skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know what sickens me more: That someone is digging up a 20 year old article to throw tomatoes at some poor woman, or that this is front page on HN...
I've played Factorio at 1080p with integrated graphics on a dual-core Skylake chip. I think the Nvidia Tegra will be able to handle this just fine.
Not to speak for the person you're replying to, but I included several sources in my response above, if that helps. Just in terms of their financial/organizational potential for bias
Very large bases will eventually hit CPU bounds, but a base achieving the normal gameplay objective ("launch a rocket") should be easily simulated at 60hz.

Indeed, the linked blog post addresses performance expectations.
This is really cool. Love it!
Pure: Pretty, minimal and fast ZSH prompt
I didn't vote and I'm surprised that I don't see a comment about this topic: it's heavily context-dependent, and at different stages in someone's career the pendulum may swing from one side to the other. I believe that I would enjoy working for myself, and I kind of did so for a few years as a contractor, but what I really would enjoy is providing a software product or service that people paid for and where I had full creative control. I believe that working at a job provides many benefits: If the company is big, you may work on problems at a scale or magnitude that is difficult to stumble into on your own. You may find mentorship, teaching, or growth opportunities when working at a company that will be harder to find when working for yourself. You'll find it easier to get your code reviewed when working on a team than on your own. You'll probably enjoy a much wider variety of social interactions in your day job if you're working at a big company than on your own. You will get a lot more independence and the chance to really own your success and your failure if you work on your own. You'll get a much bigger piece of the pie if you find huge success on your own. And finally (yeah right, this list could go on ad nauseam) you'll be much more likely to enjoy a steady paycheck, paid right when you expect it, if you work for a company.
makes sense, a lot of non-mexican spanish speakers are prone to get offended easily by words that are obviously not an insult.
> Virtually nothing about our response was based on science or data.

Virtually nothing?

So the thousands and thousands of studies on vaccines, treatments, mask policies, vaccine policies, school policies, air filtration techniques, etc, etc… those were just done for no reason?

To say we live in an imperfect society with imperfect leaders and imperfect citizens is a fair point. Incorrect decisions were and continue to be made for political reasons or religious reasons or whatever else. That’s what happens in an imperfect society. To say “virtually nothing” about the response is based on data is just ridiculous.

Again, anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists make up a world where decisions are made in secret for suspicious reasons when generally all the data and arguments are out in the open and are just ignored.
Same, and I have a Steam Deck arriving today…

Also, never play Dyson Sphere Project. It ruined me worse than Factorio. Jokes aside, it’s a fantastically beautiful and well done game.
I just came across this last week. The PLL synthesizer is very useful and eliminates the need for a Si5351A in a project we’re doing
NPCI, the organization operating UPI, is owned by public and private banks. It is approved by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and is marketed by the government. About two years ago, RBI had concerns about NPCI having a monopoly and wanted more players to create and interoperate similar services, but it canceled that plan (reasons unknown).
I have nothing against undescriptive product names. But if you are constantly changing the entire problem your software is intended to solve, you have a problem.

And if you just happen to change it eventually, it's best for everybody if you go and make it a different project with a different name. Descriptive or not.
Lol, no, I was way too young then! They were probably pictures of Power Rangers or Super Mario I drew, lmao.

By the time I was of that age, we had the wonders of dial up internet and semi-scrambled adult TV channels.

:')
Perhaps not quite what you're looking for, but our family recently just switched to our own Zulip instance, and we've been loving it.
It doesn’t even matter honestly. The data used to justify all our incredibly costly mitigations is a toxic dumpster fire. You could take that data and twist it to justify anything you wanted.

And even then the actual science and data never mattered from a public policy (or even public health) standpoint. It’s been politics, fear-mongering and straight appeals to authority all the way down.
These are options. I don't see which is the most selected option.
The point is that people want to sell things, I think that's given. However, the usual platforms make it hard make the code you have available to other people. We talked to lots of people who weren't sure how to monetize their template and were using classic marketplaces; but usually it's offering a zip file or a link to download folder, which is inconvenient and means it's hard to update your code and breaks your workflow. With GitPaid, we try to make it as simple as possible, by automatically inviting the buyer to the repo, so you can keep pushing code as usual to GitHub. And we see a lot more opportunities, like not only integrating with more git providers but even completely different tools, to sell things where they already are and make it accessible to anyone.

Hope that clarifies the idea; if you're still not convinced that is fine as well :)
A lakh is 100,000 and a crore is 10 million, or 10,000,000.

In India, the next order of magnitude after 10,000 is one lakh (hundred thousand) and a crore is a hundred lakhs (100 x 100,000 or 10M).
Isn't it pretty normal to do recruiting with a 15 month runway?

