skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of it is that a lot of kids who grew up in the current era of games only understand the game that they were handed, where creating servers is easy and matchmaking is table stakes, AA or AAA level production values are "good" and anything else that isn't "stylized" or "retro" is potentially disqualifying.

Indies who want to do the right thing face a customer base that doesn't really get it and yells at them for spending times on things they don't understand. So they pivot - making games is already risky enough as it is.

Game devs have less courage because too many are funded by publishers rather than self-publishing. Those devs that don't enjoy breakout success are safer but those that make hit games never reap the full benefit of it - publishers take too large a cut - and can't fund themselves into making something bigger, like how Half-Life set the stage for Steam.

"Early access" has become a meaningless label, incentivizing the norm towards good-enough games rather than great games, and muddying the waters for truly great games to be recognized as such, because they often don't start that way, but also used as a defensive mechanism against the entitled creeps who think it's okay to harass the social media void with their complaints, not realizing that the people on the other side of it see it and sometimes emotionally react to it.

I guess I'm shaking my cane too much, but it's not just the companies going down false paths, it's also people following them down. Put another way, the industry is systematically unhealthy.
Some implementations have assert() call a function and trap inside that function. For example, glibc has assert() call __assert_fail(). That means that if you're looking at execution or a dump in a debugger, you're left at least one stack frame down from the actual failure.
Wouldn't that depend on their expenses?

And how many people get rich from their job? Investing in real-estate and stocks are responsible for most of the wealth creation, even for people with good jobs.
I've stopped trusting when politician tweets describe the objects. They are getting the details second-hand if not more and seem to be relaying it immediately. Press conferences at least have some time to collect accounts and organize them. We also don't know who is providing the details; I would trust the F-22 pilot.

Like this could mean that there was only octagonal object, the balloon was octagonal, or the payload was octagonal. The latter seems the most plausible. It is hard to tell if this is more balloons or something really weird.
People buy call of duty because of the name regardless of the current quality vs an unknown title.

Movies were better, they made less movies which increased quality, had better actors who had more talent (singing, dancing, acting). Kids TV shows are created to sell toys. Products are cheaper and made to be thrown out vs repaired.

Profit keeps going up, quality goes down while prices try to stay the same.
Don't see how that contradicts anything GP said. "Aging bad, genetic diseases worse" - that's the gist of the disscussion here.
Utter nonsense. This would be a FTL alien civ. A civilization with many orders of magnitude more energy available. And manufacturing capabilities. And AI. And many other things. They’re not gonna send a stupid balloon. They’re not going to care about a balloon. It’s inconceivable that a civ could get here and not also have the ability to manufacture such basic technology on an enormous scale very easily.
Side note, the Chinese satellite (according to news) that did laser testing over Hawaii was visually pretty neat
TL;DR: Only read sentences that have "copper" or "8".
The hardwoods that help solid furniture last forever aren't really allowed anymore. Softwood furniture is highly dependent on the level of use you throw at it. And I'm willing to let my kids go wild and live on our stuff. :D
> How many of those kids could become fine engineers if they had more runway to fail and learn without being weeded out?

This question is worth taking seriously. I've seen a study of a slower course that found that, nevertheless, there was no difference in the number of students who could understand basic variable assignments between the start and at the end; either they "got it" straight away or not at all.
https://archive.today/W4Dvh
I think that maintaining a hosted service has significantly higher fixed costs than maintaining an open source project whose users are responsible for deploying it themselves. So a higher degree of adoption would be necessary to justify it.
Not to be conspiratorial, but if it is an intentional distraction, the balance of probabilities favors the misdirection coming from the US (whether media, politicians, etc). This still feels like a case of seeing more because we've been told to pay attention to it, vs a new phenomenon. Let's see
They're suspected biases, suspected positions, and suspected motives, gleaned from vague hints. I think little is more corrosive to constructive discourse than trying to guess at people's motives and "true positions".
How would I implement algorithmic trading at home? And would this be a viable idea if I knew what I was doing? Has anyone done this successfully?
Marimba (iirc!) was a Java startup by a Java insider set. It was definitely promoted/hyped along with Java. Bongo was this cool fun silly thing that I can only describe as a kind of REPL for UI :) You basically started out with a blank canvas for your app, and could switch between design mode and run mode. In design mode you would layout widgets (box layout with springs and stuff iirc) and you could script its actions with Java (fill in the callback blank, etc.) Components were named and one could invoke e.g. disable a sibling component, etc. Then you went to runtime mode and voila, you had a working GUI. I also vaguely recall a 'bongo' sound that it actually made when you switched to run mode.

It was designed by Arthur van Hoff (who also designed Castanet). (Not sure why refs. to this company and its products are so obscure now. It's almost memory holed.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_van_Hoff

Yes, he wrote AWT (not mentioned in wiki /g):

https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/marc/hotjava/doc/api/a...

p.s.

