skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the main reasons that the US was able to improve so dramatically over the British Empire, in terms of the freedoms of citizens, was that it didn't have the existing conflicts of interest. Calling for the end of the monarchy be a capital offense punishable by death (even today it's still legally punishable by life imprisonment [1], though not enforced) is quite handy when you're that monarchy, but not so hot from the perspective of the freedoms of the citizens.

So too today, a handful of corporations controlling the vast majority of media and digital discussion is extremely handy from the perspective of the powers that be. Don't want people engaging in politically inconvenient discussion about e.g. the possibility of a disease having escaped from a lab? Simply "encourage" your "corporate partners" to censor that discussion and you've probably done far more in terms of suppression of speech than even a law could have, without ever having to concern yourself with that pesky piece of paper called a constitution. And even better, there's no concern about a loss of face when you decide such discussion is in your geopolitical interests a few months later, and decide to take a hard 180 on it.

The point I'm making here is that this isn't really one faction vs another, but more of the interests of entrenched corporate and political powers against the interests of society as a whole. And so seeking to solve this with regulation or governance is going to be somewhat more than difficult. It's like trying to end the two-party system. Nearly everybody in society would agree some sort of proportional representation system would be better (and also immediately end gerrymandering, which is exclusively a product of district based first-past-the-post voting), but the problem is that the 2 parties in power have 0 interest in ever ending the 2-party system, unless it's to replace it with a 1-party system.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/13/calling-abol...
This rings true in my experience. SQL knowledge has consistently helped me over my career. A simple exercise in designing the relational data model vastly improves the system architecture.
Actually most modern SIMD instructions have a throughput of more than one per clock cycle.

Simple SIMD instructions, like integer addition, comparison, XOR, have a throughput of 2 per cycle (many ARM cores), 3 per cycle (most Intel CPUs) or even 4 per cycle (AMD Zen 3).

Similar simple 64-bit instructions have a higher throughput in instructions per cycle, from 3 per cycle up to 5 per cycle (Alder Lake), but when considering the register size the total throughput of the SIMD instructions is always higher.
Maybe it’s just me but when I see a layperson say “this person is depressed” I don’t assume they’re armchair diagnosing clinical depression. Depressed mood is not great but it’s also not inherently disordered, it’s a normal part of the human experience and doesn’t mean someone has a mental health diagnosis.
If we took a walk through the author's home, I am certain we would find every piece of furniture was assembled without reading the instructions. Without bothering with the source material, the blogger has wrapped themselves in Tolkien's world and just wants to play.
I use all of those! I used to program Perl and Rust though, so maybe my preference for complexity in languages is higher than yours.

I understand your argument though. If you picked Python because of its simplicity, and now it has a ton of new syntax and features, I can see how that would be difficult to tolerate.
Rare video games collection heist
What are examples of programmers disregarding aesthetics for productivity?
I really enjoy it when I see programmers with a deranged disregard for aesthetics in the name of efficiency or productivity. Some of my favorited examples from my own experience:

- An extremely productive, like, 100x senior engineer I know works on a stock Ubuntu box with the default desktop wallpaper and an un-customized IntelliJ IDE and when he opens an IDE window he doesn't even full screen or center it. Just blasting code in an un-centered 68% width IDE.

- The smartest person I know (like, easily) uses the tcsh shell, the nvi editor, and the twm or ratpoision window manager, all ancient, unmaintained tools. I think they were the state of the art when he started using Unix and he never bothered switching.

- I saw a very clever bitcoin developer just set `contenteditable="true"` on an HTML element and use it as a text editor, I think because he already had the window open.

- Another developer I know with insane quality standards just names things "foo" when he can't think of a name for things, to the point where we worked on a project together for a month in a repo called "foo" until we came up with a name.

What are some good examples you've witnessed?
Pricey for what it is.

I'd buy an old Thinkpad and put Linux on it.

Or maybe get a Steamdeck.

But still - important project - so I hope they can make it a success and they've done their market research.
Another alternative is a cheap CNC engraving machine. I bought mine a few years ago, assembled, at Microcenter for $200. With this, you can accurately place holes in things, using a similar jig setup to locate the work.
It's rarely the cost of the house that is the problem. It's the cost of the property. And property within a certain distance from any attractive city center is limited, by its very nature.
You describe it as the native settlement and computing layer of a utopian federation. Sounds good, but even your intro video has your founder selling your ERC20 specifically as an investment, running on Eth as the settlement and compute layer, and with near-infinite minting power. I’ll give you marginal credit for sticking to it after the ICO bust.

