skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking Poland specifically not USSR and there was some real computerization done by ZETO and CEOI from 60s. Poland had a few homegrown computer architectures and also since 70s had access to western IT industry (for example it used IBM mainframes pretty much as they were released).

For example PESEL system was designed then (each citizen gets assigned a number on birth, it encodes sex, date of birth, serial number from batch [so it doesn't need to be synchronized constantly], and a checksum so it's easy to find mistakes). And every database in country used that PESEL as "business id".

At first protein-based calculators were executing this algorithm but it was computerized and it's used to this day and works pretty well (even if there are some gotchas from the times when people were calculating them manually).
The point is, that their 'part of the work' appears to be minimizing any real work or input from them rather than trying for progress.
I first learned 3D graphics on Lightwave 3D on Commodore Amiga ages ago, and since then have tried many other 3D applications, many of which (like Lightwave) cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

True Fact: Blender beats every single one of them hands down in every way that I can think of. :)
"all mice studies" is broad. i've been a part of humane behavioral studies with rats. hell there's a "do rats laugh" study out there, and the answer is yes.

what I'm saying is there's a broad assortment of rodent studies, that vary in terms of mutilation or usefulness to society. this one rates high (especially wrt to the projects i've been a part of) on the mutilation scale and low on the usefulness scale. imagine being one of a "parabionts" throughout the gestation period of a human baby. it's not feasible.
We don't see in a good light to "burn works" of art, or have "faces carved out of history", at least not after the Nazi regime.

Plus, the quality of the art has little to do with the morality of the artist. It might even be inversely related.

Some of the greatest artists were addicts, thiefs, bigots, sexual deviants, and so on, including murderers. If anything, this gives them a glipse into aspects of the human psyche and experience most of us don't have.
I don't know how it's possible, but nearly every sentence you wrote is completely wrong.
I was wondering exactly about this. I, for one, would be highly interested in hearing this discussion!
It's called the "Yage Letters" - just written in/about Yucatan area.
@gabereiser thank you for your kind words :) Our plan is fully one time purchase not subscription it's a mistake & we will remove it :)

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It is controversial.
Extensive discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004688
I learned that working hard isn't the ticket to wealth. It's knowing people and putting on a good show that you work hard. I used to work hard and never really got "respect" for it (like promotions or whatnot). While I got shit done, it didn't give me what I wanted. Eventually I started coasting and chatting with coworkers more. I didn't sweat making mistakes either. It was literally the moment in Office Space where the guy just "doesn't care anymore." Like I really had no fear of losing my job, reprisal, or anything. Obviously being a single guy I could afford that, but it was frighteningly one of the most eye opening experiences of my life. I don't have some philosophical belief on life that I think others should follow, but playing pretend and winging things with confidence has done me far greater wonders to my career than being blatantly honest about everything and working very hard.
> If you are entry level programmer and you work weekends to finish a project for your employer while learning a lot

I think that's what I meant by aligning personal projects with career ones. I have no problem with this type of work.

I just wanted to bring up the point of making sure you're not being taken advantage of.

> Not everyone can start a side project or business at 22.

It depends on the project. There is no need for it to be a new business or a groundbreaking open source project. You can be a junior web developer that learns more about SQL and the PostgreSQL internals. Or packages your app with Docker, improves CI pipelines and/or runs it in k8s. Those types of projects get you hugely successful at your job while raising your programmer market value.
I have a T2 diabetic friend that complains about the cost of insulin, yet refuses to exercise and loose weight.

Losing weight and keeping the weight is hard. It isn't a coincidence that we have an obesity epidemic for a reason. Suppose your friend did try to lose weight? More likely than not your friend will gain weight back. Yes, there's no excuse to try. but there's no expectation of success.

People have not been suckered into anything. Most people lack the agency to change their circumstances.

This is called learned helplessness and it is a big problem, but there are also contributing problems other than learned helplessness, such as structural problems surrounding housing options. In any case, blaming people for their lack of moral fortitude isn't really a solution at all. It means we stopped asking questions and looking for solutions.
Yes, it does build.
The thing is: The GPL is different.

