skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Drone swarms are an interesting idea as well.

I am curious if the US defense industry is up to the task of delivering such systems at a cost level which can be implemented in places like UA.

Otherwise the most significant systems may be developed by other sources. This honestly scares me a bit, as given the alternatives, I am a fan of the predictability of Pax Americana.
> (the Enclosure Act) that happened to the British peasantry mostly before the Industrial Revolution

The industrial revolution was already starting at that point. We associate the industrial revolution with machinization, but it was in fact translation of old feudal modes of land ownership to the entire economy. This trend started with the wool trade and the feudal lords finding wool trade more profitable than feudal land ownership. Coupled with the new modes of economic organization created during the Age of Exploration (corporations, stocks), this removed the incentive for the feudal aristocracy to maintain farming as a means of income and pushed them to maximize their revenue by moving to various emerging trades, with wool trade being the first. The pushing out of the peasants from the commons started around that time. What extra happened during the period that is directly labeled as the Industrial Revolution is just using the same method to push the peasantry into factories.
I think you're talking about Lucia de B. The first sentence of the article :

When a Dutch nurse named Lucia de Berk...

In fact, she never confessed. As per her Wikipedia page:

Important evidence at the appeal was to be the statement of a detainee in the Pieter Baan Center, a criminal psychological observation unit, where de Berk had said during outdoor exercise, "I released these 13 people from their suffering". However, during the appeal, the man withdrew his statement and stated that he had made it up.
The Return of SFML News
Pavlov was sitting in a bar when the last order bell rang. "Oh shoot! I need to feed the dogs" he thought.
I'd go a bit further, it's more like we lack an evaluation compass therefore we can't even try because we don't know if we will be able to see a difference. You can't anticipate benefits of any path and most of the time it's anticipation that drives your effort (you "foresee" things). Dealing with that situation requires changing this habit and go wander, try to find anything that revives curiosity, gives you a clue, a perspective you didn't have.
EmulsiV – A 32bit RISC-V subset processor emulator in browser
there is a catch-22 that must be broken somehow (with some initial outside injection of funds) but if people appreciate the service it enters a virtuous circle: the people working on garbage disposal get salaries, they consume more and pay taxes, the taxes support municipal services which pay the salaries and the loop is closing.

people tend to discount how strong this circular effect is in the economy and implicitly assume that money is found under a rock (or stolen) and is essentially finite. there is some truth to that the sense that if the products or services people want depend on scarce natural resources (e.g. oil) then this creates a constraint. but for large parts of the economy the potential resides in our brains.

not a specific blame at all as this applies everywhere, just to different degrees. think about art for example. we have only as much art as we think is important because all artists must live from the rest of us. but if people think its important and they somehow get paid, they contribute to general welfare with their own demands etc.

its by no means trivial to change attitudes and there can be many other events that can derail those positive loops. but the general principle is something that should be appreciated more because that is ultimately how all wealth is built.
What a lot of fun. It’s notable that I immediately decided I needed to kill the hamsters while avoiding their droppings. Lots of really good games reward players that subvert expectations. Earthworm Jim turning left instead of right at the start of a level. Braid Tim standing on a cloud and holding down fast forward for 20 minutes. Quake grenade-jumping up into impossible to reach teleportals. Every puzzle in Baba Is You.

What kinds of emergent behaviour / secret level / weird hacks could you introduce into space invaders? On mobile I can’t not-shoot the hamsters but maybe if I managed to dodge them with every single bullet they would land and make peace with their fellow mammals?
To what else then ? Leaving it unconnected would be worse, leaving it at ground level makes it at worst act like small capacitance to ground for nearby stuff
This is gonna be random but I love people just shamelessly being themselves on the Internet. This person is literally a kitty cat playing around and I find that adorable~

Oh, also secure your Jenkins servers.
> And now the average worldwide lifespan is 72

Technology and science changed the living standards. Not capitalism or industrial revolution by themselves. In fact, average age for adults was already within 60-70 range before the industrial revolution - what brought down the averages was children dying early. Medicine during scientific revolution solved that. In that period, every bit of knowledge was being shared openly by everyone, entire science and technology was open source.

In fact Capitalist mode of economics has changed that. It pushed patents, and it started to monopolize and control science and technology starting from the latter part of the 19th century. That is also why the pace of scientific progress slows down around that time.
Yes, the video is pretty amazing - Gary in 2014 managed to predict pretty much everything that's happening with WASM nowadays: the push for safe execution of software compiled in unsafe languages, a common VMesque instruction set, web browsers implementing it first and pushing the frontier in this regard, and now kernels also starting to be capable of running that in order to avoid the cost of switching rings.