Old brain. I actually prototyped a SPA with Bongo in late 90s for a telco company. I was pushing them to have their apps -- think network cabinets, field engineer control panels, etc. -- ported to the browser. They thought it was a very strange idea..

p.s. this is fairly representative of the coverage they were getting back then:

https://www.wired.com/1996/11/es-marimba/
Hey! a question I know something about :)

Waymo is banking on Lidar being the solution to autonomous vehicles, the reason tesla doesn't use them is that Elon thinks Lidar won't work and that we need Ai for driverless cars (or more accurately a highly advanced AGI).

At first, I thought Elon was being too radical, he's known for overcorrecting for the sunk cost fallacy, but after more time, I share his view.

Personally, I think Waymo is a joke. Just because they came from Google they think they're too big to fail before even having a product for market. They've already lost 170 billion in just a year an a half. The CEO got charged with stealing tech and selling it to tesla, then got sued by tesla when he made a competitor to the stolen tech he sold them.

Take it as you will, personally I'm pretty bias against google these days, Pichai has ruined the company for me. I feel he's turned google into Microsoft, there's nothing wrong with Microsoft, but we already have one of those, it was nice when we also had a google.
Is it appropriate to link to the aforementioned comment?
IotaWatt – Open WiFi Electricity Monitor
You can open a bookmark in a chosen tab via the context menu when right-clicking on a bookmark in e.g. your toolbar. I use this to separate Gmail accounts. I use private search for Google search.
I’d argue Putin is a winner. The Nordstream pipelines were essentially switched off money printing machines that could be switched on at any point if powerful Russians decided it was time to remove Putin. No longer the case now.
This mostly seems like a problem for pure library code. If some bit of logic is only needed by a single independently-released service, then there's no reason not to put it in that service's repo.
Include a confidence score next to the output. If it’s just babbling to fill space, that should get a lower score than if it actually recognizes something from the prompt.
Chemical plants serve a different purpose than a nuclear power plant. You can produce electricity in a lot of different ways, you usually can't produce chemicals in a lot of different ways. They're a prerequisite to produce other chemicals or products so not producing them damages your supply chain. Sometimes you can subsitute them for another chemical, usually you can't. Chemical accidents such as the ones you mentioned have for that matter resulted in a lot of new safety precautions.

> And Fukushima showed that a lot of idiocy has to be stacked on top of each other in order to get to an accident, and even then the actual effects of the accident are fairly benign.

A lot of accidents are considered unlikely, but it doesn't stop them from happening. Even if we accept that the impact on humans has been limited, we still cannot ignore the $100+ billion in additional costs costs.

> Society also wants and needs energy, and nuclear energy is one of the safest/cleanest forms of energy we have, and the safest/cleanest form of reliable energy we have.

If only it was flexible, that would be something. Unfortunately OpEx is pretty much unchanged when you vary the output.
I used GNU sed on Ubuntu. The only difference I notice is that you have one space where I had two, but that difference shouldn't matter actually. Perhaps your sed has a different opinion on which of the backslashes should be there.

You can access the resulting WebVTT files here: https://github.com/tuukka/fosdem2023whisper/tree/feat/webvtt...
Interesting that he doesn't mention anything about how starting high enough at the y-intercept means that you'll forever be above someone who started low enough, even if the slope of their learning exceeds yours.
> Which means also we can expect a lot more false positives.

This may be true, but it's awful hard to get visual confirmation and then shoot down a false positive.
What’s the service life on such equipment? Sales of new Huawei telecom equip have been banned outright in the US for a couple months. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/us-fcc-bans-e...
What motivation is there to upgrade? Even if you're replacing the PC itself completely there's not much of a reason to not just reuse the old screen.
dying pigeons is a tradition in Spain, there's perfectly safe ways to do it (not sure what they use in Spain, but Koolaid is perfectly fine for pets), but someone using a toxic dye for a gender reveal deserves the worst.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/aug/06...
The problem is new style PDF forms implemented with JS. Old style PDF forms should be handled by open source readers.
See that's the problem. There are no modifications. I'm simply removing one piece of GPL software and replacing it with non-GPL software.

In any case, I have serious doubts about the legality of the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL) after Google v. Oracle.
Its something that has pained me greatly in the last couple of years.

I completely agree. Game devs have stripped so much away from the user. Matchmaking, lack of server hosting, no mods. It feels like much of the community has gone.

I play BF5 regularly and there's still a large number of 64 player servers full all day, every day. However, there's very few community servers and cheaters are so common. EA/Dice have abandoned it and there's no way for the community to keep it going.

Another game I used to play, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, is free to download [1] and still has plenty of community hosted servers/mods. That's a game coming up to its 20 year anniversary.

