skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why C Isn't a Programming Language Any More
Me: OMG the Apple Retro Brains are finally getting into the game!

(checks the shop)

"Out of Stock"

:(
Bucha Massacre
I wonder if there's a way to soften the personal blow of Diplomacy without changing the game. Something simple, perhaps, like literally wearing masks - to emphasize that this isn't you, it's your in-game persona. Or maybe something more subtle, like making the game really short so you can play many games, where each betrayal in each game becomes insignificant on a personal scale - it impersonalizes, and becomes simply data and decisions.

(I've only played Diplomacy once, and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. I don't think we even finished one game, and it certainly hurt real-world relationships.)
Different company. Rewe is another large retail group, and their discount subsidary Penny has also announced price increases.
I honestly don’t know. And honestly for 99% of people being able to look at the code to examine what would happen is irrelevant. In this case the false reading was within basically normal parameters. It was just about 50 degrees too high which meant the house was barely being heated (was about 45 degrees inside) on a very cold day.
Line miters have no valid interpretation other than a view-dependent one -- the PostScript spec says that miter limit is based on curve angle, something which only makes sense in a flat, 2D perspective. Freya Holmér came up with a set of heuristics that work well enough for Shapes (I helped debug the math a bit there), but you first have to figure out what miter means in a 3 dimensional world, and it's not easy.

But yes, you are generally correct. Maybe if I was writing this post today, I'd give it the title "why shapes are so much harder than textures".

I also disagree that WebGPU is a worse spec than WebGL 1 and 2. I basically implement a WebGPU-like wrapper for WebGL today in my own WebGL projects, and it's made my life much easier, not harder. Though, full disclaimer, I am a contributor to the WebGPU spec.
Just because information is public doesn't mean it can be used without restriction, similar to how certain open source licenses doesn't allow you to do anything you want with the code just because you can view it on GitHub. For example, website owners will realize this quickly when they copy an image from Google Images and get a lawyer letter demanding payment for unlicensed usage.

In this case, Yahoo licenses the data from various exchanges. I am not sure which exchange they use (some sites often use a cheaper exchange like one of the CBOE exchanges, rather than licensing the entire consolidated tape, which is the combination of all exchanges and gives the most official and up to date pricing). The exchanges are very particular about distribution rights and sites pay a pretty penny (we are talking probably tens of thousands per month for a single data source) to access it. I am not sure exactly what legal method the use to "shut down" unauthorized, access, but they can and do depending on how serious they are (for example, NYSE may be the strictest and does regular audits).

Of course, exchanges understand that their intellectual property can and will be reproduced when it is offered for "free" through public websites, so that is factored into the cost that websites pay and for the most part everyone turns a blind eye to small personal use. However when you use it commercially or build a project (even free) around their IP, you can expect them to take a second look at some point. Exchanges make a killing on this I am sure, as they charge admin fees, monthly data fees, fees per user/visitor, and all kind of other clever things. To learn more look up "<market> Fee schedule" (where market = CTA or UTP for consolidated US equities, OPRA for options, CME for futures, etc) and you can find the licensing rates that most exchanges publish (which doesn't include the rates you will pay to a data vendor to actually get the data).
As another potential "bad behavior," some developers and government regulators are saying that platform fees for the iOS App Store (comparable to the 30% taken by Google Play or Nintendo's eShop) are excessive and that Apple should be required to lower them.

However, I don't think it has had a huge effect on Apple's brand reputation among consumers.
It's not easy but it is possible. You'd have to disable Windows update, IE and Edge, SMB, MRT, Defender, AutoLoggers, WMP DRM, GWX, SmartScreen, WER and change a bunch of registry keys. Disable certain services and scheduled tasks.

DiagTrack and all of it's sub-components have to be completely disabled and replaced with decoy files.

To verify, you'd have to monitor certain APIs via WinDbg and trace certain EventProviders using Windows Performance Recorder over a period of 24 hours to make sure there are no escalation issues (DiagTrack).

