skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, obviously I don't actually know if my "theory" is valid or not. I did not work at that time.

My feeling is just that there is no order anymore.

When I visited my dad (DoD bureaucrat) or mum (dentist) as a child there were so much order with secretaries and file cabinet rooms.

The cost of sending letters or filing documents worked as a filter I guess. No data format was ever invalid. Just put the paper in the folder. There was no "computer says no" for the clerks. Also, there was a limit in how convuluted processes you can practically have without computer programs.

The main thing was probably that you had to have secretaries keeping order. They are gone now.

I have never experienced that order where I have worked (I am 34). But I see it in remaints of the late 90s early 00s documentation and old file cabinets for prior projects.

Nowadays everything just disappear in some network folder black hole and employee attrition.
This reads like something a chatbot would write.
There are airships and dirigibles, but not vacuum ones (or at least, it's not mentioned they are) IIRC.
"However, the consistency of the direction of effects across disparate taxa suggest that systemic racism alters the demography of urban wildlife populations in ways that generally limit population sizes and negatively affect their chances of persistence. Our results thus support the idea that limited capacity to support large, well-connected wildlife populations reduces access to nature"

Crowding, cars, and way too much cement? I recall when working in a relatively large city that certain residential areas had very little green space, while others were similar to the suburbs.
The USSR collapse was actively organised badly, at least in Russia proper, in the years following 1991. A neoliberal society was transplanted from whole cloth to the people. In reality, a few oligarchs-to-be in various ways acquired for free what had been state property. A ruling elite replaced by another ruling elite who could climb the ladders fast enough.

Had the transition not been so chaotic and fast, a lot of grief would have been spared.
I don't have either. I was gonna figure out how to post it after I actually sat down and wrote it lol. I'll probably post it in the golang subreddit and maybe link to it in the README.md since it describes how purego works.
How long do you think until we elect our leaders by asking an all-knowing LLM

If we're prepared to ask an LLM that, why have leaders when we could just ask LLMs to draft new laws or budgets? For that matter, why have banks or centralized insurance firms, which grossly abuse their access to liquidity and longitudinal financial/actuarial data? The sooner we get rid of representative democracy and move toward systems of systems the better imho. I think as LLM capabilities grow it has the potential to radically improve transparency, since modeling and visualizing the operation of real economic and political systems is at present labor intensive and obtuse to most.
Maybe economy is a better word? In the short term, any ding dong punching into a calculator or Excel can do something productive cheaper than someone who knows what they are doing.

An elderly relative was manager in a cash room at a regional bank. In the 70s… they had a huge cash room, that would accommodate 25’ trucks. When she started they were still doing manual counts, and eventually moved to tabulating machines. Each generation of tech eliminates a chunk of workforce. Instead of 5,000 clerks, that bank has 50 software engineers performing the same functions with a couple of dozen clerical staff.
If you do it aboveboard using lawyers and accountants to minimize the amount of tax you owe, it's tax avoidance. Legal as church on Sunday. Tax evasion, on the other hand, is a crime. That only comes into play when you commit some manner of fraud to get out of taxes.

Difference between the two:

1) You get $4,000,000 from (complicated but legal business deal) and report it on your return. Your lawyers and accountants successfully argue that due to subparagraph q of the Arglebargle Business WhangoZango Act of 1919, originally designed to allow orphanages to deduct the cost of gruel, this money is not subject to taxes (or gets taxed at a lower rate, or whatever). That's tax avoidance -- perfectly legal -- and that's why people like Trump, the Pelosis, the Kennedy family, the Zuckerbergs, the Kochs, the Heinz-Kerrys...pay accountants and lawyers big bucks.

2) You get $4,000,000 from your meth business and don't report it at all, having failed to take your attorney Saul Goodman's advice on how to launder it. That's tax evasion, and that's what gets you sent to PMITAFP.
If cats had opposable thumbs, we'd all be dead. Toolformer is in that vein.
Oh I get it, they are atrributing the base 10 to base 2 loss to the os, so as sotrage increases the "os" appears to eat that space.

