skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
General definition (courtesy of the wiki): A fixed point (sometimes shortened to fixpoint, also known as an invariant point) is a value that does not change under a given transformation.

So x is a fixed point of a function f if f(x) = x. This can be generalized to various kinds of things in mathematics, but as an algebraic example:

f(x) = x^2

1 and 0 are fixed points:

f(1) = 1^2 = 1
f(0) = 0^2 = 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_(mathematics)
Fighting Fantasy books were a much bigger deal the cyoa books for me and my social circle around around that time. cyoa were fun but people I knew were obsessed by FF books. People would lend them to friends, borrow them, trade them, make or print extra sheets for recording stats and rolls. They built an ecosystem around themselves.
There's been some recent ports too: Steve Jackson's Sorcery, Fabled Lands, Deathtrap dungeons and others
And they are probably the same “pro life” “all lives matter” crowd.
Am I the only one who did not find this book that interesting? I studied CS so it just felt like reading my class textbooks again, except with random trippy stories in between that try to shoehorn theory into a poor metaphor.

The fundamentals of CS (strings, automata, graphs) are elementary building blocks. This is by design. You can apply them to almost anything. Almost everything "is a graph", or "recursion" if you formulate them to be so.
The Mac G4 was the first desktop computer with gigabit ethernet as a standard. It was still pretty rare back then, even on servers and workstations.
The best thing about this imo is that it proved to me that these image generation algorithms aren't just regurgitating minor variations on an existing image somewhere in their database of billions of images. Although I understand the general idea of how these work, I still had my doubts. The astronaut one in particular made this stand out; many of these artists definitely did not draw astronauts, yet the resultant images do fairly well at emulating the distinct styles of the artists. Thank you for debunking one of my concerns!
Yeah. I’m hoping GTA 6 has a huge 1 player story
The board's behavior is a really interesting point. On one hand, they are doing the owners (stockholders) a dis-service by first being gullible enough to be successfully kept ignorant about the company's security situation, and then not making rapid management changes upon being alerted to it(by Mudge, it seems). On the other hand, if they can successfully get Musk to pay the offer price, they have then represented the owners interests very effectively.

The fact that the case is coming up soon makes me think that the board thinks they can focus on the case for now, and fix the company's problems later, after the case, if they win it. If the case looses, they'll be out of a job anyway and it will be some other board's problem.
I think California tends to be consciousness of supplying enough electricity to it's population because electrical outages were probably the deciding factor in sending governor Gray Davis home early. This sent a very clear message to the government as to what the population actually wants. Keep the lights on. (as opposed to what they think they want, leading to the buffoonery found in most California bills)

There were news stories a few years ago critical of how California had way too much generating capacity. My thoughts at the time were similar, the people had spoken very emphatically 15 years earlier that they want the power to be kept on, the excessive generating capacity was the government doing that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_Davis
> Loved the books as a kid and one of the first programs I wrote was a straight up port of one of the books into the computer. Lots of print and if then statements.

This was also my first program, except I quickly discovered that I didn't have the patience to type in a whole book. Gave up after a few pages.

My subsequent programs were meandering self-written choose-your-own-adventure stories, though without plot or anything. It was a lot more fun than mindlessly typing in a text, but also not anything of interest to anyone but me.
If you suggest using those tools for most industry semiconductor work you’ll be laughed out of the room. I wish it wasn’t the case, but these tools aren’t good enough for most industry use cases.
"Shortcut" is overstating it. It can steer one's thinking in a direction that makes those topics seem more relevant or interesting. This in itself can be very valuable.

> Getting hit on the head

Well - there are recorded cases of brain damage unlocking abilities and aptitudes (albeit with great rarity). So probably not recommended.

But rest assured, psychedelics are less painful, cause less damage and have a higher probability of beneficial effects.
Intel came out with this ill-fated chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860

but they didn't throw the x86 under the bus for it's name. If they had, Intel would be a has-been chipmaker the same way Motorola is.

In 1964 IBM realized it was a revolutionary idea to keep the same architecture from one generation of computers to the next. Intel was the second company to take this vision seriously and realize it and that's why Intel not only made the first microprocessor but it is still a dominant producer today. (Alternately the Apple II has no heirs because there wasn't a progression to a compatible Apple 3, Apple 4, etc.)
Yeah I've never tried that one, as Samsung never even bothered to sell it in Europe :(
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Seriously, I understand that minimal storyline is cheaper to produce, and online only solves "piracy" and allows monetization of basic gameplay through gambling, etc, but I am so sick of it. D3 was wretched as the drops were always useless, and everything was geared towards online play outside the storyline if you ever wanted to have "good" equipment. This was offset by having an absurdly out of balance normal character, especially by the latter half of the story game.

