skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Roughly three categories:
1. Newsletters that cost a lot of money and (claim to) deliver a lot of value, examples being any number of finance/investing newsletters.
2. Massive newsletters with broad appeal. I imagine Scott Alexander, Nate Silver, Matt Yglesias, et al., are doing very well for themselves.
3. Anyone in an industry with extremely lucrative advertising opportunities. And any closely-followed reviewer of very expensive tech products (high sales price * affiliate cut) is probably doing well too.
It’s bad by design. Not because there is a conspiracy and they twirled their mustaches and made it bad on purpose. It’s bad by design, because what incentive is there for any Google employees to make it better?

It won’t get them promotions, raises, or even kudos if they make takeout really awesome. It doesn’t generate revenue. It only costs Google to have it. As long as it meets the minimum to satisfy regulators, it won’t be touched.
Wind turbines 'could use blades as giant batteries'
Starlark is nice but Google also has GCL...
Agree with all these suggestions. Except I would caution against simply having a fan that sucks air out of the bedroom without also having a low-resistance path for air to enter the bedroom. If there's no easy way for air to get in, it will get sucked up through the walls and floors taking odors and mold spores with it.
The author does a poor job explaining anything about URI or URN, and says very little about URL beyond naming the components of a hypothetical URL on their website. It is frankly confusing why they published this at all (other than to achieve some SEO goal that concludes with "please try our service").
The market is hyping Nvidia because Apple doesn't have any silicon with more performance than nvidia for training...

Apple silicon isn't magic.
it means "I like this." it originally meant "this is agreeable with my conservative politics" but the youth (me) think it's funny to use it more generally
Constant Integer Type Declarations Initialized with Constant Expressions Should
GPT4o can't pass a driving license test.
A good subject for organizational theory case studies would be the relative cultural immunity of companies with a well-articulated founding vision document, charter of principles, or other operational guidance for employees.
I dont know if this is true. For example sine waves, saws and square waves are very intuitive to me. I think with graphical representation of sound the problem is that the experience of complex sounds is a 3 dimensional thing to humans.

When we talk about music, layers or tracks or whatever you want to call them always become a thing.

For the sound nerds: A spectrum representation also does not reflect how we experience sound. We humans/animals are so trained or born to distinguish sound sources by timbre. A spectrum analyser splits it on the spectrum of tones, not the spectrum of timbres, therefor it's still not a good representation.
While I agree the correlation is iffy, I'm happy to see continued and growing interest in documenting and appreciating the origins and uniqueness of classic retro games. Regarding the origins of this font, I'm curious why someone hasn't asked the people involved. After all, the development of early Id games have been the focus of many books, scholarly papers, retrospectives and histories. Best of all the original sources are still available (Carmack, Romero, Abrash and, I assume, many others).
>Think of all the money managers who borrow their talking points from Warren Buffett. They might sound like Buffett, but they don’t know how to invest the way Buffett does.

Bad analogy. There are domains that admit experts e.g. numerical methods for partial differential equations. Investment management is not one of them. There is way too much luck involved and in Buffet like cases, size and reflexivity confound the matters more.
Often, we look for experts in fields that do not admit experts and come away disappointed.
> The default integer type on Windows is now int64 rather than int32, matching the behavior on other platforms

This was a footgun due to C long being int32 in win64. Glad that they changed it.
millenia of empirical evidence and through to today, shows that most people are more comfortable not coding at all.
This kind of prediction is meaningless and will likely change drastically throughout the campaign. Instead of predicting who will win, the media should always be explaining the stakes to us.
Once privacy is considered as a fundamental human right, everything makes sense. When an EU citizen visit a site and the site collects their data in an unbounded way, their privacy is violated and any goverment should be responsible of protecting its citizen.

In my point of view, this is a difference of how much we define privacy as human right and what data are considered private.
No, it doesn’t.

