skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry that you don't know how either the Bitcoin or Ethereum blockchains work but still have strong opinions about it.

To re-iterate, it's the users (with Full-Node) that decide which chain to follow. That is essentially what a hard-fork is (a portion of these users moving to a different chain) and it requires no special mining capabilities.

Miners follow the users, not the other way around. However, in reality, users are also led by network effects. Users can always cancel any chain the miners have decided to support if they collectively decide to do so.
Film students are more likely to have HPPD from their college years, so to them the film grain effect is normal.

(kidding)
Very much so. The character of Agent Cooper is interesting in this regard because his core nature imbues a cozy appreciation of these simple pleasures even though he is journeying through dark experiences.
Because you say so? Is that why it doesn't mean anything. At least the parent poster posted some links, you didn't and are still drawing baseless conclusions. Next time please do provide something more.
Nothing here happened on a blockchain. If it had there wouldn't have been problems. This is a typical finance market scam.
I'm actually not even sure that's it. What do you get with the tokens you're paid in? The ability to participate in society. There's no longer a society to participate in though as all the social institutions have been deconstructed. Marriage, land ownership, religion, tradition, real communities, family is still nominally there but there's little left of it. It's not like people are going to starve to death if they don't work (and is that something you even want?) so it's not happening.

Note that this isn't the first time in history this has happened.
> The instance timeline isn't a "community", it's just a particular filter applied to the global timeline.

Defaults matter. Usability matters. If that particular filter is the one that the community uses to communicate with each other, then who's included or excluded from that filter becomes very relevant.
You’re right; smaller-scale changes can be captured in errata.

However, some things move pretty quick and warrant updates to the whole document especially when the document is used a handbook in critical situations. The ACLS protocol manual, updated quinquennially, comes to mind.
"No one likes the content"

This is really the core problem, not AI. The Play Store is already full of lucrative garbage. But people download and pay, so by all metrics it's fine.

There's lot of artificial speech in memes. VTubers have been around for a long time and are very popular. Vocaloids too. If someone wants to ban "AI" they will have to define it separately from low quality autogenerated content, and it's easier to just ban low quality content.
> I created Portable Secret to securely exchange documents via email with my mother

Very solid use case here. I installed Signal on my mom's phone, but also her phone is full of scary apps. I feel like .. let it be.
Flywheels should be more efficient. With the current tech for mechanical <=> electrical conversion, a super-capacitor with 100% efficiency would be as efficient as a flywheel with ~65% efficiency for regen braking. The flywheels by GKN are ~98% efficient.

The downside is size and weight, which makes me believe miniaturization is the key.
A non-researched guess would be some trifecta of early retirement, lower immigration and gig work.

Gig work would be a more flexible alternative for a secondary wage earner.
- delivery (Amazon/Instacart/Doordash)
- rideshare (Uber/Lyft)
- homestay (Airbnb/Vrbo) cleaning
Friendly reminder that while businesses are screaming blue-bloody murder about inflation hurting them supposedly because of rising fuel/labor costs, corporate profits have gone up more than forty percent after adjusting for inflation.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/inflation-hasnt-been-bad-f...

https://www.epi.org/blog/corporate-profits-have-contributed-...

etc

The Fed is hard-selling a lie that inflation is due to supposedly skyrocketing labor costs and low unemployment. It's not. It's the ultra-wealthy jacking prices, squeezing the shit out of their workforces, converting everyone they can to "gig" or "contract" workers, and cheapening their services and products like they're trying to get blood out of a stone. The pandemic caused a stunning jump in concentration of wealth.

That's why we have historic numbers of open job positions. The jobs are there, but people don't want them because a)the pay and benefits have been squeezed down to the barest minimums b)the conditions suck c)employers are exceedingly demanding in terms of qualifications.

A perfect example would be the status quo in IT and development. Everyone and their mother and cousin wants to hire a Senior DevOps engineer with three pages worth of skills and two decades of engineering or development skills. Forget "ground floor" opportunities, companies aren't even interested in offering 2nd or 3rd floor opportunities, like bringing in traditional IT infrastructure folks and training them in the transition to cloud-based stuff and devops methodologies.

Go pop open Indeed and surf a bunch of low-level support positions and look at the CVS-receipt-length list of required skills/technologies and the huge list of responsibilities for a position that probably pays $40k in a lower income rural area to $60k if you're lucky in one of the higher COL metropolitan markets.
You are right when it comes to general purpose compilers.

You can do a lot more if you just want to speed up your codebase.

All the big tech companies employ multiple hundred compiler engineers each for this purpose.
Even if this anecdote were true, it’s just an anecdote. It’s important not to let anecdotes influence you emotionally. All types of individuals, religious or otherwise, do messed up things. Cherry picking examples that fit your world view is a great way to succumb to confirmation bias.
That isn’t how physics works - you have to spend energy to counteract that kinetic energy you’ve ineluctably released by going downhill.

