skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is my understanding that what this paper describes was never actually shipped

This reminds me of an interesting talk by David Beazley where he discuss the early days of Python, when IIRC he was a student at a national lab, and they managed to run the Python REPL in an connection machine 5 that people had a hard time programming in lower level languages. It seems the work they did back then, writing modules that allowed the Python interpreter to interoperate with scientific code was one of the foundations for it to snowball many years later.

So I wonder if what this paper describes had shipped in time, if that would lead us by butterfly effect into the alternative timeline where Lisp dominates scientific computing, instead of Python.

See https://youtu.be/4RSht_aV7AU?si=jVZzxa93svZ5oEXL
Often when trying to improve a complex system, the best way to gain new insights and approaches is to just make a branch or even a clean project and try to redo a thing. Even if it doesn't end up in the project often you'll get ideas and inspiration
A Forth Story (1995)
It's sad to see Windows fall so far from the Win2k days but this trajectory has been obvious since Windows XP.

Fortunately or unfortunately, for most people for most things, the host OS hardly matters anymore. The operating system is now the browser. And this "doesn't feel like mine anymore" is 100x worse there because corporations have fogotten that they're voluntarily presenting data upon the request of an external client and what said client does with the data is none of their business. It's as if visiting a website and downloading the publicly available contents is a nation setting up an embassy of "foreign soil" on your hardware. Editing CSS (or whatever) is equivalent to vandalizing a physical storefront because the pixels on your monitor are theirs not yours despite it being your hardware. Even the very protocol of hypertext transport (HTTP/3) is now designed around being encryption verified JS application delivery for corporate person use cases with no allowances for HTML hypertext transport for human person use cases. So not even linux/mac/bsd/etc is free from the trend.
The AI of F.E.A.R.

https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/three-states-plan-ai-of-fea...
Nitpick, but Tesla does not yet have full self driving technology. They have a beta which is "supervised" by human drivers. Repeating the myth that they have self driving perpetuates the misconception that Tesla's marketing has pushed in the past.
I will never own or use another Windows PC again. Full stop.
https://www.amazon.com/Underwood-Ranches-Sriracha-Jalapeno-M...
Can that single semiconductor produce other wavelengths in between? Sounds like that would be great for wider colour gamut. If it could change fast enough you could even create a full spectral distribution by scanning faster than human perception.
Meh, it’s only a matter of time, assuming that superintlligence is achieved.

It will of course be sock puppeted throughout some hapless shmuck, but societies that are not effectively led by superintellignces will quickly become irrelevant footnotes in a sea of strategic superiority.
I don't think that's the right causal direction. People aren't using home PCs anymore because they use their phones, or their work laptop. At least that's my take.

Part of me wonders if all this advertisement and service hawking is related to a fear of massive market size reduction, overall.
That's what finally gave me the confidence to switch to Linux a year ago. I'm running Manjaro on my main system and Valve's efforts in improving WINE/creating Proton have been fantastic. The amount of games that "just work" has been nothing short of amazing.
How are the starts / stops? Jerky? I have c-spine issues. That's my main concern.

Why are they more expensive? I hoped they would be cheaper without a driver to compensate.
Under discovery in the case it turned out that nope, they weren't doing that right either.
There is such a thing as criminal copyright infringement, so it isn’t no one. Generally the conduct is pretty egregious for it to be a criminal rather than civil matter.
> Parent is also saying that virtually nobody does it. This is not true.

Comparing number of books released for sale vs for free, is isn't unreasonable to use the phrase "virtually nobody". I would guess less than 1% of books are released free.

> What I linked is one example, given away for free by an engineer at a prop trading firm and a CS professor. Similar to the linked example, we have excellent books on many technical subjects, available for free.

That's right. There are lots of free books and still almost all books are not free. That's okay, though. People can write a book and choose what to do with it. What IA tried to do removed that option.
I was taught this in elementary school, I suppose not everyone knows.
The Web is still a hack. The amount of effort required to present content in your intended layout is absurd, and still unreliable.

