skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Carmack has simply hit a ceiling that others won't let him pass. Carmack isn't in authority, and as such, he has to rely purely on influence. Hard to do when you are focused on technology, because technology and humans are quite different (yet also similar). He's making it clear that his political effectiveness is limited and he has no motivation to continue his fight. It happens. You only have so much energy to spend in any given time period, you have to spend it where it will do you and others the most good. Everyone eventually learns from these things. It takes time. And how each person defines success will be a bit different.
Hard to say. I think Darklang isn't yet useful enough to know for sure (not enough users, for example).

Maybe a good way to think about it is whether Firebase would be better if it was source available. Probably for users it would be very helpful. But also not enough to make people choose it if it wasn't good.

I will say it's definitely a lot better for us and our users than if we were closed source. It makes a lot of things much much easier (I have half a blog post on it, ping me to read it)!
Yeah, and why not ask them or use their own product features to compare product details...

One might even learn something about leverage offered by the tools...likely not a conspiracy to meaninglessly suck up funding
This is another reason why Common Lisp style condition system (where exception handlers can execute without unwinding the stack) just seems to work better. If you need the stack, get the stack, if you don't then just use handler-case. I really don't see the downside for any language that has anonymous function literals.
Is that your personal promo link?
On top of everything else, the behavior of exceptions when mixed with setjmp and longjmp is undefined, which can be a real problem if you're using any libraries that you haven't exhaustively analyzed to confirm that they don't use that feature. If memory serves, this includes things like the Lua interpreter (ETA: this used to be true. ca 2008, the Lua interpreter was changed so that it can conditionally compile to implement its try/catch via setjmp / longjmp or via C++ exceptions).

I generally consider exceptions in C++ harmful and avoid them if possible. It is not, unfortunately, always possible, as exceptions are the only way the language defines for constructors to fail.
Well, Halted had a tube tester in the corner until the day they closed a couple years ago. There are NOS audio tubes still available. But if the random stuff showing up in my Youtube feed is any indication, the cool kids these days are learning glass blowing and making vacuum tubes from scratch.
I've seen a few discussions about this on HN but I don't understand, why does everyone assume its even possible to ban it?

How would that even work without false positives?

For example with comments, in the worst case an AI model could just output a real comment from the training set verbatim
Fight Club without the grain is irrational
That's incorrect. Many IRC networks evolved to have some form of identity verification through nickserv especially on the larger networks where dealing with certain individuals or impersonation required verification. And your second point is also incorrect as there were many umbrella servers that would be used for various communities to call home in a proto-Discord world.

> That's exactly the bug. Imagine if one IRC network blacklisted you just because you chatted on another IRC network.

This is exactly what IRC networks did. They maintained a blacklist of hosts that were compromised in case of spyware, or if users were particularly prolific and abusive across networks. Mastodon just makes that explicit.
I guess unless your codec handles water physics.

Which is not quite as absurd as it sounds. Have a look at the reflections in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0
Most people never saved most things. You can save things from Snapchat. Instagram didn't obsolete mementos and history.
The primary structural issue is that low-income wages have completely stagnated if not fallen with the inflation over the last several decades while wages for mid-upper to ultrawealthy have gone up, dramatically.

The number of places in the US that you can get a 2BR home, rental or owning, on minimum wage is basically non-existent.

We're on the verge of large swaths of the US population effectively becoming serfs. Housing is being snapped up by corporations, banks are jacking their fees and making more and more people "unbankable" forcing them into non-bank situations like payroll-company-run quasi-debit-cards where withdrawing their wages costs money.

Consider this: Elon Musk at peak of his wealth had more money than all the residents of Massachusetts (itself quite a wealthy state) combined, by a significant margin.

We're at a stage where we have what amounts to feudal lords in all but name, complete with their own private security forces going around roughing up people.
What kind of answer are you looking for? There are people who live on less than $40k without even meaning to. It's not an outrageous number, but sure, would be harder with chronic health issues and so-so insurance.
> You could directly encode the elements as understanded by the process used to generate them, rather than attempting to reconstitute things from a stream of bitmaps.

You might like Gan Theft Auto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0
Isn’t the size of the fraud one of the major factors in the guidelines? If so, it may not be 110 years, but it’s got to be a big number?
502 bad gateway. Followed a link to the wayback machine but that page didn't do anything.
For what role? I wouldn't for example expect that for a full stack role, but I would for something like DevOps or SRE.
> If there was another tier that had an even faster and more pleasant experience, maybe off to the side somewhere, I’d pay double.

If you're flying out of LAX then there is[0], but you'll be paying substantially more than double for the privilege.