[1] https://www.splashdamage.com/games/wolfenstein-enemy-territo...
Rich people can simply choose to live the life of a poor person. The poor person doesn't have a 100% chance at the opposite.

You can even pick and choose.

How much money does it take to reliably earn minimum wage + inflation consideration, from the money alone? Anyone with that money could live the exact life of the poor person without a minute of work. It's not even a lot honestly, maybe $100k in some areas/timeframes?

What about 100k and a parent who is in Congress while living in a state with the lowest minimum wage: $7.25?
Except he does allude to it:

> unless you think you're going to die before you get to the crossing point

Though based on the comments in this discussion I think a lot of people missed that statement.
I struggled to find a reference to this in WP, but found this article covering it:

https://aircrewremembered.com/coppens-willy.html

What a story.
There is a very good review of this era in Christensen's book "Innovator's Dilemma".

Over several iterations of smaller and smaller hard drives, the esconced manufacturers were blind-sided by the innovators who produced the newer, physically smaller and faster hard drives.

There was a cycle of 'in' hard-drive manufacturers as the older companies went under due to challenges from the younger companies.

Fascinatiing read. Well worth your time.
Cool, but terrifyingly bad FPS
Greed isn't the true culprit. You don't make more money by making any % of your consumer base hate you.
No, that is not the definition used by historians and political scholars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire#Definition

Because what some ruler calls him- or herself isn't really a useful category.
If China lied about its balloons (over Beijing) being from the US, would the US attempt to do the impossible and prove that something never existed or agree and ask for them back?
The first point being only a concern if you are a virus. If instead you are engineering say, an rna vaccine, you could package your transcript into lipofectamine instead of a coronavirus envelope ;) but point taken, there's always an upper limit.
There's a lot of love for monorepos nowadays, but after more than a decade of writing software, I still strongly believe it is an antipattern.

1. The single version dependencies are asinine. We are migrating to a monorepo at work, and someone bumped the version of an open source JS package that introduced a regression. The next deploy took our service down. Monorepos mean loss of isolation of dependencies between services, which is absolutely necessary for the stability of mission-critical business services.

2. It encourages poor API contracts because it lets anyone import any code in any service arbitrarily. Shared functionality should be exposed as a standalone library with a clear, well-defined interface boundary. There are entire packaging ecosystems like npmjs and pypi for exactly this purpose.

3. It encourages a ton of code churn with very low signal. I see at least one PR every week to code owned by my team that changes some trivial configuration, library call, or build directive, simply because some shared config or code changed in another part of the repo and now the entire repo needs to be migrated in lockstep for things to compile.

I've read this paper, as well as watched the talk on this topic, and am absolutely stunned that these problems are not magnified by 100x at Google scale. Perhaps it's simply organizational inertia that prevents them from trying a more reasonable solution.
Given the current state of the “already born and undeniably alive” segment of the world population, I find the focus on this issue at the expense of others to be somewhat reprehensible and somewhat illuminating.

But it’s pointless to discuss abortion specifically because the core disagreement is not about abortion per se, but rather at what point is a foetus “alive”.

Most of the world doesn’t agree with your interpretation of that point and instead give the women the choice rather than coercing them into a position they don’t want to be in.

Furthermore, while it is wholesome that others are willing to adopt children the aggregate statistics on babies raised through foster care in the US makes for somber reading.

The majority of these children don’t go to fantastic, picturesque white picket fence families who raise them on love and understanding: they are totally abandoned by the politicians and institutions that fight so hard for their existence up until the balance tips from “score political points” to “needs welfare”.

While that is not their fault, it is important to be aware of the history around abortion in the US and understand that those who push the narrative you subscribe to have an interest in this that supersedes any human attachment or moral guidance.

It is, at the core, quite simply a masterful piece of political positioning that was manufactured in the 1980’s.
You're right that the worldometer number is excessive and not to be trusted.

They properly calculated 1.147083 tons of coal per capita per year, but then incorrectly multiplied by it 1,000,000 cubic feet per ton.

The actual conversion factor for coal seems to be 20-60 cubic feet per ton, depending on whether you use bulk density or particle density. Their per capita calculation is too high by a factor of about 15,000-50,000.

You're right that the amount of coal consumed is not similar to the amount of uranium byproduct generated. The original commenter's intuition was misled, not by uranium's density, but by its energy density. Of course there is an xkcd for this.
https://xkcd.com/1162/
Relive the days of being a playground boss: https://aliexpress.com/item/32835649231.html
I work on aerial imaging hardware and… I’ll bite, just for a few minutes. At this point I’m at 50/50 and just want to know the answer at “napkin resolution”

https://www.axis.com/learning/web-articles/identification-an... Suggests something like a 2mm-4mm GSD would be required.

