skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not uncommon for the OS to have an age lock these days (eg iOS) that parents can set, and kids can’t unset. Or, the parent can set the age in the console’s user profile and the system locks it.

That seems to be a trivial solution to the problem here.

In this case there is a small amount of work required of Epic to enable the law to be enforced in the ecosystem. Without that work to add profiles and enforce ages in the game, the OS/platform cannot enforce either. So it’s obviously moving things towards compliance to ding Epic here.
Twitter has showed us more about who Musk is. Can't put that cat back in the bag. I wouldn't be surprised to find him step down from all his roles and just try to run things in the background.
43 is not really "late in life". I think if you can get your situation evaluated professionally from a physical (blood tests/levels, physical conditioning assay, environment), mental (therapist/therapy) and financial perspective, you can begin to make progress on the goals.

Take some real consolation that many MANY men in their 40's that got married and did the family life in their 20's are separated or getting separated. Compared to that level of social debt - you are still in a very reasonable spot to make moves.

It is very easy to boil it all down to "just get moving", and I understand since it's so far down the journey to turning things around that it's easy to dismiss as well-wishing, but that is really the only way to effect change. Get uncomfortable with your status quo and stay uncomfortable.

Finding success in your 40's is not as easy as it is in your 20's, but you have no material reason not to find it.
Mostly because the two should be separated, you platform is closed, so now you have very specific code just for shuttle.rs inside "business logic", what if I want to run my code in a docker image somewhere else, now I have to strip the service from some integration with a provider.
Huh. I think you are right. Most sources on the web agree with my take - but I think it might be out of date now.

Maybe I’m paying for iTunes Match for no reason? I guess it’s time to back up and try turning it off and seeing if my music disappears…
How does this compare to Unison[0]? Aside from looking JavaScript-like.

Doesn't look statically typed at first glance, but the docs seem to imply it is [1]. Pretty interesting overall.

[0]: https://www.unison-lang.org
[1]: https://docs.winglang.io/reference/spec#18-type-inference
> It's generally the ones that have children in them that get toxic

That is the problem. Kids are learning from each other to be harmful and hateful as there is no consequences for that behaviour. In other spaces they will be called out by adults, but game chats become a learning place for the worst behaviours at the same time that this games are rated as "apt for children". Rate them 18+ or kill the chat, it is all about not lying to buyers.
Thorough reading presents both arguments, but I certainly didn't finish the article with any idea what course of action would actually be better for the chimps.
I misread NIH as NIF for a second there and was very confused as to why chimps were researching nuclear fusion.
> It's good to see all that exposed in the light. Musk did the dirty work that was needed.

The twitter files did reveal the kind of insider access that powerful people get to journalists in order to push a narrative, but I do wish he had accomplished that without doing the exact same thing he was complaining about—giving journalists insider access to power in order to push a narrative.
First, seek professional help even if it's remote. Suicide is never a good answer. In fact, it would just hurt those you love about deeply.

Second, the best of your life isn't behind you because you're 43. I say this with 100% certainty because I'm your age. Remember, the meaning of life, the universe, and everything is 42 and that was just last year. That's right baby, nerd joke!

Immutability is great for programming, but not as life advice. You can change, the biggest challenge starts with changing your mindset. I know that's hard and requires a) consistent affirmation in know your worth and ability. b) it takes time, but fighting and pushing for growth is the meaning of life. c) You're the same person you were as a youth, but you're lying to yourself about self-worth.

It's not that you don't want to live, it's that you don't want to continue with your behavior and mindset; but you're uncertain of how to start the cycle of change.

Here's what I do daily.

1. Wake up - get washed, vitamins, eat plant based, kefir, scrub my balls until they shine.
2. Work - On my own projects, work for my client, etc
3. Go for a walk - I don't care if it's colder outside than my ex-girlfriend. I go out!
4. Talk to people - Socialize and talk to people. Do it without fear - I will anything to anyone in a light hearted and joyful way.
5. Affirmations - each day I tell myself about the good I've done in life and how things changed.

I can tell you for certainty that life was not kind to me, but I refuse to let life win. If you want someone to talk to, someone who has felt the way you have, who went from doing well to giving it all up, to regaining it, to feeling like giving up physically, etc.. let me know.

You have a moment in your life to turn this all around and show your family, friends, and yourself how you're a bad motherfucker you are. I love the struggle and I turned it into a game.

Honestly, seek professional help and if you like - we can talk. I'm very transparent about my life with everyone.
P.S., Money doesn't change these feelings. I know that sounds like bullshit, but it's true from my experience.
If I recall correctly, Paula Deen didn't really start in the culinary world until she was in her mid-40s. I'm sure she had some kind of experience before, but at the time I believe for her it was a complete career shift.