What we're yet to see is this last point becoming the default, so execution of user programs kind-of makes a circle by returning to kernel mode, except now a trusted WASM-to-native compiler/runtime is responsible for ensuring system safety. Might happen in the next few years.
It seems like all of America is afraid of prison sentencing white collar crime because of the number of people who may wind up in prison. Sentencing towards moral high ground frightens those in power.
I'm from that age bracket. That one teenage mom from my in-group as a kid is a grandmother now.

The majority of children from that group of parents are just about old enough to apply for uni now, though.
Yeah, thinking about this as an extended vacation seems right to me. Things don't usually go down over the weekend or winter break. That doesn't mean "hey that means we only need 0 employees".

Certainly you can make a microblog service with less than 500 engineers, but there is a lot of work invested in their datacenters (from physically managing the machines to their network / orchestration control plane). That can even be outsourced as many companies do, but it ain't free.
550 engineers to maintain and develop the code base is still a rather large number. Is it too few? I don't know. There is little doubt that Twitter was bloated, the question is by how much.
Most board vendors can sell you the stencil for your PCB for very cheap
You might be right, although something to note is that xdelta 1.x is referenced while xdelta 3.1 is what gdelta claims to beat.
I have been thinking of this story since I first read it and have been unable to find it again until now. Thank you for sharing!

This is such a haunting story. I love it so much.

The future is going to be weirder than we can even imagine.
So in the UK you're basically going to Scotland or rural Ireland. Sad
They would be amazed by what is possible and appalled by the things we do with all that power.
The hopi is out of days though. It covers Idris 1 and isn't, I believe, being updated. Edwin intimated to me a while ago he'd rather have his bollocks cut off than write another book, and I assume he included updates in that. Idris 2 has significant differences to 1.
Still sounds like quite a lot to maintain a project with the complexity of twitter.
You can pass "types" also around in C#…

But in both cases that aren't types in the sens of type theory. In both cases those are just regular values (of type "Type"). In both cases you will be able to find those values with the help of a debugger. (The difference between Zig and C# being that in Zig those values are constructed during compilation and than mostly thrown away again whereas the "type" values are just regular runtime data on the CLR).
Finding the source in the header was obvious, but I can't figure how to decode that properly. I can see the rules for body{} and @keyframes{}, but no idea where all the text (the before/after rules) are hiding..
Nothing specific to 2023. In 399 BC, Socrates went on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens, and for two impious acts: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities".
Would a webserver configuration file count? The code on the webserver minifies the CSS file and embeds it into a Link header - you could configure a webserver to respond with a generated Link header and no content to a certain URL.

Here is an example configuration file for nginx: https://snip.dssr.ch/?7a4e21dde5f7916b#2aPagYEg3kuWg3YN8Q5oz...

Though I would argue that the header-embedded CSS is still code, regardless how it is delivered.
I’m curious, how can you tell it runs at 60fps? Is there some debugging that can be turned on?
I took a BSc and MSc in Data Engineering in my mid 30s. Never looked back.
It's crazy to me that all Americans have to do their taxes every year and are charged for this.

Many people in the UK go their entire lives without ever interacting with HMRC (our equivalent of the IRS)

Self Assessment (doing taxes every year) takes about 20-30 minutes and that's when I'm claiming tax reliefs
For example, I'd start by asking who says they draw the wrong conclusions. Are they "the wrong conclusions" or conclusions somebody disagrees with? Who is the person who disagrees with those conclusions and what is the expertise of that person? And so on.
Doesn’t sound like a $44 billion company.

For some reason headcount seems to matter in valuation.

Ironically as Musk cut the headcount he probably cut the valuation.

The purchase of Twitter may go down as one if the biggest value destruction events in history.
You've Been Lied to About Genetics
> Without having more information, I'm guessing, probably you would not do it.

Wrong. Pretty much every time I'd do it. Just coz. ;)

What do you mean I'm "Chaotic Neutral"? :p
Similarly I would like to read a good account of the relationship between India the country, West "Indies" group of islands, and the native "Indians" of North America. I don't suppose they share any roots with the word 'indigenous'.
Sprites move in sub pixel-grid increments.

That immediately destroys the retro feeling for me.
It's an entertaining hack. I think it should be considered in this context.

If we start thinking about it in practical terms it stops making any sense. Specifically, a standard 2 layer board costs few $ to make. Here we're paying a huge premium for extra internal layers. You may as well take that money and put it towards a hob with an scr and a cheap controller to solder them on it.
My company only moved from subversion to got 3 years ago.
There are likely hundreds of things like this if you looked hard enough, I am sure plenty of managers or execs have ‘wasteful’ expenses that anyone of them could generate such headlines of outrage and the majority of people “upset” are not going to be those that are effected by this directly, those that are have more to be concerned with rather than outrage porn.