With other licenses if you distribute derived work, the distribution is illegal.

With GPL in the mix the derived work becomes GPL as well.
Reddit isn't decentralized. The "moderators" play enforcers for the admins, to push their agenda and cleanse the site of any content the management doesn't want to see. Outrage is their business model, it leads to increased interactions between users (i.e. flame wars) and so they spend more time on the site. Any community or mod that doesn't play along is removed, thus in the major subs you can think of them as directly working for the company, although unpaid. The users are NOT in charge, there is a crazy amount of political censorship on reddit. In the end that leaves the echo chamber it is now. Your example demonstrates how the authoritarian style of managing social media suppresses free speech but does nothing to reign in toxicity. Facebook and Twitter are similar toxic echo chambers.

On an actually decentralized platform the radicals would still be there, but so would many other voices. Where users can't be banned for "wrongthink", communities must convince their audience with arguments or fear losing supporters. The chilling effect would be gone. A truly decentralized site would have plenty of communities the individual user doesn't agree with - just like in real life. And just like in real life users can deal with it by staying away.
I haven't thought about whether an actual blockchain is really the best solution, but the redundancy argument is legitimate. We've been doing it for decades in other systems where an unnoticed bit flip results in complete mission failure, such as an Apollo mission crash.

I'm not really sure what Yeti 2022 is exactly, so take this with heaps of salt, but it seems like this is a "mission failure" event -- it can no longer continue, except as read only. Crypto systems, even more than physical systems like rockets, suffer from such failures after just "one false step". Is the cost of this complete failure so low that it doesn't merit ECC? Extremely doubtful. Is it so low that it doesn't merit redundancy? More open for debate, but plausibly not.

I know rockets experience more cosmic rays and their failure can result in loss of life and (less importantly) losing a lot more money, and everything is a tradeoff -- so I'm not saying the case for redundancy is water tight. But it's legitimate to point out there is an inherent and it seems under-acknowledged fragility in non-redundant crypto systems.
And for prescription drugs, tie the prices to what some other countries pay.

Some of the solutions are really easy but it’s hard to get done when some politicians are paid off, some want the system to fail so they can do single payer, and some are vehemently anti regulation.

Something more drastic would be making all health insurance plans be high deductible (as in, make it insurance again), and ensure that prices are up front and transparent. You’d see prices plummet relatively quickly.
Superconductors famously don’t produce heat. Putting a superconducting magnet in shade (though that includes from the Earth not just from Sol) will keep it cool once it gets cool.

This is what the James Webb is going to be doing, though for non-superconducting reasons.
Exercise and weight loss won't fix the obscenity that is the US healthcare system
Nope, it's completely true. I left MacOS when they ditched support for 32-bit software, and was delighted to find that 95% of my software "just worked" on Linux. If you're looking for a true Unix box, you're shooting yourself in the foot by buying a Mac, especially today.

"the hacker" wants a suite of coreutils that are updated constantly. They want a package manager and an extensible system. They don't want their computer to second-guess them, and they don't want a large corporation to decide what's right for them.
>Things like this are definitely a very welcome change but running a production workload on Kubernetes is still no where near a hands off exercise, even with the cluster creation and scaling aspect abstracted away. There's still learning, using and applying Kubernetes.

I think that's what this article alludes to. You won't need to manage Kubernetes with an automated container orchestration platform that just needs your container or cluster. If an automated system can take care of the management, then the "cloud management" part of DevOps is greatly reduced.
Blender documentation is more useful once you know Blender well enough to even know what to look for, but in all honesty I've found that it's far more effective to just search your Blender question on YouTube and watch a video from BlenderGuru or CG Cookie or one of the many other fantastic tutorial creators out there. :)
The solution to misinformation from without cannot be the tyrannical coercion toward state-sponsored misinformation from within. Free speech and a free society have always been vulnerable and difficult because bad people can come in and say bad things to stupid people and make bad things happen. This is not a new problem. But throwing out that freedom is not a solution. You will not like the results.
there are many unofficial implementations & PWA webapps
In my experience with ECC RAM on couple thousand servers over a few years, we had a couple machines throw one ECC correctable error and never have an issue again.

