skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pointer to the tool? It sounds awesome.
You are right, and that's what's so brilliant about it. Deckard barely shows emotions nor connections to the world. At times it feels like his detective persona is just an act, just like his humanity could just be an act - no matter whether he is human or a knowing or not-knowing replicant.
To whom does "we" refer. The classic C programmer curmudgeon. Those commenting on HN frequently use the term "we" but reading HN one can see that, amongst those commenting, there is a divergence of opinions about software. Who is "we".

Asking prospective "DevOps", "software engineer" and "IT admin" candidates to program in C is an effective way to weed out those who are not truly capable of writing "good" software. It is easy to find mistakes and expose the incompetent. That may offend the incompetent who believe they are "good" programmers. Thus there are new programming languages created every year, more people using them to write "bad" software, and more people who feel emboldened to attack C as the source of problems, instead of "bad" programmers.

C is truth serum. It is difficult for people programming in C to pretend they are "good" programmmers. They will be found out. It is funny how people on HN attack the language for exposing so many "bad" programmers. Under this theory, programmers are absolved of all responsibility for their mistakes. The language is at fault. "Good" programmers do not blame languages for their own mistakes.

IMHO, there is sometimes a benefit to languages that make it more difficult, not easier, to create and sustain Rube Goldberg complexity. Not to mention languages that compile to smaller, faster programs. "Programmer productivity" is ambiguous. For example, it could be a positive for a programmer trying to justify the expense their salary presents to an employer or it could be a negative to people who are forced to use an ever-increasing quantity of "bad" software. It could be a positive to a programmer who wants to keep implementing new "features" or it could be a negative to a software user who dislikes "feature creep".

The dichotomy of good versus bad software is such a subjective topic that the term "we" really needs to be defined. Different groups of people have different interests and therefore different opinions.
Ime this unravels quickly as the team and stack complexity grows and product engineering starts shipping software that’s very difficult/expensive to operate. The whole idea behind devops was to avoid this death spiral by giving engineers ownership and responsibility to run their own software. The problem was (still is) that off-the-shelf tooling is just not there and requires very skilled/experience devs to use it effectively. Hence dedicated teams got created and the whole thing died on the vine. Devops as a movement simply doesn’t scale.
I'm not sure if you misread. I think it's absurd how Israel seems to be immune to criticism in the media.
I'm not quite sure what you're trying to say here, but it sounds like you're saying "Blade Runner wasn't an enormous influence on 40 years of sci-fi, because it also had influences and we should credit those instead." I don't think that's how it works. At worst, Blade Runner took an aesthetic that had been the domain of some relatively obscure (if excellent) comics and brought it crashing into the forefront of global pop culture.

Also, "cyberpunk itself started in the 1960s" is...pretty questionable. It was certainly heavily influenced and rooted in New Wave sci-fi of the '60s and '70s, but cyberpunk as a literary movement is very much a thing of the '80s.

In any case, New Wave sci-fi and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? were very much textual media. They were a huge influence on the themes and stories of what would become cyberpunk, not so much on the visual aesthetic.
If you know the future, play the lottery, or even better, form a startup :)

Otherwise, it’s a similar problem to being on eg the cutting edge of music. You either consume everything you can until you can make judgements on what will stick or not, or you create things yourself and try your hardest to make them the next thing.

Luckily, in our industry, you can also:

- know the fundamentals of math/science/technology: there is never truly anything new, there are always rehashes of something else

- be smart enough to absorb radical new theories: self explanatory, better learners can get a grasp of the content more effectively

- socially positioned enough to delegate what you don’t understand: if formally verified quantum blockchain on tensor cores (or whatever) doesn’t resonate with you, but you think it could be useful later, get a younger/brighter person to do what you won’t or can’t. You might reap major rewards from having a protege in the space, and if you don’t, then you helped the next gen learn something new, so feel good about that.
If you read Snow Crash before Neuromancer, you'll be bored by Neuromancer.
Whenever I want to game or do something resource intensive, I have to nuke windows defender 7 different ways in order to keep it from gobbling resources.
Can you send me any such studies?
Yea but they didn’t explain why its bad. Software devs complaining about “bad software” is basically an industry trope at this point but often it just means “Its too complex and I don’t understand why that complexity is probably necessary” or “Its not written the way I would have written it”.
> Gaming as a hobby offers a flat return.

Not all games, and not for all definitions of playing them.

Some games are tests and potentially builders of skill of various kinds, and the investments made are compounding: self control in the face of stress, economic decision-making, system design, tactical thinking in 3D space, and so on. Some games allow us to go Elsewhere and we change profoundly as a result.

Games aren’t created equally!
As I said, you are deluded about 'knowing' half of the countries in the world.