We need a re-do. A lean, clean SVG might be the ticket.
Just wait until they 1) have a near monopoly and/or 2) decide it’s time to actually make a profit. Because it won’t last either way.
https://archive.ph/Dvl5s
Sort of?

By this logic a government can never change its priorities.

It’s done something wrong in the past and is trying make up ground now.
Especially when another country is undercutting domestic production of others in order to impose an Orwellian ideology.
Does coal kill rich people? Nuclear meltdown does.
I always thought the science centre was connected to the ROM... I didn't know they moved.
>"Agile methods, without the cult and hype..." - Do not exist in practice. And I am not producing cars. Rather what I do is a form of art.
MacOS is going through the same thing. It’s not nearly as bad, but Apple keeps pushing their services and being more in your face about it.

I don’t mind them trying. But don’t keep asking, or ask again on every update, or badge settings because I haven’t my added to my wallet, or keep telling me how much better a family plan is when I’m single. It’s not better, it’s a waste of money.

I can’t imagine switching off macOS/iOS. I don’t want Linux or Windows. But I’m getting less happy every year.
I think copyright terms should be much shorter, but I do not think someone should be far worse compensated for writing a work at 85 than 25. Or suffer from oddities relating to publication time vs death.
Underwood Ranch's sriracha is expensive compared to Hug Fong's.
It is amazing that modern medicine has extended authors’ afterlife by 56 years!
China could take Taiwan without even needing to invade
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I was really expecting to be able to write in a canvas in the webpage. (Using the touchpad, thst ensure an horrible result, worse than my horrible true hand writing.)

Is it possible to use the camera of the phone instead of a jpg image?
This is a deeply unserious way to frame this; it presumes the unnatural (even if useful/positive) present state of copyright as a naturally occurring thing. It ain't.

"Why should we lessen or diminish the legal right of authors to control how copies of their work are distributed; the way we've been doing it works well."

is what you SHOULD have said. Doesn't sound as sexy, but here, the accuracy matters.
I could have sworn that back in the '90s I heard about some enterprise drives that had multiple sets of actuators to give multiple heads per platter. However, in searching around I'm not finding any references to any. Maybe I was just daydreaming about "that would be cool", but in reality it just made more sense to throw more drives at the problem and get more parallelism through additional drives. Maybe the platters weren't the bulk of the cost, perhaps even the actuators and head assemblies were the bulk of the cost, making it totally not make sense (IOW, the drive wouldn't be marginally more expensive, it would be twice or more as expensive).

Looks like WD has multi-actuator drives as well: https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/365530452/West...
> a MacBook is ready to use without any updates.

Do you want to give this app access to downloads? To desktop? To microphone? What about this app? Sign in to iCloud. Sign in again. Maybe this time? Nope, sign in to iCloud.

I’ve picked my poison, and it’s Apple, but it’s far from perfect.
I get months out of my boox tablet, it’s incredible.
Is designated market maker able to get filled before an order in the FIFO order queue at NYSE, NASDAQ or CME?
I think it will ask, but it’s optional. You can do it later if you’d prefer.

The only time it’s mandatory is if you are restoring from a back up or transferring from another computer with a newer operating system.

So if your old machine was on 10.20.1 but your new machine is 10.19.4 because that was the newest when it was put in box then you’ll have to update it first.
When I was a kid, I remember being super fascinated by the Power Rangers game on Sega CD and played what little of it I could on the demo consoles at Blockbuster and other places.

I had all the other major consoles at the time except the Sega CD so I never got to own it at home, but the idea of playing through an actual episode of Power Rangers while pressing buttons that correspond to the actions taken by the actual characters just felt so cool. All the other Power Rangers games were either fighting games or belt-scroll beat-'em-ups, but this one let me play through an actual episode!

...and then I emulated it as an adult and realized it was just a pile of QTEs with no real game and that the video quality was abject dogshit. But the beat-'em-ups still hold up, to the point where they're making a new one now.
> we should move to models of publishing that do not require this restriction of information.