Pro-tip: if the EventLog (view them using Event Viewer) is not full of errors that constantly reappear you haven't disabled Telemetry properly.
aaannnd . . . . Whoosh!!
It isn't about how good you are; in fact it is the opposite.

My grandfather was an engineer and focused on building actual things - being a productive member of society. He was also pretty alert about avoiding addictive things.

His point was that the gifted minds — who can get and ARE very good at chess — tend to get addicted and squander years or decades just chasing the next tournament, the next 100 GM points, the next high, producing nothing useful, and getting no skills applicable to productive pursuits.

He did not want to see me go down a path that could lead to being a chess bum any more than he'd want to see me become a ski bum, join a cult or just become a hardcore partier. All are surely enjoyable, but not a productive addition to society.

(& no, I haven't got a shred of insecurity about my abilities; I was getting good at an extremely satisfying rate, but also saw what it would take to get really good, and that I'd be better off spending my time not memorizing every classic opening and variant, but instead on understanding physics and chemistry concepts ... I absolutely see the beauty of chess, and may well take it up again, but I also am grateful for by grandfather's point, especially considering how addicted I got to the adrenaline of ski racing at international levels...)

And if you enjoy it and have the freedom to do that - fantastic - it's your life, do what you want - I hope you get as good as you desire and enjoy it!
I assume, however, that this didn't ground every single train in the state!
Ah, this uses that JPEG streaming trick. Cool!
WebGPU is more explicit, but I wouldn't say it's significantly harder. Sure, if you just want to get a triangle on the screen, it's going to take more lines of code. But everyone builds their own abstractions over the base API, and once you get to that point it's about the same ease-of-use.

And that knowledge from the WebGPU API can extend to the desktop with something like Rust's WGPU, where you can author a 3D app once and get a Vulkan, DirectX, Metal, _or_ OpenGL targeted version.
Looks totally fine to me. I'd say it is written very well.
It's weird reading a post that I aggressively agree with except for the conclusion. You have it exactly right in the cases where we should ignore pay gaps due to preference differences and what we should do about it. Because you're right, it would be silly to try and force the numbers to be equal, even if you could it wouldn't fix the more fundamental issues that caused the numbers to differ by such a wide margin in the first place.

> At some point, you have to question the premise that numbers would be equal if you removed unequal barriers and discrimination. At some point, if your sole metric is equal numbers, you have to force men and women to do jobs that they don't want to.

I feel like we're 99% in agreement, the difference is that I see a 20-30% difference among groups that have more variance within them than between them as evidence of those barriers and discrimination and a system that continuously reinforces the same outcomes. And it goes both ways, the barriers that push men out nursing, child care, and art are just as important, the difference is what data you use to demonstrate it.
In my excitement I deleted it…
I do not think it would be useful for a society to specifically allocate the resources saved by not extending a 90 year old’s life specifically to their grandkids.

Society already triages resources for various populations. It is not like the government throws unlimited money at old people to get all the gold plated healthcare they need. It is allocated roughly based on how rich you are, with poor people getting less care via reduced Medicaid reimbursements and a million other ways to price discriminate recipients.

If anything, this opaque maze of who does and does not get a share of society’s resources is worse than a transparent policy.
Isn’t this exactly what the press release states? “ if there is an incident somewhere, the system adjusts itself accordingly. This was not possible due to the failure.”
"Neutral" here of course means "pliant".
https://www.amazon.com/haixclvyE-Face-Lifting-Device-Anti-Ag...
The size of a code file doesn’t matter. What matters is the amount of state the code in the file manipulates. For example, a 100k line code file with 500 pure functions not using any global state is fine. It is simple. However a 100k line code file with 500 functions that all manipulate 1000+ global variables is extremely complex and hard to maintain because of the undocumented global state invariants and hidden side effects.
Board diversity can also be an indirect metric indicating a board that stuffed with irrelevant rubber-stampers: if all you need is a rubber stamp wielder you can pick whatever flavor of human will complete your box of crayons, but if you actually need someone's judgement or experience the selection is more limited.
Not so much? They raised from DFJ and ATA, not to mention Ellison. Definitely feels like an SFBA tech company to me.
I keep this account (and all social accounts anonymous) so I can’t share my OSS code. I think self-hosting meta language compilers would be the closest similar code base.

