skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has somehow internalised the "fact" that all performance optimisation is a black art that only "hugely experienced" devs can possibly know.

I'll give you an example.

I've seen developers and DBAs working on databases simply create new indexes on the fly to fix some performance issue. It takes ten seconds, it's fairly safe, and it is relatively easy to gauge the effect. "Before minutes, after milliseconds". Done.

I've seen other places where merely suggesting the use of an index -- no matter how beneficial, trivial, or safe -- resulted in everyone foaming at the mouth in abject terror. Wailing and gnashing of teeth. "How dare you suggest that we touch the mystical black box!? Begone with you, foul wizard!"

This is what I saw with the Casey Muratori vs Windows Terminal team arguments.

Everyone acts like Casey pulled out some dark tome only the most grey haired wizards are allowed to see and spoke secrets that Microsoft isn't even allowed to legally hear.

Do you actually know what he suggested?

Make a grid, just a 2D array. Put the characters in them.

Use the characters to look up small images of individual characters in another grid.

If the other grid is missing a characters, find an empty spot an replace it with the missing character image. (If the second grid is bigger than the first one, this is always possible.)

That's... it. Just array lookups, 2D images, and a hashtable.

This is child's play not wizardry.
I imagine everyone here has had at least one beloved service end up on this list - https://killedbygoogle.com
Yeah I agree, haha. I just ended the conversation there because it felt like a punchline had just happened.
Just as all guns are loaded, all blanks are real bullets. (Metaphorical truths, you live longer if you act like they are true)

Blanks can kill too, by the way.

Why not just use fire crackers?
> To me and probably millions or billions of other people, you might as well have told us it’s as long as an Atlantic right whale or something.

I'm pretty sure it's the blue whale that comes closest to 100 yards

Looked it up (Wikipedia) :

"Adult North Atlantic right whales average 13–16 m (43–52 ft) in length"

"the longest scientifically measured individual blue whale was 30 meters (98 ft) from rostrum tip to tail notch."

You're going to need at least three blue whales to get close, I'd throw in a north atlantic right just to be safe.
How is that a disadvantage relative to Stadia? If they don't want to stream a game at all, why would they bother with either service?

And if they did want to stream a game from time to time (for me it was being able to play on a laptop anywhere, not just on my own LAN), Steam games were usually cheaper from sales and resellers, there was actual multiplayer, and the Steam ecosystem has a bunch of other advantages. It was just a better service.

And GeForce Now had better hardware, ray tracing, customizable graphics settings, vsync, etc.

If you don't need to stream a game, well, you don't need any of these services. But if you did, GeForce Now and Steam were just plain better than Stadia.
It is nice to be a dominant position like Microsoft because if they weren't they would have put aside their "feelings" and hired Casey to help them out. But they don't need to. Feelings of Microsoft seem more important than feelings of all their users who will just have to bear with it.
I'm not making a personal judgement. PoW is wasteful relative to PoS just like incandescent light bulbs are wasteful compared to LEDs.
The Advent of the Microcomputer Era [pdf]
Completely agree. Science has to save us here, as it will govern enough time and stability. We need an age of sustainable abundance, not sustainability through frugality.
How does pumped hydro technology work?
No, Plato wasn't right that you should make people take 2 minutes to listen to your point when you could have made it in ten seconds.

And not that the personal attack was warranted, but: I'm happy to read dense material; I'd just like to know if it is worth my time first. By making me read all of the material first before I know what point it's building to, and not knowing the relevant to the article, you've made me take a lot of time just to learn that you were making a point I already agreed with.

Is wasting others' time a virtue, in your mind?
not when it adds tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of code to a project, and makes understanding everything more difficult, because every single action the code takes is indirect and abstracted thrice.

it's stupid.
> The Roman empire lasted over 1000 years.

Treating all the things that were called "The Roman Empire" as one thing is a pretty big stretch. Modern nations have much more rigid and well-defined natures.
For anyone reading this deep in the thread: read Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, The Dictator's Handbook. A variations of a few simple rules result in virtually all models of government. And none of them involve technical competence.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...
I'm relatively deep in this stuff. If you asked my how to use the openssl CLI for anything other than X.509 and s_client I would fail your interview.
I’ve found Aliexpress narrative reviews to be pretty good. The (often) russian buyers don’t like to get scammed!
It's going to be worse then that. I'll just write a summary and an AI will generate the full script. Then the movie will be generated from the script. The full source code and assets for a video game too.

All the primitive components for this future seem to be at an early stage of inception. We can't say for sure whether they will mature to the point where they can replace us, but the trajectory is certainly pointing in that direction.
Thanks, I will read it. (This question seems addressed starting with phrase: "Information shared on pro-Russian Telegram channels, meanwhile, compared the area where the missile’s missile body landed with the general impact zone of the cluster munitions.")
I don't believe you.

