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decades of programming. solid computing system fundamentals. problem solving. brainstorming. prototyping. communication. technical team lead. software architect. SRE-ish. author of cheatsheet on Software Performance & Scalability. former Orbitz/Cheaptickets senior engineer on core tech. Tech research, due diligence and consulting for US State Department, to help bolster national/allied public APD defenses. Indie game engine & personal tool creator since childhood. built & ran small computer game biz years ago. Wrote, shipped & sold a zombie apocalypse sim a decade ago, directly to the public.

For a recent client I did systems programming R&D on mem alloc latency and SEGV resilience, in C for Linux/POSIX, delivering new code, benchmarks, a diagram and a report successfully demonstrating how to upgrade the performance and uptime of their near-RT revenue-sensitive ad-bidding backend

Lately I have 2 side projects in free time: building an educational sim (in Golang) about dire threats to democracy & climate (along with possible fixes); and writing a book on performance & scalability (in public view in my GitHub).
PicoVectorscope Library for Drawing on an Oscilloscope
Cool little library for using a Raspberry Pi Pico and 2 high-speed DAC's for drawing vector and raster graphics on an oscilloscope CRT. Thoroughly frivolous, but also highly entertaining! ;]

Also check out the examples at https://github.com/OliWright/PicoVectorscopeExamples and the accompanying video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEgRV6VHzgg
I was just thinking to myself that I'm much more interested in the hardware projects than software on HN. Hope this takes off!
It's one thing if they don't care about the abuse, but they should be honest (including with themselves) on that. It's another to reassign the abuse to people they have different reasons to dislike.
My bet would be he hasn't fully understood it. Some of his sentences are clunky and messed up his football terms.
> State MVA puts a URL it does not own or control in any way on a license plate that will last for decades, never even considers that the URL could change hands, is pretty hilarious.

I'm not a resident, but I found this hilarious as well. I think putting any URL on a license plate (or similar) is poor form, actually, but one that you don't actually control and take pains to ensure you keep registered? Hilarious level incompetency right there.
Found this video too which is worth watching - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGRn5ZIbEW8
FOIA by TechCrunch to endowments, pension system reveals PE and VC performance
Remote work discourse in 90 seconds
Looks like a good initiative.

Cybersecurity is certainly one of the near term (now?) AI related risks.

This should help encourage some defensive progress.
Experiences can be hard / impossible to share in principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

Humans do need a better language to describe certain areas of experience though, states of mind and emotions. Poetic language is a good approximation, but it uses various quirks and undocumented properties of the "normal" language to get its point across. It's a poor fit even for philosophy, to say nothing of scientific research.
Do any startups still use WordPress after 20 years?
See also [1] for how this (might) relate to PostgreSQL

In particular it is nice to see that a core dev views JSON dot accessing and PCQ as "sensible" future additions to Postgres.

[1] - https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2023/04/18/postgresql-and-...
> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Rockstar, and indeed the entire AAA gaming industry, is known for the industry-wide hellacious crunch times. Anyone applying should be able to find ample testimony of this on Glassdoor, HN, Reddit, and presumably 4chan.

The rest is clearly off topic in Who’s Hiring.
Well, if you're asking for opinions, I'll offer a few. I certainly appreciate having another option for focused tech aggregation, especially if the comments section is able to attract and retain high quality, well-informed commenters rather than redditors.

Stylistically, I think there's way too much white space on the front page. HN has spoiled me.

And if it's supposed to be a HW site that attracts good commenters, there's way, way too much intro level material on the top list right now. I was getting turned off by the several intro to FPGA links but intro to soldering made me close the page. Not that introductory material can't be there, but there is a very low cool stuff to introductory material ratio.

I like the idea a lot, and wish you luck. Hopefully I find it again in a few years and love it and eat my words.
Stand Up for Open Source Software Patent Defense
It seems that - at least partially - the lawsuits revolve around the need to register and how complicated this is made.

At least according to this:

https://www.citysignal.com/airbnb-regulations-nyc-january-20...

there are no substantial changes to the Law in type of rent and duration allowed, already you could not legally rent for less than 30 days a "whole" unit, the fact that everyone did it nonetheless is another thing.
No mention of Michael Polanyi. Personal Knowledge is perhaps the defining criticism of positivism.
Who is swyx and why is their opinion relevant?
Every time, I search to see if anyone's doing anything interesting with Erlang and these posts always pop up.
Google bought an archive & a mechanism to post/read. It's not possible to buy usenet, by nature it's a distributed platform.
All the stock and finance data one needs is in earnings statement PDFs stored on the regulators website.