This sort of edge case maximalism feels useless and needlessly contrarian - it seems as though if I were to claim you can pay for things by credit card, you’d claim “that doesn’t work what if the power is out”.
> Seems like a language design flaw that this is slow

I think stack traces take up much of the time, including converting it [1]. Without them it could probably be a lot faster. Also see hashmash's post.

But other than that, there is the logic issue, not using exceptions for normal flow control makes sense at least to me too independent of any performance questions.

[1] For a Java example: https://ionutbalosin.com/2018/06/getting-the-stack-trace-ver...
I think meta is being too precious and fussy with horizon worlds.

People don't like it because it's meant to be this curated family-friendly plastic-happiness group-hug thing. Guess what, adults don't like this.

We all have rough edges and that part of our time we really find the most exciting is found by playing with the edges of our comfort zone. Not just when our clothes come off but also things like horror etc. Horizons pretends that space doesn't exist. It focuses on this kid-friendly world and obviously kids have the least spending power.

Also they've been too careful. Moderators constantly looking over our shoulders. EU users only being allowed recently. No wonder people aren't using it because a lot of them just couldn't!

I see they're upping their game now because when I create a room I can now mark it as adult. Still it doesn't really allow nudity etc but it's a good step in the right direction.

It's often mentioned that betamax lost to VHS because it didn't allow porn. That the internet got big because of it. These things are not really true and are much more complex in reality however I do think these points would have been part of the overall equation. Facebook is making the same mistake once again by pretending it has zero influence on the success of a platform. That's not true either. Those furries on VRChat are drivers of the platform. They're helping to make it big, not an impediment.
Actual complaint / PDF: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-2...
If/else statements don't bubble and exceptions do. The code samples in this example are clearly simple representations of the pattern, but the pattern is to call into a more complex function than `get_positive_value`.
People that cannot demonstrate a working knowledge of Linux system internals never pass interviews with me.

I tend to catch the CS bootcamp types cold because I only ask real world practical debugging questions that select for experience.
Similar to dithering, I believe film grain does help you resolve finer visual details. Having no texture would cause issues when trying to match things shot on different cameras as well. I agree with you that many movies and shows are guilty of adding so much grain it becomes distracting, but I was watching Schindler's List in UHD and loved how natural it looked. Things like clothing just felt more real and I didn't realize until the end that it was because of the expertly used film grain. The value of grain becomes obvious when you look at clips of that movie online.

https://www.audiocheck.net/audiotests_dithering.php
A Camera for Any Microcontroller, and for TinyML Projects
This is how flexible the camera truly can be:

- Any 8-bit/16-bit/32-bit MCU from any vendor.
- Any architecture (ARM/RISC-V/etc.)
- Any dev boards.
- Any interface. (SPI/simply 4-free GPIO)
- Any scale. (single/multiple cameras)
- Any developer. (open-source SDK)
- Any MCU-based application/system.
- Any MV-related industry.
Genuine fake watches.
What does “time limited” mean here?
The mode was in the 85 and over. The mean was less.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...

https://blogs.worldbank.org/developmenttalk/too-young-die-ag...

You will note that for the US, approximately 25% of the excess deaths in 2021 were from people 64 and younger.

That is still a large number.

Also note:

> And among high income countries, one notable outlier is the United States, which has a much younger profile of deaths than its income-level would suggest.

That hit minorities, lower income, and "essential workers" harder than other areas. These are the people who are cleaning rooms and working hospitality and service sectors.
I've been looking for something just like Indelible!

I just tried it out but got the error when I tried to save a draft: "Argument schedule for data.prompt.create.schedule must not be null. Please use undefined instead." — this is from starting off of the tutorial, and trying to hit save.
To my eyes, a lot of film sets look too pristine when shot as-is, the grains help to make the sets look a little dirty and worn for that added realism.

Alternatively you can paint/airbrush every set piece to add that used/worn look, but I don’t think it’s economically feasible.
Mine has gone up at a rate pretty close to that over three years. You might consider switching companies.
While many compilers are originally written in C or C++, most are soon rewritten in themselves.
Exceptions are not the Error/Result type in Rust, they are panics. Which can be very expensive. But thankfully rust does them right and only uses them for unrecoverable errors.
The percentage of developers that do C might be shrinking but the number of C developers surely has to be increasing. You can barely throw a rock in a major city without it landing on a developer nowadays.
Thanks for this short and fine example of Java optimization. I still have a lingering loathing for the language based on the 2000s era marketing, but technically speaking there's rather a lot to like about the java ecosystem.
Huh? It’s for skylake which works imply x64 no? I doubt Daniel Lenore is running 32 but code given his background of focusing on applying AVX everywhere which requires x64. X64 uses itanium exception handling.
> Academia decided that this isn't realistically "feasible" and moved on to some much simpler approaches like pure functional programming and prove systems bases on depended types.

