skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just at runtime -- again, a common case for me (I maintain Ruby, Java, and C++ codebases that are 15 years old) are in major framework upgrades.

I've got Rails apps that were written for Rails 2 that are now on Rails 6. A Rails upgrade is a multi-day, multi-person effort. A Qt upgrade is usually about an hour for one person.

My argument isn't that C++ on the whole is saner than Ruby. There are advantages to both. (Though, to be honest, refactoring Java, which I otherwise dislike, is positively sublime.) My argument is that with something like Crystal where you basically write Ruby and get the advantages of C++ and Java, that that's a net win.

The other part of my argument is that the sum total of tests + code for Ruby isn't significantly more concise than just using a statically typed language with more minimal tests. They're really pretty close. And I personally find the roteness of static typing less mentally taxing than having to imagine all code paths in a duck-typed function.

I genuinely believe that the success of duck typed languages is their support of fast iteration for cowboy coding. I'm wholly convinced that for long lived code bases, static typing makes far more sense. But that's why I'm happy to see languages that support it with minimal to trivial cognitive overhead.

That said: almost always the right reason to pick a particular language is the frameworks. I'm doing some ML stuff in Python right now, even though I hate Python, because Python has the best libs for it. At the end of the day, purity is rarely a strong argument, particularly when it means reinventing the wheel in the language du jour.
I'm excited to see this get implementations for mobile platforms. a 30MiB model sounds like a good tradeoff to stream audio over low bandwidth, or even less reliable mobile connections.
Species of bacteria in microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis
It ought to be possible to do a search/replace operation on dracula themes to get e.g. solarized everywhere.

It would be useful with a public repository with [e.g.] solarized theme for “all” applications, the same way Dracula Theme has.
I think the key here is to look for long term patterns and address them. Once in a while snaking is even healthy.
I also prefer light colour schemes. Didn't use to, I used dark themes (like gruvbox) for a while, until I learned the value of not having my monitors blast my eyes with 100% brightness. Solarised actually helped me go from dark to light themes as the yellowish background and lower contrast were easier on my eyes than white and high contrast.

Even since I learned to turn down my monitor brightness so that white on my monitor is about the same brightness as a white piece of paper in the room, I have been very fond of Prot's Modus Operandi (https://protesilaos.com/emacs/modus-themes).
Actually, no. I started some projects in meat space in 2020 and did not yet find time to check in on this (or to add newer photographs, fwiw). I’ll have another look at the current support. Thank you for reminding me.
I had all of this 11 years ago and it was BLISS. Oh MS source safe and it's locked files! No merge conflicts or rebasing clownery, ever! It forced two people working on the same code to sync and this avoided so many conflicts. Customers called with small bug reports, I could fix them in 5 minutes and deploy to production right from eclipse.

Modern agile development is hell.
O nice, I wonder how 3 kbps speech compares to Google's Lyra.
https://github.com/google/lyra/releases
1.5 kbps speech is impressive, I wonder how it compares with Codec2 https://github.com/drowe67/codec2
or how all three compare to each other, useful for speech recordings, the only problem is that there is no widespread support yet.
This is almost certainly custom stationary; we called it Letterhead. Even before computers. You get it from a print shop, you roll it into your typewriter, and start typing. And try not to waste it, it's expensive!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letterhead
Switch is not competing with PS/Xbox, but with mobile phones, tablets and portable consoles (including Nintendo's DS line). It's not underpowered for a battery powered game machine and has a standardised controller setup and easy docking as differentiators to other mobile devices.
It's not obvious to me that replacing TCP really is harder than designing your "own" chip. Scarequotes here because those graviton chips (that's what you're referring to, I think?) are of course ARM chips, so they're not designing something fresh; they're adapting a very mature design to their own needs. In terms of interoperability, a custom chip based on a standard design is probably a simpler, more locally addressable problem than new network protocols.

