skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"and other similar excesses"

You chose to ignore that. In doing so, interpreted my comment uncharitably.

>Why not just let the OP respond to my comment, if they think they should?

When did I stop the OP from commenting? What a bizarre thing to suggest.

>And what exactly do you think we have both achieved here, with all this back-and-forth about exactly how much animals or humans kill and why? We have just both wasted each other's time. You're happy with that?

No, I'm not. That's why I attempted to disengage.

It was you who started this particular chain off by being combative and rude (by your own admission). Then you refused to accept the basic principle around the idea of generalizations. It was you who has been combative and have failed to interpret other users' comments charitably. Both the OP's comments and mine.

Remember likening the OP's statement to a child who gets their understanding of the animal world from Disney movies? You did that right after you "apologized" to the OP for being rude. See the problem?
Even letting a higher up down is expected. You have to feel it out though if the certain thing is one of those. But if you know it can't be done or you got time, one of the best things you can do is abandon ship. It's really absurd and kind of a bad thing to lace your coworkers with, but if you've got references elsewhere and people within whom you're on good relations with, it won't affect your career one bit. Not only will you not get the blame for it when things aren't done presently, but you don't have to deal with the impossible task management gives you! Which in the grand scheme, if you can stick it out long enough before they fire you and get a job elsewhere, on paper, you never failed! You always achieved your goals.

The entire Gervais Principle goes into detail on this and it's a fun read. A lot of it sounds like just general office politics written in a funny way, but there are some nuggets that a lot of people who aren't in the "sociopath" category (the authors words), aren't willing to do. It's kind of like "the best time to be looking for a new job is now" philosophy in work.
Maybe to make it easier for people to understand the concept - and reinforce a good design pattern? I implemented this stuff my own way whenever I needed it (e.g., for a chatbot), and every time i needed to take the time to explain it to the client app dev teams. Sometimes it took longer than desired, and pointing them to a well written RFC would help.
It's more that it's hard to hit higher margins without the same lack of capital investment. You can get started dealing with just a few hundred dollars.
I'm also a sort of amateur at 3D modeling (though my background is in VR programming so I have a lot of exposure to it) so take my knowledge with a grain of salt, but afaiu there's a few different steps:

Modeling: Maya is best, Blender is a good substitute

Sculpting/topology: Zbrush is best, Maya is runner up, Blender is a good substitute

UV Unwrapping: All the above are good at this

Texturing: Substance Painter is best, Blender is a good substitute

Animation: Maya and Blender are comparable

So as far as I understand the cool thing is, aside Blender is essentially a nearly as good replacement for Maya, and can do everything to an adequite degree for high quality production.

The only things Blender is decidedly not an equal substitute for is Sculpting compared to Zbrush and Texturing compared to Substance Painter.

Again, I'm not an expert, but I think the above is roughly accurate.
The numbers I can find are that the U.S. average is $125/mo for a single driver, and something like 1.5x that for a household. Varies hugely though based on age, driving record, vehicle value, and location.
Indeed. Thanks _Microft :-)
As you you might have guessed English is not my native language.
I'm sorry, I thought it was about storing it in yaml and not the underlying storage method.
If the USSR had been into bar codes, that might have been more useful. The central planning system cycled too slowly, with monthly data and an annual plan. Compare WalMart, which had daily data and a weekly plan.

WalMart is very centrally planned. More than the USSR was at peak.
By the 1980s, WalMart required UPC bar codes on everything, and a different bar code on cartons and cases. Headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas did purchasing and distribution control for the entire WalMart economy. They had central planning at a level Gosplan could only dream of.

Amazon, of course, has taken that even further.
On error resume next was a hack from much earlier versions of basic where it was much more reasonable.

I assume it was only still in VB6 for backwards compatibility.
I honestly have no bulletproof solution and I also have no desire to "defeat" social media.

I just think that people would be happier and social media would be a better place if the public were educated on what it truly is.
I recall reading that the primary purpose of the COBOL ALTER statement was actually for punch cards — you could fix a function by printing out the new function + alter statement, add it to the top of the card stack, and feed it through again — without having to reprint your program, or find the relevant cards to replace
> With effort, github could have linked snippets to the files they came from, and used a mostly-automatic process to identify the license and copyright holder of every quoted snippet.

Actually, they should not be able to, as the whole point is that CoPilot does not just paste code, but instead understands it and applies knowledge, not finished snippets.