I hate online play - if I wanted be to treated to a bunch of varyingly spelled curse words I'd just go create a twitter account where I pretended to be a woman in tech. It would be cheaper and just as unpleasant.

[edit: or SC2, which I used to do PVP until the adoption of a free to play PVP model resulting in a dramatic increase in the amount of abuse and shitty behaviour of other people. Presumably because getting your account banned simply means creating another one. Honestly I wish they had a "play vs people who paid only" mode.]
To argue the inverse you'd have to suggest that a substantially large number of people who do not know each other are lying in the exact same way. Such a conspiracy would be highly improbable. These are not partisan hacks or virtue signalers, they are everyday people providing their first hand account in a private manner in the hope that a treatment can be found for their own benefit and that of others.

There is a spectrum of quality to evidence and the quantity of anecdotal evidence is a quality of its own. Especially when steps can be made to distill and enrich the data.
> Loved the books as a kid and one of the first programs I wrote was a straight up port of one of the books into the computer

Same.
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Okay but it doesn't seem like patreon needs to, or is even chasing after enterprise sales? At least in the b2c space it doesn't seem like you need a huge engineering team.
It wouldn't hit the table because foldable Ethernet ports fold up, not down.

https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/8/16750574/p...
I'm not doubting so much as asking curiously: I've participated in what I'd guess are fairly sensitive Pentagon projects (commercially, over about a year and a half†) and I've never been cleared for anything.

† None of it involved vulnerability research; this was back in my anti-DDOS days.
A Japanese Philosophy for the Quiet-Quitting Generation
Good question! In this context, we're relating a system of proofs to the properties of a desired model. If you start from a sufficiently expressive model and try to design a proof system where valid proofs correspond to true properties, then you will either miss some properties (an unproveable truth) or you will have too many proofs (proveable falsehoods).

Without biasing for a particular model, we could simply say that every sufficiently expressive proof system admits either zero models or more than one model.
I hate to be "that guy", but this is why I hate banks and like crypto. Both the fact that crypto is obviously trivial to automate, and that banks can unilaterally ban you and steal your money.
https://archive.ph/0AeGp
But why? You’re proposing something with clear negative consequences. Do you have some reason? Are there some benefits of blocking parenting organisms?
This is far from just a royal thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telling_the_bees
Don't worry... I do...

The guy assigned to my case retired. As did the next guy. And now there is a lady assigned to the case, but she has been out of the office for all of the last 3 years...

Every time I call, I get told they can't discuss cases over the phone, but that they will send me a paper letter as an update... And it isn't a template letter either... But it always just says I need to keep waiting and there is no action I can take to speed the process up...
Maybe it was a party that nobody could leave once they'd gotten fully into the party. Our intrepid reporter is just lucky that they didn't pass the event horizon of and getting into a conversation with a futurist.
It's funny, because after I watched _Breathless_ for the first time I was struck by how modern it seemed - and how little directors like Tarantino have added in the intervening years; normally when going back to the early works of pioneers, one can see why they were important and meaningful, but they age in light of all that's been built on them.
Ha! Which programming language would you say it is comparable to? Asking for a friend...
I forget the name, but as a kid my brother had a choose your own adventure style book where you had to type in a BASIC program listing to get the page number for the next part to read. I was preschool age at the time but was able to get through it.
You can't actually put the Android source in GitHub because of the 4GB per repo size limit. Niche problem, but shows the scale of things.
I don't think that's actually the case. Bazel, AIUI, understands the entire dependency tree and can cache steps effectively, which a Makefile cannot (alone) do. (You could certainly build it into one.)

CI tooling is orthogonal; your CI tooling can invoke Bazel or Makefile+custom caching, it wouldn't really matter. But the problem in CI is that you lack state; whereas a developer's machine might e.g., have a bunch of .o files from a previous build, CI will be starting from a clean slate¹. So builds take longer. My understanding of Bazel is that it has decent support for caching and can thus makes those rebuilds a lot faster, which it has b/c it understands exactly the inputs to the steps at hand. (Which, if you write your own caching layer, you'd have to figure out.)

… but … I've also seen the same thing the top commenter has, with Bazel: endless suggestions to use Bazel … but migrating a large existing codebase is pain, and if you're not willing to put your work where your mouth is … then the status quo prevails.

