skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am supposing that the further back in time you go, the more likely it is that simplicity and performance would influence language and compiler design. As opposed to developer experience.

I think this can be supported by the fact that these fancy language features have been successfully implemented for decades and are only now showing up in mainstream languages.
I don't want to hop on the "just do this" train, but I'll say that sitting on a ski lift and talking with a random stranger about their life is a simple joy. You probably won't see that person ever again on a big mountain, but you can learn a lot about them. Underrated social activity.
The most telling image to me is that one with the meter indicating reflected power in kilowatts. If they employ any kind of automatic antenna tuning, I'd be curious to see its internals.
> I think this is could be a rational matter of trust.

You trust your tribe, because it's your tribe. I don't think it's "some benefit of doubt" for very complex issues, it's basic stuff. The study mentioned is about welfare policy.

> One version provided generous benefits, whereas the other version provided stringent benefits. Informal pilot testing confirmed both that self-identified liberals preferred the generous policy to the stringent one and that self-identified conservatives preferred the stringent policy to the generous one

So it's not like "I know Neil and trust him and he's been working on anti-gravity for years, so if he says the right equation are these 44 pages, I'll take it", it's "I know Neil and trust him. If he says we have to sacrifice our firstborns, I'll get the axe."
Considering something like torchgeo (https://github.com/microsoft/torchgeo), or maybe some geospatial library written in Julia.

> but the problem I have is that everything seems to just work and I don't run into many issues to fix.

May I point you at linux audio? ;-) Getting any type of DAW working in linux without having to do some crazy rewiring with jack would be a godsend.
Sorry, yes, I should have said that this is a bullet I think the donor would have bitten at the time, not necessarily a bullet they would bite today in the post-FTX lower-funding environment.
Elizabeth Holmes and Jeffrey Skilling were free for years following the collapse of their schemes.
The idea that we have to use force to take money away from people to take care of those in need doesn’t make me genuinely happy. That is rather depressing that we cannot solve those problems without ultimatums based on violence. Necessary? Maybe. Wholesome? Not really.
The 'room for error' so you can reap long-term upsides was a fresh one for me. As well as clearly listing how other competitive advantages don't outweigh these:

> The only truly sustainable sources of competitive advantage I know of are:

Learn faster than your competition.
Empathize with customers more than your competition.
Communicate more effectively than your competition.
Be willing to fail more than your competition.
Wait longer than your competition.

> Everything else – intelligence, design, insight – gets smashed to pieces by competitors who are almost certainly as smart as you.
I taught myself Dart a couple of years ago, and enjoyed the language, but never found a compelling use for it.

For anything I might do in Dart, there's a better alternative. For backend stuff, I'm going to write in Java or Kotlin. For frontend stuff, I'm going to write in JS or TypeScript. I like Flutter, but Flutter by itself isn't reason enough to adopt Dart.

Long term, if Jetpack for Desktop actually takes off, I don't see any reason to write in anything but Kotlin.
The videos they do are very interesting too, though I prefer the write-up for more thoughtful consumption. I would love to see more behind the scenes tours of interesting commercial or industrial sites by their engineers. Anyone have a good collection of these?
When setting up DuckDuckGo's Cloud Save, a ''Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data'' button is provided, and when selected displays four fields containing the data needed to replicate your selected configuration.

Bookmarklet URL

Cloud Save Bookmarklet URL

Settings in JSON

Cookie data

and a glossary of URL parameters is provided:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/settings/params/

I'm interested in whether you feel the data shown is vulnerable to exploitation or other problems.
For everyone on this thread making broad proclamations about how SBF will go to jail because of American justice--I'll see you back here in a year or two. Then we can have that conversation.

In the meantime, I suggest that you consider whether you would reevaluate your priors in any meaningful way if, as I expect, SBF is ultimately not prosecuted.
According to this article https://perens.com/2017/02/14/bsl-1-1/ about the Business Source License, the intention conveyed by the word "production" for that license is use "in any capacity that is meant to make money".
It's very likely that an attempt on his part to sue Microsoft would fail on the grounds that a tacit agreement was reached for the use of the work, based on his acceptance of payment. However, it doesn't sound like there was any agreement, tacit or otherwise, that the license should be exclusive. So he's still well within his rights to dedicate it to the public domain.
Can't confirm. I have more than 32GiB of memory and very fast storage and I see freezes more often than something being killed. The worst I saw was LUKS/dm-crypt being unable to allocate memory and slightly corrupting one of the mounted filesystems.

Linux Desktop in OOM situations is absolutely trash.
Given that they can represent continuous functions you can lightly modify them to produce all sorts of interesting behavior like piecewise continuity as well.

