skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Contrary to what others are saying... From my time spent in MUDs/MOOs 30ish years ago and the languages we were playing with then, I can see plenty here that actually does relate to the problem of programming in a large scale shared-state world aka "multiverse" (hate the world)

Transactionality. Check. ACID type semantics are absolutely key to handling the concurrency issues created by a world with thousands of authors/programmers and concurrent actions. This is not the place for locks.

Declarative. Essential. This is going to be the only way to manage the complexity of interactions on a large scale. Though perhaps I don't jibe with the particular form described here and would instead encourage a more relational/datalog type approach, but that's my bias.

And management of mutable state / side-effects, through functional type approaches also seems key. Not just for expressing problems elegantly, but also for security / visibility management.

Some of the interesting things in here (approach to truth values etc) have a vibe similar to the approaches behind evaluation in a Datalog but also look similar in spirit to some of what's behind my employer's (RelationalAI) knowledge management programming language, Rel: https://docs.relational.ai/rel/primer/overview

Finally, people saying it looks difficult to learn, I think that for many people working in this kind of environment... it could be their first programming language. So they don't come with the same baggage & expectations about what programming languages are. Back in the 80s and 90s there were all sorts of "game builder" (esp for interactive fiction) type languages that often had what we'd now see as "odd" semantics. But this was part of the advantage. Heterodox approaches often bloom in domain specific locales.

Going to spend some more digging into this after dinner. Neat stuff.
Rich people probably only care about the first few years of ownership since after a few years they’ll upgrade the the newer model.
Seems like a very small win for a lot of work.
I prefer tie-dye mode.
MJ, not mJ. 2.5mJ is roughly the energy of a single keyboard keypress. 2.5MJ is over half a kilo of TNT.

Fun fact that Wolfram alpha just informed me of: a phone uses between 10 and 20 MJ a year: multiple kilos of TNT. 4000mAh * 3.7V * 365: yep, it's about right.
If you had tons of nuclear, you would have people switching to electric heating.
I'm a bit over a decade removed from that industry but that largely lined up with my experiences(and from the tabs I've kept on things it doesn't seem like much has changed).

There's a constant stream of developers who have a high degree of interest in games so not only is crunch incredibly common but also compensation is significantly less(was about 1/2-1/3 standard SWE rates when I was in the industry). Combine that with publishers who pull recording industry contract style shenanigans and it's just a brutal industry. Tons of really interesting technical problems but even as someone who knew what they we going into at the time I advise people to think very carefully if it's a career option they want to pursue.
Not GP, but the Tundra is enormous compared to a Tacoma for someone coming from a car and not used to a full-size. I was also considering a Tundra since the model refresh, but even compared to our current truck (Land Cruiser) the Tundra felt noticeably larger and less maneuverable.
Admirable result in function. Not necessarily in form. At least, not for me. I always make a mess with those things...
Exactly the same in Russian: "Нет дыма без огня".
> Usually they put emphasis on "Soviet man", not on particular ethnicities.

Putting an emphasis on the Soviet man who always speaks Russian language, I can understand how that could create an impression of everyone being Russian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
“I like it” seems to be the only justification left for dark mode. Luckily, that’s a perfectly legitimate justification.
I use dark mode because it masks all the damn floaters in my eyes, whereas light mode accentuates them.
GeoPandas: Crimea Assigned to Ukraine in naturalearth_lowres
There are only two hard things in software development:

* naming things

* cache-invalidation

* off-by-one errors
I notice you were unable address the parts of my comment where I showed it does fit the second system syndrome. That's what I suspected.
Wouldn't a language designed for current language users not bring much new to the table and mostly focus on familiarity and interop with existing la.guages?
Photoview: Photo gallery for self-hosted personal servers
Your new car likely weighs much more? The modern market demands a driving experience that's like sitting in our home - complete with huge sofa like seats, air conditioning, touch screen TVs, cameras and thousands of sensors. They can either cater to that or go out of business.

Carting around two tons of unnecessary random tech toys and the kitchen sink is inefficient regardless of the energy source. That's a separate problem.
Important: the seller is different. When logged in, the seller is Amazon.com. When logged out, the seller is SHOEBACCA (which does not appear to use Amazon for fulfillment).

If you are logged in and click to see all New & Used options, you can select the SHOEBACCA variant at that price.

My guess is that when you're logged in as a Prime member, Amazon defaults to variants that are fulfilled by Amazon so they can guarantee Prime shipping times.
My contract is for 38hrs a week so I work 38hrs a week. Teams I've been on have had "crunch", ie. team members working back late in some misguided effort to ship "on time". What I find interesting about this is that management never asks for it, it's just implied.

I've got the "oh you're leaving" when I get up at 5pm and leave, but never pulled aside by management for it. I don't really understand why others partake.

