skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That all sounds exciting!

I'm not a server side person but from my experience, other types of data app developer might want to join are various kinds of product-specific data, like feature flags or user-specific dimensions for each request. These aren't typically in the trace data itself.

These are different from what product-agnostic "performance engineers" tend to look into, so I understand if this is out of scope. Although I think product people should look into these numbers as well, instead of just throwing them into the performance team's plate :-/
...What? Why wouldn't the next version of FIFA be licensed by FIFA?

I guess I don't really know what you're suggesting. As it is, people gotta get a new Madden game every year just to update stats. This isn't because of some kind of technical limitation afaik. EA just wants to sell a new game every year. In fact, I think they might have to buy the data and the right to use it from the league.
El Salvador is a failed state about to default on its national debt. It's not a real "government" in the way that most of us would define the term.
Specifically, they want to maintain the perception of internal mobility. So they’ll hire overqualified people, promote just those, and be able to use the logical fallacy “X% of our floor workers become managers therefore if you join you have an X% chance of a promotion every year.” Which they can dangle as a carrot when they need to. What I find surprising is that they actually admitted publicly to this strategy!
I would focus on finding brands to trust vs stores. Stores do absolutely zero diligence on ingredients of supplements.

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/02/major-retailers-order...

> Three to four samples of each supplement purchased in different parts of the state were tested. Each sample was tested five times, for a total of 390 tests on 78 samples. Schneiderman said that only 4 percent of Walmart’s supplements (“Spring Valley” brand) actually contained the ingredients listed on the label, while 18 percent did at Walgreens (“Finest Nutrition” brand), 22 percent at GNC (“Herbal Plus” brand), and 41 percent at Target stores (“Up & Up” brand).
AFAIK ZeroSSL does: https://zerossl.com/features/acme/ but I've never used them.

There are other providers out there. It would be good to collect them, perhaps into something like "awesome-acme" GitHub repo.
And, as always, I suspect this will only ever be available in the US.
It is because Walmart is either not offering $200k per year, and/or the $200k is based on working 80 hours per week with variable schedules where one should expect to be interrupted during dinner and weekends and nights.

It is always the same story with restaurant/hotel/airline/retail/hospital work. Complaints about struggling to hire while paying peanuts relative to the shit quality of life of those jobs.

Especially for any “manager” or “supervisor” level position, which is just code for “you are the person responsible for filling in when someone calls out”. And someone will call out because the pay for the subordinates will always be insufficient to attract reliable, quality line level workers.
Ah, well, if you're going days/weeks between using it, then I understand why it wouldn't be useful for you to figure out how to configurate it more, and why leaving it running in the background would be mostly a waste. That makes sense.

Although, now, I'm sure that many of us are curious - why would you only use Emacs this infrequently, but bother to use it at all?
Walmart’s average revenue per store is approximately $44MM and their gross profit margin is a bit less than 25%. Im not surprised they’re having a hard time finding people to be accountable for business results like that for a salary of $200k.
It's probably easier to just cut off outgoing payments to Starlink anyway. They're not a charity, so if they don't get paid, they probably don't want to provide service just to send a message to some random government.

On the other hand, if you want to demonstrate that you have anti-satellite capability it's probably a better idea to shoot down a corporate satellite than a military one. The Soviet Union shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and it didn't start a war, after all.
I use a homerolled thing in .bashrc using plain text files. Regardless of implementation details, this kind of thing saved me vast amount of time over the years. Some requirements that I find the most useful:

- Session ID: assign session IDs so multiple shells don't get mixed up. Make customizable so it's easy to integrate with screen or tmux etc. On reboot, if session IDs are restored, the history can be recovered.

- Instant write: command typed in one shell should be available to search in a different shell right away

- Search order: reverse search should return commands for the current session first, but also make other sessions available
> Rust is essentially C/C++, but without their ugliness

I'd rephrase that, folks coming primarily from a coding background would probably find this off-putting since Rust's contribution is something quite different from what C/C++ does. It's fairly clear what author means, though.
Having been apparently been the only person on HN to even take a cursory view of the bill text, basically the bill forbids "censoring" people based on political views. That leaves open if people are being censored because political views or behavior. It's very hard to prove that distinction, just like it's very hard to prove that a company is discriminating for/again a certain group when it comes to hiring or pay. And lawsuits over such discrimination allegations usually don't go anywhere.

The other part of the bill that I suspect companies are more worried about is that they have to published details about their moderate policies and statistics on how they are applied. No more bans with vague reasons like "harmful content".
It's socialist in the sense of promoting mutual aid and communalism. The union movement was originally very influenced by these ideas. Unions, co-ops, FOSS projects, and community organizations are good examples of these type of political/economic structures.

