skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have to debug at that level, and you're not designing hardware, things are really bad.

Some years back, Wes Irish at Xerox PARC tracked down one of the great mysteries of early coax Ethernet - why was throughput so much lower than theory predicted? For this, he got both ends of a building-length coax with many machines on it connected to one office, so he could plug both ends into a storage scope. If the waveforms disagreed, somebody was transmitting when they shouldn't. Storage scopes with large storage were rare then. It was an expensive LeCroy unit.

After the end of each Ethernet packet on coax, there is a brief "quiet time", and then the next packet can be sent, beginning with a sync pattern. The hardware detects if what it is sending does not match what it is receiving, which indicates a collision. Both senders stop, wait a random time so they don't collide again, and retry. This is how "carrier sense multiple access - collision detection", or CSMA-CD, works at the hardware level.

This setup revealed that something on the cable was transmitting a single spike after the end of each packet, during the "quiet time". That reset the "quiet time" timer in the network interface, which inhibited the transition to "look for sync" mode. So the next packet would be ignored.
The quiet time timer was at a very low level - software did not see this event.

What came out of looking at the waveforms was the surprising result that the spike during the quiet time was not coming from either the data source or the destination, but from something elsewhere on the cable. The spike was not synchronized to the packet just sent.
With the waveforms for both ends of the cable visible, speed of light lag revealed both that this was happening and where it was coming from, as distance along the cable.

It turned out that several brands of network interface used a part which contained the quiet time timer, the sync recognizer, and the transmitter power controller. When the timer ran out, the device did a state machine transition, and during that transition, for a nanosecond or so, the transmitter turned on. It wasn't supposed to do that. This generated a spike on the cable, resetting every quiet time timer and causing the next packet to be silently ignored by all stations.

The network interface didn't need to be active to do this. Being powered on was sufficient. One device with that part could halve the data rate on a coax Ethernet. Thousands of network interfaces had to be scrapped to fix this.
Microsoft's list of faults would make this comment several megabytes. Sony is not without fault either: they're already selling a PlayStation with no game slot for a disk or cartridge, it's download only. They're killing the secondhand market, and probably the long-term availability of many titles, which in the future will not be playable (since they'll be lost), only watchable on YouTube.

In the game industry specifically though, Microsoft has many faults:

Microsoft made Halo an Xbox exclusive when people were waiting for it on PC, so how can they complain about anyone blocking anything? This wasn't the only time:

Halo 2 was a Windows 7 exclusive because they soft-locked it to some version of DirectX they wouldn't release on XP, and it took the pirates 5 minutes to make it work on XP, clearly that was artificial.

Microsoft promised that Rare's upcoming game Kameo would be on the Xbox, but they converted it to a 360 exclusive to try to drum up sales for 360.

They started charging people to use their own internet connections with Xbox live, so we all played on VLANs with the games on LAN mode, now every game company charges to play online.

Anyway, Microsoft is a terrible company, always has been, always will be.

They also invented Pluton, put ads in the start menu, blah. Don't give them money.

This push to move to subscription may ruin gaming as an artform, and the more these companies fight and fuck that up, the better. Hopefully if they bicker enough it'll ruin the whole concept of a subscription.
> I don't see the Self influence in JS.

I think Eich's own words may be helpful here: https://brendaneich.com/2008/04/popularity/

Maybe it was accidental, but he refers to it as being Self-ish. And refers to it as "a quickie love-child of C and Self".
I'm not accusing you of anything, but that graph stops 3 years ago, and there have been some big changes since that time. [1]

[1] https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/06/may-housing-start...
and the Open Goverment Licence was specifically designed to be compatible both ways with CC-by.

(why not just use CC-by? Because someone had legal questions about some of the fine details. But the practical effects are as if they just did.)

in fact, its use is directly recommended where reasonable and feasible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Government_Licence
Redis persists on disk (well, it's optional), if you restart your server I'd assume that it'd be able to restore the disk data into memory, versus your applications memory, which would just be lost.

