skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a different perspective you might think some of the principles of rapid technology development that have been honed over the last few decades in computer science and software engineering could be applied to some of the most perennial sluggish projects (at the other end of the spectrum) and have a predictable outcome.

Maybe so and it can't be really analogous but isn't one of the things that is still plaguing software people memory leaks?

How important is that?

And to what degree is that a problem which arose due to a little too much hastiness early on? And for how long afterward?

How much speculative investment has there been in software-related high-growth industries since, and if it was enough to put memory leaks in the rear-view mirror, when did that turning point finally occur?

With nuclear it seems a lot more is at stake, so people would want to know how long has the possibility of that kind of leakage been completely overcome before widespread deployment would be agreeable anywhere near living things.

Disregarding intentional diversion of non-leaking sources to be fair.

But I would estimate that malicious operators who are just after your money are more hand-wavy than it seems when it comes to leakage or security in the digital tech business for sure.
It is like condensing a reddit thread into a single article. You get a mix of news and immediate takes on the news.
Consider Button Men ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/226312/button-men-beat-p... and the original https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17/button-men https://web.archive.org/web/20050205124221/http://beatpeople... )

These were originally implemented as buttons that you could pin on your shirt. There was a game convention long ago where sometimes you'd find two random people wearing them have a "hey! Let's play a game" moment since it also advertised playing the game. Break out the dice that you've already got, sit down and play in a minute or two (with no weird rules you everything ran real fast).

Likewise, you could have the "this is the game" clipped on one's shirt and then playing a digital game with your selected character.
Closing a personal credit card, in my experience, temporarily drops the score a few points and then it goes back to normal. It's a myth promulgated by banks to keep accounts open.
It’s not as easy in reality as theory.

1) Services are often unique per patient. Even for patients with the same ICD-10 codes, the quality of service will vary. Hospitals cost different amounts to run. If you always peg the price to the lowest, it will be a race to the bottom for quality of service.

2) Patients are unique, with different health profiles, with different preferences for paying. Markets are different. Some markets only have one insurance payer.

3) Healthcare is already tax deductible
"... and I'll take three floating point controls too"

"You mean sliders?"
> I don't think this is the reason, I think it's more that they're just too lazy to jump through the approval and maintenance hoops that come with an app store

If that was the case, then why jump through all the hoops of extensive code obfuscation for the Android app? [0]

> DJI also have a terrible track record with data security, with their entire AWS account getting ripped in 2017.

Leaving the door propped open for everyone is also plausible deniability for doing bad things.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39438842
I'm using a Pi Pico now with a stepper motor (no video of it yet), and it's super smooth, indeed!

I was thinking about using a "SoftPot Membrane Potentiometer" to bring the chonkiness down a little, where the knob on the front would have a little nub at the back which would press against the strip and give you the same kind of effect (but then you need a way to drive that nub, of course).

I also thought about using the stepper motor and spiral combo out of a CD-ROM drive, maybe putting an encoder on it, but the spiral isn't long enough, so meh.

I'm still waiting for screens from AliExpress before I make an updated video, otherwise it'd just be, "look, it's smoother now, yay".
Except Intel, all the hardware is produced in Taiwan or abroad at TSMC.

Samsung and Intel ( + all others) buy their fabs at ASML.

Cars: my preference is still German ( and Toyota). Tesla is really low build quality and it's claims for FSD ( as it's "technological innovation") is a joke. But, Waymo is ahead though.

Planes: Well, Airbus, duh.
Because I guess a family abduction involve a good knowledge of the victim/behavior and I would guess the first thing the abductor would do is making sure he isn't tracked by getting rid of the phone and not using their own in a radius around the scene of the abduction.

Quite a different set of parameters than abductors targetting random kids in a gas station and driving away with the car.
I use Lightroom and Photoshop very irregularly. I now can't access Photoshop 5 that was installed on my Macbook because it doesn't work with the current MacOS. So now not only can I not deauthorize the license to free it up for my Windows machine, I can't actually use it either.
>and has in fact shown that larvae do not carry over memories through metamorphosis

Nope.

The 2008 study is "the first to demonstrate conclusively that associative memory survives metamorphosis in Lepidoptera".

The article you cited does not disprove this, but rather it shows the brain structure of (some, at least) insects get completely re-arranged before/after their transition to adulthood.

For me, this only makes the 2008 study more interesting, since the memories could still persist, even after a completely new brain architecture (!).
I am still angry for them for their blackmail-based payment model back in years.

For those who don't know, you were able to get credits for Proton from Humble Bundle.
You are able to use those credits to use "Pro" plan.

Well, once your credits ended, without any notification, your credits started to go negative. After certain point of negativity, your account was locked for "unpaid" bills.
There was no any information that this would happen.

