skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story about the wedding is one short paragraph at the end - with almost no extra information and not referenced elsewhere in the article. Very anticlimactic.

> But the story in the book that I liked the most is this one: Zariski was, of course, very much obsessed with mathematics. On the day he and his fiancée Yole were getting married, with Yole already dressed in white and veiled and the rabbi standing by, the bridegroom was nowhere to be found. It turned out he was working on a mathematical problem. Luckily, Yole was neither angry nor surprised; she was amused. Ha! I need to tell this to my wife.
The wiki is wrong or at least misleading. Branch prediction is a form of speculative execution.

Even 486 (and possibly 386) had branch prediction (although a trivial one).

P6 was a huge deal because it added out of order execution.

Edit: I guess it is a matter of semantics: in the classical 5 stage in order RISC, instructions after the speculated branch are fetched, decoded, etc, but they won't reach the execution stage before the speculation is resolved, so only the branch is technically "executed" speculatively at the fetch stage. So there is less state to unwind, compared to a true OoO machine that can run ahead.
+1 to the FF-680W.

It's janky. I had to try a few USB cables onces the original broke because a cat ate it, had to try specific USB ports, and the software is a bit rough. But the software allows you to scan both sides of photos, auto "enhance" while keeping originals, and do about 40 like-sized photos in an effortless batch.

It's also good for doc scanning!

I lend it to all my friends and family that have similar projects.
With the right code, NTFS is not much slower than ext4, for example. Nearly 3% for tar.gz and more than 30% for a heavily multi-threaded use like Pack.

https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,66281.m...
My example was for a US UBI that only covered food and the math was limited to single people, but the points could be applied more broadly.

UBI means everyone has an income of at least x$/year. If you’re making more than x$/year in take home pay that’s an income > x$/year.

Behind the scenes the advantage of the government handing out money every month is redundancy. Even if that same amount is normally removed from a paycheck, people aren’t suddenly left with 0$ if their paycheck bounces etc. Thus a single deposit of $10,000 per month is slightly worse than a deposit of $10,000 - $x and an independent deposit of $x.
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41086790
One of the most infuriating things about mathematics—for the beginner to a topic—are the assumptions of notation, which you’re meant to know beforehand.
> Had to use the Lego software to update the firmware for that, which only runs on Windows 7, 8, and 10.

You can do that on Debian, hint "apt search nxt".
Or go here https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/
You could position where you focus on a concept like “with my current wages I have felt the need to supplement . The way I’m doing my calculation is based on getting to the a place where that is not necessary.

For what it’s worth it doesn’t mean you have to stop the Side stuff it’s just a good negotiating point
Hidden costs of self-hosted front ends
I love this blog post. It resonates so much. But I honestly don't know how to deploy applications efficiently without containerization. And where there's containers there's kubernetes. So on and so forth
Sorry!

This page is new. The source is below:

https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/main/code/browser/explor...

Can you explain what you are doing and what you expect? I can get a fix out.
Absolutely -- yes Windows came with your PC, but you'd buy the new version as a (cheaper) upgrade if you didn't want to wait until the next PC you bought.

Today new OS versions aren't such a big deal, but when Windows 95 came out, and then XP, they were huge, with total interface redesigns.

On the other hand, I don't think people went out of their way as much to buy smaller upgrades like Windows 98.
I think that's true. If you described an early personal computer and its capabilities (including software) in 1970, sure, a lot of people would be "Why would I want that?" But both business people and individuals could probably give some reasonable approximation of what they'd be willing to pay.

The thing with something like a phone is that it's so dependent on several different network effects that it's hard to put a real value on it in isolation. Of course, for an individual device, there's very much an upper limit. I suspect that a lot of people in 1970 would balk at the price of an iPhone but then they had other telecoms charges that would seem extortionate today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Beach_(novel)

https://youtu.be/dNNsahI49IE?si=vOfeEnlbSH6SS1QU
Maybe parent refers to Mindstorms NXT, which imho is much more fun than EV3 or Spike.
$312 million sounds big, but it’s just $1 per US person.
Well, it's an attested spelling now so it will have to be added to future dictionaries. After all, the girls were probably native speakers.
Maybe the 70s were different, I confess I'm not that old. But in my experience you would be hard pressed to find a person, scientists, technologist or nah that agrees totally with any of the myths presented, so eh.

