skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feynman seemed pretty extroverted. Von Neumann as well. "All" is a pretty strong word, it's 3 times in your post and all wrong.
I saw Schulman present how he discovered the dirty tricks Microsoft used to hobble Windows betas on DR-DOS, using similar techniques. This was at Ralph Nader's Appraising Microsoft conference in 1997.

It's covered in another of his books, Undocumented Windows.

Impressive work, and very brave at the time.
> Your post starts with the flawed assumption that you have to define constructors in Rust (...)

I did not. Read what I wrote.
Looks cool, great way to demonstrate what nix can do to a new person.
Wasn't the main issue with MLS that they got patent trolled/sued by Skyhook? Anyone know the patents involved and how beacon DB is avoiding the issues?
The VM should show up as a second linked device.
How to set up your tech writer up for success
> It is a massively self-evident fact that a lot more money was made during the “principles” period than after.

Is it though? I've seen a lot of claims about this or that management style or company structure to be responsible for huge profits and growth. It's usually a more simple explanation, such as market timing + smart people. Ultimately it's survivor bias. It could be argued that if this were really the case, all top companies would be using it by now.
Thanks a lot, will have a look, that sounds very interesting!
Independent bookshops are still thriving, even in the age of Amazon (2023)
You can turn off these effects.
HA so funny seeing one without | l and I being the same glyph
They can and will probably respect it and still be able to have reddit results.

“User-agent: * Disallow: /“ in the `robots.txt` simply instructs all web crawlers not to crawl any pages on the website, not whether to show pages in search results. Of course new pages wont be shown if they cant be crawled if theres no other way you can get it..

But that line simply prevents crawlers that abide by robots.txt from retrieving the content of any pages.

But Google doesnt need to crawl Reddit anymore. Reddit is directly giving the data to them to serve to users! Bing, DDG and any other search engines now are basically forced to start paying Reddit. And presumably, the Reddit execs have calculated that future revenue will be more because of this.

Don’t be fooled: This isnt a “good for internet, morality” decision. Reddit is a public company now and has shareholders. They are doing this because it will equate to more $$$$
Oh great now we can rely on Reddit's own renowned search functionality /s

What are they thinking?
Apple probably has one of the largest databases. Their API is unauthenticated and not rate limited either. Can be used for both APs and cell towers: https://github.com/acheong08/apple-corelocation-experiments
That is very interesting feedback, thank you!
You might not be alone though, from time to time we get similar feedback, and in fact, we are currently rethinking branding to make it more calm and positive.
The TLDR describes your method accurately, though. You do store your OTP secrets in a password store.

That said, the significance of using two separate password stores isn't clear to me. Under what threat model is that supposed to be an improvement over a single password store? Basically, your idea is that passwords are less essential than OTP secrets, so you take less care keeping them safe. However I think it'd make more sense to just apply proper protection for all secrets.
> Yes, you can do that one. But that's just about the only fast trick there is.

I dunno about that. For division, anyway, there's a bunch of fast tricks that give you a decent approximation (i.e. decent precision, maybe to the nearest integer)

Someone recently was surprised that I worked out the VAT (Value Added Tax, 15%) on a very large number in a few seconds. It's because its 10% of the number plus `(10% of the number)/2`.

It's easy to get 10% of any number. It's easy to halve any number. It's a fast trick because there's two easy operations.

There's a bunch of similar "tricks": 1%, 10%, 25% and 50% are fast to calculate in your head (at most 2 easy operations, like `(half of half of N)`). Then you either add or subtract N. Or you multiply N by 2.

At most three easy operations gives you 1%, 2%, 4%, 5%, 10%, 11%, 12%, 14%, 15%, 20%, 21%, 24%, etc

To someone who doesn't know how you are getting the answer it might seem like you are a human calculator because you get so many of those quickly, and they don't see the ones you don't do in 3 easy operations (say, 13%, which is 10% + 1% + (1% * 2)).

IOW, it looks like a very impressive trick, but it isn't.
I was mainly thinking about Europe (with all the controversy about new regulations), you certainly do have a valid point, though.
The role of long-distance travel in carbon emissions from passenger travel
I have a consumer motherboard. I have a hard time getting large drives that are fast enough if I am not willing to spend a lot money on server hardware.

First you need a u2 card (or whare er new standards there are)that works and then you need actual u2 drives which are friggin expensive.

With storage density reaching tens of terabytes per drive, sata 6gbit is not enough.
I love ChrisO so much, and it's funny but often he's talking about something I'm currently working on too.

Thank you to Chris and to whoever posts his articles here.
In my personal experience, Reddit has become mainstream in the past few months/years. Even my completely non-tech friends use it, having not even heard about it 1-2 years ago.

