skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be bad news. There are one quadrillion ants. Unlike humans, most ants are born women. Only female ants work (aka slaves), while males are mating (raping?) with the queen (at least queens can mate only once in life) and then males die shortly after that. Males live for a week (but their sperm lives for years), workers (all female) live for about a year, a queen lives for decades.

Sometimes I see ants eating almost dead ants. Which means that while I write this, several billion women are being eaten alive and feeling all kinds of emotions. When there is no queen, the ant that eats the most protein becomes the queen.

And spiders with their webs... it's always such a horror to look at their captives.

And if souls exist and they possess the first available just born organism (FIFO queue) after we die, then that would mean it is a low chance to be born human again, at least for now. I was mentally prepared to become even a broiler chicken, but not an insect.

Or if there is suddenly a multiverse, but every universe can have only one consciousness which tries to live everyone's life one-by-one (also FIFO). That would mean we would have to live many quadrillion lives before becoming a human again. And also if we suddenly have to also live every possible route/branch within the many-worlds interpretation, that becomes too depressing.
Large part of the blame imo is the ridiculous fact that no governing body nor any car manufacturer came up with things like:

DUI test else engine does not start.

Speed limit as per road and weather conditions no car needs to do 70mph in the city or 150 mph anywhere.

Alertness check and monitoring , if not alert, car stops and that's it.
Another maybe interesting detail:

At some point there was an attempted pivot as well or maybe it was just what Embarcadero always had focused on.

I wasn't yet working in software then I think but there was an interview or paid article or something I think were someone told that the future of software laid not in languages and IDEs but in Software Lifecycle Management.

In a way they were right:

Today all major languages have free and open source implementations and Atlassian and a few others seems to have found larger or smaller sweet spots in what I think is Software Lifecycle Management or something.

That said what could Borland do at that point? It probably felt worse for them to bet the farm but in my opinion it absolutely isn't the most bone headed moveI have seen.

That said: The ads not so long after for "Delphi con" or something similar with large "No toothbrush required", that didn't exactly seem smart to me. I think by then everyone who used their products were grown up serious business programmers.
> Doing so makes you at least complicit in that, and at most an active perpetuator of it.

Doing what? And who is 'you' in that sentence?
As someone who is a bit left of center - a more important article that needs to be written ask the question what happened to liberalism? Both sides have gone way to the extreme.
To credit properly: found via https://ofr.report
It’s also worth mentioning that “libertarian” was a left wing term until it was self consciously co-opted by a right wing American in the early 20th century. So how Kropotkin would understand that word and how we understand it varies significantly.
It seems obvious to me that they're specifically talking about having empathy for the people who work there, the people who designed and built these systems and yes, empathy even for the people who might not be sure what to put on their absolutely humongous status page until they're sure.
React costs companies a lot of money
Why would you expect even to recognize, much less be able to understand, the art of a spider? What arrogance gives you to imagine that our terms can suffice to capture their experience, or vice versa?

I can't speak to spider art, but I can somewhat to spider smarts. We hosted an orb weaver on our porch this year, and she found the best place to build her web for prey capture was right across the porch steps. Unfortunately, this also led to importunate apes occasionally blundering face-first into, and thus disarranging, her careful work - even when you're trying not to break anything, you can't help but snap a thread or two in disentangling yourself.

So, after a couple nights studying the problem, she started building her webs shorter but wider and higher up, maintaining roughly the same capture area but keeping the structure a good couple inches above human head height. (Or my and my boyfriend's height, anyway, we being both about 5'10".) She kept that up the rest of the season, and we got along just fine - I've had human houseguests who were less courteous and less skilled at finding a modus vivendi.
Yeah, I remember how people at work all began building their own chess engines. It was nuts. I wonder how much this interest will affect Norwegian ability to bring up new chess talent or if Magnus will remain some kind of Norwegian chess anomaly.
That's a nice story that people keep telling because they don't like having to slow down.

But I seriously doubt that driving below the speed limit has a measurable increase in risk.

I would bet the opposite: That driving below the speed limit decreases risk of serious accidents.

One reason for that is that rear end accidents where both cars are going in the same direction are typically much less serious than head on collisions. So even if slow drivers increase the risk of rear end accidents (which I doubt is significant), they reduce the impact of head on collisions much more leading to a net positive.

People should drive slower, it's always safer. (Apart from dumb maneuvers like brake checking...)
> I was a little surprised to read that air-gapped machines are so often used in conjunction with removable media. That just doesn't feel like a good idea because of all the attack surface.

