skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related, I am working on a front end scripting language that implements this idea, but at the runtime layer:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#async

Basically, the result of every expression is inspected and, if a Promise is returned, the promise is resolved before execution continues. It's all interpreted and really slow for CPU-intensive stuff, but if you are writing async code that isn't CPU intensive it lets you write stuff in the linear manner:

fetch /message
put it into my innerHTML

One interesting thing that fell out of that work is that you can have event-driven control flow, like a loop that executes until an event is received by an element:

https://hyperscript.org/docs/#event-control-flow

<button id="pulsar"
_="on click repeat until event stop
add .pulse then settle
remove .pulse then settle
end">
Click me to Pulse...
</button>
In their system, the actual real-time safety critical code is elsewhere, on a dedicated processor. The python code sends messages to the safety code, which applies limits and sends commands to the car hardware. And other safety systems like AEB are totally untouched and still functional.

The safety code has a limit on steering ramp rate and a max torque limit. The driver can easily overpower the torque limit, and the ramp rate limit means it won't suddenly jerk.

The python code I think is temporary, they ultimately want to do end-to-end models that do both perception and control (rather than a model to do perception and traditional controller to do control). If that effort fails I think they would probably replace the python code, the current stuff is definitely amateurish.
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So what is the chimp troupe supposed to do if they run into a micro or mini Epsteins in their lives?

I ran into one douche who would recite all the things he had done for ppl anytime someone pointed his behaviour was crossing lines. He had like a whole bunch of ppl running around praising his contributions 24*7. And after such reminders everyone in the room would not just let things slide, but apply all kinds of pressure to silence others.

What was truely absurd was the more people avoided the issues, the more he would get suprised and shocked when his behavior was called out. He would litterally use it to extract sympathy (mostly from ppl dependent on him) - 'look at the things I have done and look at how i am being treated blah blah'. If you ever take on such people you have to spend the whole day running around countering the narrative. Who is going to do that?

Finally one day after a big showdown managed to rally enough support to kick him out of the org. But guess what happens two years later? The org has financial issues (by which time I had left) and they invite him back in.

So even though I have some experience with this stuff on a micro level I really dont know what the solutions are.
You link shows a standard way to calculate infant mortality if the baby is born alive. That’s my point, no every country counts those the same.
That's because all the riskier ideas are on television and TV-emulating streaming services (if you make a series divided into "seasons" and "episodes", I consider your series television even if it's straight-to-streaming).

The traditional roles of TV and film have been inverted. Film is now mindless entertainment aimed at the widest possible audience, while television has become a medium for plumbing the depths of artistic possibility.

I chalk this up to two things:

1) Film is increasingly internationalized in ways that television isn't. A movie has to appeal to a wide variety of cultures, all of whom have different mores. Ultimately, the only thing the whole world can agree on is that explosions are fun.

2) Television offers a more flexible format. You can only sit in a theater for so long without a break. Television lets you do sprawling, drawn-out epics with hours of content a year. Television lets you mix serialized and episodic storytelling as you please: your series can lean into one or the other, or it can offer a mixture of both with the showrunner using the balance of serialized and episodic content to carefully control the pacing, set up expectations, and then possibly subvert them. This has always been true, but television has historically been beholden to FCC regulations, network BS&P, advertisers who panic when faced with anything unconventional, rigid time slots, and linear programming. The rise of non-linear consumption (e.g. DVRs), premium cable, and direct-to-streaming series have completely blown the doors off what's allowed on television (or "television"), and showrunners are taking advantage of it in a huge way.
I got a site. Most of my visitors are bots. 30 visitors per month. 25 bots, remaining 5 times I visited knowing from analytics.

Don't overthink. You see there are many one post sites out there. If you can manage it regularly do it.
That sounds exactly like good ideas are getting harder to find.
I'm not the parent, but there is no such EU-wide regulation either, or if there is it is being commonly violated.

Charging at order time is common at least in Finland. Many common payment methods do not support "delayed" charges so all methods are often handled the same way, instantly.

I just saw this in SwedBank docs, though: https://developer.swedbankpay.com/payment-instruments/mobile...

> When dealing in physical goods using two-phase payment instruments, all goods must be shipped before you capture the authorized amount. This is regulated in part by the Swedish Distance and Doorstep Sales Act, required in our terms and (for card payments) required by Visa and Mastercard.

It says "in part", though, I didn't check what the Swedish law actually mandates.
Can't pull the same stunt twice. In the famous words of George W Bush, "Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!"
Performing Benchmark Tests in Go
Yeah, that's what I read. Do you think Congresscritters won't take meetings with BO lobbyists this time around?
You just agreed with me. Nothing Blackwater did with regards to killing civilians wasn’t sanctioned by the state.
My favs are here
https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere
I supposed the title is implying the 6 corps is a low number. What is the _right_ number?
No way to pay VAT and increase GDP if you skip all the steps
I would add to that: if you have a non-insignificant amount of customers, they'll talk to you!

That's how I found out my product, which was targeted mainly at younger people, was really popular amongst the older crowd.
"even changing my user-agent to Chrome, and it works flawlessly." implies that blocking third-party cookies is not the culprit.
> these "hero" fields that exist as a sort of meat grinder during covid have chewed through all the social credit most people are willing to give them.

I really think people are underestimating this.

In the middle of this fiasco, who were going to be the people coming out and interacting with the service economy most?

That's right--the shittiest, most selfish, most ignorant dipshits. I have all manner of stories from restaurants that never had issues suddenly having to call the police regularly after the full lockdowns ended.

So, your already shitty service job just got its "shitty knob" turned up way past 11 because the shitty people are going out and the nice people are staying at home.

Is it any wonder the "service economy" workers just decided to bow out?
That's right. And it also makes every function async. Literal expressions are not awaited - a tiny optimization ;)
I don't think it's customers who need to be their main concern, but employees. I have to imagine that they are going to have to pay a pretty significant premium to recruit good people going forward.

Maybe related: See the criticism of their games in this thread. Potentially this is explained by blizzard having trouble employing people who can make them good games...
A good example of those constraints is there are hard upper limits to heat and energy use by a brain that are simply outdone by, say, a massive supercomputer.

A rough calculation, humans can feasibly consume 4-5 TJ/annum of energy, of which a lot is going to go into motion or whatever. And if devoted to mental activity, it has a shelf life of ~70 years before they die.

A distributed computer might theoretically burn TJ/hr and once the weights are known they may as well be in a permanent record. The upper limits of what computers can learn and get good at are much higher than what humans can. They won't need as much implementation trickery as biology to get results.
Ah, ok. I think this was the article I originally read which implies they only used 2,500 covid positive patients. But rereading it, maybe it’s just unclear reporting.

“Across around 2,500 captured cough recordings of people confirmed to have COVID-19, the AI correctly identified 97.1 percent of them – and 100 percent of the asymptomatic cases.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-cough-analysis-could-detect-...
I am afraid I have to disagree. The very act of creating Anki cards or any flashcards, for that matter, is unparalleled for learning new material. I would consider it similar to the Feynman method in that it forces you to dive deeper into what you do not understand.
They were greedy and put profit over game quality and were on down for a while. They haven't released a good game in years, and the WoW expansions have been a lot more miss than hit. But the harassment is what finished it for me. Shame.
For WoW your reply is a fallacy without addressing the original point.

For every other point outside of Overwatch, you justified, agreed or misunderstood the OP and defended its release vs. its current state.

You think your edit justified your original reply, where you attack the OP's credibility without addressing any of their points, I disagree.
I use it all the time, very worthy little program. Watch everything!
You are not correct.

We know for certain that the games are exclusive to the play date and were written for the platform. Therefore we know that the same experience cannot be had elsewhere.

Even if the titles weren’t contractually exclusive, no other handheld device has the same combination of inputs, notably the crank, so ports of the games would not play the same.

Even if neither of these were true (which they are) we know the games are currently exclusive and have not been ported. Temporary exclusivity is a standard way to create non-substitution in entertainment businesses.

(I was a developer at a successful games company for 4 years. Not that an appeal to authority has any relevance. The facts are public.)
This may not be helpful, but for me scheduled timeboxes are not quite the right solution. The real problem is capacity management, so the ideal solution would be something that makes it clear how much space a commitment occupies without simultaneously forcing me to decide when I will do it.

I know there are some who probably insist that I’m trying to have my cake and eat it too…
And let’s face it, anything is better than writing JavaScript.
What "messaging"? The point the author is making is that the anger is wholly justified.

Would it make you feel better if women pretended everything was okay? How on earth would that help young girls considering tech careers? Should young women entering the workforce also pretend everything is okay? When does it end?

I'm going to assume you didn't mean it, but this comment came across to me as tone-deaf victim blaming. In fact, it sounds exactly like the kind of flippant and dismissive responses the author complained about.

It's no wonder women in tech are angry.
Looks to be this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SWORD_Project#Xiphos
Desktop publishing, especially after the release of the LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaserWriter

It used to be really hard to get printer output to look the same on the page as what you saw on the screen, and the small details matter when people are laying out a complicated magazine (or whatever) page and need text to flow around images and other design elements. There was a whole Adobe-vs-everyone battle over things like outline (as opposed to bitmap) font technology since they controlled the standard for PostScript fonts as used by printers like LaserWriter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_fonts#Type_1

Then Apple created TrueType, and it is the biggest feature of System 7 that I never see anyone talk about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType

Then still lots of back and forth over things like Adobe's multi-master fonts vs TrueType GX which despite being part of the "failed" QuickDraw GX actually lives on in OpenType today:

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

https://atadistance.net/2016/09/20/truetype-gx-model-lives-o...

https://tidbits.com/1994/09/26/preliminary-practical-primer-...

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e: "magazine page" is what always comes to mind because it makes me think of the Diehard GameFAN story:

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gamefan/GameFAN.htm

"he calls the layout artist (which was probably Jacob Riskin or George Weising at the time), 'my trusty [Macintosh] Quadra operator'. What an assface."
Neat! I just have an LC III, SE and Powerbook 1400 running at the moment. Always wanted to find a NeXT...

> Rather than run a bunch of Ethernet cables all over the place I put little Ethernet to Wifi bridge adapters on them. Works great.

That's genius, thanks for the tip.
I agree with all that. But it is interesting to see what the implications can be. I once went to a conference where they made an announcement that they were being green by giving every attendant a canteen to fill up with water instead of using disposable cups. But I'd be willing to bet many of those canteens went into the trash right after the conference, and thus they probably accomplished the exact opposite of what they were after.
This is so cool. I've been wanting to pick up an older mac for the sole purpose of doing some programming on classic MacOS myself. I actually have a Macintosh SE, but it's a bit too underpowered for my tastes. Anyway, I was hoping you might be willing to share what your development environment looks like. Language, editor, etc. Thanks!

Edit: I think I started to reply before your edit. Retro68 sounds amazing!
Fun fact, Bobby Kotick (the "zero-empathy, profit-maximizing creature" who runs Activision Blizzard) was listed in Jeffrey Epstein's black book:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/dfsrt3/activision...

Hard to draw further conclusions, but it's definitely not a positive.
This is exactly my experience about the lack of enforcement of basic traffic laws.

I care little about speeding, but red lights being run is unacceptably dangerous and needs to stop.
It distorts investment away from the direction people would otherwise prefer to invest in.
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Agreed. I'll admit I didn't notice it on first pass and just thought the Jim Morrison bit was sloppy writing, but reading it again it has all the hallmarks of GPT-generated text. It even talks about the etymology of the word "elite" for no reason!

If it isn't GPT-3, then it's writing at a high school level at best and shouldn't be on the front page.
The cited figure is a ~5% performance drop the first time rustc disabled noalias
It's always news for someone, though. Good to remind people about this now and then.

It's like the depressing version the "Lucky 10,000" XKCD.
Xiphos is a holy bible reader with many helpful utilities, maps, commentary, and search.
> Also, a Mars colony that could survive indefinitely if the Earth is wiped out is almost certainly impossible, given the extreme conditions on Mars' surface.

Let's say you have a Martian colony of 100,000 people. It is self-sufficient in basic goods but still relies on imports from Earth for many advanced goods. Something terrible happens, and imports from Earth are no longer possible. Those 100,000 people have a choice – find a way to make do with what they have, or die. I don't think we should underestimate human ingenuity in such circumstances. They'll lose access to a lot of highly advanced goods – for example, they probably won't have their own leading-edge semiconductor fabs – but they may be able to survive without them, using more basic goods to take their place.

> Then, you'll also be missing nitrogen

The atmosphere of Mars is around 2.8% nitrogen. There are likely to also be nitrate minerals in the Martian soil and rock.

> Oxygen will be in short supply

Mars' atmosphere is 95% CO2. You can extract oxygen from CO2 by electrolysis. The MOXIE experiment on Perseverance has demonstrated this.

> and solar winds are constantly stripping away Mars' atmosphere

On human timescales (decades to millennia), Martian atmosphere lost to space isn't significant.

> Also, the cost of building a self sustaining colony on Mars is well above the GDP of the world many times over

I think Musk is going to try to establish a settlement on Mars, initially with tens of people, then hundreds, then thousands. And becoming fully self-sustaining is going to be their long-term goal. But I don't think actual full self-sustaining status is going to be achieved for several centuries.
more specifically, I should say that re-rendering everything is kinda slow, the DrawText function which, uh, draws text, seems very heavy

blitting from a buffer onto the screen is, indeed, pretty fast, I've been experimenting with it and have some ideas for speeding things up
Blame Sean Fanning for causing software companies to incur liability for misuse of peer to peer technology at a rather pivotal point in the development of the Internet. If not for those court rulings, there would have been background info servers running on everyone’s home router long ago. (Ask me how I know )
I think you're talking past one another. The thing you're taking about is specific to debts, but merchants are well within their rights to reject transactions, as no debt has yet been incurred. This is why it is perfectly legal to, for example, not accept $100 bills.
Nope. You want to run a Classic MacOS emulator on rPi to test SSH for MacOS, but that makes no sense.
They don't provide enough information to judge that.
>I'm not sure how you argue against what seems like pretty objective data.

I commend you for crystallizing the argument which I think is indeed representative of what the industry believes about itself and many others reject.

Virtually everything in computing, or the real world, for that matter, is solving some sort of optimization problem, explicitly or implicitly.

I'd paraphrase your comments as, Facebook solves an optimization problem, they make billions of dollars doing it, so it is objectively the optimum.

There are two objections I think that capture most of the opposition.

- Real optimizers can't promise a true optimum every time; they sometimes converge on a local optimum. This local optimum may not be within any particular distance from the global optimum either.

- "Fewer things you just scroll past" is not necessarily what the *user* wants to optimize. It is not in fact what I want to optimize. I'm not sure if I made it clear, but the *existence* of things that I don't actually read is important contextual information. So is the relative order, the timing, the source...

These points are really abstract and general - virtually anything can have these two issues - they're not optimizing the right thing, and they're not finding the global optimum.

I think non technical people sometimes get angry because they intuitively feel that people claim objectivity without justification, but I think it's possible to provide a bloodless, abstract, logical, and specific critique more suitable for a software engineer's mentality, and that's what I tried to do above.

[One other general issue I thought of - optimizers can have the wrong constraints; everything in life normally has rules and limits on how you can pursue a goal. The ends don't necessarily justify the means. So this is another thing that is not covered by simply saying the optimizer produces the optimum]

[This topic makes me think of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands]
I feel like this article uses the term counting, when really they are more generally talking of the process of measuring and/or sampling.

Every measurement is a process of some imprecision - in experiment in itself lending itself to needing some sort of calibrating process or set of experiments.
Yep that's the anchor. Just can't see the flukes due to the angle the picture was taken from. Check https://i.redd.it/99rhoexauq2z.jpg for a better view.

Why is the anchor gold? The Retention Excellence Award (previously known as the Golden Anchor Award); an award given by the United States Department of the Navy for sustaining superior levels of military retention. The award was established by the United States Fleet Forces Command through the Fleet Retention Excellence Program. Deployable Navy ships are authorized to paint their anchors gold as a symbol of earning the award.
Yes, but what I was getting at was the safety factor. As part of the first stage of an orbital rocket SpaceX was stuck with a ~20% safety factor if they wanted to get significant cargo to orbit, where Blue Origin could seriously over engineer the rocket without any obvious problems.

I am not saying they fudged things or that it was easy, just that it wasn’t the kind of litmus test you see on an actual orbital rocket.
> Kidding. This isn't the 90's. The only people who worry about an axis of collaboration between corporations and government to create a surveillance distopia are conspiracy theorists pushing misinformation now.

It’s as if the X-Files never ended and is still relevant. So many people, when grappling with why things are the way they are, simply reach in the toolbox for the easy Cynicism and Conspiracy tools. It’s always “shadowy elite” in media, in tech companies, in government, conspiring to make us all buy SUVs because… uh…, well they are conspiring to make everyone wear masks so they can… uhh… do something. No, actually the elites are conspiring to bring on climate change and space travel so they can build their own Elysium space station and then… um… profit in some way we can’t figure out yet.

That’s the great thing about conspiracy theories: you can just spout the first few steps and fail to explain the end game because there’s always another conspiracy theorist building on it and imagining what the next steps might be.
You can make a decent sandwich with a hot dog bun, peanut butter, butter, and a banana. You are welcome.
I really think this information would have been much easier for me to digest as a chart rather than the current format. I had a head injury recently and my head actually hurts trying to parse and understand this information in the way it is presented.
It's definitely been done before, Zig comes to mind immediately but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the first place I've seen it done first party.
Last good blizzard product was warcraft 3
Mask-free Sweden nears zero daily Covid deaths
I love this post. Just the perfect amount of sarcasm to force readers to think for themselves.
They're still $1 if you order through the app on Wednesdays. No idea how this isn't causing them to lose a ton of money, but it's been going on for over a year.
I’d say that they give middle management an out, a way to make their jobs “easy” by just throwing a tool at the problem. Middle management should be doing what middle managers do in physical production processes: removing barriers, and reviewing processes for continuous improvement. For whatever reason, management science has not caught up to the ubiquity of knowledge work in the modern economy.