skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. Many philosophers are pretty clear about it (French ones: B. Pascal, A. Lalande...), however it implies cold (dispassionate) heads and (as pointed out here by KronisLV) plenty of time. Most of us, sadly, lack time and only invest it in whatever we feel some passion for.
My father joined Kodak out of college, in 1951. A classmate who interviewed the same day ended up running the place.

My father helped a senior programmer automate dozens of jobs, chemically testing their film processing plant. For this he was moved to their research labs. In the 1970's he invented the filter used in nearly all digital cameras:

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

He retired as Kodak's highest paid employee with no responsibilities for others. He was profoundly uncomfortable telling other people what to do.

Some people just aren't cut out for management.
I'm currently driving a pretty new Mercedes (company car), and its lane assistant regularly tries to kill me in construction areas because it wants me to follow the regular, currently inactive lane markings.

It's gotten so bad that I'm switching off the lane assistant when I'm approaching construction areas.

I've talked to a guy at the car dealership, and he said "my mother complains about the same thing, it's a known issue".

I really, really hope they've managed to fix that for the autonomous driving models, or at least auto-disengage before construction areas. (And if they fixed it, can I get a software update please?)
Shoulda been a carpenter...
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Used to do this lots in the 90s. People are crazy now.
We start our own companies after seeing 20+ years of dubious decision making and pointless middle management.
Would fanfic from a male, non-jewish author receive the same amount of attention from The Guardian?

Let's see if she can avoid the modern feminist tropes:

- Mary Sue protagonist

- author self-insert power fantasy

- lesbian sex

- black/trans/female people good, white men evil

or (which is to be expected) if the villains will now become thinly-veiled MAGA stand-ins.
Did you see what it did to a water melon? I think any intruder would be wise not to confront one of these.
It also depends on endianness.
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it's definitely not the norm, though was still relatively common then.

But it was a huge red flag then, and is a bigger red flag today.

Cleartax was also among the "no equity for employees" club though they went back on it after a while if I remember correctly. But yeah, they were not an employee friendly company by any metric then.

Edit: I just searched Blind after writing this and looks like they have maintained the culture
You need a line level manager to insulate the suits from developer lunacy.
I know it’s not the correct way to do, and it stems from my experience driving, but I’ve always used the first digit in the speed limit signs for bends/corners on mountain roads as a guide for the gear to be in. 25mph curve? Whatever speed you can do in second is fine. 45mph, fourth gear speeds, etc.

Not entirely related but yeah, depends on road conditions and signage.
"The net effect of the all the above is that async and non async code is highly composable."

How does this differ from Rust (Or Typescript etc.) where we would use

async f() -> i32 { }

fn g() { f().wait() }

to block?
> you will 100% know that the escrow website is not gambling your money away

no, you won't

> Smart contracts are just a simpler and more transparent way to deal with finance.

no, they aren't
"people still die"

Life expectancy was mid 30s in 1900. So extrapolating from this, humans could live to 200.

Life didn't really get much better for the old though. Some people are sharp at 60. Some people are only living because they're hooked to all kinds of machines.

"energy is as plentiful/scarce as today, just that it is green."

Fusion breakthroughs have been coming in, which should drastically change things. There's also the newer more efficient nuclear reactors that Bill Gates has been trying to get into production. I expect energy to go up an order of magnitude within the next 30 years in both cleanliness and quantity.

"rich people have a lot, the poor scrapes by."

This has been the natural state of things for nearly all of human history. But economists are flagging inequality as a really important problem to solve, not necessarily because it's moral, but because it leads to political instability.

We had an anomaly around the 60s though. Maybe it was trying to look good against the commies. Economists argue it could be tax and union policies. Whatever it is, it matter enough politically, that I believe we'll hit a 30 year phase of equality within the next century.
To me the real question is why anyone though doing anything with log data besides logging was a good idea.

Log: unsanitized input. Treat it as such. Why does it go and do an ldap query should have been a bad idea.
> This from my experience rehabilitating (raising?) a hornet to flight

I would dearly love to hear more about this!
> Perfect play by both opponents in a solved game always leads to a draw

That assumes that both players are equal. In many games there is a benefit for one of the players. In such a game the effect of perfect play by one player is to win Inna's fee turns as possible, while for the other player the perfect play only prolongs the game. For instance in "connect four" the starting player should begin in center to enforce win.
> No, that means that all customer deposits can be used for loans. There’s zero requirement for banks to hold any deposits in reserve to ensure they’re able to pay out individual depositors on request.

If I am mistaken please correct me with citations but respectfully, I believe your understanding is incorrect. In a fractional reserve system banks can and do fractionalize dollars into existence. The mechanism is slightly different than when the FED prints money. Instead of creating money out of nothing, banks can only create loan money out of thin air.

