skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was managing programmers I sometimes warned them about being careful to distinguish between cleverness and wisdom. Never realized that Wittgenstein had made this remark.

In the context of programming, the best person on my team was wise, but he sometimes could not resist being clever to the detriment of the readability of the code. To me, clever code is the stuff you might find (admittedly these are extreme) on the The International Obfuscated C Code Contest. "Wise" code is code that does what it needs to do but is clear. The weakest person on a team should be able to read and understand (and maybe fix bugs in) this code.

We had one example where the person in question had just read about multiple inheritance in C++ and just could not resist the urge to use it in some key code that none of the rest of us understood at all! I made him rewrite it without multiple inheritance.
devalued in the sense that it's easy to trip over some low bar for the new definition and be assigned that label. not devalued all that much in the sense of the negative effect that label has on the labelled person's argument or reputation. which is, of course, very convenient for people who want to throw those words around online.
No. To recap, Twitter was never actually a left only town square, that was always a right-wing conspiracy theory. Elon Musk didn't make it neutral, nor did he intend to, rather he seems to want to turn Twitter into a right-wing platform. We don't have to hope he wasted $44 billion, he definitely, objectively has done so. And we're not angry, we're mocking him and his sycophantic cohort.

I hope that clears things up.
> good when they have creative freedom and are used to produce some kind of art

Well is it? Maybe yes for purely aesthetically pleasing pieces, or simply illustrative art (there's going to be a revolution in the stock photo industry I expect). But "art proper" as it is commonly understood, with a meaning, a purpose, a feeling, etc? Only by accident.
They haven't even claimed they were!
Check out HHC, the HP Handheld Conference. It's just like EmacsConf, but the people are older :-)

https://hhuc.us/

The presentations are on YouTube, some I like:

"Don't make me wait" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJdAvQpsGc

"Book binding 2.0" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAnkiaefcB8

"Know thine enemy (TI)" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIN2y-SnA6c
(TI fast mode)
But then I can add popular emacs packages and my custom functions and get WAY ahead.

I use a very basic emacs config. Emacs, org-roam, evil, evil-org, ivy, and which key. The most common way I do stuff is still M-x org-roam-find-node.

The only time investment was learning the readline keybinds and doing the emacs tutorial.

I do most of my coding in jetbrains with vim keys, and emacs is just a personal knowledge manager for me
These considerations can make sense when thinking about storage formats (probably you want to compress the string too), but they are not convenient for in-memory representation where you want to get the location of the first character with a simple member access.
Taiwan asserts claims over Taiping Island
Of course, it's a language model with 0 semantic knowledge about its output.
That's a distorted view of what business is. You don't need to invent anything to be a great business or a great business leader: just to do it in a form that the market appreciates.

In fact the invention is mostly irrelevant to the business part. Ford didn't invent the car either, IKEA didn't invent the furniture (not even the self-assembly furniture), and Walmart etc. didn't invent the supermarket.
RDP on Windows from Windows now uses h264 by default.
I am watching Rossellini's Cartesius -- the intellectual biography of René Descartes -- and was thinking of submitting a link to it; it is held to be a very accurate if not an exciting film. Watching this film I think I may have a clue as to when cleverness became a "public nuisance".

One of the TIL moments for me in the film is learning why the conservative intellectuals of the day were dead against "new planets" discovered by telescopes. It turns out, since all their natural sciences were governed by Zodiac hand-me-downs from Babylon via Aristotle and Avicenna -- ~"all natural phenomena are caused by the movements of heavenly bodies" -- having their magic number Seven (7) be supplanted was a complete intellectual crisis.

It was "cleverness", being "aloof" and "an outsider" that marks the man, Descartes (at least as depicted here). He repeatedly makes the point in the film as to why he chose to live among Dutch merchants and sailors instead of fellow geeks in Paris! ("I want to be left alone to think and reflect").

