skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mind some science fantasy like this. And I like how the author took this step to solve for lag in communication and it added to the speed and thrill of the story.
Is this process materially different from a vacuum? Does it manage to optimise without a write lock?
That’s what flyback transformers were for. If you licked them, you’d fly back.
Did you see the Civ VII announcement? ;)
> We’d all probably be happier with a solid narrative underlying our senses of self and society.

Sure. You would also be much happier taking drugs all day.
Thanks, I struggled for a while understanding why I couldn't do anything.
I do think it's worth noting Automattic has raised ~$984M (via PE/other investors), whereas WP Engine has raised far less & is somehow doing far better with less headcount.

What's really telling is ~9 of Automattic's 46 own investments were inside the WordPress ecosystem, vs. 100% of WP Engine's. Things like Beeper for $124M in April of 2024 just seem awkward in light of the recent complaints about WP Engine not doing enough.
Emphatically. Higher frequencies even get attenuated by _air_, and this stuff goes all the way up to 150GHz
http://doomeer.com/factorio does that. You can specify how many of each product you want to produce per second, minute or hour and it shows how many assemblers and what raw material production is required.
> This is possibly why a number of Fortune 500 and government organizations avoid GPL like the plague.

This being, in turn, a fantastic reason to use the GPL for your code.
Open Source Programmable Voice Agents
github commit, pr creation/merge, stars frequency would probably noticeably decrease. would love someone to accidentally leak some observability dashboard as a meme. MSFT is a big company, no one will find you, its cool.
Some places still have columns declared as utf8 instead of utf8mb4, and there's a special place in hell for authors of the MySQL general clusterfuck regarding encodings - it was all nice and great if you didn't care about anything other than latin1 or ASCII - go outside that before utf8 option and it was horror that even experienced operators managed to fuckup (I have a badge from a Google conference in 2017 with nicely visible effect of "we have mixed up one of the three separate encoding settings in MySQL and now you have mojibake in your badge").

And then there's UTF8 not actually being UTF8, which can result in total lockup of a table if someone inputs a character that does not fit in UCS-2 and now you need to recover the database from backup and preferably convert all instances of utf8 to utf8mb4, because fuck you that's why.
This article is almost jumping the shark. It's fine to say it's in the constellation of things that help document code, but the end where you're starting to limit the tests you can do to highlight an ideal, for example, the "atomic" bullet, that's where you're now doing things for ideology, not really for their utility. A similar thing occurred with function purity, etc, etc.

I don't know who this helps but if you're a young developer, always beware what you read on substack about how you should constrain yourself. Take them with a grain of salt.
I'm off every Monday! So let's hope it's morning at my place when it drops.
I had a long response, but it came across as preachy so I canned it.

The short of it is, as you gain real world experience you will realize that the world is filled with looters and thieves, and its up to you to figure out who they are and control your interactions with them so you come out on top. A large part of this is knowing when and when not to share.

It is entirely possible to do this, without being a slimeball. Take a measured approach, set up situations and observe closely. What people do in small things, they do in large things, and evil is most characterized in willful blindness.

You shouldn't be trying to differentiate yourself like this in an interview anyway.

Companies are looking for workers, and the rational creative problem solver people tend to be targeted by psychology profiling and discriminated against at the hiring stage; despite them providing unimaginable value, its a top down problem starting with hiring. AI also is a problem since it allows a new age for employers to bypass anti-discrimination laws based on protected classes.

To understand why these things have been happening and worsening, you need to go into the history of how and why business has changed since the 1960s. Its far too much for a single post, but there are reasons why this happened; largely as a progression from constitutional money to fiat debt and various mechanisms of sieving markets into fewer and fewer hands over time (ponzi).

The failures align with the same failures with any bureaucracy and no one covers this better than Mises (written 1930s).

These type of things will be getting much worse in the near future, so you will need to guard the products of your mind more carefully. Familiarize yourself with the Laws of Power (Greene), learn why these things happen, and prepare.

There may come a time in the near future where you'll have to bootstrap your own grid, and physically defend yourself but until that time, do what you need to and become self-sufficient and mature (by learning about important things like social contract theory/economics and other skills that will improve your ability to forecast).

Loyalty is misplaced in any business today, and trust is gone as the pillars of society fall to ruin.

Never provide your best work starting out, don't mention an idea unless it has a number of subtle pitfalls, understand the business growth cycle (and how its often another form of ponzi through preferential loans), and choose well.

In IT people used to joke about automating themselves out of a job (and how there will always be other problems to solve). We can see now where this mentality led, to 7% unemployment in tech (during peak hiring), where the national average is 1.5%.

