skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My joke there makes more sense in the context of the series: https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/
This is racket's [rhombus], which might be an interesting second link here; it's a scheme, underneath, with the full power of Racket libs available.

[`shrubbery`], the replacement for s-exprs, is pretty interesting, expanding s-expr simply with grouping, and then a separate infix-pass on top. I've been playing with using it as the basis for a separate language; it's in an interesting place in the AST space, especially given the forethought put into macros.

[rhombus]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rhombus/index.html

[shrubbery]: https://docs.racket-lang.org/shrubbery/index.html
Correlation != causation. The US economy in the 1950s and 1960s was a very different beast - Europe (the main industrial competitor) was in ruins, wealth was very much more tied up in factories and plant, and less in equities and other soft assets. The currency was still tied to the gold price. It may as well have been another planet compared to today.
here is the "goal" page: https://rhombus-lang.org/goal.html (with related paper & talk)
“These countries aren’t poor. These countries are rich! Only the people are poor! They’re not underdeveloped, they’re overexploited!” - Michael Parenti
I remember writing the documentation for the payment processor app used at Iron Mountain and the flow for dealing with a check deposit was incredibly convoluted. The (Windows desktop) application was designed by a team from one of the big 5 consulting agencies and they clearly had never thought about how the application would be used when they designed it.
The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't. By subtracting where it is from where it isn't, or where it isn't from where it is (whichever is greater), it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance subsystem uses deviations to generate corrective commands to drive the missile from a position where it is to a position where it isn't, and arriving at a position where it wasn't, it now is. Consequently, the position where it is, is now the position that it wasn't, and it follows that the position that it was, is now the position that it isn't.

In the event that the position that it is in is not the position that it wasn't, the system has acquired a variation, the variation being the difference between where the missile is, and where it wasn't. If variation is considered to be a significant factor, it too may be corrected by the GEA. However, the missile must also know where it was.

The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error.
that and the sim slot. I've always wondered why they can't bodge one into the sd slot in software, as from what I remember the interconnects are similar (?). Or maybe they could just make personal hotspot more reliable
Environmental Health and Societal Wealth Predict Movement of an Urban Carnivore
I don’t agree it is “revisionist” history. Yes, people used phrases like “open source code” prior to 1998, but without a clear and universally agreed meaning - pre-1998, “open source” could just mean the source code was available under unspecified terms, possibly with significant strings attached (e.g. commercial use requires paid license, no redistribution of modified versions, etc). It was only circa 1998 that “open source” came to clearly mean the Open Source Definition

In fact, in a pre-1998 sense, VMS (“Open” or not) had “open source” in that customers could order source listings. Yes we’d now call that something more like “source available” but that category wasn’t clearly distinguished from “open source” back then

In any event, go read trade magazines from the early 1990s, you’ll find talk of “open systems” in almost every issue, the phrase “open source” rarely if ever occurs
Is that something wrong with the article, or is it something that the article is right about, which is wrong in academia?
Oooh, now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while! We’ve used it on a project maybe 10 years ago? Would be interesting to see how far they got since then.
Such a nerd bait request. I’m like “wait, how long between downloads of cards do you need? How many people will be placing these cards in? How will you know when one is downloaded??”

Only reading the comments did I think “Wait, who needs this and why?” I like the Mr. Beast angle - it’s fun to think about if nothing else.
They still owe me some cake
Per their wiki -

> The operating system originally called VAX/VMS was renamed to OpenVMS around 1991 to reflect the high degree of support for industry standards such as POSIX.

> This prefix is now generally regarded as silent by OpenVMS users and developers calling the operating system "VMS".

https://wiki.vmssoftware.com/OpenVMS
If that's true, you should be able to show it with some math... Where is it?
No.

Those rates were never paid, as the tax code also allowed for all sorts of deductions and tax shelters. What Reagan did was lower the tax rate in exchange for getting rid of those deductions and tax shelters.

The trouble with tax shelters is they tended to be crummy investments. The tax code incentivized shifting investment money from productive investments to crummy investments. This is not good for the economy.

Or look at it this way. If Musk was taxed at 91%, there would be no SpaceX, Starlink nor Neuralink. What wealthy people do is invest the money (you can only spend so much money on fine dining and snazzy clothes). Investing the money creates jobs and wealth that make the rest of us prosperous.
Oh, good. The toilet paper template is still there.
> comes with massive future costs

Again, the investments required in the present day to hopefully and potentially reduce those massive future costs you're speaking of are resources that have alternative uses. One can compare, say, the Germany of today which gave up on nuclear power and built solar panels and wind farms and now is experiencing a decline in its industrial capacity due to expensive and unreliable energy, to an alternate-universe Germany that kept its nuclear reactors and perhaps even built some additional coal and gas powerplants.