What has happened in reality is that C became really popular and then all the people designing languages they wanted to be popular, rather than to be experimental, or to push boundaries, etc obviously chose a syntax which was familiar with most programmers, ie a syntax like C’s.

Further, one can disprove that the syntax is particularly important by simply pointing to Python which became immensely popular despite a lack of curly braces and even worse with significant white space simply because colleges and bootcamps decided it would be a good language to teach programming to beginners.
Both are <10W idle. https://youtu.be/-DSTOUOhlc0?si=_NeLAZ9Xv6iQZ5xl. Load power is 25W for the Intel N100.
> Great idea! Of course Google, as other BigTech companies was coherced to implement it mainly due to GDPR restrictions

I don't think this can be correct. Takeout was released June 28, 2011. GDPR was passed April 14, 2016 and went into effect two years later.

I seem to be luckier than sibling comments; my gmail+photos tasks have been reliable. Three big differences from the author: I have closer to 40GB than 200GB of photos, I download the zips from Google rather than having it post 200GB+ to OneDrive, and I unzip my backups when they happen and move them to network storage, rather than rely on them to be 100% automated. I do recall one manual run failing and I was notified.

I do wish some pieces were a little more intuitive, for example how the Drive vs Docs/Sheets/Slides overlap is handled.

I know anti-Google sentiment is very high here, and disclosure that I worked there in the past, but IMO Takeout is a user-friendly effort and they're well ahead of other companies, big tech and especially smaller and non-tech, there. I might be selling Facebook short; they do have an exporter but I haven't used it. [Edit: of course my opinion would be different if I ran into broken exports like a couple sibling comments report.]
There's nothing stopping any other item from being a verb, no? (Not the verb, but a verb.) Anything involving higher order functions?
I'm afraid not, I've heard of it but I haven't seen it in my travels. I'm still looking for a CP/M-80 Logo (or DR Logo for DEC Rainbow).
This is what I do. I carry the dish in the equivalent of a pelican case [1], and only activate for months I have no other option.

[1] https://www.caseman.com/product/starlink-mount-case/
"As for Mr O’Neill’s complaint ('An editor argued with me about the history of my own company'), no sympathy. Given the social structure of capitalism, the employees and leadership of a company are the last people who should be considered Reliable Sources on that company. Particularly on anything that’s remotely controversial."

Wow. I mean, how do you even begin to argue with someone who holds an opinion like this?

The "social structure of capitalism" justifies dismissing input from a founder of the company in question. Really?
That's YOUR definition of intelligence anyway. LLMs fundamentally aren't intelligent because they cannot solve novel problems. It's literally just a complex auto complete that interpolates data from problems already solved by humans. It has no capacity to actually reason about anything.
Also FWIW the Keys To The White House guy who predicted Trump's win and most elections thinks Biden will win this time. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/26/allan-lichtm...
As an Android user, yeah this would be cool to have on my phone, but it ain't gonna make me switch to Apple lmao.

The benefit Apple has over Android (not Google) is that they're fully integrated, ie they make so much profit from their closed platform that they can toss customers bones like iMessage and "apple intelligence".

Remember, attention is all you need came from Google in the first place...
The problem is that the Pi requires specific combination of (5V && 5A), which is rare. IIUC even many 65W adapters don't support it.

I wonder if it has to do with the fact that Pi is shipped as a bare board without case. Power circuits are sometimes required to have enclosures.
>His lexicostatistical analysis found that less than 30 percent of the similar-sounding words between Plateau State languages and China’s Sino-Tibetan languages share similar meanings. Linguists call these kinds of similarities "accidental evidence."

Ok, but that's still a very high percentage. Shouldn't that be surprising?
The Aftermath of a U.K. Cyberattack: Blood Shortages and Delayed Operations
https://archive.ph/wzoCU
You may be right, idk, but I want to point out that you’re conflating two orthogonal concepts: S-expressions and imperative vs. functional programming.