I think pre-Enlightenment the conservative ethos was held to be 'godly' and 'true'. Then a sequence of brilliant clever men such as Descartes heedlessly began to question practically every received wisdom. And then by the time our witty man of letters comes around, it had become fashionable and no longer the unique instrument of true wits and true minds.

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A reviewer: "At first glance this is the most tedious of Rossellini's portraits, double the length, with even more repetitive talk about a more abstract subject: the correct use of mind."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161382

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:26FF01235DA0205BFA466939EED0EA5100CBB3BE
WTF you’re just tone -policing after losing the argument now.
Another aspect could be that OpenAI doesn’t want their product to produce offensive output. It safety may just be a euphemism for “reputation preserving.”
About the same amount of truth as there would be to claims that everybody with the last name "Jones" is a Nazi, and everybody with the last name "Smith" is a pedophile...

NO, REALLY! I CAN SHOW YOU EXAMPLES AS PROOF!!

...but without racial / ethnic / religious / nationalist bigotry to mash their Stupid Buttons, relatively few people are dim enough to accept some examples as credible support for the "Jones & Smith" claim.
That makes sense. The radio system could be a much lower power, low baud rate system though, enough to transmit commands and get a little telemetry but much smaller than would be required for constant communication with Earth. This may also be relevant:

"NRL Engineers Ready Innovative Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) Payload for Launch"

https://www.nrl.navy.mil/Media/News/Article/3214111/nrl-engi...

Starshield as a "space network as a service" and robots as a "repair service for space infrastructure". Seems like together these could make doing things in space cheaper and easier. Both would require very well defined standards.
Just dropping in (long time HN lurker, first time HN poster) to say thanks for such a great capability in datasette and datasette-lite. I use sqlite_utils in numerous solutions to insert/upsert various json data into sqlite databases for various purposes. I use datasette/datasette-lite to host data products for consumers who need rapid insight but are not "sql jockeys."

I think this mutation capability would be great for some of my data logging workflows. I push json formatted telemetry data from different types of devices/sensors over tailscale to a central collector. Combined with clickhouse's adapter to sqlite databases, this could make for a very nice self-contained data reporting framework where all the source data flows through datasette to a set of sqlite files organized by topic. It will be important to me in deploying new event senders to have straightforward authentication I can bake pre-authenticated connection schemes into standard images that are installed without customization. Alternatively, configuring datasette so a specific set of ip addresses / cidrs is just granted insert to specific dbs/tables would work fine.

Thanks again. Great stuff!
I haven't encountered religion to claim to have all the answers. I have seen it deeply acknowledge man's limitations and the resultant profound awe of the mystery.
One of the often repeated pearls of wisdom from How to Win Friends and Influence People[0] by Dale Carnegie, is people like to talk about themselves and they’ll like you more if you let them do that in a conversation. I’m paraphrasing. This research seems to counter that.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influ...
> Java is wildly easier to pick up than Rust, though. Hordes of productive enterprise java programmers are employed today who frankly don't even understand what memory safety even means, much less the tradeoffs their language runtime (or software) needs to make to ensure it.

I think Java is a little easier to pick up than Rust, but not much. And this is especially true if one is not already familiar with Object Oriented programming. Classes are weird - conflating a number of concepts that really ought to be orthogonal to each other (and I remember thinking so as a beginner, although I couldn't articulate why then). IMO, structs, enums, and traits are much easier to explain to a beginner.

Rust does have the overhead of needing to care about ownership and memory, but I don't think that's as significant as you might think (and Java also leaks some of these details in for example the difference between objects and primitive types), and it partially makes up for it in other areas.
The Defamation Act, in England and Wales, brought in specific and very helpful reforms for defendants. It's privacy law that claimants now use, not least because you don't have to prove falsehood or serious harm, unlike in defamation claims.
They already have global coverage via a range of communication satellites used by various programs going back decades. For example the F-16 program had an independent network for effectively global coverage via 4 geostationary satellites. Other systems used polar orbits for actual global coverage.

