skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'll do the math:

$250k/yr/developer, so for 1 quarter, that's $62.5k, 3 developers for one quarter is $187.5k. Docker costs $10/mo, or $120/yr, so for 1000 developers, that's $120k/yr, or a payoff time of 1.5 years, assuming nobody ever has to touch anything ever again. Let's say our solution requires 1 developer-quarter per year to maintain - bugfixes, upgrades, deployments, etc. That's $62.5k/yr. That pushes our payoff time out to 2.5 years.

Let's say our solution causes a net decrease in developer productivity of 1% (our solution has a bug that means things are slow for a day, developers can't google for easy answers, developers have to port things into our system) - that's a minute of extra work for every ~2hrs. That's 1000*250k*.01, or a net drain to the company of $2.5M/yr, which effectively pushes our payback time out to "never".

Hell, we can even work the math the other way - for replacing Docker Desktop to be worthwhile, it's gotta cost less than $120/yr/developer. Developers cost $250k/yr, for call it 250 days of work per year, so $1000/day, or $125/hr, which means if the aggregate cost of our replacement to an individual user is even an hour per year, it wouldn't be worth doing for free. Add in the cost of actually having someone actually maintain our replacement product, and the math's even shittier.
I love these crazy papers. I don't always understand everything but I love reading them.
All of those keybindings are not composable, vim is. you can find with a shortcut, but vim can “dtr” to delete all text up to r. or maybe you want to delete 3 lines, 3dd will do that. Once you recognize vim is like a language for editing, you’ll get it.
They don't know. If they found out (via a leak, not via doing something explicitly illegal themselves like hacking), they would be allowed to publish the name even with the current court order. Basic 1st amendment precedent.
The press moves faster than the justice system and based on the facts that were public, their willingness to toss him softballs caused many people to rightfully question their journalistic integrity, simple as that.
I dunno.. in general the GUI is the end state of the stack, and most interactions aren't / shouldn't be automated.

There are many many plain simple bugs which are annoying. I'd be happy to work a year on ironing out various things in macos/ios.
Lies. The community won and WotC are in damage control.
I wish I could find this post again, but one company had a clever approach to the problem. If you can figure out which countries the cracked software is originating from, you can serve up a version of your page where you offer up a free, unlocked version of your app.

You're still losing out on sales, but cracked software often originates in those same low-income countries. They get to have their free copies, and it's a likely bet that your customers in wealthier parts of the world will just buy the license instead of attempting to crack it themselves.
Apple has always had conflicts between its business interests and the "bicycle for your life" ethos. We just used to not notice because they were bringing us such great shiny new things on a regular basis. It's been a long time since Apple has made any innovative software for your digital life. Despite the ability to steal and claim any good idea created for iOS for the last 15 years I can't think of how any Apple application or software-based utility has affected my life in any positive way for a number of years.
That's a great test and I think an argument for monorepo for most companies. Unless you work on products that are hermetically sealed from each other, there's very likely going to be tight dependencies between them. Your various frontends and backends are going to want to share data models for the stuff they're exchanging between them for example. You don't really want multiple versions of this to exist across your deployments, at least not long term
Are Folks with ADHD wired to be entrepreneurs?
It's a lot more subtle than that. First off let me say that historically, demonstrating that a virus causes cancer has been a major bit of work, and many times people have mistakenly seen associations and falsely believed they were causal. second, I don't deny there are some cancers which are caused by viruses. But, you're referencing extremely rare cancers, not the cancers that make up the bulk of US (or world) deaths from cancer. My complaint is about taking these relatively rare situations and implying there's some sort of general underlying well-understood cause, when the reality is, in many situations, the virus itself did not specifically "cause" the cancer, but for complex biological reasons, it's "associated" with the cancer (which could manifest as increased susceptibility to getting particular types, or worse prognosis, or even possibly better outcome).
But iTunes only runs on Windows or macOS so I think you're stuck to having one of those around with iTunes running on it. I was hopeful, Id love an iPhone but have SO much music and no way to get it onto the phone without buying another computer.
In principle, I agree with you. In practice, if there are cheap tools (or, more likely often less cheap services) to fulfill business requirements--and make things including things like traveling more pleasant--I'll often just pay out rather than dealing with approvals and requests which are often out of policy.
It looks like maybe Apollo/Domain systems use an epoch of 1929-10-14 instead of 1970-01-01. Maybe that's the birthday of one of the early developers (or their spouse).