It seemed more common for a system to move from no errors to a consistent rate; some moved to one error per day, some 10/day, some to thousands per second which kills performance because of machine check exception handling.

The one off errors could be cosmic rays or faulty ram or voltage droop or who knows what, the repeatable errors are probably faulty ram, replacing the ram resolved the problem.
If you work remotely you do need to put more effort in order to meet new people, do take each and every opportunity to do so - and maybe try to create some new ones.
I see about 220 tubes in that pic, and I'd guess he'd need at least twice that to replace bad/broken tubes. I bet there are more that aren't visible, so it should cost a few hundred dollars. Still, it's a huge steal compared to what a comparable tube computer would have cost back in the 60s.
It is a good idea to lower your utility cost, but the utility can still charge outrageous prices.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
Weather Volatility?
Jake Williams challenges MS on Copilot and copyright
> seemingly minor language feature

This is not at all a "minor" language feature. Allowing different functions with the same name is an obvious atrocity that necessarily leaches to the whole language. For every function call you need to find all instances where its name is defined, not just one. Imagine allowing variables with the same name but different types; the actual variable to be determined according to the context. Wouldn't that make interpreting the language much more difficult? The same thing happens with overloaded functions or methods.
You're refusing to just accept that CRT is in fact embraced, advocated, and shaping discourse and attitudes among people. This example did not spring up out of the blue. Your dismissal of it as a right-wing fiction is either naive, or dishonest.
Yes, writing status to log would be a better example; you might want to log retries.
Mathematical Optimization still has many subfields that can be of interest. I guess that non-linear mathematical optimization is most more typical for many machine learning applications. Many pratical applications in scheduling, logistics, planning etc used linear (integer) programming and combinatorial optimization. The following are some points towards that body of literature.

Alexander Schrijver [1] has lecture notes on Combinatorial Optimization on his website [2]. He also has an affordable 1800 page three volume set of books "Combinatorial Optimization - Polyhedra and Efficiency" [3], although I would say it is better suited as reference material because it is quite densely written.

There is also the classic book "Combinatorial Optimization - Algorithms and Complexity" [4] by Papadimitriou (Bill Gates' MSc thesis supervisor) and Steiglitz that is a nice introduction to the topic as well.

"In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman - Mathematics at the Limits of Computation" by William J. Cook [5] is a more popular science book on the history of the Traveling Salesman Problem, that also explains how linear programming is used in the state of the art solvers, but is of course focuses on a very specific problem. There is also a book that contains all the scientific and mathematical details by Applegate, Bixby, Chvátal and Cook [6] if that is preferred.

In recent years, there is a trend that mathematical optimization researchers work more with ML. In particular Dimitris Bertsimas has done some work on the intersection of those area's in recent years [7] and apparently has a book on the topic as well [8] (but I am not familiar with it).

[1] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~lex/
[2] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~lex/files/dict.pdf
[3] https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783540443896
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Combinatorial-Optimization-Algorithms...
[5] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691163529/in...
[6] http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/book/index.html
[7] https://dbertsim.mit.edu/papers/
[8] https://www.dynamic-ideas.com/books/machine-learning-under-a...
Yes it's a mistake from our side & we will change it :)
Thank you
I think every programmer should know, that logical AND is many times faster than Modulus (which is at least as hard as a division), and use & instead of % right in his code for powers of two (and not expect it to be done by a compiler).
Transportation and housing are ultimately a land use problem.

We decided to build roads, and wide roads, as well tons of suburbia.
Defining quality of life can be hard and subjective but at a US BugTechCo you typically work 35-45hrs, have top shelf insurance, unlimited vacation (that people use and sometimes paid paid vacation where you get paid while you’re on vacation AND get paid to take one as a bonus) Also we have a ton of holidays (sup Juneteenth!) as for public transport the US is BIG but ya we should work on that, also more dense cities, I agree there.

Can also just buy a place in the EU once you’re rich from FAANG life… or with full remote go make the US salary there.
If I could travel back in time I'd tell Dennis to make "static" the implicit default, and have a special keyword like "public" or "export" for items that are meant to be accessible from outside the compilation unit.

