skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a bad approach, although it carries similar risks to my suggestion. Time is non renewable, so OPs approach will be governed by their time horizon and risk appetite. You can move fast if you’re confident and prepared, but you can derisk further at the cost of time with the approach you mention. It’s also heavily dependent on your relationship with the org and your contacts within.
Fraud == Fraud
Medical or otherwise. Hold everyone to the same standards.
https://archive.ph/HE4qW
Family Game Design with Cellular Automata [pdf]
It's settled, greenhouse gases, primarily CO2 but also water vapor, methane, and others, is causing warming. There isn't any uncertainty about this. Also, no, simulations are not always less stable than the real system.
The "Compound literals are lvalues" is one that caught me out recently.

I've been doing C a long time and thought I knew all the "decent" tricks. When I saw it, I went "Oh, that's one of the silly new dynamic features that I ignore."

Nope.

It's been in the language forever. I'm surprised I never tripped over it before given all the embedded work I do.
There's still no law for lootboxes in Japan (but have some regulation by industry) so many gacha games still being released. Discussion at congress is minor AFAIK. I suspect that China also haven't completely forbid lootboxes at least, since they also still operate such games. (But anyway China strictly manages releasing games)
No one wants to:

a) migrate their production server to a new language for a weak reason

b) learn new syntax when the old one works fine

I am sure Scala 3 is great but I see no reason to learn it. The constant change with Scala with only slight performance improvement doesn’t make me excited. I would rather spent my time learning Rust.
Without getting into the rest of this- gambling is fairly normal all over the world, in most cultures, and in most other developed countries (Britain especially). The US, in spite of its libertarian reputation, is still weirdly Puritanical about some things (frankly I'd add prostitution in the mix there as well- regulated in some parts of Europe, basically tolerated in others).

Traditionally America had the 'you can only gamble in Vegas' model for decades, then it was forced by court decisions to extend that right to native casinos, then more recently it was forced by the Supreme Court to open it up to states who want it. It really has little to do with lobbying politicians, the US has been forced to relax gambling laws mostly by the courts
Sounds like a fun project to do, I wonder if you could even implement it in full discrete logic and skip the FPGA
Code automation seems like a poor substitute for effective abstractions in a language, but, having seen this game before many times, I think it’s the way we are headed. Writing code will become entirely idiomatic, like the pidgin language we’ve developed for searching google, and the actual source will be unintelligible and useless, probably JavaScript simply because there is the most data available for the AI to train on, relying entirely on the compiler for efficiency. The code sizes will be monstrous, as there will be no more effort put into maintaining modules, because the AI doesn’t need to organize things this way.

From an old programmer perspective, it doesn’t make much sense, but a new programmer will not want to learn the old way, which will be effectively obsolete from lack of updates. If there’s any value to be derived from it, perhaps it is demand for hardware that will run enormously-inefficient code. The way that now you see people doing full sorts to get the third-largest value just because it’s easier to write it that way, you will see code that also does analytics and builds a distributed hash table to accomplish the same task, just because more capability means more usage means more suggestions to carry along that code.

I think it was a mistake to think of computer programs as a linear text language, but I don’t see this turning back. At some point, the concept of programming a machine will merge entirely with the method of interacting with a machine, which is to say, communicating intent, and then I suppose we can relax into a very comfortable full-service 5-star extinction.
Yeah, but who’s going to seriously spend much time and effort to try and attack you? Obviously you are always at risk of automated attacks when a vulnerability comes out and attackers scan the internet for any exposed service vulnerable to it, but otherwise you’re not anything like the kind of target that a cloud provider would be (that they’d try to random for millions of dollars if they’re successful, and would have the personal data of millions of people to sell on the dark web when they don’t pay).

Unless you’re known to have data that’s particularly interesting, your risk is nothing like what they face…
Why not have a random draw?
thinking fondly of that alternate timeline where ZFS is Apple's default file system

Not everyone knows this history so for context: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/zfs-the-other-new-ap...
Nomadlist is one of the places, also digitalnomad subreddit?
People who use IRC see it as the text communication component of the platform that is the internet. When we need to do media we use the appropriate protocol and simply paste an address in chat (or DCC send it). Building everything into one protocol is just asking for problems (both legal and social).
Quantum Researchers Discover the and Gate
I wonder if it would help mitigate the false reading of causality from a correlation X-Y chart if we lay these charts out on a 'V' layout instead of the usual 'L'. It might (1) distinguish these clearly from X-Y charts that do actually intend to show causality (which can remain on 'L') (2) do a better job at conveying that the 2 variables go together rather than one impacting the other.
Ah drat - clearly I should have posted "we'll fix it in a bit". Oh well!
As the measurements of the mass of the Higgs boson and top quark become more accurate, either through better data or better models and methods to interpret the data the ovals in the images [0] [1] shown in the margin of the article become narrower. So far that narrowness tends to reduce the ovals overlap with the green area indicating a stable universe. But it has not ruled out a stable universe afaik.