I'm not a Redis user, but that's based on what I've read
> Should .git directory reside in the same directory as your source code? Maybe not.

Indeed, many dependency managers (both go mod and cargo iirc) don't vendor deps into your working dir.

> I think naming conventions are simply not good enough to handle this properly. This is where FS metadata could come into play.

Yeah, the ideal solution may be just that, but I'm not 100% convinced that dirname conventions and tooling can't solve the major hurdles. New file systems would take decades even if they were to take on.. And for VCS and other tools you need to account for many different file systems and can't rely on anything but largest-common-denominator features..
> No OS hosted repo can keep up with rust and it's particular selection of bleeding edge types.

what? why? someone has to click the approve on the update+build+publish pipeline.. and that's in most repos anyway.
If we care about collateral damage done to animals due to plant farming, then we should still stop eating animals due to the efficiency loss in calories when converting plants to animal calories. 70% of soy is grown for animal feed, and so is something like 50% of corn. Don't tell me all cows just need to be grazing all the time. There just isn't enough land for that. Even assuming 100% of our calories aren't coming from meat.

The carnivore diet simply isn't sustainable. Suggesting that's something the entire human race should be doing is lunacy. I'd wager all these people who feel good on the carnivore diet feel that way because they've stopped consuming processed carbs and other garbage. Meanwhile that diet and keto are associated with increase in all-cause mortality.
You're not wrong. But, you're not right either.
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What's wrong with the 737 MAX?
In that case: https://imgur.com/a/pTUmU11

(according to this palette https://imgur.com/a/lrNT5yZ)
New York City Reservoir System Water Levels
Vacant != abandoned.

Right from the article you linked, 2nd parg:

"But this doesn’t mean millions of abandoned and dilapidated homes are withering away in the suburbs. Vacant homes can be unoccupied for many reasons beyond being uninhabitable. For example, a house can be vacant because it’s still on the market to be sold or rented or it’s a vacation home not currently in use."
What? Wrong post, maybe?
Amazon does it for their K&P / Kindle Unlimited offering to authors. If you want your book to be available in this program (and you do want it because it accounts for a huge chunk of your income on Amazon, depending on genre) you need to agree to not have your book be available anywhere else. Not on Apple, not in Barnes and Noble, nowhere.
yes, basically flat tax of say 10% on everything above a reasonable cutoff, say 100k and then maybe states can get a similar 5%. a beautiful dream
Sorry for being a bit vague here. And yes that's 200 vs 50 for the same level, say a Senior Software Engineer, one in San Francisco, the other in say Brazil.

I am trying to get a perspective on the trend of remote here. I mean how is this going to affect Silicon Valley since this is different than the dot-com boom/bust? The story for the bay area (or tech hubs) in the past was that the VCs, executives, and talent all were here and innovation/creativity required being in the room together. All that seems to have changed post-COVID, especially for Silicon Valley.
Whether you're able to use the equipment for tasks outside of the specific class (even if it's school related like a science fair project) is another issue. I've seen different schools in the same district do things differently - one for instance allowed students to say use the media lab to record a drama production and had a maker club where students could use the machine shop for personal projects. Others very strictly restricted the use of school equipment for the specific class in question (e.g. only shop class students can use the machine tools and only for projects related to that class). It really depends on the instructor and the school administration.
The ultimate troll in that, after all that, it's a blog post leading up to a recipe.
Dotfiles are useful, not only in the $HOME directory, but in every project that has a .git directory, and many other ways. Maybe it was a design accident, but it has got stuck, and many old greybeards like me are used to it, and find good use of it.
Do you believe that Apple does not participate in this sort of behavior? Because they do.
Rediscovering Progressive Web Apps (PWA)
Much less annoying than most protests in the USA where people literally destroy private property and loot businesses. So yeah, it was annoying.
I think that the "tree of replies" format, like we have here and reddit, is pretty much perfect.

We just need a better way to filter/trollkill.