You can carry on doing something complpetely new and be a success, even starting in your 40s.
Well, as explained in some of my other comments, it doesn't seem that effective. Most GPT-generated garbage will probably be GPT-3 based, which doesn't seem to too often trigger as "fake" (got more "human" results when I tested it with ChatGPT), while on the other hand, it says that several of my comments are fake with >99% certainty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_S... It sounds like this is starting to catch up with us ...
I'll need to update my local yours for when people visit me in London.
> (I'm guessing the author means VS Code, not MS Word here?)

I took that to mean that the author painted all non-emacs editors as not really being useful editors.
also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34053704
The cynic in me says it sells more papers/gets more views reporting this sort of thing after the fact rather than before it... much more scandalous. The modern press at work.
I know several people that use Modafanil thanks to a friendly doctor, not due to medical need. I get the impression this is pretty common with a particular swath of tech and finance workers.
The difference between the folk understanding of epigenetics and the scientic understanding of epigenetics is the timescale. To scientists, epigenetics is the process by which genes become 'permanently' silenced via modifications to the DNA like methylation, or the histones the DNA is wrapped around. This kind of long term silencing is clearly important if you want to have a body made of different cell 'types' - a muscle cell should not make the same proteins as a neuron, so you'd want to shut the neuron genes off, forever, in a muscle cell, and shut the muscle genes off, forever, in a neuron. Now most of these long term marks are actually removed when making germ cells. Sperm and eggs, at some point, can shut off enzymes like DNMT1 that maintain these marks, so that the next person can start from a fresh slate...

Now the FOLK understand of epigenetics seems to have glommed on to an actually very small part of the actual phenomenon: there are a small set of genes that can be methylated in these germ cells, and the silencing will be passed on from parent to child so that the child will only express a certain gene from the mother or from father. This is called 'imprinting'. The folk understanding then extrapolates this, to genes being marked for several generations. I think evidence for this is poor, and not really the focus of most of the 'concept' of epigenetics. But there is still research to be done.
This isn’t sparking fire. We already know how to do that. Fusion reactors have been doing that for decades, and we’ve been doing it overall for 80ish years now.

It’s sparking fire in a very specific synthetic scenario which maybe could be useful in making a specific type of fusion reactor.

It’s a critical step, yes, in development of that type of reactor, if we wanted to do so. Currently there is no reason to believe we’d find it worthwhile to do.

But there are literally hundreds more steps just as critical with no known solution, that are likely just as hard before we could actually have net positive energy even in a lab for such a reactor. Even if we found the economics would pan out.

That’s why I’m saying it’s a small step and we’ve got miles to go - because we do.

You’re pointing out some of the next small steps.

But those won’t get us to even having the energy balance positive on paper.

making lasers 100x more efficient for one being a notably hard problem, from a physics perspective. Probably even harder than IC fusion. The planned upgrades to lasers will help, but not enough to be close to a positive energy balance.

If the ‘first 90% takes 90% of the time’, we’re now at 2% of that first 90%. But everyone is hyping it up as we just completed it. Which is not true at all.

Honestly, it sounds like a Hail Mary funding push to try to get a new project funded or stop the lab from being shut down.
One good place to start might be the 10 minute rule. For anything you've been procrastinating on, start doing a small effort towards it with 10 minutes. It is only 10 minutes.

Sit down and start updating your resume. Message some recruiters on LinkedIn. Study up standard tools for the industry you want to hop back into.

The hard part is outlook, but a little bit of forward progress can hopefully start shifting that.
I find the most readable, unambiguous thing is to define explicit macros or constants, e.g.

if(ckd_add(&result_add, a, b) == CKD_SUCCESS) { ... }

or alternatively,

if(CKD_SUCCESS(ckd_add(&result_add, a, b))) { ... }
If it's worth doing, it's worth doing yourself. No contracts asked for, none unintentionally foisted on you.

There is no substitute for self-hosted.
What is Operations Software?
I live in Austin, swear I hear about SWAT being called for the most trivial of things nearly daily

Hopefully something comes of this awful situation, things aren't trending well. Overworked/misused special teams - almost surely to build a narrative
Yeah, I remember watching a YouTube video of a Japanese restaurant owner, who does the same thing: every day, he refills his broth pot to full, puts more bones in, and leaves simmering. He said that he only had to restart a decade or so because of tsunami induced flood.

Sounds cool, but then if you do the math, and assume that every day he uses half of the broth, then after only 10 days, there is only around a teaspoon of the original broth in it, after 20 days there is only around a single drop, and after one month, you only get a thousandth part of a single drop.
I've had luck with pasting the transcript into ChatGPT and asking it for a seven-bullet list of main talking points.
Wouldn’t having a propane burner on 24 hours a day be very expensive?

