college more than they were kept from going to it 50 years ago).

In general, the income premium from a college education is much greater than the debt accrued to get that education, which is why people still take the deal. (There's people on the margins for whom that isn't true and I think most of the reform/bailout effort should involve them.)

Is this actually something that needs to be "fixed"?
This is hilarious, and the implied weightings seem representative of Bay Area reality.

In the US, "Asian" is understood in common speech to mean "East Asian," as opposed to "Indian" or "South Asian." That particular objection feels disingenuous. The article was strong enough without it.
> What's actually stopping the elite schools from doubling their tuition in a single year?

If a school doubled tuition, it would be less competitive and fewer of the best students would choose to apply and enroll there. That would make that school less elite.

> What forces would actually cause colleges to lower their tuition?

Increased supply and/or lowered demand.
While not part of Tornado Alley, the west coast does get tornadoes. There was at least one when I lived there, and I think I heard about another within the past year (maybe two). The one when I lived there actually started as a waterspout and came across the beach near Santa Monica to be reclassified as a tornado.
In Defense of Boring Books
>You can buy a cheap Mac and easily write programs for it.

Interesting. How cheap?
Never used Macs, only Windows and Unix and Linux.
A serious concern is how mining operations won't really be observed as much when they're working at the bottom of the sea. Blowing up a mountain may be subject to witnesses - at least satellite imagery for very rural areas. On the other hand, who can observe the actions of deep sea mining? There won't always be an enormous oil slick to let the public know that someone has been reckless down below.
Towards the end they state: ‘… just adding “do not hallucinate” has been shown to reduce the odds a model hallucinates.’ I find this surprising and doesn’t fit with my understanding of how a language model works. But I’m very much a novice. Would this be due to update training including feedback that marks bad responses with the term “hallucinate”?
I'm saying it may resolve naturally, if any of the overpriced university decides that over charging for education is not in line with their ethics.
College was/is/remains one of the biggest factors in determining incoming levels and general success in life.
> We need to stop giving out easy loans to anyone who asks.

Right, by not having student loans backed by the federal government. As it stands now, if you put glasses on a dog he could get a student loan because lenders have no incentive to scrutinize the debt. The federal government collects for them.

We're pushing people with absolutely no financial experience and no financial training to sign up for debt they can never get rid of without what's effectively economic indentured servitude.
No payment methods are free...
> Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while content farms explicitly optimize for articles that rank highly in search. The outcome is inevitable.

I think it has less to do with that, and more to do with the fact that their primary business is advertising. That is and will always be their first priority.
H2O-Danube-1.8B: Technical Report
In the big picture, I think that an employer has the obligation to provide any equipment that is needed to do the job.

In the case of something like TOTP, though, I wouldn't insist that they provide a phone to use for it because it works without talking to any servers (unless I don't have a smartphone, of course).

My concern is to keep my employer's business and my personal business off of each other's systems. So if there's a requirement to use an app or to interact with company systems, then my employer needs to supply the equipment necessary to do that.
My mom gifted the Zahn books to me as they were published. I enjoyed them immensely. We lived in Portland, and IIRC Zahn lived in Eugene which seemed incredible to me someone was crafting the Star Wars universe from so nearby.

My interest in the games was primarily in X-Wing and its expansions B-Wing, etc. Poured many hours into those eventually some of Tie Fighter.

I think I did get a copy of Dark Forces but I think I got stuck and I moved on to something with more play action.
Better yet, have your AI come back here and laugh on your behalf to save yourself some legwork.
You mean like involve itself in housing by requiring the industry to grant a certain amount of home loans to make the "American Dream" a reality, thereby creating a housing market bubble, then when the bubble popped and tanked the economy, blamed it on the banks?
"Deep Utopia" by Nick Bostrom
I think more than "text content generated before 2021" we'll have a curated list of sources, either online or physical publishers / content generators that will have a quality classification based on how good their content governance is.
I find Robert Sapolsky’s argument against free will more convincing than Kevin Mitchell’s argument for free will.
For what it’s worth, I’ve found using Perplexity Pro (with Claude 3 Opus) to exceed the accuracy of asking a non-expert armed with Google Search and a few minutes of time.
There an easy way to fix this:

Have a set price per semester hour that the college/university is allowed to charge.

Colleges/universities are free not to abide by this, but in that case they get zero federal funds, including research grants or student loans, and they get treated like a for profit which means no more tax deductible donations.