The training thing is important though. There are problems which are arbitrarily likely to have all training algorithms fail, not just in a practical sense, but as a fundamental limitation.
Let's not forget extradition is in Bahamian jurisdiction. The Bahamian politicians will most likely want their cut and stall extradition, and to do that they can either 1) shake down FTX leaders or 2) cut a deal with US extradition courts for cash. I don't see 2) working out since the case is so public. There wont be a snatch and grab either. I don't see a extradition until all the local cash is gone from FTX leaders and the Bahamians lose interest which could be years if not a decade. I bet the Bahamians already took FTX leaders passports and are seizing properties.
Can confirm, got covid in Dec 2020 and have it 24x7 every day since (-:
You, along with most people on this site, are not the average consumer for these type of chat apps though. People aren't exhausting the help center, reading FAQ's, searching other sites, they're probably barely even reading anything on a help center at all.
There were still various 'hard' fixed function components in GPUs which would cause that kind of visual difference back in the day.

Technically this does sort of still happen these days (eg the period of time when NVIDIA cards had ray tracing support but AMD cards did not, the quality of the video encoder, or nowadays with the various super-resolution methods used by each vendor), in which case those do tend to get treated separately in third-party benchmarks since not everyone really cares for the quality of those.
Are you referring to the IPCC chart in the post? Or another chart? If so, maybe shoot me a link? The chart in the post starts at 1850.
Interestingly, one of the ways that they hedged this bet was by designing it to be easily converted into a cargo plane (though the assumption was the supersonic aircraft would be the replacements).
Americans would be OK hearing that too. It's just a more complicated grammar to parse.

Curiosity: How do you call the terminals on a battery?
Hey! Buy the way I have plans to support different protocols later such as HTTP, GraphQL, etc. :)
ok- so if I understand those terms, roughly(?):

support --> contact system for humans to reach other humans with bugs or questions

indemnity --> a legal statement by the vendor that the client is not responsible for long term liability for patents or legal challenges

assurance --> a legal statement that the vendor will take responsibility if the product is not what it appears to be, or is missing parts that are required to fit a purpose

establish a legal framework --> define the copyrights and governing law for rights, responsibilities and disputes between the vendor, their suppliers, the customer and their agents
A true power law would say that there's a diminishing number of chess-players the further out you go along the long tail. But in practice, there are zero chess-players better than the world champion. It may look like a power law within some window, but power laws don't have a cutoff point.

That is what I'm saying about smart people; I don't accept that there are people arbitrarily smarter than the average. My guess is that the cutoff is somewhere around double the average (modulo your method for measuring smartness).
Bernie Madoff was arrested so quickly because he confessed directly to FBI agents, after confessing to his sons who contacted the FBI:

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/there-is-no-innocent-expla...
If Elizabeth Holmes is going to jail then SBF probably is too.
I started hearing a similar sound recently. I don't know if the fact that I had been sitting in a loud open office layout for a year or two was related, or a coincidence. Like others here, I listened to a lot of loud music over the years, mostly using earbuds and headphones, with a few live shows. Also like others here, I've found the usual combination of (lack of) exercise/sleep/stress are factors, and I suspect age contributes as well.
This is big reason why I prefer work form home - I get to comfortably shit in my own toilet. That is a luxury that cannot be underestimated.
> All in all, I didn't see the benefit given that server-side scanning was accepted as legitimate and sufficiently effective by just about everyone, but without the risks of client-side scanning.

Oh, absolutely—unless you want to prevent super-easy use for storing CSAM while also having E2E encrypted storage. Which I'm still nearly-certain was their entire reason for wanting to do that in the first place—which isn't to say there can't also be legitimate concerns about such functionality, I just don't think it was some kind of nefarious plot on their part. At this point I expect they're sitting on the feature until or unless there's public outrage over their inability to provide evidence in some kind of CSAM case or investigation—if that doesn't happen, fine, if it does, they'll push it out as soon as that sentiment overwhelms the anti-scanning one.
I read this post as a startup team member who's had to deal with similar problems with others once a startup makes money where people are under the misconception that they had an outsized impact on the whole thing when they contributed only a bit and now wanted more than they got, which they were happy with at the time. It's just after they see the success that their brain goes into an invalid state and suddenly feel entitled. Like you read about people's long lost relatives suing lotto winners. That's what this is.
The Lord wrote in Lisp code.

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/eternal-flame.en.html
You know what "more than" is? A comparison.
I never thought about it before but on mars a latitude/longitude(at the equator) is about 37 miles(60 km) vs roughly 70 miles(112 km) on earth.
The common refrain to this point is:

Yes, because she stole money from rich people.