Also, does it really make that much of a difference? I feel like after a couple of hours with a fresh batch you could be right back where you started without really missing out on too much.
The #1 reason to upgrade is Microsoft is demanding it for Windows 11. Otherwise, older CPUs with plenty of RAM and an SSD still do great for non-intense workloads.
There are commercialized, well lit, walkable caves thousands of people visit and yet there are no good models of any of them.
Nice to see the world catching up to JDK 17.

I'm not sure how many people are still using Spring. It was common everywhere I worked for a while, but today I see a lot more usage of Google's Guice.

I've had times when I wrote a lot of scripty things out of components which you would do with a script in Python (say run a lot of queries against a search engine and make a precision/recall curve) but in Java I might write components in Java and use a Spring XML file as the "script" that binds them together. Thus I felt Spring really filled a gap.

I think the web framework stuff in Spring is less interesting to people today because they are using JAXB. Then there are the hundred or so "Spring X" projects that I think are a real problem for Spring because (1) frequently they encapsulate worse practices instead of best practices, (2) they inhibit a general understanding of how Spring works (there is no subject where cut-and-paste and getting answers from StackOverflow will cause you more pain), (3) they confuse newcomers and make them not know where to start.
Would you mind explaining? As I understand it, signing works better if you rotate your keys regularly.
> portable drive

Also, you probably shouldn't keep the portable drive in the same building as your PC (other backup)... I like to keep one portable drive in my car that update once in a while.
Psychedelic privilege: are DMT entities racist?
I didn't realize this was even an assertion that people made at all.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. People at the time must have known that fires in cities were extremely dangerous because they could spread over a great area. It's logical that insurers would want to work together to prevent all fires, purely out of self-interest to protect their insured properties, and then sue the pants off negligent and/or uninsured property owners after each near-miss.

The paper in TFA says as much, but it's weird to me that people would uncritically accept the proposed narrative in the first place.
After reading your reply here, I did the same with a question that I've calibrated over 100s of in-person interviews with college candidates at Microsoft. This is for both intern and full-time candidates. The goal of the question was to probe for technical competence (my role in the loop). The assumption was that anyone who can remember their data structures and algorithms class can make it through maybe 50% of the question. The question got progressively more challenging so that I could see what happens when the candidate reaches the edges of their knowledge.

It starts very fizz-buzzy and if the candidate makes it to the end, there's a deeper discussion of caching impacts on performance and optimizing algorithms. ChatGPT nailed it. Even when I said things like:

"can you optimize this program further to maximize the utilization of L2 caches in modern CPUs?"

And it did it in <10 minutes. The best candidate I ever saw took 25 minutes and the rest of the candidates took the full allotment of time 45 minutes and none of them got to the discussion of L2 cache optimization. These are candidates from the best schools in the country.

This was really impressive.
Sounds to me, a better approach would be transparent but automated moderation.

Automated moderation would need some way to reliably answer the following questions:

- are two accounts controlled by the same user?

- are two posts talking about the same topic?

Then an approach would be to publicly issue a "content ban": User X is prohibited from talking about topic Y. Then use bots to enforce the ban and identity sock puppets or alt accounts if the user tried to evade the ban.

I think with the current progress in language models, we have a much better chance to answer those questions with usable accuracy.
I am imagining most EULAs won't hols up in a legal court. Maybe it would in forced arbitration.
> Nobody writes large software projects on VSCode

Sorry, this was the bit I was responding to. I should have quoted it in the original.

This statement is false.
> Active cooperation between the FBI and Twitter

It's virtually impossible for the government to do its job without the private individuals and institutions "actively cooperating" with them. Nearly all interactions between the government and private institutions can be described that way.

> That is why it is a scandal and there are things like the 1st amendment that basically say "government shouldn't do this, it is illegal".

This is completely incoherent - the first amendment of course does not say that the government shouldn't cooperate with private individuals or institutions. Like how is it even possible to interpret the first amendment that way? I mean, it's very obvious you have no idea what you're talking about and your motivation here is entirely political, but how is it possible to get things so wrong?

I mean there are so many things wrong here, but one additional thing is that the Constitution enumerates and limits the power of the federal government. The Constitution does not grant the FBI any power whatsoever, except indirectly through the President.

What you're saying (rather extremely incoherently) amounts to saying President Trump was unconstitutionally abusing his powers to hurt his own campaign.

