skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What’s the trick to your faster compile times?
note that in rpg you don't stimulate the physics. every tick of combat you send an effect packet that describe that turn action result and the client side plays whatever effect is needed

once a combat session is initiated you don't need that much prediction going on because where you move is uncorrelated to where a fireball hit or not, only player stats.

the real exception are are effect, as the client need to reconcile them, but the client can chat as much as it wants as long as the presentation matches the server player stats: it can for example position area effect that hit on the server in a position such as the player hit was in range.

the client only had to make sure action result are in sync, not the world physical station whole
In the US you must opt-in to a religion. Parents can raise you according to their religion,the bill of rights applies to government not parents so they can tell you whato to say do and believe. Basic human rights are protected for most people (except prisoners I guess),but also additional rights for children exist both at the state and federal level. The idea of being born into a religion is not recognized. The declaration of independence is apparently not a legal document you can use in court. If it was,the fundamental rights you mentioned according to that document are self-evident and are given to mankind by God, meaning government cannot implement laws against the self-evident will of God and the self-evident rights of God has given to mankind. It was the foundation of their argument for independence, since after all King George is legitimate only because the people believe he was divinely appointed,deriving authority from God.

This idea that democracies exist in acknowledgement of God and derive legitimacy not simply because they represent the people's will but because they protect the people's God-given rights(even for the minority) was well accepted well into the past century. Some even reallized how the atheistic views of communism is incompatible with democracy.

Even moving past independence, could Abraham Lincoln have made the argument that slavery must be abolished due to "all people are created equal" if he was a communist ? That argument was relevant because it was once again the government taking away people's God-given rights.

If you wonder why your rights are treated so cheaply and all the freedom you have is fading so rapidly is because no one,not the government,not the majority of people or the few that fight for rights acknowledge that the foundation of these fundamental rights is God's authority, that a government and a country while sovreign relative to other countries,there is only absolute sovreign from whom all authority and rights are derived. But going back to what you said, the fundamental rights might as well be fiction to the legal system and SCOTUS,the constitution itself is the document they think is "a living document" they can interpret as they see fit without regard to where absolute rights and liberties originate.
I don’t think the parent’s point is invalid. We’re seeking the oldest programmer, in this case someone who writes code professionally.

If we want to play fast and loose with our definitions then I’m a farmer, because I grow plants in my backyard.
The CEO is the chief executive responsible for execution. Is programming not a form of execution? Why would the two be mutually exclusive?
“flew exactly like the simulators”
I see cover letters as the the same as CVs/résumés: it can be a vector of either bs or interesting content.

I wouldn't write a cover letter unless the company explicitly asks me to, or unless I can add additional information that wouldn't be fit into the CV. For example, when I applied to Digital Ocean my cover letter was the correct place (in my opinion) to say that I've been a customer if theirs since 2014.

For the record, they were interested until I said I would have liked to work remotely (since they bragged extensively about remote work on their careers webpage).
Once you start letting anyone edit, you have to solve a bunch of other problems: various kinds of spam, non-spam low quality edits, deconflicting manual edits with other data sources. The easy/default solution for most things is to have a trustworthy sources only (official website, Google My Business page, etc.) and a decision tree for choosing which one wins.

The Maps feature for editing listings was a ton of work spanning a bunch of teams over several months, but that kind of investment is made only after every other option has been exhausted because it's so slow and expensive and scales poorly relative to just ingesting more data and throwing ML at it.
In Spain the attitude is similar, but for different reasons.

Environmental consciousness is sadly low in general, but cult to fashion and looks is strong. Machine drying anything but towels and sheets would be considered shabby by most, as it damages clothes.

When I was looking for housing, I visited some really luxury apartments (that I could never afford, but visiting is free and I'm a curious person, so why not) and having a good place to line dry clothes was always seen as a boasting point, never associated to poverty in the slightest.
Breaking curfew sure does result in some entertaining footage. Those reporters need to go.
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"programmers have spoken, and they"...'ve done quite a lot of work to get the benefits of generics without language support. You can pretty much look at any large Go project (famously Kubernetes) and see a workaround of some shape or form.
The guy even looks a bit like Elon. 1/48 scale net worth too?
Good luck and hope this leads to better productivity for Xfce developers. You are doing an amazing job, has been my go to desktop env for the last 9-10 years.
I'm so near sighted, I wouldn't make it out the door without my glasses :-)

Have you tried the 'blue blocker' type lenses? If so, how do you like them ?
Did I miss something? Where did they shoot at the reporter?
I guess the negative reactions are because you're making statements without anything to back them up.

> Why are you worried about license fees as a developer?

Lots of developers are involved to some extent in financial decisions. And in any case, I'd be worried about losing my job because Oracle had bankrupted my employer..