There are lisp dialects that are very imperative, for example elisp, but they still use S-expressions. Historically they might have been considered “functional” because they have first-class functions and higher-order functions like mapcar, but nowadays practically every modern programming language (except go!) has these.

The thing all lisp dialects have in common is not where they land on the imperative vs. functional spectrum, but rather the fact that the syntax is trivial and so it’s easy to write powerful macros.
Make it part of the story: The role of product placement (2022)
I don't think it's been tested at all. for people who took and finished a course in Lisp as their first programming language, how many "hate parens"?

I have no trouble with lisp's parens, i like them. What I never liked though, is that the first item in the list was an operator, a verb lets say, and the rest were the nouns; whereas, you could also have nested lists say of numbers where there were no operators. Never felt right (not that I can think of a better way, not worth adding more parens)
Its interesting to me that companies literally bet the entire company on there never being any problem ever with their github repos.

There's an assumption that it is simply impossible to lose the data that you store in github.
The effect is somehow also visible in the shapes of the letters, with ‘B’, ‘O’ ‘U’ being rounded and soft. The letters ‘K’ and ‘I’ are made of sharper shapes featuring triangles and lines. I wonder if letter designs were influenced by the sounds made by objects.
> URI and IRI are just confusing.

WhatWG wasn't wrong.....
Why run the LLM on the CPU? The 3855 chip runs opencl just fine.

And there is even some viable work of it running on the NPU:

https://old.reddit.com/r/RockchipNPU/

...that leaves the CPU free for other tasks
Computer Lib/Dream Machines is available at the Internet Archive [0]

It consists of Computer Lib, concatenated with Dream Machines, which is the "flip this book over and read Dream Machines" aspect.

The term "intertwingled" entered my vocabulary at the time. (and stuck)

Since it just preceded the Altair, was a major inspiration.

[0]: https://archive.org/details/ted-nelson-computer-lib-dream-ma...
yeah sorry, i didn't know there was another tool with the same name, i will change it soon.
From my memory, extremely large but semantically simple changes still used global approvers since it wasn't considered worth the effort to get approval from hundreds or thousands of individual OWNERs using rosie. Also, with a change of this magnitude, especially one affecting BUILD files, it might not have been possible to create the mega-CL that rosie uses, but I don't remember specific limitations on that.
Yup, idk why but Apple fans act weird, like brainwashed.

You can argue "Hey Apple shouldn't charge so much ram, it's better for me, it's better for you, it's better for everyone" and then you get attacked for it (usually by claims that they use "suuuuper" special flash and ram chips bla bla super high performance bla).
United Air to Force (?) Ads on Paying Customers
Yikes I really hope this doesn't stir up any new lawsuits.

Some stones are best left unturned...
I'm so nostalgic for 1980s manuals that describe the purpose of everything from the ground up, like taking six pages to explain the keyboard.
Does anyone have a copy of the producer source code? The paper states it was published to Usenet but doesn’t give any details.
And here i thought the goal of SICP was to scare off folks who were getting into CS because it was trendy rather than because they enjoyed it...

Seriously, it was a really valuable foundational course. But 100% it scared some folks to other majors.
I reinvite you to re-read the discussion. You are the one who started making completely unnecessary and inappropriate comments about my personal profile, and how I spend my time.

Besides all that, with every comment I have always been in the topic, I have always brought arguments. However, I consider the discussion closed.
Just to put some numbers on it.

DDR5 Latency = 16.67ns

DDR5 Bandwidth = 64GB/s

Now, keep in mind, this doesn't account for things like dual or quad channel which bumps up the bandwidth even further though doesn't really affect latency.

