skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even then, MFC and C++/CX were the only productive ways to use it from Microsoft SDKs.

.NET isn't as convenient as VB 6 was, fully embracing COM as the VBX replacement model, technically introduced in VB5, but still some stuff was lacking.

Then there is Delphi and C++ Builder.

It beat me that having doubled down on COM since how Longhorn went down, and Windows team getting their way doing avoiding .NET to take over, they hardly managed to create nice tooling as the competition.

Editing IDL files with a Notepad like experience, manually merging generated code, and a couple of frameworks that barely go beyond yet another way to do AddRef/Release/QueryInterface and aggregation.

Meanwhile D-BUS, XPC and AIDL, provide much better dev experience.

Pity that Borland products are kind of tainted due to mismanagement decisions, otherwise maybe fixing COM dev experience would already been seriously taken by VS team.

Ah, nowadays WIL is probably the best approach when having only to consume COM.

https://github.com/microsoft/wil
When I do a simple search for ‘Tesla recall’ in my favorite search engine I get a bunch of results for the recent Tesla recalls. Many of the headlines call out the reasons, I see no persecution of Tesla in the way you describe. There is an easy way for Tesla to avoid all of this though, and it’s to design their vehicles better in the first place.

Looks like the media cares about facts and the fact is, Tesla has had _another_ recall. Tesla is slipping and there seems to be some who are more sensitive to that being discussed than others.
Some may disagree but in my experience Supabase was definitely challenging to selfhost. Don't get me wrong; I'm pretty confident with selfhosting but Supabase was definitely on the hard side.

Pocketbase being literally single-binary doesn't make Supabase look good either, although funtionalities differ.
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083470
I'm just reading up on this now. Sounds like Israel killed 13,000 children? Seems pretty bad.
The BBC published a radio documentary on Terry Davis a few years back, after his death:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000b4r3
We don’t live in the 1950’s anymore. When you and your spouse are working from home and have 2+ teenagers 1200 ain’t gonna cut it. Insisting on horrible conditions to raise a family in the modern world is not going to encourage people to have children.
I am not saying that TempleOS wasn't a technical marvel. It was. I am merely stating the fact that its usage was (mainly) limited to recreation. Not that that's a bad thing, but my own ambition is to produce something with more than margi... small product-market fit.

Edit: I'm sorry if I come across as arrogant. I still have the "decoration" (programming-wise) of my elite education I am trying to trim. :(
Actually their post suggested both normalizations (notice the word "or"), however both are flawed.

"Being trumpeted as [more] revolutionary" still has nothing to do with number of models and/or units. If you only give extra attention to certain brands because of their marketing, just say so. There's no need to connect it to unrelated factors, and there's no need to introduce 'normalizations' that don't normalize for anything.
> In the future, hardware will be even more reliable due to better design, increased levels of integration, and reduced numbers of connectors

I couldn't help laughing at that
It's always struck me that housing regulation (well, a lot of regulation really) is written by rich people for rich people.

When I moved out of home I'd have been perfectly willing to live in a minimally insulated log cabin, shipping container, etc of sorts with basic running water and wiring that consisted of me running conduit up the walls. I could then upgrade it slowly over time with insulation, stud walls, etc etc time permitting.

There's tons of land in the UK that'd be cheap enough to do this.

You just can't, though. It has to be done "to code" and with planning permission and a billion other legal things, which basically means forcing everyone into a level of luxury/"modernity" that most actually can't afford.

So you end up with basically nonsense like van life, people sleeping in their cars, homelessness etc, because as soon as you build a permanent structure it becomes a huge nonsense.
I truly hope that in 15 years, when I am celebrating my 25 year anniversary, I wont lay awake at 4am and think about what I could have done better…
I know the islands well. Tourism is still only a third of the economy
there. International shipping and agriculture sustained the islands
for hundreds of years, prior to the 1970s when cheap jet air travel
came of age. They import a lot now, but can in theory totally
self-sustain. Each of the islands has a very different biosphere
suited to different farming.