¹While here CI lacking state is a sort of negative b/c of the time we need to rebuild it, normally, I think this is a good thing: it means you're constantly verifying you can build from scratch. Or, at least, something close to scratch, modulo things like vendoring. (I.e., if you do an "apt-get" from Ubuntu's servers in your CI pipeline … well … your build obviously isn't quite from scratch.)
I watched the committee hearing, and there didn't seem to be much partisan politicking going on. The primary focus was protecting the privacy of users, which impressed me. However, at one point Lindsey Graham mentioned he and Elizabeth Warren were in agreement enough to start fleshing out some kind of social media operator licensing regime, which sounds terrible.
I only get that from D3, which I''ll note wasn't mentioned - D3 to me personally was hugely disappointing as to me it had a marginal storyline and all real character skill progression or good equipment was tied to online BS.
WorkOS provides this via the "Admin Portal." https://workos.com/admin-portal

It's essentially a hosted UI that allows end-customers to fully configure SSO/SCIM/etc.

Demo: https://demo.workos.com/

(I work at WorkOS. :))
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The relevant point is that Godot and Blender are both open source now, and Unity remains closed source.
Without a telescope I can't prove to you that andromeda is a galaxy, but it is.
They aren't making online mode by pleasure: it's much harder to make than offline single player. Piracy (no need to put it in quotes) is 100% to blame.
Most freelancing is perm-a-temp with all the acquired baggage :(
If you take VC money you are on a different track. VC's place thousands of bets with a %99.9 failure rate. But the hits, are so huge, they cover all their bad bets. So they want you to take the money and swing for fences.
Tangentially... Most California solar farms under construction today are sited, rather stupidly, in deserts. Why stupidly? Because deserts are hot and dusty, conditions that curtail output and shorten panel life. Why build there anyway? Ignorant investors still think it's a great idea.

Siting over water, though, really is a great idea. Healdsburg, near Santa Rosa, floated a big array very successfully. Construction on a canal near Modesto has begun; official estimate is that solar built out on California canals would yield 12 GW, save millions of gallons lost to evaporation, cut biofouling, and provide protected habitat for wildlife underneath.

Singapore is well ahead on this.

Sacramento delta "islands" could be easily converted to floating solar farms, eliminating the major ecological threat of failing dikes, and resuming sequestration of carbon in peat bogs underneath.

Storage, the actual topic, seems to generate confusion on the level of the investors favoring desert solar farms. Most of California's "batteries" are not batteries, but reservoirs high up in the Sierra Nevada mountains, built starting in the 1920s, connected to water wheels at the bottom of penstocks thousands of feet below. They are turned into storage simply by attaching an electric pump to the penstock. Of course you can float solar on those reservoirs, too.

Chemical batteries are the expensive storage alternative. There won't be very much of that, except in cars, because they are expensive; or anyway will be until new and much cheaper chemistry matures. Promising chemistries include zinc/bromine, antimony/calcium, and iron/air, all of which are at the stage where manufacturing capacity is being built out.

There are plenty of other storage alternatives, of varying maturity. Compressed air storage is deployed at industrial scale successfully, and is extremely mature technology. Liquified air is similar; efficient air liquidation had a long industrial pedigree before its adoption for storage. Synthesizing hydrogen to keep underground is somewhat less mature, but that mainly means conversion efficiency (E => H2) is soaring, and lately exceeded 90%. Ammonia synthesis is attractive because tankage is cheap and very transportable, and it may be burned in already paid-for combined-cycle turbines. Expect solar and wind farms in favorable spots to produce industrially huge stocks of ammonia for export, eliminating need for any seasonal storage.

Underground and underwater gravitic storage is still in prototyping phase, but the tech involved is centuries old, involving winches and water pumps. One especially promising relies on buoyancy, winching floats down to seabed-mounted pulleys.
If you think TrackIR increases immersion that much you really need to try a VR headset and get your mind blown :)

The 3D vision (a horizon never looks the same on a screen), full 6DOF tracking (you can look over your shoulder, bend down etc), motion controllers with which you can turn buttons.. It feels so real.

Even the way you look out the window to see if it's time for the turn to base, it just looks like how it looks when you do it in a real airplane. Seeing it on a flat screen is really not the same.
I don't recall anyone who actually put it into a system regretting the choice. Unlike the 6502, the 68k also had a viable path forward, which only really ended when all the workstation vendors + Apple decided to jump to RISC.
In his most recent testimony, Mudge mentioned that he was in the leaked OPM database with his details and clearance level leaked which implies he had clearance.
Bear in mind that almost nobody has really started porting anything to Godot 4, because it's still in alpha and stuff isn't quite nailed down yet. It makes sense to wait until the first beta, which is probably a few weeks off.
> Conceptually it's "just" the ability to take one existing concept, X, and apply it to another existing concept, Y.