It’s interesting how this comment veers into a completely hypothetical overhaul of society in which money doesn’t matter, for reasons which of course are hand-waved away.

On one hand: Sure! Sounds great! If someone can reinvent all of society in a way that everyone is free to do whatever they want and not worry about getting paid, then by all means let’s go for it.

On the other hand: These proposals are so fanciful and far-fetched (at least in our lifetimes) that these comments read more like a tacit admission that the current system is indeed necessary.
Live Ben Zaho reaction about this paper and Carlini:
https://i.imgur.com/fp7mXx7.png
For some consolation: Windows Autoupdates can be disabled and likewise driver installs in general via Group Policy, which is available if you use Pro or above.
This appears to be using a version of babel that allows ACE FYI.

@babel/traverse <7.23.2

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-67hx-6x53-jw92
For mechanical drives, the ratio between IOPS and capacity has been getting exponentially worse over time.[1] This means that random seeks available per unit of data is getting so bad now that in cloud hosting they consider a 128 KB read to be "one" operation for cost calculations. The capacity unit for a single I/O used to be 512 bytes!

This is why I came here to make the same comment you just did.

A modern 30 TB data centre drive has about 300 IOPS, so that's just one random seek per 100 GB per second! Ouch.

I don't get why manufacturers don't make drives with actuator arms in all four corners, and heads that can move independently on both sides of every platter.

There might be some vibration and cross-talk issues, but surely they can be overcome with modern digital servo control technology.

That would allow 4x the IOPS just form having four sets of arms, and then 2x the IOPS because there's arms above and below platters, and then Nx where 'N' is the number of platters. Let's say there's 10, so that's 4x2x10 = 80x the IOPS for the same capacity!
You're assuming the use of attributes for everything, though. The thing that irritated me immediately about XML is the arbitrariness of having both attributes and sub-elements.
People need to get over the in OS ads. They’re easily removable honestly. Personally I’ve never seen windows look this good in years. The whole system shell looks really good and well designed these days. On top of that the included features like wsl2 and hyperv are great.
> In a million-to-one chance the brake failed to hold

Much more likely: the pilot forgot to engage the brake
If only they knew how to build web apps.

Like, I honestly hate web apps. But there is some that is really good, like the new Threads.net app...

Meanwhile, MSFT web apps are horrible. They kill native apps, like Mail and classic Outlook, and are replacing with the horrible new Web Outlook.

Copilot on Android is also horrible, Bing, etc. They don't know how to build web apps either.
> Rather what I do is a form of art.

Found the pretentious CS undergrad/junior dev. Sure, there's an element of creativity and craftsmanship in software development, but come on already.
Really i Don't like windows but the text editor or the official tools like powerpoint, mas word, Excel more good than LibreOffice.
I use it for my paper because my collage.
Those aren’t updates.

They’re obnoxious. I’m getting more annoyed with MacOS too for that and other reasons mostly around services.

But you can start using it without OS updates.
Seriously. macOS is getting this same sort of thing, but it’s being slow walked.
The only person responsible for somebody who thinks "1*1 = 2" is the dumbfuck who believes that nonsense.
As far I know, OneDrive doesn't use QT anymore on Windows. It's web iirc (the ui part) + WinUI.
I just got a new MacBook Air a couple of days ago, and a couple weeks before that I helped my mom set up a new Win 11 laptop.

The Macbook's setup is definitely a bit faster than Windows, but it's not way faster. I still had to turn off a lot of the things it suggests, and I still was prompted to update the OS. However, the Macbook was less pushy and I felt the features at least seemed to offer some user value.
> Sounds like that would severely decrease what authors can earn, especially older ones.

I mean, I know a bunch of authors. All of them wrote because they needed to write (even the textbook authors). And almost none of them earned much of anything from it (even the textbook authors). One English prof told me that he received almost enough for his morning coffee for about three years. Then he didn't. And he drank just plain coffee.

