skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans.

Or you can just run your own dedicated bedrock edition server, no need to pay anyone.

https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock
Its all about the scrolls, man
I say "even" because the stereotype is Southern Europe, Turkey, or North Africa. The further north you go in Europe, the more Jewish and Ashkenazi identities get merged and blurred in people's minds. So the history of sephardim in Netherlands goes against the stereotypes.
My nephew is a fifo sparky for some mines, his base is 200K AUD, I don't know how much he makes in allowances on top. He's on call 24 hours though and just has to fly somewhere at a moments notice.
good point. we're geeks and do this kind of thing to each other. among normal people it might be rude.

she got me a while back with ink solvents. Monks may have been more illuminated making those pretty manuscripts than we appreciated.
Yeah that's last part is funny but pretty true. I had always used Safari (basically since they replaced Internet Explore for Mac with it) but it became much less performant and had many annoyances regression (like the favicons in bookmarks).
Still, I kept using it but what make me switch to Chrome a few years ago (about 2) was a bug preventing proper password sync with my iPhone (acquired from a beta testing I believe, some got it successfully resolved by contacting support but I can't be arsed, they should just have a reset everything option, including their cloud thingy).

Hilariously since you can use Chrome password manager on iOS, it became a better solution overall than trying to stick with Apple mess. With it I got support for uBlock Origin (nothing is as good for Safari, and it came to a point where I just couldn't deal with the ads anymore) and a much faster/more modern browser. As a bonus, it syncs everything with my Windows installation much better and I can use my Chrome profile on other computers when I need to.
But when uBlock Origin is not supported in Chrome anymore I'll probably revisit the choice for something else.

Apple has completely lost the plot, pushing their half-assed, barely work, cloud stuff while simultaneously raising the price of entry/maintenance of their hardware.
This is why I laugh my ass choice when they brag about their privacy bullshit. If they have wanted, they could have very well figured out a sync without relying on any cloud stuff; instead, they push iCloud to make more money (it's a crutch for people with iPhones that have way too little storage and other proper computing device) even though it makes no sense for what was the philosophy of Apple software/hardware previously.
They have no competitive advantage in this matter and it often just sucks or doesn't work properly.

Who's IBM now, right ?
You are thinking in western grouping of tenses on a verb conjugation of a different language. It is not the mood that is not inferred here. It is the property of the verb. Verb itself can be used to communicate the same information with a single word "Gitmisim" just as valid ("I apparently went there"). So where is the tense of a single word if it does not have tense in it? How do turkish people communicate without a tense using a single word just with the mood?
Falcon 9 can land on land just fine (and it was done multiple times on less demanding missions). Landing on barge gives it extra performance.
I don’t think airliners use Methane?
... and the simple discipline of DE (Do Easy) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4Aio-lrVo8

(Gus Van Sant's first short movie, definitely HN worthy)
Wow! Whatever WP Engine is doing to discriminate against anyone affiliated with them in any way (ie being their customer?) is such a bad form :(
> you know you don't need tell everyone how you have palter's vlm to look at rel-8-5's sysdcl which has been leaked and hosted on public sites since forever

I'm not sure what you are talking about. It's not related to what I wrote.

> how thick a layer dynamic-window is on top of tv? answering that question require systems level knowledge and investigation.

Dynamic Windows introduced a new UI look and feel, different from the old "static windows". DW has new APIs even for reimplementations of old UI features from TV , like the new drawing interface in the graphics package, which replaces the old TV flavor messages, with generic functions. It has also a lot of new features, like the presentation system. Later applications typically will use the new DW interfaces and new features. Both DW and TC are documented in "Programming the User Interface", with DW providing much of the high-level application window features, described in the first chapters.

There is another version of it, in another implementation, which is CLIM, which is then based on CLOS. Even later applications were thought to use the CLIM interfaces, to be able to write portable user interfaces, able to run on various other Lisp systems. Both DW and CLIM are substantially different from TV. Neither DW, nor CLIM are in the MIT software.