I’m as close to your core audience for those ideas as you’ll get, but your idealistic appeal sets you up for a vigorous test of your integrity. You claim functionality and adoption that doesn’t exist, you make a specific appeal to speculation in your actual fundraising operations, your pitch is based on implied personal endorsements that are clearly unintended, and you spam this board asking for help co-opting VB’s endorsement after stalking his family didn’t work. Most importantly to this forum, you have contributed nothing of value to the conversation. Red flags abound.

I’m only replying because it seems you may not realize the difference between what you are doing and what people would expect from a legitimate project.
i think it's when you try to build something complex with angular that you can see advantages come to fruition. the opinionated structure can be quite an advantage when you're working with bigger teams/projects, as it can keep code more consistent/familiar/predictable, so when revisiting a project a few months later, you generally know where to find things quickly
Every major city that I’ve been to has at least one and sometimes more than three loops around it. You drive down the interstate then take the loop around and back on the interstate to avoid city congestion. It’s like a round-about with the city in the middle.
Steam Deck seems like a better fit for most use cases.
Price is not set based on cost. It’s based on willingness to pay. If a car company can charge more, they will.
That's the stuff I was thinking of, yes.

As a software person I don't know enough about the scheme to comment on the quality of the article, but knowing Wikipedia I imagine it's on point.

edit For a broader context than just the UK, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
I wouldn't say Alexa integration, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), object/room detection (dining room etc), setting up those trays around the house and calibrate it, collision avoidance, path planning through obstacles, 3D depth data processing (I see two Realsense i455 cameras) is "technically not that complicated"

I mean sure most of above can be setup with MoveIT if hardware is already assembled, but making it fail proof for 100s of different houses and use cases is an engineering effort
Fabulous resource, thanks.

I have a pdf bookmarked that walks through the same schematics in a bit of a narrative, calling Pong "THE GREAT CIRCUIT TEACHER" [0] - the only drawback being the poorly scanned in drawing of the sub-circuits. I haven't worked through it yet but combining it with those simulations should be most illuminating.

[0] http://www.pong-story.com/LAWN_TENNIS.pdf
> In any case, I'm relieved to read that at least for the time being he has turned down HN's free access to a wall of zero-cost comments from pseudonymous engineers who voted up their favorite ways to problem-solve depression from first principles.

Such as offering the "clinical" diagnosis that he is depressed?
The problem is that we have no theory of intelligence that tells us what, if anything, IQ is actually measuring.

If you renamed IQ to "linear-correlated ability to take non-domain specific tests", or "GTTQ" (general test-taking quotient). Then you'd explain every observed correlation between IQ and non-IQ performance.

So, do businesses want intelligent software engineers, or those with a high GTTQ score? As research at google, iirc, has shown: high performers on coding challenges tend to do worse in practice.

Any plausible theory of "competent software engineering" would, I think, place an extremely minor emphasis on a GTTQ. Intelligence is a much richer phenomenon (need for cognition, curiosity, resilliance to failure, domain-specific depth-wise thinking, cross-domain lateral, etc.)....
IMHO categorical data model (https://www.categoricaldata.net/) has much better support for sum types than relational model (as well as other advantages, roughly along the lines why to prefer type theory to set theory in math foundations), unfortunately practical databases and query languages are not yet well developed for it.
Incredible separation, I don't think it's attainable by any other means. Should be super useful for speech in noisy environments.

I have a question though, is capturing lateral movements of a single spot on the instrument enough to represent how it sounds for a human ear? I think it's equivalent to a polarizer filter as it doesn't seem to be capturing depth axis vibrations.
> while the east participated in only one war 60 years ago that was done in a few weeks time.

Note that when the fellowship passes through Lorien and Gondor, the ring war is already in full force, the fellowship just doesn't notice a lot of it.

By the time they travel the Anduin, the river is considered a front line: Everything east of the river is already occupied by Sauron, while the areas directly west of it had been evacuated. The book mentions this as one reason why the land is so deserted. (In addition to the long-term decline of Gondor that of course also happened, illustrated by the deserted lookout posts and ruins around the Argonath)
People imagine Wikipedia's financial situation to be the exact opposite of what it actually is.
It's not really an issue unless the law has overall negative effects.

By enforcing it across everyone as a standard it creates market opportunities for businesses to provide the service in an efficient manner. You don't have to rely on every single web video library to care about subtitles as they'll all have big customers that need it.

People like to nitpick regulations because powerful groups hate being regulated. But it's a tricky job as they're fairly obviously beneficial, so you end up with some really weird complaints that have to dance around any specifics.
IANAL but given the unreasonableness of the premise as I read it (? scraped data from public websites of multiple companies is "owned" by some mysterious third-party) this sounds more like a consequence of the UK's legal system, where minnows have to shut down when challenged by sharks, because the costs make it impossible to resist, regardless of the strength of the case.

