skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This was just a decision made in favor of managers over the poor engineers that will have to deal with maintaining a large Java code base over time.

What's wrong with maintaining large Java code bases? Say what you want, but the language is built for that.

The worst code-bases I've seen tend to come from dynamic languages. Try to maintain hundreds of thousands of lines of python or ruby code over several years, and see how fun that is.

>From a non-engineer view though, let's be real : nobody ever got fired for picking java.

No. That's not a correct framing. Java is one of the few languages that able to strike a great balance between performance, development productivity, 'debuggability", cross-platform support (i.e. works just as well under Windows as Linux), language safety, and library and framework ecosystem. Honestly, it's hard to come up with a use-case where Java isn't a natural right answer.
Do you know where they went or what they're up to now?
> The disagreement with MWI and the general disdain for QM are separate issues.

Fair point, I guess I didn't sense any disdain from the conversation so I didn't intend to comment on that.

> there's also been a general disdain for QM from various folk who attempt to completely replace it.

Too bad, it's as proven as any other theory out there. I wasn't responding to this as I didn't see any in the conversation, maybe I missed it.

I was responding to the criticism that someone received for pointing out that what quantum mechanics describes (things being in a superposition of states) doesn't match what we observe (things being in one state at a time).

> Whether Sabine Hossenfelder likes a theory or not is not really an argument

Whether actual scientists hold a view is not an argument (nor did I try to use it as one), but it is relevant to pointless random online arguments because it can help us spend our time better and not waste it on debunking things that nobody who knows what they're talking about actually believes, as I was trying to help you do. You yourself said

> I think many "top" physicists (those with high citation counts in theory), generally believe in consistent histories

so your criticism applies to both of us or neither.

> the idea that QM is "completely wrong"

Who are you quoting here? The article you linked doesn't say that QM is "completely wrong" (just that it's not as good as QFT), and neither does anyone in the HN discussion, so I'm not sure what text you're referring to.

> because it's incomplete or introduces some complexities she doesn't like

Actually Hossenfelder is a well-known critic of the idea that simplicity and beauty are requirements of truth, and your remarks aren't supported by the text of the article, so I'm not sure what you're getting at here either.
Easy to look up! By current estimates Earth cooled enough to have liquid water about 4.46B years ago and the first RNA emerged around 4.35B years ago. So it took just over 100 million years for simple forms of life to emerge.
vimv

You invoke 'vimv' in a directory and the resulting editor is a directory list for your pwd ... and you can edit it as a text document.

When you save and exit, all of your file (re)naming is committed to the directory.
> That’s not true;

Which question are you referring to?
https://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdo...
the issue is that it's really, really hard to get that message out to everyone and have them understand the importance and the reasoning.

to paraphrase Frank Herbert, it is the mark of a human that they will remain in the trap, that they can kill the hunter and thus remove a threat to their species.
Large codebases in dynamic languages are the pits. Determining if some bit of code is used and how is a probabilistic exercise. Eventually you learn to give up or YOLO and see what happens.
A long time ago someone wrote, "they have nothing to lose but their chains" and predicted massive social upheaval as a result. That person felt this was an inevitable consequence of capitalism and its tendency to concentrate wealth. I suspect they were imagining people like in your example, only worse off.

Maybe redirecting that anger against another segment of society is a way to avoid social upheaval while maintaining the status quo? That anger does seem prone to being co-opted, though.
Yes, we know little (aside from the finiteness of the observable universe, which is known at a quantitative level). I am curious why then you say "so far, we're pretty sure there is some life in the universe, but nothing else." I fear this may be anthropomorphic projection and wishful thinking.
Another Bitcoin Miner Teeters on the Edge of Bankruptcy
The problem is finding someone to preemptively Sue. The parties named in the lawsuit where forbidden by law from enforcing the law. I agree it is a dumb loophole, but the US law doesn't have a method for preemptively staying a law or suing someone that isn't enforcing it.
And so we have a chicken and egg problem.

Thanks to verbosity, Java creates the very problem that it tries to help with.

Did you need to have that many programmers and that much code? Who knows. But once you have it, continuing with Java makes sense.
> Spotify knows me better than anyone and every song on my Discover Weekly hits the spot!

I'd wish. If there is one area where AI had utterly failed it's ads. Product recommendations are always off for me. I love a joke that goes like "meatbag bought a sofa recently, must like sofas, let show them all the sofas we have" because it's silly but very true. And checking out those items leads you down to a rabbit hole where some smartass decided that if I look at something it means I'm potentially interested in more of that, so a machine must feed me more of "related products".

Spotify recommendations are 90% of time provide no value to me - I stopped bothering with their recommendations and "discover" playlists. I actually hate that they start playing music of their choice when my playlists are over. The only reason I keep a subscription is because a) they have a fairly decent collection of things I like and b) it's easy to share a playlist with my wife.