First, because the supply of civilian-owned machine guns was frozen in 1986[1], a mediocre full-auto gun starts at $10,000.

Second, blanks won't cycle a gun designed to fire actual cartridges. You need a blank firing adapter or a gun made to fire only blanks.

Third, because of economies of scale, blanks are significantly more expensive than real ammo. A few mag dumps would exceed $100.

I have a hard time believing that you and your buddies would get blank firing adapters for your ridiculously expensive machine guns so you could burn money even faster than if you were at the range. If everyone handling the guns is sober and you're in a place where the sound of gunfire is acceptable, why not just... set up some targets? It'd be cheaper, more fun, and more believable.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...
Perhaps you could choose this license? https://www.qt.io/pricing/qt-for-small-business
> So first thing is, yes, Russia has reason to fear USA.

> The other problem here is strategic and geographic: Russia border is enormous and in the middle of plains, driving across the border with tanks and reaching Moscow and other major population centers right now is something trivial to do, Russia still didn't recovered properly from WW2 and don't have the manpower to defend such huge border from a land invasion.

If every country in the world besides Russia joined NATO surrounding it completely, we would still never invade Russia because they have 1500 thermonuclear warheads! We are literally too afraid to even put our troops in Ukraine because of the threat that we all end up dead in nuclear war. Please give me 1 good reason for invading Russia that is worth the risk of all of us dying in the nuclear relation.
Well, yes. but in the game the US calls football, (hand egg?) the field is fixed size. What, pretty much, everybody else calls football the field is not fixed size.
You mean Ashish Vaswani et al.?
when used in that kind of context, it's not unreasonable for 'people' to mean 'civilization', and the arrival of western civilization seems like a more relevant event than the incas 'coming to america' if you can even say they did that
I'm still not really sure what the moral of this parable is, but thanks for the most enjoyable read I've seen here all week, lol.
What is that responding to? I wasn't opposed to reading or referencing the full text. My criticism was that it should have led with the core point, so people know what point you're making before they dive into the long exposition of it.

What you're advocating here is basically saying that people should never read the description of a movie, or know anything about it, before starting on it, because that's mainly what my edit change. Do you really believe that?

Furthermore, HN isn't a movie. If you're going to take two and half hours to make a point, just don't bother with posting.
I think 228 GWp of solar power generation capacity is being installed in 02022, which is about US$50 billion for the solar modules and another US$50 billion for balance of plant, not counting things like battery storage, pumped storage, transmission, and Fischer-Tropsch. Wind energy generation capacity is getting installed at a similar pace, in terms of peak gigawatts per year, but I have the impression that it is significantly cheaper. Tesla's revenues are US$53.8 billion per year, of which about US$0.07 billion is solar panels and therefore getting double counted. I don't know how to measure other automakers' EV production, housing switching to heat pumps, housing adding insulation, and R&D, so I'm just not counting them.

Alphabet's yearly revenue is US$258 billion, some of which is earned from things like Google Play, Google Cloud, and Google Workspace, and some of which has been spent on things like Makani, Verily Life Sciences, DeepMind, and Google Fiber. Meta's revenue is US$118 billion.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/internet-services-t... says, "Google earned nearly 81% of its total revenues in 2021 from advertisements," and it's talking about that US$258B number, not some smaller number that excludes other Alphabet companies.

We can maybe estimate the whole adtech spend, generously, at US$400 billion per year [edited: was US$300 billion]: most of Alphabet, all of Meta, plus a handful of smaller fish. (I say this is "generous" because it's counting all the effort that goes into running Google Search, YouTube, Instagram, and Android development as "adtech", because it's monetized through ads, even though most of the people working on those projects are not directly concerned with ads; if you omit that, you might size adtech at only US$50 billion.) And maybe US$200 billion per year goes into the renewables transition. I'm not convinced that doubling that to US$400 billion per year would guarantee a win, particularly when the humans are going around bombing each other's power plants, snarling up power plant construction and energy-efficient housing in red tape, and publishing disinformation that "debunks" global warming.

These are of course very rough estimates, but how would you estimate these numbers?

As far as I know, there aren't any invaders the humans are fighting; they're only fighting other humans, plus the occasional rogue elephant.
I believe there is no gateway (ground station) problem. It only needs to be in view of the satellite, not in the same cell, and even if there is no gateway in sight, laser backhaul is now operational (see starlink providing service in Antarctica now, https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/spacex-satellite-internet-...)

You do need to get the user terminals into the country, though. But once you do, they're easier to hide than a geostationary satellite dish.
In many cases this is the opposite of true. GTA online had a bug in their home-rolled json parser that caused it to read files in O(n*2), which went unfixed for years and added minutes to the loading time. That bug is much less likely to exist in a popular open-source package, because there are more eyes to catch it and fix it.
> Googling the name of the process, it belonged to a program I'd bought that served media files to my Roku box. But I wasn't asking it to stream anything at the time.

Maybe it was indexing.
I saw "translation project", their sample documents, power plants chart, are written as confidentials internal use only. client location is palesthine territories. (There are no branch on this power plant company. )

I am not sure palesthine has internet enviroment and they can use upwork.

And on odesk, former upwork, a client ask me to work "online store management", actually they are fake identification goods seller, their server is also in panama. (banned but their sites can see on archive)

There are few credit check on these cool tech industries.

For AI tuning, margin revenue is the 1st priority.
Credit check maybe difficult, AI can't dispute for their instructions.
None of what you said inherently prevents GPL licensing. I'm not sure you understand the implications of GPL license at all.

Also, it's not just WSL people who work on GPL software inside Microsoft. I guess they are magically expected not to subconsciously reproduce any GPL code in their work ever ;)
I've been there!

There's also one in Rapid City, South Dakota

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_in_the_Hills
It still won't help with setting up the development environment to be able to compile rust of the week or c++??. Both of which have dev communities which adopt forwards incompatible features fairly rapidly so the environment in your distro probably won't work as is. But eventually, maybe they AI will set that up too, https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/03/15/css-css-everywhere...
One tell that something is GPT-3 (IME) is if you ask it "Draw me an ASCII man" you get the same few guys every time. I couldn't get this service to generate them.
This 'modern' Notepad is actually not 'a wrapper around a Win32 edit box', it's (likely to support additional use cases like macOS TextEdit in the future - most the modernization seems to be to haphazardly 'compete' with arbitrary features from macOS) actually a variant of the Office rich text control, which in some cases actually is more performant.

The WinUI parts and initial launch cost, however, are somewhat hard to forgive.
I don't work at MS, but there's a few potential things going on:

Voice Recorder is pretty old, it got a big revamp/renaming ("Sound Recorder") in Windows 11. Problems might be fixed now?

The native development story on Windows is in shambles. UWP and WinRT have a ton of baggage but there isn't a great replacement for them yet. Many bundled apps were written in UWP when it seemed like it was the future, and now they're in an awkward not-quite-unmaintained place.

I see the trace is spending a lot of time in the Windows.Storage.* namespace and... there be dragons. Filesystem access from UWP apps is awful, it has several usability and performance shortcomings. Would not surprise me if that's a platform issue and not a Voice Recorder issue.
> It will be the same as ever, a sea of absolute shit surrounding some true gems

Ah, I can see what's wrong there, just turn down shit randomness and increase the true gem sampling steps to proportionally increase the input weight of true gems and fix your output quality.

Basically - if it empowers creative people, their output will be fed back in and parameterised.
What's "meaningless stuff" to you in this context?
In the strictest sense, yes. But here clearly rendering is taking longer than 1/60s so it wouldn’t matter.

The compromise would be to always start rendering immediately rather than wait x ms, but if you detect that the previous rendering hasn’t completed when the next input has arrived then you can start debouncing before rendering until you catch up.
Widespread practices infect norms.

For example, thanks to the norms fostered on GitHub, you can no longer expect the average programmer to file good bug reports or to just interact in an appropriate way with the bugtracker.

We can't really talk about "wikis", either, without confusion about what a wiki even is—again, thanks to GitHub.
Google Analytics was also an acquisition. Look up Urchin Software.
And yet I'm having emails from their recruiters to join them.

This company is so pure bullshit an hypocrisy at all levels
I agree with this article but I think it's actually a lot simpler than that.

Our attention belongs to us. Our minds are sacred. Not a single corporation on this earth should have an assumed right to "compete" for our attention or otherwise exploit it for personal gain. Our attention is not theirs. They have no right to sell it off to the highest bidder. There really does not need to be any justification beyond this.

Economic harm? It doesn't matter how much money they lose. When some advertising corporation calls ad blockers "robbery" I can only laugh. I call their advertising robbery. They rob us of our attention. They mind rape us, inserting their little brands into our awareness without our consent. I think they belong in jail for this stuff. Blockers are just legitimate self defense, we're just protecting ourselves against these malicious corporations trying to manipulate us with their advertising for profit.
>Gravity isn’t a speed, it’s a force.

Actually, it's not a force either[0].

It feels like a force, but it's just mass acting in warped space-time.

[0] http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/140-physics/the-th...
Has any of the cloud gaming services been a success? To me the idea is rife with issues. You need a super reliable and a fast internet connection. Games are something where ms count. Any latency can destroy the experience. Here you're talking about streaming 60 frames per second with no lag. It might work, but I would be pretty annoyed if I can't play games because my internet is broken or laggy. Also, data caps.

I think MightyApp[1] is destined to the same fate. You'll end up spending far more over the long run for arguably a much shitty experience. Buying Hardware is an easy bargain, especially as it gets faster and cheaper.

[1]: https://www.mightyapp.com/
Listen to the anarcho-syndacalists like Chomsky, which demand that companies be owned by workers in that company. There are many proposals for this, but here is an off the cuff one I just came up with:

Every company with more than 100 workers, must have 80% of its ownership by those same workers. The difference between the ownership stake of the top worker and the bottom worker must be no more than a 5x.
Same. I think there’s something wrong with our industry in the USA when so many of us have the same story.
> They can totally look at it, but if they copy it into Windows Terminal, they need to relicense Windows Terminal under the GPL. That would be a great outcome for everyone.

no! it would not! the GPL is a truly awful license. "freedom" my white butt. it's a list of requirements, all of which restrict the freedoms and abilities of those who utilize it.

about rendering:

I'm not trying to say that it's hard. I'm trying to say that they believed they knew how to do it, when in reality they did not.

THAT'S ALL.

Everyone is laser focused on the details of what I am saying and completely missing the point of what I am saying, or trying to say. I am apparently speaking a language that is close to English but not actually English.
Blanks are complicated. Many types of weapons rely on pressure in barrel to cycle the action, without a bullet this pressure doesn't go high enough. So blank firing guns are likely modified in one way or an other.
the article says this anime is a surprise hit this year. says who? by what measure? i read the article and a little about the anime itself and i am not going to waste my time on it.

it reeks an over-the-top big guns to little girls trope. an incoherent and disconnected story, which the article admits. and a lot of fan service. because that's what they do to keep young viewers when the story sucks and nothing else matters. and reviews are saying it's good even though the story sucks! what else can be good when there is no story?

so not for everyone. but if that's your thing, suit yourself.
Table 7 also lists 2020, which is the first pandemic year.

Violent crime rate dropped in urban, suburban, and rural areas.

2021 numbers should be out within a month.
Its performance is very gamelike, I think, and your point seemed to be that design/creation tools like DAWs can't get gamelike performance, so I was offering it as a counterexample. I agree that the fact that you can use it to create games is irrelevant, and that wasn't a fact I was attempting to focus on.
I imagine the OP means the dos interface.
Yes, I should have been clearer. I meant that their Linux investment started out as a hedge, but over time they were able to pivot it to something else.

I'm not sure what the impetus was for the Steam Deck. I could see it as a hedge against anticipated future, dwindling laptop sales. I could also see it as an attempt to expand into the same space that the Switch occupies. After all, with the exodus of Sony from portable gaming, Nintendo's only competition is cell phones.
Yeah, and fb is bigger than them. The question is more about what it takes to be a trillion dollar co.
React App: English Type Learning (created for learning purposes)
Ban people.
Debouncing only has to carry a latency penalty for certain kinds of responses. A good UI should be able to start processing an action as soon as the button goes down, and add/amend the actions later once it's clear whether it was a press and hold, press and release, or double-click. If the appropriate responses to those three options are mutually exclusive to the point that the UI can't respond at all until the user input is fully disambiguated, then the keybindings are probably ill-considered and those unrelated or conflicting functions should not be sharing a button.
You could still then have other famous people join you on your flights until they're packed like economy flights.
Pretty sure just about every highschool in the developed world has a "football" field
The same time a 9.0 is due in the Midwest... any day now.
I was going to say, where do you even find blanks and I bet they're more expensive than normal ammo but no, you can easily order them online like this random example: https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-ro... and they're only 2/3rds the cost of target ammunition.
I see many comments here, in various media, and hear in real world conversations blaming corporations and billionaires. They're not faultless but we should be way more critical of ourselves as average citizens.

Every year we want bigger and bigger cars, particularly in the West, but it's a global long term trend. If you compare pretty much any 2022 vs 2002 model vehicle, say the Honda Accord, you're going to be shocked by the increase in physical dimensions.

How is that not incredibly hypocritical to want ever larger cars (mostly SUVs and trucks now) and yet point fingers at the companies we work for for their poor ESG funding and goals? We aren't even willing to accept cars that remain the same dimensions. They literally have to be bigger. That's despite average family sizes gradually declining for many decades. Climate change matters.. but not enough to give up the chance for a larger car next time.

Bigger vehicles means more materials (plastics, metals, etc), weight that could have been shaved, worse fuel/battery efficiency, and it wouldn't surprise me if it requires signifantly more asphalt and road repairs over time to accommodate the vehicles.

I could keep going about how obsessed we are with more and more horsepower and with lower 0-60 mph times, all of which are extremely excessive wants in the face of climate change.