skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
.NET is still called COM+ in .NET's source code, they initially envisioned .NET as a successor to COM. They wrote about COM+ in 1997 in an issue of Microsoft Systems Journal (they talked about GC, runtime type info, etc.) It makes me believe the idea for .NET (COM+) existed before the lawsuit. It's possible that after the lawsuit, the COM+ and J++ teams were merged to reposition it as mainly a Java alternative.
I'd very much hope everyone at all skill levels is doing experimenting. Aside from that it seems like a plausible take from the individuals PoV.

There is another aspect though - senior people tend to be the most set in their way & also most at risk of their hard won experience losing value. That dramatically influences how open people are to accepting change.
oh then Internet Explorer is Mozilla because of the User-Agent string
I can't think of a single Linux user I know who doesn't use a multi-monitor setup. I have three monitors on my desktop and it works fine on Cinnamon and Plasma. Maybe the dozen I know are outliers, but I think multi-monitor setups are fairly common.
Any evidence the reproduction rate is higher among tech workers, or even among the wealthy in general? From what I've gathered in the past autistic people are more likely than average to not reproduce.
I just wanted to thank you. I have only looked at the first two lessons so far, but this is an extraordinary piece of work, in its message’s clarity, accessibility and the quality of analysis. I will certainly be spreading it far and wide and it is making me rethink my own writing.

Impressed with the Shorthand publishing system too. I hadn’t come across it previously
The reputation and credit rating of governments falls if they fail to respect contracts they've signed under their own laws.
> These are very important factors to keep in mind, even if the absolute numbers seem small. Expensive electricity makes everything else more expensive as well. It touches every facet of our lives in a way not even food does.

It has to be noted that in most EU countries electricity for business is quite cheaper than for households.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
Is there a way to download and read this as a document instead of web pages? They're hard to navigate.
Pollock's "art" is generous. The guy splashed random paint around. Buyers would come in and point to the section that "spoke" to them. He'd cut out that section, sign it, and extract thousands from these idiots. Actually, good for him come to think of it.
Do I understand that correctly that this is basically an open-source TPM chip?

If so, that would be pretty neat. As long as it is compatible with existing TPM chips, as I doubt there's much enthusiasm of vendors to support OpenTitan otherwise
So, stop using dependencies, write everything yourself.
Just anchor it to the oceanic crust. If you're unafraid to spool cable 37,000,000 meters up, you shouldn't be afraid to also spool down 50 meters or so—the maximum depth of the equatorial Sunda shelf[0] in the SEA region. Convenient to Singapore.

(Singapore itself is roughly 10% former ocean, terraformed).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunda_Shelf
Why do people think rejecting rust drivers is a bad thing? It's a fucking c project.
> Why is a culture developing where the team is being focusing on such trivialities instead of something that promotes their success or the success of groups like the greater organisation or customers?

> People with empathy tend to focus on the actual success of real people; and anything more than a cursory aye/nay poll on branch naming would be a concern because it suggests that the real problems every team has aren't getting attention.

I think there's a bit of irony in your two statements because you're arguing that the EMs should lack empathy for changes you deem trivial, and have empathy for changes you don't deem trivial. This is how you destroy an organization because these small issues fester into something more poisonous for your org.

For example, the branch naming schema cuts both ways. You could have a mostly yay vote on the branch naming pass, but the nay vote interprets it highly negatively or vice versa. Which means it's the EMs job to try and defuse that situation both by being welcoming enough to address these trivial complaints and by trying to identify the root cause.
LLMs pattern match, they say something that sounds good at this point but with no notion of correct.
copilot is like pair programming with a loud pushy intern that has seen you write stuff before didn't understand it, but keeps suggesting what to do anyway.
some medium sized chunks of code can be delegated but everyline it writes needs careful review.