(Obviously, not normal to do recruiting if there are no positions open)
If you select for careful, risk-averse populations, you'll see correlary effects of your selection and theirs, irrellevant to the measure you're taking.
This is why I never got into the Wii. My "centered/straight ahead" was never where the Wii wanted it to be.
Not a good tradeoff for RNA viruses that mutate so widely.
> [...] we tend to scale the weight of these systems to the size of the perceived threat - that's why doctors and pilots are more burdened than bankers who are more burdened than cooks
Part of the "joy/hell" of using floppies, the waiting to see if your data was ok. Example when you have ARJ/ZIP/RAR a 10+ disk "floppy collection" (pirate copy) of your favourite game from you friends from school.

You get home after school and dammit floppy number 7 has CRC error :/ sigh

It could take DAYS to copy a game, back then, between you friend forgetting for a day or two and having to redo big copies at least once :) All with the turnaround time of waiting one-school-day

#GoodTimes :)
People talk about how the iMac drove the USB market, which it did (how many PCs were seen with "iMac looking" USB devices for a decade afterwards), but the real thing I feel it drove was using the Internet as a main file transport.

Many iMac users started to transfer files via email and other tools; before that things like FTP were really in the weeds.

Now most people needing to transfer a file to another computer in their house will upload it to some server thousands of miles away as it's "easiest".
It's amazing to me that the way I've worked my whole life (Do what you're asked to do, clock out at the end of the day) now has a name, and even a negative connotation. Myself and nearly everyone I know works this way the majority of the time.
My NES came with a catalog of all the Nintendo products, games, and accessories you could get for the NES. So if you were into gaming and were Xennial, GenX, elder Millenial you probably heard of U-Force. Unlike the Powerglove, it wasn't everywhere but it was not hidden.

I did have a Powerglove and while the coolness factor wore off after a few hours I think it was amazing for the time.
Amazon scientists win best-paper award for ad auction simulator
The author uses the terms “designer” and “artist” interchangeably. These are not the same activities at all.
The modem is less than a year old. But airtel doesn’t give an IPv6 address. This is in one of the major cities where one would expect technology to be advanced.
> Some people were just naturally (or dubiously) gifted at making a spectacle of themselves, and the papers hired them (us?) to write

This has got much worse, and spread to politics and public life as a whole.
Oh that is interesting. There also are ice ribbons, flowers and needle ice. The ice flowers seem to be created by a similar mechanism but the hole is in a plant rather than the top of a container of water.
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/flowers-and-ribbon...
Tiring as it is, motion control is more immersive and just has something going for it that gamepads don't.

And the "exhausting" aspect can actually be a good thing. It means getting some exercise while doing something fun. I was surprised how well VR exercise actually worked for me when I tried it.
Disclosure: Community contributor to HAProxy, I help maintain HAProxy's issue tracker.

> For my mental model, nginx is the right choice for SSL termination, logging, request mangling, interpretation of cookies and loadbalancing based on request information (for example choosing haproxy instances based on a domain name).

HAProxy can do all that and IMO it also does it better.

Personally I chain HAProxy and nginx in reverse order: HAProxy exposed to the Internet, doing all the heavy lifting. (Multiple) nginx with minimal config as a static file server and FastCGI gateway behind HAProxy.

see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27253579
Same. I've never seen anyone become proficient in a new language/platform in less than a year. Sure, you could learn Go's syntax, use it in the style of Java/PHP, and make it work, but that is not being proficient in Go and its idioms.
> How likely is someone to actually take over these accounts? How much damage would it do?

We kind of have answers to these questions already:

- A rogue employee/contractor deactivated Trump's account back in 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/03/experts-w...

- "130 high-profile Twitter accounts [including Apple, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Bill Gates] were compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam" using internal Twitter admin tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking

The impact of both of these was basically zero.
My memory of floppy disks was having to write multiple copies of the same files across different disks because odds are one of them would fail. It was particularly painful if you had to zip any files up as odds are you’d end up with a failed CRC.

I was a relatively early adopter of CD writers because I was sick of floppy disks failing.

I’ve also got a stack of 3” floppies (like what was used for the Amstrad CPC and Nintendo Famicom) that don’t work too.
We know the correct interest rate. It is 2% above inflation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_rule
> Please don't tell me there are political camps in FP now.

All nontrivial groups of humans end up with political camps. If you don't notice it in a space, it probably means that there is one dominant political camp and it is the one you are in.
>They do not understand conception of self and death, they will not grieve seeing death of their friends or relatives, they will never write a "Romeo and Juliet".

Then torturing, killing, and eating babies and mentally disabled people is OK in your book?

If you would take 5 minutes to read about animal behavior you'll understand how far off are your concepts.