My code is targeted to experienced functional programmers, and others of the same skill level seem to have no trouble with it, but the less experienced will bounce off it. My thinking is that those people should get more experience and come back instead of optimizing my codebase to a lower common denominator for ease of hiring. This has made hiring difficult as anyone who can work on my code base can probably get a high paying job at a FANG. But as a solo dev the productivity gain is enough that I still have no trouble competing in my niche.
Sure, but let’s do that after all the kids have access to doctors and dentists and nutritious food at school.

Although, I have read a very significant portion of the federal budget goes towards the last few days/months/years of very elderly people’s lives.
closing in on 10 years with unraid, here's a few key points:

- trades more raw storage for slower performance, only one parity drive is needed

- if two drives die, you can still recover the rest of the data, no special recovery software needed

- allows you to mix drive brands, sizes, smr, cmr, etc, etc...

- allows you to expand one drive at a time, buy whatever is on sale when you need it

- drives spin down when not in use, saving on power and replacements

if you got a ton of media, it's pretty solid tech. the one thing i'd like to see is an "unraid lite", a headless solution with a cheap yearly fee. something to keep generating income for the team while allowing the vets more flexibility. because at the 10 year mark, it'll have worked out to $15/year for me and since i'll be virtualizing it again, i only really need security updates for kernel, ssh and samba.
I remember sharing that Player.cs code from Celeste in the gamedev subreddit, and getting all kinds of weird novice comments about how the code doesn't adhere to 'OOP Principles' or 'there isn't any unit tests' or 'you should split it into multiple files with 100 lines each' or 'you should use an ECS to make a real game'.

Laster on Noel Berry did give a response explaining the various design choices behind their code:

https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/tree/master/Source/Player

Anyways, kudos to the team sharing their code even if it's a bit messy.
Or email if email is the username
> IANAL, but can't you plead the fifth on that?

I think it varies by state. The 5th amendment explicitly concerns criminal matters and not civil ones, so each state has a patchwork of laws and jurisprudence determining whether you can plead (and what the consequences are) during civil discovery.

During a quick search, it looks like many states allow adverse inference when pleading 5A in civil cases.
I don't think that he unearthed anything that was already inherently embedded in our society.

'- winning at all cost (bots, paid advertising, spam)
'- the loudest / crassest gets the most information
That's why I posted the second link that REAL income reached an all-time high during the pandemic, and is still higher than any time 20+ years ago.
Multiplication is more efficient than addition? That’s surprising! I assumed multiplication would be built at least partially from addition when you’re at the lowest levels of the stack
Oh, thanks. Looks like a reading error on my part.
OK now read it again in David Brent's voice.

The guy is problematic.
I’ve never understood why the GPU isn’t leveraged for 2D/UI stuff. Isn’t it all fundamentally the same? Vectors and pixels?
No, it’s talking about crew scheduling/allocation , not signaling.

The signaling system is totally fail safe. Even if that system totally went out, drivers are required to know where all the signals are, and to treat an unlit signal as a red.
Top loaders are basically an automated version of doing laundry but by hand. A 40-50 year old top loader which is probably what mine would have been today if it had kept working is much much simpler in many respects than a modern front loader. The spin cycle and it’s control is very different. I doubt you could build a modern washing machine with 1970 technology even if you knew what the end goal should be. And you need the right detergent too.