We should pay attention to the Canary Islands, the rest of the planet
is the coal mine, The problem is identified as "tourism" but their
relation to the global economics within a climate change context is
the real story.

> 13.9 million people visited the islands

Nearly all of them flew there. A few passenger cruise ships stop by.

> a water emergency is already been declared on Tenerife

They've a housing crisis, a cost of living crisis and now 36 degrees
in April after a dry winter.

Most of Tenerife is volcanic and the plant life around tourist areas
is heavily irrigated. Without that it's a quite barren, unattractive
environment. Without enough water for just the population, tourism is
unsustainable.

> It's a model that was built around a business class that doesn't want
to listen to what needs to be done, and with a political
class that serves that business class instead of serving
all the citizens.

So, the usual root causes, greed and short-term thinking.
Tourists bring little value beyond what they spend on themselves. That’s why countries that have developed a strong tourism base struggle to develop further. It’s an economic dead end.
What's the recreational value without an executable? Just watching his videos? Then surely the videos are the product.
Canary Islands has one of the lowest property taxes in Spain: 0.3% rural and 0.5% urban (+0.05% if it's unoccupied). Obviously not enough judging by the ~20% of empty houses. It's easy to blame tourists and/or immigrants but it's really their own government policies' fault.
I don't think that is compatible with Schengen / EU freedom of movement
There are a lot of people in the EU and other countries that don't need visas, so I'm not sure that's the right dial to use.
Nevertheless this probably is much less relevant than a full-blown drug research case where you expect to be given a product of credible bleeding-edge science worth many millions of dollars in research, already tested thoroughly and proven effective on all kinds of animals.
Surely it’s self limiting, as more tourists arrive the attractiveness goes down.

From a sustainability point of view though 10,000 people concentrated in a single tourist complex is better than 100 villages with 100 people each.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Groq in production?
We tested out Groq with Llama 30B and saw an increased in inference speed, but the API was unreliable, sometimes not returning anything, which for us is a non-starter.

I am curious if anyone is using Groq in a production environment and if so, what their use case is?
It's the idiosyncrasies that make it notable surely.
i'm pretty sure MCC (on both console & PC) includes bugs from a previous PC port
Shouldn't you be aware that mathematics and computer "science" are closer to philosophy than actual (empirical) sciences ?

Yours sounds more like the now very tired "two cultures" argument, sounds like you are discussing more the sociology side of things than anything ?

(Would you throw out the baby of science with the bathwater of non-replicating papers ?)

And wasn't Wittgenstein (et al.) the one that specifically recentered philosophy around the questions of language, trying to prune the accumulated historical bullshit that philosophy has a much harder difficulty to get rid of than (empirical) sciences ?
The problem here is that this creates negative externalities on the housing market unless regulation is in place. Otherwise, it creates an incentive for short-term housing over long-term housing, which affects the people who do live there. This is the crux of the matter in many places that have a problem with tourism.
My 1988 submission to the International Obfuscated C Code Contest was this maze generator:

char*M,A,Z,E=40,J[40],T[40];main(C){for(*J=A=scanf(M="%d",&C);
-- E; J[ E] =T
[E ]= E) printf("._"); for(;(A-=Z=!Z) || (printf("\n|"
) , A = 39 ,C --
) ; Z || printf (M ))M[Z]=Z[A-(E =A[J-Z])&&!C
& A == T[ A]
|6<<27<rand()||!C&!Z?J[T[E]=T[A]]=E,J[T[A]=A-Z]=A,"_.":" |"];}

expecting a number on stdin and then generating a maze of that height line by line. For a negative number it will effectively produce an endless maze. As it turned out I had independently rediscovered Eller's algorithm (https://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/29/maze-generation-elle...).