Once you set a limit on how much they can charge, the colleges will iron out the inefficiencies themselves.
AI Image generators fail spectacularly at many kinds of prompts. Is this really remarkable ?.
Interesting. I thought blind developers would be working 100% on a UNIX command line, using tools like ed for text editing (no GUI or TUI).

Related: "Command Line Programs for the Blind", by Karl Dahlke [1]

[1] http://www.eklhad.net/philosophy.html
I think it won't be AI that causes the collapse of university attendance. It will be people deciding not to go to college.

Most people just want jobs. Many employers are finding out that people with or without college educations can perform at their tasks, think critically and do all the same functions at most jobs. Ergo, folks will choose not to go into student debt purgatory and just dive straight into the workplace.
I'll note that one could say the same about any specific feature that improves a study. There's a list of ways that a study could go wrong, and if nine aspects are good, that doesn't rule out the tenth being awful enough to torpedo the conclusion.
We're commenting on an government reporting ripping them to shreds in public, and the FTC already announced an investigation into the AI shenanigans, and not just OpenAI.

Please don't self-peasantize or induce it in others.
> He's trying to evoke sympathy by providing very limited information as to why the landlord made that call.

I can see why. The justice system failed to let him have a chance to defend himself, and left him to deal with random people who think one side of a story is the whole story.

> asking him what he has to say about that.

Frankly, it's none of your business. Call your congressman and complain about the justice system and ensuring people get a chance in court when it is obvious the state is going to lose.

> Would you want this guy living in your house, in close proximity to your children, after finding out these charges and the circumstances of his arrest?

These days, I live in a country that respects people's privacy. So, I probably wouldn't even know. But also, in this country, pedophilia is usually dealt with by lynching before the cops even show up.
Subsidizing and augmenting demand. The State Department grants about 500,000 F-1s every year. COVID curtailed that a little, but the numbers have since recovered.
The US thanks to the Federal Reserve, they were pretty disciplined about it up until 1971.
For some reason "defenestration" sounds like disemboweling to me, but every time I mention this to german speakers they also point out that "fenster" means "window"
Periodical Cicada Emergence
The man has lied and mislead numerous times, kind of hard to take his word on anything
If it was the 1618 one (that's the one you can see from the courtyard), they wrestled him out the window and then beat his hands with their scabbards as he hung on to the sill for dear life. Fortunately he landed in a pile of horse manure and suffered only minor injuries.
Thanks for sharing. I've been meaning to learn to use autoconf; autoconf caching and your autoswc tool seem really useful!
This is just the same "horse riding an astronaut" problem. You have to mask the image and extend.
But can they imagine a black woman with an asian man?
I agree that having counterfeit bills be accepted on par with "genuine" ones is counterintuitive. I disagree that it's not rational. As I implied with the quotemarks, once there is no central bank or central government, a "genuine" bill is merely one that was printed earlier than "counterfeit" ones. As discussed in comments, in such a scenario, bills (whether "genuine" or not) become commodity currency like gold coins.

I seriously doubt that Somalis kept using shillings out of confidence that they would be worth something again; such hopes would have disappeared years ago. The author alludes to the real reason but doesn't explore it: The currency is still convenient for use where actual dollars, or electronic versions, are not available. Shades of Fallout's bottle caps.

I'm not surprised that the IMF would encourage the return to a sovereign currency. IMF has historically been non-encouraging of dollarization, despite its consistent track record of a) working when instituted by the government (Panama, Ecuador, El Salvador), and b) being preferred by the people when they lack confidence in the official currency (Argentina, Myanmar, Somalia itself, and pretty much the entire rest of the non-developed world).
Nothing about this sounds like it requires a special cable.
The only real question here is if it's to your advantage to advertise a lower price and then tack on a credit card processing fee or advertise a higher price and then provide a discount for cash/bank transfers.

The first gives you a lower advertised price but then irks customers when they find out about the extra charge. The second gives you a higher advertised price, which could be worse depending on the nature of the business.

But the proposed alternative where you charge the same to everybody and incorporate it into the advertised price requires you to use the higher advertised price, which has no advantage over the second option regardless of whether or not the second option is better than the first.
My issue, going from Plex to anything else, is that it would render things like my AppleTV useless.
Cupy covers some of Numpy and some Scipy. IIRC you can even get it working by just changing the import and adding a little boilerplate, in some cases.
There is a virus that cause the same effects on trouts. Submarine explosions and sonars also do the same.
Why do you think this? I'm totally blind and find Chat GPT to be useful for quick answers to questions instead of searching through SEO spam and low quality tutorials. I find Copilot to be sueful for better code completion and helping to write basic unit tests. I don't find that it can actually write complex code for me. I very well may be using the tools wrong though.
Does pinsyscall mean Cosmo will no longer work on OpenBSD?