Crazy tech, but companies are just wring to be trying to use LLMs as any kind of source of truth.
Even Google is blind enough to think that aí could be used for search results, which are memes they are soo bad. And they won't get better. They just become more convincing
Bye bye FOSS.

The EU has something like this, the Cyber Resilience Act, and it has an exception for FOSS.
Well unlike some invaders like Mughals to Indian subcontinent, the Brits never intended to settle overseas, definitely not in India. They went everywhere to loot, destroy, and leave when there was nothing more to loot or it was too tough to maintain control.

> doesn't reflect well on the British

Shocking!
Back to the future: the story of Squeak, a practical Smalltalk written in itself [pdf]
Musk "news" is usually terribly boring so I'm quite grateful I'm not the only one who shares that opinion. I get that he cracked the code to be in the news 24/7 but we really don't need to act as his megaphone.

It's a bit ironic that people that don't agree with your worldview have a limited worldview. Shouldn't you be above that as an enlightened member of this community?
Oh come on ...

Either one of the two statements is true, no other way around.
People rarely care about the underlying philosophy of anything - not even government, nowadays. They care about results and, fortunately, Unix still delivers for many.
you should really try to think and understand what the other is saying, because your text doesn't show that you've put the effort.
Yes, 386BSD was free, and the precursor to FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. BSD/386 was a different, commercial product though, available a few months earlier.

All 3 projects, BSD/386, Linux and 386BSD gained recognition over the span of about 6 months in 1992.
You continue the miss the point, I suspect on purpose.
What is "good design" ? That's the question.
More useful than anecdotes would be a theory(which put forths an explanation of why something might be so), which is interesting even in the absence of any experimental data.
It is literally a machine that says what you want to hear. Was anyone in this thread around for Talk to Transformer? Remember the unicorns demo? They may have now figured out how to wrangle the technology so it's more likely to spit facts, but it's still the same thing underneath.
I assume you mean modern tablets. Shall we pick Android or iOS? Because since we are in the business of civilising why the hell not! And if Android, then can we begin with an e-ink display? :)
My last point is that life in America is pretty great. You don't deny this, to your credit. But I don't see why that would link to "American democracy is threatened". If anything I would expect the opposite to be true.

"There's a threat to American democracy" seems like a strong claim to me by itself, let alone "There's a threat to American democracy partially because of its education quality." But, I'm an American myself, and I don't want to play inside baseball with how likely that actually seems to me.

Let's instead take Germany, where you yourself seem to be located. Germany has PISA scores quite close to the US's own, maybe slightly above or below depending on which recent year you look at.

If poor education leads to collapse, and if the two countries are about equal in their poor education, you should then be willing to accept, say, a 1 to 20 bet that German democracy will itself self-immolate in, say, 15 years. But, if poor education doesn't justify even a 5% risk of this happening in Germany, then I don't see why I would think it's a relevant factor in predicting the collapse of democracy in another country with a much longer uninterrupted democratic tradition.

(You could of course argue "No, comparisons based on PISA scores are misleading, actually there's robust pro-totalitarian brainwashing happening in US high schools that doesn't happen in German gymnasiums", or something, but (a) that's a much more precise claim than merely "US education is bad", (b) that seems really unlikely to me given I've never actually met or had an openly pro-fascist teacher at any level, and (c) even if it was true, the signalling hypothesis would still suggest any attempts at this just wouldn't matter very much by the time these kids are 25 or so.)
Introduction to MITRE ATT&CK utilization tools by multiple LLM agents and RAG
On this topic I really enjoyed reading "Autism as a disorder of dimensionality"

https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimen...

I'm just a casual reader I can't vouch for the veracity of the content, but I found it very interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fume_event is a bit clearer on what these "fume events" are.