Our IT is also surprised. Unless the "air gaped machine" will run only one program which will never change, you need a way to transfer SW to this machine. And like our IT: we do not need CDROMs, every computer has an USB port. And from a (deranged) security perspective a CDROM id equal with an USB stick.
You’re describing hazing. it’s a part of human nature that we should work to overcome.
None of those terms are on opposition.
Lying down holding phone right above your face reading HN at 2am should work the same.
I would not bet on this continuing to be the case, mind you. If regulators allow this sort of thing to continue at all, I'd expect warning lights visible to pedestrians and other drivers will be required.
Stablecoins won’t go up and lift up the country in a world of money printing and fiat debasement.
There's already minimal barriers to entry for starting your own game company. So employees already get plenty of choice.

I have no clue how a union is supposed to help here. Perhaps they can restrict who can work in the games industry? Just like they keep non-union people from appearing in Hollywood movies?
So the key reason for btc adoption in El Salvador is cheaper remittance payments, I find it odd that an article that sets out to criticize btc in El Salvador doesn't even mention the original intended use case.
Another reason to squash into a single commit: not all of your developers want their name & work email address published without their consent.
The tech behind Bump's unique sharing app [video]
Don’t see how acceptability of racism follows from police shootings
Those Little Tikes toys. I still have one from when I was a baby. My 1 year old is a lot more aggressive than I am. He will smash most cheap toys within a day. He tossed a heavy Little Tikes toy this morning and a piece fell out, one of the hinges that held it together. I thought it was finally broken, but the piece easily popped back into place.
That depends on the type of game. The game I am working on would not work with a AI update every second.
Hahaha, I don’t think many people outside of Norway knows that quote. Also doesn’t sound right in English. “Typisk Norsk…” is such a stock phrase.
You can vote with your feet before you ever set your feet in the door in the first place.

Please unionise all you want, but don't force me to be part of your union or adhere by what you negotiate.
Or Egypt, not too long ago, I read there was only a literal handful of traffic lights in the whole country.
The quotes are excellent. As are the rockets everywhere.

“Because it’s typically typed, rust() catches errors at compile time. [...] Also, it compiles code down to machine learning, allowing for extra efficiency.”
I have two problems with this suggestion:

- Director should be technical / Team Leads should be technical, but the person between them shouldn't? That sounds like a recipe for going behind the EM's back at every possible junction.

- TLs reporting to the director? The analogy of goalkeepers coach does not make a lot of sense, because in a club, they report to the manager, not to the General Manager (Director in your example).
Thanks.

Tangentially related: https://socialgoals.com/
Even an expert probably has only a few installs under his belt. The day to day work could be maintaining and configuring, etc.

I consider myself an expert on lots of things I’d still need references and a bit of study to install properly.
This presents sponsorship of OSS in strictly economic terms as a trade-of. That’s unlikely to be a successful argument for more sponsorship, because it puts it squarely in tragedy-of-the-commons territory: unless you’re the largest consumer of some upstream project, it’s better to hope for others to support it.

It’s also descriptively wrong when it frames sponsorship decisions in such supposedly-rational economic terms: while corporations are in theory seeking only shareholder value, corporations happen to be (made up of) people, who are capable of altruism, and should be encouraged to do so. Just because US capitalism has managed to build a not-entirely-failing system on unadulterated selfishness does not turn that mindset into a virtue, or anything close to the far more complex set of motivations driving individual action.

Practically speaking, many corporations sponsor OSS, and the whole reasoning behind it is often that some person with a bit of authority likes the idea. They may consider it good for marketing, or recruitment, or to secure their supply chain, or just morally called for, or they want to be the fat cat at this years TINYTEC-CON. If you asked them, they’ll give you a reason that totally makes sense for a business and has little to do with reality. And, no, nobody ever got sued or fired for these decisions. So go ahead, do it! You got all the left-padding you needed, it’s right to pad their wallet in return.
React is a front-end library that isn't particularly 'deep'. It's pretty simple to do simple things. By that definition it's lightweight in my opinion.
Perhaps white can move twice before black is allowed to make his first move?

Edit: Embarrassingly I had a good laugh at my own joke after writing this.
I'm guessing you'd need Discord level tech to propagate changes in a multiplayer environment which is a bit of a distance from "core competencies".
>Why I am not surprised that your ideas closely match how authoritarian system (and dystopian cyber punk worlds) work?

Imagine calling P2P voluntary interactions authoritarian...

>You're avoiding the answer, and I understand you, it's hard to come with an answer when your design have bugs.

I'm not avoiding an answer, I gave you it clear and straight.

>If Alice dies Bob get his money.

Correct.

>There no way to stop it from happening.

>What if Bob is a minor or the employer is a minor?
>That would make the contract void in real life.

Depends on jurisdiction.

>Should people publish their personal info on the public blockchain so that the smart contract can exclude them from proposing or accepting a job?

They can do whatever they want.

>And how do you check that the informations are correct?

Idk. I wasn't proposing putting public info on the blockchain, it's your problem.

>What if Bob is an immigrant running from a regime and has no way to prove who he is, but needs the job to survive?

Bob would be delighted to know that he can interact with a permissionless network that does not require an ID and get paid for his work without revealing his identity.

>you'd need to basically recreate what government do today, without the enforcement of the law capability.

Nope.

>who would trust a system like that, except outlaws and scammers?

People who like efficiency and don't like intermediaries.
Now retired, but that is the only one which fitted me. Who knew? I never felt very super. I am still learning new stuff and coding for fun.
I played it twice. Once I knew what to do it was pretty easy. Some things seemed like dead ends with no purpose. For example I launched only one probe to win.

Very interesting in a way it display the concept of rogue wasy AI can select for best strategies to reach its goal, but the gameplay wasn't that polished.
I wouldn't overthink it too much. Normally it'd be rude so baldly to note how wildly off base you are about so much of how ant societies work, but in this case it's worth mentioning because what does that say about your chances of accurately apprehending the parts of this analysis that aren't tangible? You almost certainly do not need to fear living ten million lives as an ant before reincarnating as a human again.

(If you are going to reincarnate as a hymenopteran, go for Polistes, that's my advice. Social, but on a smaller scale and in a looser style than Vespula and hornets, and with size and brains enough to manage a degree of personality that ants in my experience don't seem to. Also, you'll be able to fly! That seems like a considerable benefit entirely in its own right.)
> But that also means you still see managers "a top" of engineers (a "better" job).

Managers are typically comped better. Usually on a level by level basis, but also in the number of times you can be promoted before you run out of new job titles.
Are you against private property all together?

If not, where do you draw the line? Is a private villa acceptable? A private golf course? A hill? A small island?

Can I decide who enters my 220 square meters apartment?
Incompetent until proven competent. Most industries don’t have to deal with that attitude but it’s prevalent for us.

Imagine asking a doctor basic biology questions or what an antibiotic is used for in an interview.
Can you point me to a isolationist magazine on geopolitics?
You’re thinking of it from a normal military perspective - which is why normal militaries always consistently lose these
types of conflicts. British, Russians, Americans in Afghanistan. Americans, French, Chinese in Vietnam, etc.

For a counter example, look at Britain in India.

The more people you kill (regular folk), the more the population turns against you, and less likely you’ll actually be able to stay long term, and the more you get stuck in an endless morass of guerrilla attacks. Because it motivates suicide bombers, desperation, hate.

Even more true in a civil war.

If you co-opt leadership while nominally supporting the locals and making their lives better, it can help instead. Or go full scorched earth, but that generally doesn’t work in a civil war unless there is only a small region rebelling.
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Seems a bit too soon to call it a failure. It hasn’t even been a year.
“Drive Pilot enables the driver to turn away from the traffic and focus on certain secondary activities,” the luxury carmaker said in a statement. “For example, to communicate with colleagues via the in-car office, to write emails, to surf the internet or to relax and watch a film.”

This can't possibly be a good thing. Nevermind if it works as advertised or not -- just from the very definition of what's claiming to do.

I know it certainly sounds like a good thing -- it will relieve the stress and fatigue of these slow-moving situations, leading to better reaction times, etc.

But just think about for a second. When you're at the wheel, the most you should be doing on the side is talking to people, and occasionally checking your GIS. You just should not be engaged in other attention-demanding activities like reading emails, surfing the internet, or watching movies. Period.

What's going to happen is: someone's leg's are gonna get crushed, because (foolishly or not) they walked between cars in a slow-moving traffic situation (like they always do). Because, you know, a human driver would have seen them. And then the same debates will start up all over again, completely missing the point. It's not the overall statistics of this happening, or that the driver didn't respond to the flashing red light that must have gone off in time (because they were zoned out, of course).

It's that they're pushing this inherently risky technology out there (which by definition cannot be fully validated until subjected to extensive real-life conditions), not to save us from drivers who are temporarily incapacitated at the wheel, not to warn us from approaching objects we might miss ... but to let us watch Netflix while driving.
>I doubt any theories of “the media” having anything to gain from conspiring against the country

Aside from your sweeping and snide remarks on Americans, this is a woefully naive take. The US derives a lot of its power through the global monetary system. It can essentially isolate an entire country from large segments of global trade by simply sanctioning it (severing SWIFT transactions and threatening any banks with loss of settlement/SWIFT access/penalties for dealing with the country). Most of global trade is settled in dollars and a lot of reserves are held in dollars. The US exports dollars. The US takes advantage of those circumstances for its own benefit and seeks to preserve this system. BTC doesn't really pose a threat (not enough of it, slow throughput, too volatile).