What more do we need?
Well I'm in a corp style place. The haircut was done by rolling dice. And whilst my number didn't come up, I wouldn't be so sure that's it's good for any involved.
> Also the cells changing need to take a break to consolidate what they have adapted to (brain plasticity).

I feel like this has got to be a problem solvable by throwing money at it. Not as is, most likely, but if we had evolved without caloric restriction there would be some kind of more complicated support structure which handles all that.
haha nice demo! needs a smoothing function, wobbles too much. also i use an external cam, would be nice to pick cam source
The approach at my company is to be group chat first. We think there is a distinction between social media (FB, Instragram, Twitter) and pure social networking. I think social networks that are unbounded and broadcast centric actually demonstrate anti-network effects where the more followers/friends you get the less value you get from your network unless of course you're trying to be an influencer. The ideal network always as a discrete audience anytime you share content or communicate which is exactly what a group chat or direct message provides. But unfortunately, Telegram, Whatsapp, iMessage, etc don't provide the rich interactions that made platforms like FB and Instagram so fun in the beginning.

Give us a shot if you want to try to a new form of social networking: https://www.aspen.cloud/
Oh that's right, my mind wandered a bit :l
Jesus, that line of thinking is a recipe to keep me up for days. How you could even begin to fall asleep with a line of thought so interesting is beyond me.
I have a codebase that defeats cloudflare protection. Felt like I had keys to kingdom.
*carnivorous humans more likely to destroy their planet through climate change.
Nice, so this basically overcomes one of the main limitations of SEL4 etc?
They forgot another major problem: You can only reliably unpickle data using the same (or same-enough) code that pickled it. If your class definitions have changed or moved around, unpickling can break.
Every comment in this subthread is fucking weird. Stop making up a life for me in your head.
My two cents: the techniques OP uses are absolutely valid, but I've found much more success "sampling" styles and poses from existing works.

Rather than trying to perfectly describe my image, I like to use references where the source material has what you want. With minimal direction these prompts get impressively close:

"larry bird as a llama, dramatic basketball dunk in a bright arena, low angle action shot, from the movie Madagascar (2005)" https://labs.openai.com/s/wxbIbXa0HRwwGUqQaKSLtzmR

"Michael Jordan as a llama dunking a basketball, Space Jam (1996)" https://labs.openai.com/s/mX4T5Iak8CMO1rPAmjRb7oyH

At this point I'd experiment with more stylized/recognizable references or add a couple "effects" to polish up the results.
Users and exchanges who choose to recognize the token of this new chain as "real eth"
hdf5+zstd would likely be comparable.

good luck loading those pickle files 5y from now.
yes the "audit" word is a bit too formal and has very bad/strong connotations related to a full tax audit, i propose "reconciliation"
For me, a 66-year-old who's been reading voluminously for about 60 of those years, the value proposition of the Kindle (or probably just about any ereader, probably) is:

1. I don't have to store all the physical books I would have acquired over the decades.

2. I can carry around a large number of those beloved books with me at all times.

3. I can vary the font size, which my ageing eyes appreciate.
Are we sure there weren't other rules or conventions in place at the time that specified filenames had to start with an alphanumeric character?
Apartments are terrible for people. Why not talk about needs for homes?
Why can't America make small 2 bedroom homes anymore as seen in 1950s suburbs. It's either a mansion or an apartment now for new housing.
Wordfeud was/is very successful and it's a Scrabble type boardgame played with a stranger. https://www.gamedeveloper.com/design/why-wordfeud-worked-

Betapet is another example in the same vein. Local scandinavian community for playing Scrabble online against strangers, with many stories of people who even got married to each other. https://www.betapet.se/
> the people like your professor tend to have a lot of experience defending their ideas

Eh, I'm not so sure about that. One class (it was a sociology and media course) he had us watch a movie that was basically a bad indie prior art for The Purge.