You weren't able to access you email unless you paid the bill.
Ensnittification definitely applied to home appliances like washing machines.

IMO inkjet printers where the front runner here before online platforms really took off.
Reminds me of [1]

> There are still 1.5 million people paying a monthly subscription service fee for AOL — but instead of dial-up access, these subscribers get technical support and identity theft software.

> The number of AOL dial-up subscribers is now “in the low thousands,” according to a source.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-s...
Discussing these textbooks - and more generally discussing education - also seems to reveal a lot of weaknesses in how people think about the world. There's a tendency to think that because something is difficult it's worthwhile. There's a tendency to ignore opportunity costs, or consider alternative efforts. There's a tendency to frame on cool concepts that are intellectually fun and more pleasing to the ego as "real learning," when most CS graduates are likely going to be running into much more trouble on less glamorous stuff like navigating frameworks.

I'm definitely coming from my own perspective, having initially been self-taught, and then finding myself with the opportunity to go back and academically study CS at a well ranked university. Supposedly, this would fill all of the "holes" in my knowledge (you see this sentiment a lot). I found the classes fun, and I did well in them. But I was also constantly trying to find usefulness in them when it came to work I actually was doing, and didn't find any. Though I don't regret doing it as an interesting life experience, it was honestly a waste of time and money when it comes to my CS skills.

Which isn't to say that SICP is useless for everyone, or that no one will get value out of it. But reading the article in the link, as well as all of the replies, it's telling that people are writing so many paragraphs but aren't able to say anything concretely. Even multiple paragraphs accusing people of looking for excuses not to do it - but not providing any concrete examples of its usefulness. This should set off red flags.

Yes, there are people who are completely clueless about core concepts. Though SICP is obviously not the only place to learn about those concepts. Further, most people hanging out in places where those concepts are discussed and are considering whether or not to do SICP in their free time likely have been exposed to the concepts already (and might already have a pretty good grasp on them).

There always is a bit of posturing and ego involved when some of these things come up, and they often lead to people giving very poor advice.
> although only about half of that reaches the driveshaft.

Isn't that more like around 35% on a good day? There are some pure ICE systems that can approach 50%, but those aren't in common passenger cars. Hybrid cars do considerably better, but even then 50% is an achievement.
I'll never again learn another proprietary tech unless I'm getting paid to do it. open source or nothing.
Ask HN: Home monitoring solution without subscription
Could anyone suggest a customizable home monitoring system that allows for additional components like CCTV cameras, door sensors (Ring Doorbell seems to offer API integration), motion sensors, etc.? I’m considering using an old PC or a Raspberry Pi as the central hub. also the cheaper the better :)
I like to mash on Shift until the screen wakes. On some outlandish systems this enables Sticky Keys and locks Shift.
Other than waiting to see where things shake out with the Senate, perhaps Sony? I can't speak to manufacturer support, and not sure Sony will stay in the drone game in the long term where it would feel like a sound investment.

I've been looking at other commercial-esque options (mainly photogrammetry) and came across Sony's"bring your own DSLR" drone.

https://pro.sony/ue_US/products/professional-drones/ars-s1
Folks, from someone that has made all of these errors over twenty years, the best thing you can do is just buy a total stock market index fund (eg. VTI).

Don't try to overweight or underweight companies or guess winners or losers.

Twenty five years ago doing this sort of guessing would have had you underweighting Apple for example.

And frankly, I think the same mistake today would be overweighting NVIDIA.
Seconded. I shudder when I think back to the "test driven development" days when I wrote so much throwaway test code. Later, you try to refactor the app and it's another 50% of effort to update all the tests. The solution is to avoid it in the way you described.
Once you have enough money it doesn’t matter. You don’t spend time looking at bills. You know roughly that credit card X has a bill of $4-5k a month and as long as it’s close to that why bother. You set an autopay with an upper limit and just never think about it. You rely on things like email notifications to “catch” odd spending. Look at a bill maybe twice a year. You don’t go through line by line, you just look for things that are odd and if nothing stands out you’re done. Maybe you spend 30 minutes a year looking at bills.

Oddly, poor people make similar choices for almost opposite reasons. They don’t want to check because it causes anxiety and they feel like they don’t have control anyway.
even if the LLM thing is an "AI fad" there are many other things that ML is used for that matter (to the people spending real money on GPUs - think A6000, H100, not gamer cards)
Russia launched a satellite capable of destroying GPS satellites and suddenly funding became available?
You need to have proof that the software is being used. You also have to provide notice and cannot expect to just walk up and demand inspections. Also, this is a private company so they have no authority to do this.

The primary bit of evidence to the BSA was/is from disgruntled employees "ratting" on their employer. Is that sufficient evidence of a crime to justify a warrant for any TLA to do an investigation? If not, that's the only way you're looking at my computers.

