skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BASIC is about 1000 times slower, so there's no way we could do this in realtime. Moreover, as mentioned in the article, the original PET 2001 suffers from bus conflicts when the CPU and the video circuitry access the video memory at the same time, because of slow SRAM, which is just the same speed as the CPU. To avoid this, the BASIC used by these earlier models prints only during the vertical blanking interval (V-BLANK), when video is off. This is only about a quarter of the duty cycle, where PRINT can actually happen, slowing this down to a fraction of what BASIC could theoretically achieve.

Let's do some nerdy numbers: ;-)

We may try rendering this to static slides and store them as strings in DATA statements. At 16 cols and 16 rows, this is 256 bytes per frame and there are 100 of them (the current map width), which makes 25 KB. We'll also need memory for the overhead of this as BASIC lines, which is 2 bytes for the line number in binary, another two bytes for the link to the location of the next line in memory (a 16-bit pointer), 1 for the "DATA" token, and a zero-byte as the line delimiter (EOL), which makes 6 bytes per BASIC line. And we'll need another two bytes for the enclosing quotes per string, and one for a separating comma (if we put more then one string in a given line).

Assuming we store 3 strings in a line (of max 80 characters), this makes a total of 533.3 × (6 + 3 × 18 + 2) = 33,064 bytes (or 32.29 KB), the memory requirement to store just the DATA lines. – So there's no way to fit this into a machine, which maxes out at 32K in its most luxurious memory configuration (or 16K for the original PET 2001).
What? Well that's crazy.
Ask HN: Communicative Competence in Code
I have an idea kicking around I'd like to subject to your collective scrutiny:

1. source code has competing audiences with conflicting goals
-a) the machine, with the goal of accurately performing its function
-b) subsequent devs, with the goal of communicating organization, workflow, pitfalls, limitations, context, etc.

2. high level languages, type systems, code comments, design patterns, etc. all aim (in part) to alleviate the problem but leave ample room for human error

3. communication with a fellow human developer by means of a programming language is not a fundamentally different activity than any other form of written communication, and is made more difficult by its dual-audience

4. (most) software development still requires strong written communication skills

=> (most) devs who struggle to communicate with other humans will (more frequently) implement behaviors that other humans struggle to fully appreciate/grok and therefore struggle to maintain/modify.
Historically speaking it is never in the interests of any country to be 100% beholden to a US corporation with high political motivations and an unstable CEO.
Depends, if you have a majority on the board you can do whatever you want. Some companies get a seed round to then use that to bootstrap to profitability and growth over time.
if you have the rights for the song and it's a bogus claim, yes
Have you tried plan9's rc? easy to memorize syntax thing. It's still easy to make mistakes though and nobody uses it.
Looks impressive - it can do lot of PDF modifications using a single static binary.
I was prescribed Modafinil, and while it did keep me from falling asleep, it didn't help with my wakefulness otherwise. When I had a serious crash, instead of sleeping through most of it, I would be awake through it all, with all the discomfort of the extreme fatigue and mental fog, but with no ability to fast forward time by sleeping through it. After a few months I decided it wasn't worth it.

I'm on methylphenidate right now, and while reports are that it makes CFS worse, I find it helps me to remain more aware and capable when I start getting quite sleepy, to the point where I can often wait it out rather than having to actually fall asleep. It doesn't seem to have changed the frequency of attacks nor did it prevent the really big ones, but I was able to at least work most days whereas before I was regularly too foggy to do much of anything.

The other medication my doctor suggested was Xyrem. While the research is promising for treating IH specifically, the effects and risks are worrying enough that I don't think it's worth it. It's also very expensive and it seems unlikely that my insurance would cover it, since it's off-label usage.
*increasing supply to meet demand
Forgejo Git Forge for Apache NuttX RTOS (Experimental)
From Numbers to Narratives: Unveiling Stories Through Data
> has made me wonder if laziness is not actually a real thing

I think a lot about the insane drive that professional athletes (especially at the highest levels) have and how it's not possible for me to have the same drive. I'm sure it's complicated and there's some level of learning or skill training that's possible to change your amount of laziness or drive. But, like physical abilities, there's probably only so much you can change.
mmmmh... basically, generates machine code which only requires a stack (which could be used by code paths not written in zig), contained in memory pages with execute and read permission only. Ofc this machine code would interact with the other machine code (written in other languages) via the architecture calling convention (the ABI/C one).
Could this be some kind of calibration they have to do to keep mic/speaker in spec for qualifying as hearing aids?
Same here, both on computer and mobile. The rest of the website looks fine.
Quite frankly I'd love a programmers dictionary over terms, I recently called a file with a csv like format a db because, well, its not a csv and I don't know what else to call it.
A 'warrior' brain surgeon saved his Malibu street from wildfires and looters
A social crutch I really like is games. I’m terrible at talking to people, but I love playing competitive but social games. Stuff like chess boards, card games could go a long way.
https://archive.ph/VI9xO