For the most part continued measurements have increased the accuracy of the Higgs boson which is the horizontal aspect of the oval, but there have been improvements in the models and methods that have assisted in narrowing the top quark as wel.

While there might be better sources now, when I was following it more often, the authors of this paper [2] were the best source of tracking at least the top quark as that seemed to be a special topic of research for them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Higgs-Mass-MetaStability....

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Higgs_FalseVacuum2018.jpg

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.0980
Service exhaustion floods – HTTP/HTTPS flood, HTTP pipelining, SSL renegotiation
I feel the problem with discussions about Copilot is that they consist of roughly two groups of people talking past each other. The first group believes that Copilot should be able to write code for whatever you tell it to write code for. The second group thinks Copilot is a fairly overpowered autocomplete.

The first group gets annoyed all the time because Copilot fails to write most code when prompted with comments, or writes inaccurate code at best. They get upset when they see that Copilot can reproduce GPL code when prompted in a specific way.

The second group most prompt Copilot by allowing it to tab a complete a line or two at a time, and they are actually super happy because Copilot is way better than any other existing autocomplete; it's basically in a class of its own. To them, the GPL issue seems a bit more abstract, because they would never use Copilot to do that anyways.

I fall pretty firmly into the second camp (can you tell?). Allow me to soliloquize for a moment. Copilot is an incredibly powerful tool, probably the most powerful one I have, but, just like any tool, you need to really learn your way around it, and understand what it can and cannot do, before you start making judgments. I'm not surprised that you turned it off after using it twice. Imagine saying you stopped using React after making two components!

Maybe I should write up a bit more about how I use Copilot, but in a nutshell I feel that it falls somewhere between a 2x-better autocomplete and (and this bit is even more interesting) a tool similar to google search, but more tightly integrated with the coding environment. The second bit is why it's so good. Imagine if I were to continuously google search everything I was doing while coding, while I was coding it. Sure, most of the time it'd just confirm you were doing the right thing, but... every now and then, Google might turn up a better strategy than the one I was currently trying. That's how I feel Copilot works all the time; it's continuously "google searching" for alternate approaches, and every now and then it'll be like, "aha, did you think of [this thing]" and really take me aback, because I wouldn't have even thought to Google for that particular bit of code / problem / strategy.

Of course, you could continuously google search everything you did as you did it, but it would be a massive waste of time. Just imagine Copilot is doing it for you, and returning what it found. Most of the time I know what I'm doing, but every now and then, the result is remarkable.
pick your vice .... they all have a cost.... booze, cigs, dope, overeating, nothing is free :))))))
Yes, of course that could happen. All I'm suggesting is that the optimally productive tradeoff is somewhere in between "develop in a full clone of production cloud" and "works on my machine and nowhere else".
I'm curious about what alternatives they're proposing. That's 98% of the market right there (citation needed).
Matrix is so buggy right now without p2p, so I doubt it... specially when it comes to decryption
It's more that you're spending a lot of time reacquainting yourself with that code; so the price of tweaking it is low. They'll be some return, even quickly from the changes; but mostly, it's the cheapest time to refactor - if you're ever gonna refactor, this is when to do it.
It will be far less regimented than lets say, joining the army.
Up at 5AM, stand for the count.
Report to prison job for a couple of hours a day.
5pm, in your cell, standing for the count.
Lights out at 10pm.
You can exercise, go to the library, watch TV, play cards, whatever is available during most of the day.
Relatable. I don't have kids and lots of freedom in my life at least in the evenings outside of work. Somehow without the pressure, I tend to procrastinate on my decisions to take on the next chapter given several options available. That paralysis then turns into anxiety of not taking the choice and understanding how hurtful it is which just opens the vicious circle.
Explained by Don Knuth here, if you can't solve it yourself:

https://youtu.be/o22BAuQj3ds?t=37m40s
I agree it's absurd that it's legalized while games like online poker are banned but there is a (small) skill element to sports betting in playing the odds in various ways.