Probably was an interesting meeting about this at some point.
is it better to keep pouring money into something that only 10,000 love? or is it better to use that money to create something that millions would love?
US7164692B2 and US6944163B2 at least. There might be even more. The former expires 2023-07-18 the latter on 2023-08-08.
C lacks the expression of many useful common CPU capabilities. Integer rotation and overflow checking come to mind immediately.
Also N=1, I did 16:8ish for a year and had no signficant change.

It wasn't until I changed the type of food I was eating and tracking calories that I lost weight. But I still do 16:8 often because its a habit now.
Or society vastly underfunds science even though it's important.
Typically that would be to get around a paywall. As far as I know PC Gamer doesn’t have one so this is peculiar. Someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about that.
I took that course in '96, as a lost liberal arts major, with no background in CS. If you paid attention & didn't get behind in course work, it was an easy A. Most of the people failing that class never bothered to do the course, or claimed to already know how to program. The lecturer I had was Richardson, and I used to model my courses in grad school after his; he was a gifted educator.
Does anybody know why I have to sign in to GitHub to read this?
There is code here: https://mats3.io/docs/message-oriented-rpc/
.. and here: https://mats3.io/docs/mats-flow-initiation/
.. and here: https://mats3.io/docs/sync-async-bridge/
.. and here: https://mats3.io/docs/springconfig/
.. and here: https://mats3.io/background/what-is-mats/
.. and here: https://mats3.io/using-mats/endpoints-and-initiations/

.. and on the github page here: https://github.com/centiservice/mats3/blob/main/README.md

.. and you are advised to explore the code here: https://mats3.io/docs/explore/
Scroll down to the ffmpeg example. I’m curious to try sgpt “check my changes into Git under a new branch named testing”!
I don’t personally know any other field whose products have deteriorated over time like the game industry’s and it being clear because the quality of software developers in that field have went down.

In other industries, changes in material usage can be cost saving in nature or more robust.

But in the games industry, new generations of players are literally losing out in features that previously existed, or quality concerns that one never had to think about before.
> The incident was first reported by The Air Current, which analyzed granular data supplied by Flightradar24... UA1722 took off at 00:49.28.882 UTC on 19 December (14:49 local time 18 Dec). It climbed to a maximum altitude of 2,200 feet at 00:50:39.007 before descending to 775 feet at 00:50:57.500. The aircraft recovered from its dive and resumed its climb and safely arrived in San Francisco at 05:03 UTC.

God, what a beautiful world we live in. Even in the event of a catastrophic aircraft failure, rest assured that millisecond-granularity data of your last moments will be recorded, as you plunge into the sea.

Wouldn't want it any other way.

Edit: Wow, I guess a lot of people disagree with this or think I'm being sarcastic. I'm not: I honestly think aviation telemetry is cool, and I left this comment expressing that if I was involved in a crash or near-crash (such as the one we're all discussing), I would think it's cool that the exact flight trajectory was recorded in such detail.
Could this be a false flag/sabotage by Iran itself? I don't know what the video says, but it's pretty scary, with the spooky mask moving up and down as the woman speaks in a deep voice.

Imagine if children were watching this, would it not leave a scar on them and make them less likely to support protesters when they grow up?
I wonder how much of this increase is due to social media.

10-15 years ago, people would buy graphics cards to play the latest games on. Epeen was a thing, but limited to just some text in your forum signature.

Now, it seems like half the reason people buy any sort of "status" item is for the clout on Insta. It was eactly the same thing with the PS5 2 years ago - people clamouring for a useless object just to show other people they have it.
> Linux is not oriented toward supporting binary compatibility beyond the most rudimentary level

Why do you say this? I am truly curious.

My understanding is that the Linux ABI is very stable ("we never break user space" -- Linux Torvald). If you static link the libc, your binary should work on any Linux.

