skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antarctica looks like a very interesting land, perhaps because it is forbidden to us. Still, with that geography alone I wish we could swap its place with something like Australia. Perhaps with advanced geo-engineering it would be possible to someday rotate the earth in such a way that Australia ends up at the South Pole and Antarctica is uplifted to a warmer climate.
So if the company doesn't IPO in four years, and instead slowly staggers into the ground over ten while always promising it'll IPO in a few years, how does that change the terms?

Also, how liquid are these shares? If you can sell at IPO, cool. If you have to hold them for a year watching to see if the share price holds or (somewhat likely) collapses, not so good.

I'd take the salary and buy stock in public companies with it.
Well, if CEOs take credit when the whole market goes up...
Twidroyd was one of my frequently used clients back when I had a Nexus phone, along with Seesmic client.
It's vastly better than any TTS system I have used, but then I've only used a few (mainly phone assistants and the thing built into kindle).

What is the competition that you are referring to?
There're similar input devices out there, e.g. https://askergoworks.com/products/blue-orb-inc-orbitouch-key...
> try telling the truth about anything at all at least once, ever.

I'm not sure HN is the place for this type of language.
I read the trilogy and thoroughly enjoyed it. But yes, not exactly hard sci-fi through and through. My favourite idea wasn't even really a sci-fi thing. I really liked the idea of the Wallfacers. Really clever bit of storytelling, I thought.

https://three-body-problem.fandom.com/wiki/Wallfacer (spoilers, I guess)
For me, TypeScript is like putting lipstick on a pig. It improves one thing about JavaScript while leaving all the numerous other flaws and introducing new ones.
Yeah, didn't mean to imply he'll be worried about the money loss regarding the adjustment - but for the implied insult :)
It seems fairly well shown that the "SQL stuff" can be build on top of it on the server side.

Building the "SQL stuff" on the client side seems less well proven to me.
I disconnected from the electric grid for 8 months–in Manhattan
For me, building admin tools from day one is more about culture and setting expectations than predicting future workload.

If you have the whole team aware of the basic ground rules for what the admin tools are and what they need to be like moving forward, you can build an ongoing process. i.e. don't merge a feature unless that feature's developer also included a way for the business to configure it to their expectations.

Done correctly, the admin tools should effectively write themselves. It's definitely a lot faster to do this while you are deep in whatever feature.
"within" and "with" are not synonymous. You can still distribute non-open-source software along with nmap. You cannot embed nmap in non-open-source software.
They will be multi-lang, the tech scales to any language and we are working to add more (it is relatively easy). Here is the demo in Polish TTS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra8xFG3keSs
SpaceX's Starship+Superheavy ("can+kicker", informally) promises $100/kg to orbit. (Musk is on record lying that it might be $20/kg.) So, the space elevator would need to do much better than $50/kg.

Anyway there are better alternatives than the space elevator that have the advantage of being, y'know, possible. The orbiting, rotating "skyhook" concept, that dips down to snatch a payload from the upper atmosphere and fling it to space, is one. A ring-shaped version, rolling, might be more structurally practical.

None of the ideas cited in the article originate from Liu. He riffs on them. What would make them more interesting would be knowing how to achieve them. But we don't. People are working on some of them. Some are just bad ideas, the Neptune one spectacularly so.
Fair point, but I didn’t gather that the author expected anything different; I think he simply wanted to highlight a behavior that may not be that obvious to programmers who aren’t expert C++ programmers (i.e., most programmers).
Watch a video[1][2]/read an explainer[3] about DreamerV2 then read Appendix C - Summary of Differences (to DreamerV2).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o75ybZ-6Uu8 (Yannic Kilcher's overview)

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e3BKzK6xD0 (Presentation by lead author)

[3] https://ai.googleblog.com/2021/02/mastering-atari-with-discr...
IIRC originally neither mercurial nor git would scale enough, but mercurial was much more willing to accept scalability-related patches, so long as they didn’t harm the more common small-scale use-cases. After a couple of years of submitting patches for moderate improvements, meta wanted to make some more controversial large-scale changes like dropping support for sequential commit numbers, and ended up hard-forking and breaking compatibility to do that. That incompatible-but-better-performing fork then stayed internal for a while, before recently being released as Sapling.

As a bonus, part of the rewrite of the internal storage engine involved creating a storage engine abstraction layer, which in turn made it easy to add Git as a backend :D
> 4 Aug 2010 — Google pays $182 million for SuperPoke Pets! creator Slide

Glad I didn't depended on someone else's API, made 3 calls and got paid $182 mil in 2010 $$'s
The @TwitterSupport account occasionally posts news announcements
Using GANs to generate synthetic data for profit and jail
In Apple's case, isn't Apple pretty much the whole (well at least a big chunk of) market in US?
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.