I bet it's fun to pretend like your the little guy fighting against dogma, but try to remember we still live in a world where the majority of people still worship some flavor of desert cult leader from 2000 to 200 years ago. So crying about science being bad too just feels a bit tone deaf
I think DOD is great and Casey’s optimized version is great. But his claim that OOP inevitably leads to horrible performance is factually wrong. And he’s repeats it over and over even after the viral video. My main goal with the article/video was to debunk this false claim of his.

Also, something most people over look is the OOP example in his article is 100% vanilla OOP. There is nothing “clean code” about it. So he’s really railing against OOP and not clean code.

My article shows that the impact of the overhead of OOP, but really the impact of the overhead of _anything_, can range from huge to basically zero, depending on the time scales involved. So my main point is you should be very mindful of the time scales involved.

But if you want to rule out OOP for non-performance reasons I think that’s fine. All styles have pros and cons, and situations can vary widely. Like for instance the existing style of the project and the skills and preferences of the people involved.
I do see it happening naturally; the very idea that an UBI idea is floating around is a product of the wealth and automation we enjoy. It's a realization that sets in on a broad front, from bullshit jobs, to new generations of products that are not improving much or even regressing, environmental concerns that discourage producing more, massive government budgets squandered ("why not give it to the people who need it?"), and COVID giving people a pause in their respective hamster wheels.

Imagine a technological reset and/or war: Under those circumstances one could still argue for a socialist system of work, but not for people doing nothing getting UBI.
There is no paperwork involved in depreciating a piece of furniture over a standard schedule. You seem to be of the belief that you are required to show documentation tracking individual assets. That’s not true any more than proving the payment actually occurre as for expenses.

The de minimus rule is, as your own quote indicates, for a tiny, tiny subset of your assets.
Makes no economical sense, but arguably the right response to not only AI, but every thing.
The tinker toy computer doesn't even use electricity.
My only objection is that the author reached a conclusion (logically) and then searched for confirming research. The problem is that you can fund confirming papers for just about anything. 2 links isn't great.

Still very interesting and I'd suggest looking for high quality and quantity of confirming research.
Comprehensive haha :) I get your point, but there are plenty. I should start a list somewhere I guess..
> As long as someone else implements the compiler.

A C compiler exists already, based on LCC, and it's called the movfuscator.

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Podcasts are easy and cheap to create. I made one myself (no, this isn't my usual shameless self-promotion since it's inactive now):

https://operationcode.org/podcast

(by the way, the Dick Sonderegger interview is priceless. He joined the Marines during the Vietnam era, and they told him he was going to become a computer programmer, on IBM 1401's. He never left the US.)

Unfortunately, people only have so many hours a day to devote to listening: on a walk, at the gym, in the car. There are so "blockbusters" (Terry Gross, Wait Wait) that one doesn't have to do a lot of random exploring.
Literally every software developer makes decisions about what platforms to support and not, and when. This is not an Apple thing.

Also:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This comment suggests your views are heavily biased by capital owned/controlled western media.

Here's a different take, with modern China as an example:

https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2024/07/24/chinas-thi...
No. It's not a way to get in, but it is a way to crash a system (which should not be crashable) if you are in.
It’s a good response! But I should have added more context that the side income is passive/ only requires maximum 15 hours work per year so isn’t a heavy burden.
Vivendi and Tencent attempting to buy Ubisoft via shares might be one thing in living memory that disagrees.

If you are publicly traded there is little you can do to prevent people buying shares - though you are right that people sell privately held companies a little too often.

Ubisoft in particular created many poison pills to prevent companies getting too dug in, however that didn’t prevent anything except a total buyout. Their board is stacked with Microsoft and Tencent which causes weird, extremely harmful, decision making in the org.
> Why does this site list CUDA as a programming language?

Our original taxonomy was pretty weak due to tooling. Much better now (switched away from "type" to "tags"), but still work to be cleaning up the old categorizations.

Here is the source code for our CUDA page: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/main/concepts/cuda.scrol...

It is my understanding that CUDA extends the c/c++ langs though, right? It's not simply a library? My own knowledge of CUDA is a little weak (so pull requests welcome!)

> I suppose this evolved beyond the PLDB naming.

Yup! It turned out to be quite hard to tell the story of programming languages without including other concepts from the ecosytem. But the focus is on languages. The schema and language underneath (ScrollSets) evolved so it's simple for us to extend beyond the core and include things 1 degree of separation out. This Explorer is new and the first step toward making it easier for people to include/exclude the set of things they are interested in.
I’m very curious how a language that’s not yet 29 years old can be held back 30 years.
I think your trailing question is a hypothetical but to answer:

Screenshots along with text, then use Microsoft Paint to mark up the screen shots. For example, circling the appropriate menu option in a thick red line. Sadly, I do not know how to graphically convey the double-click operation.