Same with Kindle book recommendations. Same with all those streaming services. Same with Steam games. Even though I spend some time there trying to tell all those platforms what I like and what I don't.

I always have to browse catalog, checking every single thing individually. Like a quest looking for a good apartment on Airbnb among the sea of places that weren't ever good for living, only crashing for the night. Hopefully there is some user-curated collection to start with - because "related" stuff automated classifiers generate are typically echo chambers full of things I'm not looking for.

The problem is, machines recommendation systems fail to understand the reasons for picking one thing over another, because they don't know much about the product they're recommending, only its relationship with other products. They don't read the book (or watch a movie), so they have no clue about its language (or actors play), tropes, and how interesting (or stupid) the plot is. They don't listen to the song so they have no clue about how it sounds like, the vocals, and certainly don't care about lyrics. And so on.

/rant
Assuming python sqlite is being dumb with regards to transactions and functions and that simple optimizations aren't just futile efforts from ignorance and narcissism has saved me 100s of hours in runtime alone.

Also the commonality of fast networks really hit me this year. I was using free wifi at a small coffee shop in Tokyo and was transferring files to my apartment in Los Angeles at ~20MB/s. That's faster than my local LAN was 15 years ago over 5,000 miles of ocean, so cheap that they give it out for free if you buy a coffee. Absurd
Dystopian SaaS idea: Integrate facial recognition and Yelp reviews. If someone shows up who gave you a negative review, send a text to staff and/or deny sale at POS.

Please, no one make this.
The last time they had a big-ticket punishment [0] for their psychotic corporate behavior, it was because they had created millions of fraudulent accounts. There is no way to keep that quiet or "get away with it," they just assumed they would not be meaningfully punished.

What you've posted is completely wrong, but it's the answer to a question I had, which was why the fuck does anyone still bank with Wells Fargo? There must be a lot of people cynical enough to think all banks are that bad.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wells_Fargo_cross-selling_scan...
Elon Musk might be the only person who did not.
100% in agreement on Excel. Even when coding in Python I frequently save an intermediate file as xlsx to explore/debug, or even load into Tableau for viz.
Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party libraries with barely any configuration is like magic. The git integration is phenomenal - I rarely get stumped doing anything in git and dealing with merge conflicts are a breeze.
Maybe they're out there, but I cannot recall the last time I saw a webhost for less than Vultr's starting $2.50/mo
I had to Google that one. Why would anyone do business with these people?
If you're judging from the calculator video, that time it was much slower. The current speed can be seen in my post about the video card (https://imihajlov.tk/blog/posts/vga/).
In NASCAR the color black is legendary for reasons I truly hope don't need to be explained
Note also other recent findings, more than half of Americans aged 18-29 live with parents. I gotta say that was a but demoralizing to read as someone becoming a parent.

https://qz.com/nearly-half-of-americans-age-18-to-29-are-liv... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34054708
Have people like Nick Fuentes, Richard Spencer, Matt Walsh, or Alex Jones never said that sort of stuff? I’d be shocked if none have. I’ve seen Walsh and Fuentes say unhinged insanity and call for the persecution if not death of some marginalized groups.
> What I don't get, is that Apple lost their foothold in both the creative market & education markets

Macbooks (Airs, at least) and iPads are still huge in education.
Apparently you do, if the liquor license you agreed to requires it.
good zoom backgrounds
Eh, I take that as a very bad take.

Lawyers work for their clients, and in the vast majority of cases are not personally invested deeply in the case (except when you do dumb crap like in the article). They request evidence via the court, they do not go gather it themselves. If further on site evidence is needed by non-standard methods a PI will show up at the location, and if they are any good will never be noticed. By banning the lawyers they are either petty, or they feel they are still involved in some kind of potentially illegal activity and need to reduce risk. Not a good look.
The question later was:

1. How much time would this take

2. How willing would attorneys be willing to persue this?

3. How many attorneys can you actually contact about this? (This deals with the entertainment industry.. they're very well funded and very aggressive.

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Then it came down is.. is it worth reaching out to the IL Attorney General about this? I didn't because I was exhausted by then and they probably wouldn't take it up due to the complexity of the transaction.

This situation simply is: A third party holder of tickets (TM) issueing a ticket to a show venue (Chris Rock+MSG|Chicago Theater), rejecting entry to an individual (me) with a ticket, but preventing me from being able to honor the ticket (due to rules from the Chris Rock group to the venue). And the whole case involves a group v 1 conversation involving all parties except for TM.
Hey! Thank you, I'll be sure to give it a try now. Cheers for the update too!
I don't think you have any reply to the topic being discussed.

The point is that people went from an experience where they didn't take money out of their pocket every month unless they wanted to, and didn't have to curate for others or moderate for others.