[0] https://reserveps.com/
No movie can do a book justice, movies inherently lack fidelity. There just isn’t the same information density, at least not in a way that makes an interesting movie. I find it interesting that even this movie gets the same criticism; the Coen brothers described the screenwriting process as “one of us holding the book flat so the other can read and type at the same time”.
I get the impression that ChatGPT has basically become a meme here on HN, and various users create these kinds of posts relating to it to farm karma or get attention. It feels very Reddit-like to me.
Daniel Kahneman Thinking Fast And Slow describes some cognitive biases... these AI tools churn out text (ChatGPT) or code which look convincing so we think highly of them but in reality, there's nothing. No, AI tools won't take away our jobs any time soon, because we are paid to think even if the end result happens to be code, that's not the point. Especially in debugging, AI is hopeless.

Consider this toot as well https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778
Would either of you have links to pictures?
You could interpret mjevans' plea to be for artists to embrace this style in their 'true art'. Not as a plea to Netflix to alter any existing films.
Cult “Lite” – Eckhart Tolle and Others with Joe Szimhart
Wanted to avoid Microsoft's telemetry and felt like I was being spied on.
>it was because of the expertly used film grain

That is an interesting way to frame it. I see it more as an expert use of 35mm film and lighting, and the grain is just present because it is inherent to the medium.
An analysis of the limits of scaling datasets in Machine Learning
> This is not by the real Cormac McCarthy. He is out there somewhere pulling a novel out of a horse skull. This tumblr is a writing experiment by E.D.W. Lynch

I’m not ashamed to say I’m gullible on first blush but it’s better knowing it’s satirical.
Not sure what the economists call it, but if a business spends $8M producing goods they sell for $10M, the money they can potentially spend on research is $2M, not $10M (the revenue).
Yes exactly, and I love the understated dignity the characters exhibit amidst the squalor. Throughout the story’s various episodes, described in some of the most lyrical writing I’ve ever read, you will be moved to cry, laugh, sigh, hope, wince, and smile, right alongside Suttree.
The neocons are dragging us back to war
Personally this preciseness is just a distraction, but it sounds like you have learned from the constraints and can now take the training wheels off again.

Very curious about those cases, yet to find one myself that was not because of a bad design decision. Though I am also very big on the idea of `ambiguous grammar, rigorous implementation`, for natural language too. (Toki Pona is a somewhat extreme example but the contextual grammar, and holistic minimalism is fascinating)

Not to make it longer than needs to be; But take the example code in this readme: https://github.com/guzba/mummy

Being able to quickly script this without thinking about cases or style on the first pass is a really lovely way of reducing friction imho.
What a tremendous waste of time for everyone involved.
Maybe it's like photography. I can edit a photo of a landscape to look how it looks in person, or I can edit it to look, to me, how it feels to see it in person, or edit it for some other feeling, of course.
This has reached the point of actively disadvantaging kids who are capable…
> Both were involved in effective altruism — a community focused on using data to maximize the long-term impact of charitable donations.

> She got into crypto, she explained on another episode, because she was hoping to make lots of money to give away as part of her commitment to effective altruism.

Should the term be capitalized, as Effective Altruism?

It seems to be a new, branded definition, and not in common usage like the generic terms effective and altruism.

It's also bringing some bad associations to good old-fashioned altruism.

Also, in the space of questionable philosophy appealing to insulated rich kids, Objectivism is already capitalized.
The wording is ambiguous:
“ties more of his pay to performance” is true if he gets an increased bonus but can also mean his base salary has been lowered to make room for it.

This seems purposefully ambiguous…
Ask HN: What tool set, how to make own wide bolt ring
How and by what tool set can we make our own wide bolt ring out of steel (or other metal) plate

to have ~30 mm outer diameter thickness ~1-2mm, center hole ~5-10mm ?
I live in a progressive/liberal town that has good roads and weather for cycling. Very few people seem interested, even young people without kids. I just don't understand why it is so unpopular and undesirable.
Martin Freeman’s mastery snuck up on us
It's already a pretty boring space to build a product for, but this feels kind of surreal with this much competition and lack of product differentiation. Like having all these super catered names like Rows.com and Spreadsheet.com but if you go on the actual home pages they pretty much look like carbon copies of each other in terms of what they do and their features. I'm not even sure if this whole category has that much product market fit so I'm asking, it feels like a solution looking for a problem to me.
I hope they get much more than a slap on the wrist, even though they're cooperating now.

They're as much liable as SBF in this whole scheme.

Also, where's Sam Trabucco?
Personally I find it helps with immersion for content of that era.

E.g. the non-digital aesthetics of Tarintino films contribute a lot to their style in my opinion.

Plastering fake film grain ontop of something is not really my ideal, but going full film is also probably not something people can really afford in terms of time and budget...unless you're someone like Tarintino who's already at the top
> It’s not like Reddit where you can switch between different subreddits at will without affecting your account.