I'm sure it's just standard to have that on most if not all studies now, but I'm trying to imagine what a "competing interest" would be on a study like this. Easy to imagine if it's sugar or fossil fuels, but literal fossils? Is it possible to have competing interesting in paleontology? (I may not even be right about paleontology here)
I believe OP is suggesting that this effort be borne by the original authors making the new claims, not by society to reproduce them.

In the limit, any claims one makes are rejected unless you also provide a way to reproduce the claim.

That's a lot of work, but perhaps the world doesn't need more monkeys and typewriters creating faux Shakespeare.
I mean, so are the relational databases. Rocks provides similar storage primitives - trees - as most databases implement internally.

Postgres is “just” a SQL engine running on top of a key-value heap and trees pointing into it.

Neo4j is the same, key-value record store plus trees.

Rocks and it’s peers have made that into a dependable library, making new db dev that much faster :)
Or maybe even scarier?
Thanks for sharing! Last two years I've been feeling like I'm taking crazy pills with all the hype for the trilogy. I finished the first book with high uncertainty if I should even open the second one, which I did, only to put it back after 50 pages.

It's not necessarily bad (subjective after all) but there's an argument that it lacks many elements to be considered a masterpiece. Even accounting lost-in-translation-ness, you still have a more or less average storytelling structure, with not that much innovative elements. Hype definitely makes an average work turn into something annoying if you happen to disagree with the hive mind.
I did like the part about the mass computer and the sequential cycles. The narration of that arc was super enjoyable.
Yeah, that's the whole point of std::optional. Pointers (including smart ones) have the possibility of being empty/pointing-to-nothing built in. std::optional adds it to value types.

To avoid tons of unnecessary copies use move semantics, which std::optional of course supports.
Everything We Know About 1970s Mainframe RPGs We Can No Longer Play (2021)
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> After close to a decade of working in various microservice based organizations, I came to a big-ish monolith project (~100 devs). Analyzing bugs is now fun, being able to just step through the code for the whole business transaction serially in a debugger is an underrated boost. I still need to consult the code owners of a given module sometimes, but the amount of information I'm able to extract on my own is much higher than in microservice deployments. As a result, I'm much more autonomous too.

Could you expand how do you manage ownership of this monolith? Do you run all the modules in the same fleet of machines or dedicated? Single global DB or dedicated DB per module (where it makes sense, obviously)?

Because where I work we have a big monolith with a similar team size and it's a royal PITA, especially when something explodes or it is going to explode (but we have a single shared DB approach, due to older Rails limitation, and we have older Rails because it is difficult to even staff a dedicated team that take care of tending the lower level or common stuff in the monolith).
At this point one of the main features I look for in a JS framework is whether its author values type checking like I do or not.
What do you mean by “fundamental problems.” I’m using chrome right now, it works great, and there’s no better browser.

I assure you they’re not embarrassed they didn’t write it in rust from the beginning and they’re not embarrassed to have written the best and most successful browser there is.
$1 and unlimited free lunches https://www.businessinsider.com/how-steve-jobs-scammed-apple...
> swimming pools on the school grounds

That's still not the norm in Russia. Instead, there are agreements between the schools and the nearby public swimming pools that their instructors will teach school children at a certain predefined time of the week. E.g., "between 10am and 11:30 am, the first three lanes in this pool are reserved for school number 42".
Elon isnt going to buy you a horse for defending his virtue online.
What consequences where you expecting to which bad things? And the US system is broken compared to which one?
Not all good books have to be high literature about well-developed characters going on emotional journeys and learning about themselves or whatever. We can use books about thought-provoking big ideas with some twists thrown in.
Usually the problem with this kind of thing, is that the initial capex requirements are high, and it's just not profitable given how rarely it happens.
I wish history didn't repeat like that this time. Oh well.
For those looking at the waterfall images: Y-axis is time, X-axis is the frequency axis, colors are intensity. Jus a spectrogram that's been rotated 90 degrees to the left.

When you play the sound, the start is at the bottom of the image, and then moves upwards (kind of like Guitar Hero). Some of them can be quite musical, like the THOR (https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/THOR)
That's nice for the US space industry, but won't help Elon in the slightest with his money problems.
That's not even the point. When the Fed prints money, it pushes stocks up. CEO has done nothing. When the Fed raises rates, it pushes stocks down. CEO has done nothing.

