skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I have lots of interests, and develop new ones all the time. I’d love to commit more time to my extended family. I have artist and athletic goals I’d spend more time on. I’d probably also go back to school and also do some community work. Programming is challenging and always provides a means of growth, so I could understand not wanting to walk away from it, if you have a way of avoiding burnout.
divide and conquer, label with a broad brush it whitewashes the details.
The concept there there needs to be an defined age gradient with distinct differentiation steps categorizing swaths of humanity that otherwise would just be "us" ... we the regular people, is just one more distraction.
I'm surprised that "information wants to be free" isn't on this list. It used to be a common mantra. Now it sounds quite quaint. What a lot of critics of Twitter, Facebook, etc. seem to miss is that a lot of their growth was related to the idea that only good could come from people knowing more about each other. People criticized Facebook for not making their social graph available to anyone who could sign up for an API key. The result, of course, was Cambridge Analytica. We've learned about the dangers since then, of course, but back in the early oughts it was an idea with significant traction among the very same crowd who can't keep themselves from commenting "Twitbook is a cancer on society" no matter how relevant it is (or isn't) to the story at hand today. Intellectual fashions change just like any other.
He's a former runner and apparently still walks 3-4 miles every evening.

https://www.prevention.com/health/a36533961/dr-fauci-health-...
The plugboard is more complex than earlier tabulators, where you would connect a wire from, say column 5 of the card input to column 12 of the print line. Or connect a card column to a counter input. Most of the wiring for the older tabulators was pretty straightforward for customers, specifying how the characters moved when a card was read.

The Univac 1004 made things more complicated in two ways. First, you had multiple steps; tabulators did one step per card (more or less). Second, the Univac 1004 had core memory, so characters were moving in and out of user-controlled storage locations, instead of directly from the card to the printer.

There's a diagram on page 96 of the manual. Take a look and I'll see if I can explain: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/univac/1004/UT2543_1004_Card_Proces...

There are 31 holes for the "step output" (rows L through P on the panel). These get energized on steps 1 through 31 of the program. The basic idea is that you wire from a step output to everything that should happen during that step. You connect a wire from a step to the action you want to perform on that step. You also connect wires to select the two operands for the operation during this step.

The core memory is arranged as a 31 by 31 matrix. (I think it's a coincidence that 31 matches the number of steps.) To write a value to the core memory, you give the memory the two coordinates by connecting two wires (rows j through m on the panel).

For a branch, you wire to a Step Sequence Change input (row W), specifying which step should be executed next.

There are a bunch of "selectors" which are like relays that select one of two inputs. These let you implement conditional actions based on a signal (without doing a branch).

There are a bunch of "address combine" connections, which I think operate like AND gates, producing an output if there are multiple inputs.

Because everything is wired electrically, you can't simply wire two outputs to the same input or they will get shorted together. So you have "distributors", which essentially produce multiple copies of the same signal. (Internally, it's just a diode.)

The plugboard also has a lot of features that are useful for card-processing applications but may seem random, like suppressing leading zeros on a number.

It's really a different model of programming from what you're used to. I haven't looked thoroughly at how the Univac 1004 gets wired up, so my explanation is a bit hand-waving. You can look at the manual if you want to learn more.
The about dialog says copyright -2015. Apple was releasing patches/versions of the Apple IIgs OS until 2015?
>Concerns about adolescent mental health were rising before the pandemic: Teens had been reporting poor mental health at higher rates. Between 2009 and 2019, the percentage of teens who reported having “persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness” rose from 26 percent to 37 percent. In 2021, the figure rose to 44 percent.

I assume this is the line you're talking about. So in the span of a pandemic, it increased by 7% as opposed to the 11% between 2009 and 2019. While the premise "the pandemic didn't matter" might not be valid, it is a good question to ask which things that are now returning to normal had an effect, and whether the trend is still continuing up otherwise. It has been between 2009 and 2019. It's not difficult to find sources showing correlations between some mental health issues (in this case depression[0]) and internet usage. Several other aspects have not gotten any better either, and do not seem to be getting better anytime soon. Things these teens will inevitably have to deal with in the next 5 years unless things change drastically.

So the pandemic did matter, but I'd also be skeptical of what long term effects the pandemic caused which would not have happened otherwise, and which effects are caused by other trends which quietly continued or were amplified by the pandemic and will plateau or continue growing after.

[0]: https://ifstudies.org/blog/six-facts-about-screens-and-teen-...
I want to buy a new car with a manual transmission and without any infotainment or other electronics. As far as I know, this is no longer remotely possible, so I continue to maintain vehicles and equipment that are 25-50 years old.
I don't think you can take infrastructure seriously without a staging environment. For many companies that is fine - they don't have significant infrastructure to maintain (or just don't maintain the infrastructure they have).