> Seriously speaking, start with Oracle SE2. It is so cheap

Postgres is free, and open source too.

> Oracle Public Cloud gives you database extremely fast

It's extremely unlikely that devs will want to host a database in Oracle's cloud, and everything else in AWS/Azure/GCP.

> and you will never have issues with license audit

The very fact you felt the need to throw that in is exactly why people hate Oracle so much - they are absolutely infamous for screwing customers out of every cent.

> The name of "Rollback of DDLs" is "no developer access to production" and "UAT"

As others have said, it's useful for testing changes in pre-prod environments - so you can make sure stuff works before it gets to prod.

> Are you a huge fan of Vacuuming, XID Freezing, WAL optimisations etc. etc.?

This makes no sense; vacuum is automatic, and why would you not want knobs to tweak settings to your workload? Oracle has plenty, so I don't get your beef here.

> The MVCC in Postgress, in my view (!) is joke from academia, where they had not a single DBA

I've never heard a single sole claim such a thing - do you have any sources?
This applies only if you reside in Georgia.
As far as I can see democracy still functions in Germany, and if DW airs propaganda, members of the public can question and criticise it. In Russia, that's not so much the case (unless I guess you can 100% survive falls out of any window).
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Making housing more affordable sounds like a net win. Those working there would be able to afford better housing.
I've been following podman for rootless containers. It works fairly well on Fedora. RHEL 8 works, but has older version of packages compared to Fedora.

There are some fairly well documented shortcomings to consider/work-around. You can find that list at https://github.com/containers/libpod/blob/master/rootless.md
This is all the more impressive when you realise all the design, build, programming, filming, editing and even the music is done by one guy. I highly recommend subscribing to his YouTube channel to keep up with his current project: https://youtu.be/eh8ic1-5wFo
> the project is moving incredibly fast and actively evolving

Not that I'm hating, but one of the comments above made a valid point that this part of your comment suggests is correct: maybe you should be blogging about progress of the project and gain plenty of eyeballs?

One thing I saw that fascinated me is you guys are using mDNS for discovery, I was debating this discovery approach for a small microservices foundation for D but I couldnt even find a decent library so I havent really attempted much work in that approach. I did something that in a sense feels like a micro service architecture entirely with mDNS but in Python, then months later I worked with microservices in Java and it felt so bloated and overcomplicated compared to mDNS.
It works just fine for me (though my repos are small), however it is extremely slow when ssh'ing through Tramp onto a Linux host. I still put up with it because the interface is so good.
Is there any resource somewhere explaining why they migrated away from gitolite ? Not trying to sound negative, I'm just interested in the reasoning behind and see what really differentiates the two in this kind of usage.
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Real-life examples of giving constructive feedback
Containers, Flatpak, AppImage, AMD's new drivers, libinput, Glamour drivers, Plymouth, bluez and the whole bluetooth stack, PulseAudio.. none of these are 20 years old. It disingenuous to suggest nothing has changed or improved in 20 years.
Intersection is calculable in amortized O(M + N) with hashing.

Build hash table in O(N) of the smaller set, then probe M entries of the larger in the table.

If we rely on sorted order, we can make it a requirement/invariant that these sets are maintained in sorted order. Membership in a group rarely changes; if a user is added to a new group, that can be inserted in order. A binary heap structure could be used to keep these objects in array form, while allowing better than linear insertion.
I just had the maintenance of an Android app dumped in my lap, and I’m dreading it. I have a decent amount of experience with iOS development and have been pretty impressed.

But everyone characterizes Android as a shítshow. As a consumer, Android’s profound problems are evident from the fact that millions of devices are orphaned soon after release, because users must wait for every telco to dribble out a special version of the OS for every device, one at a time.

WTF? This is a 21st-century OS?
That's really cool!

I wonder what the bottom-line price tag on something like that would be.
Looked up “HOPS (for Heuristic Optimized Processing System)” but didn’t find any good direct hits. Can you point me to some good starting points?
They don't call him budget Elon for no reason.

If he is not running his own orbital rocket company in 10 years I will be amazed.
Amazing career. You inspire me. Not only because you have continued this long, but because you have progressed your education and skills. You have veered toward ultra cool programming with machine learning. While I only work on CRUD webservices... which there is a big need for, but lacks the coolness of machine learning.

When considering going back to school or focussing efforts on writing software for employers/clients, I always side on writing software. But with your story I will give more weight to going back to school, as it might lead to new avenues.

