skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“Stage this hunk!”

(As a gay man, I appreciate an extended and detailed discussion of hunks finally appearing on HN.)
68k claimed to be 32-bit CPU, so it have 8 32-bit registers. Compare it with 16-bit CPU is just apples vs carrots.
Constrained Traversal in Prolog
Check out the podcast Strict Scrutiny for good coverage of what SCOTUS is up to on a weekly basis: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/strict-scrutiny/

It’s hosted by three con law professors, but they’re all extremely adept at avoiding jargon and explaining how the cases tie back to everyday life.
> the system is too big to make systematic changes

This seems like a flawed argument to me that if applied would see technology stagnating. The reason it’s flawed is the assumption that the system is at a fixed max size. However, if it’s growing quickly, you can always come up with new systemic ways of doing things that are divorced from the past and over time most of the things are done the new way. You can even refactor/replace the old stuff over time. Law isn’t quite like code which is where this analogy breaks down a bit but something to think about.
The trades cover a wide range of fields, from car mechanics to people using CNC machines to roofers.

Is the roofer going to suffer a lot later in life? Yes. Is the CNC operator going to have problems down the line? Probably not.

> The ones making decent money are those who are self-employed (basically effectively consultants) and those in unions with a monopoly (like the longshoremen).

Most office workers outside of tech are not doing so great either in regards to pay. Customer service roles are even worse.
Yes, we've taken the linkbait 'you' out of the title now, and replaced it with a representative phrase from the article body.
NPE - New Product Engineering perhaps (the opposite of CPE)?
> Could explain the timid attitude of the US and the mixed messaging

The US has given Ukraine over 80 billion US Dollars, I believe. It also applied every possible sanction it could on Russia, to the point there's nearly nothing left to sanction, from what I have read on the topic. Biden has also been about as clear about the US being on Ukraine's side, for as long as it takes, as he could've been without declaring full on war on Russia.

Do you really believe that's a "timid attitude"? The way I see it, the only way for the US to do more is to send troops on the ground, which amounts to full on war with Russia and the prospect of nuclear retaliation.
Cows?
They can already perform accurate strikes without GPS with terrain following and INS so not sure this would actually help it that much.
If you were actually editing a patch file, that would be a concern; but in Git, you only edit one hunk at a time, so all’s fine as long as you don‘t mess up the context lines—Git will ignore the source and destination line numbers and counts that your editing has likely rendered incorrect. (An easy way to mess up the context lines is to have your editor strip trailing whitespace on save, as the unified diff syntax for an empty context line is a single space. If anybody asks, in no way did this cause me to be puzzled for literal weeks by hunk edits failing seemingly at random.)
Inscrutability to whom? I'm confident someone with 10 years of production Haskell experience will do a better job of reading production Haskell code than a comparable situation with C.

But then again, maybe that was what you were saying.
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Just switch to EVs for transportation and it will be hard for the oil industry to keep going. Many wells will be closed despite being potentially productive just because there isn't enough demand to keep them maintained. Prices are likely to go up for plastics if there isn't much demand for oil as fuel just to keep all the oil stuff maintained - much of which is too big for their needs so the industry faces shutting down working refineries and building new smaller ones or operating the current ones at low capacity. And of course the plastics industry is also interested in going green, so if this isn't too much more expensive than oil based plastic they will switch anyway.

The question is how cheap can we do this process and how fast can we get transportation off of oil.
Thanks, Zeke!

>I was surprised you didn't touch on taxes. In the past, the main thing that kept me from selling any business was taxes -- I'd make more if I just kept it running over n years in maintenance mode. After all is said and done, a boostrapped seller seems to get significantly less than sticker price, especially after income and capital gains tax, since LLCs don't qualify for QSBS. How did you navigate that?

I haven't filed 2024 taxes yet, so I don't know the final result, but my accountant expects that taxes on the sale will be low or zero.

Most of TinyPilot's software development expenses were from developers who live overseas, so there was a huge amount of accrued R&D expenses that I wasn't allowed to claim as an expense in the year it happened because of Section 174.[0]

I thought I'd have to wait for those expenses to amortize over the next 15 years, but the surprise from my accountant was that I can realize those expenses fully in 2024 as part of shutting down the company (that is, my LLC, which is mostly asset-less after the sale). So, hopefully that's what it looks like when I file next year.

>Did your final take home amount meet your expectations?

Yeah, I was happy with the price.

When I started the process, I told friends I'd be happy with $600k, okay with $500k, and I'd probably begrudgingly sell for as little as $300k if it was between that and juggling the business with being a new father. So, landing on $600k felt pretty good.