(Note: Author decided some years ago he doesn't like his writing discussed on HN. Too much negativity. His server automatically redirects to Google homepage. It's known but not enough to outright ban the domain on HN because there's an easy work-around, for example open a separate browser window or copy&paste the URL)
I'm currently recovering from burnout and the trick of not caring just does not work for me. This is my 2nd burnout and even though I learned that trick among other things from the 1st, it just does not work because I think it's a problem that stems from my personality. I care too much about various things that are related to my work.
It'll get worse: https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/08/31/ending-minimum-park...

The usual misery pushers are already celebrating the win.
I didn’t say it was right or wrong. Just explained why it’s surprising that it’s sold more to some people.
It didn't garner sympathy with the public because they had previously lied to the public that they were technically incapable of complying with those data requests. After the government explained how Apple could comply, Apple shamefully removed the erroneous claim from its website without informing its customers who had believed that claim.

All the big tech companies that have user data publish government data request transparency reports.
As a vague platitude yes, total output has to be reduced by some amount if labor input is reduced. When actually thinking of concrete impacts on society, though, the quantity and quality of many kinds of societal outputs do not scale linearly with overall work-hours, nevermind that relative allocation of work-hours across different fields and disciplines would be scaled in nonlinear ways (see also: complaints about make-work and "bullshit jobs"). And housing in particular is almost universally bottlenecked by the supply of land and limitations in organization/planning of cities and towns rather than any shortage of construction labor.

Given all that, "houses would be proportionally fewer, smaller, and and in need for repair...unless we assume builders and maintenance people are exempt from working less" is not actually self-evident, and is more likely to be taken as an attempt to paint an exaggerated picture for rhetorical purposes.
Reminder that sometimes empty alt text is _more_ accessible, in particular for images that have no bearing on the main subject of the page
Would love to see a casual game (on Switch) where I could upload ski runs and "ski" them...
Ask HN: Can AI choose camera angles that hide fakeness of prof. wrestling moves?
For example, from one camera angle, it might be obvious that a punch or kick didn't land, but from another angle, it might not.

Perhaps AI could do a better job than a human at selecting camera angles in real-time to conceal the misses in professional wrestling moves?
I mentioned this in another comment but this is basically the parable of Chesterton's Fence.
I like that HN is so minimal, but obvious stuff like this makes me want to write a browser extension that lets me custom tag accounts for my own notes.
> It isn't that they're less happy, it's that the author doesn't want them to be happy. They'd rather rewrite the definition of happiness

Where do you get that? Here are some quotes from the article:

"activities at home were associated with a “strong reduction” in self-reported happiness."

"Afterward, people filled out a questionnaire. How did they feel? Despite the broad assumption that the best commute is a silent one, the people instructed to talk with strangers actually reported feeling significantly more positive than those who’d kept to themselves."

These are self reports, not another person's definition.
I’ve given up on explaining this to people. They know that’s why there are “losses”, they’re just being disingenuous.
People are not bound to follow this rule, correct? As in, there's no legal consequence?

> Instead, his groups have moved to signing NDAs or explicitly stating that conversations are not to be shared externally.

This seems a bit better, albeit with more work.
No, to the most explicitly religion-tolerant country. The US was really unusual in many regards at that time, compared to most of Europe.
OP here:

Feel free to use/to refer to it. I'm pretty sure, I'm not the first one to have come up with something like this. (My part in this is really in organizing the data and the related 6502 code for rendering, maybe the hot-one encoding for the lower 3 bits of the displacement offset to make this suitable for 8-bit processing.)

See “Sphere Mapping” by Frédéric Goset for further reference on compiling a static displacement map to render a spherical projection from a cylindrical one: http://fredericgoset.ovh/informatique/oldschool/en/spheremap...

BTW, I'm now using 32 × 100 pixels (or rather, data points), which doesn't change much, other than adding a few bytes to the data stream for the world map (we're just adding 4 columns or 16 bytes to this).
I'm with you on this one, and I think my time living in a fairly walkable city vs. previously living in a non-walkable suburb really underscored this point for me personally.

