skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article hit different for me.. It had a weird font so at the beginning I thought it said...
"I spent the days just prior to my 80th birthday sick with shigellosis"
This is the kind of story that may say more about the story teller than the place it's about.

(I have driven in Italy as a foreigner several times without ever receiving a ticket.)
By the 5th try I was sure I nearly had it. No such luck! hehehe :)
There is a DHCP option for a captive portal URL. It isn't very well supported and nobody uses it.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7710
Articles like this are a nice reminder of just how wonderful life is in America, and just how far civilization has to fall if shit REALLY hits the fan someday. If you need a reason to be grateful in spite of mundane crap like housing costs and white collar jobs, the developing world offers some lessons in humility and gratitude.
Holy shit. There's a way to win. Awesome.

Since 1993, that's what I've been missing from my mine sweeper game. All these years I couldn't understand why I could never finish the game. Hahaha! :)
In this case, you win by flagging all the mines. That isn't how winmine worked -- you just had to uncover all non-mine spaces.
I was interested in recreating the NPC generation system used in the Watchdogs games so I coded up my own in Python. It procedurally generated first and last name, birthdate, city of residence, phone number with area and exchange codes appropriate for city of residence, social security number appropriate for birthdate, occupation and salary appropriate for that job, hobbies, and Myers Briggs personality type. It was a fun exercise but ultimately a useless project.
Ubuntu becoming (probably) most popular gateway (drug/distro) from Windows to Linux is a positive development. And you can even install Ubuntu for Windows!

I've always appreciated macOS for merging BSD with the Mac desktop and apps, and Ubuntu for Windows has similar benefits (even more so if you use docker/podman/k8s or other Linux-specific tools.)
Long Doge Challenge
> In an alternate universe the U.S. government created a corporation to run Social Security. It mandated that people participate in it. Everyone called it a pension system because that it what it is

If the U.S. then explicitly guaranteed that corporation's liabilities, sure.

> All pension systems are subject to amendment. Many pension systems have been amended over the years

No. Many state legislatures, for instance, are constitutionally prohibited from fucking with certain obligations, commonly pensions.
This game painfully reminds me of my dating attempts as a teenager.
Pretty common. I did.
Yeah, it was that way for all previous ARM processors too, for exactly that reason. Adding special cases would have increased the transistor count, for no great benefit.

The only downside was that it exposed internal details of the pipelining IIRC. In the ARM2, a read of the PC would give the current instruction's location + 8, rather than its actual location, because by the time the instruction 'took place' the PC had moved on. So if/when you change the pipelining for future processors, you either make older code break, or have to special case the current behaviour of returning +8.

Anyway, I don't like their reaction. What they mean is 'this decision makes writing an emulator more tricky' but the author decides that this makes the chip designers stupid. If the author's reaction to problems is 'the chip designers were stupid and wrong, I'll write a blog post insulting them' then the problem is with the author.
I used to be one of those kids that hated on Java for being boring, until I spent six years doing nothing but deep learning in Python and C++. I miss you, Gradle…
Agent representing Cambridge PhD in AI/ML looking for £35K UK job role
I hope Qualcomm wins and wins its countersuits too.
(That’s referenced in the opening paragraph of the main article)

I actually think that’s the perfect time to use that font.

It’s a celebration font and breakthroughs in physics should be celebrated.
> allows for a middle ground to form

The impatient and unconstrained may prefer to vote with their feet for those places where the middle ground has not yet been stomped out of existence.
Yeah that's what I was getting at with the tip of the iceberg thing.

You can of course choose a different tip for your iceberg.
I inferred too much from:

> amounts to interference in Court proceedings
Just flag and you win instantly?
In the GBA scene, people didn't actually tend to exploit the carry flag at all. If there was any anti emulation, it was usually flashcart related or cpu timing related.
> You shouldn't lose your right to vote because you don't know which office of government pays USPS mail carriers or the term length of US judges.

That isn't actually all that clear cut. I'd agree that it is probably a bad idea, but there is potential that the results would be better if voters understood the system that they were delivering instructions into.
You must realize that dementia patients aren't blank canvases and their delusions are based on the people they were before the disease struck. If you don't work on yourself before its too late, then you will be exposed by the disease. It's not difficult to understand.
It is very standard in many jurisdictions for courts to prevent either party from making public statements on a case until it is resolved. That is what is going on here.
If you verified the existence of the Higgs Boson you should be entitled to use any font your heart desires.
This is going to be quite the controversial case, whether a platform is responsible for surfacing information published by other sources. In this ongoing suit, ANI is going after editors of Wikipedia for defamation instead of the original authors. What today applies to Wikipedia, may tomorrow apply to social media platforms where users can be charged for simply sharing links.
This isn’t a political takedown request.
> sound like a religious fundamentalist

Wat.

> Civics 101 is blindly deferring to the architects of a system whereby only rich, white property owners could vote

No, it's understanding the tradeoffs systems of governments make in erecting the systems that they do.

Have you read the Federalist Papers? If not, I suggest starting there. It's more interesting than railing against the woke mind virus or corporations.

> however you rationalize it in your head, power is highly concentrated in the US

It's not consistently concentrated. And even then, it's not that concentrated. I've managed, as a rando, to get language put into multiple state and twice federal bills because I was the only person in my district who called in on a low-priority process. Nihilism in American politics is often just cover for civic laziness.
I made a calendar website where Jake Baldino (from Gameranx, a gaming YouTube channel) tells you today's date - https://whats-the-date-jake-website.pages.dev/

(It doesn't have all the dates yet, since YouTube doesn't allow uploading more than 10 videos a day if your account isn't verified)
Yes, opportunity costs are important.

Presumably the humans would be enjoying with some other activity. Eg they could be working on carbon capturing projects? Or producing electric power via pedaling, etc. I don't know.

I was purely talking about the environmental impact of this one activity.
"Who puts out a speed trap at 3 in the fucking morning?"

Cops trying to catch drunks speeding home after the bars have closed. In the south, last call was 2:45AM where I served as a freshly-turned 21 year old.
But it is (or was originally) used in lots of places, not just jump tables, generally to do relative addressing, for example when you want to refer to data nearby, e.g.

ADD r0, r15, #200

LDR r1, [r15, #-100]

etc
Sure, but the same likely applies to Oil as well right? Fossil Fuels don't magically extract and refine themselves.

What analysis do you point to that suggests fossil fuels have a smaller impact than, say, wind?
Comic sans was created due to the improper use of Times New Roman in Microsoft Bob’s speech balloons[1], but it turns out to be quite useful: the significant differences between the glyphs make it very dyslexic-friendly.

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[1] http://www.connare.com/whycomic.htm
> but i still don't think it can take a high-level requirement and convert it into a working project.

It cannot, you need to hand-hold it, as in, to make something larger than a (albeit good looking) to do app, you don't need to write code , but you do need to be able to review and debug code and take the architectural decisions. It'll simply loop forever otherwise.
I agree that it’s diverging from what was envisioned for the internet originally, so the thing doesn’t reach its technical potential.

On the other hand, I find it beautiful that network routing architecture and network security architecture naturally converged on NATs — I think because they are easier to understand for people, and more closely reflect what’s actually happening, without some hidden magic.
Nitric adds Deno 2 support
Hmm... there was a time lime 3-4 years ago where there was some slowdown (but I was on beta) but it was fixed.

Nowadays I'm on MBP M1 (so already "older-ish" machine) and it works fine. I definitely notice latency when I'm connecting to a machine with ping over ~70ms so I assume that if I don't notice any delay then latency is low (?)
Why? Subsidy is saying: you know you can only compete with China if you pay $5 an hour, so pay $10 and we will pay the rest because having a steel manufacturing industry is important to the government. Maybe the sub is based on productivity rather than wage. $ per tonne.
I don't find this argument compelling in this case, because news agencies cited by the Wikipedia article in question were not themselves subject to similar or the same lawsuit.
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By "in print" I mean, the publisher is actively selling it.

Although, if I were writing the law I would require selling DRM free ebooks for ebooks to count for maintaining the copyright.
A web app that took an uploaded image and converted it into an excel file displaying a pixelated version of the image as colored spreadsheet cells.

With a holiday greeting on top :)
You replied to none of the questions I asked.
If you are interested in variants of minesweeper, this one is awesome:

https://magnushoff.com/articles/minesweeper/

(scroll to the bottom)
It would surprise me if it was, because of features like certificate transparency logs.
> > CMake is an out-of-tree tool, which is something the project tries to avoid at all costs for portability and maintainability reasons.

> Is this relevant though?

For this project and its day-to-day maintenance, unequivocally.

One of Richard's philosophies is "freedom means being able to take care of yourself," and that philosophy permeates all of his software projects, which eschew external dependencies because every single one reduces the project's level of freedom. Every time a third-party tool breaks, or introduces new, incompatible behavior as part of an upgrade, dependents of that tool suffer[^1]. All of Richard's projects have a strong culture of avoiding that suffering by avoiding third-party dependencies where at all possible, to the point of sometimes reinventing the wheel to extreme degrees (like implementing his own SCM).

That aspect aside, nobody in the SQLite project uses CMake, so it would never occur to us to migrate the build process to it. We write our own makefiles by hand _and we like it that way_. (Sidebar: Autosetup neither writes our makefiles nor introduces new syntax for doing so, in contrast to CMake.)

> I mean, there is no wrong in just coming forward and stating that you're already using a build system in another project and you're hoping to lower maintenance costs by standardizing on a single build system that you're already using. All other arguments sound dubious at best.