I would consider it somewhere in the middle-ground between poker and roulette. It's possible to have an edge in sports betting, it's just very, very hard to find.
I don't think it matters much if something is genetically engineered or not. Normal (unmodified) invasive species already cause a lot of damage to ecosystems. From the point-of-view of the damaged ecosystem, it doesn't matter if the invader is GE or perfectly natural; it still doesn't belong there.
Searx.be
You're more likely to spread the contamination rinsing, splashing, wiping, etc than you are just putting it wherever you're cooking it.
personally I think the right answer is to finally lose the idea of code-as-text and build structures with all kinds of optional metadata.
Better than no GPU driver and needing to spin the CPU for that work.
You have to ask what motivates the refactoring. It should speed up work in that part of the codebase, either by making the change faster or by reducing the time needed for follow-on bug fixes (which in my opinion is the same thing.)

What's nice about making a refactoring right before a major change is that it's much less speculative. Your estimation of the value of a refactoring is only as good as your prediction of what changes will need to be made in the future. If you already know exactly the change you are about to make, you can justify the value of refactoring with much more confidence.

By contrast, if you're worried that the change in front of you will be easy, but future changes will be hard, then maybe it will be best to leave the refactoring until just before the future changes. After all, they might not come, and if they do, they might not be what you expect.

There are two reasons to do a refactoring now to account for non-immediate future work. I think only one of them is actually about the future, and the other one is really about the present.

The first reason, which really is about the future, is if you do know what future changes you will have to make. For example, if you know that such-and-such future functionality will be required to support promises being made to current or prospective customers. Or if your company actually has a product roadmap that it sticks to. Then you know the refactoring will pay off eventually, and you can make a firm case for doing it now. You should discount the value of the refactoring to account for any uncertainty about the future work.

The second reason is that bug fixes after the release will be easier if you do the refactoring first. I think this is the same as saying that the current change can be completed faster with the refactoring. Releasing something with a bunch of bugs doesn't make it "done." It's done when the engineers who are doing it can move on to other things. If you're stuck fixing bugs from the initial release, you aren't really done, so it wasn't done faster. Product and sales will often tell you that there are crucial strategic reasons that releasing something now with a bunch of bugs is better than releasing it a few weeks later with fewer bugs, but they're almost always lying^H^H^H^H^H suffering from tunnel vision on their own goals. Your engineering manager should escalate, and nine times out of ten the business does not actually want you to push out a piece of shit a few weeks earlier. They will tell you to descope or delay the initial release. If you count bug fixing time as part of the time spent making the upcoming change, then the refactoring becomes justified.
Julia Computing Becomes JuliaHub
Right, but if you remove snapd, you then have to find somewhere else to get those packages. With Linux Mint, all the packages are in the default repo.
I don't think there's any debate that software engineers are paid much more on average in the US, or that the number of highly paid jobs is much greater in the US.

Even at within the same firm, for the same job, it seems like UK engineers are usually paid much less than US ones.
The thing to remember about journalists is that they have a degree in journalism. Not math. Not science. Not engineering. Not politics. Not economics. Not medicine. Not agriculture. Not history. And certainly not statistics.

But they pontificate as if they are in possession of revealed truth.

What they wrote about the 737MAX is a stellar example of such ignorance. The only correct sources of information about it came from Aviation Week or official NTSB reports. The rest was all garbage.
It's an important point, but doesn't remove weight from the decision.

First, Google Docs is out of window either way. Then a specific budget needs to be approved to use Office, which will reduce its use to only people actually needing it (just reading docs produced elsewhere won't be enough)
Well, you are gonna shutdown this budding cottage industry of Observability Consultants :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think geothermal works where the nature has done the work for us. Where there are underground springs that turn hot and the water comes up steaming.

If you plan to drill the holes yourself, you have a lot of work to do. Drilling is expensive, and a single hole will not get you a lot of heat after the initial honey moon period.
I worked in a Forth shop for a few years and attended a few conferences.
The FEDEX story made its way around the community.
Just wait until they install optifine
https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-ftx-alameda...
German democracy began almost as soon as the war ended … in some cases a bit earlier.

German socialists were rejecting cooperation with Soviet Communists as early as May 1945.

New authentic German parties were organized in June 1945. The CDU was organized (in the Soviet zone) by merging Catholic and Protestant parties that existed in Weimar Germany.

One of the earliest political controversies was whether the surviving July plotters (“Operation Valkyrie”) or Weimar politicians should lead the German people.

The Allied government preferred the Valkyrie plotters. They were sidelined by the politically experienced Weimar politicians.

The Soviets were holding semi-rigged German elections in September 1945. Austria had fair elections by November 1945.

The current German state (“West Germany”) came into existence in 1949. The occupational and autonomous German government existed hand in hand for six years.

It really is amazing how fast “normal politics” resumed in Germany.
Good.

It doesn't matter that it's incomplete. They can still use Office without 365, etc. It's not a real principled fundamental policy about all public/government code and documents and data and formats etc.