Further, the US has a long history of interfering in South America (United Fruit, for example). Or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

Bottom line: There is clear incentives for the US to have its way in El Salvador and elsewhere. There is also a clear track record of the US doing anything it can, legal or illegal, to achieve its desired outcomes in South America. Leveraging a largely US based mega-corporate-owned media to assist in those endeavors is only natural (and blithely dismissed by midwits like yourself). The president of El Salvador has disrespected the empire, so El Salvador delenda est.
> Recognizing speed limits seems to be a technical solution to an organizational problem.

It's probably the easiest task for an autonomous system. So if your car can't do that, then probably it's safer to drive it manually.
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Nope, you should not speed up. It's a maximum. If others go faster, just ignore them and keep going.
In 1996 Minnesota hit -60F, and -75F with wind chill. That was a cold night.
My reading of GP's comment is that the empathy should be directed towards AWS' team, the people who are building the system and handling the fallout, not AWS the corporate entity.

I may be wrong, but I try to apply the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
Didn't El Salvador just announce that bitcoin is legal tender a few months ago? Isn't it a bit soon to declare that it failed? Especially considering the state of El Salvador's fiat.
Persism and the Select N+1 Problem
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of my favorite games of all time.

It was unplayable on console, and a buggy mess on release (even on PC), but some of the acting and story telling in the game is really something else. I've been playing games for 30 years and nothing has really come close in terms of voice acting. Judy, V (both male & female VO's are great, but I prefer the female one), Keanu Reeves does his best work, and is totally at home in a melodramatic setting, all the smaller characters have proper voice actors that are more than just an after thought.

The story is interesting, there are limited, but real choices along the way, along with a plethora of non-impactful decisions, that merely change how your character interacts with the world. The world itself feels great, the architecture of the city feels real, and it's the first game that I've played that explored the vertical aspects of a city, though they definitely could've done more.

The action aspects are a little limited, surface level stuff. It's such a shame that the game wasn't given the same scope it has right now, but another year or two for polish (pun unintended...) and I think the systems in the game could be fleshed out and be much more fun.

For anyone that has moderately decent hardware, I highly recommend a play through.

EDIT: forgot about the music. Might be the best soundtrack of anything ever. Movie/TV/Game/Other.
Totally Random: Why Nobody Understands Quantum Mechanics, a Graphic Novel
True, CI caches are only one way to look at slow pipelines.

When you are in control of the infrastructure where jobs and runners consume resources, other strategies might also help.

Package dependency installs taking some time? Move the runners into network segments with blazing fast connections, next to mirrors of package registries (if not already provided).

Possibility to use a CDN in front of the runners? Make sure the application code is capable of doing so.

C/C++ with ccache can consume a lot of disk space, and caching itself can slow down the pipelines. Calculate the cost of pipeline runs and employees waiting for builds to finish, and compare it to buying more compute resources with xyz cores, lots of memory and direct SSD disk access to speed up the builds.

That said, many different environments and workflows make decisions harder. Better observability for CI/CD is needed, having better insights into pipelines and see if and how efficiency improvements can have an impact. I have shared more thoughts in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29520577
There isn't a benefit to OSS projects all competing for the same audience and bloated feature set. Picking a subset, being opinionated about it and the implementation isn't wrong. For developers, there is such a thing as picking the right tool for the job, even if it isn't your favourite one you usually use.
ARE we entering a new era of corporate open-source adoption?
My two cents on corporate open-source adoption
Like most array programming languages, they center on the repl. It's not that the snippets have excess whitespace, it's that they're expressions being evaluated, one after the other. http://learningj.com is similar.

At least with LearningJ, the examples tend to be short because the language is more terse than others. Reading J is more like reading math than a programming language. And so the snippets tend to be smaller. Nial may be similar.
I always love these postings about these subjects on HN. Especially, as I studied Cultural Anthropology myself. Find it more interesting than most technical posts :))
IIRC, hash tables came with Turbo Pascal v4.0 and not with v2.0 (4 years between v1.0 and v4.0). Interestingly I can't remember what the difference was between v1.0 and v2.0 but looking at the release dates I think there wasn't much…

Borland Pascal v7.0 27th October 1992
Turbo Pascal for Windows v1.5 8th June 1992
Turbo Pascal for Windows v1.0 13th February 1991
Turbo Pascal v6.0 23rd October 1990
Turbo Pascal v5.5 2nd May 1989
Turbo Pascal v5.0 24th August 1988
Turbo Pascal v4.0 20th November 1987
Turbo Pascal v3.0 17th September 1986
Turbo Pascal v2.0 17th April 1984
Turbo Pascal v1.0 20th November 1983
A scorched-earth campaign would prompt a lot more blue-on-blue attacks and assassinations from people who don’t like having their homes and mothers incinerated.
Why are retailers forced to support BTC transactions if that is not a key part of the adoption?