Note that the constant 27 assumes a 31-bit random number generator, and needs to be replaced with 11 if rand() produces 15-bit numbers instead. Modern C compilers don't allow constant strings to be overwritten, which can be avoided by changing the first line to

char M[3],A,Z,E=40,J[40],T[40];main(C){for(*J=A=scanf("%d",&C);

The program is explained in detail in https://tromp.github.io/maze.html
The Embodied Mind is a very influential work for me. Its premise that our experience can be understood by a synthesis between cognitive science and insights rooted in Buddhist practice really stuck with me. It is science for everyone.
In US desert states that makes sense. I've never heard of it in NW Europe.
> The code did not compile. I was shocked. It’s quite an amazing feat, that, to have a recommended learning material that can make your very first program not compile. I will not dig through my archives but I discussed this at length back then, because it was really funny. The problem was, of course, the fact that I didn’t copy-paste right the setup sequence, and instead of choosing a certain numbered version of the random library (if I remember correctly) I let cargo download the latest version which had a completely different API.

Is this blog satire?
console of theseus
dang, you need to consider what sort of site you're running
Could be. But it also gives you the flexibility to set tests inside the module files.
Open Source's Funding Fiasco
It's not a 100 villages though, is it?

It's 2.2 million local residents living a long term largely sustainable life that are being swamped by an additional non resident 13.9 million people per annum.
Yeah, reusing `catch` was also the first thing that came to my mind. The "case throws" feels awkward even though I can see why it's proposed (can be read as "in case (it) throws)
Probably not, but it sounds like an excellent strategy :)
Good point, the last version (v0.60) is using the upstream kernel by default. I just added it in the list: https://www.mptcp.dev/apps.html#misc
> Could people use it for real? As a daily driver to get things done?

It could be, but "getting things done" here means communicating with God, not taking zoom calls.
> he’d run a program and it would generate some random output and he said that those were words from god. I have to assume that this was very much because of his condition.

I actually think that seems perfectly internally consistent from the perspective of someone who seriously believes in a god. If (pseudo)random numbers and therefore the output of that program aren’t controlled by god, what is?
I hope some apps will start using it :)
There's still no other model on par with GPT-4. Not even close.
>Care to enlighten us on a better way? We have people who need help right now, not when (or even if) we find some sort of objective test.

Doesn't mean they are getting help. Just means we set up a whole cargo cult field from thin air and on thin premises, and make-pretend we help them.

Meanwhile, more important structural changes to get them help, are of course ignored, because they are bad for bussiness or inconvenient (like better work-life-balance, less stressful educational/work/healthcare/late life prospects, more cohesive communities, better access to nature, less advertising and rage bait, and anything that doesn't help with the corporate mills grinding on).
Thanks for posting. The rest of the blog is also short and sweet, I’m struggling a bit with self worth and self criticism so I found it very touching and relatable.

It’s kind of interesting how I’ve come to expect blog posts to be much longer since microblogging pretty much exists exclusively on social media.
The 7th generation comparisons: http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/cpujihad.shtml
Nah, this was already like this at NeXT.

The whole UNIX infrastructure was to get into the DoJ stuff that required POSIX compliance.

Just like with Microsoft, the approach was to allow UNIX software to come into NeXTSTEP, not to be created in NeXTSTEP and then leave it for other UNIX vendors.

All the relevant programs in NeXTSTEP used Objective-C, and even the drivers were written in Objective-C.

Apple was clever marketing OS X to the Desktop Linux crowd, that actually only cared about a POSIX experience and not so much about Linux itself.

Many of them helped Apple get out of red, into the company it is today.

This is how Microsoft finally understood how bad they did with POSIX on Windows NT linage, and out of Project Astoria ashes, WSL was born.

Had Microsoft actually kept POSIX subsystem up to date, and in parity with Win32 subsystem, and most likely Linux would never taken off, as everyone would have had their proper POSIX right there, without needing to look elsewhere.
It’s not perfect, I agree, because code is trivially copied (unlike material things). But like I said, this is not about the code.