"The problem for most artists isn't piracy, it's obscurity." "Less copyright" != "piracy", but I think it has the same effect in this case (theoretically less value placed on the work of an author, but not practically).

Also, this might be coincidence, but copyright has gotten extended at the same time as most authors have received less from publishing.

All that said, I want society as a whole to be better, people to have more opportunities to grow, good ideas more of a chance to flourish. I think that overly strong copyright fights against that. And IME (ok, secondhand experience) that 99.9% of the profits added by strong copyright goes to the publishers, not the authors.
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“Numbers and numeric quantities aren't a real thing that exists in the world.”

How did your mind gain access to this universal truth? ;)
Maybe he did it because he knew the shuttle was garbage (the absurd design was Air Force political BS) and he wanted NASA to stop using it.
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They are fast precisely because you are running them on win11 hardware. Try running them on the old pentiums or Core 2s and they would be just as slow.
Loans existed for at least as long as writing has, and probably for the entirety of humanity’s history. Code of Hammurabi had laws regulating loans, for example.

Why loans result in resources being misallocated? This doesn’t make sense to me. Say, I have some cash I want to save for retirement. Until then, I loan it to other people to run their businesses. Where is misallocation here?
> Why should someone be thrown in jail for singing the happy birthday song in front of a crowd of people?

This is not a thing that happens, and it’s hard to take anyone seriously when they’re presenting this as a counter argument.

If you can’t even understand the difference between criminal and civil matters, how can you even begin to discuss this topic?
Sounds like you know more about it than I do!
You also need to follow all the Windows guidelines pattern here.... The only choice for this for a while was WinUI/UWP. And there isn't a lot of WinUI/UWP devs.
MacOS is getting worse, for sure, but compared to Windows, it's way "behind" in all the bad ways. As a life-long Windows user, who is also comfortable with Linux, MacOS seems to have the best of all worlds, currently.
Ultimately, in a big enough org, software becomes an assembly line. Lean used right protects people and stops management from enforcing bullshit on the rank and file. But at a macro level, the only reason any dev has a job is because an end user says "I need the software to do this thing it can't already do." So how do you get it to them right with a minimum of fuss? That's Lean.
I disagree that we should just "get over" ads, I fucking paid cold hard cash for a Windows license after all. It's either ads with a free license, or no ads with a license bought and paid for. No fucking double dipping.

That said, most if not all the nonsense can easily be disabled or removed so I agree with your overall position.
Raycasting Engine in Factorio [video]
I love SVG as a consumer for flow chart graphics. Visio and Omnigraffle output to SVG and it displays nearly perfectly when pasted and rescaled in a powerpoint or embedded in HTML. The files are light compared to PNG and are guilt free git commit-able.

I even like XML as a user of my work’s external vendor’s configs. I edit subsections more than I write it. It is well documented, errors are easy to spot, and the file is git-able. I would honestly hate to see what that company would come up with in JSON or YAML configs so in this case XML is a great fit.
Enough with this nonsense. A book isn't a family business, it's not the family home, it ain't the family farm, it's an artifact that you produced once, it makes no sense to inherit the right to copy it. We allow inheritance to exist because it creates social good by facilitating community continuity. And the best social good when it comes to copyright is to let it expire as soon as possible; let's be honest, "until the death of the author" is still eons longer than any author deserves. It shouldn't be more than 20 years, max.
The guy from Maine reminds me of another Maine native I know of in the business of collecting odd things; there’s a lady who would sing you a song while playing her accordion on Peaks Island as you walked into her museum of umbrella covers.
It was probably waiting for a tip you cretin! :]
Adding on to this thread, because there are definitely more than "dozens of us"!

IME, it's been a way to get the best of both worlds:

* job pays the bills by leveraging some of my technical background

* hobbies replenish my emotional well-being and offer creative freedom (and are funded by the aforementioned 9-5).