Starlink has more total bandwidth and lower orbits, but the US military only needs so much bandwidth.
Yes. We shouldn’t be defined by success. We have one life and should enjoy it as much as possible. You don’t take any of that growth with you to the grave.
Wow this is really nice! It also somehow feels enlightened too

Is there a good book of her work you'd recommend, or just grab any that's as full as possible?
I shouldn't mention this probably but I watch Below Deck on the Bravo channel which follows the crews of charter yachts. One of which is a sailboat with a hot tub. I think you are right, when it's sailing (which seems to be rather infrequently), the hot tub is drained somehow.
If I were to report something on Twitter, I would click the "Report" button in the UI and I doubt that Twitter employees would internally refer to my reports as "More to review from the olalonde team.". It appears that those reports were submitted outside of the standard reporting process that regular users utilize and were treated preferentially.
>(I'm guessing that S3 also errors out if you submit random unrecognized query-string parameters on such requests?)

Doesn't look like it. I checked out the recent bankruptcy filing that was posted to s3, and you get the doc just the same with or without random query params:

https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188448/042120640...

https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188448/042120640...
This is true. And no more buts.
This dude who designed a massage gun did all that? Busy boy!
That certainly depends on whether you are on the paying or the receiving end of the blockchain scam. For one of them it works really well ...
Why should Gitea/Forejo lock themselves into a CI product such as Woodpecker, which could, like Drone, be purchased out?

Creating standards would be better, but in the lack of, a closely tied CI/CD or runner or whatever would be sufficient.

Right now, even the Gitea/Gogs/Forgejo ecosystem is fragmented. The latter fork exists, but I don't see how it's different from Foregjo and I have no inclination to believe that it will be optimised for codeberg's use case beyond others, but now I do ask - if Gitea implements functionality such as CICD / run pipelines, will Forgejo keep that or strip it out of their fork, if they maintain upstream syncs?

Is there even a document about what the product aims are? If they're just going to maintain Gitea sync without adding functionality, why should I even look at it, which is likely to fall out of sync with Gitea?
> SIZE_MAX is at least as large as the largest string that you can put in your address space / memory anyway.

Not necessarily. A 64-bit system could give processes an address space that’s significantly larger than half the full 64-bit address space and have an allocator that allows you to allocate a block of more than SIZE_MAX bytes (malloc takes a size_t, but you can use calloc)
Ah sorry, I was still half asleep when typing the comment. I wondered why typing Ethereal felt somehow strange. Right, it has been called Wireshark for a while...
What's made here anymore? Even if it touches US soil during production, it's probably just for assembly of components made elsewhere.

All the actual brains of electronics aren't made here. At most you'd get, what, American plastic?
Not working. Collecting SSI. About $10K a year. Can't save more than $2K in the bank though.
I had a 1998 W210 diesel Mercedes. The drivetrain and cabin were great; the body was painted with a new environmentally friendly primer/paint process that was an utter failure, resulting in many of those cars being driven early to the junkyard with a great drivetrain and terminally rusted chassis.

It'd be a coin-toss for me to take an unknown Geely over the actual, known W210 in New England.
It's strategical to Sweden because of the branding, the number of employees and the dependencies on a very large number of component suppliers in Sweden.

At one point the PRC will decide to just pull the design part of Volvo Cars out of Sweden. It would be incredibly naive to not think this would happen. Hence there needs to be an intelligently designed government intervention.
It is not expensive - even when compared to pitchers -, and I guess perceived difficulty, since it is not hard to install.
Are these real policy talking points by majority of Democrats in the US?
Microsoft is getting targeted so all of their flaws are being compromised. I had to not provide hosted exchange email services because Microsoft wasn't fixing the security holes in exchange. Moving to 365 lol would be moving from one flaw to another. Fyi everyone, finding an email provider now days without any issues is very scarce. Look into all this and you will see all said is no bs. Unfortunately Rackspaces company is dependent on MS Exchange
> Stars are perfect point light sources to the eye, they will not cover multiple pixels unless you are doing an intentional bloom effect

On any real camera, stars always cover multiple pixels (the entire screen strictly speaking). This is described by a point-spread function (PSF), where the "least blurry" physically realizable PSF is the Airy disk. The bloom effect occurs due to the long tails of the PSF. Inasmuch as stars appear as perfect points to the eye, it's down to perceptual limits and (I suspect) heavy filtering in the visual cortex.