>But when, after hours of manual labor in an unheated workshop, I go on my lunch break, I read about the suffering of animals with such loud laughter that I can't believe that anyone is talking about it seriously.

Is somebody else forcing you into that position?
Any plans for Teams integration? We recently switched all our bots over from Slack.
If their sales go down enough, I bet they can make that percentage even larger.
> You could take that data and twist it to justify anything you wanted.

No. My question is if your side has any data at all on the assertions you're making.

Because in my experience, with regards to this debate, one side seems to just be flaunting falsehoods, while the other side has actually done tests and demonstrated their results.

I'm trying to figure out which side you're on. The side with data, or the side without. If you think the data was poor, fine, whatever. Where's your data that supports your viewpoints? Even if you break someone else's argument, it doesn't matter unless you yourself have data that supports your own side.
Disclaimer I'm already a big fan of Scala, but I agree that the tooling around scala.js is lacking and the std lib is a rather large blob to ship around, especially when compared to alternative functional languages like ocaml.

However, I've been using the above mentioned laminar for my personal frontend project needs and it really is a unique approach to the 'reactive' frontend with no vdom actually using reactive streams to track what needs to be updated. The dsl is easy to read and write and i can actually read the underlying code. For me it's scaled well too large datasets generating svgs. I think it's worth the scala.js barrier to entry.
Most of the Wikimedia Foundation's revenue comes from small donations, and part of that is then funneled to the Endowment at the Tides Foundation – which has never to date published audited accounts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

This $100 million endowment was built in half the time anticipated:

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/wikipedia-endownemnt-fundrais...

The Wikimedia Foundation currently has almost $400 million in assets and reserves:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2...

That's five times as much as it had in 2015, when the Washington Post published an article titled "Wikipedia has a ton of money. So why is it begging you to donate yours?"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who routinely stabbed my computer! I used to keep a butter knife by my iMac to help eject CDs. I had the first slot-loading model and the rubber eject rollers they used seemed to lose their grip after a while.
There is no reason here to blame the vaccine.
> Contradictory...

How?

> Might as well channel all those destructive qualities into adoring and obeying those born into wealth and prestige.

We've more or less gotten rid of royalty, and now we have celebrities shamelessly shilling just about anything - what an improvement! I would prefer neither, but I don't think that's ever going to happen without people being forced to take responsibility for themselves.
Being accurate and reliable on average is what makes the bias on select topics effective. And bias of omission is most effective.

E.g. the complete absence of any demographics vs. time graph (and near-complete absence of demographic information in general) on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement

One can take a look at the talk page of that article to see the fervent resistance of editors to include more demographic information. One person compared it to debunking JFK assassination conspiracy theories without mentioning that JFK was in fact killed.

The entire "Demographic statistics" section is only a reference to the 8-12% Muslim population in France, which can charitably be described as misleading, since, in addition to giving no information on the rate of change or past statistics, is a very low estimate:

[Sickle cell] screening suggests that in 2000, 19% of all newborn babies in Metropolitan France had at least one parent originating from one of the risk regions. The figure for [..] 2015 [is] 38.9 %. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France#Statist...
That 'stutter-of-failure' :D
The fact that farmers use them makes me think they're better. Farmers can buy "generic" non-gmo seeds that cost practically nothing. They choose not to, presumably because they believe they won't make as much money.
Given that our brains have been the same for a few thousand years, maybe I don't need to optimise for that.

Anyway, what we currently have as programming languages are all workarounds. Necessary for now, because how else would we program? But in the end we need to converge programming, math and logic, and once this is done, we will be ready for anything. And we won't need monads as a crutch, forced upon us by a type system. I am sure the concept of number will outlive the concept of monad in terms of popularity.
Western countries don't trust China's computing hardware, for obvious reasons... why on Earth would they trust equipment that supports agricultural infrastructure?
Nintendo sells tools, Sony and Microsoft offer a network of repairmen who will come to your house for a scheduled visit. Yes, they’re both very similar as to what is accomplished by the end of the process, but one of them is satisfied to sell you a tool whereas the other wants the tool to be part of other things… not hard to see why most people who want a tool don’t use their service when they don’t want a service at all.
Ha, very similar situation. For me, it's always management that makes me quit a job (sometimes relatively quickly). I do find contracting, where I can convince myself that I'm divorced from the management chain. Would love to hear more about your stint and what drives you to quit, email in my profile.
One would hope...

...on the other hand, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Twitter_account_hijacking
> explicitly pumped up as something luxurious

I read it as something deliberately escapist. It didn’t matter what it was, there was too much to process and focusing on a limo and drinks meant they didn’t have to focus on what had happened. She included details because that was her job to describe the scene.