Also, its all a bit vague, especially the reason for the donations - to pay these jokers off? That just enables and encourages the bullying. They should provide more transparency as to who is claiming ownership, and what evidence is being given and legal arguments for paying.
Because during the time of the musket there were no pump guns neither.

EDIT: It took quite some time between the early days of the industrial revolution and the first semi-automatic guns. Ignoring LOTR for a minute, if in story taking place in the 17th century the question of "why didn't X use a colt .45" is easily answered, because it wasn't invented yet.
I'm one of the likes who appreciates directness over subtle critique. I hate the latter but I also found out that it seems to work better with most of the people.
Yeah it seems like what upset him is those people who think he, like them, has seen some truth in the fakeness/shallowness of other humans or society or something
> I hope that you're okay, and if you need help I hope you'll seek it.

This is really a disgusting way to try to demean the person you are talking to that is all too common. Instead of making thinly veiled attacks on the integrity of other commenters try responding to their arguments.
Yes, this is something I hear from my colleagues in the USA (I haven't seen it in Europe yet, it's unthinkable for me). Note that in this case you can perfectly use HTTPS. What we are talking is the situation where the website owner redirects HTTP to HTTPS (and in this case the ISP sees at least the initial article address anyway).
They're not recommended: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use....

They're incomplete (e.g. don't work with foreign keys) and are essentially unmaintained.
Avoiding the p1ssing contest is very important, as well as ensuring we don't have egotistical a-holes interviewing.

In a role we're currently interviewing for, we intentionally ask deep-dive style questions. We first explain our approach by telling the candidate we don't necessarily care about the answer; we seek to assess aptitude, rather than ability, and so we ask the candidate to be as vocal as possible to display their reasoning. So far, it has helped us narrow-down the pool to two promising candidates. Of course, we also mention in the interview that, "we'd make liberal use of google, and we understand that most other people would too" - but some of our better interviews have turned into pleasant, fruitful technical discussions, and not just a back-and-forth "pub quiz". Just my $0.02.
> Mark Griffith, director of the International Gaming Research Unit in the psychology department at Nottingham Trent University, told Sky News: "If you're a football fan of a specific team and the club puts their prices up, fans will still buy season tickets even in times of recession and inflation. Avid gamers are likely to do the same.

Cloud gaming changes this imo, while both cloud providers in australia are more expensive than even psdeluxe, xbox cloud's deals made me switch away from ps focus to PC/xbox focus, even on my super old laptop
You have an SL-C with corrupt firmware in 2022!? That's hard mode.

There is a service menu that can be loaded by removing the battery and then plugging in AC while D + M is pressed down[1]. That lets NAND backups made and restored. This menu was brickable too.

If that menu wouldn't load, an alternate pinout serial cable in conjunction with a command prompt flash tool can be plugged into Option Port 16 to load software, or so I think I heard in 2ch, definitely more than a decade ago. I vaguely remember the tool had camelcased name with an H, like HummingBird or HamsterWheel or something like that. If you need the full NAND files, they were not openly shared, nor the stock ROM loads were publicly distributed. Maybe pdaXrom custom firmware still has mirrors somewhere?

Another factoid I remember is that the internal NAND was NOT wear leveled and the device could become unbootable if Kernel section of it become worn and unerasable(not unwritable, but erased bits comes back down apparently). The recommendation was to not touch the Kernel unless absolutely necessary, and a special minimal chainloader was used to relocate the Kernel if it's too late... that chainloader is probably lost to the Aether long ago.

If "working OS" is so meant that the stock GUI and 2.4 kernel is simply outdated and no longer relevant, there were X/Qt XFree86 server app, Debian and Gentoo chroot filesystem zip somewhere, VNC and RDP client apps, PPP supports and few other options. swapon/swapoff binaries existed and worked. There could have been total replacement ROMs like a Maemo or Gtk-based GUIs but I don't remember any details about them. At best they must have been incomplete.

1: https://mobile.k05.biz/e/2015/08/service-menu.html
They've actually radically redesigned the aerodynamics of the cars this year to address this exact problem (using ground effect instead of relying so much on wings for downforce). It's had it's own issues (there have been real problems with the cars bouncing on track), but it does seem like it's worked, they can follow much closer for much longer now.

DRS is still there though. The basic argument for it is that it makes races more exciting by encouraging overtakes even more (though there is a lot of debate about that).
I think you can't install anything on iOS without logging in, and the app store is the only way to get software (without rooting). I guess you could use the built in apps though, and the camera...
People share what they feel comfortable sharing. He has no responsibility to write a detailed analysis of his psychological state and ideological positions to satisfy you. His post was about alienation and he used himself as an example; it’s not his fault if half-wits on both sides of the political divide misinterpreted his writing and used it to attack a perceived enemy/propagandise their own position.
This is what I do. I leave it on all the time, which signals to recruiters that I'm at least willing to hear them out.
Yes, the comment you are replying to is complete nonsense.
I feel like the xbox Games Pass is such a great value for Microsoft, that doubling the price for PS pass premium tier is Sony shooting themself in the foot. Can't find a PS5, and when you do you have to spend more for a lesser online library of games.