Again, laughing in their face would be my response.
What do you think the cause is? Unwashed eggs?
> Ok, so enlighten me. How would this open-source everything world work?

You're the one trying to sell this garbage.

> How would companies protect their investments in research and proprietary technology?

Should they be able to hold their users hostage like that?

> How will you guarantee security, besides depending on the nebulous "the community will fix it"?

Haha. Hahahaha. Remember SolarWinds? LastPass? Microsoft?

> Who's in charge of the direction development will take?

You are, for your branch.

You don't have to merge every patch sent your way. You don't have to merge any patch sent your way!

> How will you prevent fragmentation in different branches?

You don't. It's that "competition" thing you claim to love so much.

> What creates a drive for innovation if you take out competition?

There are so many unexamined priors that this sentence takes for granted that it's not even wrong, and crosses into pure nonsense.

> How will you enforce quality control?

You… don't merge patches that don't meet your requirements…?

> And, most of all, how will developers make money?

Ideally, grants and crowdfunding are pretty much the VC model without the middlemen trying to get rich(er).
It's also an average over a bunch of different reactor technology, not all of which takes the same time to build.

The main designs they are employing are from the Hualong One, soon to be Hualong Two line. Hualong One takes around 5 years, Hualong Two is a revised design intended to reduce costs and construction time to only 4 years. Which is still a long time in absolute sense but is practically instant in nuclear reactor timescales.
Anti-reversing. Obfuscation and packers are dominant in Chinese applications. If something isn't obfuscated, it's free reign for competitors.

> Leaving the door propped open for everyone is also plausible deniability for doing bad things.

We completely agree here, see "sufficient product telemetry is indistinguishable from surveillance malware." I personally don't think this justifies a blanket ban on a technology; if it did, the world would need to be a very different place.
Because universal healthcare is not the best solution, as is becoming increasingly evident in Canada and the UK.

We need to fix the price gouging in the medical system by incentivizing competition. With the way things are currently set up in the US, the hospitals are essentially written a blank check any time a patient steps foot on their premises. If we bring competition between the hospitals with price transparency, the prices will fall dramatically.
> basic fiscal responsibility currently exists at odds with the reality most people need to exist within to be content.

Thanks for pointing that out. There are expenses that have gone up significantly compared to the average income. At the same time, the bar for "contentment" has gone up significantly

I live in the Midwest. Many of these neighborhoods have homes in the 1200 sq ft range (111 m^2), with two bedrooms, maybe a third small one, one bathroom and a basement. Talking to older neighbors, it used to be normal for a family with five or more children to live in a house like this. Cars were simpler and more affordable. There was one phone line per household, not per person. There was no internet access or cable TV subscription. You mowed your lawn with a mechanical, human powered device.

There's nothing wrong with having a bedroom for each child, but is it necessary for contentment? Definitely not.
This attitude is why EU countries are mostly quite poor compared to the US and have relatively unproductive and low-tech economies. You bring it upon yourself.
Studiesefrequent mowing puts poisonous weed into survival mode
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I'm really curious about why I always hear about these horror stories in the US but I never hear about them happening in a EU country. Does anyone know why?
WI-FI on a console from 1977 [video]
Study identifies fungus that breaks down ocean plastic
> There aren't ties to the Chinese military, are there?

From a practical perspective, it could be at any time. China hasn't embraced the free market the same way the west does, and doesn't give private companies the same degree of autonomy you're used to seeing elsewhere. Broadly speaking, if the Chinese government needs a company within their jurisdiction to cooperate with them, they can enforce cooperation.

As an example, even with publicly held companies, the Chinese government will take out "special management shares" that give the government positions on the board with unique power to direct management within a company and direct management decisions. It's not like the West where companies have theit own management that might disagree with the government and battle in court. In China, the government can simply become the management of a company.
Yep, hitting Left Ctrl with my pinky is what I do.
If ANYBODY has quick and easy access to connect to the prod DB, let alone have prod DB creds, you are doing something very wrong.
You can also just order it online on the grey market for a lot cheaper.
The FDA allows drugs declared in shortage to be mixed, with slight alterations, by compounding pharmacies. https://www.fda.gov/drugs/human-drug-compounding/drug-compou...

> One of the conditions of section 503A restricts compounded drugs that are essentially copies of commercially available drugs, but FDA does not consider a drug to be commercially available when it appears on FDA’s drug shortages list.