I'm in my 40's and really enjoy these stories from older programmers to help me stay motivated. I like to believe that my best days are always ahead of me, and your story helps me affirm that.
Don't the bombs go off while they're still way up in the air for that reason?
A good read that explains the background, thanks!
It is not masses that complain; it is just few loud mouths.
I've not had to try them yet. I'm not looking forward to it. Seems like it would be unnatural/tiring.
If I can include non-professional, then I have been programming since 5th grade in 1981. Started out on Apple][ and TI-99/4A at school and home respectively.
I remember my first play around with the small rocket kits. 1 small motor and you press “Fire” annnnd it’s gone. You can’t see it anymore and it’s lost lol.
I kinda agree, but because most of the times I've seen using that form ("why don't we just do/use X instead?") It was from somebody that had read that $bigcompany has done/used X for their use case, but they had no direct experience themselves -- meaning that they had no idea about the kind of problems that X would bring and/or ACTUALLY solve.

HEY, WHY DON'T WE JUST END WORLD HUNGER?
It's usually because of fear of police retribution.
Doesn't google charge for business use of maps, and charge for advertising within maps? Cost of support should be included in those costs.
Politicians like the Black mayor who got the police called on him - in his own city?

https://www.ebony.com/news/chase-bank-calls-cops-on-black-ma...

The Black doctor who got shot by a policeman while helping his patient?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Charles_Kinsey

A title doesn’t give you power in America if you are a minority. You will still be seen as a threat. I live in the most affluent county in my state, and our household is above the median household income, my son and his (Black) friend still gets stares walking around unless they are hanging out with their larger group of White friends.
Anecdotally, I do have to regularly support Windows systems that are a horrible mess, the difference being that Windows users are expecting this and while they may curse Windows, it's just another case of 'it acting up again' and this is so common that is not even a major point against it anymore.

As for macOS, just search for 'catalina' here on HN and you'd find endless complaints.

Not saying Linux doesn't have problems, but it does seem like its proprietary competitors are given a lot more slack.
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I should also mention that I recently bought a Flexispot stand up desk converter. So now I can stand up and work when I want to. It only accommodates two of my monitors, but that's all I really need anyway.
Welp, I called it two weeks ago -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23146976
Support was excellent in my case. They responded quickly, and solved my issue competently.

I agree that not all of their laptops are top quality, but mine is just perfect for me, couldn't be more satisfied.
A reasonable person would assume "without cost" until proven otherwise when reading "free software".
That’s the whole point of tabs. How is this an argument against them?
The problem here seems like YouTube, not some random staffer at NatGeo who likely made a mistake. Even if they didn’t, if you build a system that doesn’t account for malicious actors and just assumes every copyright claim is true, you’re going to get these kinds of results.
It depends. At the times there were very expensive books in hardcover with much whitespace, superflouos and sometimes wrong illustrations. Looked good in your book shelves, but a waste of money. Similar to fad driven development nowadays, in a way, but not exactly.

At the other end books from the former German Democratic Republic, Softcover, thin, often already yellowing paper, shabby looking typeset. But: no frills, rarely any obivious errors, and straight to the point while cheap.

Guess which i did prefer?

edit: sample https://wiki.forth-ev.de/doku.php/projects:vack_-_programmie...
Some interesting statistics on tattoo regret:
https://www.advdermatology.com/blog/statistics-surrounding-t...

Personally, I would have regretted each of the tattoos I would have gotten during each era of my past life.

I am looking forward to visiting Japan and being allowed in to a bath house (onsen) because I am tattoo free: https://www.kashiwaya.org/e/magazine/onsen/tattoos.html
That's exactly the content I'm on HN for
I feel like it's a good time for a revival of BitTorrent. There was a lot of excitement for it back in the day, and while it still exists it's definitely waned in popularity.

Trying to do something like share a file with friends on the internet is still really hard to do. I know here are websites for this (like send.firefox.com) but it's still much harder than it should be.

I also worry that Big Tech is slowly trying to kill the URL (and the website in general). The move away from the web toward apps is bad for end users, but good for advertisers and companies trying to extract money from people.
> Those who somehow confuse our “neural network architectures” with the actual biology in our skulls are really misguided..

To be fair, many lectures/books/articles/blog posts on ANNs start off by presenting a biological neuron, and saying that ANNs approximate this.

E.g. https://youtu.be/uXt8qF2Zzfo?t=385 (MIT 6.034 Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2010. 12a: Neural Nets)
It's a matter of personal workflow, but I do it all the time. I try to add tasks for things that I want or need to read, including work-related stuff, like Basecamp posts that require my response, so that I actually get to them.

The goal, for me, is to not get distracted by reading things when I should be doing things, so I try to postpone the reading until a more appropriate moment. However, to do that without stress, I need to be able to trust the system enough to know that I'm definitely going to get to that reading later – during a review, or earlier.