This isn't about standardizing on one build process, but about simplifying the lives of the developers and future maintenance of the project. We can't do that by porting to tools we don't otherwise use. If we weren't using Autosetup in other trees, and weren't happy with it, we wouldn't have even considered undertaking this effort and facing the downstream upheaval it will undoubtedly cause. We know, however, from 13 years of experience with it, that this tool does what we want, is low friction, and causes us an amount of grief which closely approaches zero[^2]. Without our collective background with Autosetup, we wouldn't have even considered porting away from the Autotools because that would be a case of "out of the frying pan and into the oven."

[^1]: As a concrete example: the SQLite project's WASM build is 100% dependent on the Emscripten toolchain for the simple reason that there is no feasible alternative. A handful of times over the past two years we have had to accommodate incompatible changes when upgrading Emscripten. That's hassle nobody wants. Obviously, software has to evolve, but being able to embed our build tools (Autosetup) directly in the source tree gives us control over the pace of that evolution. No system-wide upgrade is going to pull it out from under us, nor will it behave differently on downstream folks' machines.

[^2]: You won't ever hear me say that _any_ software is 100% grief-free, but autosetup is as close to it as, e.g., the bash shell.
Well, that is true of any compiled language that still happens to have some of its parts written in either C or C++ instead of being fully bootstrapped.
That ain't cheaper!
I'd perhaps put ARM vs RISC-V closer to like C# vs Java (or maybe JS vs Python) - on a high level rather similar, but a majority of the specifics don't really line up (especially at the uop level requiring dumping a bunch of previous optimized cases, and adding a bunch of new ones).
Crazy how the money printer only works on some projects.
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Have you tried any others? From what I have tried Gemini makes the most mistakes out of all.
Before anyone reads too much into this, here's what an Anthropic staff said on Discord:

> i don't write the docs, no clue

> afaik opus plan same as its ever been
Hey, I'm the author, sorry it came off that way, I was really just poking fun. I should've definitely phrased that better!

But no, I really think that making the program counter a GPR isn't a good design decision - there's pretty good reasons why no modern arches do things that way anymore. I admittedly was originally in the same boat when I first heard of ARMv4T - I thought putting the PC as a GPR was quite clean, but I soon realized it just wastes instruction space, makes branch prediction slightly more complex, decrease the number of available registers (increasing register pressure), all while providing marginal benefit to the programmer
One Bad Day
But this is the government failing! What's more, privatizing it to buddies with uncompetitive corrupt bidding processes and terrible contracts would also be government failure.
>If you guessed California, you'd be right.

No I wouldn't.

California's poverty rate is lower than Arkansas', and California's literacy rate is higher five other states' (practically tied with Arkansas).

https://data.ers.usda.gov/reports.aspx?ID=17826#P675e89693a5...

https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/skillsmap/src/PDF/STATE.pd...

Also, I'm in California right now for work.

It suuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Places with billboards aren't my vibe and when every other one is an ad for a personal injury or drunk driving attorney the place is DEFINITELY not for me.

Still not as bad as Arkansas, though.
It seems like an explicitly political takedown request to me, based on what I have read and what others who study such things also say. Can you find some sources that share your view, or can you elaborate why you think that this is not a case of censorship and extraterritorial overreach by the Indian court?
The Factorio (1) website has something like that - scroll down to the bottom and click on the rocket ship.

1: https://factorio.com/
In 1985 I had fun implementing Tower of Hanoi on a Tektronix 4115 using Fortran. With recursion, even!

What a wonderful waste of government hardware.
> Perhaps on the IPv6 internet, you would be able to buy a USB stick that handles all your emails for you.

You are too optimistic. Poeple can't be bothered to migrate off the google to some alternative provider (also free) and you expect them to buy a "usb stick" for local (mail) server? And then have to keep their machines up all the time and also connected constantly? (not everyone lives in the USA and have FTTH)...

I already mentioned that Opera tried something like "personal pod" 15-20 years ago and it flopped...

> No more centralised mail, you just have a small server in your house that does it for you. The same of social media, etc.

"social media" case seems interesting but again - we had mastodon for distributed social media and it's adoption is lukewarm... and now we have bluesky, which is also distributed and anyone host it and whatnot and it's userbase skyrocketed... and everyone use single instance.