I know for a fact you can obtain compounded semaglutide.
how about mozilla? I believe it's been running with such a setup (foundation+corporation) for a long time.
By looking at the headline I thought Proton would be changing to become something like Mint Linux and not Ubuntu Linux. But then after reading the article, Proton looks more like Ubuntu with Canonical backing it.
If domesticated breeds of cattle live in feral herds they will act like similar wild animals. I have seen a wild herd myself once, and people familiar with them said they were dangerous.
"This C program doesn’t explicitly use any C standard library functions." doesn't sound as cool, though.
I regret to inform you that companies like AMD run on money, not substance.
Unit tests should be independent of the environment they are run in, and pass or fail consistently. Otherwise, it is not a unit test.
There is a lot of “we’re nerds, and we own it” in that book. I suspect it was at least somewhat a response to the contemporaneous “ewww computer nerds are the worst kind of dweeb” nonsense that was happening in schools in the 90s.

Personally? I love how it’s written. I find it clever, engaging, and that it uses clever analogies and examples, with a theme running throughout. The little comics provide some levity as well.

I guess, to me, thinking of programming as alchemy effectively levels the playing field a lot. It means nobody is “born with it,” unlike looks or a straight nose or anything like that. It’s all about learning.

That’s how I read it, anyway.

Amateurish? Maybe. But, and this is important: we were all amateurs and it’s an intro to CS book. By definition, the people reading this book should be amateurs.
I've always thought this is where blockchain technologies can finally be of some practical use - as the age of Deep Fake fully unfolds.

If an organization/entity releases media that is (by them) marked as "real" (or genuine, or trustworthy, original, not tampered with, etc), the stream can be checksummed and committed to a ledger. This way, any content coming from sources participating in this "verity scheme" can be validated against a distributed record (which is presumably incredibly difficult to modify surreptiously).
Are you saying they Maybe learned Haskell?
The speed of the MK4 for the same quality isn't even close to the P1P due to it being a bedslinger vs CoreXY gemoetry.
I have never heard of any VFX artist running linux. Is that really true?
Capture One is just ~5 years behind Adobe pushing people to subscriptions - in fact they are actually quite bit more expensive for what you get now. Perpetual licenses are going away
I always dislike it when people emphasize "applications", as if those were the only valuable things to learn. Nothing in my professional and academic life has been as valuable, as a strong conception of various theoretical concepts.

What SICP is about, is programming theory. How data structures can be formed and manipulated to solve abstract problems and how these programs are executed.

Sure, nothing in this book will tell you the best way to program a video game, but the presented concepts are of genuine importance and can be seen in a wide area of circumstances. Ultimately the book want's you to think more abstractly, which is great way to understand things.
In many countries sentences are much shorter. Life imprisonment is extremely rare or nearly impossible. As such those don't get that big effort in overturning as prisoners are anyway free after much shorter time.
That’s helpful a perspective. Pi4 isn’t that much more.
you visualize a calculator and it gives you the correct answers when you type in various problems?
1. There's a difference between a weak DRM format, and a "download as PDF" option.

2. "Poking the bear by removing these nominal restrictions" is the "branding" I was talking about. Their "emergency library" was a pirate site, plain and simple. You can describe it as a procedural difference from what they were doing before, but that doesn't stop it from being piracy.
This makes Jensen one of those people that climbed all the way from the bottom to the top, which is more admirable.
The options to download the book as a PDF or epub.
Fair enough, I follow. but we've had about 20 years now, and it doesn't seem like any improvements have materialized, if anything, there's only negatives with kids being on their phones during school time. it's ok to axe to put this one on the loss pile, and move on.
So... what WILL help america compete with China? (without playing the same game) How could the US build out a competitive drone industry with chinese manufacturers able to cut price because the Chinese government will cover the gap?

Drones are not yet an "essential" piece of technology for the country as a whole. We're currently at "cutting ourselves off at the toe" territory... in a few years we'd be even more dependent and legislation like this would be catastrophic. Better now than in the 2026.
Thanks for the write-up. My biggest fear is not references, overloads or memory management, but rather just the layout of their structures.

We have this:

sizeof(String) == 24
sizeof(Option<String>) == 24

Which is cool. But Option<T> is defined like this:

enum Option<T> {
Some(T),
None,
}

I didn't find any "template specialization" tricks that you would see in C++, as far as I can see the compiler figures out some trick to squeeze Option<String> into 24 bytes. Whatever those tricks are, unless rustc has an option to export the layout of a type, you will need to implement yourself.
I don't think any of that stuff really follows the definition as quoted though. That definition is all about a middleman squeezing buyers and sellers. That people use it to mean "any scummy business practice that uses lock-in or corner-cutting to squeeze customers" doesn't make those uses fit that definition.

That stuff is not new, enshittification was coined to refer to the relatively new ways that platforms started to squeeze people.
> Somebody please show me a downside to this model?

For whom? The user? It's an absolute clusterfuck. Always online video games have already done this shit, and it's been a nightmare for the end user, and that software doesn't do anything "important".

Can you imagine not being able to open or save your file because the servers are overloaded? Or getting charged a premium at the end of a long day because you weren't carefully counting your credits and you need to save your file?