I work on a team that maintains our database layer and the lack of a staging environment is incredibly painful. Every test has to be done in production and massive effort needs to be taken to proceed safely. With a staging environment you can be more aggressive and come up with a solid benchmark and test suite to gain confidence rather than having to data collect in prod
> Once I dared to clean this up and reuse the authentication response, but it broke everything. I never figured out why. To this day I sometimes lie in bed wondering what could have caused this.

Is it just me that get piqued by the sound of it? I often spend my night figuring something intriguing and chasing that aha moment. I also like play puzzle games, and to me, its one way or another to spend the time. Then if I get to clean the mess up, usually that's another rewarding effort. However, I definitely understand the frustrations if one's hands are tied or there is a deadline that you just want it disappear.

I love to clean up my own mess as well. We all make messes, at different levels and at different perspectives. Just like playing a game, it is just boss fight at different level. Novices make mess, veterans make mess as well. Usually novice's mess are easy mess.
That's not really addressing the core of my point. Sure, you personally can choose to be conservative and not adopt something promising the world based on "libre". And you probably shouldn't unless you want to tinker. But if it becomes common and shows to be more flexible and reliable, perhaps you will change your view.

I too critically rely on heating. As system complexity increases with things like outside temperature sensors, I would much rather have visibility into their workings than not. In the middle of the night, that could be the difference between a quick ten minute diagnose and override, or waiting some hours for an emergency service call.
I retired very early. I still write apps and websites, because I have programmed since I was a kid and enjoy it.

I also sail and run and read. But still enjoy programming.
This is just them being lazy or trying to set a baseline of TPM 2.0 based systems. There's no technical reason to not support those chipsets already supported in Win11.
> it's better to have a working profitable project with bad code, than a perfect unfinished project, with meticulously chosen design patterns.

A lot of businesses were built on PHP this way
Following this to its logical conclusion, would you say that devs with 10 years experience shouldn't earn any more than someone fresh from college?
"Central to the American criminal justice system is that every defendant is innocent until proven guilty. But civil forfeiture isn't a criminal action; it's a civil one, occurring in civil court, where defendants are not necessarily entitled to a lawyer."
> bsenftner on May 10, 2019 | prev [–]

> Revision of history, wrong, and insultingly so. This post is a rewrite of serious graphics history. Read Foley Dan Vam, forget this tripe.
I like it for that reason -- the attitude of a bunch of technically-proficient hacker types is a good bellwether for what can be expected from society in general. If even the HN crowd is making the calibre of comment HN people usually make, then either we are still super early, or I'm super wrong. Time will tell I guess.
If the question is would I want a significant share of society’s resources to not go towards extending the life of a 93 year old, then my answer is no.

Of course, I would not want society to force anyone to accept assisted suicide (which would not really be suicide).
Your analogy is flawed. The CPU doesn't care at all about how or what code looks like, all the nice comments explaining what it does, nice naming conventions, whether its easy to understand or not. They have zero impact on the final compiled code. The executable ends up as a spaghetti of machine instructions with countless gotos in a single large file.

Using bad ingredients in food, or poor quality materials in construction has tremendous impact on the final product.

>"Better is the enemy of the worse" is no excuse to have spaghetti code, or 50,000 lines of code files. It means that good is sometimes more convenient than perfect. Spaghetti code is not good to begin with.

Just calling code good or bad doesn't mean much - ultimately, results matter - if your code doesn't have tons of bugs, if your team can add features without any problems, if you can ship reasonably on time, if your product delivers value to the end user, etc - then you have succeeded. It doesn't matter what outsiders think about the code or what labels people give. Its best to ignore them and continue doing good work.
> I have full faith in the US government to pull out all the stops to make sure equity prices of publicly traded companies remains stable and increasing, and continuously lowering the purchasing power of the USD if need be.

i don't know why, but this doesn't seem like a good idea to me...?
US houses constructed in established areas prior to the 20th century are generally very solid. Take a walk around Salem MA (17th - 19th century) or any of the New England seacoast towns. There are shacks, but there are fine homes built by the rich merchants. Those homes, many in brick, are better than anything built today, though not thermally efficient. (The wind blowing through the walls keeps them aired out and rot free, LOL.)

It is amazing they were able to build like that three hundred years ago, only a few decades after the area was first settled.
The Player controller from the game Celeste is a single 5600 line file that includes things like systems only used in the tutorial. I honestly don't think it's as bad as some of the criticism it got when the code was released makes it seem, but it certainly could be better looking code.