Experienced people know the importance to semi-automate, and to also never make anything that will run and provide value for longer than a month without some direct input from them. You don't provide your best unless you are getting paid proportionally for the value.

So it goes.
Also for licensing reasons for a long time there was surviving contingent of MySQL 3.23 in LAMP hosting.
Simon likes to test LLMs' creativity by asking them questions about pelicans
It's interesting to see how unilateral contract and term changes, assumed consent etc. pioneered by internet companies in "B2C" relations is now becoming a more widespread thing for B2B relations as well.
Humans desire narratives to understand the world, but the world is too complex to be captured into reality.

Those arch-theories already exist in the theories like Dialectical Materialism, or worse, Fascism, and with terrible consequences once they confronted reality.

The circumstantial perspective of (Liberal Western) Modernism & Postmodernism may have it's flaws, but it has offered more practical results in policymaking than not.
I guess it's the kind of excitement one gets when someone else actively reads the documentation you painstakingly put together.
Ah, I see, though I'd say it pollutes the function namespace a bit this way (as "in-x" semantically only makes sense in a loop) and missing on-list. Technically, you could do most of these in a few lines of CL too, but well, convenience is the point of these macros.

Those seem to return sequences instead of streams/iterators, any idea why? Though it says "An in-list application can provide better performance for list iteration when it appears directly in a for clause", so I guess there's some macro magic at play.

Anyway, thanks for exposing those, Racket does seem to be pretty practical (and with its Chez backend, I guess it's pretty fast); can't stand the square brackets used as syntax (as opposed to vector literals used as data), though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
>Allocate $300 per person to get everyone a podcaster mic and a pair of open backed headphones to plug into it as a monitor

How's your experience with this regarding soundproofing the room. Is normal noise filtering fine? I assume you have the mic on a boom with a pop filter.
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The primordial soup hypothesis has been obsolete for decades.

It does not explain which is the source of energy. Without a continuous source of energy life cannot exist.

Moreover, it does not explain how the soup becomes concentrated enough to enable the formation of complex structures. Any primordial soup would have been too dilute for the dissolved substances to have chances to interact.

The only plausible hypotheses for the origin of life are not in the middle of a soup, but at the surface of some minerals, more likely inside pores in the minerals. The minerals must have been metallic sulfides, more precisely sulfides of iron with some content of cobalt and nickel, as these 3 metals included in sulfide clusters are the catalysts for all the chemical reactions that are necessary and sufficient for sustaining the simplest forms of life.

The catalysts Fe, Co and Ni are equally important with the structural non-metals H, C, N, O and S for the origin of life. Life is impossible without both kinds of chemical elements.
As someone that went through a degree where Prolog and LP was cherisched, I would say yes, however LP might be even weirder to start into than even FP.

Many folks on our degree couldn't be happier when they didn't had to see Prolog ever again, while me and others went on to take our chances on the national LP challenge across universities.

Tarski's World was a good way back then to dive into what LP is all about, without being programming language specific.

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if it's not for my benefit then why would he conclude that it must be for the tribe? are there no other options?

all very confusing
It is about a cheat mod not being copyright infringement.

"Software sold by UK company Datel that allowed infinite boosts on a racing game doesn’t infringe EU copyright law, judges in Luxembourg said"

But anyway. The tech ecosystem would be way better off without Microsoft, Facebook, Oracle, Google etc.

These mega corps do more harm then good, buying up competition. It is probibly applicable to Apple, Nvidia, Intel too.
It's just a forum like any other and yet you're acting like it's, at least, the Devil 2.0.
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To add few more resources that are not immediately visible:

Layoff reports: https://www.thelayoff.com/digital-river

Public UK gov records filled by Digital River UK, including 51 page contract between all Digital River subsidiaries in all countries and Cerberus Business Finance Agency on 8 August: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
Mowing the lawn once a week may qualify as regular exercise, I don't know your methods or yard. Physical work counts, it doesn't need a label or tools...

I wouldn't call it strenuous but it also exceeds what I do and many peers.

My take: friggin Water reduces the severity, those who exercise are likely more hydrated. Feels like propaganda
Quite a few feeds out there use the incorrect type of text/xml, since it works slightly better in browsers by not prompting a download.

Would not surprise me if Cloudflare lumps this in with text/html protections.
Factorio is definitely good for your brain - it rewards focus, refactoring, problem solving, linear thinking... But yes, in the end, it's non-productive in any physical sense.

A weekend of watching movies/shorts feels way worse than a weekend growing the factory. It's definitely a step up, but the best would be to get out of the house more often besides going to the office.

One day at a time (recovering from a lot of past emotional pain).
The Turing machine is an artificial system constructed to be easy to reason about. The computer on my desk is most certainly not!
How would you even go about making a model that can simulate a human chess skillset (saying levels implies that chess skillset is a scalar value while it is more reasonable to think of it as a tree of skills where your abilities might be higher or lower depend ending on the specific skill branch)
see you in another year!!!11
I'm trying to decide if I prefer

- LIMP – Low-effort Implementation Makes Progress; or

- FINAL – Finish It Now, Amplify Later.

The first highlights how the point is to get somewhere, and floating around like a Brownian particle is not a good strategy for that. Setting up tiny gradients in the right direction will.

I like the second because it makes it clear that just because one finishes for now does not mean one cannot re-open the project later.
> mature and more or less done growing up.

People finish growing up?
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I'm making a new funny site (for sake of having some description, clown siting site), and one of the things that would be interesting to do is to allow people to send SMS to other people from our site - clowns sited in your area, watch out!

I'm doing the site as a static site, although I can of course add as much backend as needed.

So anyone have any links on doing something similar, because of monetary considerations I don't want to send unless I know I get paid for it.
The UN24H4500 is an LED monitor.

The big risk in old TVs was the enormous voltages in the CRTs (which acted as a capacitor and stored energy even when off, and even pick up energy from background sources)
You can't with standard PCIe, but you will be able to do it with CXL, although I don't know of any server platform that uses it yet.
I find that upgrading Postgresql is really easy.

Testing all the apps that use it, not so much.
Well, that’s basically what we have with applications, isn’t it? It’s not like we need to think about each bit-trick we rely on when making a visio in parallel of a pair programming session over whatever IDE of the day we might use.
> Factorio is an excellent tower defense game!

It really is, isn't it. You're incentivized to protect every last thing, not because of some arbitrary points system, but because they're all part of a big, interconnected system that needs to work in order to survive.

In my book, Factorio is up there at the top of best games of all time.
> for documentation purposes, integration tests are an order of magnitude more useful.

Not just documentation purposes. In almost all cases integration is better than unit tests: they cover the same code paths, they actually test observed behaviour of the app, etc.

Notable exceptions: complex calculations, library functions.

> I've found integration tests to be far more useful than unit tests. I've had experiences where I'd do a project and have really high unit test coverage, only to unveil fairly trivial bugs. The reverse hasn't happened - if I start a project with solid integration tests, I almost never encounter trivial bugs.

If I could upvote this several times, I would :)
Congrats! As a fellow entrepreneur, I know how tough but rewarding these years are.

PS: Are you in Italy?
In context, that's the baseline for all studied ie. nobody was a full on week in, week out couch potato.

The results were then ranked by amount of exercise (from the baseline to ran 10km every day (perhaps)) Vs subjective hangover severity for given alcohol per body weight dose.
Very interesting story (more context in the related wikipedia entry). Makes you wonder where we are today in terms of computing "generations".

> It seemed that logic programming was a key missing connection between knowledge engineering and parallel computer architectures

This is still missing. And both ingredients, "logic programming" and "parallel computing" are rather arcane and underdeveloped, so many decades later.

The current AI hyperventilation illustrates the impact quite nicely (algorithms and models have no connection to "ground truth", they need expensive and hard to use HPC hardware etc.)

On the other hand we had in the meantime the internet and mobile revolutions. While those are not so fundamental from a pure computing perspective, they have increased the utility of the digital domain tremendously.

It is conceivable that a fifth generation architecture is lurking somewhere in the chaotic mess that is the current technical landscape. E.g. the internet does enable a certain form of massive parallel processing on commodity hardware. And overtures toward "logic programming" are even long-time W3C standards...

But in the end we know by now painfully well that digital technology is not progressing monotonically. By its nature it gets embedded deeply into societies and thus its state reflects progress (or regression) of society as much as technical breakthroughs.
But the gigantic synthetic dataset that is used for training is created with plenty of traditional search. So it is all a bit silly but I guess cool none the less ...
I’d describe those things (along with most traditional worldviews) as failed attempts to encapsulate reality into an over simplified story. But just because they failed and had bad consequences doesn’t mean that the attempt itself is misguided or impossible. Otherwise, the alternative seems to be an endlessly growing malaise, which isn’t much of a solution either.

In fact, I think the lack of such an attempt to make a coherent story is what draws people to the over simplified ones in the first place.
Relevant to this discussion? So you believe there are 45M journalists in Europe? Seriously?
has an og paperwhite owner, i later switched to a tablet, due to the colours and performance. but if they release a new scribe using a colour eink screen, it would be an instant sell for me.

remarkable pro is well and good but its price does not justify its utility imho.
This is how autocracies are appealing, initially. You replace reality by one narrative and it all feels good, at least if you are among those favored by the choose narrative.
Sam Altman's Worldcoin Is Now World
Hopefully there will be no 3.15: https://peps.python.org/pep-2026/
For a while I had a separate version 9 cluster because of one application.