Added: And toasters still do a crap job of figuring out done-ness.
Despite what you might read online, Xpenology is illegal pirated software.

Last time this came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25621753
As someone who doesn't have a clue about frontend components, but have the desire to build them, how does this compare to https://lit.dev/ ?
I don't agree with those definitions, but I'll have to concede the point.
> Parking lot hospital: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mississippi-hospital-puts-b...

I was referring specifically to Omicron, so both of your links aren't really what I was looking for—thanks anyways.

My main surprise was OP's assertion that medically necessary supplies such as blood had run out during the last surge, but so far this seems unsubstantiated. As you mentioned, I was aware masks have been in short supply at points throughout the pandemic, but blood and masks aren't quite equivalent.
There was a massive southwest airlines IT failure compounded by weather issues over the weekend. This cancelled numerous flights but also snowballed into most of the southwest flights being delayed. We were lucky to return home. The news is only reporting weather delays yet for those at the airport this weekend...it was clearly larger.

If it is true that Netherland's and Italy's transport infrastructure were also down I wonder if Russian supported hackers are to blame.
I think both of you can understand why I wouldn't want to answer those questions.
Just do it. Don’t ask for permission. You will end up more productive not less.
I have played twice with them and they made illegal moves on one and the time ran out on another. I cannot confirm if my opponent was using hacked clock (I strongly believe he was) but I am pretty sure his diagonal move was illegal. He argued his piece was somewhere else and I got fed up and left.
As a developer, any day in which you don't see a national headline about how your f*#(up has just made a lot of other people sad and/or angry, is a day that could have been worse.
This isn't really a source for what I was looking for. This article is from February 2021 and therefore has nothing to do with Omicron.
Absolutely, the pandemic showed that the elderly are in power, and a disease that overwhelmingly affected old people versus the young forced millions of person-years of youth to be wasted in the quixotic attempt to allow the old to live a few more years. I think it’s absolutely shameful what these grandparents have done to traumatize their children and grandchildren.
People often say state is hard in functional programming, but things like the Tardis monad have convinced me that (semantically speaking) functional programming is even better at state than the imperative/OOP paradigms. Imperative programs are essentially restricted to one global monad implicitly hardcoded into the language semantics, whereas with functional programming you have the freedom to choose the most appropriate monad for the task at hand. You want state? Use the state monad. You want continuations? Use that monad. You want time traveling? Yep, there's a monad for that too. IO, randomness, nondeterminism, parallelism, environment variables, failure, backtracking, software transactional memory, you name it. Many problems are best solved with a custom monad, rather than one of the standard ones; for example, using a monad that allows your code to emit constraints to be solved (this is a common technique for implementing type inference in compilers). Satisfyingly, reifying effects with monads preserves referential transparency and is therefore compatible with laziness, unlike traditional side effects which are sensitive to evaluation order.
The same shit happens if you visit Google web properties in a browser other than Chrome. Who gives a shit.
I haven't burned out from it for 45 years, so doubt that's much of a risk :-)
There is an update to the article.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.2218523
And if you don't, only grifters would. Quite the conundrum.
Oooh that must be what that mrna vaccines tell our cells to make, ey?
There's one very significant difference between standardized tests and tech interviews.

Standardized tests are designed such that preparing for the test isn't helpful.

Current tech interviews aren't like that at all.
> If you ever start a cheese packing facility make sure to put a peel corner on the left and right hand side of the package, the latter is far more useable for left-handed people...

I think there are a LOT of products that would benefit from company leadership having someone left handed (or colorblind, for that matter) due to the fact that more than a few products work sub-optimally ... probably more than from having someone who's gay.

