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Almost no one is doing research these days. Not most companies, not most profitable companies, not most profitable teams on profitable companies. Most of business boils down to taking existing pieces and putting them together in the way that delivers the most customer value, or putting them together in an adequate manner and hiring a sales team to convince customers they deliver a lot of value. That's it.

To be clear, I don't mean "no one is doing research and that's a shame". I mean "no one is doing research because there's no reason for them to". Telling a developer at nearly any company to go read a research paper on databases is silly; just go grab a database written by someone who specializes in that and use it. Reading about specialized 3D rendering techniques isn't going to save you anything that just using Unity/Unreal wouldn't. And so on and so on.

It is dramatically more valuable to be able to answer "what are the available tree data structures in this language in our codebase" than to be able to answer "what's the algorithm to correctly implement my own red/black tree".

If research is being done at your company it's probably being done by a handful (literally, fewer than 5) of people who know what they need to find and what they're doing. For most other folks it's a mistake. I saw multiple instances at large tech companies where some new college hire sat down, wrote a beautiful data structure that was algorithmically fine and well-researched.....and was immediately rejected and thrown away because we had equivalents already that they hadn't looked for or hadn't been able to find and no one wants to maintain multiple.

Even at companies with real libraries (Microsoft etc.) the folks using the libraries weren't using them for research, they were using them for standard technical reading material.
"Tests I find are a bare minimum and are not even sufficient in more cases than people realize. It’s a shame though that even this low bar is too much for some."

That's in part because some really bad hipster devs decided they knew better and nixed integration testing...

"Tests" usually means "happy path and/or unit", which nearly always is that ultra low bar.

The amount of testing required to truly validate something of reasonable complexity is so staggeringly high, if your tests run in under an hour you probably didn't test it, or you are building something really, really simple.

True testing is about covering the combinatorial explosion, and that's assuming your problem space is decidable.
Fix the heading!

InCrypto s/b In Crypto
And that’s fair.. but worth pointing out I bought Diablo 2 Resurrected which I almost exclusively play online. Unless they release an expansion then I’m done paying them money.

I think there’s some places where SaaS makes a lot of sense. And storage costs and high data transfer volume…. It makes sense.

There’s a balance. Modern software leans too heavily to subscriptions though.
There’s a difference between survivable and happily mulching.
Seymour Hersh has also gone off the deep end lately. Some current examples[1]:

* the Osama bin Laden raid was faked in a conspiracy with Pakistan and he was actually captured in 2006

* much of the US special forces is controlled by secret members of Opus Dei

* that the US military flew Iranian terrorists to Nevada for training

* the 2013 chemical weapons attack in Syria was a "false flag" staged by the government of Turkey

Being right decades ago doesn't somehow absolve you of having to have verifiable sources and evidence when you go on to make numerous other claims that don't happen and no one can verify.

[1] https://www.vox.com/2015/5/11/8584473/seymour-hersh-osama-bi...
Take a look in the MacOS accessibility section. What you are looking for is called "Mouse Keys" - it's built in.
Do you hold the other occupiers of Congress to the same standard?

Congress chose to let them in because they could have stopped them if they didn't want them inside.

You probably didn't read and understand what I said.

THE CAPITOL IS ONE OF THE MOST SECURE SITES IN THE WORLD. UNARMED PROTESTERS DID NOT STORM IT. THEY WERE ALLOWED INSIDE.

That the media cannot figure something so simple out tells all.
It's still ruby so it's still slow.
Is Rejection Therapy the Secret to Getting over Your Fear of Failure?
I bet those AirTag dealies don't include any mechanism that disables themselves if the speaker is physically defeated
Biden says the 3 aerial objects shot down were not Chinese spy balloons
That would be a fun thing to get the opinion of @dang on
Cobra Kai was a huge flop for youtube (missed opportunity?), because they had to sell it off, couldn't keep it going, and to be honest, I'm not sure it would've been great had it stayed there, I enjoyed the first 2 seasons, but Netflix has just gotten better and better, and you can tell from the last youtube season to the first Netflix season how the quality shifted.
Would a "professional" agree to do this work without extensive obvious evidence that it was sanctioned on high? Wouldn't you risk becoming fall guys if you agree to do all this with a minimal crew on a wooden fishing boat? You'd risk being arrested by the local police. I think there is some holistic view on how to get the whole thing to work that might not lead to an obvious minimal solution. Various interests get in the way and add quite a degree of complication.
What's wrong with using IIS?
That's not what is meant. Programming languages are basically huge macro systems that expand to assembly, but the code is still written by a human.