P.S. Appreciate the parent explicitly noting the rarity of the "commencement speech" scenario.
Not really, we talk about bubbles moving up, not water moving down.

Current is bubbles.
>So the wife that supported the author can't profit off their assets? The author can't pass on this to children?

They certainly can. Certain assets are depreciating with time though, like copyrightable works. They only have value because of the law in the first place, and the law sets the timeline for that value to depreciate to zero.

Perhaps supporting a writer shouldn't be a career/investment opportunity though.

>Should we do the same thing for other property like land and money?

Like, with taxes on inheritance? We should and we do. And arguably, we don't do it enough.

The question is: are the authors that much better off from the way the laws are now? Is the society overall? If we tell the authors that, in fact, their grandchildren won't be able to profit off of their books, what kind of literature shall we lose?

We already have the answer, since the draconian copyright laws are pretty recent. Great works of literature have been written before such laws existed, and introduction of these laws hardly improved writing overall (or the plight of the author, for that matter).
Thanks! But I don't want to disable driver updates. I just don't want it to install older versions.
Extremely smooth! I can't comment on the c-spine issues but I'd argue that it's the smoothest driver I've ever experienced. Surely they have some math in their AI driving code that clamps acceleration and jerkiness. It's NOTHING like Tesla Full Self Driving, which I find to be incredibly jerky for both steering and acceleration.
Wouldn't 5 consecutive Olympics be over a 16 year period?
By golly I did it again!

Ok. That prompted me to look for spectral evidence :)

>specimens of compound bows with bone backing in Serovo graves

https://www.jstor.org/stable/276490

Might be pushing the definition?
I'm not sure why you'd want to start using an OS without running the latest revision.
For making it under 200 LoC, `setProperty` could be written without the hardcoded list:

function setProperty(prop, value, elem) {
if (prop in elem)
elem[prop] = value
else
elem.setAttribute(prop, value)
}

https://github.com/uxtely/js-utils/blob/6154c64494301199144a...
Windows is the only reasonable option for someone who wants a modern desktop but doesn’t want a Mac. Apple has been integrating ID into their systems for years and nobody bats an eye. Do you want a computer that “feels like” something or do you want to get work done?
I actually think the opposite is true. The review(s) you linked and a recent one by Mr. Mobile just showed me that these folks don’t really get the product. Likely because they’re not in the target demographic for this. Mr. Mobile admitted that much.

I think Patrick is the opposite. He’s a prolific reader. An endorsement from him makes me more convinced I’ll like this product.
Starliner Delayed Again
Now delayed to at least July 2nd.
I’m not familiar, what do you like about them?
Curious, what was the failure mode on the broken kindles?

I have a Kindle Keyboard (k3w) and k4 both going strong (including decent battery life) after a decade of use and abuse by my kids and I.

The jailbreak on kindles that support it (don’t connect your new device to the internet until you have checked) is simple and painless - I prefer koreader to plato but they are both great and an embarrassment to the locked down systems these devices ship with.

Kobo is great but Amazon has better bang for buck (due to subsidy and access to the best eink screens first).
Still, for cross-platform mobile and desktop apps, the Dart website recommends Flutter with no qualifications, and Flutter only covers the approach of a single cross-platform UI, as opposed to native UI with a cross-platform backend. The fact that Kotlin officially supports the second option makes it more appealing to me.
That's great, now add controllers so that you can read/write all of the heads on an actuator in parallel... Won't help the IOPS, but it would shoot the throughput up by an order of magnitude in a multi platter drive.
I run exclusively Linux, don't even really feel the need to keep a dual boot partition around, and have probably installed Arch Linux over 50 times, but I do understand that there are many a plethora of different Windows software ecosystems that aren't duplicated in Linux. I'm a firm believer in if there is a will there is way, but sometimes I've had to walk away and either say F this or break out the Window's partition. Luckily I don't "need" Adobe products, or perfect support for some of my hardware devices, or the exact right libraries for that kinda obscure game, or 99 other things. Linux is probably good for a vast majority of us though.