skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unconstrained growth is not tolerated anywhere else, but somehow people bend over backwards to explain how actually any constraints on business growth are Very Bad And Evil.
It is more like saying 1/∞ = 0.

"Translations are rotations around infinity" is what you get if you compactify the real plane with projective geometry, 1/∞ = 0 is what you get when you close the complex field with an holomorphic-friendly point at infinity.
I point you to IRC 1221(a)(3): https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1221

Arguably, software fits this definition, and under 1221(a)(3)(C) it would not be a capital asset for most closely-held companies (eg a lot of bootstrapped firms).
This is the first time I've heard all opinion about the Zune other than "it was actually pretty good! It was a hidden gem!"
It's still so bizarre to me to see articles about anime and manga in staid American institutions like the New Yorker. It was not that long ago that "elite" publications like this would dismiss anime as the lowest of trash.
> The company said on Tuesday that it planned to begin charging companies for access to its application programming interface, or A.P.I.

If this also extends to independent third-party clients then that's basically going to be the end of Reddit.
> This article was for the VISION-21 Symposium sponsored by NASA Lewis Research Center and the Ohio Aerospace Institute, March 30-31, 1993.

> Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended.

Impressive timing on that prediction assuming GPT-4's release on March 14th counts as "superhuman intelligence".

I read Vinge's essay in college and it was a critical factor in affecting my career choices and transhumanist views. His sci-fi Fire Upon the Deep/Deepness in the Sky and Fast Times at Fairmont High/Rainbows End were also critical in affecting my career path into AR/VR. I highly recommend reading this essay and any of his other sci-fi. He work could be classified as "hard computer science fiction" because it is heavily influenced by his career in CS. When I was at Google X around 2011, I realized that almost all the stuff they were working on in secret at the time (AR glasses, Drone delivery, self-driving cars, balloon Internet with lasers, computers embedded in fabric, etc) were copied directly out of Fast Times at Fairmont High. Fast Times and Rainbows End aren't available online but I suggest Synthetic Serendipity which is set in the same universe and has concepts such as a gig economy (called "affiliate tasks"): https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-serendipity
I have long been in the habit of leaving in the old pre-optimized code, commented out, above the optimized code. I generally don’t think that performant code ends up all that mangled, but it costs ~nothing to leave the old code in a comment.

I picked this practice up from an older engineer who would set

SLOW = false

at the top of the file and then wrap old code in a

if (SLOW) { … }

block for the compiler to do dead code elimination on. (I found linters and compilers complained less about commented-out code, but he preferred his way so it would always have syntax highlighting.)
Also, why is the iOS app so bad? All prompts keep disappearing on me and I have to try to figure out how to get a prompt again (I think it’s by tapping in some mystery region at the top of the screen?). Ugh. It’s very frustrating to use.
I think the value is in the examples it provides of language.
In this video, David Gross says something along the lines of "if your data is laid out in a memory inefficient manner, it will be the bottleneck everywhere." If you're dependent on a database query for everything, that will be your bottleneck. If your in-memory structures are cache inefficient, that will be your bottleneck. But once you've fixed all of this (if you can), hot paths and whatnot matter

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8uAW5FQtcvE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpsons_Already_Did_It
Inevitable. Everyone wants to get paid.
Naw, volatile organics.

Compression ratio isn't great on these things since half the time the gas is terrible -> no pressure, no NOx

But they are two stroke so a little but of gas and oil leak out on every stroke.
> There are a huge amount of developers who want Windows

I watched rabid Windows fans that had been developing for many years slowly become disappointed apologists during the decade of 2010. They still use Windows and trust .NET and SQL Server, but they have had their joy slowly beaten out of them by Microsoft’s change of focus.

Balmer yelling “Developers developers developers” on stage in 2000 was a sign of how important developers used to be to the company.

I think Microsoft should get back to their roots and create a Windows Developer Edition for individuals & small businesses: remove all the consumer shit, fix the tasteless look, pre-install developer tools, charge $100 per year for it (with discounts to onboard anyone developing targeting Windows OS). Nice if they could come up with a GUI to compete with Electron (or at least an HTML slimmed down with inefficient features removed?). They need another VB6 too! (Disclaimer: I’ve not really used VB6). Pushing your developers into the arms of Apple Mac’s seems like a poor long-term strategy.
> Is reddit going to pay users?

They don't need to as they claim a royalty-free license [0] over all content posted to reddit (Section 5).

[0] https://www.redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement
Anyone tried using it, HN?
Super excited about ruff improvements, but I gotta comment that the CSS for a clicked link in astral.sh looks like normal text. I clicked a link, hit back in Android Firefox, and couldn't find the link again.
I'm trying to use this via ssh into another instance on VSCode, but it doesn't work, any help?
This one?

* https://gitlab.com/axet/android-call-recorder

I tested it a few months ago, but since I don't do phone calls any more I don't know what today's status is, if it's still working or not.
Your server scaling system will need healthchecks. But:

1. It can be more tolerant of failures, since an unresponsive server doesn't mean failed requests.

2. Hooking up your server scaling system to HAProxy, etc. isn't the easiest thing in the world anyway.
> A sale occurs in the state where the merchandise is physically located at the time the sale takes place.

So in China? This is confusing. Its not like Apple is warehousing iphones somewhere waiting to be sold.
You're acting like this is some new development (presumably because you just now learned about it), but it's been this way since forever. If it were legally dodgy, then why hasn't it been challenged in court and torn apart? Because you're the first to be offended by it, or because it isn't dodgy and the FAA are on firm ground? The latter. Age limits for pilots and ATC are textbook examples of BFOQs.

> This isn’t something that we just take their word for it.

If you want to hit the books, knock yourself out. I am perfectly content to take the FAA's word for it, and think you'd be wasting your time.
Content Filter for ChatGPT: Prevents Prompt Injection/Jailbreaks
Try out some prompts from jailbreakchat.com - built this as a middle layer to write over all outputs that break content policy
Pfft.

Voice messages
239 days up. That's brave too ;)
You can mount the file system in memory for that, but I see your point.
Or 5 in LA
> the actually fit I’ve met are all extremely calm, accepting and disciplined.

This is the case with martial arts, especially bjj. You'll come in like a soft doughey baby, and you will get smushed for a long time, but its rewarding for a veteran practitioner to see another person struggle and do well. They want to "lift" that person up an help them, as long as the newbie is trying hard.
They are not sanke oil but "compliance tricks" ;=)

Basically:

- full disk encryption is required for whatever reason

- BIOS SSD passwords fulfill that requirement

and it is good enough to prevent accidentally leaking data when losing the laptop and it goes in the hand of someone slightly technical versatile but not a specialist/hacker nor a targeted attack interested in handing the laptop to a specialist.

Hence why compliance rules in cases involving actual sensitive data often require full disk encryption using more strict requirements not fulfilled with BIOS encryption.

> Nobody verifies that the encryption scheme is sound.

for some Latop brands/variants you most likely have a sound encryption schema, but there is still the problem that it's unlocked by the TPM and the en-/de-cryption is likely run on the CPU or similar instead of an specialized IO description chip tightly coupled with the TPM (modern Apple devices, at least phones, are a notable exception here AFIK). So even if the encryption schema is sound it's normally not too hard to extract the key in one of many ways for a specialist. And even if that doesn't work there is still the attack to inject your OS which then sees the unencrypted SSD... so normally not secure.
The apps are the ecosystem. If people can't run the programs they need to actually do things with their computers, then all the technical benefits in the world are useless. It was the biggest problem 20 years ago with Linux, and is the biggest problem now.
On the positive side, training an AI with Reddit content will ensure that the AI is deeply flawed and will not surpass average human intelligence
Reddit already exploits unpaid moderators to create and manage its communities, so I don't imagine that Reddit is in a hurry to compensate users for selling their data to Big AI.
> expressed concern about how “cold and cynical many recent anime seem to be.” But is this a criticism of the current crop of animators and fans—or a reflection of Japanese society itself?

its just the studios churning out procedurally generated cookie cutter nonsense, just like the rest of TV

Its not that deep
The pull model, is similar to having some metrics to choose which backend to push to.

I believe push/pull are the two faces of the same coin. You might physically initiate a connection one way or the other. You might in abstract push or pull information.

Ultimately you are trying build an oracle that predicts the future.
> “The Reddit corpus of data is really valuable,”

Totally agree, no question about that. But data comes from users. Shouldn't they also get paid?
A Major Clue to Covid’s Origins Is Just Out of Reach
I'm not a CPA but I'm pretty sure companies have a choice whether to claim Software Development as R&D expense, or as regular payroll. It sounds like this change is only affecting employers who were previously "saving" payroll tax by classifying employee cost as R&D, and claiming "R&D credits" which can no longer be amortized [0]. That is not the default tax strategy of every tech company. There is no law requiring companies to file for R&D credits. The relevant changes under discussion only affect companies who chose to file for R&D credits.

They should have known they were taking a risk by adopting that strategy. At our company, we got a bunch of spam emails offering to help us file for R&D credits - we just ignored them and continued to pay normal payroll tax.

Searching my inbox for "R&D," it seems that Gusto was the most prolific spammer in this regard - they sent dozens of emails enticing us to save tens of thousands of dollars by talking to their R&D tax specialists. They even included case studies naming specific companies and how much they "saved." In retrospect, that looks like a big oof.

[0] https://www.aprio.com/its-official-software-development-incl...
I don't use Rust - but can't deny Rust is saving the environment.

countless CPU hours wasted by running dev tools written in slow as molasses languages now getting rewritten in Rust.

build / lint times * number of times builds taken * kWH = saved energy
nowadays, it's cool to say this new toy is faster than the rest because it is written in Rust without providing further details?

When I visit the Bun project landing page[0], I get concise reasons as to why bun is faster than its peers.

[0] https://bun.sh/
> the post-apocalyptical dystopia where teenagers are being oppressed by old people and the teenagers have to overturn the old ruling class

I don't think this is a Last Decade thing... This describes Evangelion quite well, and evangelion is way older than a decade. Wolf's Rain is literally a bunch of teenagers (who are also wolves) remaking the world in the post apocalypse, also older than a decade. Arguably this is also full metal alchemist.
I’m not 100% sure this paper is the first time he used it, but the author did coin the term.
> most crypto is ridiculously centralized

That is true.

IMO Bitcoin is the only crypto is that is legitimately decentralized; no single governing organization.
I would assume you aren't laying off your whole staff after year 1, so the comparison if costs stay the same seems like this instead?

Old:

Year 1: 0 Profit

Year 2: 0 Profit

Year 3: 0 Profit

Year 4: 0 Profit

Year 5: 0 Profit

New:

Year 1: 800K Profit

Year 2: 600K Profit

Year 3: 400K Profit

Year 4: 200K Profit

Year 5: 0 Profit

E.g. stack another amortized round of annual salary each time.

Even if revenue stays the same but costs increase, your Year 5 total for each is "X Profit" where X is the amount of revenue delta from Year 1 to Year 5?

If rapid hiring growth followed by layoff scenarios, you are worse off here: you pay the tax on the hiring boom for at least the first year or two before your revenue might drop enough to make it not matter?

If you're further away from profitability, it's maybe still a wash.

Hire up to 10 Million in salaries in 1 year, but your revenue after 2 years is just 4M - you're still under the window. You only get hit by the difference in the bill if your revenue accelerates a lot (which is an OK problem to have)?

So on one hand it seems like it could reduce poorly planned impulse hiring by spreading out the costs, but on the other hand the "run big losses until we make it" plan is less affected anyway because of the "big" in "run big losses"... so it seems to hurt the sustainable folks more in that case.
> Gone are the traditional awe-inspiring scifi, in are the post-apocalyptical dystopia where teenagers are being oppressed by old people and the teenagers have to overturn the old ruling class.