Layers of abstraction are a problem too, but they are a different problem.
Web Components aren’t an alternative to React so much as a complementary technology. Yes, you can build UIs without a reactive framework but it will involve compromises in expressivity, code organization, and whatever the Greenspun equivalent is for React.
More hidden maybe, but definitely more logical.
Spon con
I love the site for Stripe Press, with the floating books! So smooth. https://press.stripe.com/
"Turn your key, sir."
definitely no affiliation.
I might be one of the few users here who looked at the title and thought "isn't that usually true?"

I don't need to write JS much, but when I do, it's with a browser open in one window and a text editor in another.
'Chlorine is just a gas. It's not a chemical warfare weapon. You smell it, you run away.'

Sure sounds like the words of somebody who isn't going senile!
Python Trends in 2023
I wonder, does setting this stop one from getting or subscribing to notifications on sites where they're wanted?
I mean, not using bills isn't really a practical solution. Legally dissolving the Fed or making a committee with only the instruction to print money would be better.
I expect that before my career is over that I will be given more than one project to fix that the AI stopped being able to deliver features for.

I imagine it's going to be one of those laugh so you don't cry affairs.
While we're talking about semantics, the auto industry seems to have a thing called "Technical service bulletin" which is a piece of actionable knowledge. If it applies to you, you act on it. You would probably have to go to the shop to get the TSB considered and applied. I don't think it has any regulatory weight, except as an input to deciding if a recall is a good idea.
Why would you not pursue criminal investigation with this? Seems like a moral hazard, otherwise you're just funding criminals with government money
Newsom seeks to waive environmental protections in Delta
Try Arch's pacman which installs hundrets of packages in a few seconds. brew is like factor 50 slower than pacman.
> Can a game state be encoded as a set of weights?

It's not in the weights because the weights don't change.

> These can be in the MLP part after the LLM. Sure

I'm not even sure what this means. The mlps are not used at all by the network.

> I don't find it completely surprising that you could get some probabilistic map of how tokens interact (game pieces) and what the next likely token is just from training it as an LLM.

You might not but the idea that they are just outputting based on sequences without having an internal model of the world is a common one. This experiment was a test to get more information on that question.

> After all tokens are just placeholders and the relationships between them are encoded in the text.

They don't tell you the state of the board.
> Nice GUI for lsof.

Yep!
Gmail (the free consumer facing one) can configure custom domains right? Does that not address your need? https://themeisle.com/blog/use-gmail-with-your-own-domain-na...
Hobby balloons, though, are not zero pressure balloons. It's part of how they control their own flight time, by intentionally bursting when they reach a high enough altitude. So a 20mm cannon would probably have a reasonable chance of success, though it would be spreading a lot of lead downrange that would eventually hit the ground, and could annoy people in the path.
yes because he was in my neighbor's back yard and there was only one way out unless he could jump a 5' fence. not sure where my neighbor was at the time. she's a french teacher so this guy got off lucky that i got to him first, lol
What Everyone Knows and What No One Knows (2020)
It’s says on their page it’s a GUI for lsof.
It's only complex if you want to make it so.

Load the first sector of the chosen boot device into memory at 7c00h, and jump to it.

That's how all PCs booted before the monstrosity known as UEFI came into existence.
I believe when I see it. There was a proposal to end the Golden Visa program a few months back and PS (the ruling party, super majority on parliament) voted against. The PM said at the time that "maybe" it was time to end, but when the rubber meets the road, they voted against the laws.
Pytest has an equally deprecating option for a different "use case":

disable_test_id_escaping_and_forfeit_all_rights_to_community_support = True

https://docs.pytest.org/en/6.2.x/parametrize.html#pytest-mar...
In every failed relationship there are two sides. Maybe one is entirely at fault, maybe the other, maybe both share blame of maybe there's just a basic incompatibility. This is true for work just like it is for marriage.

In each case, it is easy for one to point out flaws in the other. And in some cases, "the other" is the only one that has flaws. But in most cases it is probably a combination.

Just because a company has culture issues doesn't mean that every employee is blameless or perfect. When someone doesn't work out for a job it is hard to disentangle how much of the blame belongs on each party.

In this case, I'm fairly familiar with a lot of the facts on the ground. As I said above the article makes a good critique of the real problems Google has. But it also blames some of those problems for mistakes/failures the author himself made (in my opinion).
Name probably comes from rearranging the letters (slof)
Weird, so different people want different things?
> it certainly does not affirm "the West NOT blow up Nordstream".

Well yeah, but only because that's included in the statement "we know nothing more than we did before he wrote the article."
Assuming they're using exploding shells, there ought not to be pieces heavy enough to be a serious threat.
I believe you're correct according to the linked Github repo:

> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.
Hersh was emphatically not the first to bring My Lai to light. Hugh Thompson reported the incident, and although it was initially swept under the rug by lower-level commanders, it wasn't until after Calley was charged (Sept 1969) that Hersh reported on it (Nov 1969).