They'd have to incentivise the hell out of me to get me to do that.
Indeed geography has a well-recorded way of shaping civilizations, cultures, and their competencies.
Same. I'm no doctor here but setting screen brightness to ambient level (typically low at 20-30%) with proper contrast can't be underestimated. And Flux or "night light" 24/7 to cut the blue.
Yup I've had also had some show up in the past while (got it checked out to make sure no concerns), and looking at a very bright screen makes them _very_ apparent. I already preferred a darker screen but this just sealed the deal.
If you read my comment about the Kubrick/Spielberg film, you'll see a note on the Wikipedia page that Kubrick apparently referred to the film as Pinocchio!
I’ll be trying this out
Doesn't look like what Orion actually performed includes multi-skip reentry. Maybe it's proposed for some future flights, but the central point of the article isn't confirmed.
Not going to defend Carvana... but most people trust used car dealers about as far as they can throw a full size pickup.

Most of the problems with Carvana are the same problems you get at any used car dealer, just magnified by scale. All of the title/registration problems. Financing. Availability. Communication. No better or worse than any random dealer.

My first car ever (25+ years ago) I received the wrong plate from the dealer. My dad and I noticed it and ran back to the dealer a day or two later. Good thing they didn't give away the plate they were supposed to give us.
I thought the point of Prime is that it gets you benefits on all purchases, for one fixed annual price?
The execs do get it. They consider bugs and missing features a small price to pay for hitting release date, when hitting release date means people buy your game for their kids.
AI Sculpting
Can't change the holiday season timeline.
But we can’t just start writing new code, the system is already running millions of lines of undocumented code. Also it can’t be halted. Also, there are no backups.
Yes they did, and repeatedly: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=clay-dreidels
> Right now, the best dev setup is "install Linux in a VM" or "install this collection of incomplete ports/emulation/virtualization of Linux tools".

Actually it's, "request a Macbook" or "work in a place where devs get Macs".
Asimov is a very mediocre writer, stylistically speaking. People read Asimov for the ideas, not for his prose, so I wouldn't recommend him in the context in which we're speaking.
Details on the root of the issue.[0]

Finally it fixed now.[1,2,3]

[0] https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas/issues/2382

[1] https://twitter.com/geopandas/status/1601350294683754496

[2] https://twitter.com/geopandas/status/1601522283750776834

[3] https://twitter.com/geopandas/status/1601653591781085185
We sold my wife's old Versa for more than she paid new to Carvana about 2 years ago. I wasn't upset but definitely didn't seem sustainable??
A 30 year old reactor is hardly an old one.

You can use them for 50-70 years
Yes.

I like t-shirts and jeans and never want to go back to suits and ties but..

When I went to Japan a decade ago, I realized just how informal and slovenly American working attire had become.
Same for me. Just another hostile corporate action that we have to defend against. A company that I no less pay for an account on. I don’t know if this check could be automated by an addon or not, but I would be interested in a simple solution to make sure I’m not being taken advantage of.
Logged in/Prime: December 13th.

Incognito: December 15th.

No other difference.
> This presentation contains absolutely nothing of value for a real programmer trying to actually make stuff.

Speak for yourself! I got a lot from it that feels immediately practical for my current projects as well as others I want to take on, and it makes logic programming concepts and benefits much more accessible to me than any amount of Prolog literature has so far (granted I came in wanting to be compelled).
Suppliers for things like boatbuilding will sell you fibreglass cloth, epoxy, and all the other equipment you might need.

Honestly, it's unlikely to be cost-effective on a $4 laundry basket. But if you happened to have all the materials around from doing a different, larger project you might use the leftovers for a repair like this.
Nobody mentioned it yet, but the original Short Circuit is actually quite good as well. There are plenty of cringeworthy bits, especially Fisher Stevens as an Indian person in "brown face", but the movie overall is a classic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Circuit_(1986_film)
It's not just about borders. Ukraine has some Russian Empire's/USSR's most fertile land. It was facing serious overpopulation (i.e. peasants with no land to work on) in the end of the 19th century, while Russia had a lot of unpopulated land in Siberia and the Far East, facing imperial Japan and potentially China.

Ukrainian peasants were offered free land and transport if they moved east in an attempt to solve these two problems, and many used the opportunity.
There wasn't much bureaucracy in the 70s.
The reactors built in the 70s in France are as safe as they get.
I’ve always wanted a list of all social science concepts that have been laundered into existence by well-meaning academic activists, but that eventually quietly went away, either by falling out of fashion or by being proven to be bunk.

Trigger warnings, implicit bias tests, cultural appropriation, lived experience, micro aggressions and a few others come to mind.
We had a similar experience earlier today while shopping AMZ for another item. Incognito was showing different (lower) pricing for the same item - from a diff. seller than what was being offered at the top of results while logged into Prime. Sigh.
ESPR should return the FTX-funded chateau
I think it should be very apparent to just about anyone that there aren’t enough programmers in the world to develop enough capable algorithms to buy and sell used cars or homes efficiently or profitably.

