skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is cool and reminds me of Dr. Adrian Thompson's pioneering experiment with evolutionary techniques on an FPGA [1][2].

He evolved a tone discriminator on real world hardware, and after a few thousand generations the resulting circuit was one no engineer would ever imagine - it made use of transistors operating outside their saturation region, and subtle secondary magnetic or PSU-line effects from nearby gates not even connected to the logic pathways. But it was effective and amazingly space-efficient.

Physics in the real world offers an incredibly rich and vast set of variables for evolution to play with, and I feel like our attempts to simulate it in software constructs may be too limiting to yield results approaching AGI.

[1] Article: http://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

[2] Paper: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.50...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Me...

from Victor Frankl, Auschwitz survivor and founder of Logotherapy.
iBuyers often move into a specific area. A huge percentage of Zillow's purchases was in one city in Arizona (or New Mexico, I forgot where). And two iBuyers in a city can totally move the market.
Your first citation references a woman forcibly removed from her post and then goes on to make unorthodox claims about both the Yugoslav and Syrian wars, neither of which are supported by evidence.

That was from your citation.
I'm sure people said the same thing about motive power before the steam engine. You cannot build it, you can only tap into it.
This one just got more and more interesting as it went, and toward the
end gets into some full-on existential philosophy. A very good read.
This chap Hotz sounds like someone who gets it. Give and you shall
receive. Start by giving it all away and realising you're already
dead and alone, then build an 'earned' world you understand, that
can't be taken from you. But it must be tempered with compassion and
humanism, or one has a tendency to be reckless and not just fall after
pride, but hurt others too.
I am in Finance and while I don’t question that may be the case for some, the reality is that with regulatory requirements getting more sophisticated, anyone who does not focus on DQ end to end is making a very costly decision. When the quality of data pipelines ends up impacting the capital requirements, the cost of bad data quality is hitting the PL straight away.
What really is a suprise is just how cheap it is to buy even the prime minister.
Truth to be told, that touchbar thing on the Mac made many people mad.

If you're in tech for some time, you most probably care a lot about tools you work with, especially keyboard, mouse and display. It doesn't mean that these should be super expensive. Just that they offer base functionality. For instance, physical ESC and F keys. Not having that for me is equal to be forced to write with left hand while I'm right handed. Possible, but is it productive?
I failed a bunch of times to find a terminal differ that could display diffs and especially merges with convenience comparable to graphical tools like Meld, KDiff of Idea's built-in merger. So far the best I could dig up is `icdiff` for side-by-side diffs, and some Emacs mode that Magit uses, for three-way merges (the latter is not a terminal util really, just faster sometimes than going to Meld).
Companionship and undying loyalty. They are fun to have around.
The Kayne comparison, while ridiculous, is not the contention I have with the post.

"He is a tech influencer with half-baked ideas..."

Is patently false.
Quite the contrary, I would say. I watch videos of people playing video games when there is something special about the video game, but (for any of several reasons) I know I won’t be playing the video game myself any time soon.
Thank you for sharing these stories.

>This amalgamation of people led to a ton of internal conflict

This hits dangerously close to home, if I hadn't experienced this a thousand times.
> It's a cynical, immature post. Genuinely surprised that it has obviously resonated so well.

It's also highly unprofessional and demonstrates a high level of disdain for everyone around the author, which is particularly worrying given the author started expressing that at a moment in time when had barely got through the door.

To me it's particularly cringeworthy how the author decided to skip onboarding to afterwards force team members to waste their time onboarding her, and that's depicted as a win. No, it isn't. Onboarding processes are there to avoid wasting everyone's time getting yourself up to speed, and the author forced everyone around to waste their time with an unnecessary do-over. and even that was slammed.
> Most of the stuff from the ancient would is quite easy to reproduce--throw hordes of people at it. The ancient world didn't have some fantastically superior knowledge.

I don't find this type of explanation convincing at all. If your claim was true, then just look at the fact that we still can't reproduce such structures today. I would allege the type of sentiment and thinking your paragraph is representing borders on arrogance. I'm reminded of the story of the illiterate Roman soldier w ho murdered Archimedes and said that man was just drawing circles in the sand.

We are a violent illiterate people who murdered Incan Archimedes and their khippus and since we can't understand their science we try to put down their structures as 'throw hordes of people'.
> Nobody can build something with squirrel levels of manipulation and agility, even in simulation.

While not squirrel level, this impressed the heck out of me: https://ashish-kmr.github.io/rma-legged-robots/
Putin is betting that he is willing to always go one step further than NATO, and he is correct.

If NATO puts boots on the ground, Putin will deploy tactical nukes. He knows NATO won't match it because NATO cares about Ukrainian lives and Putin doesn't.
> NYC wants all citizens to join NSB
> I'm thinking about what to do around street length & difficulty

Here's one idea if it might help you get started (though you can polish it):

- Mark all "dead ends".

- Mark all private streets.

- Recursively (or perhaps I should say iteratively, depending on your POV) mark all roads as X that only lead to previously-marked roads.

- Non-recursively, unmark each marked road that is both adjacent to an unmarked road AND that satisfies some reasonable heuristic (such as "being within 2 intersections of the center of your circle").

- Also unmark all freeways/highways/expressways/other reasonably-major roads (although few if any of them should be marked at this point)

- Delete all marked roads from your list of candidates.

This should ensure that every candidate road actually has a non-negligible chance of being at least seen by random drivers, and not just by residents who are forced to drive on it on the way home.

You can obviously augment
The first thing that I would do in such a situation is to connect my mechanical keyboard.
> Population growth massively slows down the more your basic needs are met.

No, this is the point you’re missing: your presumption is predicated on being able to meet everyone’s basic needs cheaply. What I’m saying is that this is not possible, and that high prices are the feedback mechanism.
"Squirrel level of manipulation" seems more a problem of building tiny physical robots and giving them appropriate interfaces for AI to control, which is an unreasonably difficult benchmark.

A reasonable first step would be autonomous small cheap drones, but I can't say what their missions would be. AlphaStar and Openai Five are mentioned elsewhere here, and these demonstrate that the problem isn't unapproachable.

There probably isn't enough confidence yet to arm autonomous drones, or there isn't a meaningful tactical purpose.
A soft recruitment ad which instantly spams mobile users to download the app, and by using a deceptive pop-up as well, is a big blunder
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The world cannot support 10 billion rich people (by current standards). High prices are one of a number of expected natural feedback mechanisms.

You’re pointing to a correlation which has no bearing on the future.
> I don't know why anybody would want to introduce Node style dependency hell into any C++ project when "configure" exists

More properly, autotools exists. There are reasons CMake has largely taken over from autotools, despite the considerable problems CMake has. I imagine CMake's far superior Windows support might be the main reason.
Pope in 'tectonic' shake-up of Vatican bureaucracy
Unless the vote was with neutral ( international) observers, which it wasn't, a vote under foreign military occupation is bullshit of the highest order.
You could make it conditional on some things. The goal is to compensate for discomfort, not to compensate lost income. So you could say you only compensate primary residences and self operated businesses, both occupied for 3+ years.

Or you could approach it from a different angle and compensate each resident and business operators with $10,000 relocation cost (in addition to buying their property with a 5% extra). That has the added benefit of eliminating more of the market price risk from projections.
The geography student in me likes that the questions are bounded by your watershed.

As someone who grew up in a warm country I am also amused that the growing season is hinted as being bounded by the number of days from frost to frost.
entr is written in C, watchexec is written in Rust.

There's another one that I've used that is written in go: https://github.com/cespare/reflex

I am inclined to use watchexec next time I need one, because like go, I can read it more easily than c, but also because I looked at the web page and GitHub repo and it seems worth trying. For instance, it shows how to use it as a library instead of just as a command-line tool. https://watchexec.github.io/
I think the familiarity might be a double edged sword, since AIUI the proposed operator has different semantics. "ptr~field~field2" is not "ptr->field->field2", it's more like "&(&ptr->field)->field2". Therefore I feel like the familiarity might just confuse people or give them a false sense of security.
I have to say that social media have lost their usefulness to me with their algorithms.

Before Facebook moved to the timeline it showed me just the posts my friends had made. It was sometimes a lot but it was easy to understand where I'd left off.

Since the timeline they add random crap to it which I have no interest in (their algorithms always assume I want more of the same when it's actually the opposite). And they hide many posts of my friends instead which was the whole reason I signed up for it.

In the end I just left it. It's not for me anymore.

Of course asking Microsoft as if they're the authority is ridiculous but the social media filtering algorithms are a bad thing IMO.
Again, I have to lament that science curiosity in babies is cruelly punished, whereas it should be greatly encouraged.
> At least some of them is about proxy and postal voting. That has no relation to IDs.

Firstly, that’s not true. As quoted above:

> The vast majority of convictions have involved postal or proxy ballots, often in conjunction with attempts to manipulate the electoral registers by registering bogus electors or adding electors to the register at empty properties.

That requires processes that are slack about identity. The requirement to prove/provide identity at certain points in the process would render these problems moot. If you wish to focus solely on in-person voting then say so, but that’s not the same as there being no relationship.

