skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh.

Worked at a university in the early 90s.

Maybe irix was okay to use if you were just sitting in front of it doing rando user / graphics things, but administering it was unbearable. The license fees to get OS updates were exorbitant; you'd have to get wacky new licenses to enable NFS or NIS and you'd need new kernels for just about anything.

As far as I could tell they were a cursed company that hated their users. "Here's a pretty thing that does one thing well but is otherwise insane and will ruin you when you need it most."

Good riddance.
I mean… who’s to say you aren’t operating these for nefarious purposes and the last thing you want to do is have them go back to a central location? Or if they are part of a defensive perimeter, or a long haul operation, where centralized service is problematic? These could be used for power line infrastructure observation and possibly even repairs at some point.
There probably are exemptions for emergency or defense applications.
Pascal's Scams (ii) (2012)
Maybe it’s written in “pure Java” in the sense that the Minecraft source code is all Java. (Maybe. I don’t know.)

However, it definitely has dependencies that are not pure Java. I think Minecraft used to use LWJGL, I’m not sure if Minecraft does use it any more, but I wouldn’t be surprised if LWJGL or other libraries dropped 64-bit platform support for various reasons. Inside LWJGL there’s use of JNI.
Yep. With IntelliJ you just install the ideavim editor plugin with default settings then get to work.

https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim

Or you can waste months pissing around with Vim plugins to create a poor mans IDE out of sticks and stones like a caveman.
I certainly shouldn't, as I am not American and don't live in the US, but I can trust that they'll do whatever is best for the US, even if it's unreasonably sadistic and murderous for, say, Chileans of the 1970's.
Define "Useless."

My team worked on a project for about 18 months. I won't go into detail about what it was, but it was (and still is) badly-needed.

We worked with the top interaction and graphic design folks in the world for the aesthetics and interaction. We had many meetings, flying the whole team to San Francisco, several times a year.

When the project was in its final testing, the company got cold feet, and canceled the project. I had to lay off two of my engineers.

It would still, to this day, be the best of breed. It was designed about twenty years ago, in the early aughts.
I worked at SGI on the next generation (code named Bali) in 1998 (whole year as an intern) and 1999 (part time while finishing my degree, flying back and forth from Australia). Bali was revolutionary. The goal was realtime Renderman and it really would. I had an absolute blast. I ended up designing the highspeed data paths (shader operations) for world's first floating point frame buffer (FP16 though we called it S10E5) with the logic on embedded DRAM for maximum floating point throughput. It was light years ahead of its time. But the plug got pulled just as we were taping out. Most of the team ended up at Nvidia or ArtX/ATI. The GPU industry was a small world of engineers back then. We'd have house parties with GPU engineers across all the company names you'd expect, and with beer flowing sometimes maybe a few secrets could eh spill. We had an immersive room to give visual demos and Stephen Hawking came in once pitching for a discount.

For team building, we launched potato canons into NASA Moffet field, blew up or melted Sun machines for fun with thermite and explosives. Lots of amazing people and fond memories for a kid getting started.
Open-Source 4WD AI Robot Kit Compatible with Raspberry Pi Models 4 and 5
But this misses the fact that a huge, huge percent of the cost is going to luxuries and things that have no benefit to 99% of students.

The dorms, gyms, cafeterias and student centers built in the last decade are luxurious spaces compared to prior decades. Perfectly good buildings are torn down and rebuilt so that a new donor can put their name on the building. Budgets for sports, clubs, and other programs have skyrocketed.

If you were to start a new school from scratch and ask the question "How can we give students the best education for a reasonable price?" you could do so with a university with 1/10th the headcount of staff and a correspondingly lower tuition.

You just wouldn't have a 15-person committee meeting weekly to decide if the company the university hired to perform an audit of the mission statements of the companies the university hired to provide consulting services to the student affairs staffers were properly recorded in the new document management system that was transferred from the homegrown IT solution to the new vendor.
There is the BFRC, the British Fenestration Rating Council. So if fenestration is to do with installing windows, you'd think defenestration is to do with removing windows, but it isn't.
> - Why would college tuition decrease?

The single change that would cause the largest downward pressure on college pricing would be removing federally subsidized student loans.
This was a publicly traded SaaS company.

After acquisition - we were handed down the order to migrate to AWS.

This was after (in the mess of the merger) the colo contracts were basically ignored and not renewed. Once someone within the company realized the issue, it was the 11th hour.

After many, many attempts to discuss our (Operations team) concerns, we abandoned our protests. It was clear the new CTO wouldn't cave and sign the contract.

Some superficial testing was conducted and the order came down to move...NOW.

We began moving hundreds (maybe thousands) of very resource hungry DB servers first (there was no way to use something like RDS without major app/config changes).

