skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mac equivalent that I loved was MacBASIC, which was a very elegant BASIC that was structured-programming only – i.e. full procedures and functions with arguments and control structures, no line number and all caps, GOTO based control, etc. Although it came out of Apple it circulated as samizdat for a while among hobbyists and universities.

The history is sad: unfortunately MS bought it out from Apple and killed it so that their (inferior language-wise) MS Basic could rule the roost.
Sounds about the same as the UK ... but that is a median 1 bed flat in London.
I think GW-BASIC is a better introduction to programming than Python. Its limited power is an advantage for teaching and learning. Python is a much better language for solving real-world problems, but the student doesn't always understand what's actually happening in many cases.
tl;dr when normal people start using things, it becomes noramlised!
So where do you draw the line? Maybe it even needs to be included in the post submission title? It's just ridiculous. Anyone thinking this is a problem needs to get their priorities straight.
"Context Not Control" – Ant Murphy
They forgot about smartphones. They all look the same too.

Samsung Flip phones are one of the few exceptions.

Oh and many websites and apps have a similar design as well.
> do regular people not know that Microsoft is so bad at security and self awareness that they literally can't do something like protect users from their own products?

Some people don't know, some are paid to not know. /s
No, she's claiming that most of those stories were made up by a third guy with Daddy issues (if you want to be reductive)
Interesting video. It seems like they imagined some sort of pair programming but with the boss sitting behind you.

I wonder if it failed it practice due to no boss having the patience of watching a programmer slowly writing out a program. Like, the video reminds me more of scifi computer interaction than actual programming. The boss voice sounds like the robot cops when beating the protagonist in TXH123 or whatever it is called.
> The reason you’ve done this is that you’re very familiar with the design. Visitors are not—you’ve forgotten what it’s like to see it for the first time.

Maybe part of the problem. I suspect that is not the whole reason. I think they are not happy (consciously or unconsciously) with the appearance of the pump and/or don't consider it part of the product. And that is why they are excluding it from the images. Sometimes literally photoshopping it out.
Classic "penny wise, pound fooling" crap. We could probably be a hundred or more years ahead of where we are if we stopped sabotaging ourselves like this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger
The article mentions cafés and restaurants looking the same, but a more significant change in my opinion is that regional recipes are disappearing and all food is beginning to taste the same.

I've seen this gradually happening in the towns in Spain where I've visited my family since a child: for instance in Bilbao the traditional pintxos/tapas are gradually becoming erased and substituted with a more 'international' style of elaborate mayonnaise combos that are photogenic for spread on social media.
And in a weekly newsletter I get about Spanish culture this was the latest topic: specifically how traditional Mallorcan restaurants are disappearing and being replaced by more generic 'Spanish' tourist-pleasers.

As I've seen this happen in pretty much every city I've visited over the last decade (including Stockholm where I live now), I imagine it's a generalized phenomenon that will be hard or impossible to reverse.
I think people sometimes treat natural selection as making cold cost/benefit kin-selection decisions on a case by case basis and mind controlling the creatures to make those choices. I am straw manning, but my point is it doesn't work that way. It develops predispositions and behaviours. How those predispositions and behaviours play out is the choice of the individual creature (including the case when the creature is human).
Contextual Bandits as Supervised Learning
> Had to look it up but apparently rexx was first released in 1979

REXX was designed as successor to two earlier, more cumbersome scripting languages for the IBM VM/CMS operating system, EXEC and its successor EXEC 2. So arguing REXX is the “first” scripting language requires ignoring REXX’s direct ancestors
First grid-based design for interactive music recommendation. Navigate together
It has now been over a year since I’ve tried to share this document with Spotify, Deezer, or SoundCloud. So, if they don’t want it, I’m open-sourcing it!

This music recommendation design came from a simple observation: No platform offers real interaction with its users to personalize the suggested playlists.
Either the selection relies on an "intelligent" random mix, an initial track, or at most, a button to indicate that we don’t like the suggested content. Each time, no dynamic suggestions are made.

The concept is based on a 3x3 grid. The most practical way to understand it is to watch this 11-second video:
https://gitlab.com/Louis-max/musicalgrid/-/blob/main/preview.mp4

With every click, the grid shifts, revealing new sectors that are necessarily discovered and can adapt to our most recent interaction.
To put it simply: You can now navigate a 2D musical space!

Do you see what that implied ?

- At any moment, YOU can choose the direction of your listening experience.
- Playlists are now paths, branches, with ramifications, and cycles.
- As we move, could we possibly cross paths with other people?
Imagine encountering a friend during your listening session or a complete stranger from your city sharing your musical tastes.
People can now form radio groups, vote via the grid for the next track and hope for your song to be shared amongst others, or just let yourself be carried by the flow.