Diversity in company leadership would better be spent on factors relevant to the product or workforce. Outside of some specialist industries, board members sexuality has absolutely no place in the workplace.
This industry dug its own grave with the whole "hazing-as-interview" paradigm. As a senior dev I have zero interest in ever bothering with process again. I'll never leave my current company at this point. The possibility of making 10-20% more money simply isn't worth it.
Then why not test for every other respiratory virus too? Why just Covid?
Oh, there's no actual code involved? My bad!
Rape as a weapon: scale of sexual violence endured in Ukraine emerges
> The present-day peer-review system evolved from this 18th-century process,[15] began to involve external reviewers in the mid-19th-century,[16] and did not become commonplace until the mid-20th-century.[17]

> While some medical journals started to systematically appoint external reviewers, it is only since the middle of the 20th century that this practice has spread widely and that external reviewers have been given some visibility within academic journals, including being thanked by authors and editors.[18][22] A 2003 editorial in Nature stated that, in the early 20th century, "the burden of proof was generally on the opponents rather than the proponents of new ideas."[23] Nature itself instituted formal peer review only in 1967.[24]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholarly_peer_review
What i meant was, technically this is a Promo not an Ad. The End credits itself was overlayed on the Same Show Welcome to Flatch , pointing to a deep link for the same show in Fox Now App. All episodes in this show are free.
Indeed, next time it could ve us waking up to a missile entering the living room
no, the title is in no way accurate. It's wrong.

The chain expects that the prices it has to pay (!) for goods are rising 20-50% in the coming weeks (!). Aldi is expected on monday (today) to rise some (!) of ALDI prices significantly (!) - for meat, butter, ...

Einkaufspreis = ALDI buys things, the prices ALDI pays -> expected to rise 20%-50% in the coming weeks

Verkaufspreis = ALDI sells things, the prices consumers have to pay -> some prices already are expected to rise significantly on monday
Maybe the title should be changed to begin with "Stewart Brand" to make it less clickbaity.
What a terrible word. Either using gender purely as a pejorative modifier is ok or it isn't. Try "sistas-science" or even "wives-tales" as synonyms and see what that looks like.

There's plenty of alternatives. "Fake-science, Barnum-science, garbage-science, non-science, nonscience, TED-talk..." It's fertile ground to go all poetic too.
>If optical material is as cheap as you say it is, then why are optical cables so expensive? A few meters can run for hundreds of dollars.

This a day old but I just noticed and have to say: WAT!? Go to fs.com or monoprice or wherever else, look at even the super well armored ultra durable direct burial OM4 like:

https://www.fs.com/products/71448.html

That's as nice as it gets, fully customized to exactly the length and connectors you and, and 7' is $11.54. 100' is $60.26. And again that's about as fancy and durable as it gets. Plain old OM3, still perfectly suitable indoors for 100 gigabit at hundreds of feet, is $19 for 100'.

So I'm honestly utterly perplexed at what you're even talking about. Even ultra-low loss very dense 400G rated fiber isn't "a few meters for hundreds of dollars". If you see this I'd be kind of curious what you're thinking. Some sort of cutting edge terabit stuff? Were you looking at something with dozens of strands in a cable and thinking it was single strand?
YC has gone from 7 super high quality startups in a yearly class to some 300 founderitis startups twice a year.

Nobody who knows anything thinks it's actually a quality signal anymore, it's really just a high passthrough noise filter

From their perspective, they still just need the 1 giga unicorn a year to give their LPs excellent returns so it is what it is
Sometimes I just want to work with my hands rather than my head. Then I just go to my car with my tools and work on it.

But it's still creating things, just a different way.

I believe that people were made to work, struggle, and achieve. Idleness and purposelessness kills.
I know the NIST Time and Frequency division is based there, but what would you do in person once you got there? Do they have a service of some kind to help synchronize things in person for visitors?
Check out the RG351M or any of the other ANERBNIC devices.

https://retrododo.com/rg351m/
I like your approach. Having a clear understanding that all software is just state machines is a great way to solve hard problems.
Happy? Why bother shooting so high? I'd settle for not miserable.

On a good day I'd shoot for not stressful.

On my best day I'd shoot for not boring.