It doesn't matter what the real reason is. Even for example the cynical idea that it's just to force favoring some other private entity.

Still good.

It's good even purely for the optics that it's even possible, for any reason at all. As it is it does do a lot of direct good already, but even if it did nothing more than make the concept of "we don't need to use office365 or google" less crazy sounding the next time someone tries to take a government open source and open data and open data formats, or even merely reject the servicication of things that don't actually require it, that is already a good thing all by itself.

And the fact that it pushes back against the indoctrination of kids to accept that as just a universal fact of life is just that much better.
I stopped taking it in any form a few months ago, and stopped with Adderall too right before the shortage. Unless you have some kind of chronic pain or have cancer and it's marijuana vs opioids, it is more for personal entertainment than anything else. California confirmed it as more of a means of entertainment similar to, but still possibly less dangerous than, alcohol by making it legal for retail sale on the state level a few years back.
I happen to work with some problem gamblers. I find it a detestable practice but I know that's wrong of me to say, I shouldn't judge. What I find interesting in this context is that they all follow sports to a pretty high degree but never once have they talked of betting on sports. Aside from actual casinos and the odd scratcher the main draw from what I see is online operations trading in Bitcoin. From site to CashApp to bank account- it appears to be quite a frictionless experience. People who had never heard of Bitcoin outside the random news story, suddenly are moving thousands of dollars of crypto around and my biggest fear is that gambling will become ever more normalized. I've seen drug addicts maintain more of a semblance of normalcy than I've seen from some of these gamblers. Magical thinking and compulsion, it's really quite jarring to see. Gambling in my opinion tends to insidiousness and perhaps sports betting isn't as bad but I'd rather not tempt people with any of it including lottery. The house always wins.
Spy agencies and police bug all sorts of stuff. The hallways of Federal courts are widely believed to be bugged. I’m sure lots of different entities spy on airport lounges, etc.
I can also make my eyes go parallel, and it's fun to be able to stare into both of someone's eyes at the same time :)
So, Microsoft will push an update to extract the data? Did you forget a "/s" tag?

I mean... Windows is also owned by Microsoft, so they should ban all use of Windows. And also ban any binary distribution of software of any kind (yup, all school teachers will build their Linux from source now). Oh wait, a third party is making the firmware in your CPUs, better build those from scratch too... go get your pickaxe - you're going mining.
SBF added a backdoor so that even their own poor internal auditing would not log him shuffling customer money out of FTX into Alameda.

That's not incompetence. I know what I call it, and it starts with "alleged".
The fact that they've recently rebranded Office to actually be Microsoft 365 but didn't bother doing so for the standalone Office 2021 product tells me it's probably on the way out. I doubt we'll see a Microsoft 365 2023 but maybe MS really just is that bad with brand names.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402155/microsoft-offic...
At our startup we go out of our way to get customer / potential customer feedback. We give away Yeti mugs and gift cards so yeah, any feedback is greatly appreciated, even for companies that have already "made it".
The first success story he cites turned out to be a fraud which was exposed months ago.
Do you mean in ear headphones with music or actual ear plugs with music on a stereo?

I don’t know why but I feel a million times better with ear plugs in. I had these etymotic ear plugs that were more like sound filters for years before I lost them, and I loved them so much. I’d wear them with headphones over top while working for this oddly silent and muffled sound experience.

I didn’t replace the etymotics because my wife was too embarrassed to be around me having these things in. But at a restaurant or other loud places they were an absolute saviour.

I use AirPods in a similar way, but it’s not as nice. Sometimes I actually just want plain old ear plugs. Even so, the AirPods are a lot better than nothing at all. I use them with no sound perhaps more often than I do with sound.
I’ve been running into this exact problem in recent weeks. Switching to piped.video is the workaround I’m using atm.
This is a great comment. A good extrapolation of this on another example is:

- We all want to start a startup, with a caveat that the vast majority of us don't want to sacrifice our time, energy, mental and physical health to get to the an exponential outcome with extreme costs. But the daydreaming and the lure of successes we see around us makes us think its all there is.

- Perhaps instead, we can just focus on doing the craft that we actually enjoy doing as a process to get to mediocre (and sometimes extreme) outcomes since most just crave freedom of choice, not the $.
Right. If you want to buy a house in a desirable place, you’ll have to compete with other people who want it.
Slightly tangential but this reminds me of the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut [1]:

> In the year 2081, the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more physically able than anyone else. The Handicapper General's agents enforce the equality laws, forcing citizens to wear "handicaps": masks for those who are too beautiful, loud radios that disrupt thoughts inside the ears of intelligent people, and heavy weights for the strong or athletic. [2]

[1] https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron