skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One example is "person of colour" should literally mean everybody

No, person of color has a meaning. It's everyone who isn't a white person.

South Asian people are still South Asian. Black people are still black. And there's brown people, too. None of that has changed and all those words are still in use. But "person of color" is used to refer to ALL of them when that applies. It's a useful term, really.

Because most western societies are majority white. That means sometimes you want to refer to the minority. But they're not all the same, so you can't just say "black" because that's not accurate. So you can use "person of color" in that context and it's more accurate.
Lake Michigan is famously terribly cold to swim in. However this year I’ve found it mostly comfortable, almost as comfortable as a swimming pool. Looking online, it’s above 70 degrees! https://apps.glerl.noaa.gov/marobs/php/data.php?sta=0

Up in Door County the lake would freeze enough to ski on, but nowadays, well good luck with that.
Great article.

"EBS is capable of delivering more IOPS to a single instance today than it could deliver to an entire Availability Zone (AZ) in the early years on top of HDDs."

Dang!
One main advantage is that I would never sign up for an email newsletter - I don’t want more junk in my inbox.

I would, however, subscribe to an RSS feed.
This is one of those things that, were an alien to encounter the stats sheet for humans, they would go, "holy crap humans do that?" Ability to lift crazy heavy things when there's enough adrenaline rushing through your system is pretty wild too. Yay humans!
> The space of possible subjects is huge, so on average your discernment is terrible, relative to what it could be. This is a serious problem if you create a machine that does everyone's job for them.

It's a problem if you're building systems as a dilettante. There are enough individuals on the planet that people can specialize so we need not be at the mercy of systems built by people of average discernment.

> If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are. And then we'll all have slightly worse pianos than we would otherwise have. And I mean if that's the way things are going to go, then let's just steer the Earth into the Sun, because what's the point of any of this.

One counterexample to this viewpoint is Damascus steel. The exact art of making it has been lost (although now effectively reproduced), but modern steels surpass the qualities that made Damascus steel prized. It turns out those ancient masters didn't know bad their steel was. Maybe modern piano tuners don't know how bad their technique is, once the process of "finessing how the overtones interact with each other" has been thoroughly characterized by present or future technology.
'Guitar capo 2.0' gives you five different note options per string
You could argue that greed is the driver. The social networks aren't displaying ads to fund maintaining their operations, they are operating in a for profit capacity and thus are incentivized to find ways to make you want to consume their product.

When someone operated a forum in the days of yore, they had the opportunity to put up ads and many did. The difference I think is that they were doing so to fund or offset the costs of operating the forum, not as a profit engine above and beyond the cost of keeping the lights on.
The problem with a TUI is that it’s a silo. Makes more sense to have pipeable, scriptable program(s) to retrieve/filter/sync/send. Then you can make several different UIs for it—vim, emacs, web, vscode, acme, thick client, etc—with a minimum of effort. TUI ends up re-implementing a good part of tmux unnecessarily.
The difference between Juicero and Peloton is a difference of degree, not kind.
Is the AVX2 implementation using the full 256-bit register width?
If so, I am surprised that it is only 14% faster than SSE.
If not, I would like to see how the results compare with the rest of the tests.
Nihilism is a terminology debate. Running the planet into the sun because the pianos are out of tune is a physics-based policy proposal. You want your civilization to gracefully degrade as it loses value, rationally shedding components that become untenable.

It's likely that at least one person's going to have value up to the very end as your civilization loses resources but still remains rational, something that can't be said if it went into the sun hundreds of years ago.
thanks, I hate it.

For me, the seconds this saves in typing don't outweigh the annoyance of trying to pair with another developer who only uses their own special aliases.
> why Apple needs someone to handle something they're not doing

Regulatory compliance on the boundary between doing, "not doing", not "doing", "not" doing and not "not doing".
Snowblowers usually come with a spade-like attachment clipped to the top of the auger housing for precisely this reason. Please use that instead of your hands.
I don't see Envy there - simply truth.

It's a lux brand at a premium price, an item many people buy to be in a social group rather than focusing as fitness tool, and there are cheaper and arguably better solutions available out there.

Do you debate any of those statements?
> faint gurgle of my timed coffee machine auto brewing the first cup of the day.

Also, the smell of coffee :)
Faster Inverse BWT (2021)
> We all know what the answer is, we just don't want to admit it: Poverty.

So close, yet so far. The actual solution is to allow children to be a tangible benefit to parents.

Those in impoverished countries have more children, not because of poverty itself, but because poverty means they have strong incentive to put the children to work and reap the benefits of that labour. Children make them richer (not rich, but richer than they would be without children). In our society, children generally make the parents poorer. To the point that "think tanks" love to make it known exactly how much poorer a family can expect to be.

Forcing the first world into poverty, but without changing laws and other social norms, wouldn't make much difference as the children would still be left to be useless lumps who do nothing but sit around in a school all day. Who wants to produce a useless lump? And if you do for some reason, your backyard woodworking shop is just as good at producing useless lumps at a fraction of the cost.
Did you even read the article before commenting? This article is about a low tech solution: just a basic trough carved into the sidewalk so that the charging cable can go through the trough rather than hanging in the air or laying across the sidewalk. No EM field involved.

This comment honestly reads like it was written by an LLM bot without actually looking at the article content.
The FTC's Lina Khan said mistreatment of customers signals that a company has monopoly power. Maybe Peloton is heading that way?
> My whole setup is cheaper than a peloton bike by at least $500

Including your road bike?

Obviously there are cyclists who also use a Peloton, but I've found that's not who it's targeted at. It's the spin studio crowd who the Peloton is aimed at. I'm guessing many of those haven't ridden an actual bike in long time.
That's an interesting thread.

It seems to me that Kay sees "data" in context of semiotics, where there is a signifier, a signified and an interpreter, while Hickey is in the camp of physics where things "are what they are", and can't be lied with (from "semiotics study everything that can be lied with").
IMHO, this is one of the most "wise" replies on this thread. I personally experienced that "reality of academic life", with my own (now abandoned) Ph.D journey.

It's worth calling out how recent (and US-centric) it is, to strongly invest one's work with one's entire reason for being. Derek Thompson termed it "workism":

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/religion-w...

I appreciate the extra nuance you added, about the "where and with whom they do it". I can personally attest to the importance of work colleagues and environment, over the work itself. The former can make up for the latter, but rarely (if ever) the other way around.
> I doubt the typical LSP servers will be aware of dependencies specified in that way and so won't offer autocompletion etc for those libraries.

Given this is a recently accepted standard (PEP 723), why would language servers not start to support features based on it?
Yes, good point, propaganda does connote promoting an ideology.
The gold plate-ended USB cables that come in a wooden case with velvet finishing, make the reproduced sound so much smoother, the way yhey were intended by the composer. The glossiness of the gold combined with the subtle soft touch of the velvet will seemlessly flow over to the analog side of the 192kHz DAC, polishing these once harshly digitized signals up to their finest quality.

/i
Alright, go out to the back near the dumpster. Ask for Tony. Tell him you need a Peloton. If he asks "Which model?", say "Preactivated". You didn't hear this from me.
LDAP is just "lightweight" protocol for accessing an X.500 directory service.

The semantics are the same for the accessed store, IIRC. The protocol definition explicitly talks about being used to access X.500 data stores as complementary interface to DAP (which requires lower layers of OSI stack vs LDAP's raw stream of bytes)
What’s wrong with this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/Quicksor...
Perplexity AI plans to start running search ads in fourth quarter
Very true. My favorite example of this is academia. When you do a MSc everything seems nice and some things feel a bit weird but it is what it is. Then over time you realize how misaligned the incentives are with what is actually useful for the general population. But the whole system is writing with much jargon and emphasizing that they followed all procedures and peer-review. So the population thinks it must be useful, or at least cannot point out why it isn’t.
Geo-fenced app stores could align with geo-fenced networks bounded by GFC-style inspection and filtering of network packets.
Looks good but wish it was written in C.
I wasn't familiar with the fable so I looked it up. It seems entirely appropriate that it emerged in Russia in the early 20th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Looks awesome. Compliance in itself is a huge space that can benefit from a lot of automation. And the pain point of avoiding back-and-forth and giving quick feedback is real, because people usually don't read instructions, but rely on "feedback" to instruct them. All the best!
The effect of this should be to reduce the price of used peletons by around $95 - i.e. effectively seller pays. I imagine that's the thinking behind this (ie it only affects the customer who's leaving the service), but it probably leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the buyer anyway, which doesn't feel like great business
Why would you want to use a cartoonish GUI for a text application like email when using a terminal interface is so much easier?
Perhaps it is, but that's not sustainable. Every ecosystem has a carrying capacity. We're coming closer and closer to that for the Southwestern US. It won't be pretty when we reach it.

I actually couldn't care less whether the Colorado makes it to the ocean. I have two major rivers in my city. There's plenty of water without having to fine people for using water on the opposite of their odd-even day. The heat during the summer is uncomfortable but it's usually not an imminent threat to human life after an hour of unhydrated exertion.
> But given an abundance of memory in modern systems, are linkers even necessary anymore?

This sudden abundance in memory has been adequately matched by sandboxes, packagers, libraries, and frameworks.
w3m supports inline images; I don't know if they work in aerc, though.
If you live in a totalitarian country, they can use it for social credit or to identify "troublemakers."
Using lazygit is probably the most efficient way to do git IMO. https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit
Jesus Christ what kind of Le Redditor (tips fedora) response is this?

He's just pointing out that "differently" and "dis" have different connotations. You're not dis - abled. You ARE able to do things. And some things you have to do differently.
This makes sense to me.

Hickey seems to have taken his cite of "data"'s definition as "a thing given" as axiomatic, requiring no further thought on the implicit following questions like "given by whom?" and "by what means?", and this severely limits the scope of his analysis versus Kay's, this I think being what had them talking past one another.

In industry, the incentives seem very rarely to line up such that questions like those are welcome.
I work in academic research and this book and Peopleware

https://www.amazon.nl/-/en/Tom-DeMarco/dp/0932633439

Are what I try and lead my students and postdocs with. I'm just starting but I think these principles of trusting clever people to do clever things, building objectives together, protecting people from the busy work others will give them, etc. This is all important to us seeing success in our research. It's actually rather annoying our success is not rewarded by profit I can share with those I advise and work with. Perhaps I would be better in an industrial lab.
Surely it's the same "virus"? Unless I'm mistaken, the async2 proposal wouldn't require any code changes, as it essentialy just moves compiler stuff to the runtime.
When you pair-program you’re reading their git prompts?
What kind of golden parachute is attached to that lead balloon?
“It” feels more appropriate than “she” for an ethereal entity.

Besides, attributing a gender to an AI can be misleading and anthropomorphizes a non-human entity, creating unrealistic expectations from the start.
Wikipedia says they have 4 Crew Dragons in service, 1 under construction.
- Crew 8 is docked at ISS
- Polaris Dawn is on the launch pad scheduled for Monday. It is configured for a space walk, so I think that means it doesn't have the ISS docking adapter installed
- Crew 9 is launching in September (with 2 or 4 astronauts)
- Fram2 mission is in December. I think it is going to have the viewing cupola installed, so no port

I don't know how fast a Dragon could be refitted with the docking adapter so maybe the other 2 aren't available on any sort of emergency basis.

The emergency plan for Butch and Suni until Crew 9 gets there is either YOLO Starliner or lay on the bulkhead of Crew 8 below the 4 astronaut seats, not wearing space suits since the Starliner suits can't be hooked up to Dragon.
Write an issue on their GitHub if you don't already see one, they're very responsive
I don't think this is the point of the article. In the TL, DR, they allude to the fact that the introduction of general AI into the world will accelerate this, because it will be "$2 app store tuner" on a larger, more intense scale.

Doesn't require much through to extrapolate this to different areas. Sure, it would be sad if the expertise on sewing and clothing construction was lost to automation, but it wouldn't be the end of the world. But every person has a hobby that they would be sad to see lose its complexity and art. It might be catastrophic, though, if the world's nuclear engineers began automating their right-tail knowledge away.
Remind me of the florida keys syndrom where each generation think it's a great fishing spot but doesn't have a frame of reference for how much the fishes actually became less numerous and smaller:

https://earimediaprodweb.azurewebsites.net/Api/v1/Multimedia...
Seems comparable to https://pocketbase.io/
Also, full of badly-ported Catalyst apps.
nah, they'll start with each email you send. only, they'll call it postage to avoid getting tagged with raising taxes
You should also remember that actually having a more connected grid makes it susceptible to reliability issues as well. If you look back to 1999 when the entire northeast electrical grid was crippled for a couple weeks as a function of that connectivity.

I'm not letting Texas off the hook -- not winterizing your natural gas pipelines and trying to blame renewables for the grid catastrophically failing is definitely a regulators issue and a return a much money as possible to the investor shareholders without concern to the citizens is the key feature of their system.
In addition to this forms of commercial discrimination, police and government agencies are free to buy and use data for their purposes, which we should not be fooled into believing is good for society/security on average.
Also a great tool for the powers that be to engage in parallel construction, should you suddenly need to eliminate some political rival. If you collect enough data, eventually everyone is guilty of something.
> How much work is it to figure out which sections of the executable to export?

As long as you do not cut across a variable or a function, you can export pretty much however you want, you don't have to follow the original object file boundaries. What to export is a separate matter and requires some knowledge about the program. Having debugging symbols makes this much easier, otherwise by the time you've made the Ghidra database accurate enough for exportation you'll usually have an idea of where's what.

> Would it be realistic to be able to export a modern-ish (2008-2015) Win32 game into objects and then compile/link it into a full executable again with less than a few hours work?

About the user report in my submission, they first raised an issue in early July and by mid-August they got a fully working, functionally identical relinked executable. To be fair, the COFF exporter had a lot of bugs that needed to be fixed and the i386 analyzer needed some touch-ups, things that somebody else should hopefully won't stumble over now.

I don't know how long it would take, but unless you have debugging symbols and are really lucky it will take more than a few hours of work. A skilled reverse-engineer can probably manage to get something executing in that timeframe (even if it crashes halfway during the first loading screen), but it's one of these tasks that you won't know when it will be done until it is done.
> If their art dies out, maybe nobody will know how bad all the pianos are.

I'm already seeing this happening in a number of industries (including software development).

It starts with the consumers accepting crap, and works its way back.

That's why I think AI-produced output will be just fine, for most folks.
Probably a worthwhile addendum that they had a "restructuring" in May, laying off 15% of their staff, ~400 people, and their CEO stepped down. They've yet to find a replacement CEO, still running under interim leadership.
Depends on the needs of the market and their own generating supply. Arbitrage opportunities would surely exist in the short run while long run pushes the price to a natural equilibrium.
Yeah, and even no halter. No offense to the parent commenter, but things like dressage are driven by defining "right" and "wrong", in order to create an in-group and out-group, and not necessarily to create better riders. You can ride a horse bare back, and in some cases, it really is better than with a saddle (and other accoutrement).
> The annoying thing is the stuff that really would benefit most from wireless is lower power, less often used stuff, which never actually has it...
A Qi charging flashlight would be pretty nice. But almost nobody does them.

I've thought about trying my hand at circuit design by making a Qi charging beard trimmer with a supercap "battery", but I suspect that might be jumping into the deep end.
Great example of premature optimization. Save seconds per day typing "gc" instead of "git commit"
> The birth rate is negatively impacted by the economic situation

Only to a certain extent. Looking at data of every single rich country, and my own circles, there’s just no appetite for most of people to have 3 children (2.1+ needed for replacement).

I weirdly think about this issue way too much, since I’m a part of a problem. All my girl friends, who want children, only want one or two. Why would anyone sacrifice, at the very bare minimum, 6 years of their youthful years for 3 children? There’s just too much opportunity loss compared to lower income / less rich countries.

I have no idea how to tackle this problem, but would be very interested to read about or somehow even contribute to potential solutions that are beyond “people have to have lots of children for cultural reasons!” argument.
I have a really hard time waking up, and the two things that have worked best for me are:

1. A Phillips wake-up light/sunrise alarm, and
2. A vibrating alarm on my watch.

The wake-up light worked really well but wasn't a great solution for me since I share a bed with someone on a different sleep schedule.
Creating a macOS app with Haskell and Swift (2023)
And even on things that impact us, we can't be experts.

The roofers did a shit job, but it looked so professionally done and I paid them well. Six months later the roof started to leak, by that time they were gone... The contractors widened the doorway but didn't bother checking the house plan and the load was incorrect, the structural engineer had a heart attack looking at that.
You might want to look into books by Alan Gordon and those he has worked with (they get recommended from time to time round here for chronic pain). Whilst they do primarily talk about pain, there’s some evidence to suggest that some of the neurological problems caused by post-viral conditions are to do with the brain getting stuck in a heightened state of “fight or flight”, which is also one of the causes of chronic neurological pain. This would also tally with what you are saying about your anxiety.
Had these sauced soy jerkies from China that taste much closer to fatty beef slices than any plant based meat substitutes, which is still too much trade off in taste and cost. I feel like if plant based VCs should have just flown to Asia to try some plant-based temple foods, and then spend some (most) of their marketting budgetting openning faux meat restaurants (not just fast food) and then move products into grocery stores. That said, I tihnk plant-based efforts by western VCs with their profit expectations probably always doomed. There's no way I'll ever regularly pay premium for plant-based over normal meat, until it's commoditized (or even subsidized) to margins, it's not viable as mass substitute.
I believe you are conflating kbits/s with kHz. The latter being the unit of the sample rate. The thing is, no human ears hear higher tones than 17kHz and Nyquist and Shannon thought us that double of that as a sample rate is sufficient to reproduce tones equal or lower.
I’m very happy for Apple to geofence the EU cryptography backdoors they’re going to have to put in eventually.
It doesn't try to call the method. It never gets there. The value/object is never seen as a Duck. It's not using a value as an arbitrary type. It was cast to any (which always succeeds), and then to something with a specific interface. It panics on the type cast. That's in the language spec: if you type-cast without checking the result, you can get a panic. I don;t consider C a duck typing language too, because you can write ((Bird*) ptr)->swim(), but perhaps you do?
> and can be learned again in the future

Maybe? You’re assuming that someone between now and whenever humanity ends will have the time and resources to rediscover it. I’m not sure I’d take that bet.
C is the best language for an application that spends all
its time handling untrusted user input.
Eh. I've only ever aliased "git status -s | awk '$1 == "M" { print $2 }' | xargs -t git add" as "git_add_all": branch switching works well enough in VSCode, "git diff" shows you your commit preview perfectly fine, and shortening "git push" and "git commit" never really felt like a pressing concern.

Actually, no, there is also "git_show_branch" because every time I needed that in the shell, I could never remember the proper incantation. Something to do with rev-parse or something?
That's the vibe I would have if I didn't read past the first third of the post.