Why isn't there an AI product that can pull every PDF data table and provide the key ratio calculations? That's by far the most time consuming thing about analyzing earnings reports.There are computerized services that have done this for years but that costs money and is not AI-powered.

Shouldn't this be the first thing to be automated in the world of investment research?
Perhaps I've misunderstood, but several languages have REPLs so that isn't unique to Lisps, is it?
70 years? I’d argue that programming has only recently (last 10-20 years) become a mainstream source of high paying jobs. Before that it was relatively low paying or inaccessible/undesirable to most people. Recent simplification through the movement of much CRUD work toward web frameworks has made it more accessible.
Actually you know what, it is kinda weird that New Zealand doesn't have a claim to half of Antarctica.
The player must be past the line of the ball for it to be offside too; it the ball is passed backwards or at the same line is not offside even if there are no defenders.
Well I am Indian, and during my time in India, I did not find it nearly as culturally diverse as the US.

I'm not speaking about regional differences, those exist in pretty much every country.
What a good take. Never seen it like that, but yes.
> braking much harder than I would have been able to

Any idea why you weren't able to apply full brakes? I remember reading that most people don't in an emergency and that's why the emergency brake boost was created, but haven't seen the reason for it.
To be fair, I was working at the Starbucks in a red state, in a red city.

However I would also agree that overall decorum has definitely deteriorated. It used to be someone who disapproved would either grit their teeth or just leave. Now, I've seen shouting matches over that sort of stuff.

I guess it could always have been that bad, just not for "normies". And now with less decorum, those normally quiet harassment is now blatant and in your face.

I don't think it's just your perception of social media.
They aren't going to kick out elderly tourists who have been there for years, but it is a new move to encourage wealthier tourists that contribute more to jobs and the wider economy. South East Asia also know that they can't maintain the low cost lifestyle on one hand and help their people become richer on the other hand.
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Or perhaps create a lot of “known” queries as templates with good paragraph explanations and use the question to do a search for the known query. I’m new to AI so curious how it’s best utilized.
Probably getting ready to lock them behind a higher price tier.
These mostly appear to be office workers.

And I think they get to choose what their complaints are, unless you're suggesting that the article invented that?
You act like 3 dinners for 2 people in a year is nothing.

Some of us only eat out once a week because we have debts, or we have children, or we live in an expensive place. Some people eat out even less than that.

Would I sacrifice ~6% of my meals out for this tool that (no disrespect to the developer, is a glorified color palette picker)? Definitely not, and it's not a matter of being "cheap."

Not to mention, I think you're grossly overestimating how much time a tool like this would save. If I truly spend 200 hours a year picking colors, I likely would memorize a few by that point.
"Kill" is a strong word, as Postgres's solid JSON support technically obsoleted MongoDB for most use cases, but Mongo is still around for various reasons.

I suspect if Postgres had a solid implementation of SQL/PCQ it would be a similar story for Neo4j.
Funny how it's all going William-Gibson-Sprawl-shaped. The best defensive ice (Intrusion Countermeasures Electronic) was written by AIs who constantly updated it, and the best icebreakers were also written by AI.

I'd be very surprised if secretive agencies within the USA, China, Israel, Russia and others weren't going full-bore on the offensive side (which OpenAI says this particular grant program is not involved in, at least, but I wonder what the black-budget NSA-TAO side of things looks like at present).
> Football would be a nightmare if players were hanging out in the other team's box, waiting for the ball to be hoofed upfield to them so they could tap it into the back of the net

this is the commonly-held wisdom on offside, but I’m a little sceptical of it. 7-a-side, 5-a-side and futsal manage just fine without the offside rule (admittedly on smaller pitches). I suspect that 11-a-side would just look different without offside, it wouldn’t be a completely broken game. your best defenders would still have fair battles with your best attackers, and midfielders-midfielders etc
How do you find it simpler? From taking a quick look it appears to just be an API for invoking build steps, and the build script is itself a Zig program.