People process grief/stress/trauma differently. I wouldn’t read too much into the details.
Great interview; really enjoyed this.

In the late 80s / early 90s, I had a home computer with 5.25” floppies. I remember at the mall around the holidays, Radio Shack would run a holiday animation on their Tandy computers to show them off. One in particular sticks out to me — an animation of a 3.5” “modern” floppy going into a shirt pocket and then an attempt at a 5.25” which resulted in a torn pocket, showing off the superior portability of the new, smaller disks. Does anyone else remember this?
Radical idea: If the usage/purpose of something diverges significantly from its original name, change the name.
Node.js Native Binary Compilation Using Vercel/Pkg
A few weeks ago I actually watched a video with this same gentleman. The video itself is from 6 years ago but it was insightful and some of you may prefer that medium.

Link: https://youtu.be/z9tENHe19gk
If you hire someone in a language they don’t know, you expect them to learn on the job. It’s reasonable by day 3 to expect them to show some code - even if terrible.
The FDA extended the EUA to include BA.4/BA.5 boosters on August 31, which was 1-2 weeks after those people entered the study.
> If Parag Agrawal screws up at this hearing, it could literally cost him billions of dollars.

Good.

It is an indefensible house of cards where it can take someone like Mudge to just blow it up and give the regulators a reason to give a massive fine and put them under strict rules to do better, and they should give them massive fines.
The reason is government needs to print out of debt. That's why transitional inflation is permanent.
Any plans to have this FedRAMP certified so it can be used in US federal government incident management?
Cool - like Cake by the Ocean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWaRiD5ym74

Maybe you want to add some neat new features - like Circle C++ https://www.circle-lang.org/
Hey, author here! That's a great point, sloppy there on my part that I failed to notice that.

Do you think they will be affected differently? (I have my own thoughts but curious to hear yours here)
> No. I'm making a simple argument. More safety is better than less safety. You're trying to move argument that since perfect safety is impossible it's not worth pursuing. This is the sophistry part.

I'm not trying to move anything. I've made the consistent argument from the beginning that more language-level safety is not the most important design constraint for all use-cases.

> No it doesn't. Debugging 30k lines is always going to take more than 3/30/300 lines especially when data races are involved.

Yes it does. See HPC use-case.

> There are HFT systems using Java, few were on HN even. That said, you might have thought of UHFT, but those use FPGA and ASIC, so not even C/C++ would be really correct.

The point still stands.

> I know human nature. What we are used to is what we consider natural/ergonomic.

Ok now I suspect you're deliberately waisting both of our time. You can't claim to know what romans thought about spaces.

> If you prioritize delivering stuff fast (move fast, break things) you'll end up with a lot of broken software, and unmaintainable messes along the way.

I never said you should prioritize delivering stuff fast. I said you should focus on delivering value. So if your code is an unmaintainable mess, cleaning up your code is going to be the shortest path to delivering more value because it affects your velocity.

If you're writing OS-level networking code, safety is going to be critical to delivering value because security is paramount to your mission.

If you're writing a game, having direct, explicit, ergonomic access to memory may be more relevant to delivering value than slowing yourself down to make sure you are 100% sure every line of code is safe.

> Maintainability and safety should be primary motivatiors.

Unless they're not. If I'm prototyping a project it might me much more important to get something in front of users to see how they like it than it is to make something safe and maintainable.

Some code is used and built on for years and years. Other code is used and thrown away after it serves its purpose.
Increase teacher salary to $100k a year and cap teacher to student ratio at 20 and see how hard it is to hire them. I'd go straight back to school to get a teaching cert to change careers, even though it'd be a pay cut. Imagine getting the best and brightest people pounding down the school doors to teach. For reference, that would triple the starting teacher's pay at my local high school.
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Also importantly, it sounds like you would bring the understanding that surface level productivity is not the same thing as mastery.
Many of the mystery syndromes are different manifestations of the same condition for which dysautonomia is most often a core underlying part.

By way of analogy; hEDS is clearly autosomal dominant genetic condition and has been known about since Hippocrates yet because it presents in slightly different ways it largely escapes diagnosis. hEDS is also not rare, it’s only considered rare because it’s rarely diagnosed. The fact that medical researchers and doctors can’t get something so simple right after so long means I don’t trust them with anything that is even slightly complex.
So has been pragmatism and the desire to improve one's standard of living.

I'm not denying that people in history have desired marriage to someone out of love or attraction. But I am saying that the economical aspect has always played a big role, if not the decisive one.

Being married myself, I know that what makes marriage work is not what you felt when you started. More important than marrying the person you love, I would say, is loving the person you married.
How many harvests do you have to lose to tractor is down and Deere repair men won't be here for a month, before slightly worse but self repair possible tractor is better, cheaper tractor?