So maybe they can afford to be delisted from search engines, because the site is addictive enough to bring back its users – and new ones because it's mentioned everywhere.
Like Discord or Facebook, where most content is also unavailable to search engines (although they probably rely much more on the social aspects).
Related thread for the official blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40799275

Side note: They seem to serve other robots.txt for different User-Agents & IPs: https://merj.com/blog/investigating-reddits-robots-txt-cloak...
And yet, skilled natives get no breaks whatsoever and have to find work abroad.
Apparently there was an assembly of judges who heard cases. There are strict laws governing judges too; if a judge later reneges on a decision he made, he would be made to pay up to twelve times the original judgement and be disbarred from the assembly.
Thank you, very kind of you!
If Claude is so good why is everyone using chatGPT?
Unfortunately the new cash cow OS is called Azure, and Windows is a thin client to access it, and use developer tools.

See the Blazor amd Aspire push, WSL and XBox tooling on VS variants, versus anything desktop.

DevDiv is now under Azure as well, and is more than just .NET.
> Also, learning multiplication with numbers higher than 10 still relies on knowing the multiplication table

You've actually just proved my point - you used a method of breaking down the problem into a different problem and then solving it rather than simply memorising.

If you give the same question to multiple people there will be numerous ways different people use to go about solving it.

As an example, I might solve this by doing

20*8 = 160
3*8 = 24
160 - 24 = 136

Or
10*8 = 80
7*8 = 56
80+56 = 136

And I might apply different tools like the one I originally mentioned within these calculations. I know that 80+20 is 100 and so "borrow" 20 from 56, so that I can easily add 100 and 36 together.

These ways of calculating happen in your mind very quickly if this is how you get used to calculating.
> so I would disagree that both can "easily" do harm

Easily enough but you're 100% correct that there's a fairly huge difference between the two extremes in how easy (or hard) they are to reach. Dehydrated to a dangerous point is most assuredly typically easier to achieve. Certainly easier by far to die from, too, as evidenced by how often the one happens compared to the other.
One more baby step towards total lockdown. For me 2013 was the year of the Linux desktop and I haven't looked back.
> In 1544, physician and botanist Pietro Andrea Mattioli described the leaves as smelling like bed bugs or stink bugs...

Incredible that neither this, nor the other linked article, even mention the fact that this stink-bug/soap taste is genetically predetermined for some people [1], so above quote can by no means be taken as an argument that cilantro "became unfashionable" so authors started describing it negatively.

Instead, the real story is probably much more interesting, as the changes in cilantro popularity could probably be connected to waves of migrations and general genetic pool changes in a particular place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OR6A2
Also my first thought. Reddit search is woefully inadequate for its own content.
> Also, learning multiplication with numbers higher than 10 still relies on knowing the multiplication table. 17*8 is 7*8=56, hold the 5, 1*8 + 5 = 13, so 136.

Interestingly, I do those less efficiently:

17 * 8
= (10 * 8) + (7 * 8)
= (80) + (56)
= (80) + (50 + 6)
= 130 + 6

I think the reason I do it this way is because I get an approximation sooner when the numbers are very large i.e. I get the most significant digit first, and can stop calculating when I get the precision I require.*
Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art
It is - and should be - really concerning.-
I think your numbers for France are off. When I tried to hire there last year the burden of employer taxes and levies was ~70%.

That wasn’t the part that killed the deal though. My employer’s real worry was around how hard they believe it to be to fire someone who isn’t doing well in France.
Bloomberg NEF is actually making the point that we're heading for battery oversupply next year: https://about.bnef.com/blog/china-already-makes-as-many-batt...

Not just by a little bit, but by a huge margin. They are predicting prices will come down and that especially new, costly batteries will have a hard time competing with the more established manufacturers dropping their prices.

We'll make more batteries in the next few years than we have ever made. Production is growing from slightly below 1 twh/per year to multiple terawatt hours per year. Bloomberg NEF puts demand for next year around 1.6 twh/y and is tracking 7.9 twh/y of investments related to new factories. Not all of those will get built but that's a lot of capacity and lithium demand. Yet prices are dropping, as you pointed out. That's because there's plenty of lithium and we don't have a shortage anymore.

Despite a lot of lithium being in places like Chile and Bolivia, Australia is actually the top producer of it. Chile is about to loose its number 2 position to China: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-worlds-largest-l...

All this is of course before you start considering battery chemistries that don't use lithium. Sodium ion is looking pretty good right now. No lithium, cobalt, nickel, etc. And used for some cheap cars and grid storage already. Especially for grid storage, lithium based batteries aren't necessarily the most obvious thing to use.
Neat. I like it!

+1 for not requiring an account to try.

Needs debugging for iPad display sizes and on screen keyboards.

Might be helpful:
[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593139/ipad-web-app-det...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Visual_View...
Thanks for the feedback, I updated the text.