I'm failing at finding it via google, but I also recall a study that showed drivers tended to view other drivers/cars on the road not as a person in control of a vehicle, but rather an inanimate object, which I think further supports your point. If anyone has a link to the study, I'd be grateful.
Kerberos and VPN like any other public network, and quantum-resistant ciphers.

Also, some beam-steering tricks that likely won't be available in the US for another 5 years... =3
+1, very curious. I yearn for the working environment the parent comment describes.

Can it only exist in medium and small companies?
"What's in it for me?".

"Ok China, Taiwan offered me X, Y, Z. What've you got?"
Typography aside, Noferatu is an incredible picture.
Seems pretty obvious why in a world where if you misspeak or say something ill considered it can be all over twitter and have serious personal and professional ramifications.

Regardless of how well meaning people are in their desire to hold people to account for bad views, it does have a chilling effect, and you can't learn if you don't have a safe place to make mistakes.
I'd say they're both, and it feeds into itself.
Tik Tok- Has the Federal Gov Ever Forced ISP's to Block a Website?
I'm kinda shocked by all this. I'm aware of states forcing ISP's to block connecting to websites. NYS blocked a crypto site I used and i believe some states block access to pornographic websites.

This nyt article states the law passed by Congress will force ISP 's to block Americans from accessing Tik Toks website. This must be unprecedented?

Using this legal precedent, will the U.S begin asking ISP's to block Americans from accessing other websites?
Oh man. This isn't just "some contributors". Joost is basically one of the founding fathers of the Wordpress ecosystem. Him getting deactivated is like Stalin assassinating Trotsky.
If only every human was an omniscient and perfectly rational actor with infinite time to become network security professionals and infinite budget to implement their perfect security boundary
Log off your government funded technology to socially reach out with “democracy and rationality”.

Not sure where the tech crowd gets off being offended when the backbone of their lives is an info network used to manipulate sentiment that props up their jobs.

“When a person paycheck depends on their not understanding…” and all that
Astrology and astronomy only split a few hundred years ago, and modern astrologers do in fact have decent models for the motion of the planets. This sort of alignment is precisely the kind of thing that astrologers use to provide a veneer of truthiness for their predictions.
Xi could feasibly get overthrown if the economy continues to suck. It would not surprise me if the successor wants to suck up the US
Not everything has to be legal. The consequence is you don't get invited back and some people might think less of you.

Legally enforcing every social norm is dystopian.
I believe that burnout exists because of the dissonance between doing-what-you-want and doing-what-you-can. If you can't do what you want, then do what you can and come to some sensible accommodation between the two. If that's not possible, perhaps you can want something else, and do whatever that is. It is a conscious decision, and it's positive, at least in the sense that it's your decision. If you can't square the circle, you must pick either a square or a circle. It's just not possible to have both when they're so out of harmony. Don't be afraid to hit the eject button and reset your want/can compass.
Lots of comments here not even bothering to read the OP article on the true sources of burnout. Cute advice on how to cope with it but no thought on what systemic causes were.
It’s like helping fellow miners cope with lung disease rather than think if there’s a better power source than hand mined coal.
..." each year"

I.e. a better title would be "Prehistorically, as many as 19M acres burned in California EACH YEAR"
Yes, definitely. We consider anyone ages 13-18 a “high schooler”.
You can go a really really long way, with a script that will work everywhere, with just set -e and aborting at the first error.

Better yet, 'bash unofficial strict mode':

set -euo pipefail
IFS=$'\n\t'
So I rolled my own static site generator
Mullenweg the Coward
I'll readily admit the languages were marketed that way, but would argue inheritance was a functional, but poor, imitation of dynamic message dispatch. Interfaces, structural typing, or even simply swapping out object types in a language with dynamic types does better for enabling function-based message passing than inheritance does, as they avoid the myriad pitfalls and limitations associated with the technique.

Dynamic dispatch can be accomplished in any language with a function type by using a structure full of functions to dispatch the incoming invocations, as Linux does in C to implement its file systems.
The abolishments actually fundamentally changed Minneapolis: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/...

Most of the new units are in massive multi-apartment buildings. And these buildings have a huge disproportionate impact on the quality of life.