Maybe not by technical design, but subreddit moderators ban people for merely being subscribed to other subs all the time. I once got banned from participating in r/antiwork because I was subscribed to r/wallstreetsilver. That's not the only time, but that's probably the most stupid example. No, I didn't break any rules.
If you have a variable exponent, then don't you have a floating-point representation by definition?
All that just for 14 MW. Wow
What do you mean? It has Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android apps.
Are there any products/companies that use Nim in production?
That reminds me of an anecdote: one of my teachers in high school was on the German version of Family Feud. That was back in the days of analog TV.

He told us how shabby the set looked like in reality. But none of that was visible on PAL tv.

I guess that's the opposite of the effect you were talking about.
All this fiddling ends when you get a team and a vcs.
OP was ambiguous, he means that the article "The Cost of Enabling Exception Handling" that was linked only applies to Windows x86, not to Windows AMD64 or the Itanium ABI.

The Itanium ABI and 64-bit Windows have near-zero cost when exceptions aren't thrown.
They could have bundled it into the app to save hella bandwidth, or done something similar to Samsung's awful generator that comes on when you select an input without a signal.
In a dark place you can see a whole lot more than that with the naked eye, including some distant galaxies.
The number does indeed get larger with bigger losses - but most of the charges also have statutory maximums (e.g. 20yrs for wire fraud) and they'll almost certainly be served concurrently. With this level of fraud a sentence approaching 10 years might be in play, but we'll have to see what the prosecutors say.
That sentiment resonates with me. I first got my ham license back in the days of vacuum tubes. There is nothing like the smell of a warm, dusty vacuum tube. I can’t describe the emotions that evokes.
Software development methodologies, practices, tactics – summaries and bullets
Well, to achieve a low bitrate, you have to fake the noise. That's the whole point of the submission.
Its true.

Unity kind of took its place in the game space.

Web pages - nothing. They're all using some boring non visual JS library.
"Equal outcomes for every student"

I'm genuinely curious what this is supposed to mean. Every student gets into the same university? They all get the same job at the exact same salary upon graduation? What is the real-world consequence of this policy supposed to be?

If your outcome as a student is guaranteed to be equal to every other student's outcome, what is the incentive to work harder?

Outcomes being equal doesn't necessarily mean they're good. The students could all fail and get minimum wage jobs. That would also be an equal outcome.

Even if we assume the school goes to the extreme of assigning students the same grades and recognition regardless of performance, maybe some virtuous students don't care about the recognition and spend extra time studying math because they simply love math. They will end up being better at math than students who don't - an unequal outcome. How is the policy supposed to address this?
I see my lawyer friends going through hell working 80+ hrs a week thanklessly doing those things. I just hope that it doesn't replace good lawyers, but rather actually allow them to have sane lives instead of burning out less than five years after graduation
Maybe it could put a checksum in the url?
Please share to me if you don't mind.
I was thinking the same thing. This is entirely normal.
You don't like the look of it? Or do you have other objections?
>My indicator is how early you're advised to arrive before a flight.

This is a bad indicator because the driving force behind it are the retail establishments inside almost every modern airport.
To be fair, in the mid-2010s that's basically what consumer headphones did -- e.g. Beats, etc.

Before I got my Shure SE215-es I ended up doing a lot of research to figure out which headphones were actually going to give me a reasonable balance between treble and bass.
The tools existed for a while and faded away.

Swiffy was the main one.
> I haven't observed any stories of Mastodon admins blocking users for being off-topic

I myself was banned from a small instance over a misunderstanding without prior notice (since english isn't my native language). This was my only account on mastodon, so I lost all my contacts.

The admin had contact info on the instance, but I didn't have the motivation to be in mastodon anymore.

EDIT: I'd like to add. I don't really see mastodon as a social network.. if we're comparing it to something, it's more like a simple messaging group.
Well, everything is digital these days anyway. So all your film noise is synthesized, when you watch it over eg HDMI.

The question is just how many bits per second you need.
This is a real problem with C++ exceptions - so much effort has gone into making them "free if you don't use them" that any time you do use them the perf is horrific.

This means even reasonable "control flow" cases like network errors for example can be terrible.