There are way too many nuances involved in such transactions that used car dealerships and the traditional real estate transaction model is never going away.

If there were any indication of it going the other way, used car dealerships would have gone out of business long ago. After all, you have been able to buy a used car privately through tons of websites or listing services without a middle man taking a profit for years. But the risk of doing so is too great.
Does the seller show the same for both? Which price does it show you? Another commenter mentioned seeing different sellers with Prime/not Prime pricing, which could explain the price difference.
This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are".

Thanks but I'll let the scientific process play itself out over time. In the mean time, I appreciate that the public debate has induced phones, apps, and many web sites to give me the option to enjoy reading things all day without eye strain.

The fact that more stuff defaults dark mode or follows a system setting also means I spend less time having to re-style sites with a browser plugin.

This is probably already an endless back and forth like the editor wars but I'm okay with that as the long term status quo. It'll mean that most designers learn that they just have to use themes and include an option for either preference. Some even go as far as making their sites look good in both modes. It pleases my counter-culture senses to see them exploring more angles on the color wheel.
Even dealers weren't digging deeply during peak shortages. I probably overpaid for the new car I had to wait for last summer. (Minimal negotiating leverage.) But I got what seemed like a surprisingly high trade in as well.

But part of that was there was probably a period where you had buyers who were desperate for vehicles, any vehicle, that would get them to work or the store.
I was back and forth for years with that line of thinking until I realized that I had been worrying about the "it'll take years" problem longer than it would have to just go get the degree.

So I finally bit the bullet. If nothing else I get to work on cool stuff and prove to myself I could do it. Hopefully there will be some gainful employment on the other side.

Feel free to hit me up if you ever want to discuss.
Yeah, having some back lighting definitely helps prevent eye fatigue. I can't do staring at monitors in a pitch black room anymore like I used to when I was in high school. Nowadays if I do that my vision gets,,,squishy.
Well, a variable in usual Math usage, just not the traditional imperative sense.
Because then you have to transport an additional cab / office with climate control and crush protection to site too.

And provide guaranteed comms between the two.
A shout out to the art of metaphorical her - a great change from the pulp webtoons

https://m.webtoons.com/en/drama/metaphorical-her/list?title_...

Edit: also a nod to what seemed to be Stan lee's last venture, the webtoon backchannel - still the only webtoon I can think of that had some animations included.

https://m.webtoons.com/en/super-hero/backchannel/list?title_...
Yes this is also because these days monitor engineers optimize for peak brightness and totally neglect minimum brightness specs. Because 600 nits looks great on a spec sheet and it's just difficult to regulate (backlight) LEDs over a huge brightness range without affecting color accuracy or causing excessive flickering. Nobody looks at the minimum spec if it's even provided.

So what they tend to do is to have the low end of the brightness range way too high and often even use tricks like simply displaying a darker image (Rather than a darker backlight) which reduces color depth and accuracy even more.

I use my otherwise excellent LG 24UD58 with brightness at 0% during the day! So during the night it's way too bright.

You can accomplish this also by setting the contrast to a low value on screens where the brightness simply doesn't go that low. But some screens just incorporate this trick in the brightness control themselves. Also you can use software options of which dark mode is one. However all these methods (with the exception of dark mode!) result in screwed up color depth (and thus excessive banding also) and dynamic range.

I grew up with white on black displays but these days I prefer black on white because it's easier to read with eyes that have astigmatism. But I end up using dark mode at night anyway because otherwise my display brightness just isn't bearable.

What doesn't help is that I live in a hot country with no AC and during summer I usually live with the windows open at night and the lights off to avoid attracting bugs. So it's difficult. I really wish display builders would optimize for low brightness more.
Just realized the fact I type like an American online (I'm British) would confuse someone for a little bit if they tried to de-anonymize me... (although they probably wouldn't struggle anyway)
Advertising has a large part to play here as well:

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/43985/webtoon-comics-pla...

And it's not just this one company: I don't read comics of any description (with the arguable exception of xkcd), but at one point my social media ads were saturated with borderline-NSFW spam for Korean porn comics. I was genuinely surprised the ads was allowed by the Google/Meta morality police, and after enough not interested/not appropriate reports it did stop as suddenly as it started. Or maybe they just ran out of ad budget?
It's not worthless research (not that you said it was), as it still validates various aspects of fusion energy and some of the engineering around it. And it's always been ahead of magnetic containment devices because they only have to keep the conditions for nanoseconds.

But NIF was never, and is not, designed to be a generating reactor, or even a prototype of a testbed. It's a weapons physics facility that happens to do some energy generating research sometimes.

