skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad they were in Afghanistan and had any kind of level of understanding beyond superficial to make that evaluation.

Aside from that, I did not ask about, nor do I care, what you think of my time in Afghanistan. I am more than capable of evaluating my own life choices through a critical and charitable lens.

Thank you for taking the time to contribute to the discussion and wish you the best.
I'm starting a Delphi job in the new year, engineering software, its good to see it's still around, and I'm looking forward to no more HTML :-)
JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh: A prompt theme engine for any shell
"Now, if I said 'It's a fact that....' it'd be fair to ask for evidence. But I didn't."

Then there's no reason to discuss this. Based on the rest of the comment, you are not listening to what I'm saying, nor are you offering anything to back up any opinions. It's a matter of temporal response time within spacial constraints. Specialization and limitations of labor means that you need to drastically increase headcount to maintain current surface levels, which is more expensive even if a significant subset is currently cheaper (non-union police are cheaper, but once these public sector unions unionize, costs go up significantly). Then you still have questions about efficacy of the replacements (mental health pros don't have a great track record without patient history in these situations) and the fact that you still need to provide training to the existing force due to their exposure to these events either spontaneously or through misclassification. It also sounds like you have some odd and unexplained bias against armed people (in many states, the people you're adding can be and currently are armed even if it's not a part of their job).
Yep, I agree with your last point especially. I try to read the thing right away now but I don't save something unless it's necessary. It's a mental tax that I never end up paying off.
But currently humans do that "pattern finding". If you want it to learn to recognize animals you give it thousands of images of different animals in all sorts of poses, angles and environments and tells it what those animals are, basically the "pattern" is created by the humans who compiles the dataset with enough examples to catch every situation, and then the program uses that pattern to find matches in other images. However if you want a human to recognize animals it is enough to show this picture and then they will be able to recognize most of these animals in other photos and poses, humans creates the pattern from the image and don't just rely on having tons of data:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/35/78/47/35784708f8cc9ef2345c...

Edit: In some cases you can write a program to explore a space. For example, you can write a program that plays board games randomly and notes the outcome, that is a data generator. Then you hook that to a pattern recognizer powered by a data centre, and you now have a state of the art gameplay AI. It isn't that simple, since writing the driver and feedback loop is extremely hard work that an AI can't do, humans has to do it.
In other words, "what about the the time when consensus was bought?".

And my reply would be: if you have evidence that the current consensus has been purchased, I am all ears.
I have a West German parka that I got over a decade out of before it finally started to go

£35 with the liner...they seem to go for about twice that these days
It's hard to pick one, so instead I'll pick the best I've ever given.

It's impossible to find a gift for my dad, he buys whatever he wants. At one point when I was in college he was really into old maps and spoke about a specific one at a store where California was depicted as an island from ~1700s. He also used to get really animated talking about the place-names of early California, like Earthquake Bay and other scary names, he joked that California did a great job of marketing during the Gold Rush.

I had to borrow some money to afford it, but it was so timely and exactly the kind of thing he wouldn't buy for himself, and ended up buying the map for ~$1500. It was worth every penny.

I also learned that of course we knew California wasn't an island by then, but folks still liked having maps to display that showed it as such as a tongue in cheek bit of fun.

I let my dad pay the cost of putting the thing in a UV protected frame though!

For a quick look at maps like that: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/zb871zd0767
Long term this kind of practice is bad for engineers the same way Wal-Mart driving other retailers out of town with low prices due to their size was bad for small businesses and small towns in the 90s and 00s.
> No. Your adoption of technology/social media into every facet of your life created this problem.

No, society's adoption created this problem, not an individual.

> This sounds like a problem between you and your social circle.

Now we're getting somewhere, we agree it's a problem. Congratulations that your particular social circle doesn't have this problem. But millions upon millions of them do.
You have it on in the background. Some streams have a very engaged community, everyone is there flooding the chat all the time. But in most streams the viewers aren't engaging, they have it on the background, it is on their second monitor while they play games or work or whatever. Viewership went way up during the pandemic too.

I don't think it is for everyone but I prefer it to TV/Netflix/whatever. I didn't even play games when I started watching (I do now, but only once or twice a week). Some people prefer amateur porn to Brazzers.
Not for months at a time, which is what I wanted to do (and did). Also, no, remote work wasn't really a thing at the time anyway. But more importantly I don't believe in being continuously employed your whole adult life. It feels dumb and unhappy.
In and of itself no, but courts have ruled that there's a distinction between hiring people to make use of their talent vs. hiring people to deny said talent to the competition.

Was Microsoft targeting Borland employees because Microsoft was looking to make use of their talent for their own products; that's legitimate. However, if Microsoft was hiring Borland employees for the purpose of keeping those employees from working at Borland; that's potentially predatory and violates antitrust laws.