Not saying Apple is worthless but a lot of the rise in price of the past two years had nothing to do with the CEO's actions as for every other stocks.
I want to say that some public discourse was possibly seeded by foreign state actors in order to establish energy dominance.
You have no idea about NASA’s budget
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/i-disconnected-from-...
Just buy them second hand then and don't put money in his pocket.

Or don't.
I see the term used as late as in the Byte issue about the IBM PC in 1982, and possibly later. It wasn't before the 3.5" floppy arrived that the term completely fell out of use about the 5 1/4" floppy.

It lived on even longer in marketing and packaging. The image below is of a pack of HD 5,25" disks -- judging by the overall design of it I would wager it's from the very late 80s or early 90s. Still Mini Floppy Disks.

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/H881c0843bd37476aa487619ee0ad8c79...
Did it really hurt their business tho? It seems that pushing climate change only improved their profit margins with artificial scarcity.

I'm not sure people are correctly analyzing their interests here. Renewables are still unreliable in winter, most of the oil is used in transportation and the power grid is just decades away from supporting electric cars.

Minewhile they get to enact cartel style output limiting and competition suppression in the name of climate change. I'll also note that the narrative only truly took off when they started getting pressure from shale oil competition, not the literally 40 years beforehand that they had good margins.

All in all I believe that the timing and actions are in their advantage.
I concur with a lot of what other people are saying here. Late 50s, programming professionally for around 25 years. But recently switched to management. Really hard for me to focus on details of the companies code anymore.

But... when I get on some personal project, I'm on fire. I can learn new languages and concepts and systems and build pretty complex things that people are amazed at.

I think it's more job burn out after years of writing code for other people. You write the code and you work towards the deadline like the world is going to end if you don't make it. Then that code is in production for a year or two. Maybe more if you're lucky, and then it's gone, replaced by some new thing. You stop caring quite as much. But you see these new young kids on fire and working all night and you get imposter syndrome and you try to care and you beat yourself up and think you're losing your touch. tmi?
Mastodon still needs (and offers) admin tools, for each server. Decentralization does nothing to remove the need for admin tools.
Well, now it's down :(
Does anybody write articles on the stuff that is released from this org that lay people can understand?
Really loved this trilogy, sure there might be some inconsistencies here and there, but it's still pretty much hard sci-fi or borderline so and more importantly I don't know any other sci-fi books which are so intense like this one. Relentless twists, there is really little time to be bored.
>The Lisa was an incredible, groundbreaking achievement despite not being financially successful.

Have you ever used one? I dont think incredible and groundbreaking is how I would describe copying Xerox $16K Star into $10K Apple that takes _30 seconds_ to open empty text document and 10 seconds to save same empty text document. Opening diskette takes 15 seconds, copying _empty_ text document from one drive to the other takes 15-25 seconds, deleting a file takes 5 seconds, ejecting floppy another 15 seconds etc etc.

>Yes, my use of "MacBook" was intended to be just a generic reference to Apple laptops

again all started under Sculley
That was the salary if I recall, he did took share bonus. Which back then was seen as a risky move because many believed than Apple couldn't avoid bankruptcy.
In the last few years they have dropped their recruiting significantly but ExxonMobil recruited Ph.D’s from the best universities for decades. Lots and lots of VERY smart people work there.
> Why would they do this? Because it’s a bullshit benchmark and they don’t actually want anybody looking too deeply at it.

Very unlikely I would say. Most likely ”the clowns” never considered how the license terms would impact use of benchmarks.

“Never attribute to malice why can be sufficiently explained by incompetence” as the saying goes.
This doesn't have anything to do with std::optional. Passing anything by copy works this way in C++
> Sometime around mid 2010s they started losing access to content as the streaming wars started (losing The Office to Peacock was a major blow to them for instance).

Given parent comment is someone presumably from the UK as they're discussing iPlayer, Netflix never had this catalogue. The Office US is still on Netflix in the UK.
> Statically typed languages are known to lead to slower initial
> development times

I hear people saying that, but I'm not sure I buy it. Is there any research that supports that, and if so, for which languages? Also, what does "initial development" mean here? The first day, week, month, year? And unless your project is trivial, isn't it somewhat important that as much of the initial work as possible provides a solid foundation for the future of the project so it wouldn't pay off skimping on this?
I don't think they'll force a specific API, but the DMA forces messaging companies to interoperate and I wouldn't think Twitter would be exempted.