That aside, hitting Q=1 (and be able to use the device again) in any way at all using any equipment is a major milestone that proves humans can get there. From that point, in theory, it's just engineering.
I try to not use products that don't respect me. That's fundamentally what keeps me almost exclusively on FOSS. Better alignment of incentives for what I'm trying to do.

It's worth noting that MS used to be far less hostile towards the user, and FOSS is not necessarily going to align with your incentives either[1]. To see what MS software was like before they became user-hostile, you can go to archive.org and get a download of Windows XP or older, along with some other MS software of the time, and try it in a VM.

[1] Notable examples being Ubuntu trying adware, the whole controversy surrounding systemd, and the direction Firefox is heading.
And deadlines are moved or features are cut in order to make them. “Pizza during weekend at the office” is just bad planning.
You underestimate how much workforce needed for elderly care industry. Some people need to quit job to care their parents, that become a problem. It steals workforce from other industry.
It has not been long enough to really see. Security? Backups? DB Admin? These are easy to cut now and suffer later. Maybe many of these employees were useless but if shit ever hits the fan and you get an all hands on deck situation will be the real test.
You could also consider it high coupling between two completely different code bases.

Or, the crime of making someone understand everything in order to understand some thing...
Yeah, I preferred Elon when he was just some rich guy and not a celebrity. But it's interesting that you don't seem to even consider that some people actually believe Fauci is a joke. Believe in science or not, Fauci said criticizing him is criticizing science. That's so narcissistic.
My lecturer in second year, > 20 years ago mind, said we are learning C, because C++ is C with an ugly object oriented graft on top.
I'm not sure, all of mines at big companies have followed this definition.
What the Quaker silence practice (amongst others) may counter is the always common human snare of responding not to the world, but to our overlearned internal chatter about it: an always-on autopilot. Twitter has externalised this, so what was previously burned into individual brains is now distributed amongst millions.

A social media advance would require some collective equivalent of that silence practice, something creating a bias towards curiously asking questions of the world, rather than parroting jointly practised accusations and answers. I don't know what could do that, because it's an ethic, not merely a procedure.

For individuals, getting off things like Twitter is a prerequisite for freedom.
At the individual level, the boundaries are really blurry. I'm a Russian. I know many Ukrainians. Often, when you meet a Ukrainian, you'll never know that they are, in fact, from Ukraine, unless you ask. Sometimes their pronunciation ("г" as "h" instead of "g") would give them away, but other than that, there are practically zero differences — especially cultural ones.

We really are mostly the same people and we should really be friends. Everyone would benefit from that. It's a shame that the ambitions of one person are splitting us apart like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

There are more than enough apocalypses to go around even if the optimists are right about this one.
I'm seeing the same thing as you. Interesting that Prime members are shown worse pricing by default, for slightly faster shipping. There is the usual caveat, hidden among a forest of other links, that the item "May be available at a lower price from other sellers, potentially without free Prime shipping."

In this case, the shipping is free either way, and the delivery date is similar for both (12/13 versus 12/14-16)
The header image there with the tall rack of cars certainly makes "Carvana crashes hard" and "has come crashing down" more vigorous and vicious. Props to the author.
Sure but we aren't even close to a space elevator to get satellites in orbit, no known material could handle being the cable, it's probably a century or more off, if it ever happens, so for now we have rockets.
It's the cartesian product. Think of it as a table with x labeling the top (x-axis) and y labeling the left side (y-axis). The cells of the table are the result of the product.

x 1 2
y |--------------
7 | (1,7) (2,7)
8 | (1,8) (2,8)
The problem is that if I don't recognize something from the pre-ai art era, then my knee-jerk assumption is that it's probably ai generated. So now all art is as worthless as the AI generated stuff.
Likewise, but please refute things you're actually familiar with. You've been arguing against what you think Marx has said rather than what he actually said. I think you could make some really compelling arguments against Marxism, but it would require you to read something you disagree with. You come across as a rational and intelligent person. I think you're fully capable of reading something you dislike in order to craft better arguments against it.
Excellent! This will make it much more browsable. Thanks!
Suggestion based on our parenting results, YMMV:

1. Enforced limits are adversarial.

2. Conversations around how the internet/devices etc are fantastic while fraught with a million pitfalls may seem too much for a 9yo to handle, but you might be surprised if you try.

3. In general, having healthier alternatives and some timely reminders work great. For example: If he is spending hours browsing the lego website, perhaps he'd love to try out a large lego project.

4. Teens and pre-teens right now will inhabit a world that is over-reactive to online stimuli. Being hygienic / responsible about the online world and screen time is an important skill to cultivate.
You pay a non insignificant amount more for this experience. Not that it isn't worth it to some people, you don't get a horrible price you're just guaranteed not a low price. True about the entire haggle free market though.
how does it matter? are we supposed to keep downsizing/downgrading from the high school cars just to make up for all these trends that we didn't choose?