If you want to create the future of social music networks, contact me via email. I am available for a 4-month software engineering internship starting in March.
You can find a full report on the gitlab https://gitlab.com/Louis-max/musicalgrid

Here is my hidden proton email for HN scrapper: louismax.sinuous006@passinbox.com

Navigate Your Playlist: A Grid-Based Revolution in Interactive Music Recommendation
I haven't invested time watching all of the trials or following this as closely as some. It is strange that for all of the demonization of AJ, there aren't any compelling clips of him inciting his viewers or specifically mentioning the names of the family members.

Given how aggressive the partisan media is, you'd think they would have an established set of incriminating soundbites. When I did look into it deeper, I found that the case was decided by a default decision. Maybe there are reasons for these legal technicalities. I can appreciate that.

If the standard for the discussion is, "AJ was found guilty in court", then we should be clear that this doesn't mean he was found guilty in the substance of the case. Posters here should consider that before going off the deep end in demonizing AJ. HN is a site where discussions routinely involve citing sources. Yet, this part is assumed.

An unprecedented 1.5B in judgement, some of which goes to an FBI agent who worked on the case? Specifically on that point, there are compelling reasons why libel laws apply differently or not at all to government officials. Mainly this revolves around the threat of censoring regime critics. See also: lese-majesty.

Then we find that the plaintiffs' lawyers are explicitly a political group, "The Everytown Group For Gun Control", funded by Michael Bloomberg. Lawyers have claimed that they don't actually want to collect the damages for their client, rather that they have an ulterior motive in shutting down InfoWars. It isn't unreasonable to view this as a war of political factions.

The drama is on-going, but now it is viewed within the context of partisan lawfare against a former and now elected president.

None of these observations are inexplicable, but taken all-together, they fail the smell test for this poster.
B.s. parent literally gave an example of someone that got access to MAID a week after their doc visit. I’ve changed my mind on things after a month. Not saying MAID is bad or should be banned. I’m saying people will 100 percent abuse the system. My concern is healthcare system practiioners. I am dealing with a ton of people whose job it is to press our family into a decision we don’t want to make. This includes an md, a social worker and a care coordinator. Canadas health care for old people and folks with dementia is a disgrace. Maid should not have to be the only option with dignity.
I used to work for a company that wanted zero downtime through Erlang's hot code reload feature. While it absolutely works, it requires immense effort and extra code to handle state upgrades and downgrades.
This is a non starter for every company I work with as a B2B SaaS dealing with sensitive documents. This policy doesn’t make any sense. OpenAI is guilty of the same. Just freaking turn this off for business customers. They’re leaving money on the table by effectively removing themselves from a huge chunk of the market that can’t agree to this single clause.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC Recall is opt-in and keeps data on-device, and doesn't share it with any other systems or parties.

Did you read Microsoft's privacy policy ? "Your privacy is _very important_ _for us_" ( emphasis mine) /s
I use sdkman so I know how easy it can be.
So THAT'S how you exit it!

I never did figure it out.
Meta AI Video Seal — Open and Efficient Video Watermarking
Can you set grind size for filter machine? Hard to tell from the website

Otherwise impressive work.
This is usually explained by kin selection, which is different from group selection. I'm not an expert on either though.
> Interesting video. It seems like they imagined some sort of pair programming but with the boss sitting behind you.

I definitely cannot imagine a more wonderful vision of going about my day job as a programmer :-D
Bit of an own goal not putting this on huggingface. It’s just going to get drowned out because nobody can be arsed to figure out how to download it from whatever their azure platform is and doubly so since initial impressions seem mixed
I mean, personally I don’t use our magical robot overlords.
> do you also believe Microsoft is stealing any or all of the files stored on Windows devices belonging to billions of personal and business users?

OneDrive ? /s

(trust us, it is secure)
> Any paid template from any of the big website building companies would be better than what you have at the moment.

This is a Squarespace site. See: the favicon.
As an aside, it's pleasant to see how the projects like Shepherd that fit in the umbrella Guix project are approximating the original idea of a GNU OS based on a *nix with innovations thrown in.
I don't know Spanish scrabble, but I have played Finnish scrabbe - another language that relies heavily on conjugation - and it disallows all conjugated and declined forms of words, except for nominative plurals.
Nice! Small nitpick, as a Dutchie: we changed the shape of our country quite a bit over time by reclaiming sea. The map of the area now occupied by The Netherlands was very different two thousand years ago from what your site shows.

(And this had geopolitical consequences, e.g., the invading Spanish could not cross some of the bodies of water present in the sixteen hundreds that are not there now.)
They suck air just fine even without the turbocharger.
These horrible scroll animated css pages are the bane of all products. Just create a video next time.
A miserable pile of secrets.
It is hard to believe that no other transformer has used opposite directions in the past. It is such a big oversight.
I have found Mr. Mobile (Michael Fisher) to be quite good. He does some sort of a road trip or excursion as a real world tech review and also covers a lot of old and quirky hardware.
It's just more straightforward and robust that way, because you won't be exploiting anything but using a product as the (ROM chip)manufacturer intended. Software's come too complicated these days.
So why not fire 3 of your colleges and have another whos new job is watching over/checking in on you and by your own account productivity would be about the same. Save your company some money it will be appreciated!

On an unrelated note, I believe people need to start quantifying their outrageous ai productivity claims or shut up.
Per each electron provided in the circuit, the mass of aluminum is 9/7 of lithium and the maximum voltage is around 93% of that of lithium, which results in an energy per mass for aluminum of around 73% of that of lithium, when only the mass of the metal is considered.

In an aluminum-air battery vs. a lithium-air battery, the mass per electron is, in the most favorable case for lithium, of 17 for aluminum vs. 15 for lithium, which results in an energy per mass for aluminum of around 82% of that of lithium. However lithium forms by oxidation not only Li2O, but also peroxide Li2O2 and superoxide LiO2, which may worsen a lot the energy per mass.

In the parent article, they have succeeded to produce mostly Li2O, but even so their batteries have still produced some amounts of peroxide and superoxide during deep discharges.

So the energy per mass for aluminum-air batteries could be up to 80% to 85% of that of lithium-air batteries.

Most other oxidants besides the oxygen from air are heavier, which would reduce the advantage of lithium vs. aluminum (because the oxidant mass would be a greater fraction of the battery mass), so aluminum-ion batteries, if possible, could have an energy per mass very close to that of lithium-ion batteries.

On the other hand, aluminum metal and aluminum oxides are much denser than lithium metal and lithium oxides, so aluminum batteries could have much better energy per volume than lithium batteries. Unfortunately, until now the problems caused by aluminum as a cathode material have not been solved.
Their review of the card was perfectly fine
Oh no!

Now what will every near future executive, analyst, detective, spy, or content creator in "cool" TV series (that isn't using a Macbook) use on their desk?

// And let's not even touch on (ahem) tablets:

https://9to5mac.com/2014/11/05/microsoft-surface-cnn/
IIRC one of the original aims of the series was to teach children about important historical events by wrapping them up in a Sci-Fi-time-travel-gothic-horror story. Which is then particularly ironic given that the original airing was postponed due to the Kennedy assassination. I particularly loved the story where the Doctor accidentally started the Great Fire of London, for example, and people have hailed the Marco Polo story as an example but I was too young and/or not yet born when that came out… sorry I’m not going to go and fact check any of the above claims right now, unfortunately as a grown up I have to resist the temptation to fall into an enormous nostalgia hole in favour of doing some actual work. (I’m sure the internet won’t hesitate to correct me if I’m wrong)

The Quatermass tip is a good one, I’ve heard good things but never actually checked it out yet. Personally I stopped liking horror very young and preferred the Space Opera direction, particularly when Terry Nation (creator of the Daleks) went off to make Blake’s 7 for the BBC instead. High concept: Shakespearean actors from RADA and/or the RSC do a low-budget, ludicrously camp rebels-against-the-evil-empire tale while somehow pretending it’s serious drama (which it occasionally was) and keeping a straight face all the way through. Not to mention what weird effects the evil androgynous boss-lady Servilan had on my just-developing sexuality (I confirmed this with friends of the same age, it’s not just me…)
He's also deleted some of his videos because they had mentions to brands or companies with wrong practices (yes, plain wrong).

Also has very good books. So, totally not the average youtuber/content creator out there.
The term of art here is "species concept", of which there are several, well covered in [1]. Interfertility is a feature of some, but not all.