Only winners are PC gamers, so I'm happy.
Very cheap, but probably also quite unsophisticated. They can make basic stuff, but they also don't need to produce finer things. The Orcs make up for it with their numbers, and Sauron cares about power, not about wealth.
Lots of professional translators moved into language tuition.

I guess lots of artists will move into teaching art.

I see tools like this might increase interest by the public into making their own art with the help of new tools, and some will want to be taught.
I'd love to believe it could have been fixed naturally, at the time that branch of treatment all seemed woo-woo, be fascinated to hear if there is any hard evidence for it working now.

But anyway, sorry for the previous sharp reply. It wasn't warranted.
It's easy to poke a hole in a methodology, but this was a pragmatic short curcuit of collecting websites as they are in the wild. You could ask 10 experts to code up equivelent websites and measure performance and still someone would complain that it's a synthetic benchmark.
The nice thing about this methodology is that noone was expecting the dataset to be used for this purpose. It is an interesting set of measurements in my opinion.

Edit: the biggest issue is that the article is vunerable from severe confirmation bias from the authors admitted sunken costs
It's difficult for Americans to change anything because all changes are potentially racist and they can't escape either because immigration to safe foreign countries is only feasible for those that can claim and prove unbroken ancestry or exceptional talent. The only solution Americans have is to universally liberalize handgun concealed carry and make bodycams in public ubiquitous so you can exonerate yourself after defending yourself. Americans are swimming in an ocean of criminals if they decide to be out in public. It can't be fixed at this point because all changes are perceived as harming some minorities or racist. Nevermind that in the places where most life threatening crimes occur, minorities are not the minority. Americans' mindset is so warped that it will take generations of suffering and unnecessary death to sufficiently correct the cultural zeitgeist. This is why concealed carry and bodycams are so essential to normal Americans today. You can't fix society so you have to protect yourself and exonerate yourself with video footage.
That is possible in better SIMD instruction sets, like Intel/AMD AVX-512 or Armv9 SVE2.

In such instruction sets not only load and store but also most of the other instructions can operate on a subset of bytes/words/dwords/qwords of the registers, by using bit masks to specify which parts of a vector register are used in an operation.

It is possible to specify whether the unused parts should retain their previous value or they should be set to zero.

Moreover, for load and store, it is possible to load or store some number of bytes or of larger data from non-sequential locations, using the so-called gather and scatter instructions.
> It is not "completely useless" or a "theoretical attack vector". This literally happens in the wild. There were reports of Comcast and ISPs in India MITM'ing traffic injecting ads into their their customers' tcp streams a couple of years ago.

In this case people can freely use the HTTPS version. What we argue is stop doing automatic redirects effectively rendering the whole content inaccessible in case of certificate issues - and this a massive problem, affecting much more websites than hijacking traffic by some ISP some years ago. And you can be sure ISPs will be doing less of it as most sites are on HTTPS now. What we are asking is not to kill plain old HTTP for those who want and need to use it.
You can’t add an additional foreign key to an existing table without potentially breaking all existing queries.

Probably the biggest constraint SQL language design has is that its on a live system — things are not compiled at the same time.
Try gdb-dashboard: https://github.com/cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard
I don't think that using ancient and unmaintained tools is a sign of productivity. Of course, it's not always needed to use the latest tool, but I believe that the real sign of productivity is knowing which tool to use for each thing. Otherwise you can fell in the classical "when you are a hammer everything is a nail".
> You won’t read my code because reading code takes 10x more time and effort than writing it.

> Particularly in DevOps, my specialism. There is no test for debugging SSL certificate chains in production at 3am.

> We can’t replicate having no answers as to why production is down at 6pm on Christmas Eve or how we will stay at our desk until it’s fixed.

So, I’m getting the sense that this person enjoys devops. I wonder if they are trapped between engineering and ops - good at both, but not great at either.

if this person wants to work at a larger tech company, maybe this person should apply to be an SRE?

They have very valuable skills and the pay for SRE often exceeds the pay for engineers. I’d not expect an SRE interview to be as focused on whiteboarding, but have a much deeper understanding of a systems toolchain, eg how to use Linux tools to diagnose a network issue.
It’s hard to take comments from someone who doesn’t believe in the Web or Web Apps seriously. If you start from a position that Web Apps should not be able to compete on mobile devices, then our viewpoints are so diametrically opposed there’s really nothing to argue about.

OWA was formed to ensure that mobile Web Apps become viable, if you disagree with that as the premise, all the best.