skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m pretty sure Dune is fiction.

BBC has plenty of documentaries if fiction upsets you.

Pedants angsting over the reality of fiction does spoil the fiction so best to ignore such peoples laments about how things are unrealistic.
My dad had a computer on his desk in 1979. It was a Z80 based business computer with a monochrome monitor, 5.25" floppy drive, and a dot matrix printer.

It wasn't cheap, but still not a huge investment for a small company.

The person with the calendar seems to have worked at a large defense related operation?

It wouldn't have been a financial stretch for them to have VT-100 terminals on their desks connected to VAX 11/780 superminicomputers as early as 1978.
i dont see any problem with this 3-4-5 tri :)... i mean its obvious isnt it? ofc the vertices share a point, so what?
People don't like that
How much time before you boss says: "OK, during the last 3 months you told me that all these tool would save you in total 1 dev/year... so I will reduce your team by 1 dev but keep the work and deadlines" ? ;-)
Honestly, if I trust someone, and they tell me something as ambiguous as “they told me they threw them out”, it doesn’t leave a lot of room for doubt. That’s not a very complex story that someone can misremember.
Back in the day at Hughes Aircraft, and later, at least for a while, at Boeing, we had a "Library", though which anyone could request a book. If the library did not have it, they would purchase a copy, and "loan" it to the requestor indefinitely. If another request for the same book came in, the original requestor would be asked to "return" it to the library. The library also maintained subscriptions to all relevant technical journals and standards publications.

This system was awesome because book purchases did not require management approval, so there were no denials and little delay involved.
Ask HN: Why does an infinite universe mean a duplicate of me?
I’ve heard it said that if the universe is infinite then there must be infinite copies of me out there.

But this sounds wrong. Why, in an infinite universe there’s infinite possibilities but within some set of probabilities that make it essentially impossible to duplicate me.

Can someone explain this to me? I thought there were different types of infinity. Cant there be infinity that doesn’t duplicate everything?
Dunno, I don't use social media, neither see ads (adblock), but the older I get, the more I want to explore, learn about history, travel to places.

I agree with the sentiment (social media / ad algorithms influencing the... influenceables), but I have also met people who are outside these bubbles. Granted they are the bit older folks, pre-smarthpone people, mostly retirees.
Perhaps because interoperability of a team is more important that one dev?
Yes, that would point towards regular office hours and not hacking hours.
What is considered good architecture these days is also harmful to the people that need to work in it.

So many new buildings seem to think that all space needs to be given over to being impressive, instead of dedicated to the people that work in it.
Hard disagree, the point of the talk is the Q&A, otherwise I can just watch it on YouTube. I design my talks so the rehearsed content is only the preamble. The rest of the time is spent in discussion. For an allocated amount of time, I create a talk that is 1/3rd the time and then supplemental material that can fill another 1/2 if the crowd can’t be warmed up.

But there’s an art to Q&A that’s as hard as public speaking but practiced by 1/10th the people. A simple hand vote is the most basic tool. After a Q, I’ll summarize it and ask how many people face this problem? Etc. why get an audience of people in a room if you don’t use them?
It depends on the scale you're talking about but the local LLMs are fairly capable of translating between different programming languages, particularly if you're not so concerned about external library support.

Pasting a function in and asking for it in a different programming language will get an implementation in the target language. Using ollama run llama2:13b on my mac will allow converting in this fashion.

It might not be the best code, but this is true of machine translations as well.
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Just wave your hands and say “Holtzman” effect, to get back to the story. This bothers you but the shields don’t?
For me a big part is that global CSS doesn’t match component based web applications as well. Coordinating global class names becomes a pain quickly. Then you move to scoped CSS and suddenly CSS doesn’t add much anymore.
Not entirely correct, I have purchase authority for several million dollars a month in AWS costs.

A new mouse however…
Whoa, 3 million EUR! Nice!

I hope they'll fund more things that aim to break cloud/vendor lock-in.
I have no perspective on this, but the article sounds like it was written by people whose buttons have really been pushed, and/or who really want to push their target audience's buttons.

And I don't get the sense that "competent government" is a priority for many of the parties in this conflict.
Human wants are limitless.
I suspect if this bothers them many things bother them about the science in these movies.
YMMV. For my co-workers, there is definitely an element of "go home after their work day to the wife and kids." Unless they're in the pub.

But personally, when I post online about any topic, it's mostly because I find the whole "my language is better than yours" thing childish, arrogant, impolite and tiresome. I try not to have strong opinions about technologies that I don't know (and be honest, 99% of us don't know 99% of the technologies that exist) and to produce facts about ones that I do know.
You don't hate teams. I hate teams. Because it's ultra-slow and bloated, and used to eat 1.5 CPU cores all the time until I threw it permanently on a browser window. And now it doesn't notify me when other people send me a message.

Slack is just shit, and being just shit makes it an order of magnitude better than the trainwreck that is teams.
Anyone know if Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971) would be worth a reread?
Sure, but in the parent example it's more like a 2k-3k license, which makes sense only if you're going to use it regularly.
> There's so much personal development you can do without participating in the materialistic rat race.

That takes money, although in a different form: time.
I can only enjoy those experiences if I have time for them (and I’m not talking about enjoying them after working 8h during the day, because I end up exhausted and cannot enjoy anything at all).
So, in order to enjoy things I need to work less, which means less money. That’s the price. It’s always money
Most companies in fact are. Just look at the survival rate.
I would wager that some tools are like gloves or shoes, very important to have a good individual fit, to get best of performance.
Absolutely not. Children and grandchildren are their own persons. The world is full of people who got rich through heritage and who live miserable lives - even when being materially fulfilled.

I would add that this state of mind denotes a characteristic control anguish.

When you're dead, you're dead. You need to let go.
Stimulate our pleasure centers. Or rather, lay back as the machines stimulate our pleasure centers, and nourish us, and maintain our muscles and organs with electronic stimulus.

Heck I'm not even talking dirty here -- I'm talking about direct stimulus at the neural level.

Though for as bad as they were as movies this may get into some of the matter of what they touched on in the Matrix sequels. Humans actually want some degree of adversity.
I find adaptive cruise control definitely helps with the mental fatigue as well, because I can concentrate on looking for hazards far ahead instead of having to pay attention to keeping distance to the car ahead. But yeah, I never drive more than a few hours without taking a break anyway.
In the 1980s, I would doodle at work when my mind was taking a break. A helpful diagram might get embellished.

Nowadays, I would be finding some excuse to check the internet. And I'm less likely to have scrap paper to hand.
Btw landmarks in the navigational sense are not the same as landmarks in a tourist sense.

A tourist landmark would be “the grand canyon” or the “eifel-tower”. A navigational landmark is something like “a scrawny bush which seems to have grown leaning on that big rock with a flat top”, “the 3 story building where the middle level had a fresh coat of paint on the corner window frames”, or “corner of a park where 3 roads meet, and one of them has a deli with the picture of a prawn in the window”
Here are a few key paragraphs from a sermon that has the most compelling explanation of that sentence that I've heard:

> When Paul said in 1 Timothy 6:10, “The love of money is the root of all evils,” what did he mean? He didn’t mean that there’s a connection between every sinful attitude and money — that money is always in your mind when you sin. I think he meant that all the evils in the world come from a certain kind of heart, namely, the kind of heart that loves money.

> Now what does it mean to love money? It doesn’t mean to admire the green paper or the brown coins. To know what it means to love money, you have to ask: What is money? I would answer that question like this: Money is simply a symbol that stands for human resources. Money stands for what you can get from man, not from God! (“Everyone who thirsts, come to the waters. He who has no money come buy and eat!” Isaiah 55:1.) Money is the currency of human resources.

> So the heart that loves money is a heart that pins its hopes, and pursues its pleasures, and puts its trust in what human resources can offer. So the love of money is virtually the same as faith in money — belief (trust, confidence, assurance) that money will meet your needs and make you happy.

> Therefore the love of money, or belief in money, is the flip side of unbelief in the promises of God. Just like Jesus said in Matthew 6:24 — you cannot serve God and money. You can’t trust or believe in God and money. Belief in one is unbelief in the other. A heart that loves money — banks on money for happiness, believes in money — is at the same time not banking on the promises of God for happiness.

> So when Paul says that the love of money is the root of all evils, he implies that unbelief in the promises of God is the taproot of every sinful attitude in our heart.

From: https://www.desiringgod.org/messages/battling-unbelief-at-be...
I also have like six different machines in my house that would each, single-handedly, put the entire computing infrastructure of the Apollo program to shame. And my corneas have been reshaped into the ideal form by a computer-controlled laser, giving me 20/10 vision. I haven’t done it yet, but I could get my entire genome sequenced. A $20 Italian rifle sounds like a good deal but today you can buy a machine that literally prints guns (some assembly required). Any one of these things would be worth millions if not billions of dollars in the 1960’s.

This also explains why Palo Alto is so much more expensive these days. Some the things I mentioned were invented around there, which made a lot of those people rich.

Other things have become more affordable too. In 1960, a round trip flight from New York to London cost $550. I can find similar fares right now. In 1984, a Macintosh cost $2500, had 128 KB of RAM and a 9 inch 512 by 342 pixel display. For half as many dollars today, you can buy an iMac with a 24 inch 4.5K display and 8 GB of RAM.

Now, I will admit that many things are needlessly more expensive, and while the reasons for this are complicated, I don’t think it’s any coincidence that many of these cost increases are directly associated with institutions getting taken over by parasitic classes of administrators and bureaucrats. If you go to college, you’re not just paying for the inherent costs of the college; you’re also paying for the growing administrative bureaucracy that has infested the institution. If you go to the doctor, you’re not just paying your local family doctor; you’re paying an entire bureaucracy that has reduced your family doctor—who used to own a private practice—to the status of a corporate employee, plus a completely separate “health insurance” bureaucracy. (It turned out that the doctor who reshaped my corneas with lasers was happy to just take cash though!)

Governments are some of the worst effected. The cost to build the US interstate highway system was, adjusted for inflation, about 618 billion dollars. The 2021 infrastructure bill totaled 1.2 trillion dollars, but are we really getting the equivalent of two complete interstate highway systems? But hey, it could be worse—it’s not like they actually collected all the tax dollars they needed to pay for it! That’s a problem for future America. I don’t envy those guys!
Doesn’t actually work because purchasing on marketplace is still restricted.
Containernet: Use Docker containers as hosts in Mininet emulations
This raises the question though: do we want to create outside of the fact that when we create, it causes an influx of pleasurable neurochemicals? And if not, will it matter that we're not creating if the machines can just directly cause that influx and short circuit the whole process?

Even with crude street drugs right now many people forego fulfillment in life for hedonistic indulgence. Bring that down to a level of direct neural stimulation and a balanced out supplementation to avoid burnout and I seriously doubt that most people would actually miss the activities we think of as fulfilling in themselves.

Now, whether or not it's actually practical to ever get that far is another question -- one more for the bioengineers than for the philosophers.
I tested this with LibreOffice 24.2.1.2, and it’s far, far from what Excel tables do. The most basic features of an Excel table (Insert -> Table) are (a) the ability to reference cells in the same row by the name of the column, (b) displaying table headers in the chrome when scrolling, (c) auto-completing formulae until the end of the table, (d) pretty formatting, (e) auto-filtering configured by default. I can’t see any of those with the ranges in LO.
Wonder if it would be feasible to create a Godot extension for Firefox/Chrome/etc, so people can share Godot authored content?

Something like a flash authoring and deployment used to be.
Seems good? If there’s one thing every country agrees on… it’s discouraging separatist movements.

There’s no shortage of corrupt and violent buffoons looking to carve out nations for themselves if given the chance. They should be exiled..
Why is it an obstacle?
I remember reading that during the Russian Civil War, although they still used horses (their equivalent of todays "technical" being a machine gun in a horsedrawn carriage), the cavalry pretty much had to operate within a day's distance of rail lines, because they relied on rail transport for grain and hay, only being able to source water locally.

(cursory Wiki'ing says standard independent operation for sub-army units is somewhere between days and 1-2 weeks of resupply, so it sounds like being able to destroy rail faster than construction battalions can rebuild it ought to be a thing)
I don't even bother trying to get money back. I buy, for example, GitKraken at any new job I start at.
There can be other reasons too coinciding in time.
I tested the free version, their Excel equivalent seems fine, although with some strange limitations in the free version (you can edit Tables in Excel documents, but not create new ones, as creating is a paid feature).
am I reading correctly that your AtomicMin stops only when CAS succeeds?

can you not stop early if extracted value becomes smaller than val?
At my company, I can buy pretty much anything I want. I do buy hardware often. But software dev tools? I am trying hard to think of one and coming up empty.
Save for GitHub/Copilot, ChatGPT and Anthropic subscriptions. Those things are the only software dev tools I have found worth paying for.
Brings back memories of doing the same with Ogre to support embedding Ogre scenes in android UI elements for the Amazon Fire Phone. Sadly not open-sourced at the time, so lost to corporate bullshit.
Cars in front don't usually hit walls while they're traveling. It takes a while for the car in front to stop too.
It's worse than that, I think. The typical radar beam is so wide that it can't discriminate between in the road and near the road, so the Doppler selection is the only reason it even works at all. This is very noticeable on our car when you observe how far away laterally a car you've been following has to turn, e.g. when it takes an offramp, before the ACC ignores it.
That's not quite their point though. Completely deactivating the emergency breaking system would also solve the phantom breaking problem, and since the average person does not end up in situations which ought to trigger the feature that often it's unlikely any individual driver would ever notice that is was broken.
I'm curious to see how that actually compares in effectiveness to wearing headband-type speakers and listening to sleep brainwave stimulation music (which I tried).
The squeaky wheel gets the oil.
Doubting the new Ireland
Well that's a very pessimistic C++ baseline - using iostreams. The CUDA solution presented here seems to me like it's a bit of an old-timey approach, treating the GPU as an accelerator. The implementation first prepares a million tasks, then submits them as kernel invocations which perform the work. The first phase already takes over two seconds, the second phase takes over ten seconds. Resulting runtime is 16s, 60x faster than iostreams.

This is similar to how GPU acceleration is bolted on in a ton of commercial software, you look at hotspots and then move just those over to the accelerator. For example outsourcing some linear algebra in a FEM solver. That's a sensible approach for trying to accelerate legacy software, but it's not very effective and leads to poor utilization ("copy mat, copy mat, copy mat copy copy copy mat" - Dave Cutler about GPU acceleration). I think a) you can do all of this on the GPU b) this should be limited by PCIe bandwidth for getting the file contents into VRAM. The 1BRC data set is 14 GB. So this is processing that file at about 1 GB/s using both CPU and GPU.
80% of the effort and cost of a GPU is various bullshit related to rendering DirectX games on Windows.
>Excel is ubiquitous because literally anyone can use it. Unlike a database, there is a direct visual representation of what you’re building.

Oh no. Excel includes an entire programming language, namely VBA macros and if you give it to engineers they will use it. The reason Excel is ubiquitous is because it is Microsoft and someone is paying. The same is true for Matlab. A company getting Matlab licenses is much, much easier than someone getting a python installation.

It isn't a money problem. It is an Anti-Money prolem. If you can't pay someone you can't use it.
Show HN: I just made an All-In-One IP Toolbox form builder open-sourced
All of which is true. I used to run a smallish IT team. The problem comes with the failure to offer an alternative to solve the issue the person has.

My algorithm always started with, can we do this with our existing O365 licence. You can't have Trello or Asana, because we have Planner already. You can't have Slack because we have Teams. You can have Basecamp because the manager put a great case of why She couldn't do that on Teams. You can't have Jira because you only want bug tracking and it is too complex for your little team, how about self-hosted Redmine?
> That takes money, although in a different form: time

> That’s the price. It’s always money

Tell that to unemployed people. To children. To retired people. To people with serious sickness.

Time is not money.
Nice answer, but I can counter: I'm high performing, doing high impact work. For some reason I need to analyse user reviews that use slang. I can't look it up because UD is blocked. Insanity. Maybe our hot new product is suddenly in the crossfire of some meme war. Eg. kids doing weird stuff on tiktok. Can't look it up. There are examples with companies going into fiascos because they publicly respond out of touch or awkwardly to event on social media. Opposite is that viral twitter account of wendy's. Do they have UD blocked?
I am mesmerized at how much the comments analyze Europe under the perspective of the United States, eg we need a Silicon Valley otherwise we don't exist from a technological standpoint, we should become an homogeneous market etc.
We are not the USA and I feel fine with it, we are still able to figure the most advanced technologies on our own
Well, as I understand it: imagine there is a world consisting of only 20 numbers: 34, 56, 79, 11, 32 and so on. With that 20 numbers we can describe that world, its current state, we can replicate it. And there is a creature that lives in that world, we can describe it with three numbers, and the world numbers contains that numbers of the creature. Now imagine, it turns out the world does not consist of 20 numbers, but of billions of numbers, imagine how many exact copies of that creature in that world of billions of numbers just by accident, and maybe even exact or almost exact copies of that world of 20 numbers.
A discussion involves two people, so halve that. A then consider the opportunity cost. A relatively rare 50€ purchase likely isn’t worth any discussion.
> interest rates are a factor in affordability and cost

Paradoxically over a long term, interest rates don't affect house affordability much.

People bid on houses at the limit of what they can spend - the constraint is their income not the interest rate.

As interest rates fall, people pay the same interest payments but bid higher on the house price (driving house prices up). As interest rates rise, people spend the same amount monthly (on interest payments) but borrow less in total and can bid less on houses.

It is a steady-state argument, so other things do matter (income changes, mortgage qualification rules, immigration into the area, dynamic effects of interest rate changes). Rent has other factors but the constraint of income has parallel effects.
Does the universe have surface tension? Oooohhhhmmmmmm.
The Pizza Meter article on Wikipedia got deleted
Dune is not fiction, I saw the video footage myself.
Of course it doesn't guarantee the success, but it helps a lot.
Except nothing was thrown away.