There's nothing particularly magical about the Unix epoch.
I once triggered one of its stock responses about how it's only a large language model and can't answer some kinds of questions. Sometime later I asked if it had made any mistakes in our conversation. It said that it could have answered that earlier question better, so I asked it what it would have said if it had answered better, and it gave me a pretty good answer.
You're totally right. The main reason I left JavaScript out of the title is because many of our most passionate users didn't know JavaScript when they started using the product! This was a big surprise to us, but I think it goes to show that folks want a scripting platform, and are willing to learn the language of that platform if the tooling is good enough. So we decided to de-emphasize the JS part of the platform. Maybe we will change our mind on this...
New Sony Walkman music players feature good looks, Android 12
It seems that this generation's revolutionaries are always the next generation's reactionaries..
Have you watched the testimony? I encourage you to watch it. It's not just that he said those things, it's that he omitted much of the rest.

As a third party observer his responses were just absolutely baffling. Whenever blame was pointed at Sam he seemed to say some variation "we need more data" or "we need <my brand> of regulation" or deflecting to Binance/CZ while not giving Binance the same benefit of "we need more data" that he gave to Sam.

I've come to question if O'Leary is to SBF as Jeffry Picower was to Madoff. An entity who perhaps secretly knew but can never be proven to know and just looks like another victim.
Obligatory reference to Bull Durham:

Crash: "You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: We gotta play it one day at a time. ...."

Nuke a.k.a. Meat: "That's pretty boring."

Crash: "Of course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v1m4JKH3AM
I agree with this. When I started using iTunes in 2002 it was a revoultion for me, before that I just had music files scattered around wherever the ADHD put them. iTunes would organize them, find out more metadata like names of artists and genres, and give me a tags-based database for viewing them. And, it stored them in a pretty rational way in the filesystem, so you could find the individual files pretty easily. It became as simple as inserting a CD and in a couple minutes it was ready to go. It was even able to insert a pause between some tracks and play 2 tracks attacca if they were supposed to be played together. And, the "Genius" feature put together really decent mixes, where it would play a few songs from the same artist and move on, and seem to move through the genres pretty nicely.

I appreciate all the work they're doing now curating lists and writing bios of the artists in Apple Music, but I feel like they threw away useful stuff they had before.
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People already started making moves to protect their livelihood in case the OGL was revoked. This response by WotC is not enough to make them reverse course.

I hate to say it, but they should've just stuck to their guns on the OGL update just so they only got hit by traffic coming from one direction instead of both.
Awesome book! Thank you!
I find that a bit hard to believe for the more established device makers (e.g. Garmin, Polar, Suunto). Their device is a watch, if I want to look at analytics, I will need to move the data off to the cloud, I don't want to look at graphs and maps on a half-inch watchface.

Apple is a special case, because they offer a tightly closed ecosystem with watches, phones, laptops...
> on Arm, division by zero will always return a 0 result, and will not trap.

Cortex-M and -R have support for div-by-0 faults but it's disabled by default.
Can we get any of Iceberg/Delta/Hudi that isn't terribly complex to setup? Like configurable completely from Standard SQL via the CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE syntax.
The actual title is "Declarative Scheduling for Data Assets"

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize
1. Combine all code to one repo, one main branch. No other branches.

2. Update dependencies.

3. Fix bugs.

4. Delete extra code. Remove not needed dependencies. Look are there better smaller dependencies.
My 'favourite' is that the quadratic formula -b±sqrt(b²-4ac)/2a falls apart when you solve for the positive solution using floating point for cases where ε=b²/4ac is small, the workaround being to use the binomial expansion -b/2a*(0.5ε-0.125ε²+O(ε³))
Put some simple tracking in your software. Ping once a day when its running.

If individuals run it, eh who cares. There's a not insignificant amount of people who want to see if the real version would actually work. And see if it'll run on WINE or whatever. Pissing off individuals is how you get to be known as bad.

And then there's companies who run it pirated. Those are juicy targets. You dont even need to be mean. "We saw that your company appreciates the trial of our software on X machines for Y days, and would like to engage in licensing for your department/company."
That would be a great problem to focus on if you were trying to improve the experience for users.
Wow. That 3rd party providers list is so long they implemented a search box for it.
> For a group that seems to pride itself on math and logic and whatever, I don't understand what the hell we're thinking most of the time.

Organizations are prone to bike shedding and forget about opportunity cost.
I agree with this, but I do think having pirate keys show up on ebay is a special case. I've dealt with this in businesses that expected Microsoft support but had windows and office keys bought off ebay that they believed were legitimate. End users often just think that $5 key is a special deal. It's worth sending whatever complaints you can to ebay.
A Writer Used AI to Plagiarize Me. Now What?
Thanks! Yeah we have made security our #1 after this launch went so much better than expected.

As someone else noted, we already have secrets on the platform, but I am eager to hear more about what you'd like to pay for it and what you'd expect to get in exchange. We are all ears on suggestions :)
> Running all of them would requires hundreds of different pieces of hardware, so it's not really possible for a single release manager to do so.

The issue is this bug is not hardware related. Its a pure software issue.

Hardware bugs are an entirely different kettle of fish.

BTW is that bonzini of GNU Smalltalk fame?
The downside is a significant comp reduction unless it is some sort of trading/hedge fund.
“But above all, make sure not to confuse a "pirated copy" with a "lost sale". In 99% of cases, the Venn diagram of those has very little overlapping area.”

I’m seeing many comments saying this, but it’s simply not true for commercial/industrial software. Outside of the US, even in large swathes of Europe, it’s extremely common to lose significant revenue to piracy, and if you make it too hard to pirate they will pay.

Companies (the customers in this case) that are happy to exploit workers in sweatshops? Also completely happy to use your software without paying for it.
I couldn’t agree more with “Don’t let your CFO drive”. I’ve worked at several companies that turned to absolute shit as a result of exactly this.
Collector discovered Isaac Newton’s lost personal copy of Opticks
Testing GPT-2 Output Detector on ChatGPT
I believe the majority of the Republican Party has espoused these views - evolving slightly from "climate change doesn't exist" to "it's not a big deal" to "it's not humans" to "we can't do anything to fix it".
I think in practice any English speaker even at like an A2 level wouldn’t get confused, because the context has to be extremely clear in order for “pie” to be used in reference to a pizza. In any conceivable case I can think of, pizza is either going to be explicitly named immediately before saying “pie,” or the context will be undeniable (like when you’re ordering from a pizza restaurant). There would never be a case where someone would ask “what do you want to eat?” and someone would respond with “pie” when they mean pizza.
Climeworks removed CO2 from the air and put it underground
Tamagui gets you Chakra-like features with even better theming, performance and works on Native to boot.
Or, as Steve Yegge put it, most programmers are CPU-bound rather than I/O bound.
I couldn't find much information, but does that app have integrations with Garmin for Garmin users?
> CZ did sell FTX Tokens

Because he was concerned they were insolvent and were using customer funds to cover trading losses and buy penthouses.

Turns out they were insolvent and using customer funds to cover trading losses and buying penthouses.

Unless CZ held a gun to SBFs head and made him lever up, lose billions then double down, take customer funds to the casino and try to win back $10billion then its kinda hard to blame CZ.
I think this is different in consumer and corporate markets. The tradeoff to expose a business to legal liability and security problems is not a good one for most businesses while it's usually acceptable (or isn't realized by) many consumers.
This article from 2013 might give an indication on why some people choose FOSS even when they can afford the non-FOSS solutions:

The licensing. My God, the licensing. It's not so much the money, as the infernal, mind-bending tax code level complexity involved in making sure all your software is properly licensed: determining what 'level' and 'edition' you are licensed at, who is licensed to use what, which servers are licensed... wait, what? Sorry, I passed out there for a minute when I was attacked by rabid licensing weasels.

I'm not inclined to make grand pronouncements about the future of software, but if anything kills off commercial software, let me tell you, it won't be open source software. They needn't bother. Commercial software will gleefully strangle itself to death on its own licensing terms.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-ruby/
Interestingly, on my last visit to the farm stand picking up beef, the owner was talking about how made their choice of butcher based on those principals. They take them to one whose operation was designed with consultation from Temple Grandin. She takes the cows she has raised there herself, and witnesses the operation.

I've processed chickens and ducks that I have raised. Much smaller scale, and actually when it comes to duck I'm much more about the eggs than the meat 8^)
The native <dialog> does very little on its own in terms of functionality. It's mainly there for accessibility/semantic markup
I've always kinda wondered this myself. The copyright office seems very clear about not being able to claim ownership of the mechanics of a game. I always assumed the additional grants in the OGL were for content like (for example) monster, deity, and item descriptions, and maybe to the language used in the instructional material, not just the raw mechanics.
This was how I got a licence for the Protel (Now Altium) PCB design software when back in university; the cracked version doing the rounds on campus was rather prone to crashing, so eventually I figured I had nothing to lose, called up the distributor and asked them if they did student discounts, as buying a full licence was definitely out of the question, but so was using the, uh, evaluation version with its stability issues.

"Sure thing, how many do you need?"

When I hesitantly reminded him we hadn't discussed prices yet, I was told it was free as they really wanted to snare us in as users before we wound up in paid work where we'd need to be productive employees fast.

I have since had three employers buy full licenses and support deals. Good call by Protel back then.
The goal for Tesla has always (at least officially) been to make a cheap electric car, but when their expensive cars sold out at almost any price it made sense to keep the price high and invest in production capacity.