He deserves credit for his excellent, Pulitzer Prize-winning work covering My Lai. But to my knowledge he has never once been the first to report on a scandal and been right about it.
You’ve made a few massive leaps by assuming a single family home can’t possibly have a shop nearby, and that if it did it’d mean people are dodging feces.

Because you can literally go just about anywhere outside of America and see that people live in homes right next to businesses and… it’s fine. We’re not dodging feces and homeless people. Frankly, most places I’ve been to and lived have been much cleaner than my old US homes despite the fact I’m literally a 2 minute walk from a two separate stores and several restaurants in an area where everyone lives in detached homes.

That rant reads like fearmongering from a person with little outside exposure.
or just hand out invites to people on hn who have an email listed.
very true, but just because a bubble has different causes doesn't make it not a bubble.
thanks! yeah it's definitely not COMPLETELY true-to-form because i still do think a lot of modern design works for a reason, but i appreciate the words!
I think there’s some subtlety there you’re missing, and that is that there’s is a kind of pleasure and prankster humor in revealing to the more perceptive subset of the audience that you pulled an epic con, while still keeping the con alive for another less perceptive subset.

For an example of this kind of prankster game see Woz’s short videos about how he sources (actually real, but he intentionally does not say that) two dollar bills in pads from a local printer “who gets them from another very high quality printer.” He knows some people get what he’s doing and others don’t, and that’s part of the fun.

And some people transition during the exposition from being people who are being duped, to people who realize they were temporarily duped. That’s another part of the fun.
The code might start to resemble biological systems, which are a mess of complexity.
Maybe laugh because you're going to get paid for a really long time.

(And then, yeah, cry because of what you're going to have to do to earn the money...)
I had this random idea where I could start a new forum like this, but make it appear popular by seeding it with hundreds of users who are just ChatGPT. Wouldn't be surprised if this is already being done by some sites. Dead Internet Theory is real.
Wow! Also, I think [0] is the first Wikipedia I have come across that doesn’t have a lead section at all.
While we didn't set out to solve those problems in Neptyne, using actual data types in a spreadsheet does solve this sort of problems. Of course we have to be a little compatible, so our dates do come with the 1900 is a leap year bug that pre-dates excel. But they also have a .to_datetime() if you want to be more sophisticated. We have great plots out of the box, but if we want to go deeper, you can use whatever plotly or pydeck construct gets you exactly what you want.
On my phone, when I click "Add to Home Screen", it immediately focuses the name text field and pops up a keyboard. As a user installing an app, I expect to see the name, the icon, possibly a description, and a big, obvious "install" button. I do not expect to suddenly be presented with a keyboard letting me edit the name of the app. When a user changes the name, it is far more likely to be a mistake than an intentional action, unless the PWA did a phenomenally poor job of naming itself. On Windows, when you install an application, do you expect it to start by highlighting the app shortcut and entering edit mode so you can choose the name of the app? No, that would be bizarre, and it is bizarre here too.

Regardless of it being auto-populated, I think being immediately presented with the option to choose the name will inevitably confuse many users. If the user accidentally hits any keys, that will mess up the name... then they have to try to fix it themselves, if they even notice before they hit the "add" button. That just doesn't seem like a great user experience.

Talking about the "add" button, it is not called "install", unfortunately. The "add" button by itself may confuse users into wondering if they clicked bookmark by mistake. In fact, the interface is nearly identical to the bookmark interface in Safari, except that the bookmark interface uses the word "save" instead of "add", and the bookmark interface shows you which folder you're saving into. How clear and simple!

The "add" button is also a small button in the top right, which is completely different from how the "GET" button with a vivid blue background is presented in the App Store. Renaming and restyling the button to match the one in the App Store would make the experience more consistent for the user.

None of this matters to technical users like us either way, but making PWAs more accessible to all users requires making the process as easy as possible, smoothing out weird rough edges like this. The option to edit the name would make more sense under the Settings app or maybe an additional "Edit" option in "jiggle mode" on the home screen, if it should even exist at all. I can't edit the name of other apps on my phone. From a technical perspective, someone might ask "why can't I edit those names too?" But, it should be consistent either way, in my opinion.

Those are my opinions on the current interface, anyways. I don't think Apple has meaningfully changed it for over a decade, and if they have decided to care about PWAs, they really should polish this interface up.
yeah looks like the lag got a little bad the past couple hours because i wasn't ready for the traffic. i'm going to looking into upgrading the hardware tonight. i was not ready for this HN post doing as well as it did.
so annoying -_-
> we also have to agree that wishing for code without tech debt is also dignified.