Isn't it plausible that graviton was designed yet TCP retained simply because graviton as a project is easier to complete successfully?
Would be easier to host them as a torrent.
I always gave this vision of 20 years after sending a probe the moon turns green. Liquid sub surface ocean being an excellent breeding ground.
I've always been curious about that. Does Twitter forbid discussing lowering taxes? Maybe demanding harsher immigration policies? Higher prison sentences? Bans on abortion? Shutting down the department of education? Reinstating a monarchy? Who is more conservative than The Federalist? Quillette posts "race science" articles, and even the Claremont Institute, which is so reactionary that it balks at the term "conservative," posts articles on Twitter calling for ending democracy. Margarita Simonyan, a chief spokesperson for an ultraconservative authoritarian regime that is currently engaged in one of the deadliest wars in modern history against a budding democracy, has an account with over half a million followers. You want pre-Hellenic conceptions of the world? You got it! So seriously, what specific conservative content does Twitter disallow?
That's one way to consider it.

The truth is there are many ways to skin a cat and we've found quite effective ways to do it.

The real cause of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics is humans ability to constantly rephrase tasks within the wheelhouse of our mathematical tools.

Eventually... There's long periods of humans being stuck and then getting unstuck and history compresses that to appear like constant smooth progression.

But you're right, many people have a bizarre view of the world painted by the Schrödinger equation. That the world is made up for snap shots of fixed particle number defined energy states. Really peculiar if you think about it and quite clearly incorrect (we know it doesn't apply to 'collpase' which is really the way the world is experienced by us). And compared to QFT.
normal conservatives? yes please. weirdo fruit-loop frothing conservatives? no thanks.
I was called inexperienced because I was saying pointers are not 100% necessary in C++ anymore.

I'm not even certain if using stl containers always use the heap.

I'm a bit confused at times, since I avoid using oop and inheritance, I prefer data oriented, I just write functions and avoid side effects as often as possible.
> Nintendo even achieved to keep this mindset with the Switch: It will update in the background so usually you just turn it on and play.

I don't agree. I play my switch maybe once every couple of weeks, and almost without fail there's a system or game update that it asks me to install.

Granted, _most_ updates can be put off for a while by hitting "update later", but I see very little difference between the consoles (and PCs) in terms of update behaviour these days, for better or worse.
If you send to multiple receivers, some of the messages may not make it through. Then you're in the position of deciding whether 'the message was sent' or not.
It is pretty surprising that RIPEs solution to sanctions is to just offer their services for free to those who can’t pay due to sanctions.
Spellular Automata [video]
I was working in Pascal, C and assembly about 30 years ago, mostly in DOS and Windows 3.

By 1995 I started dabbling with websites, and within a couple of years was working mostly with Perl CGI and some Java, on Windows and Linux/NetBSD.

Most of my work was on Windows, so that limited the available Perl libraries to what would run on ActiveState's Perl.

I gave up trying to do freelance because too many people didn't seem to understand the cost and work involved in writing software:

- One business owner wanted to pay be US $300 to fix some warehouse management software, but he'd up it to $500 if I finished it in one month.

- A guy wanted to turn his sports equipment shop into an e-commerce website, and was forward thinking... except that none of his stock of about 20,000 items was in a database and that he could "only afford to pay minimum wage".

I interviewed with some companies, but these people were clueless. It seems like a lot of people read "Teach yourself Perl in 7 days and make millions" books. The interview questions were basically "Can you program in OOP with Perl?".

I got a proper developer job on a team, eventually. They were basically happy that I could write a simple form that queried stuff from a database.

Some other people on my team used Visual Basic and VBScript but I avoided that like the plague. I recall we had some specialized devices that had their own embedded versions of BASIC that we had to use.

When Internet Explorer 4 came out that we started having problems making web sites that worked well on both.