... but enough about Fritz Lang's Metropolis
Getting local user accounts working under Win 10 was already bad enough, just figuring that out took loner than getting my first Linux installed and running. And yes, I went through all of that to avoid yet another MS Account.

Not sure what MS wants to achieve with all of that.
> but he preferred his way so it would always have syntax highlighting

On that topic, probably one of the top-3 features from Clojure I miss in other languages, is having the option of making comments being a part of the language itself so everything that works on the code (linters, evaluation, syntax highlighting, etc) works in the comment as well. The `comment` macro really is a godsend in disguise as it's awfully simple implementation-wise. Its cousin `#_` is also a great tool. See https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/comment for more examples
Top upvoted comments can filter out the useless information and then it can be trained on actual data and refined.
Considering that this entire discussion revolves around how the law is misaligned from the economic impacts of business activities, it is a circular argument to use law to explain and justify your argument.
I want to improve my internet "speed" by not taking fucking forever to establish tcp connections to some part of it. 2m30 to push a single commit to one git host but not another. Similar times to display a static webpage on some domains.
Yeah that would have been smart. What I did instead was just drive with the windows down. :) When it got too hot, I put the fuse back in, kept a jump pack in my trunk, and parked on a hill so I could pop the clutch to get a start.
Most significant cameras of the DPReview era: Part 1: Digital Photography Review
sort of... A line is a circle (more precisely, a cline ("circle-or-line") with infinite radius and center on the "horizon" (In 1D, the horizon is the 2 points at +/infinity. In 2-D, the horizon an infinite circular boundary around the plane. In 3-D, it's an infinite circular sphere). The center's position determines the slope/angle of the line.

For a translational "rotation" in 3D, the axis of rotation is the line that is tangent to the infinite "celestial" sphere and perpendicular to the line of translational motion.
>people like Lee Smolin. They eventually get cancelled by the physics community

Could you tell me more about this or lead me where to read about it? All I know of him is that I came across some of his talks/interviews on youtube and found them incredibly refreshing. I am a physics graduate that left entirely dissatisfied and feel he's the lecturer that I wish I could have had. Is he viewed as a crackpot?
This begins to look a lot more like a software watchdog at that point, and you can even have each service provide a count of outstanding/processed requests per tick and if a server never gets outstanding or processed requests you could have the watchdog kill it off.
Opportunity cost for a tech worker to learn something new from scratch?
I was trying to source the most current information I could find. I'm happy to use more current data. Considering how car-dependent we are, years unaffected (or less affected) pandemic would learn more towards the US having a larger share.
Even shorter life products like wooden furniture should be preferable to plastic alternatives. Especially with the disposable way we treat the plastic products, at least if we're throwing away wood furniture we're not pumping up oil to make it first.
No, of course not. But the charges mean those individuals can be prevented from coming to the US or pursuing business interests.
I don't know about the primary destructive force, but on the whole I agree. A good start would be for the US to stop subsidizing fuel so that overly complex supply chains are more expensive to operate. Also, some kind of last-mile delivery system would be good: I die a little every time I take my 2000 lb car over the hill to get a 2 lb burrito.
All the fines eventually get paid by the tax-paying public, so it's a no-win to fine government agencies.
I'd wager about 90% of any mass-produced form of media is crap, and anime is no exception. The isekai stuff is just a big part of the latest 90% for anime.

There can be hidden gems or interesting deconstructions of the genre, and sometimes crap can just be mindlessly entertaining.

I've started getting tired of the sheer amount of it, but I got tired of the 9 million mecha anime when I was younger, etc., as well.
if you go to delete your comments remember to overwrite them first

because reddit don't actually delete anything (plainly visible in GDPR dump)
For seriously high performance systems like webservers or exchanges, you need to get the architecture right from the start. You can't rearchitect a part or two or solve design problems by making skilled hires later on. The 80% part is a distraction (it's also factually untrue that 80% of code doesn't matter. Some applications don't have hotspots, the performance impact is basically smeared all across the code. It really depends on the application. Sqlite found major speedups by implementing hundreds of little changes that were each almost undistinguishable from noise).