For example, when you are issued a new car loan from a bank, those funds do not come from another depositor. (see my comment above on 0% reserve ratio). Instead
the money is literally created by the stroke of a pen when the borrower signs the loan agreement. The funds did not exist anywhere prior to the loan. The numbers were added to the customer's bank account the moment they signed the loan agreement. Money created out of thin air via fractional reserve lending.

If it were not for the free money creation feature of the banks, then banks would have to lend customer funds or their own reserves. The risk and cost of lending these real assets would greatly exceed the ultra-low interest rate environment we currently experience and the cheap credit days would be over.

The fraud involved in fractional reserve lending is that the lender has no cost of funds. They are not risking their own assets and are therefore more willing to lend cheaply. This leads to credit bubbles that perpetuate the business cycle and lead to a series of booms and crashes. Fractional reserve lending is a scam and banks are technically all insolvent.
Sorry I meant export and push.
Are NASA and SpaceX missions objective to turn billionaires, millionaires and celebrities into "space cowboys"?
You could have taken voice notes instead. Must have saved lots of time.
I don’t think the article states it was inflatable. It still may have been, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_balloon#History:

“The first rubber balloons were made by Professor Michael Faraday in 1824 […] Latex rubber toy balloons were introduced by pioneer rubber manufacturer Thomas Hancock the following year in the form of a do-it-yourself kit consisting of a bottle of rubber solution and a condensing syringe. Vulcanized toy balloons, which unlike the earlier kind were unaffected by changes in temperature, were first manufactured by J.G. Ingram of London in 1847 and can be regarded as the prototype of modern toy balloons.”
Hm. This post does not seem to acknowledge what I saw. Multiple hours of rate-limiting kicking in when trying to talk to S3 (eu-west-1). After the incident everything works fine without any remediations done on our end.
The problem is people seeing this as a joyride, spaceX or nasa can send up a thousand rockets, and people correctly see that as progress and testing of the ship and advancement of technology. But because people have a hard on for blaming Bezo's for everything this is classified as some sort of waste of time. Blue Origins intended goal is to reach the moon, and this is a step towards it, one that offers a way to fund the project through space tourism, a practice done by most space programs in one shape or form.

Its just painful to watch the hypocrisy, I mean if musk can launch a tesla into space, and not be considered a joyride, I don't think its fair to classify this one any differently.

But hey, gizmodo gets its ad revenue, which I'm sure is equality disturbed across all those involved in making this site possible.
What happens if they're high on drugs and not in a right state of mind?

I'll not be taking that kind of chance...
It's a good joke
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When I interviewed for my job they mentioned a lot of the software that they used, and much of it was open source. I asked if the company contributes to the code at all. They said they were working on an initiative to do so. That was 10 years ago and it still hasn't happened.
Renders quickly for me in firefox mobile. I wonder if it is something unique to your circumstance.
By the same logic, aren't some people addicted to socialising? But I never heard it be called that.
As well as cleaning up/squashing history; consider:

a) Make sure it's actually all your code - not code you copied from some other closed source project, or a contractor gave you 3 years ago.
b) Remove the questionable comments about other employees and their managers
c) If you're removing history you are removing some of the rational about why things are like they are - that does make it harder for people in the future to change things
Tangential, but still relevant; Once you decide on the cleanup for open sourcing, choose a path that's comfortable for YOU, the maintainer, and clearly define contributing rules/guidelines. Take breaks, and feel free to let the community know. And remember, it's only a hobby, nothing to get stressed or burnt out by.
Be careful with premature optimization. It's a nefarious form of procrastination because it appears you're being productive. That said, I want to learn vim but I have more important things to do right now.
Oh very much so.
> corporations sponsor the maintenance of the FOSS projects they use

The main issue with this, is that no corporate managers I’ve ever known, will let leverage go to waste. You see this in NPO grants, all the time. Some of these grants result in highly suspect research. In some cases, the true extent took years to reveal itself (like Big Tobacco and the "Type A personality"[0]).

I can see certain TLAs, working through shells (a common CIA tactic), to influence infrastructure projects. Maybe to add a bit of “custom” math.

It seems the best approach is a “blind trust,” where a fund is set up, decoupling donations from implementation.

I suspect that would significantly reduce donations, which is probably why these are not more common.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/type-a-personality-traits-sm...
That's an interesting point about game design. There actually are implementations of Tetris which have a win condition[0][1], and I think it's probably unrepresentative to pick games from an era where hardware limitations prevented modern mechanics like multiple endings and cutscenes.

As for modern games, I'm not convinced that failure states are a rare design element. It's true that games tend to include an auto-save feature if there is long-term state that needs to be preserved, but that still allows the player to "fail" and have to restart from the save point.

Incremental games like Universal Paperclips are a bit of a special case, because at some point the game plays itself and the end state (if it exists) is in principle reachable without any human interaction. I don't suppose there is any code in UP that specifically checks if you have been playing the game for billions of years though, to trigger an ending when all the mass of the universe has been turned into paperclips without actually unlocking all the "story" events.

Games like Getting Over It are also a special case, because their state is almost entirely defined by the position of the character in the game environment. They do have a clear ending, but failure is implicitly measured by how much forwards progress you lose when you fall. A mistake which takes you all the way back to the start is analogous to dying and starting a new game, though, so that still feels like the game has win and lose conditions.

> The only way to win is to avoid making the recursively self-improving paperclip maximizer in the first place.

In the game, there is a slight ambiguity about who/what the player's character is. You have control over the decisions before there is any self-improving AI, and also after the humans are all destroyed/enslaved. As such, it's not clear whether the player is winning as the AI, or watching in transfixed horror as the AI wins through a narrative that you are revealing. I suppose this philosophical question of viewpoint is the same as the one that Foddy considers near the end of Getting Over It: "Have you ever thought about who you are in this?", and with possibly the same answer.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6mWpsu6zmQ

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tmFUWu9bI
1k companies per Y Combinator batch? RIP Y Combinator
There are no "rules against women". As you note, women can be, and are Saints, which is of course a much greater honour than being a priest. In fact the most highly honoured saint (by a wide margin) is a woman, so clearly the church is not "against women".

Becoming a priest is not something you do for your own good, it's not a privilege, it's a calling. Priests exist for the good of society, not for priests themselves, you are viewing things backwards.
Interesting, I've recently done a bit of searching in this space to find a project that would fit for an idea I had: I'd like to use a raspberry pi zero w to listen for our doorbell. If the doorbell rings, it should do something (e.g. send an sms or turn on a light).

I couldn't really find anything, does someone know if a project like this exists? For the one listed here, I'm not sure if it is fast enough to run on a slow device like the W? Also, would it be able to detect audio in a continuous stream from say a microphone?
Nice propaganda piece.
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The Visual Studio Community edition is way, WAY less restricting. It is free for individuals, period (it is the very first thing mentioned in the license[0]). If you are an organization, you can also use it for free as long as no more than five people use it at the same time and you are not an enterprise (defined as an organization with 250 or more than $1m in annual revenue). Regardless of any of the above it is also free if you make open source software.

This is a far cry from Embarcadero's restrictions.

[0] https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/license-terms/vs2022-ga-c...
Has there never been a social network where "faceted identities" are baked in? Something like Reddit, but with the possibility of having a different identity for different subreddits.
Recently I’ve found myself wondering about the average stress levels of managers versus senior engineers. I’m at a big tech company that has roughly parallel tracks up to a quite high level, so I’m not hurting for income, but I see a lot of VPs/directors taking vacations, generally seeming well balanced in work/life. Meanwhile, I haven’t taken a legit vacation in 2.5 years (ok, the pandemic and small kids are partially to blame) and am constantly a ball of anxiety over whether my technical ideas are up to snuff, whether we’re on the right track implementing them, etc. I wonder what stresses I’d find on the management track.
I am and like I said I'm actively trying to not leverage that skillset. I'm not in the weeds anymore and I cannot be due to the other things I'm responsible for. Someone making technical decisions who used to be an expert, isn't an expert anymore but can override decisions is a horrible mix.
I just said, very clearly, that self-driving cars ≠ AGI and don't need to be human-like.

You're browbeating me for a position I'm not taking. Weird.
Crappy candidates in my opinion are the ones who go into dev for money.

It was so niche back in the day the applicants were prequalified by just showing up to the interview.
I was in the market for one these and ended up with yaafe [1], which is a little older, but has, IMO, a better api, more flexible output, and c as well as python bindings.

Also, the documentation is rather good, with links to the various papers for each algorithm. The above library, in contrast, is little impenetrable for me.

I'm using this with postgres and supercollider for more of an artistic project though, so YMMV.

1. https://github.com/Yaafe/Yaafe
I remember someone saying that oil will either be too expensive or too cheap. From recent events, it seems like too cheap is the most likely outcome. Nuclear is also picking up fast.

The remaining major user of fossil fuel is transportation, and the world has already adopted legislation and other processes to deprecate gas cars. I don't think planes or ships will switch to wind power any time soon though.
How could history be more important than a running version of a project?

