skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit of a hack, but it's also somewhat a cry of frustration.

For example, the cheapest I2C ADC I can cough up on Digikey has fewer bits of accuracy, fewer channels, is slower, lacks an internal reference, lacks an internal clock, is larger and is more expensive than these full microcontrollers.

Using a microcontroller means that my interface isn't limited to to one or two I2C addresses. Using a microcontroller means that my interface can be I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, Sent or whatever I can bit bang out of these.

The downside, of course, is that you now have two pieces of firmware you need to keep in sync and to keep track of.
So Godel proved that there are true theorems that are unprovable. My hunch is that there is a fine grained version of this result <-- that there is a some distribution on the length of the proof for any given conjecture. If true that would mean that we better get used to dealing with long nasty proofs because they are a necessary part of mathematics...perhaps even, in some kind of Kolmogorov complexity-esque fashion, the almost-always bulk of it
Well I got to director in big tech with an org about 35 people and now I have around 15 people but bigger scope, and others have done with similar numbers too. Depends on the culture I guess, some cultures are all about empire building, others about impact / scope
It feels more logarithmic to me.
I hear Canada's nice...
Putty and Winamp are two softwares that I've used for 20+ years on Windows and that still feel the same. They don't get old or outdated.
OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released with Server-Side QUIC
As I said before, I've never used Go. I have no opinions about its error handling, or green crayons for that matter.

Measuring defect rates against another language will not tell you whether the error handling is better or worse than the other language either.
* argue with the car as misinterprets everything
Likelihood of Mount Spurr eruption in next few weeks or months has increased
He left said board about 6 months ago after having a falling out with the previous CEO, so…
I've been using Linux for a good 25 years. In that time, I've gone from having to tinker endlessly to get things working in a basic manner on a desktop machine, to running on a laptop with essentially no tinkering, and fewer issues cropping up than most of my Windows- and macOS-using friends complain about.

Sure, if you require a piece of software that can't run on Linux, then you're stuck wherever you are. Otherwise? ::shrug::
https://timeguessr.com/ is basically that
If you require end users (and possibly libraries? IDK) to manually specify every transitive dependency of a dependency (but not hard-code/vendor it), this should act as a forcing function to reduce transitive dependency explosion in libraries (because it would degrade user experience). I'm not sure if users should have to update every dependency by hand (this discourages updates which can cause security bugs to persist, but automatic updates makes supply-chain attacks easier; AUR helpers generally diff PKGBUILDs before committing them, which partly protects against PKGBUILD but not source attacks, and even distros did not protect against the xz attack).

Another factor is that updating C++ compilers/stdlib tends to break older libraries; I'm not sure if this is any less the case in Rust (unclear? I mostly get trouble with C dependencies) or Python (old Numpy does not supply wheels for newer Python, and ruamel.yaml has some errors on newer Python: https://sourceforge.net/p/ruamel-yaml/tickets/476/).
Imagine if they re-released this with the chip and screen of an M4 iPad Pro.
> definitely be forgiven for thinking that iPads are general-purpose computing devices

The iPad is about to reach its 15 birthday.

No one should be forgiven for confusing it with a MacBook.
His latest project is a heavy metal tribute album to himself by himself, made on sabbatical: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
A significant multiplier of my certainty here comes from the fact that I was responding to a thread full of people who seemed certain that no sewer inspection van could look like that, which to me says "this van is not inconspicuous", which defeats the whole purpose of having a cover-story van.

You can second-guess that, but I think past this point, we're reenacting the duel between Vizzini and Westley.
It's the opposite. It's the Mozillq Corporation that develops the browser. The nonprofit Mozilla Foundation, which owns the corp, does not. You can donate to the nonprofit, but you can't donate to the corporation. Furthermore, what a lot of people dislike is that the foundation's money doesn't go towards Firefox development. Instead, Firefox revenue (almost entirely royalties from Google) are passed by the corp to the foundation.
And don't AVR's still have actual 5V I/O as well as some chips having multi-voltage I/O?
One problem we have on our service (genenetwork.org) is stylistic consistency across many different pages and forms. Even one programmer can invent five different ways to close a window or pop-up. Table styles can be annoying diverse.

A style guide is the obvious solution but ……
This reminds me of an interview I saw, where the person is complaining that a lot of people see "data center" and think "real estate", excitedly focused on locations and buildings, but then they then draw a blank when you ask them what their plans are for the necessary backup generators on a multi-year backlog. The point being that it's better to think of them as a form of light-industry factory.