Not saying Carmack is wrong about VR and video game rendering here. Just that if you're trying to replicate real sensors, the right way is precisely what he says to avoid. You must somehow draw

> large, dim stars

During a recent effort to implement physically-accurate star rendering at work, I had access to a photograph of the night sky. Bright stars visibly and clearly covered 3x3 pixels- more in reality, due to the above.
So suppose you buy this, then you successfully hide in the dark and proceed to kill a lot of people because of that (which you wouldn’t have been able to otherwise). Then what? Is that “fun”?
Nit: Many Pascal compilers / runtimes extended the language in non-standard ways, including various schemes for storing string length in front of the string. But nothing like this was ever part of the ISO Pascal standard, and it was certainly not in the "PASCAL User Manual and Report" by Kathleen Jensen and Niklaus Wirth.

In fact, in standard Pascal, string handling is extremely rudimentary; there was no way to express "this variable / parameter / pointer refers to a string with a length not known at compile-time".
I once made the mistake of thinking it would be fun to choose the cow character model in a ‘Unreal Tournament’ tournament. The front of the thing is literally all head, so I was constantly headshotted :/
So that, next time, Gerhardt Schroeder can stay on the Gazprom board of directors in exchange for Russian ownership of German industry.
I think for most companies, using Rust for security and performance critical areas is best. For other things, Rust can run Python code via FFI so no need to take the productivity hit unnecessarily.
Anyone know where I can find full text?
Sounds great in theory, but how would you validate this? I can see sellers slapping stickers on their goods.

Who is going to pay for the cost of manual verification?
This is an editorial written by someone who is heavily biased and doesn't know how management or organizational improvement works.

> In my case, I didn't need someone to manage what we already did. I needed someone frustrated by our current level of productivity. Someone irritated by our current level of quality.

That's called Operations Management, buddy, and you don't hire an IC for that job.

> Someone annoyed by the fact very few shopfloor employees were being promoted to higher-level roles.

That is literally every manager's job. And, one could argue, a bad idea in general (see Peter Principle).

> "If your boss could do your job, you're more likely to be happy at work."

Why? Because the boss has empathy and compassion for her workers, and makes an effort to understand the work. That doesn't mean she has to do the work herself. She simply needs the context and understanding to be able to facilitate effectively and make her reports happy. Anybody who cares enough can do that.

I have had IC bosses who were insufferable, and non-IC bosses who were insufferable, and good bosses of each too. The ability to do the work has both helped and hindered their management. Focus on efficiency is good, but often efficiency isn't technical at all.

Managing is it's own skill, separate from being an IC. Simply promoting an IC who does not know how to manage will not always lead to good outcomes.
I haven't seen religion truncate the search for truth. In my understanding, many of the men to whom we owe our understanding of the world were religious.

Newton and Darwin were driven to understand how G-d implements his designs.

The Big Bang was theorized by a Catholic priest scientist who was looking for (and found) the moment of creation. Edward Hubble who proved the big bang through observation was a deeply religious Christian.
Extrapolating could be an alternative phrasing.
Rust has brought so many great ideas into the programming mainstream. It is a shame that it has also attracted such a community around it that seems to project all sorts of hopes and wishes into the language.

I don't get how someone could think making a CRUD app in Rust could ever be a good idea (beyond hobby projects). That is just not playing to the strengths of the languages at all.

If you CAN use a language with automatic garbage collection for your project, do that. Always. If not, sure, Rust or whatever else language is in that space can be a good choice for embedded development or game dev or whatever. That should be common sense. No need for an article.

