skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not comming with an OS to make their use unavoidable.

Early MacOS did use Pascal, though IIRC not Object Pascal.
Also the risks and associated cost of physically delivering cash to the bank.
Maven Central and the Tragedy of the Commons
I didn’t realize why channels are part of the language vs a standard library feature until I read this. Now it makes sense that it’s about compiler optimizations with goroutines.
… why would it matter?
The headline is accurate, in that a Supreme Court ruling removed a constraint that was put in place by a lower court.

That fact that the basis of the ruling was standing does not change its practical effect. And that is what news readers are primarily interested in.
It’s a ruling against the injunction, not a ruling on the merits of the case.
Burden? Not really.

I get a popup on my phone via the issuers app

CONFIRM DENY

And after clicking CONFIRM the transaction goes through. Adds maybe 3 seconds to the process.

This is online only. On site payments of ca. 100$ or less are tap and done. For higher value transactions a PIN is required.
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For this study, I only analyzed data where it was an empty car and two sets of pedestrians. I haven't looked at the data where there are people in the car!
I have a theory as to why pedestrian deaths have risen significantly above pre-pandemic levels, and it might be related to a side effect of COVID-19 known as "brain fog."

Many people who have recovered from COVID-19 have reported experiencing cognitive issues, such as difficulty concentrating, memory problems, and mental fatigue. This condition, often referred to as "brain fog," can persist for weeks or even months after the initial infection.

My hypothesis is that this brain fog may be impacting pedestrians' and driver's ability to stay alert and make quick, safe decisions while navigating streets and crosswalks. If a substantial portion of the population is experiencing these cognitive challenges, it could lead to more accidents involving pedestrians.
Homemade 8-Bit Computer
I can't wait to try it after work. How would one link it to ollama?
noted, thank you, I'll heed your advice.
I think the impressive thing here is more that they asked the computer to design an engine which produced a desired amount of thrust, and it did so.

The thing being demonstrated isn’t ‘we made this engine, look how impressive its specs are’, it’s ’our computer can make working engines to spec’
Ask HN: What would you build a back end in for a future proof app
I know the old adage goes use what you know, but I'm about to build out a new project that needs to stand the test of time.

Running everything on PaaS or 'magic' backends feels a bit scary. Is Rust or Go still the king of the hill for long lasting performant processes or would Elixir be worth a look?

My use case is building a networking backend for a video game, but I'm wondering what people look to these days for bullet-proof performance and stability. The javascript world seems to change by the week.
Cannot be optimized away? No. Will not be optimized away? Sure.

Given:

verySilly :: Int -> (a -> a)
verySilly = go . abs . toInteger
where
go n
| n == 1 = id
| even n = go (n `div` 2)
| otherwise = go (n * 3 + 1)

On a 64-bit platform, `verySilly 976532468728515` has type (a -> a) and will eventually terminate (the hailstone sequence is known to enter the 4-2-1 loop on all inputs that small), but no compiler is going to prove it. In theory it could happen. In practice it won't, especially when you consider that there are countless problems you could substitute in.
There could be no clearer standing than this case, consisting of several users who had their opinions censored and attorneys general representing the rights of the people. If neither group has standing, who does?

This was a base act of legal buffoonery. It is transparently bullshit.
I have updated my opinion accordingly: I agree that in the case of actually timeless content, hiding the date benefits both the reader (who would otherwise discount the information) and the author (whose work would otherwise be perceived as less valuable than it actually is).

It doesn't matter if Marcus Aurelius wrote his Mediations in the 160s or 170s (or the 1700s for that matter) as they truly are timeless!

However, I've run into articles that were very much not timeless, e.g. technical tutorials which were hopelessly out of date, with no indication that this was the case (since they hid the date). In such cases, hiding the date benefits neither reader nor author.

Presumably you did not mean that date-hiding should be implemented universally. I'm just sharing those experiences, which led me to associate missing dates in articles with confusion and frustration -- since those are the only ones that elicited a strong response: when I needed it, and when it wasn't there! The cases when the date didn't matter, but was there, left no lasting impression.
Super fun on mobile to dig into the settings and turn on the accelerometer and gyro, and give the phone a twist and a shake.
And the injunction prohibited the USG from talking to Social Medial Companies.

This ruling removes the injunction,

Therefore, SCOTUS rules that USG can talk to Social Media Companies.
I have no idea who has my data and how it's used. And how they made it work is that every single site has these nags, and if you once make the mistake of "consenting" to any of them (which is inevitable with all the dark patterns), your data gets sold to all corners of the adtech.