The former undoubtedly has lower per capita carbon emissions, but the latter perhaps has the advantage in building sea walls, reservoirs, and such infrastructure and heavy machinery that would help manage a changing climate. Can you really say that one approach is sure to be cheaper than the other?

Consider this: the WMO estimates that in the 50 years from 1970 to 2019, the number of deaths around the world caused by weather-related disasters dropped threefold[0], even as atmospheric CO2 went from 325ppm to 410ppm and the global population more than doubled. That's not one-third the per capita death rate; it's one-third the absolute number of deaths. Why? Because of improving technology, enabled by increased energy expenditure per capita, that allow people to better master their environments.

It takes a lot of resources to allow weak hairless apes to thrive around the globe; we don't all live in the climate of San Diego or Corfu. And insofar as fossil fuels remain the most economical way to allow increased energy expenditure per capita, I see no reason why we must zealously and immediately stop its use.

I am all for that increased energy expenditure per capita by any means possible. I hope that one day we will have the technology to do so with minimal environmental side-effects. But we must continue to grow to get to that point. I don't believe that Net Zero will get us there; I believe it will forever chain us to the vagaries of our surroundings.

[0]: https://library.wmo.int/records/item/57564-wmo-atlas-of-mort...
So if I am on a plane at 36,000 feet, I cannot start a new hobby project without paying for WiFi and downloading shit from people I don’t know or trust? That is just unserious, when your competition is the much more mature gcc+make+vim combo, which is 100% offline and self-contained.

And yes, I’ve done this (start a new project in a plane with no internet). Many times. eg: the world’s only PalmOS 5 device emulator (uARM-palm) was started while I was in a plane.
Open Benchtable Pi
There are entire skyscrapers filled with people whose job it is to make sure rich people pay as little tax as possible.
I don't know, might be in combination with the cars too. cybertruck isn't selling, and they keep putting everything on the touchscreen, like drive select.
I have no idea what article was trying to convey since on call was poorly defined

I also couldn’t take it seriously when article opened with this.

> Startups cannot afford engineers to baby sit software, big tech does.

Say what? As ops person, I’ve seen multiple startups where devs are drowning in operational issues because software was written enough for feature MVP, ship with poor testing then constantly poke at with sticks to keep it working in hopes they could get enough revenue to not flame out.
Max Planck argued that change takes time because good ideas need enough staying power to outlive their detractors:

> A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it … An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning: another instance of the fact that the future lies with the youth.

https://www.benwhite.com/misc/good-ideas-need-to-outlive-the...
> Because what argument do they have against being tortured if they don't believe in human rights?

Obviously, it's against the most basic principles that the humanist worldview of human rights is based on. I mean, you clearly don't believe in them sincerely, maybe you lie to yourself but you don't. You are the type of self-righteous goon that would happily disappear people in the Stasi or Pinochet's DINA.

> Afghanistan is prime pickings.

That's delusional. You cannot forcibly "reform" a culture in the short term (i.e., decades) that is not simply just near-total genocide. The Taliban cannot be weakened by overwhelming force. When invaders with absurd justifications (first Soviet, later American) commit "collateral damage," they create a sprawling network of causality that strengthens them. Kill the mother, justify the Taliban in the eyes of the son, and so on until the 7th generation.

The US never understood Afghanistan; they didn't want to either. You cannot outplan something that you don't inherently wish to understand, and Bin Laden knew that. Unlike the US, he comprehended both Afghanistan and America. It would have been so simple to send some spooks to snatch him after a couple of months, but that was never going to happen. Osama Bin Laden baited the United States of America, and it fell for it line, hook, and sinker. You lost trillions, thousands of lives, and more importantly, the last sliver of soul your country had.

The terrorists won on October 7, 2001.
C# supports top-level functions as well, that's not the issue. But, just to give a simple example, in TS you can do things like:

var foo: { bar: { baz: string } }

which have no equivalent in C#, because it doesn't have anonymous struct types, and its typing system is almost entirely nominal. Go, on the other hand, can translate this directly pretty much mechanically:

var foo struct { bar struct { baz string } }

And keep in mind that they aren't completely ditching the existing implementation, either, so for a while they're going to have to e.g. fix bugs in both side by side. It helps when the code can also be mapped almost 1:1.
maybe consider a uhs-ii or uhs-iii sd card? they're very fast and will work on any modern macbook
As a current SRE, and having worked in a small startup, this doesn't echo my experience at all. What the author describes is possible what we would call "on duty" work, the grunt/maintenance work that comes with big software systems. It's not fun, and most companies/teams have friction getting this sort of work done. It's also however not how my SRE role is defined by any stretch. Our on-call work is much more about support during exceptional, somewhat rare circumstances.
The Calculated Typer
Native English speaker here. It was the right word. At the same time, while “delve” is common enough to be recognized, it’s not that commonly used in American English, so I also was wondering if this was AI generated.
Yes, methodology is important, but it’s unclear that the way scientists really work has much to do with the naive description of the scientific method that’s taught in school.
or have a keyboard case for them like with the pinephone. Bonus points for enumerating usb-2/usb-4 and a headphone jack
FWIW the "functional programming" angle here is misconstrued - C# has better facilities for it than Go.

The thing that they actually wanted is data-centric programming with structural types.
The third party doctrine probably makes this perfectly legal.
There already has been an option to move the selected layer regardless of where you click on.
That was a year ago.
I'm not sure how you create a better world than one that has sustainable infrastructure, livable cities, healthy children, preserved nature and wildlife (or just rainforests as the cartoon puts it...), clean water and air, ...

Maybe net zero is a waste of time because in 20 years we will crack cold fusion and have infinite energy and then literally suck pollutants out of the air. Or maybe we don't and we wish we'd spent the last 20 years not razing forests, polluting air and water, and so on
> diseases don't respect imaginary border walls

A non-imaginary border wall might work, then. Control the movement of the vectors of disease and you control the spread of the disease.
Yeah my definition of not well off is minimum wage. Maybe I am wrong here and Starbucks is really paying barristas 200k per year IDK?
TypeScript guys have a FAQ and even a video explaining why they chose Go exactly, and why not C# (or Rust, or other things). They had their reasons.
I'll take a wild guess and say corruption and mismanagement. It can be vigorously argued over as to how much is due to European colonizers vs homegrown tendencies. Nonetheless, it's not a cycle that the elites see any reason to break.

Regardless of cause, there is still a need to treat people there. Forget saving their lives. These are rich reservoirs of diseases that people in other countries can contract, there is a good selfish case for showing up. And if we need some goodwill, it's relatively inexpensive.
What a beautiful office! Pity salaries in Lisbon are so low, otherwise I’d be applying for sure.
> If you'd read 1984 recently enough you'd know it is based upon the notion of state and social imposed ideology becoming enmeshed ...

My reference to 1984 was a juxtaposition used to illuminate the fallacy of:

>> Have you seen Star Trek? We should have computer by now. An agent which knows when to tell us things we need to know, not just respond to requests.

Be that as it may, the probability of a dystopian result is far greater than the utopian one quoted.

> A better metaphor would be ...

Since it was not a metaphor, the remaining critique is moot.
Do they have domestic pharma companies?
Agreed. Author's point of view seemed to have been influenced by their bad experience being part of the "on duty" work.
Meanwhile in 2024:

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/18/elon-musk-brendan-c...

"Billions for starlink if Trump gets elected" explains a lot of what happened I guess

(Of course, Doge is cutting government spending without caring for damage except when it comes to giving Musk juicy contracts)
Eh, intent matters. They probably just googled 'guard tower' and used the first one that looked close enough.
Ah, I see what you mean now. I've seen plenty of websites with very dubious English that I suspect were machine-translated, but websites trying to do their own realtime translation is something I haven't seen. Or maybe it's just something I haven't noticed.

(I wonder why people would even do that, since as you say, all the modern web browsers have built-in support for a translation button.)
All pg said, jokingly, was:

>"I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg. There was a guy once who we funded who was terrible. I said: 'How could he be bad? He looks like Zuckerberg!'"
You're bound to stumble over stuff that doesn't work how you're used to.

But, the friction for trying it yourself has never been lower.

Writing more internet comments is comfy but won't bring you closer to answering your question.
Securities Fraud and the Market for Individual Stocks
All to be soon scooped up by China and Russia.
There actually is an outcome worse than a missed click: if too many viewers are abandoning your video within the first few minutes (i.e. before midrolls), you'll experience substantial downranking.

More or less, the art of making a successful video requires:

* An attention-grabbing thumbnail

* A curiosity-provoking title & premise

* A strong hook which convinces the viewer to put the screen down and let it run

* Editing which delivers the information at an engaging (yet monetizable) pace

* Packaging said information so that it is intelligibly balanced across the mediums (audio/text/video)

* ^^^ Doing this all in a style which still retains enough uniqueness to establish a repeat viewerbase

"The algorithm" is a system for efficiently delivering novel videos with these qualities to the audiences who will most eagerly consume them, which is an essential function for a platform with 2 billion monthly users. For every video on lowest-common-denominator celebrity junk, there's a dozen niche videos tailored to some ravenous subculture or other. Not all magazines are tabloids... but just about anyone can kill time with a tabloid, so that's what leads.

Unlike magazine stands, however, the platform will eventually learn to only show you the thumbnails for videos you'll want to finish watching. It's almost embarassing to share... but here's an example batch of 12 recommendations, almost all of which I'm likely to (eventually) click on and fully watch: https://i.imgur.com/dygfXXb.png
Interesting. So the entire UI is contained within a single web view? Does it require a local server "hosting" the site?
WTF is a "GEGL" operation? I've been using (and have written) image-processing and -manipulation tools for decades, and I've never heard of such a thing.
I was curious and wondered if he still practiced medicine.

but wikipedia says basically nothing about the (original) site...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%27s_Hardware

Found this site that actually gave a history...

https://dfarq.homeip.net/whatever-happened-to-dr-thomas-pabs...
This is all just accounting nonsense and tax loopholes. Did you even read the article? FTA:

> Merck reported a loss of almost $2 billion in the U.S. while making $22 billion abroad. Johnson and Johnson reported losing just under $500 million in the U.S. while making $17 billion abroad. Pfizer reported U.S. losses of around $500 million while making $9 billion abroad. AbbVie apparently lost nearly $8 billion in the U.S. while making over $11 billion abroad (mostly in Bermuda) and Bristol Myers Squibb reported a loss of $15 billion in the U.S. (tied to the accounting of an acquisition) and $6.5 billion of foreign profits.
This is oversimplifying. The path to a good career after graduation is still fraught with many traps and pitfalls.

same for people without degrees. having a degree increases odds of success and pay
FSF defined “free software” licenses other than GPL are “free for me, fee for thee”.
> For example, jumping to a specific position in a source code file, scrolling and clicking gets me there much quicker than navigating with the keyboard alone

I say this with the intention of providing context, not to say the way you do things is bad. It's all user preference in the end and there is no wrong way.

Lots of folks consider your "fast" example with a mouse as their "slow" example that forced them into learning more advanced features of their editor. For example. Most Vim users can get to any character or partial string, or parameter, or line, or paragraph, or function start or what you have within three quick keys on their home row. They do this quickly, and can immediately start doing other things right after because their hands never moved.

The mouse is fast because people don't need to memorize things. The keyboard is fast because the keyboard is fast.

It's like the old joke from the movie Heist. "What do you mean you don't like money? That's why they call it money".
probably zig air is a better target:

https://github.com/ityonemo/clr

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY_Z-aGbYm8
The MBA (MacBook Air) easily beats the MBP in my opinion. 32GB ram, M4 CPU really is enough for the vast vast majority of tasks. I use mine to process video and 40 megapixel RAW images, and it flies. And the portability is significantly better than the MBP.

It has no fan, but it rarely even gets warm, with no noticeable throttling.

I used an MB or MBP for the entirety of the Intel era, but these days I have a really hard time seeing any meaningful benefit of its increased size and bulk over the MBA.
How did you make it hallucination proof?
Those who don't want the extra liquidity sound to me a bit like the NIMBYs who don't want more houses in their neighborhood. A smaller number of tokens held by a smaller crew will have less of a useful economy than a larger number held by a larger number of people.
Of course they want the additional $5B, but that's the reward for kickstarting an economy. So much land in affordable private hands today started off as a grant from a soverign, benefitting the sovereign who conquered it and the first landowner as a huge gift.
Social Media Pushes Vulnerable Teens Toward Eating Disorders
It's crazy that almost every house is able to be attached to a pipe carrying high pressure water that will flood if it is broken or attached wrong, thick wire carrying high current that will shock you, a pipe containing explosive gas, and a six inch cast iron pipe full of poop, but adding one more connection to a tiny thin strand of glass wrapped in plastic is too expensive.
Apart from anything else, a fire tower is a better metaphor for on-call than a guard tower, too.
The Vero 4 and Vero V by the OSMC team are amazing: https://osmc.tv

They do a terrible job of marketing themselves though, so quite underrated.
One use case is to mount 360 cams on a bunch of motorcycles (fleet) and do a google streetview equivalent. You build a city level streetview pretty quickly.

I think at that point you'd just need to do 1 pc every 200 readers and pull the videos to a local server for processing. There's no magic here, just work.
That's the classic stereotype. What we often find in open-source media applications is intentional and pompous obscurity. "Engineers" use the same words end-users do. Choosing meaningless jargon is just douchey.