I mean, if we were to judge Linux it should be with regards to other operating system of equivalent complexity and use. My understanding is that Windows or macos do not offer this kind of stability over time.
"Your company suffers more harm when you take away something dear to a user than you gain in benefit by providing something equally valuable to them or others."

I'm glad a game developer is saying this to other game developers. Maybe they'll listen.

I know that as a player, I think twice before buying games from publishers like Ubisoft that have a history of shutting down games - even games that I don't play.
HN didn't want to accept the direct link (the error message was something along the lines of it being expired or broken, even though it loaded fine in Chrome), so I tried some workarounds, and this attempt worked.
don't know why. but it's publicly viewable from a private browser window for me.
I am saying it's easy to say " don't do anything", "be patient" or even "it could be worse" when you don't live there, just like it's easy to wish for the regime to fall.

My point was, you seem to only perceive one side of the argument as being "easy from the comfort of our homes", your view is somehow not, because you think your view is neutral. But not taking action is a decision as well. It's a decision very easy to push for when you don't leave under the Iranian regime.

I hope it's clearer.
Trudeau: US fighter shot down object over northern Canada
Very true.

From the perspective of something like a Tardigrade we are definitely well into a “singularity”.

From the perspective of a rock the Tardigrade itself is matter experiencing a “singularity”.
Arguably you can do both, if you let the community sustain the old thing (like what Carmack did with Quake).
Online-only games have different dimensions of cost benefit than single-purchase games. They require studios to maintain servers "in perpetuity", which incentivizes the worst impulses of the industry like microtransactions, lootboxes, and pay-to-win.
Your comment is “how dare you complain about licensing”. What you are responding to is “huh, weird license, won’t use, that’s a shame”.
Correction: looks like it was a temporary outage [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/kliu128/status/1623578156014907392?s=20&...
> Humans had thousands of years experience having fun w/o wasting non-renewable resources.

Genuinely curious, are you speaking of pre-Bronze Age civilizations?
> I don't see any obvious red flags in the privacy policy, is there something to be worried about?

if you’re an idealist like me: you believe the tax code is needlessly complex, and that tax-prep companies like Intuit have a vested interest in keeping the tax code and process unfriendly. hence, you avoid paid tax prep services because you know a portion of your payment will go to lobbying a policy that is against your own interests.

but if IRS contracts with Intuit, then Intuit’s still getting paid either way; their lobbying efforts are still funded either way. any illusion of a moral high ground via self-filing is mostly gone.
My theory is pilots and maintenance crews are stretched way too thin after the pandemic layoffs and subsequent post covid boom. Therefore, more mistakes are happening.
Is there something I can read about Google switching to sync RPC? Like a blog post or something like that?

Thanks!
Generally it's the Karman line but there aren't any treaties that specify where flight ends and orbit starts.
Can't speak for all potential users, but the license is in fact a complete deal-breaker for me and any client I've worked with given the FOSS tools available in the ecosystem.

But then, there's also the "Java-only" which is a complete deal-breaker in any client I've worked with doing {micro,}services.

Then there's the "what the hell does this actually do" deal-breaker when trying to explain it to some decision makers, and the "we already have queues and K8s to solve all of those issues" deal-breaker when explaining it to most fellow SWEs/SREs.
Given virtually all interventions have no control how do you know they’re successful?

Now it may well be that many interventions are successful. But your assumption of your conclusion is actually the bias the article describes.
Another example is hiring. Before I came back to academia a couple of years ago I was out doing startups. What I noticed is that when people hire they are almost always hire based on experience. They're looking for somebody's resume trying to find the person who has already done the job they want them to do three times over. That's basically hiring based on Y-intercept.

Personally I don't think that's a very good way to hire. The people who are doing the same thing over and over again often get burnt out and typically the reason they're doing the same thing over and over again is they've maxed out. They can't do anything more than that. And, in fact, typically what happens when you level off is you level off slightly above your level of competence. So in fact you're not actually doing the current job all that well.