I expected to lose about 20% in closing costs between legal and broker fees, so that was about what I expected.

>Anything you would optimize for future exits?

In terms of taxes, I can't think of anything. Because of Section 174, I'd hire for every other role before I hire developers and do the dev work myself until then because the tax treatment is so bad now relative to other roles, but that's not really a closing thing.

[0] https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
They've given "targets" and deadlines before and failed to meet them. I would take whatever they say with a large portion of salt.
You say like you never looked at any Perl Golf solution.
> A cheap pathway to ethylene from captured CO2 and water would be huge.

Is it considered cheap if the marginal cost of a PV MWh is close to zero ?
Ooh, this is something boring few people know about! There have been many efforts across the US government to simplify the language used in documents. Nixon, Clinton, and Obama all worked on this. Obama actually got a group organized around this, and there are now progress reports available on how the US is doing: https://www.doi.gov/plainlanguage

And a dedicated website for it, with examples useful for many: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/

Check out this Clinton era "No Gobbledygook Award" recipient: https://www.plainlanguage.gov/examples/awards/award-11/
> I've never had issues with Google pushing videos too much in search results. You have an initial "videos" results block I just scroll past by, and that's that.

The issue is that some large portion of people don't do that, they watch the video because it's listed first. Which drops the readership of the later-featured blogs below the threshold where the author keeps making them.
Bad governments have a consistent internal logic, and operate at a local maxima. In some sense, they are "doing the best they can", and practically, most forms of resistance damage the social order without improvement.
> Give people the option to choose between 2-3 sanctioned models

It quickly grows past the 2-3 sanctioned models. Everyone wants something not on the list, lots of bickering of "why was that model chosen?", etc. Well that pre-approved model is $150, this is only $175. Bob got that $175 model, this is only $200, it's not that much. Jenny got that $200 model, this is only $250. Jenny's got a $250 keyboard? I gotta upgrade, here's this $300 model... Wait did the company just buy Bill a 55" 4K display? I need that too...

Suddenly your $150/person budget has exploded to replace everyone's equipment for $1,000+ otherwise it's just not fair someone else got more.

Personally I'm fine with me buying and owning my own kb+m. Maybe give a once a year or two office hardware stipend or whatever. Then otherwise make basic stuff available for free. If you're wanting a $200 keyboard you're probably wanting a particular $200 keyboard, and it's probably not one of those 2-3 approved models.
Nice idea and something I would have otherwise liked to have tried out (I actually have two pairs of DK bongos) but its Windows only and it seems to be closed source. I searched high and low but I couldn't find a link to the source code or even the software licence. :(
This does not line up with the implementation. You may want to ask in DotNetEvolution or dotnet/runtime discussions as there you can get a definitive answer why something didn't work - most of the time it is best to avoid such assumptions.

Open generics simply propagate type parameters down - T: class produce shared method bodies, as they do with the JIT with the type being passed implicitly. For T: struct the corresponding code is fully monomorphized. This is not related to JIT at all where the main distinction with NativeAOT is when compilation happens.

All generic scenarios are supported. Unbound un-analyzable reflection as well as anything that requires JIT like assembly loading or reflection emit - this doesn't work for obvious reasons.
How can a platform owned by a far-right man with a clear political agenda be the place for "political balance"?

It's inevitable that left-leaning people will increasingly leave Twitter, as long as it is run by Musk
Towards standards for handwritten zero and oh: much ado about nothing (and a let
So your solution to solving one tiny flaw with the GP's otherwise-working setup is to... throw away their monitor, keyboard, and mouse, and spend lots of money (many times more money than an RPi-with-a-hat costs) to replace them?

All because you're offended by the complexity of... what?

• The idea of a device that acts as a stable host for Bluetooth devices, while presenting as a wired USB hub to an upstream USB host controller?

• The particular implementation here, which is a hacky proof-of-concept of the idea (and which could, in practice, be reduced to a single chip embedded into any USB-C-dock product if there was demand)?

• The entire concept of Bluetooth?

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Also, I would like to point out that, given that this is HN, it's more than even odds that the GP:

• likely has multiple monitors (so using a monitor with a built-in hub is likely untenable);

• and also, that their laptops are probably Macbooks, and their mouse and keyboard are therefore very likely a Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad [for which there is no 1:1 substitute that does non-Bluetooth wireless while still having the same level of macOS support/integration];

• and that, given what they've said, they're likely already using a Thunderbolt hub to talk to those multiple monitors + all their USB devices through "one cable" (and all they really want is to add one more USB connection to this dock to make it act like a "Bluetooth dock" too);

• and that they likely have a big deep sit-stand desk, that they'd be cluttering/making it hard to put things on the 90% of the free "middle space" on, if they had to run actual wires from the keyboard and mouse over to the dock.
I get the desire to computerize it. Think of all the automation that can be done! Automatic shopping lists! Unit conversions! Scale up or down! Not to mention having a good think about how to organize things appeals to the data-driven mind.