I'd also ask him to make "switch" break by default.

Then I'd go kill Hitler or something.
This is specifically addressed as not a solution in the article.

For example MIT, one of the most permissive licenses there is, still requires you to include the MIT license and copyright notice "in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software".
That's very useful! I can't decide if the architecture is more complicated or simpler because of that. It helps avoid stale data showing up in the UI, etc. It seems like you just need to store the idempotency key and the request data (in case the data changes, to catch bad requests using same key...), but not the response.

I think Amazon actually stores the response in a table for some amount of time (24 hours?), iirc https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/making-retries-safe-... but I could be wrong.
> But the day only has 24 hours

8. The day only has 8 hours. I'm not getting paid for more than that.
Sorry to not add to the conversation, but I can confirm I get the same effect on the same phone iOS ver, so it’s not just you.
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> do so without considering a commercial OS

You forget that most people are using Linux to replace a commercial OS.
Yep, this type of gesture speaks volumes. It's saying the company is expecting you to value your personal life and health alongside your work, and demonstrating that it's ok to work however works best for you.

As many others have commented, it's not useful or desirable to force people to distance themselves from work they're energised by and want to immerse themselves in. But it's important that the whole company is onboard with that being a choice, not an expectation.
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I have experimented with this stuff for decades.

It’s all frankly half baked and clunky, and the time investment in configuration is insane.

Yes, you can find individual features that are better than MacOS spread across them, but you can’t get good design, aesthetics and features in any single one of them.

You can certainly get by with it, but why would I want to just ‘get by’?
> Native of Australia were not considered smart 200 years ago; but now we appreciate their lifestyle and culture a whole lot more.

Do we? I don't see it. Their lifestyle isn't sustainable with modern population levels, billions would die. Of course killing off billions of people would fix climate change problems, but people wouldn't say that is a good solution.
> Outside urban areas, the vast majority of houses being built are four- to five-bedroom executive-style housing on greenfield sites: completely out of the reach of first-time buyers or those on council waiting lists.

1. Is it really the case? I don't expect developers to build something they cannot sell.

2. If someone buys such houses they are probably moving out from cheaper houses/flats which become available on market.

Unless houses stay empty (e. g. as an investment or a vacation house used for a fraction of a year) any new development should help to alleviate housing crisis.
Let me ask you a question: if you had the choice between drinking 4 espressos or 1 cappuccino, what would you choose if you wanted to sleep well at night?

If you follow PGs logic, it shouldn't matter because 1 cappuccino is the same amount of liquid than 4 espressos, but we all know it does, right?

Same goes for working on weekends. If all you need to do is solving a super-interesting engineering problem then go for it. If you are firefighting customer escalations in four failed IT projects at the same time, then I'd recommend to take a break.
Turing completeness applies to models of computation, not hardware. Otherwise, nothing would be Turing-complete because infinite memory doesn't exist in the real world. Just read the first sentence of what you linked to:

In computability theory, several closely related terms are used to describe the computational power of a computational system (such as an abstract machine or programming language)
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The future is in symmetrical, high-speed internet speeds
The API is the worst part of Blender.

* Almost every release introduces some breaking changes

* The documentation that you find online is almost always out of date

* Most error messages give you very little feedback to figure out the problem

* Most of the existing operators/scripts are implemented in C/C++ and are built into blender. So when you encounter a useless error message (extremely common), your only option is to clone the full Blender source tree and start searching for that particular operator

* Many functions/operators are dependent on the editor state. For example: the only way to pass an input to an operator is to change the currently selected object, and you have to make sure the editor is in the correct mode (object/edit/pose/etc). All of these things are visible to the user, so you better revert any changes you made once your script completes to avoid interrupting their workflow/annoying them.

But the built-in Python console with tab completion is excellent. Even though the API has all those problems, having an interactive REPL to figure things out is great. If the API were more stable, documented, and less clunky with the editor state stuff, creating extensions for Blender would be an awesome experience.
Pretty much everyone I know has used GitG since... 2006?