I use adblock religiously, so luckily buying my data is mostly waste of money to them.

There's an obvious existing solution to this: do not track headers. But they didn't want it that way because it wouldn't have left enough loopholes to keep people giving their data against their consent.
The real money in Amway is being a big distributor and having a lot of people under you who have more people under them. There is also a huge parallel business of selling “tools”

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Amway/AUS/tools.htm

which are usually motivational dreck to keep you on the hook and are not helpful at the hard problem of commission-only sales.

Granted, Amway has a huge product catalog of things you could possibly sell but I think it is not your best choice if you have the talent, temperament and attitude to make it in a commission-only sales job. If your plan is to make money selling a product your cost structure is ruined by your upline. If you want a zero R&D product try Alibaba.
I had no idea it was anywhere close to these many. That is just horrendous.
I think you're right.

That's usually handled with an app on your phone and is pretty much frictionless.
It's time to drop ts-node
Nobody knew about responsive design because there was no such thing as responsive design at that point. There were no mobile phones, no css media queries and pretty much everyone was viewing your webpage in 800x600 screens.

Hell, was float even around then? All I remember from that time was tables.
Whenever there is an abhorrent state of affairs people try to justify it as natural or inevitable. They've been wrong enough times that I simply don't accept it as an excuse.

In this case what we're seeing is simply setting inequality as a goal its own right rather than as a tool to accomplish another purpose. There's nothing to admire or emulate here. Reading through the comments it's clear that this aligns with the values of a lot of the community, and they are being honest about that. If this is the case for you too then take responsibility for your vision here.
The article is from WIRED, not WSJ. (I often disagree with WSJ but at least their hard news headlines are less misleading.)
Yeah I don't know how you would break up Microsoft Office or regulate that. There are competitors but it's so pervasive, most companies use it. You'd have to create a public API that other competitors could use, and the HR lady is going to be pissed!
You mean the other arm surface devices? Linux boots a and runs quite well on the x86 ones?

Looks like someone has Linux booting on the 11 already:

https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/issues/1476
I always hated westerns, until I saw the outlaw Josey Wales, and later Unforgiven. The rest were just so formulaic and juvenile (especially the early Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns).

Treasure of the Sierra Madre was good, though. The only bogart movie I ever liked.
There's loads there. Don't forget Carew Castle.
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The best/worst part is that there are useful branches of mathematics which assume the Axiom of Choice is true AND there are useful branches of mathematics which assume the Axiom of Choice is false. That's one reason I take the view that mathematics does not exist: if math did exist, there would only be one set of axioms consistent with nature.
"The IF signal has a phase that is the difference between transmit and received signal phases."

Yes. That's a neat property of superhetrodyning - phase is preserved. Both the outgoing and incoming signals are down-converted by mixing with the local oscillator. The phase angle difference between out and in is the same at both the transmitted/received frequency and the IF frequency. But down at the IF frequency, you get to work at a lower frequency where it's easier to do A/D conversion and counting. Most software defined radios still have a superhetrodyne front end, so the digital stuff is working at the IF frequency.

This is less necessary than it used to be, now that digital circuits can work well into gigahertz ranges.
I write a "functional description" that describes the functionality of each screen from a user's perspective. It also contains technical details to jumpstart devs but the main focus is on describing how the software works.

Oddly enough, I write these in Word and keep them on SharePoint. This allows the team to add comments, maintaining the historic discussion around certain functionality.
Have you recently used a Windows PC? Or an Android phone? It is legitimately terrible.
> however, the larger size of our object store is increasing our monthly S3 costs.

Classic, am affraid.-

Tried R2?

:)
I just mistyped, now edited to be more general.
> Also, without some sort of indicator, Vim’s modal design is awkward here—it’s very easy to forget which mode you’re in.

That is why I have this in inputrc:

set editing-mode vi

set show-mode-in-prompt on

set vi-ins-mode-string +

set vi-cmd-mode-string :
That's not how lawyers think about this, and since this is a legal case, if they don't, neither should the rest of us.
Hi Achim, thanks for the response!

Would it be possible for you to document somewhere how to flash from source?
The website currently kind of explains it under "Flashing Of The AirGradient Firmware," but step two is to flash the "ONE_V9.ino" file, but there's no explanation of where to get that file.

I know it used to exist on AirGradient's Github[0], but now I don't see it anywhere after the v3 rewrite.

