skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I fully support this position by Meta but their reasoning is not quite right when it comes to astronomers and scientists. Passing around a leap second kernel is a major pain for everyone dealing with GPS, satellite ephemerides, celestial bodies, etc. Leap seconds transform a problem which is entirely deterministic, and make it dependent on a policy decided by a committee, like timezones.
Great write up! However I should've clarified, I wasn't talking about word segmentation in general, only about expanding the universe of valid "whitespace" grapheme clusters (or even just codepoints) to include the various uncommon, exotic, and non-Western items.
So what is it about a system where everyone and every business adjusts their schedule slightly (I guess independently) of each other that is better than the leap second system we have now. Which, as I said earlier, is essentially the same thing, but done in a standardized way.
Yep, I don't have the energy tonight to inspect the source code, but how you write js matters a lot.

Little things like hoisting local variables out of the prototype and closure chains can make a massive difference.

I did some experiments with hot path js optimization several years ago and was pretty surprised at the performance you can squeeze out of the jitter.

Js is notorious for being difficult to do good perf analysis on because of the warming and hot path analysis. From my experiments it can sometimes take many seconds from startup for the jitter to kick in on a tight loop.
100%, I’m sure a lot of people will hate on this but it’s absolutely correct. It’s such a better measure than Leetcode, and reflects how the world actually works.

Folks who love coding will have code to show without question. IME folks who don’t have code to show are usually the people who build the software you hate at companies.

Hire creative engineers, who build things that people want and show a genuine interest in their craft.
I just posted a bunch of YT links that show how that process looks like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32233327
this! even a broken sewing needle is too thick. Arrgh.

ergo, I keep a spare ejector tool on my keychain for this very reason.
FYI the hello world example instructions border on unreadable on a phone due to the indentation

https://vely.dev/example_hello_world.html
No, but it has a feature where it only uses 4 cylinders when it can.

It decides on its own, you can't do it manually.

It gets 22-23mpg on the (flat) highway.
after working in windows hell at a DoD contractor I'm jealous
One of Kevin O'Leary's viewers wrote to him (as part of what they wrote to him):

>"OK, so you started a software company in your basement, and sold it for $4.2 Billion -- I get that...

...but you never explained what made your company different from the tens of thousands of other software companies that started at the same time..."

Well, this video explains precisely that!

And (in my opinion) -- it's a great story, too!

It blends together multiple themes of software, business, computer history, marketing, pivoting, entrepreneurship and (wait for it!)... how cat food is made (don't ask, just watch the video!)... of all things...

Recommended viewing for any existing or future Software Entrepreneur!
you are the ghost of john forester.

i don't have much else to say other than that you're wrong and also in a morally compromised position. knowledge can't save you from the rushing river of 2 ton deathmobiles, traffic engineering (ie dutch cycling infrastructure) can.
That DC Rainmaker blog sure looks like advertising. There's affiliate links, coupon codes, and even a custom ad platform [1]. I'm not suggesting it's a bad thing, but DC Rainmaker is most certainly "marketing".

[1]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/advertise
What? Which states DO have this? Never heard of this until just now.
> I found it helpful to not look at 'free markets' as a binary Yes/No thing, but as a continuum with lots of different aspects.

I am curious. What are some of those aspects?
makes perfect sense if you are trying to sell new phones. otherwise, for the customer, it's something like "I can pay several hundred dollars to have a phone exactly like the phone I already have, or I can pay nothing and keep the phone I already have. hmmm...."

so, they make changes. all the time. for no reason. because they want more money, and a certain percentage of people are going to be drawn in by any given feature, even if it's a crappy alternative to an existing feature.

this isn't rocket science.
If you're a ham or interested in radio, w2aew is great!
I’m not trying to “pull” anything. I find the notion that Codex/Copilot is within 2-3 orders of magnitude from writing code I’d trust without a careful audit that does anything more than some CRUD thing in JS framework du jour to be Kurzweil-whacko singularity shit, and that the only people trying to “pull” anything here are the people training GPT-3 on everyone’s GutHub repository without permission or attribution and exploit non-expert opinion to generate yet another round of hype, hysteria, and mysticism about that magical pair of two undefinable words: “artificial” and “intelligence”.

I regret mis-quoting TFA by an article, because if I cited it correctly I’d really lay the fucking smack down here.