Web frameworks didn't exist yet, JavaScript was primitive and not very useful.
Python didn't seem to be a practical option at the time.
What came out after the BSG reboot? I've known there was at least some influence from mormon culture since the 80s when the original had several references, the biggest being, IIRC, Athena and Apollo's wedding where they used the Mormon words (for time and all eternity) vs the more common (until death do us part).
I wonder how Jose Ortega(s) becomes Hikaru Sulu or Pavel Chekov.
> The adoption of a new policy would take at least months

Of course. One must form a committee to thoroughly research the matter and collect feedback from all involved parties. /s
This is a video demonstrating a visual/spatial programming tool
look up “sentiment analysis NLP”. That is what you want, except instead of detecting whether text has a positive or negative opinion, you detect whether it’s “cringe” / “not cringe”.

I would start by building a sentiment-analysis model by following a tutorial like [1]. Except instead of a dataset with data labeled “positive opinion” and “negative opinion”, you need data labeled “cringe” and “not cringe”. The hard part is finding and classifying that data: remember that if you just take a bunch of “cringe” and ordinary tweets, you may be training for spurious correlations like “hot take” which your model will misinterpret as being “cringe”

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/sentiment-analysis-python#3-buil...
While I agree that it is too early to turn to a conspiracy theory, the supposed rationale against JPEG XL is also pretty unsubstantiated and it does feel that the Chrome team doesn't want to share the actual rationale for whatever reason.
A lot of indigenous people well outside the primary secondary and tertiary target areas will be survivors, many are getting by without the internet to this day and won't require access to rebuild.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30500591

It'll likely be the end of civilisation as you know it though.
I hope this becomes true and sets a trend. This is not just an economic advantage but also an environmental advantage as well too as we have too many devices being thrown away into landfills.

I hope this trend continues with software, if a manufacturer decides to no longer support a version of software that was released, the consumers have the right to repair it as well. I know some believe Software Freedom and Open Source are supposed to solve this but that's not always a viable option.
Well, the car has 360 degree camera view, with far wider coverage than a turning head in a driver seat.

And more importantly, it sees in all directions at all times.
I guess you were thinking about another clever name protocol, SPDY :-)

SPDY → HTTP/2

QUIC → HTTP/3
Who would want to donate to wikipedia when they know that a lot, probably most, goes to pushing woke politics?

2021 the hosting costs were $2.4 million and they spend well over $100 million each year.

If they were to use their funds to actually drive the site they have enough to fund it for years to come. Most of their funding goes to stuff that has nothing to do with Wikipedia. This is yet another example of an org that has been taken over by political extremists that don't care about the core product and ruins everything.

I am a bit upset about it because I used to donate monthly until I learned about how they actually used the donations. I think this is a very important topic and urge that everyone that donates to Wikimedia stop immedietly.
For anyone unfamiliar with DOS programming who might be trying to understand the code, you will find it helpful to know that INT 21h makes a call to the DOS API, and the value in AH indicates which API function to call, in this case the "display string" function. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_API
I was playing EA NHL a lot when I was younger. What I noticed was that there were more than average goals in the last minutes of the game than in the earlier minutes of the same game.

I always wondered if this was due to a badly implemented stochastic model. Since if the average goals per game was lets 5 and the score was 2:2 the likelihood of another goal would increase in the last minutes.

This is how this argument feels as well.

So first they say we are unlikely early. But if you consider that we are special (“grabby”) then that’s ok. Somehow like saying there would be another US like country in Europe if the Mayans were developing faster.
Chatting with Sebastian Witowski: Code Standards, Tooling, and Working in Teams
I'm pretty sure one major reason Martin hasn't finished WINDS OF WINTER after over 10 years (never mind A DREAM OF SPRING) is that he he finds it easier to spawn new characters and subplots than to wrap them up.