Yes, precisely. This is the literally what parent was talking about, "programming language abstractions [...] stacking on top of each other"
Yeah, filtering is one possibility.

They could also be switching the transponder to Mode 3 (equivalent to civilian Mode C) which is not ADS-B compatible but would still show up on normal normal civil radar scopes.

Or they can use some military only modes. Some of those could in theory be shown on civil scopes, but I'm not sure they actually are, while others like mode 4 or 5 cannot. But they could show up on the UK's military scopes, given nato intercompatibility.

Another theoretical option would be for the air force planes to be using mode-S, but having disabled mode-S extended squitter (which means the planes don't periodically broadcast their location, but simply only reply when interrogated by radar). I would expect ADS-B receiver to pick up on these periodic interrogations though. I'm not sure if interrogation responses are directional, but even if so, some receivers would probably be in the general direction of the radar site.

Its not really clear which. Outside of wartime, normal US Air Force policy is to fully integrate into the civil ATC system, except in special military use/training areas or certain special missions. This integration just makes things safer for everybody.
An immediate issue which could be addressed with further complexity is that for loop desugaring is done very early in Rust's compilation pipeline, way before typing is actually performed. This would also be weird in the case that you have a for loop over some generic iterator, the monomorphized code could vary quite a bit based on what trait your type implements.
It may also be that many players mostly play "single player" but on the multiplayer closed servers. That is how I played back in the day. Occasionally with friends or randoms but also quite a bit alone. After the hack fest that Diablo 1 became, closed servers seemed like a good idea...
Yeah, "online only" equals "hard no" for me for that and "can I play this in 3 years" reasons. Online-only is just a shorter way to say "unavailable soon".
I'm surprised and somewhat doubtful the process for online vs offline is materially different. I wonder if some of the reluctance/delay on single player is to keep the data miners at bay. The moment loot and drop rates go into a local data pack, that information will go out to all the min-maxers who will bring that info back into ladder play.

While single player is a big part of Diablo, the difference between Diablo and the RPGs the author compares it to is that those other RPGs don't have a thriving multiplayer scene (From games being the exception, but doesn't materially change the point). You can't treat them the same.
This is bullshit. I don't want dopamine hits. I want money for my code. And guess what increases the money I get from my code? Naming stuff consistently with their meaning.
Instead of using a "free of spyware/crapware operating system" you use a crap laptop with low specs. But wait, its so useless that it has to emulate a real linux to do something usefull... and as nobody is developing "apps/webs" for "native" cromiumOS you also need another layer of emulation for android. Hummm, no thank you I will keep with my debian runing...
The point isn't that everything is recursive - the point is that systems that are recursive / self-referential cause breakdowns in logic (they are incomplete).

This is a deep philosophical insight - it rhymes with the Buddhist idea of no-self - the problems that arise because we hold onto a false sense of self.
I don't think people are out there teaching kids to live their lives by this mantra. It's not intended to be a life philosophy, more of a bleak and darkly humorous observation. Sure, it's not always true, but it sure does feel like it sometimes.

Kind of like "life's a bitch, and then you die", it's not meant to be taken too seriously.
Always have to appreciate Dan's trick of literally just measuring anything about a topic to cut through some of the bullshit surrounding it. Certainly this isn't a perfect measurement but it is at least something.
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Moon landers all get names. Even moon landers that never made it past the design phase probably had codenames.

You've stumbled on yet another situation where you should give something a cute name instead of a descriptive name: If there will be many implementations of the same thing over time. Each generation of Intel processor, each sort algorithm (TimSort, thanks Tim), each rocket, each mid-sized sedan.

Now, do the individual software components within a moon lander get names? That depends! Are they re-used between landers? Are there many different implementations of the same component to choose from for each mission? The more affirmative the answers to these questions, the more likely it is the component will have/should have an actual name, instead of just being, say, "allocator.c".

There are just so many reasons you might want something to have an actual name. Competing implementations or historical implementations, userbase size, project longevity, researchability. And they're all subject to change in the future (and renaming sucks). I have a hard time faulting anybody for giving their little binary data format a name like "parquet", even if it's tiny and only used in one place by one other thing and might never have any users. Because it might end up used for a long time, or by many people, or in a period of competition with another implementation of the same thing. If any of those things comes true, you're going to be glad you didn't name it "Hierarchical Data Format".
They do face liability for their own misdeeds. The problem is that “their own” is very hard to isolate.
The errors are created by failures on finding dependencies.
Can confirm, have been bitten in production. Therefore we have a lint rule that disallows `console.log` for production builds.
And you haven't lived until you've built a turning machine in Factorio!