I noticed that if I don't have a task for links to read, I end up either reading them right away (damn FOMO) or they disappear into a black hole, because there's just too much stuff in my head to remember everything.
I'd be happier to see SourceHut taking over.
Funny enough, before reading this article, the only time I heard about The Roxy was in this song from Crass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sq7TN_5eXJo

I guess that's some sort of immortalisation :)
Walmart employees are out to show its anti-shoplifting AI doesn’t work
> I didn't bother to give sources because everything is pretty trivial to find

If it was then I wouldn't be asking :)

Best I was able to find was a chart (ostensibly from NASA) comparing different battery technologies, which is probably where the 3× claim originated, but doesn't say much about improvements over time (only by technology): https://www.epectec.com/batteries/cell-comparison.html

To your point, though, it does indicate that lithium-ion specifically hasn't had such a 3× jump (but it does represent such a jump relative to older technologies like lead-acid or nickel-cadmium).

> you can Google "tesla 2170 bench test" or "Samsung INR21700-50E bench test" for details of the best cells today

That doesn't really say much about historical trends, but good to know.

> "history of 18650" to see that the format is nearly 30 years old

Is that relevant? AAs are even older than that, and yet seem to have improved quite a bit.

> and "(your favorite 2010 phone) BOM" for some example price data. (as an example: galaxy s4, $5 and 10Wh.)

That does line up with https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-s4-bill-of-materials... (which cites $5.60 for 2600mAh, or $4.90 for 2100mAh).

Meanwhile, the Galaxy S9+ lists $4.90 for 3500mAh: https://technology.informa.com/601100/galaxy-s9-materials-co...

Neither of these really say much for the mass, though, so it's hard to get a clear picture on energy density from this.

> Nobody wants to read a complex multifaceted failure analysis

I mean, I would, but I'm well aware of my insanity.
Why are you not yet retired? I can think of few strong reasons, but I would love to hear from you. (I started programming at 8, I’m 41 and I have no plans of stopping )
> It's always ethical to film police misconduct, in fact what's unethical is that they're not already filming themselves

The issue is filming what else might be going on around, which may be sensitive.
We have been discussing the wrong thing about social media and cencorship
On testing the simulation theory (2017)
While gmail spam filtering was tightening, spam was also getting 50-100x “worse” as well.

I used to have no spam filtering at all on my mail (other than human visual grep). That was ok through 2003 and barely tenable up until about 2007. I then tried to run my own with SpamAssassin and the like. Around 2012 I folded and switched to running inbound mail through gmail. Life immediately got massively better. I almost never see spam and my own domain mail (outbound self-hosted, no commercial provider) gets through to gmail users just fine.

Yes, I get some false positives (ham categorized as spam). I probably have undetected false positives as well. It’s still 100% worth it as email was getting difficult to use previously.
I think a large part of the problem is that the software industry still doesn't know how to measure someone's value systematically and reliably. Metrics like LOC/day or bug minimization or speed of project delivery differ widely across problem domains and the technical level of contributor.

Does wisdom count in software? Practically and generally, I'd say no. When setting hiring priorities, cost trumps wisdom in all but the most senior roles.

(BTW, at 62, I've been coding professionally for 34 years. I wish I were valued more by my employers with each passing year. But if it's so, they hide it well.)
Can we save the night sky from satellite streaks?
Go fuck your self
No cost for business listing.
When OCSP is down nothing happens with most browsers. Except-Staple might worsen it a bit, but how many use that?
The world is not as straightforward as it seems believe me.

I have Japanese tattoos where does that place me?

How about another example. Have a child.

Dude that link is about a tattoo friendly place. Anyway nobody really cares everyone is keeping to themselves and even the Japanese are covered in English lettering same way we're covered in kanji go figure.

Yo! But you don't know whether you would've regretted them had you gotten them. But then again some people get them for the wrong reasons, granted.

You should only get one when you can practically see it coming out from under your skin.
I write code that lasts decades and I can promise you a glass orb is unnecessary.
Following on from this, why didn't they use, say, gogs/gitea?
> They just vanished, presumably exported.

Gotta wonder if they end up becoming parts in the US. I buy working pulled screens off ebay for doing repairs because the aftermarket ones suck. Often wondered how many were off stolen devices, but no way to know.
Side note: if you get a new cheap toaster from the shop it will have an integrated toaster controller IC. And the functions defrost/reheat which are sold at premium are in all ICs, only the buttons are missing in the cheap ones.
I've been incredibly happy with the Affinity Suite. Smoother and cleaner than GIMP/Inkscape/Scribus, and a desktop app for $50 ($25 during Covid), which makes it more palatable to me than the Adobe options.
I do agree that benchmarking is hard, especially for databases that have so many knobs and buttons to tweak things to suit particular workloads.

I think DB makers should take it as an opportunity to make inroads into developer communities, explaining how to configure and optimise, maybe even work together to create a standard test harness. Rather threatening to bankrupt anyone that talks about their database...
I would expect the UI in a space ship to be soft realtime. Chromium and JS are anything but.
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