But I find cooking to be resistant to this sort of thing, at least if you have a family. Meal planning is more of a negotiation than a tallying of numbers. You tend to cluster around a few, well-honed recipes that are repeated often. And when you're cooking, having a piece of paper or an index card attached to the vent hood or whatever with a magnet is far more user friendly than having to wake up a tablet or a phone.

(Not to mention passing recipes down through the generations. It's not the same to bequeath the recipes to your grandchildren by saying "give me a ssh key and I'll rsync these MySQL tables to your VPS".)
I completely agree that Firefox went overboard and are one of the villains now, btw.
Can you elaborate? In the U.S. you place an order and are quoted a price which you pay (typically with a credit card) before your order is sent for delivery. Receiving a call from the delivery driver about paying in cash would feel like an extra fee. In the situation you describe is no payment made in advance?
As someone who has taught in formal and informal settings, the promise of EdTech was amazing, but the delivery has not really been that good.

To me, a lot of the companies in the space seem to be more concerned with how to maximize dollars sent to them and not as much about how things are improving or better with technology. Tech should be a tool to help the learning, it doesn't have to be each and every part, and I feel like the ultimate goal of at least some of the companies was to create an all-in-one solution for every problem.
Getting seriously involved in changing someone else's life will incur major loss to your own. I'm speaking from several rounds of experience.
It's not to be taken lightly and it's not an automatic moral duty. I would strongly argue that your duty is to make a full bodied effort to convince their family that their own is in mortal immediate crisis. If they don't respond to that after it's clearly and emphatically communicate then it's on them. Sadly your friend is almost certainly not going to seek out professional help unless someone intimately intervenes.
> I feel like there was some underlying sociological issue there where Thais thought of maps in terms only really of landmarks

This is such an interesting comment, I'm curious of your age. I grew up and learned to drive before smart phones existed and landmark based directions were extremely common. Directions like this were expected, moreso than street name based directions. "Take a left at the 3rd light after the freeway, then a right after 7-11, and it is the 5th house on the left with the blue door and red Truck in the driveway".

What is interesting is that these drivers are still using this older method.
The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development
There have been a lot of good antitrust action recently and in the past.

But this particular decision didn’t make sense from the beginning. There are 3 major airlines in the U.S. already (4 if you include Southwest). Those guys are also too big to fail.

Everyone else is competing against them in a highly uneven playing field. You need to let the remaining players act in ways that make sense. Even if they consolidate down to a 4th big player that’s not a bad thing.

That’s because of the additional peculiarities of the airline industry. There’s always investors willing to go into it for some reason. But more importantly, you are completely dependent on airplan manufacturers which is a highly monopolized backlogged industry that rewards bigger players.
Not exactly. I was saying Twitter should be the product, X should be the platform. The current situation would be as if Google renamed Youtube to Google
> Nobody was right. But a lot of folks were wrong, some more than others. It's a black eye for direct-democratic shareholder rights: the board made the better call.

Echoes my opinion on Elon Musk's Twitter takeover: we would be better off if the SEC had not done its job and ensured the promised purchase went through.
LOL, this works well. I used to do exactly this manually every year to maximize free time blocks for pursuing pet projects.
Bravo. Great use of GPT.
Could you also add factoring in sick days per year (mon/fri)?
True Power Lies Elsewhere
Is this a big deal? I'm a layman here so this seems like a needed product but I have a feeling I'm missing something.
Clearly but maybe the thing that makes your product crash less makes it take longer to reboot.

Also the story isn't that they couldn't just that they were measuring the actual failure rate not the effective failure rate because the device could recover faster than the failure caused actual issues.
Optimizing Rubisco and its regulation for greater resource use efficiency (2014)
He tried that. The phone knows its location using GPS and wifi. Apple doesn't care about your IP
I started programming when I was 8. Certainly not to the point where I would understand Carmack's reverse and buffer shadows but there are people much smarter than me and information has never been more available than it is today so I don't think its completely implausible.
There is lot of talk here about imaging, but it takes lot of work to turn bunch of random images into useful map. How are they doing that part?
I never understood classic parties. It always seems to me that people end up having fun in spite of the context usually with looseness driven by alcohol.