It's now going to be sliding into shittier and shittier conditions. More crime, more congestion, higher housing prices.
Which country is that? Is that common among countries?
Regardless of the rightness or wrongness of the grandparent's views, i think this comment demonstrates why the gp might feel cautious about giving their honest views on the subject.
>I don’t think the choice… is analogous

It seemed less like a wife-kids-retirement pipeline and more like a general aversion towards any kind of social/communal obligation. The former is unnecessary, I agree, but the article makes the case and I agree that we have a certain innate need for the latter kind of relationship.
Sounds like a bunch of excuses you’re making up for him. He’s a billionaire, he’s intelligent, and if he didn’t properly plan for his charitable giving at death it’s on purpose. He could have hired a hundred people to scour the planet for the best charities and give his money away to ten thousand different ones of he wanted to, even today, but like every human who gained a fortune he defaulted to nepotism. It’s just the way the world is, I doubt humans will ever overcome our base instinct to gather resources and hoard them, so I can’t say he’s evil or anything, I just personally think he’s a dickhead for saying he’d donate his money to charity and then doing the same shit every other wealthy person does.
Weird comparison as all they share is a name but still interesting to see how uneducated the car buyers are. EV Mustang is in my honest opinion the worst EV I have driven and I include golf carts and mobility scooters in this category. Yet it still outsells and ICE car which says something.
Something seems fishy
> there’s a liberating and freeing quality to the idea that this is a safe space for me to say unpopular things and not get labeled as a conservative or racist,” Lederer said.

Tantalizing, now I really wonder what he said.
yeah, those are just modules that anybody can just buy. NVIDIA already makes jetsons which are basically SBCs with decent GPU. so again, what does Mediatek provide?
You are of course right. But for an observer on Earth, planets can be below the horizon. The difference this time is that their orbits are aligning in the other dimension as well, meaning they will be all above horizon when your observation point spins into place.
Probably slower and with more respect for existing tech.

But hey, now we have npm, so who cares anymore? :-)
Once you pop you can’t stop
In real world you're not implementing binary search but using one implemented already.

Hopefully implemented by someone who cared enough to avoid bugs or at least document the range of the arguments.
Note that these are not yet complete docs for Debian 13, and that...

> The release date for Debian 13 "trixie" hasn't been decided yet.

...there's no release yet.
They should have contacted the FSF.

https://ryf.fsf.org/

Again, decades ahead.
Are Chatham House Rules just a way for people to hedge their bets? If they say something controversial, rude, offensive, or downright dodgy, they can hide behind anonymity. But if it’s a hit or something clever, insightful, or widely praised—they’re quick to claim credit. Convenient, isn’t it?
I have no idea whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but this is not freedom of speech, for the obvious reason that its based entirely on the limitation of speech, in this case, the freedom to truthfully state who said something.

I’m not a free speech absolutist, so that’s not a negative for me, but it’s extremely annoying to see a lot of people pretend to be pro free speech by policing what others might say about them.
> Legally enforcing every social norm is dystopian.

But I didn't say that? I was genuinely unsure of whether this was something that could be taken to court if someone violated it. If it's socially bound, and the purpose is to increase free speech, I find that less compelling in today's culture.
Doesn’t matter when bottom feeding lawyers run an automated tool on your site and sue you in hope of a quick $5k settlement. That is what drives this not any notion of accessibility.
Ha, thanks! I was wondering where that post had gone as it wasn't showing in my replies. I imagine it was a confusing statement on a post about yahoo pipes.
How Midlife Became a Crisis
> [At] an intimate dinner party in Los Altos Hills, Brex Supper Club salons, [...] the rules of the house are increasingly Chatham.

What a strange comment.

If after attending a dinner party people are repeating everything they heard, in public, with attribution - then that dinner party absolutely was not intimate.
Which I created to read the article in the end :)
The grift is logically possible, but not terribly scalable and requires the same sort of email and money laundering infrastructure that an industrial scale grift requires.

It is the sort of thing a state intelligence agency could do to target an individual for the interests of a state. But then again, a state intelligence agency can just beat you with a wrench until you give them your money.
Loads

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_th...
The problem is you can control the first but not the latter. You can control doing quality technical work. You cant really control whether what you do has much value (the market decides that, not you)
We forbid cruel and unusual punishment. If we lived by the morality you just articulated, we wouldn’t do so. I think slavery is cruel and unusual, I think that’s clear.
I thought it is common knowledge that every single AI company trained on pirated datasets.
I agree, this is a trash post full of hot stinky air :
- name-calling without any actual examples
- no actual comparison with Basic, the extremely simplistic "popular" sticker covers massive differences in use, users, functional coverage of libraries, and so on
- non-programmers that program use python? this is leveraging python's value as a teaching language in the most derogatory way possible
- "ugly historical baggage" ? sure, show me a better designed language, show me the baggage
Any opinion which is even slightly critical of MeToo and DEI programs.
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Which also applies if you use two NUCs and setup failover between them.
Also, for families, that was eight hours of paid work from one parent, not both...