skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite a few studios still crunch (eg. Naughty Dog and CD Projekt are some big ones), and a lot of studios that claim they don't crunch outsource their crunch (eg. Insomniac outsources to Lemon Sky Studios in Malaysia, and Lemon Sky is well known for both their crunch culture and for not paying overtime).
Oh absolutely, but he also said this:

I found that my local system could easily handle 512 parallel processes, with my CPU @ ~35% utilization, 2GB of RAM usage, and a constant 1.5MB down on the network.

Another thing that happened in the early web days was Apache. People needed a web server and it did the job correctly. Nobody ever really noticed that it had terrible performance, so early on infrastructure went to multiple servers and load balancers and all that jazz. Now with nginx, fast multi-core, and speedy networks even at home, it's possible to run sites with a hundred thousand users a day at home on a laptop. Not that you'd really want to do exactly that but it could be done.

Because of this I think an alternative to github would be open source projects hosted on peoples home machines. CI/CD might require distributing work to those with the right hardware variants though.
"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for."

--Amos Tversky
We could probably deploy 100k of them and still see only a tiny fraction of the universe.
> And half of the stuff we read further is probably just his legend, i.e. not true.

Do you have any evidence of this, or are you just saying this? And what stuff are you saying is untrue? None of this sounded unbelievable to me. This man is someone who helped save the lives of several other soldiers who were being tortured at the time. If you're insinuating that his efforts are all fabricated based on no evidence, then it just seems like a weird thing to insinuate imo.

And here's something from 2005 with all the same details[0]. Everything else I've found seems to tell the same story, so I'm not sure why they would all be wrong (unless you're trying to say this is all some weird conspiracy or propaganda, which doesn't seem likely).

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20050825035929/http://www.usni.o...
I switched from FireFox to Brave. The UX is just so much better. Launch is faster. Updates are faster (and smaller). And resource load is less.

I also like being less entailed with Google and view Brave’s chromium base a lesser evil than FireFox’s funding dependency.

For what it’s worth, I don’t care at all about this affiliate hijacking and think it’s actually a benefit that more things should do as long as they don’t break the experience (eg, screw up the rewrites).
BIND is odd in that it combines a recursive resolver with an authoritative name server, and this has actually led to a number of security vulnerabilities over the years. Other alternatives, such as djb's dnscache/tinydns and NLNet Labs' Unbound/nsd separate the two to avoid this entirety.
There is also git-bug [1], an offline bug tracker fully embedded in git which can bridge to Github, Gitlab, Jira

[1] https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
I think his point is precisely that sometimes you have beautiful memories of a bad thing.

Quake 2 and Unreal Tournament are irrelevant because they're masterpieces. The movie "The Shining" holds up too, right? So what?

He does all this explanatory work with a film about a Russian with cherished memories of a shitty cabin and a music video of a couple with warm memories of a cheap and tawdry wedding.

That's not generalizing. It's extremely specific. It sounds like you're just not interested in the feeling he's describing.

He does not mean that everything you used to like is guaranteed to be bad when revisited.
I'm not in the US and don't follow baseball, so I don't know, but it sounds to me more like a reflection of people 'caring about'/following/paying for the major league disproportionately more than minor ones?

I don't think it's unusual in sports to have relatively little ground between amateur and superstar.

Sort of also makes sense (if you think massive 'superstar' salaries are a given) in that the best are generally going to be quite young, highly talented players; so it's not like you have a long career progression's worth of salaries from 30k to 30M to work through.
11 of the world's most dangerous hiking trails
It is interesting seeing the evolution of open source maintenance in the light of new (or increasing) supply chain attacks and acts of political protest. There always has been a "what is your obligation to quickly respond to a security issue?" expectation around the code and now similar obligatory expectation questions arise on the maintenance process itself.

We also see what seems like rather balkanized approaches (npm, pypi, cargo, ...). It would be great if broader consensus arose on what the ideal standard should be for package management and distribution that then those projects could adhere to. Similar about commit access to repos and what the requirements there should be.

It's also peculiar how much stronger the guarantees you get from your operating system vendor are w.r.t. signatures on packages vs what the underlying projects themselves have. OSs have had this pretty well handled for decades, but no common best practices like 2fa, signatures, etc seem to have emerged.
This reminds me of video games where you can report players for "harassment", "cheating", and "low skill". "Low skill" reports go to /dev/null.

Moral of the story is: Sometimes you need to give people the button they really want to push, even if it does nothing.
What lessons are to be learned by the process of the JWST? I'm amazed that such an ambitious project, which required many advances in the "state of the art" has been successful so far, even with the 12 year delay.