Seems like the only compelling reason for Datacenters In Spa[aaaa]ce[!] is to support something that is itself in space and can't handle latency.
>they're not designed to work that way.

It would be more accurate to say that they are designed not to work that way. In modern times, every limited-purpose internet-connected gadget is actually a general-purpose computer that has been deliberately crippled.

The reason you can't run arbitrary software on "your" iPad is because they have locked it down so Apple owns the hardware, not you.
My new article, License to Kill: Coding with Cursor AI Agents[0] is something you might enjoy. It's had a good response on Medium. If you do, let me know!

[0] https://levelup.gitconnected.com/license-to-kill-coding-with...
2023 is a while but I thought it was a fair description of what LLMs are doing, how they work, and what that means for programing. The blog post is a discussion of work being done in the field (at the time at least). He did not say it is a pointless endeavor. It sounded more like LLMs are just not like a human mentor that can guide the way, but more like an assistant that might help with some of the grudge work (sort of).
Most tools we have been using are not probabilistic. I use syntax highlighting, autocompletion, refactoring because they work close to 100% of the time. So my question really is if using a tool that works some % of the time is worth it.
> Providing a plain black-and-white version was another standard recommendation at the time. But I can’t remember why – I certainly never actually saw a computer running Win95 or later with a B&W display!

Windows 95 can be convinced to run in monochrome: http://toastytech.com/guis/miscw95bw.png (from http://toastytech.com/guis/misc2.html)
I found the centrality of AI generated video to be quite distasteful. I had a visceral negative reaction to it, which probably speaks to how much AI slop is polluting my life in other places. I would have much preferred a game based on actual historical photographs.
Governments are often the ones the encryption is protecting us from - they're not going to fund better encryption.
> Plenty of ways to trigger undefined behavior

I'm curious about this list, because it definitely doesn't seem that way these days. It'd be interesting to see how many of these are still possible now.
Meta famously used libgen to train, right? That is basically a source for all copyrighted textbooks and more.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for the kind words! Yeah the situations you pointed out like Washington/Alaska where it's not being consistent in the depiction of a location aren't great and will be improved. I'm kind of torn about what to do on the distance scoring. On the one hand, I see your point that knowing the country should count for something, but it currently doesn't count for much if the country is big and you get the wrong side of the country. On the other hand, doing that would make the scoring system more complicated, and it's already not particularly easy to understand.
Am I old or is this not even close to the most controversial Apple laptop? I feel like the white plastic Intel MacBooks and the original TiBooks were both more controversial.
congrats on the launch! had a lot of fun playing it, keep it up!!
https://archive.ph/R2K4f
For Future Reference
On macOS there are still a few reliability problems, mostly caused by misbehaving zsh extensions that I have to work around. I replied to your issue report, I think this should be fixable.
I am so upset that Apple nixed the wedge Air. I loved my 2013 Air, and much more so, my M1 Air. Once they lost the wedge, and especially when the MBP got a 14” option, I lost interest. 14” is the absolute perfect size for a laptop, IMO.
If the largest vendor of computer hardware on the planet purposely locks down its devices for no apparent consumer benefit then informed users have every right to complain to the less informed how this harms the entire market in the long run.
All of the limitations of the iPad are coming for your macbook, too. Already, it's difficult (not yet impossible) to install software outside the confines of Apple's app store. Already it's difficult (not yet impossible) to develop software for a mac without paying Apple for the privilege of "signing" your code.
It's to the point where there doesn't seem to be much left to lose. Anything is worth trying. Their CEO should definitely be out the door. Still, I won't be holding my breath. They're hostile to their community, developers who want to work on web technologies, and to the open web.

https://www.theregister.com/Tag/Firefox/

So I am glad to see this page full of signatures. It might not help, but it won't hurt either.
Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Yeah. I like to think about why something is the way it is. If they are trying to accomplish something similar to me, then copy away. But if their circumstances and objectives are different…
That is only a negative if you believe that net intelligence is going down due to this level of increase of "easy of use" technology. I agree with you that it is bad for the avg person today, but for the smartest person, things are better.

Definitely believe we are reaching some sort of global maxima in terms of intelligence in our current structure of society
https://youtu.be/gg9AYgtYoNs
One of my "hero memories" was a time when I was a master of Win95 - and a friend had accidentally changed ALL of her display options to black - so all the UI was black, but I knew Win95 so well I could navigate the entire OS via keyboard - and was able to from memory navigate through the start menu, to settings, knowing how many tabs to hit to get to display and change that back to default.

The people watching thought I was a magician.