If Microsoft feels it needs a private concert and such events to provide perks to its executives that it obviously feels is somehow valuable and it also believes it has to much staff for the jobs it needs to do, those are completely separate, I am not saying I agree with those choices but it is there choice to make and it’s silly to get upset about it.
That's pretty limited if all he has to share is random shower thoughts
Yup, seems like they could scratch zero from that number for such simple product, even the apps can be just wrappers for website.
Yes, I thought this was pretty common now. I do it every time as it hardly adds any cost.

It’s also worth looking at the costs for SMT assembly. Companies like JLC are amazingly cheap for fully assembled boards (provided you stick to their standard parts catalog).
Scala is missing on that list (even it doesn't have "full dependent types" Match-Types are quite close).
"the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

-Cunningham's law

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_Law
it uses mapbox'es renderer (mapbox-gl) and seems to pull in the CSS from mapbox directly. Might be worth changing to maplibre since it's not using mapbox'es tiles.
it's pretty funny how stupid rich people like elon musk try to convince the poor that "we can do more with less engineers". "hey slave, you have to do more work so we don't have thousands of employees. i don't want to pay thousands of employees, you understand slave?"
FYI, Elon Tweeted[0] a response to the article saying they have about double the headcount reported by CNBC. So take it with a grain of salt.

[0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1616706530841333761?s=20
the "story" that the employees were all terrible and the code a disaster would have been proven if the site crashed day 1

I am actually a fan of cycles where "no new features" is a priority, making systems less fragile and tollerate the weekend / holiday helps you sleep at night, and sleeping at night is nice.
> Cultural conformity is not being enforced in Europe

Of course its being enforced, especially in non-Federal countries. The TV usually speaks one language and no dialects, the education system is controlled by the head of the State, the same goes for media entities usually controlled by people close to the government.
Why piracy can (still) be justified
swf is all you need
Humans have trouble error checking each other's code. Imagine an army of devs who are expected to read and error check a machine. It's an absolute nightmare and fits the literal definition of bullshit job. But if it pays someone will do it. I dont know how one would hire an army of these sad folk though.
Why don't they fire those in charge of selecting 'What's happening' and those who recently implemented 'For You'?

Both are unwanted features.
Probably because: "i did something unspecified and now it doesn't work" is kind of an annoying comment. More to the point, nobody promised that the page doesn't use javascript, just that the techniques presented do not need js in principle.
What a crap take. Of course they are trying to expand. Europe would do well to have a better answer than asking Lidl to run cloud datacenters, until then there's not much to go than the big 3 if you want to be where the new managed services with nice APIs that will scale for you will always appear first.
Demis is a super hard negotiator who was the only person able to get bought while keeping full control. I think he's more than capable of doing business.

Jeff Dean may not care that much about business, as he spent all his life on scalability, but he understands more than most people the exact data needed to be collected to be able to train the neural networks for launching / improving products. He may not want to be CEO, but I don't think that's a bad trait for a CEO.
The Genetics Pedagogies Project
I’m trying to understand what the implication of the Gates-Buffet story is: is it supposed to be an exaggerated story like a Mathematician joke? Or is it being implied here that Gates instantly deduced this intransitive property just merely looking at the dice?
Python is a dynamic language so it's completely out of competition here.

Types in the context of dependent types mean solely static types.

Runtime "types" are not types at all. They're runtime values.
Interesting to me that the Venn diagram of the group of people who want "prison reform" and an end to overincarceration and the group of people who want Holmes locked up with the key thrown away is basically a perfect circle.

Is Holmes such an imminent danger to society that she needs locked up and cordoned off from our communities?
Thanks. I got quite confused and almost believed Stross was writing books under an alternate pen name. Now I recall reading some of qntm's work on SCP at [1].

[1] https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/qntm-s-author-page
The header " The Page With No Code " is in the html::before content property.
The first paragraph "It all started when..." is in the body::before content.
The second paragraph "This web page has..." is in the body::after content.
And finally, the footnote "* Obviously there's some code somewhere..." is in the html::after content property.

I ran the decoded base64 string through a CSS beautifier; this might help:
https://gist.github.com/ldjb/8c6b6d83f2acd3cef01fcf56b36d65f...
> dangerous depressive spiral over how much of my time it all sucked up

You should try the French administration - it's 100 times worse than that.
I enjoyed this systems level description, and think it is fundamentally sound.
Simple. Most people do not behave as they do online when in person. Or, put a different way, the online physical gap enables behaviors and interactions not often seen in person.