My intention behind "try for free" was to keep the barrier for trying out the app low. But I didn't realize that it would also imply a hidden price or some premium level
I have a massive chocolate craving in the recovery phase, although I suspect it's just the body going after high-energy food.
Reverse Engineered Nvidia Hopper Instruction Set
Ask HN: How do no/low-code tools convey logic to non-programmers?
I'm working on building a no/low-code tool and was thinking about how to convey logical constructs like loops and conditionals to non-programmers. Immediately, a Scratch-like drag and drop interface comes to mind, but are there better ways of conveying logic? Are there particular tools that do this especially well that would serve as a good example?
So seems like you are the problem :)
People who are talked at think they’ve learnt more.
Regardless, for me it was all reading.
And part of the reason why it is software is because people keep saying it is "just" software.

Unreliability is unreliability even of it comes through software and we ahould treat broken software as broken, not as "just a software error".
Not a lot of work on this, as far as I can see.

One of the few I found:

GLICK, P., CONSTANT, L., EDOCHIE, I., & NATARAJ, S. (2020). Online Outsourcing.

It looks like the (really) rosy scenario that the article paints may only be viable if:

1) There are highly skilled workers with good English skills on the supply side.
2) Companies are convinced that it could actually work on the demand side.

The article makes a lot of recommendations for how it could work, but doesn't see it working in their study. And the CNBC article is light on citations. So probably just clickbait.
I mean I kind of get it: if the problem is tumours, just "laser" all the tumours out and problem solved right?

Which feels like it should be true for a sufficiently targetable "laser" right?

Metastatic cancer is defined by essentially there being too many things to hit though, but therein lies the entire detail: you can't treat someone faster than they die of either the cancer or the treatment.

*Laser is being used metaphorically
Here in Australia, POTS lines have been completely decommissioned, UK will be switched off by end of 2025 and I'm assuming there's similar timelines in lots of other countries.
Maybe a bit petty but does anyone use Eclipse anymore other than companies that want to make their own IDE? Didn’t Eclipse miss the Electron-ish* lightweight IDE train?

Good for them for evolving but… if a tree falls in a forest…

*I know there are lots of arguments against Electron vs native but clearly Eclipse of any generation faced similar concerns.
Film & Animation seems lacking in content,
i'd expect some animatation or actual film trailers.
Yeah, it works for "partial indexes" very well. There are limits to what gets matched, for sure.

In the old times, if you created a "partial index" with a condition of "field_foo IS TRUE" it would not match queries asking for "field_foo = TRUE" (it did actual text matching). Probably some of that is improved today.
Does anyone else get nasal aural symptoms? My go-to signs were a tingling sensation in the nasal cavities, followed by things smelling horrible.

I've had the classic visual sawtooth pattern exactly once, but the nasal stuff was there maybe 75% of the time. What seems to have helped was blood pressure medication.
So people who don’t want to be contacted by others don’t get an option for password recovery? Interesting perspective…
> Within-families, intelligence predict left-wing beliefs.

Which is also supported here:

Wilson, G. (2013). The psychology of conservatism (routledge revivals). Routledge.

Where they find the opposite is true; Or, that lower IQ is associated with being right-wing politically.

Also note that this work is one of several editions. The different versions go back to the 70s, with similar conclusions throughout the different editions.
MobileLLM: Optimizing Sub-Billion Parameter Language Models for On-Device Use
I've actually worked at a place that did something like this, although I suspect it wasn't for positive reasons. It was a call center, and they had status tiers for wages - e.g. if you were an "A player" you would get $.50/hr more, or if you were a "star player" you would get $1/hr more (or whatever the amounts were). These statuses were tied to various metrics that the business cared about - average call time, quality scores from customer surveys, repeat calls, and so on. So ostensibly, if you got the current metric down to whatever the goal was, you would get a raise for a month or whatever.

The problem was that the business changed these metrics on the phone reps all the time, so it was common for some poor bastard to really strive to get his call times down, only to be told "oh sorry we're focusing on quality scores this month" when reviewing his work with the boss. My impression was that the company was doing this to avoid having to actually pay people more, not to keep people from gaming metrics - but I think the results would be pretty similar regardless of motive.

What happened wasn't that people focused on trying to be great generalists. Instead they got demoralized by the games the company was playing, and they would either quit trying to improve at all or they would exclusively focus on one metric (so that they could get the big raise when that metric was being rewarded next).

Based on that experience, I'm somewhat doubtful that what you propose would work. But it might - unfortunately the workers at that call center were very often real fuckups all around, so the idea might work at a business which has better quality employees.
I didn't even try to dive into why I left the page within 20 seconds.

> visually complex and triggering while trying-to-be-baby-safe environment
resonates perfectly, though.

On a side note: sorting adult daily lives out needs to embrace and make space for the inner child. I observe it everywhere at the moment: parents, old friends, even in my younger brother and myself. An unhealthy kind of stress, burnout and depression build up if you don't.
> "Reddit's content is key to search results, adding 'reddit' to search results makes them good" stories.