But ultimately, Maddy Thorson isn't selling a block of code. They're selling a game and it has extremely satisfying control of the character. And that's all that really matters for a player controller.

Maybe better organization and design patterns could have made it faster to develop? But I don't believe it would.

But also the type of product does matter for this. Celeste had 2 programmers so a lot of the things necessary for a team of 100 devs would just be harmful. If you're making a library/framework to be used and modded by others, architecture matters a lot more. If you're designing an enterprise application that you know will need business logic customizations for 25 business customers it matters more. It's all about knowing the scope of your project. But also until you start getting that many customers, maybe the unsustainable method is what will allow you to reach those first few sales more quickly to be able to stay in business long enough to be bit by the technical debt.
For me, the dopamine hit when I solve a difficult problem solved can be amazing. Though, I find that if I don’t balance it out with other stuff (like golf, travelling, etc.) I tend to burn out a bit. As someone who has solved some incredibly difficult problems, how do you maintain a balance?
I have to agree. As I walked around a local strip mall with closed gyms, closed stores, but open nail salons I realized the whole precautions nature was doomed.

Sure seems like an attempt to maximize theater and sell vaccines
txtai executes machine-learning workflows to transform data and build semantic/vector/neural/similarity search applications.

txtai can query with both natural language queries and SQL-driven queries. An example SQL query:

select id, translation(text, "fr"), translation(text, "es") from txtai where similar('hiring')

This query will search for matches similar to hiring and then translate those matches into Spanish and French with a machine learning model.

More examples can be found in this article: https://medium.com/neuml/insights-from-the-txtai-console-d30...
Basically 30% of the workforce is setting rules for the whole. The vote should require a majority of all workers, not just those not voting, to approve the union.
This is not about race. I had been living next to two Section 8 neighbors, both were white families, both were extremely disruptive. One was not even that poor - they had at least five cars (with just three people driving), not beaters either. It's the state of mind when you decided that the society has to provide you with housing, I guess. I am sure there are good and decent people on Section 8 and other affordable housing programs but having lived several years with music blasting, cars honking, fights and screams every night I will err on the side of my sanity and vote down any affordable housing in my neighborhood. Don't care if it's for Norwegians, Swedes, descendants of Mayflower, Arian Brotherhood redemption program etc.
Same with turing.com and a bunch of other sites.
Civil forfeiture is a crime against the people. The practice needs to stop.
Proof of work :)
Yep, it happened - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30898638
I'm not going to write the wall of text that's required to properly describe the situation but that's just not how these systems work. Industrial automation has all sorts of feedback loops so they people operating it know if they can trust it. The people using it are pretty much always trained in how to run the various systems manually so that an errant sensor doesn't turn into a clogged up rail line or waste whatever is in your process equipment that happens to be mid-cycle.

This isn't some consumer appliance where you have to stupid proof every inch of it. These systems are bespoke and their architecture is mostly a matter of business decisions and not at all a matter of the internet peanut gallery trying to figure out how safe they can make it.
I hope it didn't kill your battery! You're right, there's an issue when powers of 10 get past 10^24. Lots of things to fix in this game, maybe I posted too early. Thanks for giving it a try!
Fewer restrictions on https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/accessorydwellingunit... was a recent change. I think quite a few garages are being converted.
Yea, but that isn’t rhe choice. It’s about quality of life, not life itself. Ask your teenager if they are willing to let grandma choke to death or spend two years with just family, and rhe answer will be different.
That software bug made a lot of Hungarians miss elections today in Netherlands :(
You can go to a hospital, and will be sent home if you don't need to stay in hospital, especially if the hospital has more urgent patients to attend to.
I could totally conceive places where "you have to write at least N lines of code per day" and then this kind of thing explains itself.
Yes I remember a few similar stories that made front-page news on various establishment sites. Most of them were very similar:

- older person has some sort of non-covid related serious illness or injury

- can't get ICU bed in the "top" hospital in their area due to ICU overflows.

- Thus, patient sent to less renowned hospital where he eventually succumbs to disease or injury.

- Media blames Covid / unvaxxed for his death.

A couple points that they never mention:

- ICUs, by design, are usually at 90% full, so these scenarios happened before Covid due to just random odds of a few extra people needing ICU beds at some particular hospital in some particular week.

- If the media has to trot out stories of 70 year olds with chronic heart failure who may have been saved had they been able to get a bed in the nation's top cardiology department instead of merely some average hospital, then does it really represent a legitimate issue the rest of us should be concerned about?

It reminds me of how the media kept demanding we accept the narrative that Covid was super deadly to children, when by all accounts it's less dangerous than the flu, swimming pools, etc even BEFORE the CDC quietly revised their own numbers* downward. So they'd push some article about a 22 year old died of Covid. "Look - this virus will kill your kids toooooo."