Also, this is how you started:

> the Muller report came out around the time he said that and basically debunked the issue as a serious problem

And this is where you ended:

> To take the Muller report seriously requires someone to believe in devious Russian plans to reveal the truth to Americans

> That was always political weasel language, and goes a long way to discrediting Muller as purposefully adding spin to the situation

And no the Mueller report doesn't insinuate - it extensively documents criminal ways in which Trump obstructed the investigation. He simply felt it was the job of Congress to act on the evidence he found.
> Why is this a language, not just a framework for JavaScript or whatever?

I'm one of the founders of Klotho (https://klo.dev), and we're in the camp of expanding existing programming languages with cloud native building blocks. We’re building Klotho in that spirit.

There's a few reasons to opt for using a compiler rather than SDKs:

- Being able to catch errors as early in the development process as possible, rather than in runtime or production.

- Being able to use existing language features and popular libraries. For example, we’re able to turn a standard Node.js EventEmitter into an asynchronous invocation on a different compute engine (basically, spinning off an AWS Lambda invocation or adding a message to an SQS queue). Not only does this reduce the barrier for entry, but it also often enables fast iteration time by supporting a local development workflow (no more waiting for deployments between changes).

- Being able to trim the runtime to a minimal set that is necessary for that execution unit alone. In SDK land, you include the entire library, which means more lines of code to reason about in a live-site incident, alternatively going fully granular means developers now need to reason about what to include and what not to. Compilers, and specifically static analytics can reason about that automatically.

- Being able to use all of that logic across languages: rather than having to write a separate SDK per language, we can write a single tool that works the same across multiple languages. In addition to aesthetic niceness, that could in the future let us handle polyglot code bases in a more cohesive way.

We support JavaScript/TypeScript/Python, and are developing Golang/C# support
Commercial launch provider. And particularly cornering the market for DoD launches, probably because he thinks that leverage will make him politically untouchable.

> Seems to be barely viable financially

They're betting big on reusable rockets, and so far it seems to be paying off. If they succeed in getting a fully reusable rocket flying several times a week, as they claim they can, the no other launch provider will be able to compete.
I select some of the spheres in that plot and I see questions and answers in some language that looks like Latin.
My family still buys CDs, as it turns out to be the most efficient way for indie musicians to make money on their recordings. The CD's get ripped onto a drive, then filed away in a box.

The drive gets backed up.
Backblaze B2 is different than Backblaze Backup.
[Wing team member here]

Wing has a concept of `inflight` which you can think of as a "remote async function". It's an `async` function that can be executed on a remote system, such as inside a container fleet or on a FaaS. Inflight functions can interact naturally with cloud resources around them (by simply calling inflight methods on the resources e.g. `bucket.put()`). The compiler analyses these interactions and inverts the control over to the resources to take care of the mechanics like wiring deployment information, synthesizing security policies and anything else that can be deduced from this high level intent.

Defining the cloud architecture of the app and being able to naturally crossing these distributed boundaries is the essence of what we call "cloud-oriented programming", and where we think a lot of the friction and pain of the cloud comes from today: every time I need to interact with "The Cloud", I leave the safety and comfort of my compiler, and I am out in the wild having to understand all the mechanics and layers involved.

Almost all existing languages/compilers take a fundamental assumption that the entire program runs inside a single machine. This is, in our view, the impedance mismatch of cloud development today. This is where we believe language innovation can dramatically reduce the cognitive load and barrier to entry for building and delivering cloud applications that fully take advantage of the cloud. Inflight functions and resources are only the first step. Think first-class support for things like defining and consuming API endpoints, writing distributed workflows, emitting metrics, raising alarms and other things you would expect from your friendly neighborhood cloud programming language.
Looking forward to 4.1 where we hopefully get mobile support for C# .NET 6. Then it will be ahead of Unity at least in terms of C# support given they don't plan to move to it before somewhere 2025.
I haven't worked yet with Godot but once this comes around I will try to target our Unity code-base against Godot to see how it does.

But in any case I am happy that it is such an active project because we need the competition.
A historical footnote: When Gmail was announced on April 1, 2004, people assumed that it was an April Fool's Joke. A gigabyte of storage for free seemed absurd.

It was invite-only, which possibly made it seem more desirable than it might otherwise be. But really, I think the biggest factor was its portability. At the time, you tended to use either your work/school email or the email associated with your ISP, both of which could change over time. You can keep your gmail address forever, and people saw that as a benefit.

There were competitors, but they had clunkier interfaces and smaller storage. GMail showed what web apps could do, in a way that's old hat now but was rather shocking at the time.
If you have a pizza steel, put that directly on the stove. Otherwise use a crepe pan. Water down the batter much more than you think you should, that will help you spread it thin and give you more time before it thickens up.