This surprised me:

> It is not mandatory for fume events to be reported in the U.S.
Not important once has copilot ever suggested a correction, found a bug, noticed a typo, prompted for a better solution, which is what any human pair programmer would do.
It's a tool. But thinking ng it's like a "copilot" marketing as such is fundamentally missing the point. It won't get better untill people recognise what it _can't_ do as much as what it appears it can do.
SpaceX may not have done everything but they've delivered a lot.
Chimes at Midnight (2024)
You vastly underestimate how many “just curious” lurkers there are on any subreddits !
I was using Perl and the Win32 module to automate over a dozen job servers.

But the native way of doing it was VbScript with the Windows Script Host.
Your site looks cool! Nice topic!

Some of them just try to predict the most likely next word.

With reasoning and pause for thought they are becoming more capable.

Most likely there is a big element of hype but the way you use them can make them really useful and accelerate your work.

I recommend the CoIntelligent book for newbie like myself.
And in that case, you had to call into each bank?
Have you seen the film Contact?
Yes, and 25 years later Java is still relevant enough that Microsoft has become yet again a Java vendor, with their own distribution, made the key contribution for Windows ARM support, VSCode Java experience is still ahead of C# DevKit thanks collaboration with Red-Hat, and doesn't require an additional licence.

At the same time, JVM has embraced the polyglot ecosystem CLR was supposed to be, while C# seems to have sucked the life of all those language implementations demoed at the launch back in 2001, and .NET SDK being offered on computer magazine CDs.

Which is kind of interesting, how things have changed 25 years later.

At least we finally have cross platform support (ignoring Mono and DotGNU efforts), and good AOT instead of NGEN, which should have been there on .NET 1.0.
Would FileMaker have worked? It sounds like it's a good fit.
There are conventions, but like anything that isn't explicitly enforced, developers will do whatever they can/wish.
Perhaps this is because I am used to it, but for me the lowercase "l"s from your example are impossible to confuse with any other letter. For me the hooks are very visible and clearly distinct from any other kind of stroke termination.

The serif at the lower end of capital "I" is bilateral symmetrical, besides having a flat termination, so it looks very different from the asymmetric and curved right hook on lowercase "l".

Also in my handwriting, I write lowercase "l" with a right hook and uppercase "I" with serifs, making them impossible to confuse.
VS Code Remote SSH: server-to-client remote code execution by design
“Noether” nominative determinism strikes again in physics.
Symmetries produce conservation laws if you accept and understand Lagrangian mechanics. That's a big asterisk IMO especially if you've never heard of Lagrangian mechanics and then you try to understand Noether's theorem.

Doesn't getting from Newton to Lagrange already rely on the existence of conservation laws? Apparently if we take Lagrange as fundamental, then it works, and a variation of it works in quantum mechanics, so it does seem to be fundamental, but if you're trying to get from Newton's laws to Noether's theorem, you can't get from here to there without fully grasping Lagrange first.
These models have been trained with the original paper. It would be more interesting to come up with a different "attack" that hasn't already been written down.
I'm more confused and concerned after seeing those. Thanks though!
It broke my mind
Depends on the topography. Building Ascension Harbor's offshore breakwater would be dull routine in 5m deep water, but herculean in 100m+ deep water.

There's also the issue of Ascension Island being a live volcano. With 3 eruptions in the past couple millennia. https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstrac...

(Though if you were writing a novel about an Ascension space elevator, the volcano adds a whole extra dimension of possible drama.)
RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games
> Those who do not accept the deity of the Machine are viewed as 'unmechanical'

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
In France we use the wedge ∧ for vector cross product.
I have been thinking about this and I have an idea for local LLM I want to try.

It is based on the assumption LLMs make mistakes (they will!) but be confident about it. Use a 1B model and ask it about a city for fun mistakes in an otherwise impressive array of facts. Then you will see how bullshitty LLMs are.

Anyway the idea is to constrain the LLM and a language understanding and to choose a constrained response.

For example give it the capability to read out something from my calendar. Using the logits it gets to choose what that calendar item is. But then regular old code does the lookup and writes a canned sentence saying "At 6pm today you have a meeting titled $title".