Once the AWS bill came in, the CFO blew their lid and within 90 days we were migrating BACK to our DCs (and the millions of dollars of hardware we left idling).
Needed to read this, thank you!
The min/max cost functions make a lot of sense(easiest to visualize). It also can do a lot when you do multi-objective optimization. But I have always wondered how you go about evaluating other cost functions. I mean mathematically the concept is intuitive. i.e. just swap it for a quadratic or exponential, but which cost functions are useful in the real world?
XZ is just a really boring project. It seems complete for the most part, so I'm not surprised by the lack of scrutiny. It's one of these projects that I would just assume is well maintained.
Long ago I wrote an FPGA image to convert I2C to serial for long-term logging, to catch that rare, once a week event:

https://github.com/jhallen/i2cmon

You capture the serial using minicom log to file or similar, then you can peruse the log at your leisure.
Yeah, Bleem! was around since 1999.
I worked on compiling FORTRAN at Xilinx 20 years ago. The only thing I remember is that the header file for f2c.h contains a definition of barf:

/* f2c.h -- Standard Fortran to C header file /

/* barf [ba:rf] 2. "He suggested using FORTRAN, and everybody barfed."

(https://www.netlib.org/clapack/f2c.h)
The stories in Tales From Earthsea are a lot closer to Tehanu than they are to the earlier books, for what that's worth. I get it if they're just not your thing, though; life is short and there's only so much time to read.
I don't recall that one, and I thought I knew Gerald Durrell's work pretty thoroughly. There is a book of that title by Tim Cahill, though; maybe that's what you're remembering?
That does not sound that bad, does the new division now have great documentation for the product?
Pattern recognition and machine learning by Christopher Bishop.
Makes me miss KillerNIC
It was a pretty popular subject on HN as recently as a few years ago. I dont know very much Japanese, but I am familiar with that one due to the other articles that explore the culture. I suspect that there's also some bias at play: the people who are commenting are ones who are already familiar with the term.
Immigration application for my spouse. Because our application got binned as low-risk, I don’t think they read any of the stuff we put together before taking their time to rubber stamp it.
I have to wonder if behind the scenes there was any push here from companies that put out licensed emulation collections. For example, there are a ton of different SEGA collections that are nice GUIs around various ROMs, where doing a native port would both be a ton of work and kind of defeat the point of trying to faithfully carry across the original with exactly the same quirks.
In the 90's my econ teacher said that in the future the difference between the rich and the poor will be the amount of ads the see. I thought he attributed it to Ray Bradbury, but I may be mistaken.
Usury.
Created issue: https://github.com/kubetail-org/fancy-ansi/issues/2

Blink support would use CSS animations which requires a deeper level of integration than the other SGR parameters so I wanted to hold off until I could iterate over a solution with a user. If you'd like to use Fancy-ANSI with blink support, please let me know on GitHub and I can implement it fairly quickly.
We had a few SGI boxes in arch school (for cad). I learned C++ on those boxes (the GL api, which I thought was beautiful btw). But the main attraction were the two demos (this is '91-2): the flight simulator was awesome and there was this deconstructing cube thing that was pretty wild as well. Compared to what was on PCs those days those SGI machines were truly dazzling.
Just curious, do you remember the name of the book and how big it was in terms of content and exercises?
That will connect right up with DB/2 probably, no problemo.

You'll just need the right Java JRE - exact version.
Why would ANYONE agree to service that? It's an insane proposal.
They won't call it a profit. What they will do is spend as much as they can on salaries (especially for the senior employees), increasing the size of the administration (more jobs for insiders), buildings, sports, etc.

Basically, people think non-profit means the organization works for the public or puts the public first. Unfortunately, what it often means is money goes to employees and insiders instead of shareholders. For colleges, it means the students (and the Federal Government which issued the student loads) comes last and the college's employees come first. Not great public policy.
You shouldn't rely on a human reading an in-their-face warning. If you consider a particular static analysis check to be vital, run it in CI and make the PR introducing it red. Everything else is just an upcoming post mortem with "we should have noticed this" waiting to happen to you.
There is still a lot of business opportunity in supplying image sensors and lenses to smartphones.
Tiny amounts of cell heating/cooling have been found to change the cell differentiation mechanism. That's the reason ultrasound energies are limited during pregnancy and it's recommended not to do too many ultrasounds.

I don't see why microwave heating wouldn't cause the same effect.
Because you can only counterfeit the old notes, which have already been inflated to the oblivion: the largest note (1000 shillings) is $0.04. Because the cost of producing a remotely passable counterfeit is also approximately $0.04, the currency is now stable-ish.

If you produce a shiny new 10,000 note, nobody will recognize or accept it.
Does using all-caps FORTRAN say something about me? Fortran looks wrong to me.
What is the best "streaming appliance" option on the market today wrt ads and general privacy?
FWIW that applies to enterprise where the venture is ever evolving. Once a machine can sort apples visually, it’s good enough, and the job of apple sorting isn’t really changing.
Well, of course most papers claim humans cause global warming. If your research supports that claim you are awarded copious amounts of grant money and academic recognition.