Note that it's not even in the employee's best interest in the case of predatory hiring. Much like with predatory pricing, once Borland goes out of business as a result of said practice, Microsoft is unlikely to continue retaining many of those employees or paying lucrative salaries and the overall pool of talent as well as salaries is likely to shrink in the long run.

It's the nature of predatory actions that they hurt the actor in the short run but benefit them in the long run whereas the public gains in the short run but is damaged in the long run.
In a war, I'd bet on a France-UK-Germany alliance against Russia any day. Ditto for a South Korea-Japan-Taiwan-India alliance against China. They might not win but they're strong enough to keep from being pushed around.
Kropotkin escapes from prison
Insurance companies actually want to pay for your regular, non-emergency medical costs because it is way cheaper for them to do so vs letting conditions go undetected and then paying orders of magnitudes more for surgeries, prescriptions and expert visits. Your annual checkup visits aren't what is causing ballooning healthcare costs, but actually lowering them.
As an actor and director myself, I'm constantly wondering what it is that makes some actors "it" and others not.

It's often my job to figure out why a performance is uninteresting and make it more interesting -- mine, or somebody else's. I have a large toolbox of tricks to apply, with varying levels of success.

Yet none of it can ever do what "Stars" do. Even when stars give performances that are mediocre by every measure I know how to apply, they'll be riveting to at least some audiences. You really can see it from the back of a theater, and I have very little idea of how it works.

Not quite none. I do know that it's not at all about the external features, like the spine or the eyes. We don't have anywhere near enough control over that. (Though it is fascinating to work with animators, who do have that level of control over their performances.)

We actors say it comes from being "truthful" in the untruthful circumstances of the theater or the studio, though in the end that doesn't really mean very much. It's just a way of trying to get people to stop doing whatever they're doing consciously and let it happen... whatever the hell it is.
Ah, very nice! I should have checked there.
If your career is in tech sure but Garg's of the world are seldom one of us. In business world the end justifies the means. This type of behavior is not only tolerated but often encouraged. This is only becoming an issue now because the story went viral and is generating bad press which is bad for profits.
“Contempt of court” is the tool of authoritarian judges.
A despicable disrespect for human right, far more dangerous than whatever crime this man may have committed
I'm mostly surprised that nurses and doctors were able to see the mark ups being applied. I'm sure that the next update will "fix" that.

How these markups don't run afoul of price gouging laws is beyond me :-/
Well the horses at least were quite intentionally traded, and I would be very surprised if chariots were not either, although admittedly, they spread mostly by some poor saps being pounded to dust by the folks in chariots and then those poor saps adopting chariots themselves (e.g., the Egyptians and the Hyksos)
This story is only getting better and better.com
> the syntactic bureaucracy is too high.

Huh? What do you consider syntactic bureaucracy? Go has like 25 keywords and no sigils -- the least "syntactically bureaucratic" language I'm aware of!

> Go is one of the least expressive languages I've ever used.

This is definitely true. Of course expressiveness is not strictly a virtue!
I’ve never been a huge fan of FM synthesis as I’m mostly reminded of bad electric piano sounds that came out back in the 80s. Having owned a tx-7 I knew it was capable of more than that but then there was the whole issue of programming it that kinda sucks.

That said seeing the tech and how things were implemented has me loading up the Arturia DX7-V and tinkering around with it.

Have any other synths or effects on your list to look at?
Inflation is not the same thing as cost of living. Inflation measures changes in the price level, while cost of living is the expenditure that is needed to sustain a particular standard of living.
I suppose it could be, but imo it starts diluting the value of domain modeling if everything is given the same weight. A bundle of inputs to a function just doesn't have the same weight as a struct representing a repository or a commit or something, so modeling them as the same concept just doesn't sit right with me. It could be a personal thing, though.
Again, any concrete examples of "being completely crippled at the slightest disturbance."? I've had lots of cars both modern and old and never experienced a disablement due to something that wasn't truly disable worthy.
Happy memories. I grew up with POVRAY.EXE in the 90s.

I had no idea, back then, just how much impact the process of thinking in CSG would have on my nascent mind.

A truly great piece of software for a wain cutting their teeth with math and programmatic construction.
As much as 6% of the labor force work in transportation[1]
Automating those jobs away will be a step stone to the transformation of our relation to work as a society!
[1]https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/de/web/products-eurostat-news/...
Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials from UFO Crashes
Julian Assange can be extradited to US, High Court overturns previous decision
Well, yeah, maybe if you are writing ray tracers. The focus of Delphi was object oriented data structures (especially for UIs) and there isn't a lot that the compiler can optimize when the function is packed full of method calls, which is why UI in Delphi was nearly identical performance to one in C++. If you want vector math to run fast, those C++ compiler optimizations are a lot more important.