This way, my meeting schedule won't make my LLM talk like a pirate.

This massively culls what the LLM can do but what it does do, is like a search and so just like Google (before gen AI!) you get a result but you can judge it as a human.
For now, the agentic frameworks look like one more layer to automate everything, with ease. Unlike selenium / any existing RPA tools which are a little hard to code.
I do this for some yearly tax stuff, as the big issue for me is that it was a year since I did it last and getting started with a complex and boring thing is hard

So I built a script that tells me what the first step is. When it's done I run the script again and it tells me what to do next. Often the first few steps are "download this CSV from the bank" so the script can detect I've done than and go directly to the next step when I rerun the script

The reason I have a script I rerun rather than a "press enter to continue" is because it then only keeps persistent state, and I can easily do a bit every day until done

A common pattern is

if ! [[ -e checked-all-the-receipts ]]; then
echo "check that the receipts match the list of expenses, then"
echo " touch checked-all-the-receipts"
exit 0
fi

Then over time, I have automated some parts and added some checks. E.g. when I have downloaded a CSV I can check that the format looks right before considering the step done. I've added some autogeneration of documents I need, built a python script to add up transactions and check the that the totals match etc
I'm at the state of thinking that I am quite happy to let them screw themselves with it. I am very good at clearing up disasters and getting paid a hell of a lot for it as the deciding factor isn't your ability to use an LLM but to know what the hell you are doing. We have had quite a few disasters due to inexperienced and experienced people throwing stuff into an LLM and assuming it has any veracity or authority over what comes out.

I tried warning at first and reinforcing validation but I was poo pooed as a spoilsport luddite with basically a faith argument. Not my fucking funeral!
You’re not wrong—letterhead does add a certain “oh sh*t” factor. But the real power move? Clarity + Confidence. Most disputes don’t actually go to court, they get resolved because one side sounds like they know what they’re doing.

Would an official legal firm letterhead help? Sure. But a well-structured, legally sound demand letter—even without the fancy stationery—is often enough to make someone take it seriously. Especially when they realize the next step is actual legal action.

That said, I’m open to ideas—maybe a future version offers something to bridge that perception gap.
It's bottom-up vs top-down design.
The double empathy problem explains why it may not be a deficiency, just a "different brain language" between ND and NT people.

Basically, from autistic perspective, it's the non autistic people who have deficiencies in communication. There's been a whole lot of research about that in the last 10-15 years or so. And a lot of memes in the community.
If you have to reach for popularity as an argument in favour of technology X or platform Y, perhaps it's not a technical point you want to make?

> VSCode Java experience is still ahead of C# DevKit thanks collaboration with Red-Hat, and doesn't require an additional licence.

I'm not sure if you're intentionally attempting to make inflammatory replies or something in what I said rubbed you the wrong way.

(for other readers - this marks me posting for 20th time here that DevKit is an optional product and thousands of developers are happily coding in C# in VS Code and VSCodium, Neovim and Emacs without ever running into it)
You absolutely can throw things out, and they have! Checked exceptions, `auto`, and breaking changes to operator== are the two I know of. There were also some minor breaking changes to comparison operators in C++20.

They absolutely could say "in C++26 vector::operator[] will be checked" and add an `.at_unsafe()` method.

They won't though because the whole standards committee still thinks that This Is Fine. In fact the number of "just get good" people in the committee has probably increased - everyone with any brains has run away to Rust (and maybe Zig).
Or are they modern day oracles? The full title is inclusive and invites consideration. Besides, how many different types of models are there? How are they used? For freely available ones made accessible to the general public via interfaces, when were they last updated? Do the interface implementors even care or was it a simple project to make money via ads and microtransactions?
This is a new area of media literacy and requires critical thinking.
Nonetheless, I do acknowledge the value of RAG-based approaches that attempt to qualify their reasoning through provided sources.
That’s why the tool doesn’t generate fake legal letterheads or make it look like an attorney is behind it.