I lived in America for over a decade before I could say that I begun to understand it. I have seen people like you who visit my home country and claim to understand it. All they do is project their faulty models onto our values and culture.
Since they don't dive into economic feasibility, I did about 3 minutes worth of googling, and found this paper https://www.temjournal.com/content/93/TEMJournalAugust_1062_... that basically says its 20% cheaper than an airplane, but takes 5 times as long. where it becomes economically feasible is when carrying heavy cargo, which in my mind would be better handle by rail (they did not give numbers comparing it to rail). My guess is this will turn out to not be economically feasible and only makes sense if the environmental impact is your primary concern, or as another commenter mentioned, if you don't have land infrastructure already built out.
They aren't Google, so the anti-"American Big Tech" energy isn't as strong.
Jesus Peace be upon him was not a communist. Islam (Submission) is not communism. All previous prophets and messengers were Muslims (Submitters) to God.
>First, it may override another person's right but it may not. In general there is a belief we are obligated to provide the necessities.

Nope. If your relative needs a kidney you aren’t forced by law to donate it. Yet you require pregnant people to donate their bodies. Why?

>You can easily argue against abortion through purely secular arguments.

You cannot. There are no valid arguments against availability of abortion other than religious ones. The ones pretending to be are either based on logical fallacies, or are aimed at derailing the discussion - like your own attempt couple of comments above. Once again: supporting abortion ban is no different from antivax. We just pretend it isn’t because of political correctness - because this particular fringe theory is supported by major religion.
Also the opposite end, with many CPU cores/threads such as the threadripper (2990wx, which is 32c/64 threads). It doesn't work under Windows 10 well at all, even with crazy hacks like coreprio https://bitsum.com/portfolio/coreprio/.

I've found Windows 11 out of the box works just as well as Linux. I never really need to dualboot Windows (I don't play as many games these days), but W11 looks like a lot of hard work has gone into making the scheduler and other tools work well. It's just a shame their UI is absolute garbage.
Real-time analytics is not easy.
Not only is it possible, being able to do so well is a design constraint on the language.
predev ops, I had to put in paperwork for servers, they would come back not set up correctly, we would have test and prod being different, it would take a long time, and it would cost us a lot.

post devops, I put in the scripts, and we use that for deployments. The ops teams review the scripts.

I don't know what failure looks like for other people, but it is a LONG way from where I am standing.

We put in CDK scripts in as part of our development now, and it works pretty damn well.

The different teams who want to review different parts do so. Deployments are fast, and more importantly, they are the same as the dev deployments, which we don't have to go though months of trying to get set up and running.

We have a capped dev AWS account, and that solves a LOT of issues.
Archive with full text of article: https://archive.ph/HRhjB
For all we know it is stored in a table
Playing devils advocate here. It could just be that they already have the stack trace in logs somewhere, so how does this help you any faster? Bulk of the time to resolution will be figuring out what to do anyways.
There's a lot of healing to go around.
Now that I think about it, the first time I watched it, I was a little bored with it, too. It was hyped up so much that I think I was expecting something very plot-heavy that moved quickly and was mind-blowing that way.

Since that first viewing, some 20 years ago, I've watched it a few more times without those initial expectations and really love it. I love slow-paced films where you can really soak up the atmosphere. That kind of thing isn't for everyone, though, so I can see why others wouldn't enjoy it.
I didn't expect more free time. I will say that a lot of people told me what it would be like but it was hard for me to believe how hard it is to be a new parent until it actually happens.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cruz_Operation

They were a partner with Microsoft maintaining a version of Xenix
Do you have one in mind? I'd love to read some.
To brute force it, don't you need to know the alphabet used? Without a few sample keys, you won't know which heights to set to your brute force keys

You can however use other properties of the lock to avoid brute forcing it, and get more like a gradient descent:

A blank key will be scratched by pins that are set at the wrong height, and you can keep filing and scratching till it's at the right value
Ask HN: How do I stop this Facebook stalker?
Unfortunately, a close acquaintance of mine is being stalked on Facebook by a troubled person they were once friends with. We suspect they are utilizing this method of temporary deactivations:
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna46808719

Basically they can't block them or even see if they are friends with them unless they happen to be online long enough to search.

The easy answer is to not use Facebook but unfortunately Facebook is desired for posting and sharing photos with international family members and friends.

What is the next best way to solve this problem? Can we get in contact with someone at Facebook somehow to get a setting that simply unfriends people that deactivate their accounts repeatedly?
I use pinboard.in

If I think I may need to refer to that content again, I'll also 'printfriendly' (convert the relevant content I need to PDF). I do this for 3 reasons, 1) In case I may need to refer to it again, and the website/content is gone. 2) I'm a digital hoarder. 3) I also like to have stuff available locally in case of extended internet outage
> I’m not a lawyer, but I imagine an objective observer would find the former argument more compelling than the latter.