What about this document, signed by over 1,100 scientists including nobel prize winners?

https://clintel.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/WCD-version-0...
> Bullshit. A stable syscall api reflects a well designed kernel interface.

Says who? I certainly wouldn't consider Linux's syscall ABI to be well designed. You know what is well designed? A stable facade that provides minimal overhead between two components, which prevents tight coupling. Like libc.

> You can obviously extend on it and deprecate at your will.

Only by breaking userland, which grinds this process to a crawl, even when it can happen at all. libc provides a better interface here.

> Thing is, call gates are quite more common now

I fail to see the relevance here. The mechanism by which syscalls are made doesn't make it cheaper to ossify your syscall ABI, nor does it improve security. It can certainly reduce the performance hit of a context switch. But, even with call gates, the overhead of a context switch is so high that adding the overhead of calling a wrapped function in libc is hardly going to matter.

> and there is quite some effort into of runtime linking vs static linking

What effort? Yeah, you have ld.so doing the relocation for you at runtime, but this happens once at program load time. Compared to everything else that must occur to load a program, dynamic linking adds minimal overhead.

> In my opinion, libc should not be a broker for privileged operations.

That's an interesting opinion, but beyond an unlisted "plethora of reasons", I don't see any relevant reason for this blanket ban. Having a single path into and out of the system call interface provides a way in which userland protections -- such as syscall pinning, immutable pages, etc., can be added. For defense in depth, this is useful.

> but the most obvious is that languages may not use libc in their linkage.

How does language runtime library linkage matter? What is the real difference to a language whether it calls read() or the read syscall? Either way, it has to marshal arguments through a FFI. Either way, it has to do the same amount of work. Languages must be ported to each operating system they run on. On OpenBSD and MacOS in particular, this porting means calling libc. On most OSes, libc is considered the preferred interface. On Linux, it's not, and because of that, folks assume that Linux's relative uniqueness here is somehow the default.

There is really no point to directly using syscalls. In nearly every case for unistd, socket, and fcntl, the libc wrapper is negligible. You can do all of the same things. There are few, if any, enforced C-isms. Even where they exist, they can be abstracted with a middling to average FFI library. Performance-wise, the significant overhead is making the syscall. Calling a library to do this has little measurable effect.

This is much ado about nothing.
Then they'd have to choose one or the other. My parents told me in no uncertain terms that there was no money to send me to private school, so I didn't apply to them; I'm also quite allergic to debt.

I had a paper pointed out to me recently that I found enlightening.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222535/

> The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies.

It seems that the pressures we place on parents as a society have grown as we've advanced. I certainly am not built to deal with that kind of stress, and given the dropoff in fertility, I think that that's a more common view these days.
Oracle stopped distributing JVM for 32-bit Windows after Java 8. Minecraft was using Java 17, and there were other 32-bit distributions for it, but I couldn't find a 32-bit distribution of Java 21.
From the video description:

> A passively actuated gripping mechanism grasps the powerline cable during landing after which a control circuit regulates the magnetic field inside a split-core current transformer to provide sufficient holding force as well as battery recharging.
Probing Projections
I currently work on building an open PCB for translating Android headphone remote signaling to Apple remote signaling resuming the awesome work of David Carne[1].

Basically it is a circuit where you could use any Android inear Headphone with remote buttons on any Apple device with Audio Jack - a TRRS Plug - TRRS Jack translation layer between the 220Ω/660Ω vol+ and vol- signaling on Android to the proprietary Apple ultrasonic chirp protocol.

Probably nobody (besides me) will ever require this, because everyone just uses Bluetooth these days and noone else uses the iPod Nano 7g :-)

1: https://tinymicros.com/wiki/Apple_iPod_Remote_Protocol
IIRC you actually could copy from the phone or ipod back to the computer but you had to turn off automatic sync first.
World_sim: LLM prompted to act as a sentient CLI universe simulator
> It wasn't a potential lie. He _had not_ secured funding.

I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that (but then again, hard to prove a negative), and he still claims he did. Either way, like I said, I'm willing to concede on this point and agree that this is a lie, the only outright lie in my opinion that I have seen.

> It's a "petty insult" to say "I have evidence that you are a pedophile, arandomusername" to all the media that will print it? No, he had no evidence. In fact he scrambled after this to hire a private investigator to try to find some.

It's petty insult because the other dude first said his submarine thing is useless or whatever (while the lead diver actually asked him to continue working on it). So he fired back, hence petty insult.

> Musk is literally signing documents being sent to DMVs saying that FSD "this year" is "not an engineering reality".

Show me a document that Musk signed, that says FSD not reality this year & a quote from Elon in similar timeframe suggesting FSD that year.