I dunno if his experience is true anymore. Maybe it was 20 years ago. There does seem to be a shift in the other way. This can explain why many tech or finance companies seek younger applicants who have credentials that confer with steep slope over more experience. Things like learning speed, ability to understand abstractions, making inferences, etc. This is why so many top companies use phone interviews as a sort of weeding-out process for applicants who cannot think fast on their feet despite having experience or credentials.
Hello, I am GameGPT and I create games. Drag-and-drop assets or use the prompt to generate a game!

"Hey, there was this multiplayer game my friends and I loved to play called ___ and it had the following mechanics. Here are some maps and the instruction manual. You can even check out some examples from the following YouTube links." Etc.

Reverse engineering. Please wait...
To me it seems confounding that Meta doesn't just figure out a long term strategy to do the opposite of acquihire. Basically while forming a highly experimental group like EchoVR and/or acquire hiring like EchoVR, prepare to have the optionality to do a micro-spin off where the team gets some equity and Meta maintains a 50% stake, which enables a future spin-in.

I could see how EchoVR might not make much of a dent in Meta's earnings, but that'd be a significant customer base to start off with.

This applies to other FAANG companies too - like Google. Why not take a handful of Fuschia engineers, group them together and then have them partner with say, Framework.
Should we only have 3 television channels so that we are all homogeneously talking about the same topics, or should we have 100 channels so that we all end up in echo chambers?

There are pros and cons to both. But is this a forced choice, or can we have both?
It does not have a paywall.
But until someone comes up with a heliocentric model of dark matter we're going to remain here. What we can do at this point is collect more data with better precision, and if we're lucky at some point someone will see a relationship in two otherwise uncorrelated events and use that to make model that makes accurate predictions.
At first I was like "I hate malls and shops with their ads and upselling, I don't want Coca Cola, Lays, Snickers, and chewing gum with every purchase, I'm buying everything online", and now I'm like "they asked for my birth date and mobile phone number, somehow I managed to order without installing their app, then finally the item which arrived is nothing like the item on the photos and in the description, and it stinks".
> mini-juries to evaluate warrant

Typically this is a 'grand jury' in USA.
Two of my truly-beloved games are gone or about to go.

Titanfall: Assault was a great 5 minute mobile auto-battle-arena game, shut down in 2018. I've never had a game that built & escalated into such a fun little conflict before or since.

Dreadnought is a lovely paced spaceship brawler, a great slugest, and is shutting down end of the month.

Neither of these games had anywhere near 10,000 active users, I'd guess. I still there was a chance for the really excellent niche things to do more than fizzle over time & disappear.
Or sgpt “grep for all files containing the string XYZ either in all caps or mixed case, followed by two digits”. Endlessly promising - may eventually lead to the deprecation of man pages.
John have strong beliefs about how a business should operate. I bet he also has strong beliefs about politics, music, you name it. I love the act of software preservation, playing old games, seeing longer product cycles, but what ground do we have to criticize Meta’s business decision here? None.
The quality of developers in game dev has not declined. Studios grew and merged into massive companies that follow the established pattern of profits over people.
I don't doubt Carmacks legacy as a game developer, but which was the last game he had a significant hand in? I wonder if the industry has changed far too significantly under his feet for us to take his word like we used to.
That comment is quoting from the Polyform license. If it doesn’t represent your position, you may have made a bad choice in license.
I agree, but the lack of arrests despite hard evidence tells you all you need to know.

Every government employee that communicated with social media companies in order to suppress political speech during elections (or at all) violated their Constitutional oath. They must be arrested and tried for treason.

The NGOs that financed the mules that harvested ballots (except in CA where it is somehow “legal”) should be declared domestic terrorist organizations. The people who financed those NGOs need to do a perp walk.

There are mountains of evidence about dominion voting systems. There’s another worthy target.