Rather appearing like finely honed his ideas, it looked more like a very superficial understanding of capitalism (specifically American capitalism, since it was topically focused on American media).
>No.

No. Gift cards can be purchased in-person in the US, with cash. Said gift cards are activated at the register upon purchase. These can then be gifted to someone else, and further activation (or registering your personal information with the card) is not required.

Edit: I just checked the Visa gift card issuer's site for a card I have (and never had to activate or provide personal information to), and for shopping online it just says:

>In the Payment Method section, enter the Card information as you would a credit or debit card. In the Billing Address section, fill in your name and address.

So when I check out online, I can enter any information that I like, presumably as long as it ties back to a valid address of some kind - there is zero effort on the part of the card issuer to verify that I am who I say I am. I would only need a PIN when making purchases with it as a debit card in-person. I should make it clear that I'm not saying that providing false information is legal, just that the point about being required to provide "strong government identity" to activate gift cards has been false for a long time.
Once the software exists, I think it can be easily paid out of pocket by the subscribers. If one focuses on hosting a few hundred or thousand users, it does not have to cost that much.

I agree that it has to be self-funded, not reliant on "monetizing". But if your goal is a stable utility service, not growing to make a profit, I think it is realistic.
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And that, my friend, is why these are the questions I will ask prospective employers during interviews.
> why so many of us have the impulse to figure out what the flaw or missing part of the story is

Because media LOVES to say "12 year old creates revolutionary invention!" especially for energy related things and especially for inventions that aren't revolutionary. Here's a classic example:

https://www.wired.com/2011/08/boy-genius-13-year-olds-solar-...

> 13-year-old Aiden Dwyer has managed to do something that grown-up scientists haven't. He has wrung up to 50% extra electricity from regular solar cells. How? Brains, trees, and a dash of math geekery.

(It's 100% nonsense.)

That said it doesn't exactly look like the case here but it's the obvious null hypothesis.
Initializer-lists are most definitely a thing in C and are part of the grammar. Check 6.7.9 of your C standard

struct Foo {
int x, y;
};
struct Foo foo = {1, 2};
// ^ this is an initializer list.

They also include designators, like:

struct Foo foo = {.x=1, .y=2};

The straw man struct initialization at the beginning of the article would be greatly improved with such a construct. Once you are no longer messing with macros, the rest of the article becomes a step too far.

I assume the article was for c89, as c89 did not allow non-constant initializers. Any modern C compiler should compile c99 or newer code though.
"The fix is temporary, unless it works" -- Red Green
Assuming Sony is paying the publisher some fairly negotiated compensation for what they’d have otherwise project earning from GamePass presence, what’s the anti-competitive element?

Just that the game is available through some channels and not others? Because that’s normal in retail. There are exclusivity deals everywhere.

Or is there some reason to believe Sony is somehow pressuring publishers to take an unfair deal? It’s possible, but I haven’t read about that yet.
Argumentum ad absurdum.
I don't know if it's "the best", but Every Dollar from Dave Ramsey is pretty good. Don't know if it will track overall net worth, though.
Badass as always Simon. I prefer my custom cloudflare killer chrome headless python code. But this is cool for quick things.
The article gives up on its clickbait headline almost immediately:

> Of course you cannot do that with everything, you cannot read all the source code for the kernel of the operating system you're running, you cannot read all the code that makes up the compiler or interpreter you're using, but that is not the point at all, of course some level of trust is always required. The point is that you need to do it when you're dealing with code you are writing and importing!

OK, so we're drawing an arbitrary line of what we read and what we don't.

A basic web application at this point is going to import at least 10k lines of other people's code. A React app probably uses millions.

There's just no way around this. We all trust code we haven't read and have to continue doing it.

Reading code doesn't even guarantee finding security flaws. Most of us aren't security researchers, and none of us can understand an entire project's source code the first time we read it.
>What’s sought after now is meeting -other-, new, like-minded people and content. For that we have twitter, Reddit, TikTok, and whatnot.