[0] https://github.com/airgradienthq/arduino/blob/2.4.15/example...
I don’t understand how the US doesn’t have India deeply in its sphere of influence. With both needing to counter China, and with the US multinationals fueling the Indian IT sector, the US should have plenty of leverage that they’re not taking advantage of
In 1980 I started working with a straightforward algorithm that was computerized then by agreeing on its implementation in a few pages of 32-bit double-precision floating-point Fortran code.

Up until then, aggregate data had been manually compiled and published in kilos of handbooks over the decades.

This was the first acceptable computer approach since it was the exact same pre-1980 algorithm, and expected to play a part in correct 20-digit decimal billable amounts based on computer data which had been meticulously rounded to 4 decimal places, which is what took up most of the Fortran code.

Well, I needed to do the same calculations on an 8-bit Radio Shack Pocket Computer. And there was only 512 bytes of user space for my TRS-80 Basic code.

The exact algorithm would fit, but not any of the standard multi-step rounding procedure. The floating point output was not often good to 4 decimal places.

Massaged it iteratively until the algorithm was no longer fully recognizable. Still no good.

Changed from floats to integers. This also saved more memory for workspace.

I was no mathematician, and in order to get integers to do the whole thing, leaving only the need for a final move of decimal point, it was not easy.

Ended up with a very dissimilar representation of the algorithm, using numbers specifically geared to the problem at hand, nothing universal like Gustafson.

When I read his material I was intrigued that one of the objectives was to obtain more numerical accuracy from lesser-bit computers himself.
> SCOTUS didn't rule anything of the sort; they didn't get to the merits of the case. They dismissed the claim for lack of standing:

Except that the lack of standing kind of necessarily implies the lack of merits. The allegations in the case where that the government improperly influenced the social media companies to suppress speech; the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that their speech was suppressed as a result of this improper influence, and by doing so, they failed to reach standing. But if their speech wasn't suppressed by government influence, then there's no influence to be improper in the first place!

If you actually go through the decision and read it through, including the footnotes, it's clear that the court is pretty skeptical of the actual merits as well. Only one of the plaintiffs was able to come close to showing government influence in their censorship, but that argument is pretty weak given that they were repeatedly censored before they alleged the government influence began!
Yes incredible stuff, you seem to have your healthcare system totally sorted out [1][2].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-54731724
[2] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/red-blood-cell-shortage-engla...
I don't understand. Are you afraid of being able to see the source code of the program you are going to use? You are not forced to look at it, if you don't want to.
Ignoring the many exceptions to that statement, companies charge me my data because it makes them more money than if I paid directly. To the extent that companies need to do that, it is only because every other company of the same class operates that way too.

Regardless, there already are paywalls and credit card forms everywhere and it doesn’t stop my data from being collected and sold. Even when I purchase physical goods online it is tracked and sold. Even when I use physical goods that I paid for with cash I am tracked with that good and the data is sold. Even companies with which I have not even an implied contract have profiles of me.
I work as a land surveyor. I'm outdoors every day, often in the woods. The pay is decent and the work is rewarding.
> Yea but question was couch potato vs underpaid worker, not a temporarily unemployed person. Definition of couch potato in popular culture is a lazy person that watches TV, not concerned with much. I know more people who lived on CC between jobs, but still moved to new positions, than couch potatoes who got an actual job after that.

I don't understand your disagreement with what I said, while simultaneously agreeing with the other comment:

> There is also the in-between where these benefits allow you to quit and then look for another job. Something that can be hard to do if you are working long hours as you'd need to take days off that may or may not be approved depending on the company you are working for.

We're saying the same thing, I think. Only I'm not concerned with the supposed existence of "couch potatoes."
The complaint was about communication that coincides with implied threats or intimidation. The social media companies take down the alleged misinformation not because they want to, but “because of the implication” of what would happen if they did not.

For example, the executive branch might promote some legislation that would be damaging to social media companies, and at the same time, send them requests to take down some posts. The social media companies comply because they want to be in the good graces of the White House while negotiating on the legislation.