Without history the current version is the only version.
If we take it outside the esports realm, you could say the vast majority of sports has been "solved" since cars are trivially faster than humans, trebuchets are way better for throwing things over long distances, hydraulic cylinders beat anyone at lifting heavy stuff, etc. Nobody is advocating to stop holding athletics events because machines can do the specific task better, so why should we stop holding chess events for humans because a computer can do it better?
Weaning and raising a child with only vegan foods seems inhumane. How many beans, lentils and soy products do you need to make up for a serving of meat?
Bitcoin isn't the lone currency in the country and the dollar is still widely used there. Expect more of this as the president of El Salvador has invited the ire of the US government by exposing the US's involvement in corruption in his country: https://twitter.com/nayibbukele/status/1469045510442864642

The media is about to go full court press on this guy, BTC is just one angle they'll use.
AWS is superficial domain knowledge. That indeed will rot.

“Building client-server architectures to run on the internet” is domain knowledge that hasn’t significantly changed in the last 20 years.
I guess a full scripting language support in the log string should be the next big feature. Ideally with full FS and network access.
Borland had the Delphi 7 Personal Edition, but it was only for non-commercial use only. It was distributed widely though - I personally still have a copy i got from a magazine coverdisk for example.

But TBH Borland also had much lower prices - up to (IIRC) Delphi 5 you could get the most basic version of Delphi (which is good enough for a lot of tasks, especially for individuals) for $100 and that used Borland's "no-nonsense" license that was no strings attached, allowing reselling, etc. It was when they were taken over by Enterprise Envy that things went downhill for them.
Ask HN: Is there a minimal browser like uzbl that is up-to-date?
edit: I think I figured out something with qutebrowser and this config.py:

c.statusbar.show = "never"
c.tabs.show = "never"
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This just means they're flying too low. These drones need to fly high enough so that they do not disturb wildlife or people. There's already enough noise and disharmony in the world - no need to add more.
There’s exceptions to any rule. So far working for nontechnical managers has been invariably exhausting. I don’t doubt that managers exist where this isn’t true.

Even if they trust me to provide them with estimates (and they understand that 9 women cannot have a baby in a month). I have to spend a lot of time just constantly communicating the information they need, and why certain things need to happen so they can tell (and satisfy) their stakeholders.
Like interviews for program managers? There are all sorts of anecdotal topics that aren't revolving around impact.
What happens when your health check system fails?
Hey, I'm actually working on something similar, would you be interested in checking it out?
On Conservatism
> At this level, the people you're going to work with don't care how the pie is being made.

Hear, hear... oh. Here be dragons. A manager at each rung of the ladder who doesn't have insight into the technical constraints will over-promise and embellish things, and the least technically capable will do it with the greatest zeal. And the grunts will be left with an impossible task of storming a well-protected fort with inadequate support.
Before AlphaGo's achievement, it was still expected to occur, but the expectation was in about 20 years with much more developed tech. The shock and surprise was that using larger scale of combinations of current tech could achieve the feat. The qualitative change in worldview is that 'dumb' machines can do intelligent things. AlphaZero was a tour-de-force of how dumbness can excel. In hindsight we can say that these things happening in our lifetime with tech of the day isn't surprising, but if following closely as-it-happened, it was a big surprise to everyone including the AlphaGo team. I don't think anyone knew if there was any limit where efficiency/effectiveness of the systems being built would top out in the complexity it could tackle.
> Bukele came onstage to an animation of beaming down from a flying saucer and outlined his plans for Bitcoin City: a new charter city to be built from scratch, centered on bitcoin mining—and powered by a volcano. Bitcoin City would be paid for with the issuance of $1 billion in “volcano bonds,” starting in mid-2022. The 10-year volcano bonds would pay 6.5 percent annual interest. $500 million of the bond revenue would be used to buy bitcoins. The bitcoins would be locked up for five years, then sold to recover the $500 million purchase price; any profit on the sale would be paid out as an additional dividend. Holding $100,000 in volcano bonds for five years would qualify investors for Salvadoran citizenship.

Seems legit.
So do our stomachs and intestines. Does that mean our intestines can become sad?
> You forget that you are expected to keep up to 8 reference frames. And you need to update them too.

You refer to VP9, i explicitly mentioned i do not refer to any specific codec but just to playing back "4k video". The rest were never something that i referred to, implied or even mentioned in the message i replied to.

> This would work only until first keyframe.

This depends heavily on how the video is encoded and that is only assuming you can't find a way to occasionally update the full screen.
So I only had 1 contact with this and it was indeed about sport , something like "football player X is the GOAT" and I had to have this explained to me. so it might be a sports only term, since I am not watching or reading sports then it makes sense I do not see it used.
It’s a matter of time, for me. I would also be worried about socializing from homeschool.

I work full time and my wife uses the time the kids are at school to manage activities, the home, etc.

Home school would be explored if we had a live in nanny and perhaps someone to help design a curriculum.
They may choose to oblige but they are under no obligation, moral or not.

You can’t sue a maintainer for not fixing a security issue if it’s not part of a contract, and the license is explicit about being As Is No Warranty.

If you don’t like it, fix it yourself in a fork.