I like to think that an objective observer might read the statute before deciding which argument he thought was more compelling. Certainly a lawyer would.
Hey, I've written more C code than anything else and was generally considered pretty competent.

> The language is at fault. "Good" programmers do not blame languages for their mistakes.

I also know that my time to get something functional in higher level languages is often 10x less, and my probability of having very subtle bugs to hunt is much lower.

There's a super-weird tradeoff here. There's all kinds of modern, high-level techniques that improve programmer productivity and reliability of bigger systems.. They convert people who can't be productive C programmers into doing OK work.

But they're also slow and a bit opaque in how they work. And it's really easy to run out of performance and have to do exotic things to get them to scale, in which case you have to build bigger systems still and cede a lot of those advantages.

Whereas, if you write to the metal, you can get a lot of performance out of a single large computer.
Probably because no one wants it.
Technically: with a built in display, the tuner+decoder part was in the device that you wore in your pocket.
> Amazon provided no guarantee

Except for all the guarantees for refunds or returns.

> I’ve been burned many times with cheap fakes.

This is statistically unlikely, unless you're intentionally going out of your way to shop at risky merchants.
I was going to suggest jean J.M Jarre, but hard to get the ambience of Bladerunner as its quite curated.

But as an aside, there was these synthesizer compilations in the late 80s / early 90s that introduced to my to a bunch of Synth artists. Most of them have quite a range of styles they do on synth, some quite bladerunnerish (including Vangelis). Anyways, the albums are "Synthesizer Greatest 1,2 and 3". Spotify has them as a playlists, as do most other music providers.

EDIT: also The prime thanatos streaming on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P23oE6ekwQ
Stalker gave me that exact same feeling of, as spectator, being tricked into being the protagonist.
Here’s my hot take: because of the deeply held cultural belief that screen time is bad and books are good.

Certainly there are truths behind that, but I think we need to realize that videos and even video games can be informative, uplifting, moving, etc, just like books. And conversely books can be a huge waste of time.
Independently on our views on the comparisons of Sundials and DifferentialEquations.jl, I want to wholeheartedly agree with you that modern research in Neural Differential Equations and ML in general is rediscovering a ton of stuff that is obvious of everyone that has done serious numerical work.
https://news.yahoo.com/mcdonalds-broken-ice-cream-machine-17...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/24/us/mcdonalds-ice-cream-machin...
Also not pictured:

* 2005: ship it if it builds.

* 2022: run unit testing, deployment to beta, run integration testing, run UI testing, deployment to preprod, run internationalization testing, run regional/marketplace-specific testing, run consistency checks, run performance tests, deployment to prod.
Excellent comment. Makes me feel "less guilty" for being bored to bits by Blade Runner (and 2001, similarly). I "feel guilty" because I consider myself a big sci fi fan, and while they are visually brilliant movies, they just drag ass. I have see why they are widely acclaimed in concept, but also felt like I was not not "getting" something.

The new Dune is long, dense, cerebral, visually brilliant, but is paced way better in my opinion. There's a continuous forward drive.

De-emphasizing pacing is just as bad as de-emphasizing any other important facet of cinema. But we have this dichotomy that action is "cheap" and not as "smart", because it has wider appeal.

I think neurotype plays a lot into this. I have ADHD, and the snobby cousin comment about "digital detox" is exactly the elitist garbage that rubs me the wrong way. It attaches value to "not being bored" as if that's something I have control over.
I picked up F# over a year without much focus. It really isn't that hard to learn a functional language if it interests you.

I don't think training staff would be that hard. The advantage of a functional language is not all the crazy things you could do, it's the things you can't do. Well, in the case of F# the things that are harder to do. You have immutability and a preference for pure functions. All of that means it's easier to reason about the code.

Of course you can write super complex functional code that no one can understand but from what I've found it's easier to create something simple and easy to maintain.

There is also something about documentation in the F# world that I've not seen before. The docs read like a class on the tools https://zaid-ajaj.github.io/the-elmish-book/#/
Let's see an example dialog involving ELIZA:

Eliza: What's on your mind today? Please let me know your opinion.
You: Cats.
Eliza: I see.
You: I think cats are great.
Eliza: What caused you to feel that way?
You: Well, I don't know.
Eliza: I would like to know more about your opinion.

Do you think Eliza really understands what a cat is? Or what feelings are? Do you think it is truly interested about your opinion? No. It's a script.

And LaMDA is ultimately Eliza on steroids. The fact LaMDA says it feels or thinks about something, does not mean it does. It only means it has learned to say it in response to something else given a dialog state.
It does, because mining cost doesn’t scale with a number of users. It is a per-humanity process. The only sensible comparison here is to the average of per-person or per-humanity waste.