If you're interested, Peter Kropotkin wrote a lot of books and pamphlets that are freely available.
Among prominent world leaders, both Putin and Xi Jinping were able to handily remove term limits for presidents (Trump also floated the idea plenty of times on Twitter, of course you have to win 2 terms first before you seek a 3rd.)

I am no expert on Chinese politics and the inner workings of the Communist party, but I thought this viewpoint from a Chinese dissident was interesting:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/21/china-cai-xia-...
We trained our cat from a very young age, and used it as a routine for getting treats or food.

The cat is able to do the following:

- sit

- spin (rotate in a circle)

- "up up" to stand on their feet, tapping my finger with the paws

- "high five" and "low five"

- "platz" to lay down on all fours

- "come on" to follow around

- "nom nom" to signal whether or not it wants food. You can see the eyes getting big immediately when it's very hungry.

- whistling to come to a specific spot

- double tap on a surface to signal to come to a specific spot

There's a theory that cats that don't scream but make the "urrr"ing sounds don't treat their owners like a kitten but as a mutually respected individual. And most people think that cats try to make the "urrr" sounds to communicate with humans.

These sounds vary in pitch and repetition and length and it's very easy to identify what our cat wants from us:

- when it doesn't like something

- when it wants to play hide and seek

- when it wants to go outside

- when it wants us to help it get to a specific spot (e.g. opening the door or making a fort on the bed so it can hide under the sheets).

- when it wants to cuddle

- when it wants to be hold in the arms so it can see what we're doing (on the kitchen counter, where it isn't allowed to jump on)

- and, of course, when it is hungry, that's the high pitch scream most cats do.

What I also wanted to add is that our cat has different moods of cooperating with the tricks it has to do when getting food. When it's only slightly hungry it tries to get away with cuddling us or "pushing" the head to the hand while purring...whereas when it's really really hungry it immediately does the tricks to get it over with.

I guess that cats are intelligent enough for tricks but they are also easily bored, that's why you have to change tricks to keep their brains busy and healthy.
Yes, have done DEB and RPM and Docker and Makefiles with `make install` and IMO the differences for a packager are pretty minimal and not worth having a holy war over.

Anyone smart enough to manage one format can probably manage any of them.
No, China has no interest in this.
There is a tension between the concepts of self-determination and territorial integrity that makes the question not so obvious. However the concept of territorial integrity has advantages for weaker nations. If self-determination were absolute then for example the U.S. could get any territory it wanted by using its immense wealth to buy off local residents. I'm sure there are some villages along the Russian border who would be happy to see their land turned into a U.S. military base in exchange for U.S. passports and big piles of money.
This is from a month ago. Here is a link to the previous HN thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31018436
and yet noise has improved over the years same with the dynamic range, to the point where they can decrease photodiode size and still keep fairly good noise and then also release cameras with lower resolution with this technology to have very good low light capabilities like the A7S series. Look at the Canon EOS R3 just a massive jump in ISO quality and double the resolution of the A7SIII
I remember reading a long time ago about the 1-based array and the offset-array 'kludge'.

My first thought was they should have replicated Ada's design instead, my second thought I hope that they have a good linter because putting arbitrary offset implementation in a library is a minefield.

I don't claim to be especially smart: this is/was obvious.. Unfortunately what isn't obvious is how to fix this issue and especially how to fix the culture which produces this kind of issue..
> GPT-3 correctly reverses long words! But to get there, we had to teach GPT-3 the algorithm to use to get around its limitations.

Has GPT-3 really been "taught" anything here? If you don't provide an explicit example as the context of your input, GPT-3 does not retain the ability to reverse words.
Yes that is a static state no need to compete for talent
There is no hard number. It mentions that they are just an estimate and could be off. They are labeled as MAUs, so that gives a lot of leniency depending on how "active" they are. It doesn't define bots either.

The SEC filings thing has been repeated even by Musk himself. It doesn't really help him.
Chrome Page Transitions
Accompanying Google I/O talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCJUPJ_zDQ4
Custom made synth, audio and retro-gaming gear
If one has a different type or trait for unusual and normal range indices, then the signature for the procedure that assumes indexing from 1 can be written to disallow other starting indices.
> I’ve definitely seen you argue along the lines of “it hasn’t been implemented in Java, therefore nobody uses it and we can’t tell if it’s a good idea or not” before.

You have not seen me argue anything along those lines. I have, however, said the converse, that we try not to adopt features in Java until they've proven themselves elsewhere.

> However, in terms of eliminating patterns which are literally never correct, like dereferencing null pointers, violating resource lifetimes, or calling methods that don’t exist, static typing can in fact eliminate those patterns.

But the implication is reveresed! From A => B, i.e. types prevent certain bad things, you're concluding B => A, i.e. if you don't want those bad things then you should use types. That simply does not follow.