Its a time consuming and error prone process, best used if the buggy GUI application is abandonware. Otherwise, the new version will have the same bug or non-intuitive process but the GUI will be unrecognizable. Probably because some manager, somewhere, read too many HN articles and decided a user-facing refactor was the most important thing they could possibly do.
Only if you can cut opex - aka software dev costs. And aren’t killed by having to pay taxes on 800k of money you already spent on what otherwise would be a business expense.

Which is why there is such a huge push for offshoring.

As stated, without some significant changes that company is doomed in short order with the new rules.
inconshreveable did it with ngrok: https://ngrok.io
If you set the minimum year to -5000 you'll find the abacus as the first entry (not in the "pl" category though).
Hackers race to win millions in contest to thwart cyberattacks with AI
An AI-dominated future with no jobs could be a dream or a nightmare
Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
"Those who spend their time flying through imaginary worlds do well to remember where the off switch is."

And you didn't say anything about "real-worlders" having humility and respect for the other party.

I think a reasonable person infers a value judgment from those two things together.
Could you cite the guideline? I couldn't find it; I thought the idea is to use the original title where possible.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.
Nope.

That exemption means you can either track them as capital assets and depreciate them, or take them as straight up business expenses in the year you qualify.

It’s right in that first paragraph I quoted. Bullet a.

Aka ‘whatever’. You would need to decide though.

If you have a different definition of asset that includes ‘something of no market value’, then feel free to provide a reference.

If you buy something you can’t sell later for money, it isn’t an asset anymore. Its economic value has been consumed, and it was an expense.
Makes perfect sense to me, it just means the language was already a year behind when it launched.
Somewhat, but that work has utility to this day. You can find competing products out there if you don't want to pay Pantone's rates, but there's a reason many people still work with Pantone. It's a universal language of sorts.

https://www.culturehustleusa.com/products/freetonebook
You don't seem to know what is currently being used in Ukraine right now.
The good parts provided by: https://datatables.net/
I like Douglas Adams, and often consider these rules, but I try not to be limited by any of them.

1. Radio, airplanes, and the transistor (just to start with) are all mind-boggling magic

2. Bitcoin and Web3 are the most over-hyped nothing burgers I can think of

3. Electric cars, Beyond Burgers, and TikTok are great
I can only recommend Zola as well. I’ve been using it for past 4 years or so and it’s been very stable. Like you, I feel the docs could be a bit more deeper (+more examples) but I’ve always managed to figure out what I need to do.
I've learned so much about Splunk this month. I hate it. The UX is hot garbage. Why are settings scattered everywhere? Why does a simple word search not return any results? Why is there no obvious way to confirm data is being forwarded; like actual packets, not just what connections are configured.
The ENIAC, the first computer, didn't have assembly language. You programmed it by fiddling with circuits and switches. Also, it didn't use binary integers, but decimal ones, with 10 vacuum tubes to represent the digits 0-9.
Seems to rely on https://api.ipify.org/ to determine public IP.

Is there any Cloudflare service one can use to determine the IP instead? That way there’s not an extra company in addition to Cloudflare itself that you need to continue existing.
Food delivery fees are rising, and everyone's feeling the pinch
Nice idea, to note Cloudflare supports tunneling.
What investors? Who?

It only matters if Y Combinator lost money for its investors...

No 1 is in it for life. As if an investor is responsible for the periods they're no longer invested in the company...
If you're okay with third party software, you can make a bootable usb to update firmware from.

https://www.hirensbootcd.org/
Right, my mistake, its + as a delimiter.
I see nothing that can't be explained by convergent cultural evolution. Also, what's that thing about "Shamans being able to access molecular information" ? Is the author seriously including this in his piece ? It makes it hard to take the rest seriously.
In the 90s I spent a few years working on the Jindalee Over-The-Horizon-Radar. It's in the HF band and located in a quiet spot in the middle of Australia. At that time it wasn't fully operational, so there were substantial periods where the research team had exclusive access. One of the techs was a keen radio amateur and used to patch his HF kit into the beamformed antenna array. Subject to the ionosphere not being complete rubbish he could roam around to his hearts content. A further bonus was real-time access to one of the world's best ionosonde networks. It was HF nirvana.
How do you reason your thinking with the fact that the EU created GDPR?