The fastest and most reasonably priced consumer NVMe I could find:

NVMe Latency = 200000ns

NVMe Bandwidth = ~3GB/s

The fastest consumer (or low enterprise) grade persistent storage is terribly slower and takes longer to respond than the cheapest DDR5 ram.
$2.4M Texas home listing boasts built-in 5,786 sq ft data center
Microsoft SwiftKey has also been doing this for quite a while (not quite that long) as well.
Yes, a screenshot would do wonders. From the readme theres no telling if it’s a CLI tool, a Qt thing, or whatever.
If you're on enterprise, you can use the Legal Discovery feature (vault) instead - it worked at my previous employer when all the HR files mysteriously vanished. I think they maintain it properly because otherwise they might get summoned in a case. The downside is that it does a format conversion to word format (and presumably Excel for sheets), and doesn't export in the same directory structure (although I bet the metadata exists in the dump somewhere)
This is the kind of laser focus I need with my side projects!! not even looking around. Just grinding out an idea!! amazing work!
i was looking for the screenshot too.
As an art teacher I use this effect to demonstrate how meaning in an image can be inate, as opposed to socially constructed. To demonstrate social construction I use an image of an arrow. To an Australian aborigini an arrow 'points' in the 'wrong' direction as it's directionality is derived from its semblance to a birds footprint.
You are correct, it is an absurd and nonsensical idea. Especially from the material perspective. People will tell you that you need only XY amount of weight, which is just few percent of all the mass in solar system... but last time I checked, we are not grabbing random soil from Earth and putting it into a form of a satellite like a sandcastle. We need very specific materials put together in very specific way, where some of them are in very short supply to be wasted on Dyson swarm.

Of course, somebody will chime in and tell that advanced civilization could transmute any matter into any other matter. But if that would be possible, then it is completely negating any motivation to build Dyson swarm at a first place, because you can just transmute your toxic waste from local your local dump into antimatter and you have virtually endless amount of energy at your disposal.
Was it Intentional programming? I remember it being described as something similar to what you say, but the Wikipedia shows something slightly different.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming
I’m old enough to remember when companies were eager to claim that their data centers (or some aspect) were finally “carbon neutral”.

Now, with the enormous data center growth for AI purposes, companies don’t even bother pretending that any of this is sustainable.

At best, they might delude themselves into believing that a glorified text autocomplete program will magically solve the world’s problems, including the unsustainability of the machines running the program.
Author here, I'm working on making it faster.

Currently, for the test page https://github.com/letmutex/htmd/blob/main/examples/page-to-..., the debug build is slower than turndown.js (~750ms vs ~670ms on my machine), the release build brings that down to ~170ms. It can definitely be faster, at least the debug build shouldn't be slower than turndown.js.

I haven't checked which parts can be improved, so I'm not sure how much time we can save after optimization.
Not if you use any libraries. The whole venv/pyenv/pipx stuff of python needs to implemented for other languages too. Every program needing it's own virtual environment and tooling for every build.
I think tech is full of people like this. Moreover, they genuinely believe they are helping.
There are no concurrency errors in Python.

Every bytecode instruction is implicitly wrapped in a lock.

Of course, you could still get semantic errors by locking the wrong things at the wrong time; but you can do that in Rust as well.
It’s way too early for any sort of prediction.
Meh. Rust's safety guarantees typically depend on:

- Soundness of their semantics at a conceptual level

- Correct implementation of the semantics in rustc (in Rust)

- Correct translation of those semantics to LLVM IR targeting OS syscalls in rustc (in Rust)

- Correct translation of LLVM IR to native code in LLVM (written in C++)

- Correct implementation of OS syscalls (typically in C)

Python's safety guarantees typically depend on:

- Soundness of their semantics at a conceptual level

- Correct implementation of the semantics in CPython (in C)

- Correct translation of C to LLVM IR targeting OS syscalls in Clang (in C++)

- Correct translation of LLVM IR to native code in LLVM (written in C++)

- Correct implementation of OS syscalls (typically in C)

Both are typically contingent on correct implementation of a huge swath of C/C++ and Rust code. Even if the entire stack were written in Rust, it still wouldn't be sufficient to guarantee memory safety, since bugs anywhere in the stack could introduce memory unsafety into compiled Rust code.