Which I kind of have to agree with. Steal from the masses and you can get away with it, steal from the powerful and it's all hands on deck. See also: police not caring at all about your stolen car/property but SWAT will descend like a swarm if you piss off the wrong politician or threaten well-funded interests.
I have serious doubts about people's familiarity with the alternatives if they say something like this.
Here are some goals I'll be seeking next year:

- read more. Read a couple of books this year, but I just want more, and more deep reflections on them.

- knowledge base: have more trackability around the stuff I like. So I'm getting into knowledge base management so that I can have pre written ideas and have a more easy path towards some future projects. Having that become a habbit is a goal for me.

- learn react + d3. Being a data scientist, I've always loved the cool data viz projects I've seen around the web, so I'd like to get my feet wet in the world.

- masters degree: I have had as a goal to join a masters program in statistics because it is a discipline I really enjoy studying and feel I can actually enjoy my routine during the 2 years I would be locked into. Now that I have the financial stability to maybe quit work for a while (or have another less demanding type of work), I feel the could be feasable.

- To get better at basketball. I have always loved that sport and it helped me get fit. But I've never been particulary good at it, so I'd like to improve to have more fun at pickup games.
Not that far away from the TV commercials of some major hardware store running in this season and advertizing chain-saws, drills, and lawn-mowers nicely wrapped under the Xmas tree...
> Why not offer 1 million for the signed contract?

If I were offered that out of the blue, I'd be wondering what true value I'm holding to make that signature so important.
Notice just how little has been said by other top FTX/Alameda people? Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Caroline Ellison, Sam Trabucco, etc? Those people are trying to not go to jail.

Sam seems to be taking an approach of "they cant indict me if I dont stop confessing to crimes".
Debian historically does not maintain multiple versions of PHP in official channels. Your options are:

1. Compile PHP yourself (no)

2. Use an untrusted third party repo (probably not)

3. Upgrade OS to latest

4. (apparently) Use FreeBSD instead.

For all I know this could change. The current release schedule of PHP is greatly accelerated from what it was 5-10 years ago, and we're all still adjusting I think.
This is unreasonably cute.
I think this is a good decision. If we must switch to cloud storage, something I wouldn't necessarily recommend, anything else than an extremely strict data protection policy and encryption is a huge security issue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGHGtJiDlxw

Old but gold. Maybe staged.
This needs a tldr...
I like this line of thought, as it resonates with my own experiences. But I also think things (physical or virtual) are far less important than relationships when it comes to a fulfilling life. We have some basic human needs that have less to do with acquiring stuff, and more to do with being needed/useful, being creative, having purpose, overcoming obstacles, etc...
The most important thing to remember is that Dart doesn't support shared memory concurrency in the traditional sense. It's modeled after JavaScript's WebWorkers (message passing).
[I'm the eng lead for Dart.]

Dart itself is used heavily on the Web by Google. E.g., ads.google.com is a Dart web app - but not a Flutter one. It uses a Dart version of the Angular framework. It's probably the largest Dart app in existence today.

Flutter on the Web is less mature, but (IMO) making good progress.
When I took a course in game design years ago I recall a lecture that distinguished between "toys" and "games". A game has an objective whereas a toy does not.

Now, you can start with a toy (like The Sims or a regulation basketball or a pencil, paper, and dice) and create a game around it by applying rules, goals, and objectives. They may be defined by others or you may be creating the game in your own mind -- either way the toy is a piece of equipment used to play the game, it is not in and of itself a game.

Your wife may not enjoy electronic toys like Sim City or Rim World, but perhaps you could pique her interest by working together to come up with games that the two of you could play using those toys?
I see 5 years as a good minimum for LTS. Perhaps it's a personal bias, since our OS of choice (Debian) offers LTS for 5 years.

Edit for context: the small business that I work for takes on all kinds of random web work. It's not uncommon at all for us to be asked to rescue an application or website that's still running on PHP 5. For projects that we have initiated, by the time we migrate them all to PHP 8.2, it will be End of Life.
Holy Grail of Smooth Front End Web Animations
Man let them decide themselves what they want. What if their education was covid-like for remote places. Or doctors looking how to do procedures on youtube (not joking, junior doctors do it frequently even in Switzerland).

If you want off-beaten path for yourself without internet there are still plenty of small islands in 3rd world countries like Philippines. Or mountains in India, Nepal, Pakistan and so on. HN is a massive bubble, real life (TM) looks differently out there.
I say this with all the love in the world: it's hard for engineers to think like artists and vice-versa.

As an engineer, I understand the importance of logic, precision, and efficiency. But as an artist, I also know the value of creativity, expression, and intuition. These two ways of thinking are often at odds with each other, and it can be challenging for an engineer to understand the artistic mindset and for an artist to grasp the engineering perspective.