By contrast if you just go do something you enjoy then you already have a commonality and even if you find the company boring, you're there to do something you like.

So - chess or sports, watching something (sport, plays, whatever), charity work, interest clubs (you can find local clubs for just about every interest online), events like local music / poetry/performance stuff, art shows, and all so on endlessly.

The ones that are inherently group based like chess or clubs guarantee interaction without the awkwardness of socializing with less 'context.'
We need massive amounts of medium-term seasonal (3-6 months) stable energy storage, and liquid synthetic hydrocarbons are not a bad solution. Low efficiency isn’t a dealbreaker when the inputs are free.
This way, you could keep pagination intact and only retrieve individual pages or sections on demand.
68000 had sixteen 32-bit registers, but no 32-bit ALUs; it used 3 16-bit ALUs instead. This has been rectified in 68020 which had fully 32-bit ALU.

And Western Electric 32000, a CISC processor from the same period, also had 16 32-bit registers.
I can understand that, but I don't know if legal texts would be more explicit given simpler language. You can bake ambiguity into any text you want. "Simple english" will naturally just have less words than legalese, since that's the thing people find so daunting about it. Doesn't that mean that either A) words will have multiple overlapping meanings or B) entire phrases will have to be used to explain what is normally 1 word? Either case leaves a lot of room for "offensive lawyering".

Defined legal terms is just what we have now, but starting over.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42081874 - Nov 2024 (282 comments)
So I guess it is simply too slow, or alternatively, we would all be busy in that business and not do anything else any longer?
By that metric, Delta is the worst. American and Southwest are much better.
I agree, but for some reason the marking with color stripes or points appears to have gone out of fashion.

Perhaps the colored marking was more expensive or the marking equipment was slower than what is used now.
Why are they called regular expressions if they can parse non-regular languages?
> I don't have anything against furries

If so, you're probably looking for the "show less of this" feature rather than muting?
Eventually, yes?

Everywhere I’ve ever worked has treated sprints as an endless series of 2 week deadlines.

(Yes, I understand this is not “real” agile. I’ve never seen “real” agile and don’t personally know anyone who has.)
many Bluetooth USB dongles have NVRAM, you can write the link key for a device (eg the keyboard or mouse) into the NVRAM and then when connecting, the dongle doesn't ask the Host computer for the key. I have used this to dual boot with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse in the past.

I think the technique would be: pair in machine A (A has a link key). Then, pair again in machine B with the same dongle. Write that key into NVRAM, and machine A considers the device paired but it never gets asked for the key so just works if you plug the dongle into either machine. I don't know how the monitor thing works, does it act as a USB hub? I guess you can just leave the Bluetooth dongle plugged in there..
Link to the paper in the README is broken. I believe this is the correct link to the referenced paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07231
What happens when your machine dies? You get paged, your service is down, you have to migrate the services to a new machine.

With Kubernetes, it starts new container on new machine, and you don't get paged.

You could write scripts to do failover, but that takes works and will be buggy.
Well, sure, specific cases are different. But, FWIW, I did it with regular conference calls.

Infants aren't much of a distraction IMO. My cats were more distracting, at least until the baby got mobile. That stage is certainly more challenging.
Meta to introduce ads on Threads in early 2025, the Information reports
Isn't this going to play out exactly like it did in Canada and Facebook where Facebook doesn't link to Canadian news sources and everyone is annoyed?

I always saw social media as an effective distribution mechanism for media. If your content is disposable or replaceable, so you're not benefitting from the traffic, that seems like an issue with the publication, not the social media platform.

X already offers compensation for accounts with a lot of engagement, which was something that was not offered until recently. So I'm not sure why newspapers can't benefit from that, and it would be on the same playing field as everyone else. But my guess is they want a special deal where there's none to be made, which will lead to X just blocking the content.

On a related note, it would be good if we had a word for a 'cookie banner' type result, which could be defined as an unanticipated result that's objectively worse for everyone involved.
He has published the link himself
A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
Yep, it's nice to use marker types for this kind of thing.
Related. Others?

Threat actor attempted to slipstream a malware payload into yt-dlp's GitHub repo - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42121969 - Nov 2024 (5 comments)
Do you think citizens of India experience no problems as a consequence of this, or is it just too exciting to be sarcastic on the internet?

Oh, wait, it must be the latter, because finding problems with India's government ID scheme takes five seconds: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/21/n...
That sounds like a lot of it ends bound to, and thus comes up with, the oil/crude.