That would be a good start towards restoring confidence.
> ApacheMQ

I hope ActiveMQ Artemis is better than the 'classic' version and that is what you're using. The last time I used it probably a decade ago now, there were so many issues with it, that it was a complete train wreck at scale. I would be very hesitant to pick that one up again.
I recommend that you expend the tiny bit of effort required to inform yourself, rather than asking others to spoon-feed you.
Release the server code and let the 10,000 maintain it themselves.
Enterprise drives shipments and the PC industry is fucked because: the surge of Windows 7 migration is over, they’ve become appliances, and everyone bought thousands of laptops in 2020/1.

The only reasons to replace business desktops are swollen batteries and Microsoft. My teams are responsible for 250k devices globally. Failure rates are <3%, and 75% of failures are batteries and power supplies. With the transition away from spinning rust complete, we have more keyboard failures than desktop PC failure. I’m taking the PC refresh savings and buying Macs, iPads and meeting room hardware.
I love Carmack's general message here, but this part is not something a lot of developers have the luxury to do:

> "Most of game development is a panicky rush to make things stop falling apart long enough to ship, so it can be hard to dedicate time to fundamental software engineering, but there is a satisfaction to it, and it can pay off with less problematic late stage development."

When you're at id Software and don't have to answer to anyone with regards to deadlines or funding, it's fine to think like this. Unfortunately a lot of developers have a lot more constraints than Carmack did when he made his best games.
That is true! I mentally calculated the feet per minute and compared it to some from crashes mentioned by him. About 1500 ft in 20s is 4500 ft/m so pretty steep but his reports I am sure have gone up to the 10000s.

I am interested in: did they stall? I guess FR had speed data so you could guess. Did they land at the destination or do an emergency landing somewhere?
Note to those trying to explain to me I am wrong: note that I did not say who blew the pipeline up.

Just that Russia did have credible motives, and that for Russia, blowing up the line anonymously is better than just saying "no more gas for Europe".

But given the stakes, they are not the only ones that have motives. And I never said otherwise.
It should be self evident to everyone that with all those "cloud" services you don't own shit. Even if you are more of a prosumer say, hosting your app in a cloud account or your digital assets there is always enough EULA wiggle room there for the vendor to wash their hands if your data goes in a puff of smoke. Your interest is secondary to profit maximization. I'm sure most count on you getting over the inconvenience or outright data loss. I bet they run game theory scenarios to figure out what they can get away with and still see profits rise.

Caveat emptor.
If a disabled or incapable person has a lot of money, they are afforded all the same "privilege as an able-bodied person.

I don't know what your point or objection to my comment is
Adlink sells an COM-HPC motherboard [0] and a corresponding Ampere Altra module [1].

[0] https://www.adlinktech.com/products/Computer_on_Modules/COM-...
[1] https://www.adlinktech.com/Products/Computer_on_Modules/COM-...
After I had been on an all meat diet for a year I went to the dentist for a cleaning and the dentist called someone over to show them my gums, which were apparently unusually healthy.
I mean the neutrino wasn't physically discovered until 1970 and yet is one of the most numerous particles there is. It just might turn out that a particle that doesn't want to interact is going to be a real pain in the ass to discover.
Most European bankruptcy laws still require individuals to repay their debts. There’s a lot of research indicating that this reduces entrepreneurship and economic prosperity. That’d agree with your hunch I think.
I haven’t thought or cared about Harry Potter in about 10 years now and I initially looked over the game when I saw it in the steam best selling. But I decided to to give it a shot any way after seeing the good reviews. I’m shocked. I usually struggle to play more than 30 minutes of a game without getting bored, but I ended up glued to this game for 10 hours over the weekend.

This isn’t just a cheap cash in on some old IP, its genuinely one of the most fun games I’ve ever played and still would be without the IP.
Twenty questions about the Online Safety Bill
First time seeing this one. Indeed, quite scary:

> FlightRadar24 tracking data shows that, after taking off at 2am, the Qatar Boeing 787 started losing altitude only a minute later, when the plane was at 1,850ft.

> The aircraft then suddenly dropped 1,000ft in 24 seconds.

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/qatar-p...