I pay for a game server and won't accept a dime from my friends for it not so I can feel like king of some fiefdom, but so we can enjoy a game amongst ourselves.

If moderation is the part of that experience that you're cherishing, it's no wonder you can't relate to the complaints others have.
In addition to my sibling posts, I do wonder about “Americans” who are not from the North American continent, e.g. people that live in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam etc. or even Puerto Rico to an extent (or especially Puerto Rico since “Americano” in Spanish usually means from the two continents and the Caribbean).

This demonym is really unfortunate.
Sadly, I can no longer assume this is satire.
That's a lot on its own, and being able to understand the argument and return types solely by signature is a big productivity boost compared to environments where that isn't possible.
Switching to Vscode saved me a lot of time, especially the multi cursor behavior. I was using VIM, Tmux and iTerm before. Remote development is a breeze, connections and sessions are never lost. Many extensions get better and better, even a hated maintenance task is easier if you have a nice and easy language integration.

Docker, but these days I take it as granted.
> Another important factor is that the team of engineers building the first version of Picnic’s platform already had ample experience using Java and the JVM.

Nine times out of ten, that's the whole story.
If you have discord nitro, you can choose the 4 numbers by yourself.
I got it gifted, so I set it to be #0001.
how is it different from autossh? never used mosh yet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_gold_train
I just bought two of their Cobra channel lock / water pump pliers, an electrician's plier and wire cutters. I decided at 59 I am tired of using rubbish tools - even for DIY duties. I got the trigger from here https://youtu.be/wcs2elc0LsU?t=538
AirTags Expose Dodgy Postal Industry [video]
Yeah, just yesterday. Hacky output from `nslookup`, not ideal but it’s all we had. Tens of thousands of rows. No IDE with regex capabilities available.

Excel to the rescue! Took me about five minutes to extract exactly what I needed.
Windows.
I used Mac OS X a few years. But in my opinion Mac OS X is (or was, back in this time) PITA. Switching back to Windows has definitively saved me hundreds of hours!
Credit unions are all the rage when the economy is roaring, but they are typically the first to run into issues or fold on first sight of troubled waters. Their history is full of examples of having to be rescued by the federal government, including all the times commercial banks had to be rescued.

The main difference in my view is struggling commercial banks get absorbed, where as struggling credit unions close.

I am not sure which one is better, but I am wary of all the calls to go all in on credit unions. They've been available for almost a century now. They have a noble goal in that they've always tried to serve those in need, but I am not sure they are the solution.
Decentralization doesn’t solve the moderation problem. (And to not end up in a discussion about free speech or censorship, let’s assume “moderation” here means making the product usable e.g by having an acceptable level of spam).
I think nobody fires developers who pick a language the boss or whoever in power doesn't like. And the boss would just say: NO.
I agree pretty much on everything, adding a hard disk would have placed the smaller machines in a whole different segment. I however recall also the A2000 was sold without a hard disk, just to advertise it ad a lower price, which I find absurd since that way it was essentially an A500 plus expansion slots.
Privacy.com is designed exactly for this purpose. You can create as many service/purchase specific “debit cards” as you want and set limits. At time of purchase, you can use any name and address you want.
a) determine in bounded time whether any solution exists at all

I can't prove it but I think this is roughly the same thing as the circuit satisfiability problem, which is np-complete. So, I think the best thing you can do there is a very large exponential time bound.

b) use a deterministic procedure to find a solution

You can solve this problem deterministically with depth first search. But I found that to be pretty slow and generate not very aesthetically interesting results most of the time.
Having been very, very close to this issue when wolves were re-introduced to Yellowstone, the vocal opposition to this was that a handful of ranchers near Yellowstone who are very much Welfare Queens didn't want to loose cows to wolves that were on the other side of the fence.
Jeff Bezor is seen as "evil" only by leftists who would love to steal people the freedom to choose where to work and how.
Is Kafka's “Metamorphosis” about burnout?
It's curious that "ideological battle" of one sort is largely permitted while the hammer so reliably falls on "ideological battle" of another sort.
Plus it's awareness of proper idioms in each language and syntax checking makes me much smarter/productive in a new language. Also, it's spell checker keeps me honest. Go for that "green check mark" in the upper right corner and you know you avoided most common mistakes.
Create a password-protected PDF based on a digital scan of the book. Then only release the password to the team.
Water cooling

Now that it's perpetually cold, my Ryzen rarely exits its 5.8 GHz boost state and the result is that Pop!OS feels incredibly responsive.
Since it’s never really in the shadow of a planet (heliocentric orbit), it’s probably hotter overall.

From the videos I’ve seen, it’s also spinning really slowly. I think you could see off-gassing in some of the videos. I looked into it a little further, and there was speculation it was from the plastics and paint getting extremely hot in direct sunlight.