All in all - people don't care about it, they want convenience and nothing else...
Optimizers need a rethink
Assuming that that is indeed what most of the benchmark does: If the LLMs are as bad as it as the numbers suggest, then it seems like a perfectly good benchmark. I would definitely want them to be able to do stuff like that when I let them write my code.
Ah I miscommunicated, I still think PC can and should be used in places like the operand of an LDR / ADD. It's using it as the output of certain instructions (and allowing it to be used as such) that I take issue with. ARMv4T allowed you to set PC as the output of basically any instruction, allowing you to create cursed instructions like this lol:

eor pc, pc, pc
I don’t think the iPad was ignored. Otherwise they wouldn’t have introduced the iPad Pro with an SoC that was newer than any other Apple product and with a screen that none of the competitors are using.

iPadOS does feel like it’s missing a lot of love. I can’t fathom why stage manager doesn’t have a way to show all the apps that are open at the same time. I’ve had to drag apps to the side to get to the one that is underneath. Not to speak of how hard it is to use an iPad for dev work. I don’t want to have to remote into a server and use a terminal and learn vim. I’ve tried VSCode hosted on GitHub through Safari and it’s absolutely terrible.
> Apple did not help them design the CPU/Architecture

I believe they had a big hand in ARM64. Though best reference I can find right now is this very site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31368489
The data for physical sales definitely show that prompting customers for a review increases the amount of positive reviews you get. It’s basically what rating sites like Trustpilot sells, along with a removal of all those “unrelated you bugged me so you get a 1” reviews, because those sites tend to be a little shady.

This is just a guess, but I’m not sure getting an e-mail asking for a rating a few days after a purchase is really as “get out of my face” inducing as the App pop ups. When I open an app to buy a ticket for public transportation, that is usually while I’m actively boarding the train/bus (because why would I do this in a timely manner?). That is the least likely moment I’ll respond well to review requests. I don’t think I’ve ever been tempted to leave a bad review over one of those emails, but I’m very often tempted to do so by app pop ups. If I’m not the only one then maybe the data would be interesting?

That being said. Unless the 1 star ragers spend time on their review it’s typically rather easy to challenge by the app creator at least in the Apple Store.
> The data remains standard JSON and so standard JSON parsers wouldn’t be affected (...)

No, not really.

The blog post talks about storing JSON data in a column-oriented database.

The blog post talks about importing data from JSON docs into their database. Prior to this, they stored JSON documents in their database like any standard off-the-shelf database does. Now they parse the JSON document when importing, and they store those values in their column-oriented database as key-value pairs, and preserve type information.

The silly part is that this all sounds like a intern project who was tasked with adding support to import data stored in JSON files into a column-oriented database, and an exporter along with it. But no, it seems an ETL job now counts as inventing JSON.
There is public funding of elections in the U.S. You can even check a box on your tax return to have part of your tax go toward funding elections. (This affects where $3 of the tax associated with you is budgeted by the federal government; it doesn't affect your tax liability/refund.)

According to the IRS, fewer than 4% of people check this box.
I see similar behaviour with pineapple on pizza, as well as nano. Easy targets make for almost pavlovian responses.
Are they talking about docker images? What's a hermetic usr? Not answered in the article.
It BSODs!
> "political" takedown requests (I'm using this broadly to include anything between blasphemy/lese majeste laws and defamation/right to be forgotten laws, as opposed to something like DMCA requests)

Emphasis mine
Row polymorphism is excellent. I was intro'd to it in Purescript, but I would like to say that Typescript gives you some things that rhyme with it through its combinations of records at the type level.

Highly recommend people mess around with Purescript, you can feel how much pressure is relieved thanks to the row polymorphism tooling almost instantly. Truly, all we wanted as an industry is an easy way to bundle together various tags into our types, and row polymorphism gets you there.

I think row polymorphism is a fairly straightforward thing compared to dependent types in general, but can let you crush a whole class of errors and pay almost nothing in terms of expression costs.
Forget FC '25: this is the football game I really want!

Good stuff, solcloud. Keep following your heart.
> The experienced engineers will be so busy training the AI that they won’t be helping the juniors level up.

Another tap for the Big Guys to keep extracting more and more wealth from everyone else.
I tried once to integrate with software used by pharmacists in Australia (which costs a fortune and looks straight out of the 90's). Even though they have a SQL database with all information about everything, the DB is encrypted and they provide no way to access it. I tried contacting the company to learn how I could integrate with it but they offered no help. It's not in their interest to help upcoming competitors and they claim they cannot provide the encryption key as that's for protecting the customer's privacy, forgetting that the pharmacists already have access to all data through their software. But without a way to automatically extract information from the DB, there's no way to migrate to new software as no pharmacist would want to use new software if it cannot "import" the data they need.

It's clear that the reason there's no competition in the market is that the companies (I think it's literally one company) selling this software want it that way, and legislation is yet to catch up with the way they ensure their monopoloy.
Moving to a whole new architecture is really really hard, no? The operating systems and applications all need to be ported. Just because Qualcomm cannot be friends with arm, every single Qualcomm customer from google to some custom device manufacturer needs to invest years and millions to move to a new architecture? Unless I am fundamentally misunderstanding this, it seems like something they won’t be able to achieve.
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