skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's very extreme. Products grow at a gradual pace. I don't think there are defining moments when a product no longer supports something, or is no longer used in a way that it was intended to.

I would argue it's easier to maintain peoples understanding of a product since that will also be done gradually. It's not easy to update naming inside of a code base without potentially breaking software significantly or causing unknown bugs elsewhere. I think most software would fail the renaming test. It's also generally not worth the money and time needed to make that change.
This is so cool ! Great job.
> There is a person thinking about the prompt, typing in the prompt, painstakingly selecting the image that matches what they imagined in their head.

True, which makes it more akin to photography. I'm not saying it's "not art" (I'm saying the exact opposite of that), but that it's not art that is of interest to me. Much like my interest in art photography is very limited. Different people have different tastes.

> It just less elitist

I disagree. I think this whole subject is orthogonal to the concept of elitism. Sure, there are certainly art snobs who take an elitist perspective, but they're a very small segment of the art world.
I tried seriously for about an hour to play Factorio on the Steam Deck. It wasn’t enough.

You need notes and specific study time. Steam controller configs can be way more information than you can fit in your brain.
His plan was never executed, you don't know what would have happened if the government set up isolation centers and took strong efforts to get elderly into them.

The society-wide isolation orders were widely ignored precisely because most people knew they weren't at risk. An isolation plan targeted at those at risk may have been taken a lot more seriously.
I can’t wait for proper controller support on PC
"code quality" is not real, it's just something software engineers like to argue about like sports.

We like to talk about how code is written, because we look at code all day. The rest of the world only cares about what your code does once it's compiled.

Senior engineers solve problems. They're not overly concerned with ticking all the boxes just so they can get a "good code" sticker.
The QFT acronym annoyingly reminds ne rather of Quantum Field Theory than Quantum Fourier Transforms ...
> no one monitors these groups

In a country that values freedom of speech and association, this is considered a feature, not a bug.
That thread is 4 years old...I wouldn't say that's reflective of the current situation, nor do I find "probably won't get better" a great take, because the Scala OSS situation tries to not-repeat-mistakes.

Hell the worst thing the Scala Discord deals with it are spambots!
Talk about entitlement. Even if "electromagnetic hypersensitivity" were a real thing, such a demand would be equivalent to demanding that all of your neighbors euthanize their dogs because you're allergic to them.
Interesting project! What is your target audience for something like this?
> but the ecosystem is essentially a microcosm of the US political landscape. I’m guessing all programming communities are turning to this nowadays. As an Eastern European, however, it kind of pisses me off.

Yikes! It's unbelievably exhausting to hear white folk say that they don't want to deal with the consequences of European colonialism.

Racism exists. You can either be anti-racist or pro-racist. There's no middle ground when everyone lives in a society that is built on the backs of hundreds of years of stolen labor in inhumane conditions. There's not _one part_ of modern, global society that isn't affected by racism.

Remember, it's an extreme privilege to look at a part _real life for the majority of people on the planet_ and say "it's just politics."
standards are agreements, they've never been there with the expectation of enforcement.
Farmers on other threads on this topic have stated that other vendors don't have the same repair network that John Deere has, and that being able to get timely repairs (often <24 hour) is often critical to their work due to the small time windows in which certain tasks (like harvesting) need to take place.
Remember when an employee took down Trumps account?
https://news.yahoo.com/rogue-twitter-employee-took-down-1419...

First it was "inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee."
Then "Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee’s last day."

It was kinda funny but you would expect that they would learn and improve from it.

Edit: Thank you siblings for showing that it has continued to happen. Obviously not lesson not learnt.
I'v done both.

I'v nominally worked for myself, as half-owner and company director.

I'm a huge geek, with mental health symptoms that could be mistaken for autism and ADHD but are actually due to trauma from having terrible parents who I removed from my life decades ago.

The customers were clueless disorganised nitwits. Their upper management was out playing golf, so we had to try to get their disgruntled office staff to stop looking at facebook for five minutes and cooperate with us to get things done.

I handled complicated technical stuff but had to leaving talking to the customers to someone else.

It depends on your personality.

I'm too honest and bad at manipulating people to be a good salesman or executive.

Sales is a totally different skill set and psychopathic personality disorder to making the technology work.
It's not in the abstract but you can open pdf and see its omicron vs vanilla pfizer (bnt162b2) and moderna (mrna-1273).
I remember that. :) And I remember buying a 1 Gigabyte hard disk for £1,000 ...
There are definitely languages that people complain about but which nobody uses. Hare was a good example of this most recently.
Medieval philosophy was my area of focus too!