It gives me hope for reversing climate change, though the scale and scope of the projects are absurdly different. 1000 gigatons of CO2 is a lot, but we'll have to start somewhere.
> "if you ever get tired of working there we have a place for you here."

I highly doubt this is an actual option for employers in 2022. In their mind, they have a seat and need someone to fill it.
First Image of Micrometeoroid Damage to the James Webb Space Telescope
I haven't been looking all that closely at how well we're balancing things, so I couldn't really say.

I just wanted to address the 100% thing. So have a nice day, I guess.
It may be easy to read and write, but few libraries implement it to the letter because the format doesn’t support extremely common use cases.

For those who disagree, try finding a json library that can reliably round-trip the data in a json file (i.e. ignoring spacing, tabs, and extra line breaks)

Common breaking points are discrimination between integers and doubles (e.g read 0.0 and write 0) and limits to the number of digits in a number.

It’s futile to try and change it now, but I think json would have been better if it had disjunct sets of integers and floats, did 64-bit ints (1) and IEEE doubles (1) as opposed to arbitrary length integers and floats, standardized serialization of time stamps and durations.

Requiring parsers to keep keys in file order also might have been a good thing.

(1) I know that opens a rat’s nest of users wanting unsigned 64-bit integers, signed 16-bit, 128-bit quad floats, etc, but I don’t see how not addressing that problem at all is better than picking reasonable values, event though that gives up on supporting those alternatives. Now, we have libraries making choices there, hopefullly in compatible ways.
I understand your focus here, I assume you put quotes around it because it's not being used in it's technical sense and you'd like me to admit I know that. I do

To ease your mind, let's keep the quotes and say I'm from Mars and don't share your definition of rationality, I'm using it wrong, but you want to avoid coming to a shared definition in order to have conversation without derailing:

it would be highly "irrational" to adopt this viewpoint given no code would ever be delivered if everyone adopted it. "Unstable equilibrium", in "game
theory" sense. Everyone "can't" do it, but everyone "should" do it

(note airquotes again, don't want to come across as being a jerk and writing a book in response in order to be technically correct, could look patronizing since I think you understand the point)
YES this is great to see.
There are individual cases where this is the right move. E.g. your main business is consulting services, and you choose a quick-and-dirty service to host a marketing website with no form input and no production content. Convenience of, say, WordPress might trump a static site generator.
When I have a specific technical question, I append "stackoverflow" to my search queries. When I want to read a discussion, I add "reddit" (or "hacker news").
Listen to recordings of calls to Russian soldiers’s mothers. The families fully support invasion. They are glued to TV and Telegram which explain that Ukrainians bomb themselves and Russian soldiers are brave liberators fighting against gay Nazi Americans.

Besides that soldiers send a lot of stolen goods back home. There was an infamous video from the office of a transport company with dozens of soldiers sending loot like washing machines.
heh, that's even worse than when I saw it:

https://i.imgur.com/Z2HwkwY.jpeg
I agree with your point. In fact I think it's even stronger as I don't think 10 miles on a bike is anywhere close to 600kcal unless we are talking very serious hills on a MTB. 10 miles on a flattish road is usually half an hour of moderate effort.
> And they never would have had to switch to cheap metal if they hadn't completely depleted their environment.

I've always wondered why some fantasy stories seem to be perpetually locked in pre-industrial technology. This does seem like a plausible canonical explanation if they had fast replenishing resources due to magic.
My bank will open my closed account to make it overdrawn
I just saw my (large-ish US-based) bank add the following language to my account agreement:

> After your Account is closed, we may temporarily reopen your Account to resolve a dispute concerning the Account, or to accept a debit or credit to your Account, even if doing so results in your Account becoming overdrawn.

Feels like a fee-grab.
His 'www' logic is flawed: https://www.example.com and https://example.com need not return the same results, but his checking code sends the output straight to /dev/null so he has no way of knowing.
> Use Firefox with Multi Account Containers add-on so that I am by default signed-out of google unless I need to do specific things, which are sandboxed in specific tabs

That is a great idea.
Could use Asana
I would like to know to what alternative they have moved on.
> How many of us now google `<topic> reddit` instead of just `<topic>`?

One of us lives in a bubble. I don't trust Reddit for anything, or YouTube or any social media. IME, it's mis/disinformation - not only a lack of information, but a negative; it leaves me believing something false. My experience is, and plenty of research shows, that we have no way to sort truth from fiction without prior expertise in the domain. The misinformation and disinformation on social media, and its persuasiveness, is very well known. The results are evident before us, in the madness and disasters, in dead people, in threats to freedom, prosperity, and stability.

Why would people in this community, who are aware of these issues, trust social media? How is that working out?