None of those sites are good for that any more. All the interesting people on reddit have been banned. No one sane uses twitter. And finding people to talk to on tiktok is plain impossible.
The article claims that breathing rate TRIPLES during chess tournaments. I don't know if that's true, but if it is, then there is something pretty intense going on. If I tripled my breathing rate for an extended time period I'd probably pass out or something.
I am genuinely curious, why are they terrible for people? Grew up in one, and currently living in one as well (mind you, by choice), and know multiple families (with kids) living a relatively happy life in apartments.
Yes, we know. They should be expropriated.
Well-built apartments with good light, soundproofing etc are great, and you can get amenities in the building that would be cost-prohibitive for a single-family home.
I pretty much agree but want to add some clarifications.

> The only state where property taxes aren't regularly reassessed appears to be California.

Technically, property taxes are reassessed in California but because of Prop 13, passed in the 1970s, the increase cannot exceed 2% per year. With in inflation in the 70s and 80s, this was a massive boon to incumbent homeowners and their descendants (since that favorable tax rate can be inherited).

California is the poster child for this taxpayer-led cash grab but it's not the only one. New York for example has a very complicated property tax system with various caps that amount to much the same thing but nowhere near as extreme.

> ... highly unsympathetic when the argument boils down to "we bought this property 50 years ago and we couldn't afford taxes on it if it were assessed at market value."

It's actually worse than that. It's always couched in terms of kicking seniors out of their life long homes because they're on a fixed income even though the major beneficiaries are Disney and extremely wealthy people. Worse, property held in LLCs allow you to retain favorable tax treatment even when the LLC changes hands.

Disney has to be singled out here because the're still paying 1960s taxes on their land in Anaheim.

Back to seniors, it's such a ridiculous argument. For one, you can always treat different taxpayers differently and, for example, freeze propert taxes for seniors until they die. You don't need to give a massive tax benefit to Disney to do that.

Interestingly, a state like Texas handles this way better. Property taxes are deferred for seniors until they die. They're still accuring property tax debt but it doesn't hit their immediate incomes.

This gives people a choice: stay in their family home and pay taxes when the houses are inherited or downsize to save on taxes.

This has the added benefit of freeing up housing stock.
...I thought I was being satirical. Why did you have to remind me how awful the world is? -_-
Crying CEO selfie goes viral on LinkedIn, sparks debate on messaging
> I 100% disagree with your idea that you, or anyone for that matter, is just here to disagree with other people’s ideas. Nobody disagrees with stuff just for the sake of disagreement. Who would do such a thing?

You must be new here.
I kept getting a scene with "two people holding hands" blocked, it allowed "two people kissing" and then when I tried "and wife" instead of "two people" it banned me. (They unbanned me when I emailed them though.)

Oddly, the ones it blocked were more sfw than several others it allowed, but of course I don’t know what the outputs would’ve been…
I don't think that unexpected things are necessarily funny. Unexpected stupidity or weakness is funny. Unexpected cancer isn't funny. To make it funny, you have to make someone stupid.
Ah I left out a few sentences. My passive aggressiveness is directed at the state of Linux distros today, not at the parent. I agree that his scheme is a lot better than the mess we deal with today.

> Grep is a huge part of my workflow.

You can flatten and grep structured binary formats too.
The time consuming part of pizza is the dough. It is really making a pizza when they're using premade dough balls? They are also not proofing to room temperature?

Also the headline should be "bake a pizza in 45 seconds" as the article states, but I guess it doesn't sound that impressive when consumer pizza ovens can already bake one in 60 seconds.
Do you have any suggestions on how to write it in a less condescending tone?
If you go for a Volvo, you have the option of taking delivery in Europe, do a driving tour and have it shipped back to NA: https://www.volvocars.com/us/shopping-tools/shop/overseas-de...
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Let me put this in a way you might understand.

Person A: My machine needs 4 GPU to train this model in <6 hours.

Person B: There are 1000000 GPUs in Japan.

Do you see how that's not helpful?