The biggest issue for me personally is that Reddit's built-in search is about as good as it's built-in mobile video player.

Which is to say it is one of the worst pieces of software ever foisted upon humanity despite having been an objectively solved problem with off-the-shelf solutions available for decades.

This wouldn't really bother me if Google weren't the only way to effectively search Reddit.
From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course
Reading the MLS retirement issue[1] it seems that multiple established organizations (e foundation, Graphene) are also interested in providing an alternative service. Does this mean that we're now in a situation where multiple open source location service providers are competing, or is this the only publicly accessible project in this space for now?

This project is cool and all, but seems to just be a one person effort with not a lot of engagement on GitHub[2]. Are you in talks with other people with similar goals to expand and collaborate on the project? Having the backing of an existing developer community could really bring this to the next level.

1) https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

2) https://github.com/beacondb/beacondb

Edit: the actual project seems to be on Codeberg[3], where there is a bit more engagement from others than the primary dev.

3) https://codeberg.org/beacondb
But now we have miracle cure of AI. Just have to pass all the programs through that and have it fix them perfectly each and every time. No more bugs if developers just did this simple step...
The author seems confused about what constitutes competence vs incompetence. In my opinion the budgeting problem can most easily be understood through the lens of bounded rationality: senior management often has no idea what kind of budget is required to meet certain objectives, so can’t really separate the case where a frugal manager truly needs more budget and the one where a self-interested manager just wants a bigger budget to show off. In my book this is due to senior management’s incompetence, not competence.
why? from my pov, once i’ve bought the service from the provider, their job is to deliver however they can; not my business, not my problem. my problem is making sure my redundancy (if required) isnt fate sharing.
> In my personal experience, Reddit has become mainstream in the past few months/years. Even my completely non-tech friends use it, having not even heard about it 1-2 years ago.

Since the moderator revolt, I've noticed an increase in claims that there is an overwhelming volume of AI-generated content on Reddit coupled with boosting. Either that started with reddit's strike-busting efforts or was made more obvious by it.

Since then, this is becoming far worse. Reddit's front page is dominated by random reposts by random low-karma user accounts that all of a sudden create the top post in the whole Reddit universe. Then there are reposts by other random low-karma user accounts on other subreddit that benefit from the same exact treatment.

I'm convinced that the reddit revolt motivated reddit to take a more direct and involved approach to generating and boosting content, and now the effort targets specific segments. This also includes the creation and boosting of subreddits dedicated to mainstream topics. Regardless of this coming from reddit itself or marketing/PR companies, I would not be surprised if the bulk of this content was machine-generated fluff.
> I bet it had diesel generators when it was in service with AT&T to boot.

20 to 25 years ago I visited a telecom switch center in Paris, the one under the Tuileries garden next to the Louvre. They had a huge and empty diesel generators room. They had all been replaced by a small turbine (not sure it's the right English term), just the same as what's used to power an helicopter. It was in a relatively small soundproof box, with a special vent for the exhaust, kind of lost on the side of a huge underground room.

As the guy in charge explained to us, it was much more compact and convenient. The big risk was in getting it started, this was the tricky part. Once started it was extremely reliable.
That’s a paddlin’
> If you have a crowd of followers

That's a big if, and that's the problem with relying on feedback. The more specific the topic, the less people you'll find that can give relevant feedback. Even within a team (less people but more specialized in your problem domain), it can be difficult to get relevant feedback.

It still works because it is a form of "rubber-ducking". But the less involved in your topic the "crowd" is, the less efficient it is.

Moreover feedback has the same problem as tests (and code reviews): it can show the existence of an inconsistency or a blind spot, but positive feedback doesn't prove that you are entirely correct.
Yes, feel free to re-read the all the rest of the comment where share a little bit of experience, and try to understand that people other than you have experience.
Thanks for your kind words! In terms of what I think & meant to say - I'm pretty sure that incompetent management (or incompetent at least in some key areas) can scale to fairly large org sizes, and that eventually competent management will evolve for the org to survive. I used "competent" and "incompetent" unironically, not as proxies for big & kafkaesque vs small & nicer places, but as in can/can't set and achieve goals, which is something you will need to be able to do to survive eventually.
You'd think that with the relatively smaller populations of the past, they'd want to preserve manpower and not execute people willy-nilly.

Or were these laws, as most today, just an excuse to consolidate wealth and power from the executed "convicts" into the hands of the already wealthy and powerful?
I did not write anything about selling, just publishing without Apple being involved.
How the /Twitter Algorithm Works
§42 is something that is still relevant today, should be, with
regardless of housing and such

> If a man rented a field for cultivation but has not produced any grain in the field, he will be convicted of not working the field and will give the owner of the field grain corresponding to his neighbors.