This is not entirely true. Patrick Cousot‘s group, which invented the theory of abstract interpretation, kept working on it and produced Astree.

I had previously been under the impression that Astree was from the same people that made Compcert C, but upon double checking for this reply, I realized that was wrong. The two groups are both in France though. It was an easy mistake to make considering that Absint sells licenses for both.

> Trying to make static guaranties about imperative code is indeed a dead end by now.

The astree static analyzer is available from Absint. One of the inventors of both it and the theory on which it is based is also still alive:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Cousot

His software is in use at the ESA and other places.

NASA is using software it wrote in house based on that theory:

https://www.nasa.gov/aero/ikos.html

Presumably, NASA heard about Astree from the ESA and decided to make its own tool, possibly due to NIH syndrome. I am not sure if NASA counts as academia.

This is far from a dead end, even if most researchers cannot be bothered to do things in that area. You will probably find a number of the ones that can be bothered to do things in that area at farma-c:

https://frama-c.com/
The main feature that enticed large hedge fund traders to trade on there over the likes of Binance was because they offered unlimited size on altcoins; most altcoins on binance futures are limited to about $2 million notional, so if you want to build a large position, you'd have to apply for a subaccount for each position and manage them separately.

But no, they didn't offer any unique products their competitors don't have.
Miniaturization doesn't make sense for flywheels; to increase energy stored by a flywheel you need to do one of:

1. Increasing RPM

2. Increasing the mean radius of the mass

3. Increasing the weight

Two of these directly impact either size or weight (#2 and #3 respectively) and the first one is limited by the tensile strength of the materials in use. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the F1 teams were already using exotic materials, so there may not be a lot of ground to gain here.
I am interested in the convergence of AI-generated code and programs-as-proofs: can I work together with AI using a language with a highly expressive type system such that we co-develop a specification in types and properties, then co-develop the implementations that fit the specification.

It's not practical to do that sort of thing alone, as there's a lot of tedious nonsense involved. Maybe it will be more practical with an AI assistant.

Whether current AIs are more or less somewhat close to the basics of how humans might be approaching code writing is more of a philosophical point, but a "translation room" view of the human mind might on occasion make me feel like I'm just working off patterns from my data sets. :-)
Back before I converted the back end of the D compiler from C++ to D, I ran a couple of static checkers over it. Thousands of errors were found. I was rather excited, here are lots of bugs I can fix at very low cost!

I only found one actual bug. While I was happy to get that fixed, the overall result was disappointing.

My conclusion that the best path forward was to design a language where a static analysis tool would add no value.
Interesting this school had or has a controversial admissions policy. I also recognize that Harvard’s at the Supreme Court.

I genuinely do not understand the logic behind what is essentially skin-color diversity.

(https://www.scotusblog.com/2022/04/court-allows-elite-virgin...)
I've personally watched people go from the food industry into software development because COVID reduced demand for restaurants for years.
I’ve never heard this and am fascinated. Where can I read more?
As a TJ C/O 2002 graduate, this is pretty wild to hear. The national merit scholar announcements were a big deal when I was there. There was a school wide announcement and the list of what everyone got was distributed by the school.

Actually, it looks like the Washington Post used to publish the lists at least as late as 2014. I don’t see anything from WaPo after that though.
My main hesitation is that I like being able to drop my vimrc anywhere and have an (almost) identical editor experience, rather than having to maintain one config for vim and one for neovim. Been meaning to try neovim out though!
There are even some open source projects in this space. Why not?
I don't think they check such things at the airport, but I have no idea. Certainly you can drive without any checks into a neighboring EU country and fly from there.
As the article says, that's just a P2P social network by the back door, with a software system that's overcomplicated and poorly tuned for that use case.
One of the main indicators of in the study you linked was sales volume, i.e. demand.

> It really doesn't matter that a store can make a healthy profit by serving customers who live in a low income area. If that same store feels that they could make even greater profits by being in an area with wealthier customers

This only holds true if a chain can open a fixed amount of stores. In reality, they can open as many stores as they want provided that the stores operate profitably.
I like the point that "logic" is not going to win the argument. I see so often people arguing against those with vastly different views and basically talking to them like children, like linking to articles or studies that explain a belief that is obvious and well known. When the source of disagreement is as you say far deeper, often outside the realm of fact and down to philosophy, and just gets ignored in favor of assuming people that disagree must be stupid
It is just like Reflection. Usual business logic should not use it, but all complex libraries (ORM, MVC, Dependency Injection) use Reflection and won't be ergonomic without it.