> At some point you lose any credibility

Yes he lost credibility when it comes to promising things. If he said Tesla $25k next year, you would be fully in the right not to believe that. But it is not the same as saying Tesla is working on a $25k car when not working on it.

> That was a lie. Musk reinstated thousands of banned accounts two weeks after that tweet, with no content moderation council in sight (which to this day has not been set up).

Sure, but if we give him benefit of the doubt could have just been change of plans. I don't believe he tweeted that while knowing he will not set it up.

> 33 days later: "Tesla sells $272M in Bitcoin from orders."

Where's the "from orders" part? Tesla bought $1.5B worth of Bitcoin before that, perhaps they are selling some from that "investment"?

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2021/02/08/tesla-invests-1...
Which is why they are vastly better whilst in the middle of a tricky migration, especially if it is going badly, and especially especially if it is being done by the most expensive contractors.
Even universities advertise the job placement rates for their various majors. Kids aren't told by parents, teachers or counselors to go to college to become well rounded, they're told to go because they'll earn more money if they have a degree.

As for #2, that's a very rare thing to encounter in an undergraduate degree. Most of your classes are being fed information, then asked basic comprehension questions about it. Maybe some creative authorship skills in the form of writing courses, but nothing groundbreaking there either.

Many degrees are luxury goods that you either get paid for by someone else or become a wage slave to pay off in a decade or three, depending on how much you borrowed.
Exploring GPT-3: Unofficial first look at language processing from OpenAI (2021)
For me?

Part of it is just finding interaction with other's to be exhausting. My parents forced to go out and about rather often in my youth, usually under threat of violence. Even after they stopped have any real power over my I was dragging myself to outings that I utterly loathed doing. To this day I cannot look at a golf course without my stomach becoming unsettled.

Some of it is irrational fear but all emotion is irrational. Some of it is lingering anger from the agency I lacked for so long.

Whether it's unhealthy or not, ultimately I think matters little. At the end of the day I'm the only that it affects. And I think the tradeoff of having my silence is worth that cost, and I find no real impetus to change that.
I don’t think anybody is surprised that college tuition has increased. They’re surprised it’s increased faster than the prices for almost every other service. So have health care costs. And in both cases, the system is designed to make it difficult and pointless to shop based on price.

I have a hard time believing health insurance costs have driven the drastic increase in college costs. They’ve certainly played a role, but I don’t see any reason they would increase the cost of education more than they’ve increased the price of everything else.
I did one and then came to read the comments to see if anyone had the same idea, our idea is the same but different: https://s.h4x.club/WnuXo0WN
Which Western or Asia nation is above replacement level without immigration and has is progressive?
The guy that realized that washing your hand prevents mother and babies from dying in child birth was ignored and he got insane. I dunno what my point is. Maybe that these things are some sort of grind?
Mild disagree, though I can appreciate the sentiment.

Why do developers want to publish and distribute on the App Store?

As a dev myself, my anecdotal answer is: because I can make money doing so.

Why can I make money doing so? Because Apple built trust with the users, and because they developed the tools and technologies that made their OS worth paying significantly more for similar tech specs.
Mortgages must be paid on time or your lender will foreclose on your home and liquidate it to pay off your debt.

That is impossible to do with an education. Add in loan forgiveness and income based repayment from the sibling comment, and the fact that a mortgage is securitized by collateral and it’s almost like a student loan and a mortgage have nothing in common aside from being loans.
Semi serious: was that enough to have patented the idea yourself?
The point of college is signaling. The internet has no answer for how to signal to employers.
I feel like I would be more sympathetic to this argument if my utility provider wasn’t PG&E.
This is really cool.

However, I think an underrated difference between then and now is that you could physically put a commercial Playstation disc into a standard CD drive and read it, no console hacking required.
Netlfix should just buy them now.
Emacs bug: describe-key and lambda too poetic
In only look at selfhosting things that provide a docker image. This is how it should be: the internals are hidden from your and you just care about the data and the configuration.

If you want to use a monolith you will have conflicts sooner or later. Of you want to use multiple VMs you need to orchestrate them.

If you know how to do the above you are good to go to learn docker which is ultimately much simpler.
In 2022 one of my kids wanted to take college classes online over the summer. We created a spreadsheet with the costs for each school, and what was surprising was the range of prices, from $900 per class for MassBay Community College and UC Berkeley, to $7,000 for Babson (a private college near Boston). The state universities were all over the map - UConn and UVM are both big flagship universities but UVM was >2x UConn, and even more than private colleges like Brandeis. We went with UC Berkeley.

UVM online $4,800

MassBay $900

Harvard Extension $3,500

Lasell online $1,600

Brandeis $3,290

Babson $7,000

B.C. Woods College $2,200

UConn online $1,800

Berkeley extension $900

Umass Boston $1,500 (in state rate)