> This is an obvious advantage, and on some level I don’t really care if it contributes to formal correctness or not because it would make my job easier.

I wouldn't dare imply that types don't have certain important advantages, but that doesn't support the specific claim that types generally and significantly improve correctness — which many have tried to show and failed — and it certainly doesn't support the much stronger claim that if you want to improve correctness, the most effective way to do it is to use types.
Then we are back to the starting point. If you are already trusting Azure what's exactly the threat model the encryption is supposed to protect against?
Nice idea, but.. I work with Single Sign-On setups for multiple companies, where both sides of the fence have a certificate which needs to be valid according to well known CAs, and they have to be manually renewed. So a 3 month validity is a non-starter - the cost of buying a 1 or 2 year cert is far less than the cost of manually updating every 3 months.
Ah, a preview of what a "freedom of speach" Twitter will provide as a surprising benefit!
Painting everyone with the same shade of gray is a more simplistic view of the world, not less.
> It turns out that people deciding for themselves, instead of others telling them what to do, results in great decisions.

Sometimes. But we've also found it necessary to have laws governing road traffic, and pollution, and noise abatement, and fraud, and robbery. That's because humans often focus narrowly on their own desires when making decisions unless they're compelled, under pain of fine or imprisonment (which aren't always effective), to take others' interests into account as well.
He is explicitly advocating for the worst. That's the literal title. If you made a spectrum of options, he's advocating to go as extreme on that spectrum as you can.

According to him, anything beyond the good will used bin is the wrong choice. He's advocating for an extreme.
> But the problem with most garbage collectors is that they only clean up memory!

Is this an inherent limitation of garbage collectors, or could they be made to clean up arbitrary resources?
No, sending a vague email that makes me waste my time to figure out how much more I have to pay them is unreasonable. They could have just included prices side by side and a sample invoice under the new system with the last month's usage
Actually it turns out it's O(n). Which goes to show that constant factors can be more important than you think when looking at raw time complexity big-O.
If efficiency had high value, cars would look very different. We’ll end up repeating the same ”I’ve got a V8 F-350 for my office commute” thing with electric vehicles
Why not encode the starting offset into the type domain? Or at least distinguish between normal and unusual. Then the function signature can restrict to 1-offset arrays if that is what it assumes internally.
gc-cons-threshold and gc-cons-percentage, for those curious.

https://elmord.org/blog/?entry=20190913-emacs-gc
What's the story behind Heroku's rewrite?
I'm not sure why you assume a class action would result in a comically tiny payout. The VW emissions cheating scandal had a class action payout of $5,000 - $10,000 per person plus VW buying back their car at pre-scandal values.

I can easily imagine a Tesla FSD class-action being a token amount plus their FSD fee back. I mean, yes, it would be an interest free loan to TSLA, but your money back is a real thing.
i think the 'problem' is payments/royalties without having to pay a lawyer
Same, however whenever I think about building one I demotivate myself by realizing it’s nothing more than an electronic art project and will never see any real usage for any practical purpose. We don’t really live in a world where cyberdecks are necessary.
Thanks.

And yes, materials science seems to be an area of potential gains.

I've done some poking around, and it seems especially that various fibre-composite materials might afford useful characteristics. Much of what we already use is to a large extent based on this --- wood is a lignan-resin composite, reinforced concrete a steel-cement composite.

Whether this means ceramics, organic, or some other mix of methods and materials I'm not sure. Fabrics are also pretty fascinating when you think about them.

For ammonia, enzymatic production, if that could be synthesized at scale ... at which point, surface-area exposure and capture becomes the question.

That might get us 2, 3, or even 4 of Smil's materials set right there.

And yes, Smil is pretty coldly logical. Though the dry humour does show every so often.
After dealing with Ubuntu all day at work it's such a breath of fresh air when I finally get to use FreeBSD at home. Thank you FreeBSD community for building and maintaining such a gem of an OS. Sincerely, happy user for 21 years now.
It's mentioned in an expired Internet Draft https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-schwartz-add-ddr-forwa... which refers to https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-appli...
It absolutely does! Tesla's practices are incredibly anti-consumer, and FSD is vapor-ware.

$10K plus $200 monthly? Talk about getting taken for a ride.
Does it give a definition of "censoring" or leave that up to whatever court might find itself mired in such a lawsuit?
Inkscape 1.2 released
On the long term only vaccines limit death, not lockdowns. Chinese people will all have covid as western people did.

And even if it worked.. at what price ? living in a prison-country for the sake of saving mostly 80+ year old people ?
I assume by works you mean successfully tricks people into believing a centralised network is decentralized so that people will but tokens
Congratulations to Let’s Encrypt.