(I also had several sealed original W95 boxes on floppies...(we shutdown an office, and as IT mgr - I had to go liquidate - and we had ~50 boxes of original release W95s there - so I took several home) and I held them for ~10+ years then sold them on eBay, I only got $25 for each - but I sold them as pieces of "computing history")
wouldn't using an emualtor allow you to do most of that stuff
Japanese sort really well. Most European countries too
All the way out the door, please.

Edit: wow, it says here that "Mozilla announced her departure on February 19, 2025" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

Yeah I'm calling it on this new one as well. The interim CEO isn't aligned with the rightful mission of Mozilla either.
I'm a guy, but I've a noticed a disturbing trend in advertising for female "all over" deodorant. One current ad even features a song with the lyrics, "My neck, my back..." Yes, I know it was already a song but suggesting that women's necks and backs smell bad seems a little over the top.
Where are today's technicians that are prostituting themselves for the communications companies around the world that this can still be happening?

Man up and remove those splitters, cables, show us the drawings, reports and PPT slides!

R.I.P. Mark
That makes sense. Mine runs every few minutes sometimes in heavy rain.
Interesting, haven't heard of that before. That is not supported right now, but I can look into it. It also depends how good their CLI works for me to integrate it
Honestly I think this speaks as much or more to the bleak prospects of entering the consumer tech sector as opposed to changing views on war. Finding work in Silicon Valley as a fresh graduate is as difficult as it's ever been; and if you want to do meaningful work that will have an actual positive impact on people's lives, well, good luck. More likely than not you'll be doing something that sucks the soul out of you in service of a company sucking the souls out of everyone else.

Morally the 'defense' industry is distasteful enough for me to stay away, but as someone also looking to enter the tech industry I don't blame anyone for looking for a lesser of evils. I can only hope things improve enough in the private sector for the choice to be clear before it's too late.
Unfortunately, this is known business model, most known example was Eclipse IDE, which killed all small IDE businesses. Other example, MySQL from Oracle.

Yes, idea, to make basically free something, on which small-medium businesses could survive and grow to something big, so making big death valley between small and big businesses.

Only exception are tiny businesses, living in tiny niches, but for them nearly impossible to overcome gap from tiny to big.

And you should understand, "open models" are in reality open-weight models, as they not disclose sources from which trained, so community cannot remake model from scratch.

Headhunting is sure important, but big business typically are so much finance powerful, so they could just buy talents.

- Headhunting with reputation is really important for small businesses, because they typically very limited in finances.

Medium business typically between small and big, but as I said at beginning, making some strategic things free, create death valley, so it become very hard to be medium.

Reputation is good thing for all, but again, top corporations are powerful non-proportional to size, so in many cases for them is relatively cheap to just maintain neutral reputation, they don't need to spend much to whitening.
I fired that up in a VM to see what that was all about. It appeared to have all the same telemetry as Firefox based on the network traffic I monitored. All the forks seem to have all the same stuff. Maybe the reason for it is to remove specific services, I just don't know.
Discussion (150 points, 3 hours ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43347369
Both steel and aluminum production depend mostly on the cost of energy, so any improvements that would make aluminum cheaper would also make steel cheaper. Steel also has the benefit of being ferromagnetic so it’s a lot cheaper to pull scrap steel out of the garbage stream and recycle it, but that depends on having lots of scrap steel to begin with.

There’s really not a lot of room to make aluminum as cheap as steel, as all economies of scale have by now been mostly realized. The cost of energy is so dominant that it makes sense to run smelting plants idle most of the time with the crucible heated constantly just to take advantage of negative power prices (although there are other factors at play like subsidies and national security concerns).

Barring some sort of seismic scientific breakthrough in metallurgy, the current ratio of 2-3x the cost of steel is here to stay. There’s maybe a little room if we reach “peak aluminum” as the fraction of recycled scrap approaches 100%, but I don’t think that would make that much of a difference because we’re likely to hit “peak steel” before then (and again, its just easier to recycle from a logistics standpoint).
Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit but Mozilla Corporation which develop Firefox is a for-profit entity.

There are other subsidiaries under the foundation umbrella like Mozilla.ai and MZLA/Thunderbird. This isn't something uncommon for large entity and there are many advantages. For example, it gives more freedom in term of decision making and spending to projects that aren't targeting the exact same consumer segment. Think about Thunderbird. Under Mozilla Corporation, it was always in the shadow of Firefox. Now, it's striving as an independent project.
No, only some normal-size ones.

> The German for "table" is "Der Tafel."

Not "Der Tisch"?
Too late: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Web_browsers_based_on...