I hope for the sake of Rust that the hype around it will die soon so that it can become a pragmatic choice for certain projects.
For electronics, I think the Asian manufacturers actually have better quality and precision these days. It's been their bread and butter for decades and they have way better factories and tooling and production experience.

We still make cars, I guess, but even those are rarely competitive vs Japanese and Korean models.
It’s the empty property, constant-true.
Content moderation can be made purely algorithmic and inaccessible to human intervention to avoid this concern completely.
The now public Volvo Cars is majority-owned by Geely. (Volvo Cars, not Volvo.)

Volvo makes trucks, buses and construction equipment. It's one of the largest manufacturers of heavy-duty trucks globally, including e.g. the Mack brand. Geely owns 8.2% of Volvo. I think it's still majority Swedish-owned, but I'm not certain.

They share the Volvo brand via a long-standing agreement.
Experimental blockchain IP based consensus algorithm launched
It is just another blockchain written from scratch with a highly experimental consensus algorithm, which was created to provide effortless mining for all participants with a public IP address. NADO is not a classic proof-of-work blockchain like Bitcoin. Unlike most other crypto, its focus is on accessibility to rewards for everyone. It has a fully elastic reward mechanism, rewarding users only when transactions are happening on the chain. Users can burn their share of tokens in order to increase their chances of winning more rewards in the future.
But your comment is the quintessential HN comment.

And my comment is the quintessential backlash to the snarky quintessential comment.

Oh god. Are we becoming too self-aware. Someone shut us off.
Money laundering technique #3,198

Next!
LOL, touch grass! You’re going off the shallow end.
An Elixir/LiveView game written entirely by ChatGPT
In N64 Perfect Dark my cousins and I (~10 years old) would set the AI team strength to max, make them aliens, and give them those little injection guns. It was the most horrifying/fun experience because they could move incredibly fast, were very short like Oddjob, and would one hit lethal inject you.
This. Almost everyone I’ve seen leave has left their account in place.
> Thank you for this. C programming sounds almost like some sort of combat sport. Riveting.

I've done it for decades; it isn't really as bad as hype-attracting headlines would have you believe.

Munitions control, aircraft management systems, industrial automation systems, and many more life-critical systems were programmed in C for decades with comparatively little danger from the language intrinsics leading to death.

It's easy to look at the stats and say "there's a few dozen CVEs annually due to C footguns", but that's a few dozen out of hundreds of millions of deployed systems that are written in C.

In practice, very few lines of C code bypass the type system, so you get much fewer bugs than an equivalent system in the more usual dynamic programming languages (Python, Javascript, etc).
The Newton, Pippin and Copland were done before and without Jobs. And Lisa wasn't his thing (the Mac was, he was remove from being involved with Lisa).

As for the G4 cube, it is just a failed model, not some huge company bet - every company has some models that don't sell well. Apple's laptops and iMacs still sold greatly from Jobs new iMac to this day - if a particular model didn't do well that's not exactly a big deal. In fact it's an expected part of doing business. Apple had several other such products on its way to becoming the #1 valued company on earth.

Also, what Nokia-iTunes fiasco? Nokia folded, and iTunes became the biggest music store, and then an app store and a streaming service.
The length can be packed, e.g. like utf-8 does it or something similar. The caveat is the cost of unpacking on access, but the memory overhead will be minimal.
I have a hard time with threads like this because it feels like half the comments are straight out of an Apple ad. "It's simple", "It just works", "PC is some nerd twiddling bits but Mac is cool and gets things done". It feels like a cheap shot, but when "the nerds" are proclaiming Apple the one true OS the hacker ethic is really suffering.

My wife switched from Android to Apple, then Apple back to Android a couple times. Turns out they're really not that different, and the "simple" one is the one you're used to (noting in the Android ecosystem companies like Samsung really do a disservice by trying to stand out from stock in a different-but-no-better way).