The wider point about subverting expectations still stands. Yes, we re-organised into tofu/valkey/whatever but that’s come at a _cost_. It’s perfectly reasonable to say that this is open source working properly, the license lets them do this etc. I think it’s also perfectly reasonable to feel a little bit embittered towards a copyright owner pulling the shutters up and forcing everyone to move.
Their problem is that the ecosystem is still very CUDA-centric as a whole.
Sure, but what are the alternatives? They never had significant industrialization. Before mass tourism, their economies were based on fishing and banana farming. The British Crown Dependencies, without the great weather and scenery of the Canaries, developed into offshore tax havens.
Interesting use of 'quotes' in the title.
> Samsung's browser has some unique features for phones and tablets and I end up using it the most.

I recommend in the strongest possible terms that you familiarize yourself with Samsung's privacy policy.
Exact same thing happened to me
Oh you will. It'll be that time you passed on an early job at a company that went on to IPO, or the project that went sour despite your best efforts. It'll be a time you said the wrong thing to a colleague and damaged a friendship, or the time someone gave you good advice you ignored.

You can't hold on to these things, but they'll bounce around your head sometimes, when life gets more challenging.

That being said, it's also balanced by a lot of good memories. Not so often at this time of the night, the small hours, but nonetheless a fond memory will strike you now and then. The time when you came through clutch, or the project really went amazing even though everything went wrong, the time you helped an intern gain confidence and they went on to do amazing things. The small moments when you helped someone solve a problem and they returned the favor, that's what makes the job worth doing.
Cryptocurrencies are securities not money. Unless you have force (army) that enforces your money you will not have money.
Well, there's good to have vs. stupid. It would perhaps be nice to have per-app volume. But the fact that iPhone has just a global volume ... that my ringtone vs. media volume can't be separate is plain stupid isn't it. I will turn down volumes because at work/kids and lost my ringtone. I mean who makes decisions like that?

Now in terms of a little thing that's a major annoyance is the alarm. Android has this feature where upcoming alarms are shown as notifications which you can turn off (just the next one). I set multiple alarms for the morning so that if I shut off one I get another. Now if I wake up on the 1st alarm I will have the next 2 on notification that I can turn off. On iPhone I will keep having those alarm bells and turn them off (which can wake up my kids/wife) or disable them once I wakeup and I might end up forgetting to turn them on for the next day.

Now the freedom in terms of application or browser and extension!!! are obviously general problems.
‘Interesting’ use
Why emulate x86 for this?
Kind of, yes there is, however it is suboptimal versus Objective-C or the Swift bindings.

It is mostly for engine writers to plug into Metal, instead of dealing directly with Objective-C++.
Look. I'm not even necessarily trying to argue that we should have more immigration. But, only one of the below statements can be true:

• The US has too few people.

• The US has too many people.

If the former, we should increase immigration beyond whatever the current levels are.

If the latter, population decline obviously isn't a concern.

Which of these universes do we live in? It can't be both.
I feel like the site is so aggressively lo-fi but tuned to creating no-frills blogs in the highly portable markdown format, that it's kind of resistant to that kind of thing.

The whole thing seems sincere, and though that's not a guarantee of quality, it seems like an indicator of it.
I still play the original Win 3.11 Solitaire (same as the Win 95 one, more or less) - which, rather remarkably, still runs on Windows 10.
But... it doesn't? TCP has no notion of IP address in the protocol, only the port.
TCP with changing IPs can work e.g. on top of an ip-ip tunnel with applications not being aware at all.
This is great. Teletext was a big deal in the UK, a lot of people used to book cheap holidays from deals they saw on it. It was where you could check the news, the weather and maybe play a multiple choice quiz or two.

Happy memories.
I’ve been a developer since 1994 and I consistently see one thing that determines the outcome of large development projects and it’s not agile vs waterfall or any other methodology. It’s strong leadership. Strong leadership can guide, correct, encourage and maintain direction across a team. Without it, no amount of following processes will work.

Sometimes that leadership comes from unexpected places and not the project manager or “architect”.
So you need the app to read this on mobile?
The story in the Vedas probably has the same origin as the Mesopotamian flood myths. The oldest surviving Akkadian and Sumerian references to the flood precede and are pretty close in time to the Aryan expansion to the Indian subcontinent, and the Mesopotamian cities had long-lasting trade, cultural and military links to the peoples living in the Iranian plateau.

I love speculating on the origin of the flood myths. My personal favorites are long-lasting oral traditions about the Black Sea flood and the Persian Gulf flood, both of which were rapid, catastrophic large-scale floods of large areas that were previously settled by humans. Sadly, the true origin is probably a lot more banal -- the oldest surviving fragmentary literary evidence refers to the specific city that flooded, Shuruppak, or modern Tell Fara. There is indeed a significant flood layer there (60cm of alluvial sand!) at about the right time (2900BC), but this was left by a normal river avulsion that created a violent but local flood.
Whatever we are doing now is also not encouraging people to have children. I'm sure many young people would rather choose a 1200 sqft home than no home at all, which is currently the case.

Your example of two teenagers is only relevant for 6 years of a family's lifetime. Why should we optimise for those 6 years?
I'm not appealing to authority, I'm stating a fact. But even if I were, there certainly isn't a better 'alliance structure' to appeal to. In any case, it's a good thing your opinion on the matter is essentially meaningless (as is mine) which was the only point I was really making.
Yep, I am working on this, and it is a lot of how our system works under the surface. It just isn't accurate enough yet.

I do use the LOC data, but only a very small % of books have that. I also use a NLP/ML tool called Wikifier that connects books to Wikidata topics as I want to use that data to help build knowledge graphs so readers can browse a timeline of WW2 and also see books on those subjects.

What is the problem?

With the topic system, it just isn't quite accurate enough; once I switch over to the newer AI systems later this year, it should work better.

With the genre system, the big problem is that the BISAC publishing genre system is being abused by publishers. So, the data is not reliable because of abuse and ignorance.

For example, I have thousands of books marked nonfiction and fiction because the publisher doesn't know how to use the system and picks nonfiction topics for a fiction book. Or, a publisher picks a book for a genre it doesn't belong in because they think it will get them more sales.

It is really frustrating and I am spending a huge chunk of my time this year to look at how I can fix it. It probably means ignoring this system and using AI to classify it with other data we have.
Shouldn't the finetunes be better than the vanilla llms? That's the point of a finetune? Maybe wait until there are llama finetunes to compare to the mistral finetunes?
Wikipedia is the best source for this as its confusing unless you deal with it every day. FWIW Raptor Lake (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raptor_Lake) is Intel's codename for its 13th & 14th generation of Core processors, and the one after will be called Arrow Lake and Meteor Lake (depending on if desktop or mobile).
It was the best way of checking the score in a football match, in real time. When there were enough games playing to necessitate pagination, the wait for your team's page to come around added extra tension!

Also, Bamboozle.
PK Dick's short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" is a great thought experiment into the validity of our memories.

I can highly recommend a read.
The OT is 1000s of years of pre-Christian history that was mostly told by word of mouth, all captured on parchment 1000s of years after it happened. Then it was all selectively collected and copy edited into a single volume another 1300 years after the period of the old testament ended.

Sure, some events in the OT probably happened, but if I go by how much I exaggerate sometimes when telling a story, the Great Flood probably was just a dam that broke it's banks or something. Also doesn't help that every major culture that's old enough has a Great Flood in their history somewhere. It's almost like it's a TV trope of the ancient times.

Nothing in the OT can be ascribed to christianity alone. Things were much more... "fluid" then, and the concept of organised religion did not exist. Things happened, and people blamed the gods/demons/monsters/spirits/forefathers. Only after the fact were these stories appropriated by organised religion for whatever purpose or reason.

Folks living 100s of years: maybe they lived 100s of full moons, or seasons? Maybe the number was rounded up with every retelling to make the subject of the story appear more heroic? There is just no way that we can ever filter out the fact from the fiction in these old books I think.
No, sorry, that is incorrect.
Or Moxie just got bored (and paid). Signal is now in position where main issues are not engineering or crypto but social, financial, political.
So do you have reason to disagree with the thoughtful criticisms of Islam that Dawkins has expressed?

Not sure why you mentioned that otherwise.