From what I can gather, this move is very much in line with a decade of communication from the company so I'm not convinced it's as desperate a move as many headlines insinuate.

I could be wrong of course and either way the signal to the market is "we expect growth to slow down" which is seen as a disaster in our economic system no matter why it happens.
The hilarious thing about this is that this might have different behaviors across architectures or optimization levels if you do a bad floating point compare...
From memory it wasn't so long ago that the laws of chess "allowed" you to play an illegal move to cause a checkmate (e.g. Qd1xf7 mate). Your opponent would say "hey that's an illegal move, take it back". You could then say "according to this rule, taking back illegal moves can only be done during a game, and according to this other rule, checkmate immediately ends the game".

Note that it can be discovered during a game that a move several turns ago was actually illegal, and the board should be returned to that position (and times adjusted). I had this happen to me once.
> Let their ignorance be argued

eh, "Disprove [the situation you just said was emotionally gutting] wasn't caused by [nonsense I can write down in 5 seconds but will take 2+ orders of magnitude to respond to]" is pretty classic sealioning/asymmetric trolling. Maybe if they put up a claim with evidence, otherwise it's just low-effort shit posting and not worth much more than a downvote.
A full actual version of SOLIDWORKS costs, no joke, $10,000 for a professional license ($8k plus $2k/yr support contract). An engineer at, say, Tesla is going to have that paid for by their employer while designing the Cybertruck. That Tesla engineer is also going to want to use SOLIDWORKS to design their bike shed. Their two choices for their bike shed are either use their work computer, or pirate it. (Using non-solidworks CAD isn't really an option due to the muscle memory involved with the application, and the resulting switching cost.) So it's getting pirated. But that also means their next employer better have SOLIDWORKS and so that "lost" sale for a bike shed really isn't.

But you'd be insane to use a pirated copy of SOLIDWORKS for anything professional (like if you were the Cybertruck's door handle subcontractor or whatever), just like you would be insane to use a pirated copy of windows or Office. But let's be real, plenty of people do that. Whether it's because they're poor, or whether it's because they're cheap, or both, full list price is simply not gonna get paid, and so they'll go with the cheaper option - it's just that cheaper option happens to be a $0 pirated copy in most cases. Some offices will have one genuine copy for one computer and pirated copies for the rest of everyone, especially part-time contractors. In that way, a cheaper academic license, even accepting that there's no fool proof way of checking for that, or having a time-limited entrepreneur/start-up option will lead to more sales and more money.

It then becomes an exercise in the dark art of pricing things, to figure out where that sweet spot actually is. A 30 or 90 day copy which is hopefully long enough to build the bike shed, priced right, is an actual sale that can be made that otherwise wouldn't. A cheaper limited version for the non-premium seats at the company are other additional sales to be made.
I know a guy who was consistently slacking in all teams where he worked and I know of. In multiple companies he done nothing.

I don't think all his managers and leads were bad.
When the United States Almost Adopted a 30 Hour Work Week (2021)
I agree with that, and I think it aligns with the claim that customer preferences ought not be blamed.
Spotify was in that phase since it's creation. Contrast paying amounts between Apple Music and Spotify to see that in numbers.

Game Pass has the huge advantage of being about games, it can retain a much lower game library number (~100 titles) but still keep people subscribed by rotating the games around first party titles. This means that until the landscape changes (Nvidia's attempt being squandered nullifies a lot of potential here of a landscape changing), being an invited third party means good income, due to the revenue being split ~100 ways rather than ~11 million ways.

Of course the above is a simplification, as each game gets its own separate contract agreement and the payout isn't based on how many times a game is played.
Could just be me, but I only remember the full context of the cannibal leader char in Seveneves. I could tell you some abstraction of "There was that programmer woman from the miner magnate family and there was that one guy that was hanging out with the eves", but it's all pretty blurry. I don't remember anyone from Anathem. My main issue is that I can't even tell you who the main character of Seveneves was, if there was one. I remember that there was one in Anathem, but could I tell you anything about him? Nope, just good sci fi. I remember everyone from Snow Crash, and I definitely remember the main char from Diamond Age, her dad, the guy he robbed, etc.

I stopped reading Stephenson after.
I think Marc Rich enjoyed much better connections than SBF
> A row with "2500-4999" animals per farm has farm counts and "total animals" that amounts to over 6.5k animals per farm

Do you mean line #69 (Inventory, Table 14) ?

----------------------------------------------

Animals per farm | Total farms | Total animals

2500 to 4999 ..... | 1,973 ...... | 6,681,843

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6681843 / 1973 = 3386 animals per farm

> It strikes me as straight up lying with numbers

Do you have better source ?