> This of course means the fracturing of truth away from elites. Sometimes this could be a good thing

I think that's mis/disinformation. 'Elite' is a loaded, negative (in this context) word. It makes the question about power and the conclusion inevitable.

Making it about power distracts from the core issue of knowledge, which is truth. I want to hear from the one person, or one of the few people, with real knowledge about a topic; I don't want to hear from others.

In matters of science the authority of thousands is not worth the humble reasoning of one single person.
> especially contentious and manipulative ones like those who run SpaceX

I don't think you know anything about the space industry. SpaceX is famous for being wildly easier to work with than any other launch provider (including semi-national providers like Arianespace).
GOTTA CODE THEM AAAALLLLLL!
I never would have guessed that this game was using an EGA mode. Using a non-default palette completely fooled me.
LNBs: What They Do, and How They Work
the refresh rate on the latest kindle is pretty impressive. It has wifi and descent refresh rate as well as a usbc port.

amazon could easily add a dock that lets you turn it into a distraction free writing device. Hell they could just add some software that lets you connect it to a existing usbc keyboard for the same purpose.
This is the greatest thing that anyone has done with any computer hardware anywhere, ever. This is more impressive to me than the moon landing. :-)
I'm guessing the floppies are melting right about now.
There are lots of applications for heat engines that don't involve mobility: grinding wheat to flour, threshing and winnowing wheat, fulling cloth, sewing cloth together, hammering hot iron or annealed cold bronze, blowing the bellows on a forge or bloomery, sawing wood, turning wood or stone on a lathe, weaving cloth, spinning thread, playing music, crushing ore, grinding a new edge on a knife or axe with a grindstone, turning a potter's wheel, writing, kneading bread, calculating, and, as mentioned, raising water (from a well, from a river, into your fields, into a tower, into a salt pond, or out of a mine or swamp). All of these are things that people were already doing before Heron, in many cases devoting their lives to them, but steam power was not applied to some of them until less than a century ago.

In medieval times we can add turning metal on a lathe and winding crossbows.

Think of the most common German surnames, which are all occupational: Müller (grinding wheat), Schmidt (hammering iron), Schneider (sewing cloth), Fischer (catching fish), Weber (weaving cloth), Meyer (owning land), Wagner (making wagon wheels), Becker (baking bread), Schulz (herding peasants), Hoffmann (organizing the court), Schäfer (herding sheep), Koch (cooking food), Bauer (farming), and Richter (judging). This is a somewhat skewed sampling of occupations of men in Germany at the late-medieval or early-modern time surnames were imposed. If you were a Schmidt or a Weber you could expect to spend decades doing hard, physical labor every day, in a fixed physical location, labor that is now mostly done by steam.
That's a good point. I was thinking about it during writing. Really it is binary – doing and then not doing for a while. There is no ascending part of the graph – even though spiky line would be closer to depict this it is also incorrect. I chose to use the simplest wave form just to highlight the nature of most to-dos – they repeating over and over again like waves on the ocean.
Taking pictures the level of the first image released, it would take about 3700 years for JWST to image the entire sky.
Americans don't want to fight climate change, their two top priorities are the strengthening the economy and reducing health care costs.

Lets hope they never find out that cheap renewables and EVs replacing fossil fuels will save them literal billions in both energy and health spending. Wouldn't they feel foolish.
It's the same in German. Hot mustard is "scharf" meaning sharp, but in the USA you would buy "spicy" brown mustard.
Horseradish is sharp. Habaneros are hot/spicy.
I agree that a raw garlic clove or the right raw onion can be "spicy", but they dont have a heat profile like something loaded with capsaicin.
Medication can be a good option for some patients. SGLT2 inhibitors have also been shown to work pretty well. But all medicines have risks and side effects so they should be used only if behavior modification has consistently failed. And someone who relies on medicine to lose weight will likely have to stay on as least a low dose permanently for maintenance.
GP didn’t open the blue letter.
IIRC it required basically two separate implementations of the data structures, one that could be constructed at compile-time and was less efficient than the one that could be built at runtime. And the need to support both was becoming a problem.

I feel like there should be a middle ground here, a macro that validates at compile-time but still constructs at runtime. Hopefully the parser could still be shared between the macro and the runtime to ensure the macro can't get out of sync.
Scraping Discourse with a Custom Pipedream Source
I'd like to add that literal copy/paste is, in many ways, superior to the way it works in a computer.