“Space” is roughly the same temperature (a little warmer near stars with particles and free gas), but the direct solar radiation is what is so hot. Since space is an excellent insulator, getting rid of the thermal energy becomes a problem when you’re not shaded.

If you want to read some more on this, check out what the JWST has done for thermal management. It’s really cool (no pun intended).
They temp banned the whitehouse press secretary for linking to the NYpost article about the Hunter laptop.
Attention VeraCrypt version 1.26.1 is not safe
Same here. I’ve seen no change in this behaviour since Elon took over.
Verbosity is not a problem. The problem is being able to navigate and understand a large codebase. Terseness and dynamic typing are the enemy of that goal.
I mean, isn't it kind of obvious that this design "flaw" was engineered on purpose in order to force people to buy more JoyCons? Every company does this sort of thing.

On a side note, does anyone have any recommendations for a legitimate premium controller for PC that won't break? I've tried so many controllers and they all turn out to be cheap bullshit... the best I've been able to find is the official Xbox remote. But I'd gladly shell out big bucks for a high quality controller that won't break, like a mechanical keyboard but for gaming controllers.
What about : "I am expected either my father or my mother to come, but not both of them. Someone is knocking at the door, can you let them/him in?"

using him sounds silly when there's a 50% chance it's you mother doesn't it?
note that a spacecraft which can continuously accelerate at 1g would require an insane amount of energy. Relativity is indeed weird.
They are called bona fide occupational qualifications. Even a private business can discriminate against say, an actor who can’t play a particular role due to the race or gender of the character. Same goes with certain jobs that involve lifting or an expected level physical fitness.
Yes, roughly -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison#Evolution_and_genetic_hi...

Though "invasive" is usually not used when they showed up ~150,000 years ago, and appear to have evolved through a couple distinct species since then.
https://mariani.life/flash-notes.html

I'm using this sqrt implementation (found it long time ago on some old action script blog, this link is not the original source). It's plenty fast, accurate and fully deterministic. I successfully implemented it in my multiplayer gta2 clone in javascript.
Exactly this.

Had to stand-up a server in Java recently.

At some point I realized I was doing more programming via XML files and Spring decorators than via actual Java code. Mostly because Java itself isn't a great abstraction for a CRUD server.
The most obvious reason to allow free wifi in airports and on planes has always been a security measure to me: more than video surveillance capture of potential bad guys, but devices/mac addresses as well.
Totally agree - he's a great storyteller and presenter, and his crime noir aesthetic makes it all the more fun.
On that front, it's funny to me that Google was so successful with Chromebooks, when Jobs called thin clients the future for decades yet failed to ever make one.
Everyone always says that's fine if you have tests, but that's never actually true.
Yes you are right.

If my VPS is broken, I don't lose any secrets, and it does not permit any additional access into my LAN or VPN.

For plain HTTP, of course all traffic would be easily intercepted and readable.
For HTTPS, I guess an attacker might compromise the software and IP tables configuration on the VPS and run a MITM attack to decrypt it.

So yes, I am putting a bit of trust on the VPS, for my specific use-case, the most sensitive information they'd be able to access if they went through the trouble of decrypting HTTPS, was getting access to my music-player :)

I am thinking though, that at that point.. well, even if I hosted at home on my own ISP directly, I still need to put that same amount of trust on my ISP, since they could MITM me as well I think.
You can set up zones based on your phone's GPS (there is a Home Assistant mobile application that can report data back to the server), or you could set up an automation based on whether your phone is connected to your home's wireless network. Or probably even via some Bluetooth beacon.
If your position is that digital assets should be banned, you're a little late for that. Digital assets are defined in the US as property by the IRS since about 2014, and a commodity by the CFTC.

Furthermore, giving someone US dollars for something doesn't make that thing a "currency."

> Comparing Bitcoin to free software seems similarly disingenuous.

Bitcoin is literally FOSS.

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
second this, vim has been my biggest time saver
If you take into account that $6000 when the Mac Pro came out adjusted for inflation is now roughly $7000, then the price increase is “only” around 40%, or even less when the new Mac Pro is eventually released.
I find good use of my skill in the following:

DBeaver: use a consistent interface for practically any data store. Wanna SELECT and JOIN CSVs? It can do that too.

https://www.mail-tester.com/ - Fantastic email server settings troubleshooter.

Excel / Calc / Gnumeric: I don't even know macros, just the functions, sorting, filtering, and pivot tables enable good productivity. And sometimes fun, I chose my current video card, and optimized my Factorio gameplay with Calc.

BASH, jq, sed, grep, tr, cut, Geany, regexes: it's fantastic to be able to work with text. Log parsing and other text tasks turn into a puzzle game, where I win fast, and it's usually faster than to use anything else, especially for one-offs.