Have I adequately answered your condescending question?
At this point there is nothing to spray on, it all fell apart. It was already bad at the moment they did the recall 6 years ago with frames having fist sized holes. The way you could fix it was cutting the frame up and replacing with fresh metal plates piece by piece.
Take a look at https://github.com/tylertreat/comcast

> Comcast is a tool designed to simulate common network problems like latency, bandwidth restrictions, and dropped/reordered/corrupted packets
You can get them at 20 years old. Some states will not let you register them, like my home state, Colorado. Sad times, they are pretty practical.
It seems like the problems they say they are solving should have been solved server side rather than in the client.
Wasabi?
How many oil wells/barrels/square kilometers are currently dedicated to producing the world's jet fuel needs?
We should probably try to implement a PDF search demo on top of Milvus.. LOL
>If you need more than 3-4 engineers per team, you're doing it wrong.

This wrong self-assuredness here and in other places are a huge red flag. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they were letting off steam.
Seems pretty expensive to me. It could be done commercially, but it's probably not economical for most individuals. Probably much cheaper and easier to plant outside or in a greenhouse. Cheaper to compost household waste and buy some cow poop.

An interesting indoor thing to grow are mushrooms. Growing your own lions mane, shiitake, oyster mushrooms can be cheaper than buying them and it's generally a low cost setup.
Who else is just depressed as fuck to realize that our VR experiences are likely going to be hamstrung by things like EAC, and there's probably little that we'll be able to do about it. This is not the metaverse future that I had envisioned. I guess they think I need to be protected from a "Snow Crash".
How is Apple a monopoly (except for the app store, by definition)? Last time I checked there are many phone and personal computer choices.
While far from perfect the existing system has many properties that are good enough.

Protecting against malicious users grabbing all of the good names first using zero-trust blockchain networks requires the protections we all know against Sybil attacks. These protections are problematic for numerous reasons I don't think I need to enumerate here.

The point is that not solving that problem results in a system that is far less complicated and resource efficient. Some times the better solution is to rely on social/political/judicial systems instead of protecting against hypothetical malicious actors.
Most immigrants/expats will move to large cities because of work and culture. So it's definitely of interest.

I live in a place with basically no crime too, however work prospects outside of hospitality or being able to work remotely are zero.
As a counterpoint, I thought that was maybe my least favorite movie directed by Miyazaki!

Even a bad Miyazaki movie is pretty good, but for me it didn't have what makes his other movies special. I'd recommend it only if a person absolutely can't, say, tolerate elements of the fantastical in their entertainment. The lead character is an engineer who makes planes, but the movie (understandably) doesn't really go into that part.

Mononoke is probably tied with Wind Rises for "most serious Miyazaki movie." which might make it a perfect starting point for some in the HN crowd.

Spirited Away is probably the closest to a universal crowd-pleaser?
Years ago we had an open session for how to display some unintuitive data on one of our websites, and while few outside the dev team participated, theirs combined with devs' ideas resulted in around 5-10 totally different designs. Mine was one of the first eliminated, most people thought it was weird and confusing. Four months later, after developing and putting the two top-voted ones in front of users and finding they still didn't understand it, our designer came up with basically what I originally suggested, with a few tweaks to make it look nicer. We've kept that version since then.

That was a frustrating period.
For quality anime beyond Ghibli, try Satoshi Kon.
No, that is only for “No Known Copyright”.

The problem with Public Domain is that it is decided by law, not by you. You can't put anything on the public domain; the public takes domain by expiring copyright.
If the true goal is to enable creators, why not let the creators choose whether to require EAC to connect.

It should not require much extra developer time at all to let both users and creators choose whether to join an EAC or non-EAC instance.
A motorcycle has obvious dangers. An unsafe car has non-obvious dangers.

A lot of government regulation is about preventing non-obvious dangers or trying to make them obvious.
> Imagine your CEO tweeting this as part of the response..

That's pretty based TBH, and definitely better than the usual corpo-speak.
Because it's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Some of these mods were literally about making the game accessible to people who wouldn't be able to use it otherwise. There's no way they're going to keep up with all useful mods with their official client. Some of their concerns are valid, but at the very least they should provide an option to allow modded clients on your own private instance.

Unless they manage to make VRChat mainstream (which will likely erase a lot of its appeal to plenty of current users and will mean directly competing with Meta), this may be the beginning on its slow end.
Optimized for capitalism?

Universities are propped up by Government-backed loans and special rules that forbid people from discharging those loans through bankruptcy. The colleges and universities are guaranteed to get their money no matter what.

It's about as anti-capitalist as you can get.
cat isn’t as good as less for displaying a file. I still have the habit of using cat though, even for large files.
It didn't work, I tried to manually connect to other service providers (Roaming) and the connection was rejected. I liked to believe the others service providers automatically blocked Rogers customers to keep their service alive.

Update:Grammar.
>is there a vibrant community of mods?