The EU laws typically fall on the side of promoting privacy and protecting citizens against large multinational organisations (criminal and legitimate).

There is a need for greater powers to prevent crime, but nobody is going to weaken privacy for it. The most likely outcome is a centralised interpol-esque database to track and track suspects more quickly. Right now its very easy for criminals to just change hosting region and the investigating national police have no jurisdiction to do anything. It’s a large issue.
Are people less moral than they used to be?
i feel that by the turn of the 20th century we generally had fully accurate maps. 1897 is not really all that long ago - we were well on our way to discovering special relativity at that point
That seems almost like the way people curate their Magic the Gathering decks.
The end goal in this series is to use an FPGA to build a display adapter, I've gotten a Tang Mega 138k [0] to start the process but there is not a lot of documentation, so it is taking a while

If you got recommendations for other (cheap) FPGA boards with PCI-e hard IP, do let me know.

[0]: https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/tang/tang-mega-138k/mega...
Yes, but given the fact that other chinese EV cars are very competitive in the markets where they are sold, with satisfied consumers, and given the fact that Xiaomi is a pretty decent company with a good record, I don't think your skepticism is warranted.

Let's not forget that law in China is draconian and the communist government always enjoy the opportunity to jail executives and I don't think a company like Xiaomi wouldn't be accepting pre-orders without being pretty sure they will be able to deliver.
Instead of using DDNS, I have been using Cloudflare tunnels to expose my home services to the internet. The setup is much simpler and it seems like it's more secure too

You specify a port and point it to a subdomain and it just immediately works, no maintenance necessary. The daemon only needs to be installed once with a simple terminal command
“Rules were made for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men”

Its an old quote, i guess it should be people at the end to be correct these days.
I’ll add that “use good names” is good advice. But “use the names Robert Martin prefers” may or may not be good advice.
The prices of many of the "parts" were already known on that day. Perhaps most notably wireless service. This would have allowed at least a ballpark estimate for what people would be willing to pay.
>I suspect that a lot of people in 1970 would balk at the price of an iPhone

And in 2024.
> because those two memory channels on the consumer AM5 socket

There are actually four memory channels in AM5, because DDR5 doubles the number of channels.
If the only way you could entertain yourself is either make something interesting or (maybe) read the Bible, you'd be very good at making things.
> Sick days, vacation, and parental leave are also good examples at a small scale. It definitely doesn't hold for every jobs, but if a person can be out of the job for days or weeks without a huge impact on the team it may very well be a mostly bullshit job.

I don't see how this idea holds up to scrutiny. People who do actual work need time off regularly to keep concentration and motivation up, especially over long periods of time. These factors don't matter for bullshit jobs - who's gonna notice if their output is reduced?

The impact of time off is instead directly related to quality of management. People will need time off for various reasons. You can either work together and plan around this, or you can act like it's not the case and have a) less chance of properly planning, b) greater risk of the full team being affected (e.g. when sick colleagues come into work), and c) less happy workers with higher turnover.
And don't forget WorldWideWeb, the first web client created by Tim Berners-Lee
https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace will return your ip.
> So my theory is that probability is an ill-defined, unfalsifiable concept. And yet, it seems to model aspects of the world pretty well, empirically.

I have privately come to the conclusion that probability is a well-defined and testable concept only in settings where we can argue from certain exact symmetries. This is the case in coin tosses, games of chance and many problems in statistical physics. On the other hand, in real-world inference, prediction and estimation, probability is subjective and much less quantifiable than statisticians (Bayesians included) would like it to be.

> However, might it be leading us astray?

Yes, I think so. I increasingly feel that all sciences that rely on statistical hypothesis testing as their primary empirical method are basically giant heaps of garbage, and the Reproduciblity Crisis is only the tip of the iceberg. This includes economics, social psychology, large swathes of medical science, data science, etc.

> Consider the statement p(X) = 0.5 (probability of event X is 0.5). What does this actually mean? It it a proposition? If so, is it falsifiable? And how?

I'd say it is an unfalsifiable proposition in most cases. Even if you can run lots of cheap experiments, like with coin tosses, a million runs will "confirm" the calculated probability only with ~1% precision. This is just lousy by the standards of the exact sciences, and it only goes downhill if your assumptions are less solid, the sample space more complex, or reproducibility more expensive.