But it wasn't really a nuisance. Postgresql doesn't give a DBA much to worry about.
I mean, if you compare with what unspeakable things dog breeders have done to dogs over time, bonsai kittens don't seem that much of a stretch.
That makes sense. A small benchmark for entrants otherwise just measuring and reporting on vibes. I'm not good with non-computer stuff. I think the word is "control", but will completely admit to taking liberties
Why is Rust OpenSSL suddenly making invalid SANs?
The new Bangalore T2 terminal is designed for grand-standing and showing off, and not for passenger comfort.

Its biggest flaw is noticeable, even in the photo on the article - there’s very little seating and only large open spaces (often with lots of greenery and woodwork). The net result is that you get the same sight as every Indian railway station - passengers sitting on the floor.
Use to do SOFA without knowing about it. Then marriage came, then children and boom, collapse of the wave function.
If anything it demonstrates the limits of NN. A human brain can learn based on far fewer examples.
So trinary and quaternary digits are trits and quits?
Or just read the book:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45506
There is (mechanical/optical/*) engineering, experimental and theoretical physics, and then there is maths (focussing on physical problems). I think taking these four abstraction levels could be a model for computer science.

Now, theoretical physics is a bit of a troubled child however in recent years.

If we map computer science aspects in not the four physics disciplines, we get:

Software / hardware engineering

Applied computer science

Theoretical computer science

Mathematics dealing with problems inspired by computer science
Global Forest Fire Carbon Emissions Have Jumped 60% in 20 Years
So you get, with equal probabilities, 0+1, 0+2, 1+2, 0+4, 1+4, or 2+4 = {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Same as 2:07 in the video, but using only 1/3 of the faces. Brilliant!
Podcasts are based on RSS and a lot of people listen to podcasts.
Some AI scrapers have been proven to not report themselves as AI scrapers and mimic true users.

This is part of what’s leading to the bludgeoning approach you see with blocking. They are not an individual thjng that can be blocked.
Not if software regressions are the main concern.
NOOOOOoooooooooooOOooooooooooooo.... I was/am sober for more than a year now...
If we triangulate between Animal Farm and (the non-fast-forward bit of) 1984, we get a model in which there is no heavy censorship for the masses (in the former those who bleat 4 legs good 2 legs bad; in the latter, those who are simply ignored) but there is for any of the middle class necessary for administration (in the former, dogs and horses; in the latter, the Outer Party) who express other than total buy-in to the line* du jour.

(note how [Linebarger54] explicitly mentions en passant that very little in principle separates his subject, "psychological warfare", from either economic or peacetime political propaganda)

* taking great care to distinguish between administration of policy and policy of administration, of course!
I have checked out stats and violent crime specifically is higher in India. UK has slightly more murders. Overall, they are very comparable https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/India/Unit...
> I have been subscriber for something like 20 years now.

NewsBlur is "only" 15 years old (and GReader was there up until 11 years ago).
> Twitter is a really straightforward and proven business model

Social media is a really straightforward business model, as long as you can leverage network effects and provide something novel, but then it gets really hard to do both of those. Twitter when it started was a tenable business, but that business has since been irrevocably eroded by the competition.

> high speed rail

Uses tunnels.

> New York Subway

Uses tunnels.

Want to go through a mountain instead of around it? Tunnels.

Want to avoid a grid locked urban center? Tunnels.

Want to go under a river instead of an expensive bridge over it? Tunnels.

Of course, geology can be a problem. Sometimes it isn't the most economical option, but often it is a better option than bridges, and sometimes – as with mountains – it's the only option.

Tunnels are a straightforward and proven business model. Boring I know.
Motorola MC6809 was much faster for floating-point computations than any other 8-bit microprocessor, because it not only had 16-bit additions and shifts, but it also had 8 bit by 8 bit multiplications. No other 8-bit microprocessor had multiplication instructions.

MC6809 had a very beautiful ISA in comparison with all other 8-bit microprocessors, but it was launched too late, in 1979, when there already were the 16-bit microprocessors Intel 8086 and Motorola MC68000.

Motorola had made the mistake of developing simultaneously two incompatible instruction sets, MC6809 intended for cheap CPUs and MC68000 intended for expensive CPUs. They should have developed a single architecture, with a stripped-down version of MC68000 for cheap CPUs, like they have done later with MC68008, but only when it was too late, because the cheap version of Intel 8086, i.e. Intel 8088, had already won the IBM PC.