The most popular client mod is emmVRC:

https://www.emmvrc.com/

Other mods exist, mostly for nefarious purposes like crashing other users who're on Quest or the vanilla client. There's a whole mini black market of "hacks", i.e. client mods built on abusing the VRChat API, as well as some clients which tie into DDoS services that will target specific users in-game if you manage to obtain their IP address via exploit or social engineering. These malicious clients are generally advertised and sold via Discord links in users' profiles. PayPal or CashApp are used to facilitate the transactions.

The game's moderation is essentially nonexistent. Anyone who does get banned for using mods, or sexually grooming underage users, or running around in nude avatars with giant ejaculating phalluses, or all of the above at the same time, can make a new account in a split second. They don't ban IPs, and only recently blocked most well-known VPN IP ranges.

I've got a folder full of OBS screen captures of ~a hundred inicidents like those just described. They don't tell you if reporting a user results in moderation, to "prevent bullying," but I can tell you that users I recorded months ago running modded clients and sexually grooming children (adult with NSFW avatar explaining earnestly why incest is OK to preteens) still log in daily. I stopped filing moderation tickets when I realized nothing was happening. It's an absolute shitshow, a media exposé waiting to happen. I haven't even mentioned the staff-curated default avatar worlds with Disney and Viacom copyrighted characters.
That's what I was going to say. The bullet points sound like a ton of work. And I'm sure the devs put considerable effort into exploring these points. There may have even been code in the repo to address these points.
> never seen that work in practice.

Except in every competitive online game that predates EAC. Rule #1 in networked games is "don't trust the client".
It appears the ACME Portable Hole is no longer available.
The Not Just Bikes Youtube channel did a great episode on why some places have winter cycling and others do not: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
Thought I was clever, until I saw the grid size went to 40…
Instagram gets worse with dark patterns lifted from TikTok
They extracted a return on that investment, at least in the early days of the empire. A lot of land, gold, and slaves were returned to Rome by their military.
VRChat was the first time since the 2000s that I felt the “magic” of the old internet. It had the promise of quirky, unique, and individual (not “personalized”) experiences. It came with the ugly parts too, and a little risk, and it was kind of beautiful.
Sad to see the direction they’re taking. I guess easy product placement is more important than community.
but they got fined 0.3% of the subsidy
And I also live and work in Canberra (Hi Sien).

Some commutes are more like 30 minutes (by car) or 40 at a bad time. But this is where someone has chosen to live at the opposite end of the city to their workplace, which is largely unnecessary.

I myself walk to and from work (when not WFH) and it takes around 20 minutes.
> It can and often does get stuck for decades at a time,

I think this is just more data. If we're all wrong for a longer time, then the impact will be more clear.

I agree that modern additions like preregistration are helpful. I only wanted to remark that it is not a prerequisite for science.

> by definition, these are all political issues, so they attract political arguments.

People are good at gaming systems. We are naturals at recognizing patterns and will adjust our behavior to meet our goals. In that sense, social science may be targeting a moving object, almost like the difference between observing and not observing the atoms in a double slit test.

As hard as it may be in social science, the process of hypothesizing, observing and forming conclusions is still science. For some, it appears that is not science because a definite conclusion never arrives.

Which viewpoint is correct? I think it's up to you to decide. And, when you don't grant people that choice, you get an anti-science response, because people naturally reject being told what to think. Science, for me, is about asking questions, not necessarily arriving at a definitive result.
As a frequent VRChat user: the problem is entirely sloppy API design, poor to nonexistent moderation, a security team detached from reality (the team lead posts often in the VRChat Discord, or used to), and the fundamental problem of running a no-stakes social game where getting banned and losing your account is no obstacle to further bad behavior. Getting banned from WoW means you lose your time investment in level 60 and raid gear; getting banned from VRChat means you make a new dummy email and log right back in. Any VR game with real time investment doesn't have this problem.
The avocado scorpion is by far my favorite. Props.
Many of the cliches about other movie industries were actually imported from early Hollywood. The large eyes in most anime is what happened when the Japanese adopted the style from the early Disney movies. Early Bollywood movie style was just imported from early Hollywood musicals - musicals were much more common in the 1930s. Now all the industries have diverged over time, and they look very quirky when compared to each other. But the common source of all these styles is Hollywood itself.
> Does every minecraft client have to authenticate with a central server before joining a private one?

yes - login is required by the user iirc. You need a microsoft account to play minecraft (and i believe they recently migrated all old mojang accounts to microsoft now?)
Personally, I'm gonna short myself, and then literally fail my way into great wealth.
Just a small correction. Jerusalem Demsas has changed her opinion on rent control [1]. Her corporate overlords must be MAD!

[1] https://www.vox.com/22789296/housing-crisis-rent-relief-cont...
A channel from the other side of nutrition science: https://www.youtube.com/c/PlantChompers/videos
You are correct in that it is more survivable than most believe especially if you have a plan beforehand and know how to act. Yes within certain distances there may be essentially no hope but most people will not fall into this category and your chances are decent especially if you can quickly get to proper shelter and stay there the first few days.