But here’s the thing—you don’t need the illusion of a law firm to make a demand letter effective. The real power is in the clear, structured, state-specific language that signals to the recipient: I know my rights, I know what you owe me, and I’m serious about collecting. Most people cave because they realize the next step isn’t just another email—it’s small claims or legal escalation.

Would a letterhead help? Maybe. But the goal here is leverage without crossing legal lines.
> No one knows how consciousness works.

Well, we have a rough understand of what the concept represents, at least, don't we? It's like saying "we don't know how quantum physics works so we cannot talk about particles or waves". We have to start from somewhere. We have to make assumptions. When they are cleared and resolved, we can be more confident with our words.

> That fact is, the physiology of the brain, the integration with the endocrine system, and the whole distributed nervous system is so far more complex that a Von Newman computer, that to try to compare the two is just not well founded in reality.

That's part of my point, too, btw. It's ambiguous on purpose, when I mention reflections and echoes, these can happen through a multitude of media, whether it may be neurons, hormones, quantum physics or the ether, whatever may be anyone's interpretation.
* for some values of FAANG

C++ has been dead and effectively banned at amzn for years. Only very specific (robotics and ML generally) projects get exemptions. Rust is big and only getting bigger
Interesting. Do you have links, with pictures, specifications, purchase options etc?
There is NO deficit.

While science allowed the schizophrenics to fix their material related thinking (but they eventually corrupted that anyway) and become somewhat funcional in that regard, they have always stayed socially isolated. As such, all recent history that we are taught is narrated from their perspective. People suffered horribly, until science allowed the people to rise up against THEM. Anything else is at best mentioned as a side note, utter madness, a fringe belief only held by the 95% of the people. They were harmed, opressed, subjugated and gassed, and whatever else, but now they are free.
What time is more valuable than that, and I don’t owe it to anyone.
Human: Go forth and destroy everything!

Machine: Ok.

Human: HOW COULD YOU DO THISSSS
Literate Programming in Quarto
Yep, it’s 100% free—no paywalls, no sneaky upsells, just a tool to help people push back when they’re owed money.

I built this because I wanted to learn something new and help people who, like me, have been burned by shady contractors, landlords, or clients. No grand monetization plan, no hidden fees—just a way to level the playing field without paying a lawyer $400/hr to type three paragraphs.

If it helps people get what they’re owed, that’s a win in my book.
Reuse Expensive Computation with In-Progress Caches in Go (2021)
Which generation of 802.11 wireless networking do you think they have?
I used these frequently during an old job, it was always concerning how the sponge slowly disappeared as you scrubbed with it
Working in Big Tech: my colleagues aren't

This can be taken both with admiration and distaste. I'll either be rewarded with a lesson or a knife
Haha, I love 90s Geocities websites. I used Cursor AI - Give it a try
20-30 years is 1 generation.
Btw. Zen Browser or Arc have great management of spaces in the browser. You can quickly switch between profiles without unloading them. So you can be even on a call using work space and switch to personal space. This way you don’t need to have separate windows per profile unless you need to see the content of both at the same time.
We need a significant rethink in how new materials are released into the world. The current process where a business can just release something new and it goes through little in the way of real safety testing can't continue. As we build ever more exotic materials the potential for catastrophic and rapid danger is high. We have destroyed and disrupted our habitat too much already we need to stop doing this. We seriously need to stop producing microplastic and clean up what we have unleashed on the world quickly.
Is NixOS truly reproducible?
And now you've just got lots of different complications, like that seawater is very corrosive.
> Chrome also has the ability to save screenshots

Too bad that no browser is able to print a web page.
"Like most Jewish academics in Germany, Emmy Noether was fired after the Nazis came to power in 1933. She left later that year for Bryn Mawr College in the U.S [...]"

Compared to what's happening now, it's totally frightening.