I would also like to do a shoutout to software like Caddy Server which automatically provisions with TLS using Let’s Encrypt. Doing this removes another barrier to adoption.
It's that whole temporarily embarrassed millionaire mindset we all have. Hard to give up what we already have, especially when some people will definitely try to cheat.
I REALLY love the way merge tool works in IntelliJ IDEA.

Is there some other tool out there that works in a similar way, and that good?

(tho, typing idea . and doing a merge fix is not that bad)
Or the geniuses who recently redesigned Vanilla Coke Zero's cans and cartons. The cans are now the exact color of what leaks out of a car with a blown head gasket, where the oil and coolant have mixed.
I'd love to see those taxes imposed.

Problems appear twofold:

- This would probably create a very large, and very motivated, black market.

- The same dynamics that make these efforts so profitable also make them politically powerful. "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power." Adam Smith, 1776.
Next project: "Let's Interoperate" Total portability of data,
authentication, contact lists, and full inter-working of chat and AV
protocols soming soon! ?

After breaking the certificate racket, let's end the tech
walled-garden monopolies.
Everything from wages to electricity to real estate to the CPUs themselves have gotten more expensive.

Saying it's just computation and memory is ignoring 99% of what it takes to run that business.
Are there any plans for a “minimal” version of FreeBSD?

(similar in concept to what various linux distros release, allowing for super slim servers OS)
Love these. They remind me of the physical signs for beer or food that would have a single animating element coming from a spinning light or shutter inside — a waterfall is easy but also ripples in a pool, light sparkling on a glass etc.
If so, those receivers probably have to pay for something. You can't have a contract without exchange of value, right?

So that is to say, if I sell you some hardware-software package where the software is based on GPL code, then I paid for that software too, and so we are in a contract, part and parcel of which is the content of the GPL.

Suppose I sell you just the hardware, and you download and install the GPLed software separately from that. My sales agreement doesn't mention the existence of that software at all. Then there can be no contract there; that's just some free stuff you got somewhere. Perhaps that somewhere was my own server, where I prepared the images, but that is neither here nor there.
Unrelated, but in the Netflix series Snowpiercer - I never understood why its not a vehicle like but is instead a huge train besides Wilford just liking trains?
No, it isn't taught anything. GPT3 text generation is effectively a really fancy autocompletion algorithm based on the n-many previous tokens in a rolling window. You can only "teach" GPT3 something within that window, and it doesn't "learn" there, it just tries its best to generate content based on what is stored in its massive n-dimension table of graph edges for tokens.

That is also why it has such a strong propensity to lose the plot once you are outside of that window size and it's generating new content based on self-generated content.
I've worked with clients in a similar way, but without the commitment portion of scrum. We'd discuss priority order, scope, estimates and then bill hourly. Worked very well.

IMO fixed price features aren't good for either party. Your customer doesn't/shouldn't want you to cut corners or get sloppy if things are more complex than expected. If the customer doesn't like the incremental work delivered, they should end the engagement. To set expectations better, you should have an initial scoping to understand what they are looking for and ideally give you some time with three codebase to understand what you are getting into
> But once you determined you like it, you're so much better off investing in a good, stable, reliable bike, and go into harder terrain, rather than risking your life on simple trails with a shit bike.

No, no, no - get the worst bike with the worst seat, tires and brakes then instead of merely “doing the hill”, if you even make it to the top, throw your bike down the hill and walk all the way down - see if you go too fast you’ll end up missing the little things nature has in store for you

/s
I'm very fond of this technique, I used it in the 90s when I was building video games with my friends at UNI, one of them was a complete genius about color cycling and made some wonderful animation, unfortunately I lost all the source material years ago (reminder to self: always make backups!).

Fast forward 2 decades, I'm also involved in Elixir community a bit, I was attending the ElixirConf in 2017 and when Boyd Multerer introduced his Scenic UI framework [1], my brain literally exploded and I immediately started to think of a way to use it for making video games (something that ended up not being completely possible, but not impossible!)

My first attempt was to recreate the iconic Shadow of the beast "walk in the park" scene, multiple levels of parallax and all [2]

My second attempt was, of course, recreating these same animation in Elixir! [3]

Then, as many of you already know all so well, life hit, I lost momentum and it never became something more polished or usable.

It still was a lot of fun.

Fast forward another 2 years, I was at ElixirConf again in 2019 and there was a talk about a GameBoy emulator written in Elixir+Scenic.

Never I would have imagined that my silly experiments would end up to inspire someone else to build something so cool! [4]

Kudos to him.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77FW-jrCyCs

[2] https://gitlab.com/wstucco/scenic-sotb

[3] https://gitlab.com/wstucco/scenic-color-cycling

[4] https://youtu.be/7WPJDmJJqf0?t=125
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