[1] https://bio.libretexts.org/Courses/University_of_California_...
I think its more of a person who builds "systems" for other programmers to use and work within
I just installed it. And thus far: it makes sense. I need to get used to this one. Weird thing is: I don't mis the autocorrect other keyboards usually have.
Live updating a drone running Erlang in 10ms while it was flying with no application restart and no loss of state impressed me when I saw it in 2021:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQS9SECCp1I

But I almost never hear Erlang/Elixir/Gleam folks talk about this benefit of the Erlang VM now, even though it seems fairly unique and interesting. Has the community moved away from it? Is it just not that useful?
Do you mean "why is it still used in popsci"? I'd wager because it makes people feel a similar way to other pseudo scientific categorizations, but that's mostly speculation on my part. Add in a bit of inertia and the simplicity of it ("let's reduce the cognitive ability of people across the world to a single number!") and, to me, I can see the appeal for others.
it is not all bad :) look at latin america where colonization has erased a lot of the regional dishes. yet new combinations have arisen from a mix of pre-columbian and european dishes. tacos in mexico combining corn tortilla with cow and pork based fillings, or ceviche in peru are just a few examples of "comida criolla".

right now, it might be a swing in the direction of sameism, but i assure you that eventually new dishes will arise.
Executives still consider being able to tell subordinates what to do in person more important than the work itself. See Back to Office vs Work from Home.
> I also saw so many people (including myself) using a scale while making espresso, and even putting a cup below the group head to catch drips, entirely negating the drip tray

The drip tray is also where the 3-way valve dumps the excess water when the extraction is compete and the system is depressurized.

It is also not just for drips, it is used for flushing, though I guess you can use a bowl here. I also see that it is designed for a naked portafilter, these are great, but they can be a bit messy if your technique is not perfect, making something like a drip tray even more relevant.

Maybe offer a platter as an accessory, to avoid messing the countertop. I also wonder how the system is depressurized without a visible 3-way valve chute.
I do miss the days when French and Italian cars were recognizable even across brands.

Even Alfa Romeo is now a pale shadow of its former proud self. In my opinion, the 2005 Alfa Brera was the last truly beautiful mass-market production car.
How do you know it was "fine" when LTT has a history of publishing reviews full of mistakes it never bothers correcting?
We do this in q/kdb+ systems often for patches. An important thing about these languages is that this kind of workflow is part of the core for solving problems. So when you are building a system one of the aspects of its design will always allow for this update method. Then when you push a patch you both know the impact of the change (because you've tested the exact same steps in a dev/QA/UAT/Beta environment) and the work required to do it safely.

Major releases do go through a full shutdown and release cycle though.
I'm thinking how this will improve wayfinding for the blind. Amazing opportunities here.
> Also, there is a reason decent espresso uses vibratory pumps to great effect, and its not because they're cheap or because they output a noisy flow of water.

The suspense is killing me! What's the reason?
The "simple solution" would be to make the use of AI illegal in the criminal justice system. Judges and prosecutors can't (or at least shouldn't be allowed to) simply refuse to prosecute crimes which have otherwise been legally processed and presented.
The draw of MKBHD has nothing to do with "objective credibility". Consumer tech reviews are more about whether the reviewer will discuss daily usability objectively, and entertainment.

Coffee is more niche. It makes more sense for "objective credibility" to play a role there.
Alec Watson of Technology Connections is my favourite for technology in general.
How much faster is a knight than a king? Mathematical study reveals exact ratio
Yeah, and your blog looks like all the other blogs.

Fashion is a thing, people tend to have the same ideas at the same time, the internet makes these ideas spread faster. Get over it.
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The espresso space is notoriously targeting well-off people. That is a pretty normal price range. At the high end you can find espresso machines for 13k [1] and grinders for 3.6k [2], still aimed at consumers.

[1] https://www.lamarzocco.com/ch/de/produkt/leva-x-1-group/

[2] https://weberworkshops.com/products/eg-1
Yup. Polygraphs are still used in the intelligence community and court too.

I'm seeing the tide turn (imo), but by no means am I claiming it's no longer used (regardless of merit). I acknowledge I'm starting a personal anecdote which is subject to my own biases such as cohort affects.
http://batteries.parametrek.com/index.html?size=18650
Personal opinion: flash chips of all kinds should be write-protected so that even a clip flash does not work... but they should have an authentication mechanism with, say, a 64 bytes passphrase that the end-user gets on a keycard. That way you'd need a literal "evil maid" in the household of the owner to do any modifications that might compromise the device.
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This person signed a phishing transaction many months ago and now is blaming ledger for his wallet being drained. The etherscan transaction is below.

https://x.com/kdean/status/1867393109962764445?t=3b84Vl1vS_e...
> 3) Sit on an exercise ball while at your desk

I bought an exercise ball for this purpose, but then learned that exercise balls can rupture under you with disastrous consequences. It may happen rarely, but I would rather not risk it.
Huh, new account created just to say they bought the very expensive preorder of the account created 10 hours ago. I hope I’m wrong, but this is heavily triggering my scam-o-meter.