The more general case - and the real thing this article is complaining about - is the use of exceptions for normal control flow, which is something I agree is awful (aeons ago exceptions under .net's debugger were orders of magnitude slower than outside the debugger, but it meant that if you tried to debug logic involving an ANTLR generated parser your life was misery as - at least then - ANTLR used exceptions for parser control flow \o/)
I remember 128KB being an issue past mid 2007, which is when that patch was merged. I think that the compression trick actually happened a bit after that. Looking at the patch, it appears that yes, it's one of the temporary hacks I was referring to. It did add some breathing room, because it no longer constrains the aggregate of argv plus the environment, but it keeps 128KB as the max size for each flag, which was still problematic for good old GFE and its service list. I can't remember if they managed to implement external flag files first or if they had to resort to --flag, --flag2, as web folks do nowadays to work around e.g. cookie limits (I'm looking at you, oauth2-proxy, embedding massive claims).
Startup Childhood
Does this cooperation mean that those fraudsters don't go to prison?

The whole team knew about stealing billions of dollars of money, clearly there's more than 1 person (and more than 1 company's executives) that need prison time.
That right there
ChatGPT vs. Google Search
Writing code for what? Instead of writing code for e-commerce or whatever sites, why not just have AI tickle our pleasure centers directly and do just enough to keep us alive. Seems easier, and so much more efficient than writing code to make things and then ship those things out to us for a few hours of mediocre enjoyment.
Italian made rockets… Italian companies are generally not known for producing things of high or consistent quality at manufacturing scale.
“Wasted? How could you say that?!” - Apple exec, wiping their eyes with a roll of $100 notes from their extortion program.
Nothing is worse than Paramount+
Why? Plastic is made from oil. Oil exists deep in the earth, more or less permanently. If we extract oil, convert it to plastic, and then sequester the plastic permanently, e.g. via a landfill, then that seems net neutral.

Yes plastic ends up in the ocean. But most plastic waste in the ocean comes from recyclables shipped from first world to third world countries with poor refuse control.
You have some good points, but I think you’re being downvoted because this comes across as unnecessarily hostile.
What is "reasoning" if not an emergent property of complicated enough statistical correlation systems, with some bells and whistles?
All schools, all companies should just say upfront that they want “equality of outcomes”; that way, students and prospective job applicants don’t need to waste time putting efforts to acquire any skills or even efforts to learn anything. Since the outcome is decided by tick marks, it is rational for people to not learn.
First off, there is no male identity beyond being a male. Perhaps you're thinking of the concept of gender here?

That aside, I can't think of anything that would retain my "male" gender. I see women wear the same sneakers as men, I see men with long hair, unisex clothes, ect.

That itself aside, by asking this question you are already assuming a man and woman gender. You just became even more tautological with this answer to my question which was "what is the difference between a man and a woman?" Worse, "what I want people to assume I am" is a human being, not some made up class of human that decides my identiy. A person is male or female, we use the word "sex" not as an identiy but a definate observation. "Gender" as it means anything beyond sex is a useless or even harmful term. Especially when it is used by people playing word games to trick children into getting irrevocable surgeries.
I'd go with a brush, actually.
By all means, avoid the gear rathole. But you should go deep enough to find a bike that feels good to ride and fits your body.

I tried to be a hardtail purist, and quit mountain biking because it just sucked. (Local terrain is all huge rocks and drops) Years later tried a full suspension carbon- whoa, mountain biking can be type I fun??

I tried to be a commuter purist, favoring simplicity, durability, and reliability. Riding my hybrid is un-gratifying and soul-sucking. Tried a racy road bike, awkward as hell. Tried a nice gravel bike, oh my god I don't want to stop pedaling!

It's worth spending a little more to get the bike that feels good for you to ride.
Equal outcomes for everyone means you have no way to influence your own outcome.

The logical reaction is to put in zero effort.
Draw Things just added upscaler support (Real-ESRGAN and its ESRGAN derivatives) :)
Why the U.S. middle class is feeling squeezed
https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/19/1065306/roomba-i...
For harder ground/solid rock it seems like you could slice off sections of the inner core material and not have to drill as much total material.
It seems paradoxical to require students to study college level material late into the night to keep up, but also aim to have equal outcomes.
When it comes to money, a purely peer to peer system of payment is just not possible unless you are doing barter. Even when you use cash, you are using the cash issued by a third party that both the payer and the receiver trust to have value. Whoever wrote the Bitcoin whitepaper was definitely a brilliant programmer but had no idea about human psychology and economics. Trust is the most important factor in economic transactions. In a complex world like ours third parties like government, banks, exchanges provide the trust.

You cannot outsource the trust to code. Code is not law. You cannot solve all problems with code.
At least 4 of these are not software development methodologies.
I thought when people talked about this kind of thing, they were being ridiculously hyperbolic.
Haha yes, exceptional! Governments have made scholarships and admissions a zero sum game. Ideally, all these public schools do this and those kids get fucked. Then my kids will have a better chance at all of this stuff.

You bet you'll see me voting for woke people in the public school district.
There's a list in the very announcement: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Organizations-using-Nim

though I'd imagine the number will remain small as Nim's too artisanal for enterprise to grok.