You divide BTC energy by 3 transactions per second

What meaning does that have? An absolute cost of a transaction compared to what?
LMGTFY:

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/the-moment-a-baby-s-brain...

“co-ordinated brain activity required for consciousness does not occur until 24-25 weeks of pregnancy.”
It's created automatically (or manually) for any email prompt. It is automatically set for the domain so fill in provides the forward address automatically. You can turn this off and you can delete the forward address anytime you want.

What else would one need from a disposable email?
> Levelling too slow? Eliminate it. Um, what? That's half the game

That's weird. The vast majority of my time in MMOs is raiding, not leveling. Leveling is boring, filler content. I don't know why it should have such a strong emphasis in any game.
The author takes Amazon at its word, and that is a mistake.

The main reason 'search' on Amazon has gone downhill, is not because Amazon is valiantly battling an army of pesky outside vendors.

The smoking gun on Amazon is that it haphazardly inserts its own knock-off products within search results. If Amazon cared even slightly about search quality, it wouldn't insert $5 shoes above $200 shoes at the top of a list sorted by price descending.

Search is getting worse on most FAANG-like companies: Amazon is worse, Google, famously, is worse, Youtube is worse, and on and on.

A few companies now dominate their respective online markets, and users lack the knowledge and stamina to investigate alternatives.

So the main reason search is getting worse is because companies like Amazon feel like they can serve the most profitable search results to their users without attrition. Where else would customers go?
DnD is not a combat game. It's a role playing game. I guess not sure what to expect from "wargamer.com".
> The result of my experience, which you question, is: not a single other nation would characterize the US Democratic party as “left wing”

You sound like you didn't even go outside Europe.

There are two scales, nationalism-globalism, and capitalism-intervention.

Most countries have very little difference between their capitalism-intervention side, because there's only one country where someone who supports free markets and capitalism could move to, this results in the right wing of all the countries becoming purely nationalist supporting govt intervention facing globalist left wing supporting their kind of govt intervention.

For example my dad in my home country has very little opinion on capitalism/intervention scale. But on the nationalism/globalism scale he has a strong opinion. If I were to describe the economic policies of the Democratic party, he wouldn't truly form an opinion, but the moment I will start describing the social policies he would immediately understand it and call it 'the leftist party'.
I’ll take spring over the callback/observable hell of vert.x any day of the week.
I will join you in your coffee hate. Can't even stand it in pastries.
> can't think of a case I've regretted time spent reading

Hmm, as an inexperienced youth I read - and believed - stuff that I now recognize as totally poisonous crap.

Putting someone else's thoughts in your brain should be better regulated. There used to be censorship, abolishing it was probably a bad idea. Yes, I know how we've been conditioned about that. Sort of proves my point.
That seems to be a detail that a lot of people miss. Google, Facebook, etc. don't sell user data. What they do offer is services where they use that data to optimize ad delivery.

On my part, I'm not too concerned with that... they operate on a massive scale and no human is looking at my individual data. The result is me seeing fewer ads that are irrelevant, which is good for everyone (for example, no one benefits from showing me an ad for feminine hygiene products, and if Google and Facebook can make sure that doesn't happen, all the better).
Unfortunately, forums seem to be a dying medium. The few communities that still exist tend to use things like Discourse (which I dispise); funny to think that people used to pay hundreds of dollars for VBulletin and XenForo licenses.

A worrying trend is new
communities using, or existing communities migrating to, Discord.
Yeah for you and right now, it’s okay. Eventually something will happen to you where you will reevaluate your risk tolerance.
>I paste in SAT reading comprehension questions including whole short stories and GPT3 gets them right. It’s not gibberish.

Can you show me? As in, paste the question here?
Can our mitochondria help to beat long Covid?
When you hear the words "Strategic Studies" you should immediately think of CIA linked think tanks and the like.
Hope you don't regret reading this comment.
It's amazing how it happens. I think it comes down to someone has to keep an eye on the kid at all times until it gets to a certain age and you generally trust the kid. It's unfair for one parent to keep an eye all the time so there's a lot of unscheduled switching off.
As someone else mentioned, start/stop isn't usually triggered by the gas pedal but by releasing the brake. You're probably pretty quick to go from the brake to the gas for your car's start/stop, practice getting off the brake a hair earlier than you do currently. You probably won't roll much since you've got a dead engine holding the car, so don't worry about needing to be quick.

I've driven some cars with start/stop and while it was a bit of a different feel for it originally I managed to get the timing down pretty well to have the car do what I wanted. Start/stop isn't driven by a random number generator you can figure out when it'll kill it and how long it goes from getting off the brake to the time it starts. Then it's just like every other tool in the car.
> Do you have the right to straight up kill other developing life in your body? It's your body after all, same stupid logic.

Precisely what do you think is happening when you are given medication to kill off something that is making you sick?