And, yes, in real life you better know what you are talking about. You can’t google yourself out of it, particularly in professional settings.
Some of that, sure, but I'd imagine more often it's just "realized they're wrong (consciously or subconsciously), try to save face by derailing conversation".

There is of course flipside of it, "is actually right but can't explain it properly, either by own ineptitude or target audience's ignorance".
The Magic Chord is “C major”
As if the poor couldn’t vote to change things if they wanted to.
> How does it deal with dust from a household environment?

At 5:55 the interviewee claims that the high back pressure allows them to blow the air through IP68 filter material. It seems dust-proofing is one of their marketing points.

I don't know what to make of this, so just a few random points: The interviewee is actually the founder and CEO. Has a CS PhD from UT Dallas and mostly a high-level management carreer, most lately VP at Qualcomm. They just came out from stealth mode (December) and announced they raised $100M [1].

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/frore-systems-emerges-from-s...
Sounds a bit like acupuncture? I mean, if you ignore the whole "chi energy" angle. Or whatever woo is meant to be awoken by the needles.

I also had a shoulder problem for well over a year. I think it was a pinched nerve. Went to countless physios, tried pills, stretching, weight training and even acupuncture. Nothing. Not a bit of relief, and some times even more pain.

Then I went on a two week holiday to Sri Lanka. Swam in 30C degree water. Laid on the hot sand. And basically did nothing for the entire two weeks. It wasn't until the plain ride home that I realised I was no longer in pain! I've been pain free ever since.

Sorry.. just realised my little story had nothing to do with vaccines or inflammation.
> took ten years to get the money back that they paid

How much did they pay?
This is news because later this year they are probably going to have problems. You have obviously never worked at a large internet service, but when you spend some time backstage at such a venture you learn that there is a great deal of inertia within various projects and pieces of infrastructure. If 80-90% of the team for component X departs the system is unlikely to fail quickly (a frequently repeated mistaken belief when Twitter was shedding engineers so fast) but it is going to start having problems that will not be visible to the outside world. This is not a problem for a while because the former employees who built and maintained the system were fairly smart people and built something that was relatively reliable; they wanted to be able to sleep through the night without a page or go on vacation too.

Bugs exposed by other teams using that component will go unfixed and will need to be patched around by the caller. New features that might have used component X will be sidelined because no one wants to put more load on it or risk their feature on a component that people have started whispering about in the corridors. What is worse is that the people frantically spending their days patching and repairing this Titanic below decks do not see the iceberg and do not have enough manpower to turn the ship even if they did, the people who could help give warning or helped prevent the problem left a while ago. Eventually this component is going to get stressed, some lingering bug will get triggered, or some other system elsewhere in the architecture diagram will fail and shed load to our component X that is barely keeping up and it too will fail. The danger for Twitter is that the failure could cascade through multiple poorly-maintained systems and lead to a much bigger problem.
'For you' is not a new feature, it's just the 'show latest' button in a new location.
Cash bail totally exists in the UK, even if uncommon.

I’ve had to hand over money to get a friend out after he was arrested due to an extradition request.

> If you've done something very bad, or are a big flight risk you will not be granted bail, but again, not a money issue

It absolutely is a money issue. The bigger surety you can put up, the less those things matter.
I had a very similar experience.

I spent the first chunk of my working life (>10 years), working in bars, night clubs and restaurants. I was good at getting jobs and frequently quit them. All I cared about was taking drugs, chasing girls and playing with technology.

I ended up getting married and my wife supported me for 9 months whilst I learned Drupal and PHP. During that time I started a Drupal meetup and met lots of other developers.

One of those developers told me her company was looking for a contractor, so I applied for the job. The same girl took my resume from the bottom of the pile and put it at the top. I was invited to interview. Two of us passed the interview and were asked to do a test. The other guy was a very experienced contractor, but he refused to do tests on a matter of principle, leaving me as the only candidate.

I went from £6.50 an hour (minimum wage) to £300 / day. It was utterly life changing.

Still working as a developer 12 years later.
So there were that many guys with visa and/or mortgage issues and we’re not able to leave on time and must sleep now in the office.
Yep: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B4%E3%81%88%E3%82%93
Yet months later, Twitter is still running despite deranged predictions [0] of its immediate collapse and clearly the other 7,000 employees were just not needed.

Again, the media really knew how to fool and create pure hysteria and manipulation to get almost everyone believing everything they write.

[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/08/1062886/heres-ho...
The US federal government (and particularly the IRS) doesn't know what kids you do or don't have.

Millions of American kids vanished when the IRS decided that to claim a kid you must provide a valid SSN. [1]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/declaration-of-non-depende....
Why would you fire the people who implemented the unwanted features as opposed to the those who required the unwanted features?