And you'd actually read the article, and then realize it was some chronically sick kid who weighed 400 lbs and had suffered from severe respiratory and immune issues all their life. And you'd know - if this was the best example they could find to scare us - then you shouldn't really be scared.

* https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/...
Actually we have the same problems and challenges in 3d as well. At the end 3d is result of a 2d image rendered with a projection matrix and others. Stroking is difficult, for example. You need to combine little triangles to construct a line with miters in 3d, etc.

In my opinion, 3d graphics are harder than 2d for sure. WebGL API is dirty. There's a Webgl, Webgl2, and we're going to have another one: WebGPU, and hopefully it will make 3d easier. In 2d we just have 2d drawing context.
> More than 200 startup founders banded together to open discussions with the government to stop it [Google] from imposing a fee of as much as 30% on smartphone app purchases

As I understand it, Google's platform fee only applies to Google Play, so it can be avoided by using another app store (Amazon), or by sideloading.
“Junk DNA”, i.e. “non-coding DNA”, are the code segments of the DNA, while the “coding DNA” (“non-junk”) are the data segments.

As a programmer, I find the code segments the most interesting.
That's just a convention in git. I always use fake emails in commits and nothing has happened to me.
I'm assuming I'm controlling the cursor projected somewhere in Kunitachi Japan? Pretty cool
do you have code samples of what you mean or the issue?
Probably supposed to log it into VAERS, so that it can be logged as a trend
I was thinking of his dad describing a giraffe to him from a book when he was really young, and then describing the length of its neck and how it would allow it to poke its head into his upstairs bedroom window. He said things like this put him on the path to visualize things. Maybe when you're a kid, certain things set you off on certain paths that you take, and some of those paths are profitable (I don't mean this in a strictly monetary sense). Feynman latched onto that and rode it (with some natural ability) for his whole life. Other people might have been able to do the same thing, but they never would have latched onto it as a kid and refined it.

I think we'd have better thinkers in the future if we put more focus on refining abilities in kids like visualization of problems, or giving them different tactics to approach things they don't understand.
I find OOP spaghetti can be incredibly difficult to navigate, example: Class hierarchies 4 or 5 layers deep, some subclasses overriding the parent, others not. It can be it very difficult to follow what's actually going on.

Procedural spaghetti is more manageable, though I once had to update a C app with a 3000 line case statement. Pure madness.
It's your public email address on GitHub (which you may choose to hide, if you prefer). It's also public what you starred on GitHub. This email is obnoxious and annoying, and it's possibly even against the law to sign people up without them explicitly consenting, but it's not "privacy invading".
My curiosity is killing me as to what exactly went wrong. And as someone living in The Netherlands I'm also kind of mad at the apparent fragility of this huge chunk of our infrastructure. If this had happened on a work day, it would have been a real national emergency, rather than just a huge national inconvenience.

I would appreciate one of those post-outage "what happened" reports like with the AWS and Facebook outages last year. But outside of IT I don't think anyone really expects those over here. And there might be national security considerations preventing such disclosure until any chance of a repeat has been engineered away, at which point everyone will have forgotten.
Under which authority could Yahoo finance legally restrict access to the stock data if on the technical side the website and information is public and doesn't require authentication?
Management is peering into the future.

The line workers live in the present tense.

(I say that as though it did not take me 20 years to suss out.)
Unbelievably, I actually used this in a project when I found myself thinking that I needed a combination of a forward and backward propagating state monad.

[1] https://github.com/ElementsProject/simplicity/blob/35627fc49...
Right you are; here's the CDC press release from the new one:

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2022/p0331-youth-mental-h...

...but it still doesn't link to the data, or do any comparison to other countries.
The quest for a small keyboard driver
What about third party integrations? Don’t you need some non-production environment to test them in until both parties are satisfied with the integration and it’s impact on users?
Which part? Me assuming political leaders will sacrifice purchasing power to prop up asset prices, or the government propping up asset prices?

If the latter, then whether or not it is a good or bad idea depends if you are a beneficiary (typically older) or loser (typically younger).
And I can label their actions as selfish too. Expecting society to shut down for years because they are afraid. I could also label people who kept kids out of school as incredibly cruel.

Also arrogant and naïve… thinking humans could somehow control or conquer a highly contagious respiratory virus outside of a vaccine. All these NPI’s are nothing more than modern rain dances. Humans tricking themselves into believing they can control Mother Nature… that they even have a right to try…
I one rewrote one of these programs and translated ten-thousands of lines to a well unit tested 500-line purging script. Got a spot-award and then the program was never used again… choosing to keep the “working original version”