I wouldn't be surprised if the EU would force Twitter to interoperate with ActivityPub if they go so far as to disable API access. The EU already has their own Mastodon server so some people already have knowledge of the possibilities of decentralised social media and they also have a huge anti-big-tech stance.
Similar reaction. My favorite fiction genre has always been SF, particularly hard SF. Having read so much, it's hard to find something that really catches my interest with its novelty. I started reading the trilogy because I kept hearing that it was so good and had a lot of novelty. Well, the 1st book was a struggle, IMHO pretty bad writing, but I kept at it because people said it got better. It didn't. Then I started the 2nd and got half way through before I gave up on the writing ever getting any better. I skimmed through the 3rd to see what I might miss and was really unimpressed. Now, of course people have different tastes, but I can't see why people who say they like hard SF think these are good books.
The (typical C++ stdlib) problem here is that things that look deceptively simple on the surface may result in a surprising amount of activity under the hood (e.g. you need to know how std::string is implemented internally, and that a copy operation may or may not be expensive, maybe depending on the length of the payload, compiler and stdlib implementation, etc etc...).

And while the fabled 'zero cost abstraction' often is able to clean up the mess (at the cost of high build times), a small and innocent looking change in the surface code may throw things out of whack again and suddenly you have an unexpected performance regression.
If you define distance (wrt money) as the number of people it’s passed through, then it has the appropriate units.
True! I missed this one. Will read a bit on it and add an edit.
Obvious fallacy assuming that most competent web developers don't already use Firefox in some professional capacity.

Firefox still has enough marketshare that it can't be ignored. At the same time, it would be a fool's errand to incorporate Firefox only functionality into your product.

For personal browsing, I use Brave primarily because they have demonstrated a commitment to privacy that Mozilla has not.
They accept it but it's hard to objectively tell me why I should care about future generations.

I do care, but I can't think of any objective reasons to care. Only romantic reasons about humanity, descendents, future generations, etc. It gets philosophical.
Somewhere in orbit around one of those starts is a civilization discovering that they have been hurled out of the galaxy.

They are convinced that intelligent life can only exist outside the galaxy. "It's clear that the stars are too close, and the conditions inside the galaxy are too unstable for intelligent life to arise. It's no coincidence that it arose here, outside the galaxy."
A bad outcome here doesn’t demonstrate their policies are ineffective any more than a car crash demonstrates that seatbelts are ineffective.
Heh. I was more effusive but walked it back in an edit because I'm not a domain expert in evaluating large societal programs. But I've seen this program 'work.'
The story has some rather clear political biases that a lot of people don’t like, and I can’t help but think a lot of the criticism of the series comes from that. The most tyrannical human characters in the book impose their tyrannies for the sake of collectivism, and collectivist authoritarianism comes very close to dooming humanity more than once. I can imagine people who have collectivist political outlooks not liking it at all.
You didn't directly address anything I said in my post or explain why you think I am poorly informed..

I used to work for National Grid in the Miliband era; I worked, among other things, on theorizing a replacement to the 'circle diagram' for the (then thought to be) coming renewables regime.
Thanks for the chat. I have seen enough families where the siblings don't get along, although I do get along with mine and have many fond memories together.

I have to balance the potential for good memories as a bigger family with wanting to have the best for the kid(s) we do have.
I've been active on Twitter for the past 15 years, thanks to its API and nice clients such as Echofon and TweetBot.

I never understood anything to their website nor app, and will certainly not use Twitter any more if that becomes the only way to use it. What made Twitter great is its API and ecosystem around it.
Could really bring life to some older games with lots of text. Daggerfall springs to mind.
Not making any money on it for 3 years does.
If serious action against climate change would have started in the 1970s, back when we could prevent the massive problems that we'll have live with in the 2050s and beyond, Exxon Mobil would have been out of business by now (or at least, would have had to pivot to some other industry).

Also, oil producers have been coordinating and doing cartel-style output limitting since forever, this is not some new thing or some environmental purpose - OPEC exists exactly for this purpose.
Imagine if all POC wear white people body suits, that would solve racism !
> Strongly typed languages already did take over the software development paradigm. It happened when Java, C++ and C were the dominant languages.

C is not a strongly typed language. Did you mean statically typed?
"as if"
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I agree - the pauses in the first sample called "Narration" are incredibly accurate and pleasant to listen to.

As a developer, can you tell the difference between "Narration" and the human speaker? What can we listen for or what gives it away? For me I listened to the "Narration" clip many times and as a native British English speaker also confirms in another comment, it seems very difficult/impossible to tell the first clip is generated. Congratulations on such an achievement!
> if you’ve been trying vim seriously for ~15 years

To clarify and to be fair to vim, it's a few days to a little over a week of effort every 8 months to two years or so. I'll get the bug to ascend in my coding speed after reading an article like this one, check to see if I still have .vimrc from the last time I tried to configure it for things like syntax highlighting, spaces instead of tabs, etc., then give it a roll.