I agree that in your scenario the subway (or some underground shelter) is the best place to be. One thing though in your subway example you neglect the effects of blast. Even if you are not within the fireball radius, the blast shockwave will still affect you if you are in the subway. The blast shockwave will still travel through the air and into the subway. A blast pressure greater than 5 psi can cause significant if not fatal injuries including ruptured internal organs, blood vessels, etc. and you can see that this radius will extend somewhat further out than the fireball. Also expect that a major target like NYC there will be multiple warheads detonated around the city for greater coverage.

If you manage to survive the initial blast and radiation then the great challenge becomes producing enough food through a nuclear winter, but this too is technically possible although will be difficult without a lot of cooperation globally.

And even though you have a reasonable chance of surviving the initial blast and radiation, the best most effective measure is still to prevent it from happening in the first place.
If incompetent people got in the position where they cause a production outage whose fault is that? Sure they should be moved / privileges stripped -- consequences are fine -- but once again, in my opinion, aside from maliciousness an outage is always an organizational mistake.

I have twenty years of experience in the framework we work with and I can't roll a production hotfix without QA approval.

What this comes down to is: if prod goes down, I should be able to focus on getting it back up and not worrying whether I have a job tomorrow. That's not conducive to success.
> These kinds of issues should be solved on the backend. Rate limiting, pattern matching, etc.

> never seen that work in practice.

Isn't this solved by basically every game with a persistent economy? If e.g. Eve online or Runescape just trusted the client they would have fallen apart years ago (not mentioning WoW until the next para because its economy is less important/more isolated to each individual player than a lot of other mmos).

Afaik in World of Warcraft (and by extension probably a lot of other similar games) a bunch of important stuff is totally serverside - your current HP/Mana/Inventory, skill cooldowns, buffs etc. None of that is controlled by the client, and the best you could do by hacking it would be to get it to temporarily show information that was different from what everyone else sees, and couldn't affect any other players.

Movement in WoW (afaik) is a bit more of a hybrid thing - it's a mixture of the client immediately responding to player input, and the server only resetting player position/kicking people off the server if it determines that the player could not have performed that movement with their maximum speed.

With a lot of games this isn't actually that hard either - you just encode rules about what players can do (max movement speed, rate limit amount of chat messages per second, abilities that that player has access to etc) and kick people from the server if their client claims they're doing anything impossible.

In competitive shooters it's a bit different - you don't want to let clients send you technically legitimate "I shoot in this direction" commands that come from an aimbot instead of a mouse, so a multifaceted approach is important here. But VRChat isn't a competitive shooter.

With turn based games it's really trivial, just have clients send you their decisions for each turn, run all the game logic server side and have the client be a dumb UX that plays the animations it's told to.

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Having an authoritative client and just trying to detect cheating on the server is very difficult/impossible - but that's because it's totally the wrong way to solve the problem in the first place.

You want to have the backend doing all the important logic, and have the client be as dumb as possible (or write a deterministic game engine and have the server replay the same inputs at the same time from the same state and boot people when the outcome doesn't match what they told you happened, but this requires engineering up front - it's not an easy thing to retrofit into an existing game).

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Edit: Realised WoW is a good example for mods too - the client is moddable, but there's a clearly defined API for what mods are allowed to see/do. It works pretty well.

Doing this the right way is not impossible, it's just probably more engineering effort than the devs of VRChat are willing to put in.
I'm pretty sure cat is still the best option for 99% of all shell scripts that need to read a file and do something with it.
I carry a sim ejector in my wallet for just-in-case situations
Also Cycles and Horses and Donkeys are all legal on the road.
> You're applying far too strict of a definition to science.

This isn’t a fun theoretical exercise. In the public sphere, “science” tends to get invoked with dispositive weight. And it should in many cases. But for that to work, “science” must meet the level of rigor people associate with “science.” To be called “science” it should be like physics in terms of providing truth value, not psychology.

Aristotle didn’t do “science.” He was a philosopher. His ideas were precursors to science, but weren’t science.
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It’s almost as though business and software development within a company should agree on a ubiquitous language to describe concepts, and when it becomes too difficult to build a single unified model to define individual concepts, then perhaps the core domain should be split into bounded contexts … (and so on)
Becoming a Full-Time Creator as a Software Engineer
CB is not anything like abstract art that you need to put on a show to appreciate. It is as straight-forward as movies get, and easy enough to understand for a kid. The explanation in this piece enough to appreciate on a deeper level.

Some people just like being contrarian. These "elite snobs" are the tiny fraction who reject a good movie simply because being good makes it popular. The club is not selective enough. No soup for you!