The fact that it does paste snippets is the problem, not the authorship of the snippets, as these simply should not exist.
ha, I don't run into them often enough to get their trust, they're still in stealth mode. Except once one of them was so enamored with his freshly found nut that he stood still in the middle of the path just in front of me looking at me like 'what ..'. Another time I came in one's back, sadly by the time I took out my phone I made enough noises for him to climb behind a tree. Most of the time it ends up with me looking up toward leaves trying to follow them as they spider-man in the air so swiftly. (Really there should be a Squirrel-man Marvel movie..)

if one ever gets on me I'll have the hardest time in my life not to bring him home..
huh well im happy to hear its better, intel or amd?
So What Is the American Dream?
My observation of the universe is subjective. Nowhere did I imply it wasn't

What I did state is that there is a difference between the school of thought saying human nature is inherently good and the one saying humans are predisposed to evil. Because we can observe human nature and it does not seem oriented towards good. All people do evil things from time to time including myself. Some do evil that is disproportionate to the average though.

I have considered if I'm just wrong. Have you considered if I may be right?

Nowhere have you offered any argument against what I believe. You just asked pointed questions. I directly responded to a post literally asking me for what experiences I had that led me to my beliefs. I gave an accurate accountings focusing mainly on my subjective experience.

And your response is not to disagree with my conclusions but to attack the fact that I just provided the very experiences demanded of me...

If that were the best argument I could make against someone, I'd reconsider my own beliefs
Nice and worthwhile interview of the inventor of dtrace.

Transcript https://learning.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/leaning-cen...

Overview

0:27 Introduces guest Bryan Cantrill

1:00 - Bryan’s background

9:24 - Following your own path

12:21 - The initial idea of DTrace and how it came to life

17:15 - You are your own customer

21:30 - Discussing the idea of observability

25:08 - How advanced softwares reflects the need for observability

27:42 - Crucial questions for new systems

31:28 - Application of machine learning

33:15 - Discussing open source

41:40 - Remote-friendly workplaces

42:58 - Mentorship and influence

46:27 - What is Bryan most excited about in the field of computing in the next 5 years?
Programmers generate every possible melody in MIDI to prevent lawsuits - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22440944
If it had not been for these clues, I actually would not have noticed.
The fact that school buses are needed seems to be a sign that residential areas are not sufficiently dense for kids to walk to school. (I know that some cities use school buses to provide equal opportunity by randomly assigning kids to schools, which of course would continue to happen in high-density area too.)
It's possible to easily transport water long distances by sending hydrogen by pipe to dry areas and using it to make electricity, with the by product being water.

The energy retrieved as electricity is not going to be as much as the energy required to produce the hydrogen, but when you consider the energy saved by transporting hydrogen gas instead of water, it might be economical
Same with Amazon FBA or eBay reselling. Sure the markets can't be easily compared, but if you have that talent you should use it :)
IMO, no, it's not better than every other 3d tool for every problem. (I've used it for 20 years.) You can get by with Blender for many of them. But for example, Maya's character animation tools and available addons are more mature. Blender is working on a pose and asset library, that is being used now in their open movie project and should be ready by Blender 3.0 in October...
I learned Maya in character animation school, and that's how it happens, that's what's used in studios, so that's what people learn. I think that will change as Blender developers remove more reasons for not switching.
Some day we'll ship things with teleportation. Until then we'll use Pipedream
Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveillance and Monitoring: A Survey
The worst kind of ‘minor features’ are the one which make your service more confusing and harder to use. Yeah, that can be just one check box - but that check box might cause a lot of confusion.
> If China had been more forthcoming--and had kept samples from the culls--we would likely have more answers.

It's entirely possible that the people ordering the culls and the people carrying out the scientific investigations are different and don't talk to each other. From what I've heard, the wildlife trade was shut down very quickly after the outbreak was discovered. This is a bit like the Huanan market: it would have been scientifically valuable to keep it as-is and do a thorough study, but once the authorities discovered there was an outbreak there, they immediately ordered it to be closed and decontaminated - which makes sense from a public health point of view.

Anyways, there has been a lot of extremely valuable research published over the last year+ by Chinese researchers on the origins of the virus (we now know a lot more about the family of viruses that SARS-CoV-2 belongs to, for example), and I think progress will continue to be made.
The Tech Cold War’s ‘Most Complicated Machine’ That’s Out of China’s Reach
Aren't they run like state owner utility companies though? They usually have no competition, state mandated prices, profits enshrined in law, etc..?