Same way, the jsx is advanced API. You will have complex logic, when you are authoring super reusable components for a variety of use cases. And jsx helps you in making it possible.

While allows you to use simpler approach for rest of the codebase
Frost Flower
Yeah but that's not the context of this use. Why are they taking something made for browsers (where architecture neutrality is important) and using it for sandboxing, instead of faster sandboxed (not VMed) native?
I just put configuration settings in config.py and import them.

Problem solved.

Plus I have the full programming language available, not some textual subset with Yet Another Dependency to read it.
I had been hitting one host almost exclusively. That host probably went down and I didn't think to move to another. Thanks!
Yes, but the only problem with stereotypes is,
again, the actions that result.

What about a coworker who screams obscenities, threatens violence, claims "Hitler didn't go far enough", makes unwanted sexual comments, and casually talks about raping the secretary?

Is this okay as long as he doesn't actually do any of those things? After all, only actions matter... right?

No. Clearly there is a line across which speech alone is rotten enough that we don't allow it. [1]

If you think that repeatedly equating "Jewishness" to "being a greedy money-grubber" doesn't cross that line, fine.

But don't pretend the line doesn't exist. It's disingenuous at best.

___

[1] Of course, context matters. Suppose your job is music producer, and your coworker sings/raps about heinous things as a part of their art. That's probably okay! Or suppose some "offensive" thing was a slip of the tongue, or an honest mistake made through ignorance. I've been "that guy" more than once.
Google's SRE interview, the SA track one, have a 45-min interview solely focused on Linux system internals. (In addition to standard LeetCode, networking & troubleshooting components.)

A few other larger companies do this as well for SRE interviews.
To refine inetknght's point. Assuming people are perfect economically rational actors we can also assume they have made the comparative advantage computation and found that it is economically better for them to do their own repairs.

I also think you have the causal relationship backwards. Having an advance society of experts leads to less people doing everything on their own and doing their own repairs.
I admit I was skeptical. I filtered for the streaming services I have and the top result was "Arcane: League Of Legends" (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/arcane_league_of_legends). I mentally scoffed. I've never played League of Legends and have zero interest in watching a show based on it. Then I read the reviews and now I plan to watch it.

So, two thumbs up, I found something new to watch. Does what it says on the tin.
This is not true. CS graduates were overwhelmingly not employed in their field after graduation. Outside of a few "top" schools that funnel into big tech. We have had an oversaturation of devs for years.
> Is syntax really that big of an obstacle to learning a first programming language?

Of course. Compare, at the extremes, languages like APL or Brainfuck to something like Python or Scratch. Syntax is a huge factor in people wanting to learn to code or not.
This is blatantly false. The Portland Police have more funding now than ever.
They aren't a subset of reasoning, they are data points that could be reasoned about (like whether it could be recognised as something known as a notion of <statistical correlation> and whether it make sense from a semantic point of view). Data points could be statistical or non-statistical, and it's the reasoning mind that distinguishes between the two alternatives based on other notions of the world phenomena that make statistics distinguished from non-statistics.

A method of producing statistical correlations is a product of a reasoning mind and could be thought of as a subset of reasoning (if by "subset" we assume "everything produced by a reasoning mind via an act of reasoning"), but in order to recognise this "subset" another reasoning mind should firstly internalise the notions of statistics that are external phenomena to an act of reasoning itself. And "the act of reasoning" isn't proven to be "just something that produces correlations", it's more than that and nobody knows what exactly it is. Otherwise AI would be solved long time ago.
That’s actually a remarkably insightful comment. Thank you for that.
> you explained the 1000 ft view of how Flash works

I second that. I find the better someone knows a subject, the harder it is for them to provide this perspective, making it all the more impressive.
How to Use ChatGPT and Still Be a Good Person
I mean you claimed categorically that they definitely do not do it, and now it's changing to maybe they do in some parts of the company.

I feel like it's common on HN for people to overstate their credentials, only to find out that they were like an intern or barely worked at a place for a year and then they talk like they're experts on a subject. At any rate, it's not that important either way, but I do find it interesting how decisive people can be on this site about things that are fairly easy to falsify.
Thanks Google et al!!
Python was never designed to be performance sensitive. Most of python’s high performance libraries were written in C/C++.
As a long-ago C programmer (late 80s, early 90s), this series of articles is so cool. I know there will be comments complaining that it doesn't go far enough (compared to modern languages), and it stretches comprehensibility to do it, but I just appreciate the technical nous to come up with this scheme. Well played!
I don't know how it is now, but back in the day C++ exceptions were so messy and non-performant that Google forbid their use in company C++ code. And they employed at least one member of the standards committee!
Hodl til the end of time and diversify elsewhere. It's a gamble, but if you sold TSLA or FB stocks right after they vested, you'd be kicking yourself now.