Other symbolics extensions are of similar nature.
The article say the cost to orbit is/was $10,000/kg.

Anyone know what it is now? What it will/would be with Starship?
The simple discipline of DE [video]
We all know Minecraft Bedrock edition, the children's game where I can actually play with my nieces and nephews confined to iPads and xboxes.

It is also beloved by many, but i'm sure those folks count as subhuman to you.
A similar problem with "farmers." A farm worker, and a person who owns a farm, are two totally different economic situations. Both work hard, but the economic outcomes are quite different.
The ones that susprised me were more common things: kutija, čelik, sat, čoban, boja, budala, sanduk, pare...

Hah, of course wiki has a pretty good list with even more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Serbo-Croatian_words_o...
I am thinking of building one too. Having enough funds and know how of all the regulations is a big road block though. I want to go a step further and have an analog electric car, tired of the digital computer crap.
This article was published today, October 13th, 2024.
Columbo Statue
Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Out as Atom-Sized Black Holes
The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by
People don't post where they aren't visiting.

They're not visiting Stack Overflow for well-read material (the popular languages) because perplexity.ai, ChatGPT, Claude, etc., not only answer questions better than reading pages of StackOverflow, but will cut and paste the (right or wrong) answer for you faster.

If you're not on StackOverflow while asking questions, you aren't answering things there either. Nothing else is needed to explain their observations.

Of course, this means that to compete, StackOverflow and other Q&A forums must bring the answering usability (integrating answers into one's flow) to the top.
"where I live the actual plumbers get licensed, not the plumbing company."

Which then leads to plumbing shops were the licensed plumber doesn't even work there and just rents out the license to the business so it can operate. Plumbing certs are a complete pyramid scheme.
For the miscompilations, the fix wouldn't add a new compile error. Instead, rc.exe would just start doing the right thing in certain scenarios, so previously broken things would start working. For example, padding bytes that were previously missing would get properly added.

It's always theoretically possible that someone, somewhere is somehow relying on such a miscompilation, but for many of the ones detailed in the article, it seems extraordinarily unlikely.
Egypt is an autocracy because the US sends it billions of dollars to keep it an autocracy. Neither the US nor Israel want Egypt to be anything other than an autocracy.

Regarding organ harvesting, the FBI arrested Israeli-connected illegal organ harvesters in the US, as reported by the New York Times. The Palestinians have complained about Israeli organ harvesting, and apparently the US is concerned about their illegal organ harvesting networks too.
I think I would put more credence in Yann LeCun's predictions if he had predicted the emergence of few-shot learning and chain-of-thought reasoning as a function of model size/data before they happened.

In part, he's arguing that LLMs are not the most efficient path toward intelligence and that some other design will do better, which is probably true, but no one has pushed model size for the (somewhat ironically named) Gato-style multimodal embodied transformers that I think would result in something closer to cat intelligence.

I am reasonably certain that further step changes will happen as LLM model and/or data sizes increase. Right now we're achieving a lot of SOTA performance with somewhat smaller models and multimodal pretraining, but not putting those same methods to work in training even larger models on more data.
Top redot developers left redot and announced a new fork of Godot
Could you elaborate on 'the vision impaired stuff'? I'm visually impaired myself so I'm intrigued.

The demo scene is still alive and kicking, by the by :)
> There is no such character as NL ...

More specifically the Unicode control character U+000a is, in the Unicode standard, named both LF and NL (and that comes from ASCII but in ASCII I think 0x0a was only called LF).

It literally has both names in Unicode: but LINEFEED is written in uppercase while newline is written in lowercase (not kidding you). You can all see for yourself that U+000a has both names (and eol too):

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf

> and the article does not at all address that fact that the "ENTER" key on every keyboard sends a CR and not a LF.

what a key on a keyboard sends doesn't matter though. What matters is what gets written to files / what is sent over the wire.

... $ cat > /tmp/anonymousiam<ENTER>
<ENTER>
<CTRL-C>

... $ hexdump /tmp/anonymousiam
00000000 000a

When I hit ENTER at my Linux terminal above, it's LINEFEED that gets written to the file. Under Windows I take it the same still gets CRLF written to the file as in the Microsoft OSes of yore (?).