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is very good - so is the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Fordham’s Internet Medieval Sourcebook is an absolute godsend.

Another important resource is the “Cambridge Companion to …” series. It’s paid (about $45/book on Kindle), but will provide you with everything you need to start work on the topic.
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It's from this bit of one of his shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq6Ez8oYDrU
No need to lie, just set the internal rendering resolution to 1440p or higher and your machine will go up in flames.
That's why I'm a huge fan of server-less. Let Amazon or Google handle the tough parts until your company is big enough to have to optimize for server costs.
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> when by-and-large we gave up having root access to the machines we do our day-to-day work on decades ago.

Speak for yourself. I've had root access to my dev machine at every job I've worked.

In any case, not having root access because one's employer owns the machine is locking things down for security is very different to not having root access because the manufacturer prevents even the owners from having root access.
Stiff and theatrical are better descriptors. Or mannered and a bit stilted.

I've only seen Breathless and A Band Apart. My sense is that Godard played a big part in transforming cinema from mannered to free-form. But I'd caution against framing that transition in terms of quality. Lots of stiff, theatrical movies are excellent, many of them have really good camerawork, and Godard certainly didn't invent moral ambiguity.
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I don't think vandalism is the big problem.

It's not hard to find articles that are written with some agenda, either product advertisement or political motives, but presented with the same objective encyclopedic tone as the rest.

This article is a pretty good example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming

The entire article is basically an advertisement for the idea, citing a handful of fairly old studies, including prominently a fairly odd one in its own section:

"In an online survey of pair programmers from 2000, 96% of programmers stated that they enjoyed work more while pair programming than programming alone. Furthermore, 95% said that they were more confident in their work when they pair programmed. [...]"

Just... stop and think about that survey for a moment. At a glance you might not catch it, but they basically asked people who prefer pair programming whether they prefer pair programming, and discovered that yeah, almost all of them did.

Both the "indicators of non-performance" and "pairing variations" also seem oddly out of place in a wiki article.
For once, an article more interesting than the HN comments!
An alternative I like a bit more than, `remove, update, add back` is to set a signal handler to close the listening socket, wait for current requests to finish, and then exit.

Assuming you initialize every service you depend on at program start and not in the critical path and that health checks only function after this setup work has been done it simplifies operations a bit and decreases the liklhihood of configuration errors (a drained server in a load balancer) from persisting.
Natural predator in the city? Sounds like an oxymoron to me...
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Here's a CPU that controls an automobile engine. Inputs are the position of the throttle, and the rotational position of the crankshaft. Outputs are instructions to the fuel injector and the timing of spark plugs firing.

You can terminate that program when the user turns the engine off.

Or, you can say the program should consist of "read the stored state, re-configure the fuel injectors, fire a spark plug if one is supposed to fire now, update the stored state, and terminate". You could say that it should be written that way. But when you do, you've got a bunch of cynical old embedded software people saying, "Explain to me how that is better in any way? Does it make the program easier to write? No, it doesn't. Does it make it less error prone? More reliable? No and no. Does it make it use fewer resources? Also no. So why in the world do we want to write it that way?"
The attacks on white men are so severe that even this article is attacking a white man for, well to be honest I'm not sure, using the word Caucasian in a weird facebook post about annoying rich children in a restaurant?

> OK, officially, I now hate white people. I am a white people, for God's Sake, but can we keep them/us out of my neighbourhood.

Someone reported this as racism to his employer.
i forgot what side of this issue i'm on.
It is "radical" for a reason. Look at how bad things are right now, and multiply it by 10 if you decide to get rid of all curriculum that kids aren't inherently interested in:

- Goodbye to any understanding of politics or social studies
- Goodbye to historical knowledge
- Goodbye to any understanding of our own bodies (except for kids who are interested in animals or medicine?)
- Goodbye to classical literature
- Goodbye to economics and personal finance
- Goodbye to being able to appropriately and accurately express oneself when speaking and writing

ALL of these are very important parts of human knowledge that are essential to high functioning in society, but 99% of children have absolutely no interest in them whatsoever if left to their own devices.
In response to Sen Grassley wrapping up questions about how Twitter executives wanted to address employee concerns about accepting ad money from Chinese companies, possibly with Chinese govt links (even while Twitter is banned in China):

28:25 [Mudge] "We're already in bed, it would be problematic if we lost that revenue stream, so figure out a way to make people comfortable with it."