I.e. the TV series looks bad compared to the books because they had to tackle the hard part and Martin hasn't yet shown he'll do better.
I agree file upload would be great. I almost added before launch, but figured it would take a while to do properly. I'll try and monetize it a bit this week as the bills are getting high quickly, this can probably be a paid feature.
It's interesting to see how the show ended up being both similar and completely different from this original pitch. Having grown up on TNG-era Star Trek, my first reaction to this document was, "WTF" and "no way in hell a person who wrote this should be let anywhere near the writers' room"[0]. I take this as a demonstration that one shouldn't be too attached to their first / original ideas.

> stereotyping (each "alien race" has its own predominant substantive characteristics)

Yeah, the so-called "planet of hats" trope is integral to the show, and spilled to many others (Stargate franchise being a good example). They did try to subvert it a couple of times, most notably and to great effect with the Cardassians and the Bajorans in DS9, and to a lesser extent with the Klingons in ENT. I wish they'd do it some more[1].

> glorification of the military

It doesn't sound that bad in context of the show itself, because the people are different. Starfleet may be a military, but (at least in TNG-era shows) it's one that's philosophically focused on everything else other than fighting and killing. For proper glorification of the military, nothing beats the Stargate series, SG-1 in particular.

Still, I'd argue that it makes sense in context. Even with the science fantasy of the franchise, by the shows' own numbers, every starship in Star Trek is a mobile, FTL-capable WMD platform. A single TNG-era photon torpedo is given a yield 30% larger than that of a Tsar Bomba[2]; TNG's Enterprise-D carried a standard complement of 250. Phasers are capable of (and shown to be used for) impromptu geoengineering. Impulse engines can speed things up to double-digit percentage of the speed of light. There's no way in hell a future with tech like this isn't thoroughly militarized - not because of potential of conflicts, but because of the need to control the tech that can casually wipe out life on planets.

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[0] - My second reaction was, my God, Roddenberry knew how to pitch a studio.

[1] - I generally wish the new shows would work more with what they have. There's decades of continuous worldbuilding to take from, there is no need to introduce new strange aliens and situations every other episode.

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba - 50 MT for the nuke, ~64 MT for a Starfleet photon torpedo, based on its stated 1.5 kg antimatter payload and E=mc².
How an Atomic Clock Works
Companies don't care. (Some) people working for those companies may, though.
Maybe. The way he counters with

> Hey, maths doesn’t lie, so I guess that means okay to sacrifice a billion people or so. Unless possibly you’re one of them.

Implies to me he is implying the math is sound but has a different problem.

> But I don’t want to be unfair, Bostrom’s magnificent paper also has a figure to support his argument that I don’t want to withhold from you, here we go, I hope that explains it all.

This comment seems very demeaning towards the math though so I can’t really tell
That sounds fair too.
the social contract used to be: each generation nurtures a new one and cares for the old one.

obvious problems with childlessness, infertility, accidents, bachelors, orphans.

assuming you live in the US one obvious solution is to move somewhere with a better pension system

the economic trend is that the things needed to live get cheaper (and we constantly raise the bar for what's considered "needed") still as long as efficiency gains are left (and we are veeeeery far from nowhere to look for more gains) it's likely that basic necessities will continue to be provided with higher efficiency.

the question is what society optimizes for? more suburban sprawl, spending more of our economic surplus on building more hard to maintain, hard to heat/cool houses? spreading the population even more thin, requiring even more inefficient cars, more and more miles of pipes, roads and whatnot, or ... (and I'm not saying to have cheap retirement we need to live in a Borg cube).
loved Super 8. Have watched it several times. It's his best movie IMO.
> But again they don't export a Sphinx inventory so I cannot cross-reference their units

But they do! So you can!

The inventory is right here: https://textual.textualize.io/objects.inv. It's generated by mkdocstrings, the "autodoc" plugin for MkDocs. It's Sphinx compatible.
Twitter to Charge $20 a Month for Blue Tick Verification, Reports Suggest
I nearly fainted reading about how the dude whacked the disk to make the head unstick and then jiggled the head over the platter. One thing I learned in my tech initiation years is that head on the platter = death and woe.