> bell curve

How much high-density cities with infrastructure in poor shape spend on infrastructure in percent of their budget? It might be that they still get a better bang for their buck, no?
static can also make your code 10 times smaller: note that in the linked godbolt, there are actually two copies of both loop functions: one regular, and one inlined. this is because the compiler wants to inline the function, but is required to generate an additional one in case someone else will be calling it. what's more, at least on Linux, this copy cannot be removed from the final executable even if nobody calls it, unless a) the compilation is done with -ffunction-sections and the linking is done with --gc-sections, or b) LTO is enabled. adding static to the function declaration resolves this issue.

the situation is even worse with ELF dynamic libraries due to the interaction of two rules: a) by default, all functions are exported, and b) by default, all functions can be interposed, e.g. by LD_PRELOAD. here, if you specify -fPIC in the compilation arguments (as is required to produce a modern dynamic library), inlining is totally disabled. for small functions, the call overhead can be substantial.
> Might be worth just dropping some hardy lichen on Venus to get the process started, because no one is going to go there as-is.

Hardy is an understatement. Life would need an entirely different chemistry to function at 730K.
This seems completely wrong to me. It's just more of the same nonsense. Social media platforms are not to be trusted as arbiters of truth. That isn't their job and if they are "held accountable" for disinformation they will simply double down on censuring any speech that deviates from main stream orthodoxy. What we need is not a crack down on lies but a return of institutions we can trust.
>Well that’s just wrong, Kathy Boudin was driving the truck when they killed the police officer

She was waiting in a getaway vehicle at a different location from where the guards were killed by the people actually doing the robbery.

It seems like you are playing with ambiguous statements. If you disagree with any of my statements about the facts, could you please be specific and explain where your information comes from.
> The only possible reason you might use On Error Resume Next is if you have no error handling code at all

The author (and pretty much everyone else who never used Visual Basic) misunderstands how it's used. The next line is expected to check the Err object to see if there was an error. It was never expected to be used for just ignoring errors; it's a way to switch from "exception style" to "error code style" error handling.

It's true that it's a footgun because you can forget to check, but people misunderstand the intended usage.
Thank you for taking time to write this.
This is a little like saying there should be an RFC for understanding and defending against SQL injection, isn't it?
Like, there are a lot of concepts that would be well-served by an "official document", but that's not the purpose of IETF RFCs.
There are thousands of FPS being pushed to the frame buffer, where they could be displayed at that rate with the right hardware (Although I'm not sure there are display technologies that could update that quickly...). Another way of looking at it is that the FPS rate is now display hardware bound, rather than software bound.
I formerly worked on $LARGE_SOFTWARE for $COMPANY and would frequently get bug reports for crashes, and spent a reasonable amount of time analyzing memory dumps to understand what was causing those crashes so that they could be fixed.

I think correlating those automated crash dumps with reviews in a software distribution channel would have been non-trivial, and not something I would have spent time on though.
There was LISP for the PDP-8! [1] That must have been a cram job, with 4K of 12-bit words.

[1] https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/content/media/38/...
Hear hear! I deleted my Facebook 2007'ish and never joined Instagram, Twitter is only traditional social media site I use, so I can attest to those checking out (or never joining). Even with Twitter, I have to make an effort to not "doom" scroll before bed.

Circles looks cool as decentralized and E2E are fascinating to me. Glue doesn't have a whole lot in common with Mastadon, but similar microblogging features I believe.

Hit me up sometime, would like to hear more about your project. - noah@ark.fm
I've always enjoyed listening to Bryan discuss his computing passions. It struck me listening to this that he seems like a man who has never suffered hardships or trauma and had supportive parents. It made me sad to think about what a difference that would have made in my life.
For climate change, is it a problem of intelligence though? We all know plastic is bad, but most of us don't care. Most of us know reducing meat consumption is a good thing (for environment and otherwise), but most of us won't entertain even reducing meat consumption, let alone going vegetarian. And so on. I don't think it is ignorance is as big a problem as "fuck you, I don't care" attitude

I'd wager what is needed more is kindness - to ourselves, to one another, to animals, to environment etc, more than intelligence.
I didn't realize that Space Invaders was so complicated.
Yeah, I don't think of a fair moderation system as censorship. Groups of people should have the freedom to keep a discussion focused on whatever they desire.

Still, it's disappointing just how easy it is for us to be completely blind to things that go against our own preferences, even when they're blindingly obvious to others.
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What Happened in the Kaseya VSA Incident?
Great. Now I have that song stuck in my head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w
Googler, opinions are my own.

I work in payment and idempotency is always a discussion point. This draft links to one of our docs (though the draft points to a 404 URL, the correct link being[0]).

As the draft calls out, Google Standard Payments uses the "requestId" field as our idempontency key, which is part of the request body, rather than in the HTTP header. We did this specifically to decouple the protocol from the behavior of the request. We could take the existing definitions and put that payload into any other protocol and it would work without having to use that protocol's sidechannel data (aka, the HTTP header).

Our design makes idempontency part of the application layer, rather than any middlebox or load balancer.