> Things work fine the way they are.

I agree
Yeah, to be honest I'm too out of this context to speak of deep technicalities, but a quick test seems to indicate that Dusk's comp/lisp can do something similar to your first example, unless I misunderstood it:

$ make run
stty -icanon -echo min 0; ./dusk ; stty icanon echo
Dusk OS
79KB used 31MB free ok
needs comp/lisp
ok
lisp (defun make-adder (x) (lambda (y) (+ x y)))
ok
lisp (defun x+3 (x) ((make-adder 3) x))
ok
lisp (defun x+7 (x) ((make-adder 7) x))
ok
lisp. (x+3 7)
10 ok
lisp. (x+7 8)
15 ok
Reusability increases costs if you don't reuse often enough.

The shuttle would have been much, much, cheaper per launch if it had flown more often. The expected costs for the shuttle included a range based on how often it flew which turned out to be reasonably accurate. They were much worse at predicting which end of the range they would be flying in. At the rate they ended up flying they had the extra costs of reusability without any of the benefits.

Starship is ludicrously expensive, but still much cheaper than even the best case for the Shuttle, and it has a guaranteed source of launches to help it benefit from resuability.
> the entitlement over not being able to afford a private, one-bedroom apartment in a fantastically-popular city center is just absolutely mind-blowing

I used to think this way—that is, just like you—in my 20s. From my experience growing up, I was used to not having nice or even merely adequate things, and it was the norm to go without. I'm less cavalier about declaring it entitlement now. Why shouldn't an adult, even a brand new (i.e. young) one, not have their own place? I realized that I didn't have a good reason to justify the status quo (where a home of your own is out of reach), only that it was the status quo, and the thrust of my old position really just came down to something akin to the old saw that Hardship-<X> is good for you because "it builds character"—even though I'd never really found that argument persuasive when I'd encounter it elsewhere. (Just like the old retort "life's not fair", it seemed I'd only ever encounter it from someone in the process of actively trying to screw you over while trying to paint your indignance about it as unreasonable.)

Not saying everyone should expect the works, but I can't exactly fault anyone who would be content with a 12x10 kitchen attached to an 8x10 office that doubles as a bedroom but isn't able to have it. And that's without even addressing the fact that we're likely talking about a situation where you're losing all this money on something you didn't even get equity for!
I agree, it's an obviously deceptive headline. More accurate would be "...were (partly) controlled by humans." That would have gotten them fewer clicks though, presumably...

Even in the article:

"Another robot — or the human voicing it — told an attendee in a stilted impression of a synthetic voice, “Today, I am assisted by a human,” adding that it’s not fully autonomous. (The voice stumbled on the word “autonomous.”)"

So it seems Tesla were being fairly transparent about what was going on, and ironically it's this article chiding Tesla for being deceptive that is deceptive.

It comes across as a desperate reach to be critical: why say a "stilted impression" of a synthetic voice? As opposed to a mellifluous and natural impression of a synthetic voice? It gets it backwards: it's synthetic voices that are often stilted.

And then why note that it stumbled on "autonomous"? Is this supposed to be some gotcha that it's controlled by a bashful human after all? But it just told you that a human is controlling it... some trashy journalism imho
But even knowing the median, that would just mean that you are objectively in a good position relative to the median.

You aren’t likely to compare compare yourself to the median, but to those whom you consider your peers. If you peers all have higher compensation, you’ll feel bad, regardless of the fact you are objectively in the top 90% of compensation for your role.
It’s just like any other tool. If you know how to leverage it you’ll gain a lot more from it.
Yes! Here's an example for using the Olimex ESP32-ADF board as a wireless speaker that can be played directly from Pure Data or SuperCollider: https://git.iem.at/ressi/esp32_aoo_test/
I fall for a click-bait Web page title and then have to fight off various overlays and popups, maybe change the window size to see the 'X' to close some popup, then get some long, nearly irrelevant and worthless, content with no connection to the title, ....

So, now, fool me again, and shame on me, so I do what is necessary to close the window, leave the Web site, even if I have to kill my Web browser to do it.

Ah, Darwin will fix it!

Besides, looks like help for the Web site of my startup -- no popups, no overlays, no cookies, no distracting, interrupting, legalistic warming about cookies, e.g., I'm given an advantage!
To be clear, I'm not talking about self-indulgent essays embedded in comments. I'm talking about comments that convey context for humans.

Here's a made-up example:

// Parses a Foo message [spec]. Returns true iff the parse was successful.
// The `out` and `in` pointers must be non-null.
//
// [spec]: https://foo.example/spec
bool parse_foo(foo_t* out, const char* in, size_t in_len) {
assert(out);
assert(in);

// TODO(tracker.example/issue#123) Delete the Foo v1 parser. Nobody will
// be sending us Foo v1 message when all the clients are upgraded to Bar
// v7.1.
//
// Starting in Foo v2, messages begin with a two-byte version identifier.
// Prior to v2, there was no version tag at all, so we have to make an
// educated guess.
//
// For more context on the Foo project's decision to add a version tag:
// https://foo.example/specv2#breaking-change-version-tag
uint16_t tag_or_len;
if (!consume_u16(&tag_or_len, &in, &in_len)) {
return false;
}
if (tag_or_len == in_len) {
return parse_foo_v1(out, in, in_len);
}
return parse_foo_v2(out, in, in_len);
}

On that old project, I believe the TL would have rejected each of these comments on the grounds that the code is self-documenting. I find this to be absurd:

(1) Function comments are necessary to define a contract with the caller. Without it, callers are just guessing at proper use, which is particularly dangerous in C. Imagine if a caller guessed that the parser would gracefully degrade into a validator when `out` is NULL. (This is a mild example! I'm sure I could come up with an example where the consequence is UB or `rm -rf /`.)

(2) The TODO comment links to the issue tracker. There's no universe in which a reader could have found issue#123 purely by reading the code. On the aforementioned project, we were constantly rediscovering issues after wasting hours/days retreading old territory.

(3) Regarding the "Starting in Foo v2" comment... OK, fine, maybe this could have been inferred from reading the code. But it eases the reader into what's about to happen while providing further context with a link. On balance, I think this kind of "what" comment is worth including even though it mirrors the code.
Doom metal might be viable as well. But that's pretty closely related to stoner rock, so maybe that's just saying the same thing.
Just last weekend in Manhattan I saw a group of young people protesting for a free Tibet along with signs in support of Palestine. It was small, but as someone in their 40s who saw a lot of protests calling for a free Tibet in the 90s, it was really nice to see.
It seems to me the author is not suggesting to update the protocols themselves but rather to stop sending them CR even if the spec requires it. And to patch the corresponding software to it accepts simple newlines.
Unless the megacorps everything consolidates into implement regulatory capture before that can happen.
> Or maybe not, because Tibetans at least can still live there?

Well, Palestinians do live there: in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Israel/Egypt-blockaded Gaza, and in Israel proper, under the name of “Arab citizens of Israel”, many of whom identify as Palestinian

While many Arabs fled or were expelled in 1948, not all of them were. Israel wants to call them “Arab citizens of Israel” or “Arab Israelis” not “Palestinians”: some want to go along with that terminological preference, a growing number don’t

(Not all Arab citizens of Israel are of Palestinian origin - some of them are Maronite refugees from Lebanon; there are also many Jewish Israelis of Jewish Arab descent, but in an Israeli context they are identified as Jewish not Arab. There are also Arabs in Israeli-occupied Syria, the Golan Heights, the majority of whom don’t have Israeli citizenship, but a minority do.)
World's highest-voltage gun accelerates electrons to 80% the speed of light
Does this mean SQLite for DO can lose up to 10 seconds of data in the event of a failing DO?
I suspect the gap is at least 50% rendering artifact, but all 1.4M asteroids are plotted as (small) fraction of its orbital ellipse, so the density distribution is reflective of the real data (more specifically, orbit types)
The Symbolics intellectual property wasn't a legal minefield until the past decade and change, where it was acquired from Andrew Topping's estate by a longtime MIT Lisp guy who has been a complete idiot for not opening it up to the world.