This is called “jawboning:” https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/informal-government-coe...
Anyone know if there’s a way to get access to devices in a container on MacOS yet? (Eg USB webcam, MPS or CUDA accelerator)
Modi's govt calls on Indian state to look into Reuters report on Foxconn hiring
Also me but on Windows 10. I only see the wall paper just after I've booted the machine and within a few seconds at least one window is maximised (typically a tabbed browser), started from the task bar. alt+tab after that
I can't think of a scenario where that would bother me, for personal stuff or at work. It'd be an issue if I wanted to ship a proprietary product using GPLv3 dependencies, but I don't, so it doesn't affect me at all.
I skimmed through the report, and there doesn't seem to be any data on the drivers involved, only the pedestrians, which can inadvertently lead people to blame the victims (how old were they, were they in the crosswalk, etc.) instead of looking at the other party involved.

Some of the more recent high-profile pedestrian deaths in my area have been associated with the elderly (85 years old, 78 years old). That's definitely an age where night vision deteriorates, reflexes are slower, and coordination is poor. We're now putting them in larger and faster cars with worse visibility. They're also more easily confused with many of the proposed changes such as traffic calming and islands, and politically oppose them.

When we have middle-aged people blinded by poorly designed or aimed headlights, do we really want grandma who can barely see in the dark and panics when she makes a wrong turn, driving her new big "safe" SUV around the traffic circle that she's never seen before, around pedestrians?
Take a look at OpenArt and how they're positioning themselves. They ditched their free and hobbyist users and now they're doing workflows for business and marketing use cases. Word on the street is that they're making an absolute killing. More revenue than giants like Leonardo, which is a full on drawing and animation suite.

You'd be surprised what making workflow easy can unlock in revenue potential. Look at how they're selling it and lean into that. I'd be doing it if our product was shaped like that.
I don't think that's right. The question was one of standing, which means the plaintiffs haven't proven that they have legal grounds to bring the case. They haven't gotten the chance to show a FA violation yet.

Standing is like this. Let's say that you and your cousin start a business. And you decide that you get 3/4 of the profits, and your cousin gets 1/4. I decide that's unfair to your cousin. So I sue you, because that's unfair.

The courts don't care. They don't want to hear it. Your cousin can sue; I can't. The courts do not have time to deal with every possible thing that someone might think is wrong. You have to show that it harmed you.
“Once I realized they were often just defined…”

I think definition is fundamental in nature because we need to define a unit in order to measure.
Tpope's naming of those bindings is meant as a bit of a joke, maybe? I've always felt that Emacs bindings was leading to Repetitive Strain Injury; and really appreciate being able to use Vim bindings, even at the shell prompt.
I have, and it sucks. Especially when the current job is seriously unhealthy. It's far preferable to quit first, but I no longer work in an industry and economy where that's a safe bet. Thus, insurance.
It’s funny I wonder if MS do start to properly support Arm, it might have the opposite effect they want by forcing games makers to make arm versions, which can then be easily ported to the Mac…
Could you point me to this episode, please?
Why wouldn’t Britons also have brain fog? See chart 1 https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casua....
(developer here)

this is....more popular than i expected. the server's gonna be having some problems for a while
Many of these arguements are moot – because for any top-down function definition technique, the How to Design Programs recipe covers virtually all the bases.

- https://course.ccs.neu.edu/cs2500f18/design_recipe.html
- https://cs110.students.cs.ubc.ca/reference/design-recipes.ht...
- https://docs.racket-lang.org/htdf/index.html

Between a signature, purpose statement and examples, you've declared most of what documentation provides short of a longer contextual statement of the functions role in a codebase.

For larger modules there is How to Design Worlds.

- https://world.cs.brown.edu/1/htdw-v1.pdf
This one hurts...
I visited the Living Computer Museum in 2017 and it was amazing. Here's a selection of some photos I took:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/VUVXQ1cG3zWAMWY3A
My favorite photo here is the one of the Xerox Altos available to play multiplayer Maze War (one is a real Alto and the other two are emulated).
How do you exactly do sampling?
Yes, but as the numbers advance from "the remote desktop has like 128KB" and "the remote desktop can chew through gigabytes without much stress", the delta between O(n) and O(n^2) opens up a lot more. It is perhaps a bit counterintuitive, but as systems grow in capability that delta grows.
To make Less (the pager program) behave a bit more as if it used Readline (it doesn't), one can create a `~/.config/lesskey` file with these contents:

#line-edit
^A home
^E end
^F right
^B left
^P up
^N down
^D delete
^W word-backspace
\ed word-delete
\ef word-right

I think a relatively recent version of Less is required.
It's used against me in many ways, but the most common way is its use for targeted advertising and other similar marketing purposes.

My attitude isn't that personal data should be off-limits in some absolute sense, but its collection and use should be prohibited in the absence of meaningful informed consent.