High performance doesn't mean unreadable. Microoptimizations can make code less readable, true, but they also give you the least amount of speedup (in the best case you can get several times speedup if you found some hotspot that can be vectorized, but that's pretty rare). You can get huge performance improvements by optimizing networking and system calls and doing that doesn't make much of an impact on readability.
Sure, but once you learn that new thing, an AI can learn it too and apply the knowledge more efficiently than you can.
I'd also like to offer a meta explanation in addition to escapism being popular. With so much anime having been produced and made available on-demand to consumers there is a need to stand out and be novel - in both a creative and a business sense. Alternate world storylines seem perfectly suited for this.

Anime produced today needs to compete with all the anime produced over the last ~50 years. Whereas anime produced in the 90's only had to compete with ~30 years worth of anime before it. And even then, much less was produced by the industry as a whole back then.
Depends on your use case. For me it works absolutely fine.
Surprised they ever even had this. They should be ashamed in any case.
Purple Dumps Its Prpls
I really don't understand what you're trying to argue.

You can't just pour electrons into something and blow it up either. So what does it prove that you can't pour photons into a tube to blow it up?

If you want the analogy to electrical flow then it's not trying to blow things up, it's having different sized holes for light to go through, and some scattering in the nodes.

Also my edit to the previous post was late so I'll move it here:

> There are no individual packets of light just like there are no individual packets of sounds. Photons are a useful idea in simulations because you need to sample specific paths.

Sound is carried by individual particles.

Light is quantized (aka packets) unless you happen to have an alternate explanation for the ultraviolet catastrophe?
Christopher Lasch vs. the elites by Roger Kimball (1995)
They view their users as a captive audience. Where else are you going to go?
Not to mention that it's also easy to skip. I had Windows 10 on my spare machines, and never have I seen an OS that showed so much level of contempt towards its users.

Every OS update forces me to go through pages and pages of privacy invading settings before letting me use my own computer again. Each time the UI for those settings change with fresh new additions of dark patterns. Each of those settings must be carefully disabled or I'll end up with a key logger on my system.

It's not done even after it shows me the desktop either, proceeding to add Edge to the desktop, taskbar, and the default browser settings, all without even asking.

No other OS comes even close in terms of hostility.
Tell HN: Netgear Orbi support is atrocious
I bought the Netgear Orbi RBK763S plus a satellite from Amazon in July 2022. The main router was plugged into a TP-Link modem, and this setup worked fine for 10 months.

This morning, it stopped working. The TP-Link still had an internet connection, and anything plugged into it worked, except for the Orbi. The Orbi itself still had working wifi, but couldn't get internet access.

Netgear "technical" support claimed to know this was because the TP-Link was MAC filtering, despite the Orbi not having any internet access, and me telling them I'd checked this in the TP-Link admin panel already.

So far, so typical offshore technical support. But then Netgear offered a "support contract" which would enable them to fix the issue in the Orbi for me. I refused, and was transferred back to Amazon, with Netgear telling them the problem was with "TP-Link because they are my ISP".

If you're thinking of getting Orbis as a wifi mesh, don't. They are overpriced but bog-standard wifi access points that need a whole load of extra subscriptions to get any additional value out of them.
Totally understandable.

That said, on subreddits I see people who post content without attribution all the time. I recall in /r/aww you can't directly link to an Instagram post but you can "steal" the image and post it, and it's optional as to whether or not you link to the Instagram post within the comments. Likewise, people take videos from YouTube/TikTok and re-host it on Reddit.

In smaller subreddits people will post entire pay-walled articles as if writers only get paid in likes.
Pretty darn close! It should be well within 90% of the right answer. For a car probably about 99.9%