I think then my question is how to achieve this wish given the realities of the production of working code as demanded by business. Is this really a realistic wish? I am yet to work for a company that had code and didn't have technical debt. I am yet to hear of such a company.

> I think having an (inconvenient) option as a concession is a reasonable trade off.

Exactly. Perhaps these specific minitest devs ought to have called their library "i_suck_and_wrote_a_testing_framework_that_allows_writing_tests_that_are_order_dependent_and_also_its_called_minitest". :D
https://bitcointalk.org/ is still running SMF (created in 2006) and looks pretty old school.
It loads a huge chunk of obfuscated javascript buildshared something something. I thought that was more recent than early 2000s. Also it loads fonts from google. It all seems way too modern. The main forum I remember using in that era was Webcrossing, which was more like Hacker News in being mostly text, though (my preference) not threaded. Usenet was also still going strong back then.

Added: it is quite hard to use with lynx. I think it is best to not depend on much layout from the browser. I used WebX with lynx all the time and it was fine. Not saying this is a bad forum in general terms, but I think if it is aiming for retro appeal, it doesn't go far enough.
What they are asking would be used as an annoying tool against the user in the same way today sites ask for user location or push notification (on other OSs).

Websites are not randomly asking for mic or camera because that would be creepy and visitors would just run away.

I am not lecturing, I am giving my feedback on the matter, like everyone else here. If your product is good, users will save your site in their home, don’t worry about that.
I think it might have been a quote issue actually ... But we should handle failures better, I agree
> gogel form is fucking shit, its fucking horriblr on nokia 3310

https://github.com/rutra8002/topopisy/commit/8956ee07946475b...
Are you sure they haven’t? There are commonly parallel cases not reported by the same outlet, you’d have to check the DOJ‘s website
I have customers with DOS (6.2, so quite modern) controlling machines.

I ended up wedging a Samba daemon between that and PCs running Windows 10. I mount the DOS box's share via mount.smbfs and re-export it via Samba. The machine is on a rather sparse VLAN!

I have many other horrors on isolated VLANs across the UK to worry about ...
Essentially a private police force arising from the incompetence of the actual police.

All bikes have serial numbers on them, I wouldn’t be against governments having mandated registration and all marketplaces must include the bikes serial number. Similar to what is done for cars.

E-bikes do have the advantage of having the possibility of sophisticated anti theft tech. I’d say they should just lock the mechanism entirely making the bike mostly unusable.
The civilians know where they are (GPS or other tracking back), but the various government agencies don't.

While this is applicable for balloons with a larger payload (that the size of the balloon was specifically under to be unregulated) ...
https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/atc_html...

Post the balloon flight on flight progress strips along the planned trajectory and revise routing as tracking/position reports require.

Radar flight follow balloons to the extent that equipment capabilities permit. If radar flight following is not possible, tracking should be attempted by communication with the “chase plane,” telephone contact with the operator, pilot, or ground observation reports.

Provide traffic advisories to all affected aircraft during initial contact specifying the balloon's known or estimated position, direction of movement, and altitude as “unknown” or “reported,” as appropriate.

Unless ATC requires otherwise, operators of unmanned free balloons are required to monitor the course of the balloon and record its position at least every two hours. As required in 14 CFR Section 101.39a, balloon position reports are not forwarded by the operator unless requested by ATC.

UNMANNED FREE BALLOON OVER (name of location),
or
ESTIMATED OVER (name of location), MOVING
(direction of movement).
LAST REPORTED ALTITUDE AT (altitude as reported by the operator or determined from pilot report),
or
ALTITUDE UNKNOWN.

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If this was followed, and someone could say "there's a balloon near this location which is similar to the last reported location of Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade balloon 12345" this probably wouldn't have happened.

As it is, they're getting into the airspace used by airliners at a time when peoples' hackles are raised with unknown balloons.

As it is, this still falls under the Chicago Convention.

> 2.2 An unmanned free balloon, other than a light balloon used exclusively for meteorological purposes and operated in the manner prescribed by the appropriate authority, shall not be operated across the territory of another State without appropriate authorization from the other State concerned.

> 2.3 The authorization referred to in 2.2 shall be obtained prior to the launching of the balloon if there is reasonable expectation, when planning the operation, that the balloon may drift into airspace over the territory of another State. Such authorization may be obtained for a series of balloon flights or for a particular type of recurring flight, e.g. atmospheric research balloon flights.

This is not exclusively a meteorological balloon. It is not getting authorization from the airspace it drifts into. That is not being done prior to a launch and as it travels.
Yes. But when I did this I had to modify some things in my Dell's BIOS to get it to run refind from the USB.

More a Dell thing than refined I believe.