Rust's guarantees come entirely at the first two layers of the stack: If the semantics are sound, and the semantics are implemented correctly in rustc, then the generated LLVM IR (treated abstractly) has memory safety. Python has similar guarantees: if its semantics are sound, and the semantics are implemented correctly in CPython compiler/interpreter, then the resulting execution of the interpreter has memory safety.
Can you sign up using Starlink itself? It would by annoying if you needed another ISP when your ISP is down.
Yeah AGI is way off, if ever.

Question is do the public and investors realize that.
All of the months with numerical prefixes are wrong by the same offset, though. So as long as you remember that as well, it can be useful. Particularly since they're the last ones and thus take the longest to count to.
Very much a personal anecdote, but I spent about a month earlier this year seriously learning various Lisps (CL, Racket Scheme, Clojure). I stopped when it clicked for me - Lisps are a mess. Everything I wanted from Lisp I found in Haskell.

I'm reasonably confident that all the anecdotes you hear about 10x improvements from switching to Lisp are just programmers learning about functional programming and good design patterns for the first time. But those aren't contingent on using a Lisp, and I'd argue using Lisp brings an enormous amount of cruft and baggage that makes FP seem far more alien and difficult than it needs to be.
I didn't mean to imply that engineering-values only pertain to things like code-quality. Project management emerged from engineering and it was a lot better when it was done by engineers who embraced engineering-values.

If you look at mid-century project management, when it was engineering-based, a lot of the focus was on things like optimising resource inputs, identify the critical path so scheduling could be done to minimise blocking, figuring out approaches to accurately calculate time and money estimates (i.e. making sure estimates were not uniformly biased towards being underestimates as that demonstrates a failure to make empirically-informed predictions).

While I totally agree that nowadays most projects fail due to bad management, I'd go further and say they fail because management is HR-values based. None of the above has anything to do with kindness, or indeed social skills in general.

Engineers, having systematically deprecated engineering-values, now have their projects managed by non-engineers who go around screwing things up.
I was slightly making fun of how the news media has been reporting any airline problem as boeing-related.

This story was sort of refreshing as they didn't call out the make, model and history of the aircraft.
those semantic errors are what i'm talking about, not bugs in the interpreter! rust's borrow checker rejects such 'data race conditions' at compile time (though there are ways to explicitly opt out of it)
> the IETF that says that URL is just a term for a certain subset of URIs

This is the more broadly accepted definition, right?
Fair - English's orthography is definitely worse.
Plenty of tools have inputs for "numbers" that don't accept all real numbers (which is impossible).

Even if the nomenclature was "URL" they still wouldn't necessarily accept all URLs.
The most we can say is that some languages (notably NOT mandarin Chinese with ~1 billion native speakers, so the idea that it's ingrained in all humans is laughable at best) have a preference for giving the long bou and boo sound to rounder objects and the shorter ki and ka sounds to sharper objects, and that language affects our naming preference.
Is there a way to make a Starlink dish that is viable for backpacking (i.e. 5kg at most, but preferably 0.5-2kg, including the solar panel and battery needed to power it) or is the satellite LTE service the only possibility?
> Maybe in 20 years time we will find out that a solar panel in space is much better because the sunlight does not have to travel through the atmosphere

It is basically guaranteed that microwave or laser beam from there is going to have a dual use purpose. As a source of energy and as a directed energy weapon. And it is a quite high chance that it will get banned by power which did not build it. Be it China, Russia, EU or USA.
Anecdotally, some of the best engineers I have worked with were entirely self-taught.
People can absolutely get promoted for improving products, even if those products don't make the company money.

The problem is more likely a lack of prioritization at the leadership level.
My first struggle with then newly launched Google Takeout was, if you export all of your google keep notes, if you have any note without title, the whole takeout will fail, or will give you damaged zip file. I opened it with 7-zip, and then found that all notes with titles were there, and first note without title had a filename Error: something. So, the loop was failing at encountring first note without title.