Of course, it's never actually too late to add another fork.
Bing is already the default, if you use Windows.
I'm sure it depended on the audience, but I and others [0] guessed at broad electronic surveillance well before the 641A revelations. I was never called a conspiracy theorist for it either. In the 1990s if you had read Bamford's The Puzzle Palace [1] (published in 1982) and observed the government's legal fight against Zimmermann's PGP encryption software [2], you could make an educated guess close to the truth. If you phrased it as "I'm sure that the government is spying on everything," that went beyond the realm of what could be proved then, but airing suspicions about broad government snooping never elicited strong denials in my experience.

[0] Like the people on the Cypherpunks mailing list

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann#Arms_Export_Co...
Ah that's a very different thing from your original comment. It's not a raw carcass being brought into Norway; it's ham. (Yes, this distinction matters. Ham is pork which has already been salted.)

Sending ham back to Spain for further curing and mechanical processing would just be considered processing under EU customs rules since it gets sent out as ham...and comes back as ham.
This seems worse than the official Ollama build. First question I tried:

>>> who is president

The বর্তমানpresident of the United States is Джо Байден (JoeBiden).
The touchbar models didn't go down too well either, even after software had some time to catch up with the hardware it was still so unpopular that Apple gave up and completely walked it back.
You can also try out niri (really paperwm) like tiling in sway (papersway) or hype (hyprscroller). I'm using the later, and it works essentially the same as regular tiling (you can have named workspaces). That said, I notice that I have a lot of muscle memory due to previously working within the constraints of traditional tiling (i.e. You need a new to switch to a new workspace if you open more than 3 terminals, at least on my monitor). I therefore often switch to a new workspace when I really don't need to and get somewhat confused by where things are. I sometimes think a clearer break from my previous way of working might be easier.

That said I really like the approach to tiling from niri and others. It eliminates pretty much all downsides of tiling WMs IMO
The thing is, it no longer matters whether we support it. Nobody's asked for our permission and we have no power to stop it.
Terence Tao recently gave a lecture on Machine Assisted Proofs that helped even common folk like me to understand on the upcoming massive changes to Math within the next decade. Especially, its fascinating to see how AI and especially Lean might provide an avenue for large scale collaboration in Math Research, to bring them on par with how research is done in other sciences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIIGLiQWNM
Tom Drake, John Kiriakou, Ed Snowden, Mark Klein.

These are people that have shown that parts of the intelligence community are guilty of crimes against humanity and the American people.

Yet every time more evidence comes out, people are so quick to dismiss it as "wacko conspiracy theories".
For recreational programming purposes (and sometimes professional depending on the domain), they really are a distraction.

The existence of a package manager causes a social problem within the language community of excessive transitive dependencies. It makes it difficult to trust libraries and encourages bad habits.

Much like Rust has memory safety benefits as a result of some choices that make it difficult to work with in some context, lack of a package manager can have benefits that make it difficult to work with in certain contexts.

These are all just tradeoffs and I'm glad "no package manager" languages are still being created because I personally enjoy using them more.
Oh dear... You should hear some of the stories about Jim Caviezel[0]...

On second thought, maybe make up your own mind before you dip into that.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/episode/1euFlDCuryFSzMw6BjQCWA
By the U.S. Mint. The banks always had the leeway to recharacterize those transactions.

And given that we never heard about any of these jokers having to file reams of paperwork to get away with this hack or having long discussions with the DEA about money laundering, it's clear that the banks just treated these as cash advances like they clearly were.
I spent 181 minutes waiting for the Zig compiler this week
I would think that anyone working in a sewer inspection van would keep the door open because it is highly likely that sewer inspection vans smell like, well, sewer.
Acting to understand and understanding to act [pdf]
They fired Pat and went the M&A route. Apparently the board changed its mind again.
Sounds like C# was too late with dictionary collection expressions.
I think it would be more rightfully described as poking the beaver
New anti-obesity drugs will outperform Ozempic
Because pyenv compiles from source, it's optimized for your own platform. In practice, are these performance differences noticeable?
You might be on to something in that bully-like "aggressive" qualities help people get ahead in certain endeavors (not least of which is dating). But if you're not an attractive person, I think most people will not tolerate you being a bully (you will be bullied back or otherwise dealt with, unless you're a formidible-looking individual or something). People who are bullied are usually attacked for their looks or unappealing personality features.

If nothing else, bullies usually need to be more physically capable than their victims. That is a generally attractive characteristic. It might not apply to girls as much, but I think we can at least say that ugly girls are usually turn shy rather than turning bully.