However, he only actually owns it if Andrew Topping actually paid the Symbolics bankruptcy executor for it in full. (Not doing so would entirely fit Topping's character, based on his criminal rap sheet.) If Topping didn't fully pay for it, then it still belongs to whoever or whatever the successor of the Symbolics bankruptcy executor is; I think that was ABN AMRO.

Good luck finding any of that out!
Not replying is usually the strongest rhetorical move, for what it's worth. Long threads implicitly elevate the other side of the argument. If you're trying to dispositively conclude a debate, make your case once, dispassionately, and then don't restate anything you've already said.
I don’t really need to jump to that conclusion. I think there’s a certain naïveté that if high-speed rail is ever built in America, it’ll be this wonderfully efficient, cheap system that takes me exactly from where I am to where I wanna go faster than flying. When the reality is that high-speed rail really only makes sense for certain very dense corridors then things like the Philly to Pittsburgh high-speed rail wish is the kind of thing that would be an economic disaster.
This is a really interesting design, but these kinds of smart systems always inhabit an uncanny valley for me. You need them in exactly two cases:

1. You have a really high-load system that you need to figure out some clever ways to scale.

2. You're working on a toy project for fun.

If #2, fine, use whatever you want, it's great.

If this is production, or for Work(TM), you need something proven. If you don't know you need this, you don't need it, go with a boring Postgres database and a VM or something.

If you do know you need this, then you're kind of in a bind: It's not really very mature yet, as it's pretty new, and you're probably going to hit a bunch of weird edge cases, which you probably don't really want to have to debug or live with.

So, who are these systems for, in the end? They're so niche that they can't easily mature and be used by lots of serious players, and they're too complex with too many tradeoffs to be used by 99.9% of companies.

The only people I know for sure are the target market for this sort of thing is the developers who see something shiny, build a company (or, worse, build someone else's company) on it, and then regret it pretty soon and move to something else (hopefully much more boring).

Does anyone have more insight on this? I'd love to know.
I also see the profiling shows that the "iter::next" takes a large percentage in the flamegraph. Are they the same reason?
> To ensure durability beyond that ten second window, writes are also forwarded to five replicas in separate nearby data centers as soon as they commit, and the write is only acknowledged once three of them have confirmed it.

I think Simon meant "within", rather than "beyond", here.
Gunicorn expects `\r\n` for lines (see gunicorn/http/message.py:read_line), though it's possible that every middleware that is in front of gunicorn in practice normalizes lines to avoid this issue.
The ornamentation I think is necessary to let the reader recreate something so ethereal to explain. Like a koan. It benefited me at least.
Not surprising. At all. People, supposedly “smart,” eat it the fuck up.
Ah, this is insightful - esp your point that sequencing more did not help in the earlier version (that was an assumption I had in my mind).

I am curious if people have played around with trying to recreate the nanopore itself in-house or at least a prototype? I wanted to fiddle with the pore and need access to the trans compartment for testing my idea, any leads would be really helpful!
It is absolutely Matt tweeting.
"instead of using $100,000+ radiation-hardened aerospace/defense grade chips"

Well, that makes perfect sense considering that both the spaceport infrastructure, and the booster need to do their calculation on the ground level instead of the highly radiated environment that is space. However, for the rockets themselves, which happen to reach that harsh environment, they may use more resilient and expensive hardware in the future, after passing over the current "let it splash in the Indian Ocean" development and testing phases.
The Netherlands very definitely has turnstiles to check your ticket. No getting on the train without getting through the door.

It’s true that there’s some smaller stations that just have a few ‘scan your card’ poles and no entry/exit block.

Japan is more or less the same, except that the turnstiles won’t physically block you from entering, and are open by default.