The small city I live in has an area of 179km^2. Assuming it’s a square and we’re taking a square photo, that’s 13.37km x 13.37km (nice number!). In each axis this is 13.37e3 m / 2e-3 m/px = 66.85e6 pixels. Squaring that gives us… if I’m counting right, a 4.4 Exapixel image. If we used the 4mm GSD instead of the 2mm GSD it would still be a 1.1 Exapixel image.

On a modest budget (maybe $200-300k) the kit I work with could be scaled up to do real-time gigapixel imaging at maybe 20-30 fps. But that’s still short by a factor of 1M both in image sensor real estate and in processing capacity.

I agree that this seems implausible. That being said, the gigapixel rig could still be quite scary in the wrong hands, just not at the city scale. You could do video that covers about a 350ft x 350ft area and be able to retroactively go back and do face identification on everyone whose faces you can see. It’s a completely parallel problem too and the costs scale linearly with the area unless you start running into second-order effects like diffraction limits or obliquely angles.

Edit: option 2 now that I think about it a little more would be to have a lower resolution broad image with servoable high resolution units. Point the 350x350ft camera at a specific ROI and filter down from there. That $200-300k budget includes about a dozen onboard high performance ML engines. Depending on the actual frame rate you want processed, you could either do light object recognition at a reasonable rate, or heavy inference at maybe 0.5-1fps.
Electrolytes.

You probably need at least more sodium.

https://old.reddit.com/r/fasting/wiki/fasting_in_a_nutshell/...
Yup, QMK supports that:

https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/blob/master/docs/mod_tap...
The thing this fails on, the thing a lot of academically minded people fail on, is that knowing things is at best half the battle.

There are very few areas of life (academia being the stand out) where knowing things is sufficient.

To build something almost always requires organising other people which requires co-ordination with, alignment with, persuasion of other people.

Two founders - one technical, one "politician" (sales, film
producer, fixer)

And there is no "fast learning" there. In fact I think it is the very opposite of the kind of focus that learning needs - you need to spend time with, talk with people.
If 63% of people live this way, despite the obvious drawbacks, it sounds like the problem is structural rather than personal.
It may be that github thinks you're coming from an IP address associated with a lot of botting or malicious activity, so it's throwing up an extra wall. Can you try hitting it through a VPN or via some other network?
Chrome itself has profiles, which I use for exactly the same use case (multiple AWS logins)
> what ground do we have to criticize Meta’s business decision here?
The expensive hardware would be my first, second lock in to their store and third why should people stop playing a video game they like.
What if some wrote an implementation that targeted something like the Erlang Virtual machine? It be a herculean effort.

It's a really nice language, but there's no tooling for it.
I think people don't realize how tough NHV is on lidars/sensors/etc - cars are a really difficult environment for computers and so on.
Jevons Paradox definitely applies - the cheaper something is the more you spend on it. There's no will to prune unnecessarily complex processes and reporting when you can just automate them. But not to the extent of it actually becoming a negative; you forget how much all those clerks and secretaries used to cost.
> Hmm. I want to distance this library pretty far from Camel!

I'm curious what makes you distinguish it heavily from Camel? From everything you say it sounds to me like you are building Camel - or at least the routing part of it :-)
That kind of import, means private package is not allowed ? So no more private package in Deno ?
The author describers herself as a queer woman, married to a transman, to the left of Bernie Sanders, and a case manager at The Washington University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

If you won't even listen to her, dismissing her experience as "horrid crap", then perhaps you're "stuck in an ideological local maximum". Is there anyone you would listen to?
What's happening in August?
In my experience the amount of serialized (network blocking) calls needed under the request reply paradigm always grows over time as the application gets larger.

At least this limitation can cause massive complexity once perf optimizations are needed. I think that’s important to factor in when we’re talking about the issues with large and resilient systems in either paradigm.

Personally I like message passing because it’s more true to the underlying protocol (TCP or UDP) and actually interops quite well (all things considered) with request-reply systems - it just requires two separate messages and a request id which is standard practice in request-response anyway. The inverse is not true though: we have like 10 different hacky solutions in the last decade for sending server initiated messages to clients.
> Between 900 and 1,300 locations around the globe do routine releases, two or four times daily.

Are the electronics in these balloons recovered eventually? Or is it just basically e-waste?
A balloon that requires a missile to be brought down has to be really big, like soccer field big. In which case it won’t cost just $10k.
It sounded like they are hovering at altitude which is hard to do. And they came from great distance. It would make more sense if they were triangle shaped and flying. Also, there was no balloon, they should be stealthed and not show up on radar.

My suspicion is that the descriptions have been of the payloads. They sound like balloon payloads. Maybe the balloon is low visibility. But doesn't explain why government doesn't mention balloons.

The outside possibility that isn't aliens is anti-gravity. I would strange that anyone who developed anti-gravity would keep secret and use it like this.