That isn't really surprising, but it's still bad.

It's also worrying that some Americans complain about "big [US] government" to justify the very limited size and power of the FTC to regulate US big tech, while somehow overlooking the threat from the big Chinese government, its awful human rights record, and its track record of working to gain access into US companies.

It's really easy to criticize these senators for not being tech ignorant, but this is the only govt we have, and it's the only one that can empower the FTC to do more.
Perhaps there's a higher percentage among the HN readership, but the number of people who make it to 'just' a 1kSPM base is very small indeed as a fraction of the playerbase. Only 18% get as far as launching the rocket according to Steam stats!
How often does that happen? Every small town around here has a Deere shop and it doesn't seem to be a major concern.
If it wasn't for Russia's nukes, now that their military is weakened, this would have been a good time to take over and let environmental immigrants come to Russia.
There are numerous proclamations:

It will take place at 1pm on Sunday September 11 as one of a series of similar events in towns and cities throughout the nation.

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/21252506.charles-iii-forma...
This one stayed for ten years:

https://wikipediocracy.com/2022/08/11/wikipedias-credibility...
Old samplers/MIDI sequencers without SCSI interfaces do use floppy disks so I hoarded a hundred of them just in case (even though there is a system now that allows a floppy disk reader to be replaced by a USB thumb drive reader). They are getting quite expensive in Europe, not paying 5€ for a single HD disk...
Given that thousands of projects are dependent on it, I would hope so.

https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.typesafe.akka/akka-ac...
exceptions opens the door to your control flow being rug pulled in exchange for... an error message? realistically all you can do is wrap chunks of code in a `try { } catch (const std::exception &e)` block and hope they've implemented `std::exception::what`. an enum based approach gives you both better error messages and certainty of what errors can occur and when.
Incredible essay 'Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard' on this subject from a University of Michigan Professor of Chinese Studies who learned Chinese as an adult: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html

TLDR:

>Someone once said that learning Chinese is "a five-year lesson in humility". I used to think this meant that at the end of five years you will have mastered Chinese and learned humility along the way. However, now having studied Chinese for over six years, I have concluded that actually the phrase means that after five years your Chinese will still be abysmal, but at least you will have thoroughly learned humility.
Could you provide references for your statements

> the first layers of AlexNet and all its DL image processing descendants converge to the Gabor filters (or some variation of)

and

> 15 years before AlexNet there were works showing that such type of filter is kind of mathematically optimally encoding for the feature based image processing

?
Not every industry is as rewrite-averse as the financial sector.
In the not so distant future the government will have have a database with everyone's dna. It's just not possible to keep something secret that you literally shed everywhere you go.
“ The journalists have been without a contract since March 2021 and staff haven’t gotten raises in more than two years despite decades-high inflation and rent increases. Meanwhile, they say the company has done exceptionally well in recent years and executives are making millions of dollars each year.”

With how much inflation we’ve seen, two years without any raises is very rough and surprising.
Would it be possible to not pay the full price if you already have paid the PC version ?
Factorio is a game I don't dare to get sucked into.
I was hoping to see a more modern alternative to the VTE terminal protocol and its derivatives. Does anybody have any good suggestions and possible implementations?
You don't need Slack to use the tool, but yeah, a Teams integration is on the list, and will probably drop early next year.
XPlane is a simulator.
MSFS is a game.
No doubt. But It’ll be a more favorable comparison to you if you are focused on achieving your manager’s expectations, and proactively contributing to the larger org — not comparing yourself to others as your personal performance metric.

It’s obvious when someone is contributing to the organization in good faith / trying to do their job well, vs trying to edge out a colleague in specific eval criteria to look better. The second is not a good look, but I highly value (and reward) the first.
I remember how confused I was when I found out a program exists called "FileMaker". Curious how that name was chosen.
I'm looking at personal pain first which is really that remote work means losing out on the social aspects of work. I think all the other tools can be built but are undifferentiated. Community for remote work isn't a thing. Or if it is its always tied to a Job board which isn't really helpful for people who already have jobs.
The Philosophy of “Zero to One”–Part 2
As we can see, sanctions and arm-twisting are not stopping the war, not weakening Russia. Not even politically given the recent elections in Russia! Even Ukraine keeps buying Russian gas and I can't recall any comment from otherwise very vocal Zenesky about it! If there are supply issues, is due to all the nonsense coming from EU, which only hurts it, not Russia. Even if EU deversifies from Russia, it will be at a dear price and it will take time and will only replace one dependency with another.
It's unfair to put that on Typelevel, but anyone can look up why it exists and judge for themselves.