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan
Obvious xkcd 2347 mention
They not yet discovered Site Defaults and config.site
Breakthrough drug trial saw cancer vanish in every patient (2022)
Times changed though, too, and Tramiel couldn't replicate his success w the C64 at Atari Corp, despite bringing the same philosophy (and many key engineers) over there.

By the late 80s the "microcomputer" hobby/games market was dead and systems like the ST and Amiga (or Acorn Archimedes, etc.) were anachronisms. You had to be a PC-compat or a Mac or a Unix workstation or you were dead. Commodore and Atari both tried to push themselves into that workstation tier by selling cheaper 68030 machines than Sun, etc, but without success.
UConn's coach uses a $40 portable washer on his lucky underwear
Although doesn't the Dale Carnegie book focus mostly on being a good listener and using emotional intelligence? Prompt engineering doesn't seem to be very similar to this AFAIK.
> On the 10th of July in 2003, SGI vacated and leased their headquarters to Google.

I was around to witness the he tail end of that office space transition (on the incoming side at Google). It was surreal to be sitting in the physical carcass of a company I had long fantasized about (in part due to their marketing via Hollywood).

In retrospect it was ironic because a company that was based on selling very expensive high performance compute (SGI) was being physically replaced by a company selling (albeit indirectly) very cheap high performance compute.
> - What forces would actually cause colleges to lower their tuition?

Decoupling education from certification would work. Most people are willing to pay so much for college because they need certification; they're forced to pay for the education, whether or not they actually learn anything.

The Federal government could mandate that any school that's eligible for funds has to make the certification open to anyone, and also make sure that the certifications themselves around coupled together (you don't need a certification in Art History to get certified in Biochemistry). If people can pass the Harvard certification for, say, Harvard Astrophysics, then they get a Harvard Astrophysics degree the same as someone who took classes at Harvard and passed the certification.

It's known that bundling items together is usually a good way to force people to buy things they don't want. People talk about this all the time when it comes to cable bundles. But our higher education system is based on bundling a lot of things together, so when people are trying to acquire what they need, they're forced to pay for many things they don't.
I think the common root here is the Latin word "fenestra". There is also the French word "fenêtre".
The number of students is irrelevant. The government will secure your student loans and the only way you can get rid of them is to die. When a school can basically decide how much money they want, wave a magic wand and the money arrives in their bank account, it's going to skyrocket exactly like it has.
Federal loan limits for the first year of undergrad are $5,500 for dependents and $9,500 for independents, so they can’t be blamed for a single year costing $100K.
I don't run any secret military units (that I'm willing to admit to), but I do leave occasional product reviews on Amazon under a pen name.

I discovered that I was doxxed by creating a Goodreads account from the same email address, now that Amazon owns Goodreads.
https://www.sciencealert.com/light-speed-electrons-discovere...
Points for quite possibly the most useless article I've read in a while. Thanks
How Will the Solar Eclipse Affect Your Solar Panels' Performance?
Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon found liable in US civil fraud trial
Regarding “declining the dragon”: In my case “doing the brave thing” doesn’t feel good. It is the moment of greatest suffering and is usually followed by some useless anxiety that takes some time to dissipate. That’s why I’m avoiding it. It is only by recognizing that the suffering will end only after doing the brave thing that I can challenge the dragon.
If you have already informed your manager of your observations and your feelings, then you have already done all that is necessary, because your coworker's level of performance is not your responsibility.

> This person's apathy and laziness is really starting to affect my ability to do good work.

This is a problem you actually have control over, so this is what you should probably focus on. Your coworker's behavior is not directly harming your productivity, after all; your feelings about the situation are doing that. If you want to keep this job, as it sounds like you do, you may need to accept that your underperforming coworker is a fact of life, then figure out how to get over it - you cannot control what, if anything, management will choose to do about the situation.
Are you planning to run these containers in the same Pod? And/or what is the deployable unit going to be?
He's written loads of good stuff!
Robotic face makes eye contact, uses AI to anticipate and replicate smiles