Also, judging from how pallets with containers of old stuff were dropped right beside the guys, and how they were going through the hardware by throwing it up in the air, it sounds like the environment was the opposite of clean.
Not more sensors, different sensors.

In your metaphor it's like asking if you should have project managers as well as engineers on your project. And Tesla has decided that having only engineers allows them to focusing on having the best engineers. And they avoid the distraction of having to manage different types of employees.
> the implementation simply reserves the address range in your virtual address space (e.g. by using VirtualAlloc on Windows).

Does anyone know what would be the alternatives to VirtualAlloc on other platforms?
Solving Sudoku, N-Queens, Pentominos, More, with Algorithm X and Dancing Links
Even so, in the universe’s trillionth year there should be some sort of life thriving in the habitable zones of some red dwarves somewhere.
Filechooserwidget: Add a Grid View
You can find out easily - when an employee leaves and you see a huge productivity drop, you'll know. (Also the opposite happens: you fire a bad manager and productivity goes up.)
Specifically on Reddit I've never seen anybody support him anywhere near what one could consider "faboyism". They have this funny feedback loop where there's a (usually negative, or only marginally relevant) Musk post on the front page at least once a week, and the comments are all about how they hate Musk and how people need to stop giving him attention. Somehow everybody is completely oblivious to the fact that these posts are the only ones that most people ever see.
I always put on my headlights, day, night, whenever... I always have them on. A lot of cars tend to blend in with the background on non-sunny days, and this helps them stand out.

The studies are mixed, but for a few more bulbs, you'll be a bit safer.
Just personal cynical opinion here but as soon as large amounts of money are in complex circulation like that, vultures appear. I don't trust for one second that some of that money isn't being siphoned off in various creative ways that most civilians couldn't imagine understanding.
As long as the billboard is not moving into the street or standing in the middle of it what would you expect it to do ?
Anyone here using Penumbra?

https://github.com/nealmckee/penumbra

> »Penumbra is a mathematically balanced colour scheme constructed in a perceptually uniform colour space with base colours inspired by the shades of colour occurring in nature due to the light of the sun and the sky. It cleanly separates the perceptual properties of colours while optimally utilizing the available colour space of typical displays.«

It was mentioned here ~3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32348461
WLB means?
It blew up now, but a user has pointed out (since 2017, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Guy_Macon/Wi...) that Wikimedia Foundation has spiraled out of control: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Guy_Macon/Wikipedia_has_C....

Even though I'm not German, I (still) donate to Wikimedia Deutschland (which is legally separate to Wikimedia Foundation) since that I see them as the "janitors" which actually experiments with new software that could be useful to Wikipedia et al., like for example Wikidata (https://www.wikidata.org).
This is why I don’t donate to any organization ever. If it’s organized it’s by definition political and I don’t donate to politicians /s
> Hara explains that the inspiration for the technology came from his penchant for playing strategy games: “I used to play go on my lunch break. One day, while arranging the black and white pieces on the grid, it hit me that it represented a straightforward way of conveying information. It was a eureka moment.”
What do I have to do to comply with the GDPR. Even if I have e.g. no user accounts, access logs probably count as "user data", do I have to preserve them in any way? Do I have to secure them? What can/can't I do with them?
Do I need to present a "cookie warning", how should that cookie warning be worded, what requirement does it need to fulfill, what cookies can I set under these circumstance? How does this change if I do not use cookies?

What personal Information do I need to include, are real name+address+email enough? How do they need to be included? Do I have a legal requirement to respond to communications over that address, in what time frame?

Surely there are more things to consider here. Do I need to register this website, do I need to register it under a buisiness?
I really do not know. But to be honest the obligation to dox myself is pretty much enough for me not to give it a try.

This is before putting anything on the website. The concerns about speech restrictions are a completely different topic.