However, Li Hayoi's libraries aren't a silver bullet. I could also argue something like "if I wanted to write exeception-throwing Java code, I can do it in Java." I use http4s/fs2/CE because of the better ergonomics, and I never needed to learn what a Free monad is.
So, you're secretary of state. You run a "lottery" where you pick people to have power. Shockingly, all-but-one of the ruling council comes from your team. Now, your team runs everything. Even if your team would only win 3% or 5% or 10% of the vote, the rest of the population can do nothing, because the process is entirely non-democratic and citizens have no say. The next "lottery" date comes up and, whaddaya know, the same team wins again, because even if you retire as Secretary of State, who do you think the ruling council picks? Surely not someone from the other team.
People are dying at rates well outside historical norms. Things have causes. What is the cause of people dying more?

One would think after a pandemic with an outsized effect on those already in a moribund state that overall deaths would be down, but they aren’t, they are up. Why is that?

Why are excess deaths higher after rollout of the mRNA injections than before?

Nothing about it adds up, other than one sacred cow elephant in the room.

If people are dying more, there is a cause for that, people have tried everything they can that doesn’t involve going down sacred cow avenue, and they’ve come up empty.
FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts
It could be done but many countries couldn't afford it.
Mysterious diamonds came from outer space, scientists say
Plus the Tegra in the Switch wasn’t even new when the Switch launched.
This is one of my favorite Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...
> If you’re making $25mil in revenue why is it out of the question to pay for licenses?

Turn it around: the kind of company that makes $25mil in revenue does so in part by figuring out what expenses it can negate or avoid. If they don't have to pay for licenses, they won't.

Completely hypothetical anecdote certainly not based on personal experience working in the Bay: an Ops director who saved 50% on MSFT server license costs by only paying for the servers in the DC acting as current primary. "They are not taking production traffic so they are not in use, ergo no need to pay."

As an engineer this logic may disgust you but it's the kind of thing that gets you promoted and 'in good' with "the business."

PS. It's a similar principal to your filthy rich relatives who are surly misers and share nothing with everyone. (And they have no sense of humor, too!)
No lie.
I think The Deer Hunter hits a lot harder for folks that lived through the Vietnam war. My dad (a boomer who was in his 20s during the war) connected deeply with the film because it portrayed what was really happening to people in that time. The movie wouldn't have been nearly as powerful or impacting if it just cut straight to the Vietnam and capture scenes, you need the first act to establish the deep and real friendship of the folks going to war. You see their life before the war and how amazing and perfect it is--how it could be your life. And then you see the horror of the war and how it completely fractures and destroys this group of friends. A lot of people that lived through the war experienced the same kind of shock and the film is quite cathartic for them.

If you just want a Vietnam war movie that cuts right to the gory chase about the horror of conflict, watch Platoon. If you want to experience what life was like for a young adult in their 20s and 30s being drafted or going to fight in the war and its impact on their life, watch The Deer Hunter.
Yes. In the UK it's been delayed as the government announced help for businesses, but with no details other than it would be "equivalent support" than for consumers. Other events in the UK have forced those crucial details to the back seat for now. As soon as details are known the price rises will come.
Yeah makes sense. I'll add your vote to the list :)
Our team was suffering from a somewhat unusual business situation, but that's about it. I don't think any of us could've learned something truly new about Git (well except me, maybe - but I was not writing too much code anyways).

When your business changes wildly every 2-3 months for a year (and sometimes few times a month too), it's hard to not change the code base a lot. Our place was not to change this situation - our place was to learn to deal with it, which we did satisfyingly.
Google Finalizes $5.4B Mandiant Acquisition
Uh,is he white? did he even mention race?

The fact you just immediately went rage mode before asking questions just proves his point.
Why would you threaten us with a good time?
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Programmers have been enriching themselves for years by creating the tools and infrastructure upon which the massive shift from CAPEX to subscription-based economics has been built and now they want to speak up? I don't want to hear it.
I got the same thing with Chrome.
Unenforceable and unenforced are very different things.
I've never used X-Plane or Microsoft Flight Simulator. Can anyone recommend a good $200 (or less) joystick?
Are you planning any posts on comparing your new incident tool to other services? We currently use incident.io and are happy with it but we pay a lot for Grafana Cloud right now so it's worth considering if we can reduce spend elsewhere.

Edit: We're happy with incident.io but free is compelling if the product is good and having a single view for observability is useful