[0] https://developers.google.com/standard-payments/guides/conne...
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Show HN: Open-Source Chrome Extension for auto-grouping tabs by URL patterns
Interesting, I favor reading the entire codebase when possible assuming I am going to be working with it for a few months. I only start really looking at old commits only when I need to edit code that’s particularly brittle or incomprehensible.
> I wish this was open source as the original framework is

I believe it's a problem people believe all open source has to be free. And this includes businesses who think open-sourcing something necessarily means giving it away. In fact it is totally OK to ship an entirely commercial (one-time purchase or subscription) product together with its source code but license it the way people won't be legally allowed to distribute forks nor use it without paying. For users this is still better than no-source because good source code is of great value as a form of documentation at least.
There is a concept by NASA for such a mission, it is called "High Altitude Venus Operational Concept" or "HAVOC" [0].
They also made a demo video for it [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Altitude_Venus_Operationa...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0az7DEwG68A
Social media just makes it more visible. This kind of activity used to be social but it was hidden behind church doors, just because its more visible doesn't bring it to a new level its been at this level for a long time already.
Right, that was my point. The comment I was replying to said that all those hackers that supposedly switched to Mac in 2005 didn't seem to have produced any notable software, so I listed a whole bunch of nice software that they had produced.
More interesting question is "Can it be proven and how?". Proof may be obtained via audit of those 300 GitHub employees' contribution during their Copilot evaluation. Who may order such an audit? On what basis?
The VLSI equivalent version of this is to build a cpu by manually placing the N/P diffusion regions, the gate poly, the metal contacts, and the metal wires in your EDA program. The conclusion is to either export it as a spice model and simulate it electrically, or actually get it fabbed on an old process node.

Week 1-2: construct your own standard library of logic cells (I.e. design the layout of the not gates, nand gates, etc).

Week 3-4: compose these std cells into latches and flip flops.

Week 5-6: verilog implementation of your cpu. Used primarily as a model.

Week 7-10: lay out your CPU. Everything from the register file to the ALU. Placed and routed by hand.

Week 11: SAPR the instruction decoder/control logic and then integrate it into your custom layout. Ok so you can’t brag about your layout being 100% custom anymore, but you learned more by doing it this way :P

Week 12: write an assembler; compile a simple assembly program.

Week 13-14: run it on the CPU; explore the limits of your CPU (clock speed, etc).

Well the timeline will vary, but that’s the idea. I think the only feasible way to do that is as a team project spanning multiple quarters. Honestly one of the most rewarding projects I’ve ever done & would recommend to any prof out there who wants to push their students.
I don’t get it.

For a particular request, a server must implement its documented idempotency guarantee, and the client needs to understand the server’s guarantee to know whether it’s safe to retry.

How does this header help or change anything?

It’s only real use (that I see, please correct my misunderstanding if there is one) is to paper over an incorrect API design, where you want idempotent behavior but can have identical payloads for distinct requests.

(e.g., imagine a chat app, where the message being sent is the POST request body, and there’s no other metadata about the message. In that case, there’s no way to distinguish a new “you up?” message from a retry. However, such an API should simply have a message id value sent with each message.)
It’s not tricky at all. The fairness is already baked in. By choosing to live in a low density area far away from existing services, you’ll be paying more. A lot more.
I ask because Usenet, before it became a distributed lossy datastore for media pirates, was "a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it", and it was a complete, well documented, shitshow.
I find it hilarious that Branson is now planning on going before Bezos gets a chance and Musk is just sitting on the side in envy.

It's like the spitting image [1] from last year is becoming reality.

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt13210818/
As an embedded programmer working on small micros I make every single function static (including third party code, which I modify and bring into the source tree and curate myself), gives you global/link time optimizations and dead code elimination for free, leads to better code even at -O0, -Og and -O1, static const configuration structs/values gets optimized away, and so on.

Really wish it was the default.
I could copy a whole sentence from the book and it would not matter at all.
Or even 5 lines like the parent post said.

>....you'd be in bad water already.

Not true either, writing my message in harry potter font would do absolutely nothing. the internet is full of images which use these or similar looking fonts. Its called fan art or whatever, copyright laws are not applicable to this.
Exactly zero real-world situations will have no "substantial similarity" (that's the legal requirement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity ) except for a single character.

Please explain how it "is entirely possible".

Bear in mind that there must be creativity in that choice of character to qualify for copyright protection. If only one character is correct, there's no creativity.

A sentence in a song has far more discretion for creativity than a single character in a software program.

As best as I can tell, you would need to construct some sort of super-APL where "a single character" had significantly more information content than any Unicode glyph, to exceed any de minimis standard applied to a programming language.

(Think Prince's "Love Symbol".)

> that could go to court

I think you mean "that could be found infringing." Going to court is trivial, even if there is no infringement.