If you have something printed out, you can cut up the paragraphs or sentences and physically rearrange them until you figure out an order that makes sense. It's much faster than doing the same thing with ctrl-X ctrl-V, and when you ctrl-X, the material you've cut vanishes from sight.
That is only the beginning, isn’t it? The hard part is figuring out how to migrate state, and clearly saying “no” when that fails instead of leaving the user to debug a configuration that could not have arisen had the new code been started from a clean slate. (I don’t think that’s actually possible to disprove, even, but at the very least guaranteeing that memory contains the types the new code thinks it does would be good.)
As a history nerd I’ve read a ton of books on the Vietnam war and pretty much this.

There is a great book on LBJ’s decision to escalate - I can’t remember the title, but it’s 300 pages long and only covers a few months in ‘65 when the decision to escalate was made.

People like to think the decision was made in a vacuum but it was influenced by everything going on at the time and geopolitical risk going forward.

LBJ made a decision (there were members of the inner circle who wanted to pull out) based on what he knew at the time. It turned out to be the wrong one.
Because high quality customer service and support doesn’t scale well. Especially at the scale and (sadly) profit margins FAANG companies expect.
In the short term maybe but in the long term everything will be automated just like there is flight autopilot or self-driving cars which are just getting started but yet they are very good at driving. Fault tolerance mechanisms will be implemented in all automated systems.
Hmmm, it was a used motherboard I bought on ebay...
Nope. NVMe in both cases...
That's the entire point of the OP. That it can't fail so you might as well call unwrap.
Nice! Thanks to the Ritman library in Amsterdam, I have access to a lot of Fludd’s published books (with fun marginalia etc…) but a fair amount of his work doesn’t seem to have been translated. (Maybe you’ve found otherwise?)

Descartes and Mersenne present a early conflicted aversion to the occult/esoteric/natural magic (eg, topics like resonance). I presume that certain ideas became somewhat taboo. This is one reason why it may have taken so long for the concept of resonance to be adopted widely in the sciences (see Buchanan 2019 in Nature “Going into resonance”)
Google locked me out of my gmail a while ago, luckily I had moved almost everything away from Google that was important. My recovery email is a defunct me.com address back from when I was an iToddler. So effectively, THEY de-Googled ME lol.
That’s a feature!

I’d be thrilled if C++ required wrapping declaration and use of global variables with ‘unsafe_and_evil { … }’
I would add: Ability to communicate (in code, in comments, and in external documentation).

All these skills form a fairly high-dimensional vector space. If we had independent, objective metrics for programmers' skills along these axes, and employers could accurately judge their own needs along the same axes (and if switching costs weren't too high, on either side), then we could get a functioning market.

But that's pretty much a pipe dream...
Tomorrow will be my last day at VMware working on Tanzu
archive.ph = Russian federation website. Blocked by most firewalls by default.
I take your point, but it does seem to have actually worked.
I'm not religious, but a particular legend has stuck with me:

> A philanthropist once came to Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi to complain that he felt he was giving charity without sincerity. “Without sincerity? Nonsense!” replied the Rebbe. “There is plenty of sincerity. Perhaps you are not sincere in giving charity, but the poor are very sincere in receiving your charity. Even if you don't mean it, they do!”

[source](https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1885183/jewis...)
Yeah, something more systematic would be good.

Sometimes it's surprising what nobody was interested in inventing. I think Grace Hopper is really important because people were resistant to the idea that programming the computer involved boring mindless steps which could be done by a machine and so of course instead of hand writing the program in machine code you should write a higher level language and have the machine translate that. It's incredible now, but this very idea was once an important invention and yet her superiors were not enthusiastic.
If there is an experiment that could detect the discrepancy, it's no longer an axiom, and can be falsified.

If there's no such experiment, it just means that for all intents and purposes, light travels at the "same speed" in any direction for an observer inside our Universe, because the speed of light is how we measure time in the first place. If an outside observer could notice that our spacetime is non-uniform, it's a fun thing to contemplate, but it does not change anything for us inside.
This is being posted because people have their knives out for Unity at the moment, and this occurred while Riccitiello (current Unity CEO) was the CEO at EA.
Hello, I’m blah blah and I’m very happy to assist you.

I understand you’re having problems with copy-paste-of-what-you-wrote. I’m an expert in copy-paste so I’ll gladly explain what to do here.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

It has been a pleasure to help.
I managed to grab a (hopefully) uncorrupted version somehow. I'm putting it somewhere other than imgur so they don't recompress the image. MD5 d30fcc384a8e2de4fab3056bde42b00b. [EDIT: Removed dead link, use archive.org instead]

> I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence.

Today's fun fact: The MS-DOS `format` command fills the disk with 0xf6, not 0x00. Though this is linux running on Mac hardware, reading a disk that should have actual data, so maybe that isn't the reason.
i'd be also interested in hosting a website on 1 floppy drive, including OS.
https://bits.p1x.in/floppinux-an-embedded-linux-on-a-single-...