Despite the differences, both engineers and artists play important roles in the world and can learn from each other. By combining their unique perspectives and skills, they can create truly amazing things.

That said, even that is an oversimplification. There are lawyers, sales people, management, etc., thrown into the mix.
Just going to point out that federal grand juries are secretive as hell. And they take a super long time. FTX imploded weeks ago and I don't expect an indictment to be handed down before the end of 2023.

Theranos started to collapse in 2015 before going bankrupt in 2018. And the founders were only convicted now. 7 years after journalist and investors started really looking into them.
Can we stop with the obsession over this dude / FTX / crypto? I know that's like asking Reddit to stop making everything a joke, but here's hoping maybe we're mature enough to stop gossiping and praying for someone's downfall. Life is too short to spend your time obsessed with negativity.
Why Tamper-Proof Messaging Matters
The article doesn't claim that he is a supergenius. He might be just dumb fuck giving those interviews. But anyway his one and only objective is avoiding jail and I think that is true. He doesn't give a fuck about customers etc, he only does what he does because he wants to avoid jailtime, whether it is dumb or smart is irrelevant.
I missed the part where language design is a solved problem and everyone is able to create a perfect programming language on their first try. Do you want every language to just be slightly different Rust?
No one, not even a super rich “genius” can come in to a company, having done no due diligence, and within 2 weeks correctly and rapidly identify the over half of staff that are in fact redundant and not critical to operations. Add to that the cultural problems causing mass resignations, and even if you are 100% correct that it was over staffed, then it’s clear that this was not the correct way to handle it, and even the smallest modicum of common sense would clearly show that.
I love the idea of sound null checks, but doesn't Dart also have unchecked exceptions? To me it seems a bit weird to focus so heavily on type soundness when at any moment a piece of code could throw an unexpected exception that kills your program. I realize these are very different features, but a language is more than the sum of its parts. While I realize every language has some level of unchecked exceptions out of necessity (ie. panics on divide by zero, etc.), they are not meant as general level error checking, but as more of a "can't continue - things are that bad" kind of mechanism.

In summary, if they are that convinced sound null types are needed, to me it needs better error handling that matches the same level of discipline. That said, any and all improvements are always welcome, so I do think overall it is cool they are taking this seriously.
Safari has done this for a long time when you have multiple tabs with similar titles open.

I think the intent is to increase the unique text within the tab titles when you are reading sites that have titles like "My Blog - Tuesday's Article" and "My Blog - Wednesday's Article"; otherwise these would both shorten to "My Blog - ..." as tab count increases, or as other tab width constraints come in to play.

Granted, the heuristic for identifying common text between tabs isn't always great and can sometimes just result in titles looking cut-off.
He was wrong on this but just in the amount. A billion dollars isn't that much these days.
I realized this yesterday: Representation is worthless in terms of peoples feelings, but it gives certain cultures examples of appropriate behaviour and people to look up to, so that they're not only influenced by their single parents and local culture.
"Scott free" is maybe a bit strong, but it's totally plausible that he'll walk away with a slap on the wrist. White collar crime is famous for leading to leniency.
You don't need to keep all the supporting industries.

If global supply chains collapse tomorrow, farms will continue to operate even if they can't buy new robotic combines, so long as the old ones haven't broken down. We need enough parts to maintain those for long enough to adapt (probably by going back to simpler technologies).

If, tomorrow, the US depended on manually picking crops, the US wouldn't collapse if Silicon Valley suddenly switched from building software to harvesting crops by hand. Same thing for most services -- lawyers, therapists, professors, teachers, etc. Some of those would be *painful*, and the economy might be set back by a half-century, but we'd be alive, and we'd eventually recover.

To globalize:

* Pre-SaaS software. If the US had disappeared in a nuclear war with Russia, Windows 95 wouldn't get any upgrades, but it would keep working for the installed base worldwide.

* Entertainment and education.

* Luxury goods.

* Cars, building materials, and similar, so long as we maintain the basic capacity to keep supply chains going and provide basic shelter.

* Digital cameras, trash cans, furniture, kitchen appliances, and 90% of the other stuff we buy
While FTX US did operate in the US, its finances were never nearly as fucked up as FTX (The Behamas company) was, especially with its relationship with Alameda.
People with money don't go to jail so long as they one of a few things are true

1) They still have money (he doesn't seem to have so much anymore)

2) They already traded money for power so people feel they owe him favors (no indication of this)

3) He didn't screw over other rich people (seems he did screw over other rich people)

The third one in particular is important. Messing with other rich people's money is far and away the easiest way to get yourself thrown in jail despite any wealth you might have.