Just to clarify, my main point was the speed at which it would compile the code, which was an order of magnitude faster than anything else.
> much of it is pretty damn passive.

How could it possibly be more passive than "I just leave my TV on Fox News/MSNBC/CNN until I'm outraged about the right things"?
> Playing video is very expensive task. Just updating 4K screen at 60 frames per second requires transferring of 3840×2160×60 ~ 497 million pixels or 1,49 Gbytes per second

Or an analog signal and you do it the way TVs used to do. There were analog HDTV standards before we all moved to digital.
Imo we should be lauding this brand new sector and the folks that made it in it. Twitch/YouTube/TikTok literally created a new kind of millionaire. Are we just upset we're also not uber rich for playing video games all day? It's the same with crypto, OnlyFans, and so on. It was the same in '99 with the dot coms.

Merely from an economic standpoint, it's interesting to see who these new industries are displacing (since this is a zero sum game). I'm sure having zillions of dollars doesn't make you happy, but there's so much unwarranted hate here on HN for new ventures and disruptive industries, it's kind of odd. It feels HN has become way more corporatist in the past few years -- everyone wants to work for FAANG, no one wants to do their own thing. "If it's popular, it must be bad" is a pretty myopic view.
The very idea that "word embededings are dead ends" requires citations, evidence.
Right? Can't you just enjoy being in a good place and stay there?

Maybe I'm jaundiced because I just had to fill out my annual review self-assessment and skipped the "5-year plan" because I simply couldn't be bothered to lie about it.
Management has to be rewarded by _their_ management for delivering on abstract improvements that make things less bad without necessarily pegging them to metrics and returns. Their management has to be rewarded by the managers above them, etc, all the way up to.. somebody. Ideally the CEO because the board ain't gonna do it. Bezos was great at this: it was always clear that fixing your shit was the first priority, because the C-suite understood that for a company that large to scale its labor, teams have to not be blocking / causing friction for each other. Hence being very forward-thinking about abstracting everything out into service-oriented architecture. (although it took like two decades to actually get there completely. My org, fulfillment, was one of the last to do it, and only finished after I left.)
not that it "brazenly breaks many other assurances it makes in this regard".

Are you referring to the CIA's famous "We don't do torture" promise, here?

Or the implicit promise to the peoples of Iraq and Afghanistan that they would be treated humanely when they came in contact with our armed forces and their surrogates? And most certainly when they ended up in our ... detention centers?

Or to the migrants detained by the ICE, who were told they were merely being "detained"... not that they would one day find an officer

"sitting on her like one would on a horse", with his "erect penis on her butt"

to quote just one of 1,224 reports of recent sexual abuse at these facilities?
And who then started a DirtTube channel on how to make Assyrian armor. (Sadly the records and backups of DirtTube have been lost).
I keep reading these exposé’s about how difficult and damaging some career is. I rock climb and everyone is obsessed with shining light on eating disorders and how thin athletes need to be. No one is writing about plumbers having bad backs and knees, or construction workers having lung problems. It’s just oh “Kim Kardashian is stressed because people say mean things on Instagram.”

It’s dumb, yes life is hard and will grind you down. If your lucky you make enough money to step away while your still healthy and relatively young.
Biden directly closed the Keystone XL pipeline after Trump had us at energy independence. Also, he and his democratic party pushed and passed the biggest spending bills in our nations history. You don't think that directly affects inflation and gas prices?

You must be living under a rock, or willfully blind.
Sure, but there's a purpose-built tool that doesn't overload an already existing concept, and it's called keyword arguments
Also interesting that "All the frameworks used USB drives as the physical transmission medium to transfer data in and out
of the targeted air-gapped networks. We have not found any case of actual or suspected use of covert physical transmission mediums,
such as acoustic or electromagnetic signals."
I would argue "learning" - personal learning is a great topic.
What do you mean "virtual card"?
Thanks for the recommendation. It looks very interesting based on the summary. Weiners commentary on learning seems to echo my own opinions, which I go into this is a sibling thread with netizen-936824.

I think much of the problem with duality dissolves once you eliminate the concept of the soul or free will. People tend to ignore the fact that the individual still exists as an information processing agent that takes actions, even if you remove free will.

If a program fails to provide the desired output when given an input, it is neither the input or that code that is to blame, but an incompatibility between the input and code that is at fault. You it is possible to get the desired outcome by modifying either, or more likely both.

I'm sure I am overlooking some implications or counterpoints, so I look forward to reading your suggestion.
It's counterintuitive, but if you look at eSports players, the prime years are much lower (both the start and the end). You do see 16 year olds at the top but you never see 30 year olds. It feels like the prime is really 16-25. Reaction times in traditional sports are not as important, and hands are one of the worst things to wear out. More parts != more wear out. There's a reason why there are (general) physical therapists and physical therapists who specialize in hands. Hands are incredibly complex and soft tissue injuries heal very poorly due to lack of blood supply.

I doubt the boredom thing is that different for sports vs eSports. At least with eSports the game is changing due to patches. With sports, the game itself hardly changes.

For citation: see https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... you can see reaction time starts to drop off rapidly starting at age 25
That’s a tough call.

Two of the best were:

* a moped when I was 14 (if I remember right). I told that story on my personal blog a while back and am not sure it is kosher to link here.

* a camera (specifically, a Pentax K-1000) a couple of years later, which gave me a lifelong photography bug. Not that I’m any good at it, but I still take photos (and still have the K-1000).

There was also the Christmas my dad gave me my first rifle, but I don’t want to stir the pot on HN…
> A discrete, named entity (a struct) is a distinct concept from a way to increase readability of a function call (keyword arguments).

If you take

func NewServer(addr string, certKey, certCA []byte, ...) (*Server, error)

and coalesce the input parameters into

type ServerConfig struct {
Addr string
CertKey []byte
CertCA []byte
...

then that type is still a meaningful domain concept in your program. There is no minimum scope requirement for discrete, named entities, is there?
On a side note, you can basically do the same thing in 2D with the SVG format, and you can even alter the properties programmatically when used within a webpage.
Hoping for matter
Nowadays there are financial planners focusing on content creators/streaming talent who will know the specifics of tax structures and advantages, etc. as well.
In my opinion Hiroyuki Sawano blesses any anime he participates in. Truly a master of his craft.
Do you think that the comments that are furiously ignoring this and pretending that there is some sort of official journalist title are genuinely ignorant or trying to sow confusion?
Dumping is basically not enforced, even if it is against the law.

Monopolies and cartels are against the law, but not enforced.

It is a sad reality of the modern economy, and one of the biggest indicators of who actually runs America.

At least in this case workers made money.

If borland was losing money, why didn't the execs negotiate a merger if they had so much desirable talent?

Hmmmmm, I bet the execs couldn't negotiate a big enough reward for themselves in an acquisition. The limo pickup at lunch strikes me as a big middle finger to Borland's management.

Of all of Borland's products that I liked, did I like them because of the software devs or the management? I guess what I want is the borland devs back.

I miss Turbo Pascal, DOS or Windows.
In the Leaf's case, anyone with your VIN (ie anyone who can walk up to you car and look through the windshield) could turn on your car's AC over the internet and run the battery down. Whoops.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/02/nissans-connected-car-a...
Know what else reduces fertility? Owning a mobile scooter cause your too fat to walk.
> What do you consider syntactic bureaucracy?

I would assume "amount of syntax required to express a given concept," with the use of the word "bureaucracy" implying that some concepts require too much syntax relative to their complexity (something that depends on your values). The classic example being mapping over a slice.
Streaming aside, tyler1 has an almost inhuman dedication and focus when it comes to League of Legends. On Hacker News it's common to hear that programmers can't work (on classic programming tasks) for more than ~4 hours a day. I also feel exhausted after working for ~4 hours and have always wondered if this was some sort of mental trap I'd fallen into or a genuine limit.

Games like League of Legends require complete focus and attention yet he somehow manages to regularly stream for 10 hours and sometimes reaches peaks of over 30 hours(!!!)[1]. Can you imagine solving leetcode problems (even easy ones) for 30 hours?

In 2020 he paused streaming so he could focus solely on going from Diamond (mid-to-high tier) to Challenger (highest tier). If I recall correctly, he said he would sleep on the couch by his computer, wake up, play and go back to sleep on the couch after ~17 hours.

I don't follow League of Legends (I prefer Dota) but tyler1 has always stood out to me as a person with an incomparable focus and dedication. I haven't seen anything similar in the Dota community and the only programmers that jump to mind would be geohotz or maybe Nick Winter[2].

[1] https://dotesports.com/news/tyler1-marathon-stream-top-lane-...

[2] https://blog.nickwinter.net/posts/the-120-hour-workweek-epic...
I refinanced with them last year and it was a "meh" experience. Their rates/fees were good, and the UI made it pretty easy to work with, but they were incredibly slow. I would have understood - it was a really busy time for refis - but the work flow would go something like this:

They'd ask for a document that they hadn't asked for previously and make a big deal that I needed to provide it to them in the next few hours or else we'd lose our rate, then when I did provide it I wouldn't hear from them for 2 weeks. Overall, even with an appraisal waiver, it took like 3 months for it to go through and I never waited more than a day to respond to requests for info/documents.