Secondly, as with any conspiracy theory, you would have to:

- show me how you knew their intentions without recourse to mind reading

And with restpect to this particular case:

- show how needing ID would reduce (legitimate) votes cast (I hope it’s not something like this[1])

- explain why increased security is a bad thing (taking into account the ease and low cost of this solution)

It would be just as easy to claim that those who are against such measures wish to benefit from the fraud. That wouldn’t be possible without mind reading and I lack that ability. However, it does correlate, those against better election finance protections tend to benefit from them (Conservatives and Labour). Those against better proxy vote, postal vote and in-person voting fraud tend to benefit from it (Labour). In either case I don’t care, to improve the legitimacy of elections via simple measures like showing an ID are reasonable, cheap, and easy. What’s the downside?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW2LpFkVfYk
embryos are not people. Unless everyone has suddenly turned into an enthusiastic pro-lifer it seems bizarre to me why destruction or termination of children with genetic defects is supposedly ethical, but trying to prevent them is not.

By definition unborn children or infants cannot give consent. That has never been the basis for denying them medical treatment, including experimental ones. And in the entire history of medicine no established treatment exists without experimentation.

If this is even remotely successful you may be looking at millions of lives saved by preventative HIV treatment in regions where the disease still kills millions.

A 40 year old woman getting pregnant probably poses higher risks for their offspring than a lot of genetic experimentation. Is there any risk basis for these arguments or are people just apprehensive about gene-editing due to some naturalistic dogma?

Just to think through this, people with Huntington's can, with a 50% chance, bring kids into the world who are doomed to basically die of a horrific disease, that's considered the personal right of parents. But the same parents couldn't subject some cells to treatment to attempt to prevent this, that's unethical?
Scoring is super harsh for the UK where we don't have a grid system and a million small streets.
Like asset seizure?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/09/01/police-seiz...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/s...
> To compare dog ownership to say, slavery or the like, is ludicrous. It's definite survival for the dog, and all too often survival for the human as well in the form of companionship, emotional support, and of course typical working dog duties.

History tells us some people also had strong relationships with slaves as well. It doesn’t change the fundamental nature of the relationship being a massive power imbalance with no autonomy on one side. (I say this as a super happy dog owner)
hmmm, are you sure?
Most investors seem to overask and let it sit on the market. The carrying cost of an extra month is more than offset by the higher final sale price.
Supply chain attacks? dockerize your development environment
-- the Flathub distro.

Distros can and do have their own flatpak repositories, notably Fedora and elementaryOS.

There are also third party apt repositories, maintained by someone other than a distro.

In this respect, apt and flatpak work exactly the same way.
Naturally, there is no chance that it had something to do with the popularity of cats in general.
Feels like a good match for rust's 'fearless concurrency'.

With the large number of emojis available, do you still get decent results if you don't use any single emoji twice?
Why does the gas pump ask for your ZIP code? As a security measure? How do foreigners use their cards to pay for gas?
I wish sites would offer the same choice with PDFs. So many times it’s delivered as a download when I really just want to browse it within Safari rather than have it cluttering up my downloads folder. If I do want to download it I’ll select Save (or option-click, or whatever).
> I find out what I need to do my job, and get the company to give it to me. Usually means making the same request again and again and again. Which is good practice for the actual work of coding in big orgs.

Onboarding processes are done to get most/all those questions answered immediately out of the bat, and in the process spare your team members from time sinks of being repeatedly pestered with having to answer the same question over and over again.

Onboarding is really not about you. It's for everyone which will have to be around you. More importantly, it's to avoid everyone around you wasting their time and energy with unnecessary hand-holding.

If you make onboarding about yourself, you're missing the whole point.
> They are reliant on both Taiwan and China continuing to produce pretty much everything.

I think security-apparatus people don't really think like this. A good example is Australia's recent falling out with China. Australia is one of the most China-dependent economies in the world, and the dependency is not particularly reciprocal. Australia exports ores, and China can ultimately pay more for ores from elsewhere without a huge economic hit. Yet, because of the Australian security zeitgeist, we've seen a stream of fairly bellicose and occasionally unwise statements from Australian representatives, which have resulted in the ever-sensitive Chinese going completely ballistic and imposing sanctions.

To give an example of how nutty military types will get if you leave them in a room together, I've heard people openly discuss and advocate war with China[0], in order to maintain US hegemony. From a security perspective, economics is for donkeys, and humans are collateral damage - their job is to enhance their state's strategic position.

If they take over the state apparatus, well, look at what Russia is doing. Anything can happen.

> Trevor Noah's comedy .. location and colour

To be honest, I think that was explicit. Look at how the EU is responding to the refugee crisis.

[0] https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/destined-for-war-can-... (this character Oriana Skylar Mastro is both obviously an dangerous imbecile, is regularly publishing in magazines like foreign affairs, and is an employee of the US military).
>what does this story incentivize Amazon to do

As someone else said, $3000 isn't even a rounding error on the level of amazon. However, I wouldn't put it past middle management to do this. But that's hearsay given the info.

Either way I think HR dropped the ball here. Getting fired/laid off this close to a significant bonus is such an easy case with the Department of Labor. It honestly wastes more of Amazon's infinite funds than just accepting an invoice and giving the employee the bonus.
Consumer products have ruined the notion of feedback and surveys for me and I suspect others might be in the same boat.

The amount of times things are asking for feedback has increased by orders of magnitude in the last decade and yet things keep getting shittier and shittier.

I have never ever got any perceptible improvement or even follow-up from leaving detailed feedback so I no longer bother - instead I do whatever is easiest to make the thing get out of my way so I can get back to my actual work, so everyone gets 5 stars or whatever is the “good” answer because I don’t want to get some poor soul in trouble in case there’s a “if avg_feedback < 99: fire()” somewhere.

Yes, in enterprise situations you’d hope the feedback actually gets looked at by a competent person and doesn’t just go into a black hole, but as a user I have no way to tell, so either I just write off the issue or I will do the thing that will guarantee the issue is resolved which is to email their manager instead of gambling my time on whether the feedback system works or even gets looked at.
Like you say, they left after a year. Maybe they really tried to make it work, and now, in retrospect, can see the red flags. And yeah, they're being blunt about it now. But in the moment they may have done a decent enough effort.

Myself, I am very "getting my hands dirty"-oriented, and the corporate onboarding goes over very poorly with me too. Sit through multiple days of material that is dumbed down to the company's lowest common denominator. Having to be giddy with other new hires in departments that you will never have any interaction with anymore. Kill me now. So, if the trainers just go through the motions, why wouldn't the original poster and I just put in the mere minimum to get through it, and start my real job...?

Oh, my real job... in the cafetaria with no desk? So, sure, the manager can forget to put the request in. But would a manager not know that you start, schedule a welcome meeting with you on the first day, touch base a few times in your first week? Plenty of chances, still no desk! It's ridiculous, but I am not surprised. If you don't think that is ridiculous, then, I don't know, maybe you've been conditioned to that sort of environment. With no snark I wish you much joy in your employment there, but then please let the original poster and myself move on^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrun for the hills.

Here's what onboarding should look like for an Engineering role: you come in at 9:00, do the bare minimum with HR, meet your team, set up your computer, and before the end of your first day, you have your first code changes in production. Then you go home with a feeling of accomplishment. Then, during the rest of the week, some onboarding meetings will happen, but at least you have started with the most important place: your team.
MMX isn't a successor to x87, though; it only happens to share its registers, because that allowed them to work without changing the OS. It does integer math only. SSE was the first Intel x86 vector instruction set to do single-precision floats (AMD had 3DNow!, but it was little used), but didn't really include much integer support for the newer, wider vectors (that came back only with SSE2).
This looks interesting! Thanks for sharing!
lede is buried at the bottom of challenger deep on this one
For the last min. 20 years a minute of idling was more than sufficient even with temps below -25 Celsius (-13 Fahrenheit). Engine was lubricated after 15 to 25 seconds.

The rest was nice stories we told ourselves to not feel our butts freeze.

I learned a long time ago not to put the burden of this specific comfort (warm car in freezing winter) onto my neighborhood. But maybe that is just me being raised with values towards being a good citizen and a potential good ancestor for the next generations to come.
Ah yes, well known liberals like Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick promote these laws. /s
Yeah, this is fun. I remember back in 2007 setting up a dinky audio stream for a 3 day jam session. Using php on Dreamhost, which had practically unlimited bandwidth back then. Worked great. The alternatives were either expensive livestream services or required a colocated box.
> Tired of waiting for driverless vehicles?

Actually, no.

There are many things I'm tired of waiting for in industrial manufacturing and engineering, and driverless vehicles are not really on that list. Even if I think about transportation challenges only, the need for human drivers is not even on my top 10 list of issues.
I'm somewhat surprised that the PR team here managed to avoid using the word "Russia" a single time.

I'm curious what the general consensus is as to why they would do that? I doubt it's an accident but I guess I can't rule it out.
How Not to Add a YouTube Player to VSC
Not so strange, as they were never intended to be used for compilers to begin with (you'd write assembler code by hand). The basic idea with having 80-bit internal precision is that you could load your 64-bit values from RAM, compute on them with so much extra precision you could basically ignore precision issues within your expressions, and then store the result back correctly rounded.
> Databases have been around for over 50 years. You might not think there’s anything left to innovate after all that time, but database fragmentation is one of the fastest-developing verticals in the tech industry. The complexity that characterizes existing data infrastructures seems to be only getting worse.

Maybe I'm just getting salty, but why is there filler in this article. This isn't a recipe for garlic bread.