I ask if it's really simple, because the JVM space went in the same direction with Gradle (build script = program) and by the time it gets more sophisticated that can turn out to be pretty painful. In particular, IDEs struggle to get the information they need, scripts can become highly complex, and there are various other problems.
It is. There is a $900 lifetime license available
Also internal battery vs external battery. There will be a lot of interesting comparisons to be made once both products hit shelves.
Here's another searcher I made that uses the text of your resume to find the best matching job for your skills and experience: https://hnresumetojobs.com
I was thinking of the specialty plates that are issued for educational institutions - those could get away with an .edu

California offers a special plate for UCLA but it has no URL.
Yes, sort of. Having programmed since I was ten years old as a hobby, having taught myself a couple versions of BASIC, some Z-80 assembly, some 6510 assembly, and some Pascal, I went to college planning to be a Computer Science major.

I quickly discovered that I was really ill-prepared in math. I took geometry and Algebra 1 and 2 in high school, with some pretty awful teachers. My school didn't offer AP classes. I had taken about everything my high school had to offer including chemistry and physics, but I failed the math placement exam and was in classes with 17-year-olds who had 3 semesters of AP calculus or IB classes. So, I had to take remedial algebra and an elementary functions class before I got to Calculus 111. That class was heavily oriented towards math majors (prove everything). Some of my fellow CS students realized this and started taking math requirements over the summer at other schools that taught them a little easier. A CS major would have required more calculus, discrete math, abstract algebra, linear algebra and probably some other classes that I have forgotten; it was basically a math major + programming.

So, I had to make a shift - I decided to major in English (my other love) and take a Computer Science minor. I took every programming class my schedule allowed (operating systems, assembly language, 2 semesters of Pascal+data structures, a programming languages class, an algorithms class, audited a computer architecture class) and taught myself C and Macintosh GUI programming on the side, and started developing HyperCard XMDs and XFCNs and working on instructional multimedia for faculty. I've worked as a software developer/engineer more or less since graduation in 1989 with a B.A. degree, doing all kinds of programming, including >20 years spent specializing in embedded and DSP programming (yes, of course I use math constantly, mostly algebra, but some calculus concepts such as PID and digital filters, a practical rather than whiteboard approach), but with an English degree, just teaching myself as much as I could on the side, and I never went back to school.

So, I kind of love Computer Science, I definitely love programming, I definitely love math despite still being relatively bad at it, but I really don't like academia.
I'm not the original reply, by the way. I think psychedelics can be fun and extremely liberating/relaxing. But they have not given me any significant personal, scientific, literary or other insights.
I love how people continue to use the GPT acronym despite the trademark attempt by OAI, trademark are worthless if not enforced and if the word becomes generic in its usage, so continuing to use GPT to talk about transformer-based generative model is actually harming the trademark grab.
Google bought the Usenet archive from Deja News.

Usenet was/is decentralized. Yes, some things that are technically decentralized still end up centralized. But that's not what was going on or why Google bought Deja News, I don't think. They, at that time, ostensibly, wanted the historical usenet archive, and to make it searchable. Most people using usenet at the time didn't actually have access to a complete archive, just however much their usenet provider had chosen to keep on-hand from whenever that provider started distributing usenet.

I don't think the majority of usenet users were using it via Deja News provider. They could all keep accessing it however they were used to, Google's acquisition didn't change that, Gogle had no way to "remove what made usenet great" (i'm not sure what you are thinking of here being removed) -- if people switched from usenet to google groups (and I'm sure some did), it was because google groups had something they wanted that usenet didn't, google had absolutely no way to force anyone to do that, usenet kept existing the same as it ever did -- on a long-term trend of increasing irrelevancy.
Yes, I listed it first because I think these guys are eating up all the oxygen in the room and the more plausible risks get kinda unfairly lumped with the crankier stuff.

(And apologies if I misled people into believing the superintelligence basilisk has time travel powers)
I don't know what's the difference supposed to be.

A void of power never creates a favorable outcome for the common person. If there's room for commercial activity in the area, you can expect all sorts of unethical tactics to eventually surface, like we see in cryptocurrency. In a free-for-all capitalism people will lie and scam and cheat for profit.

So I don't really know what could the government get out of that would make things better.
Denying that PR and fixing it yourself is taking credit for others' work, and leaving it in is no good either. I don't see any upside to rejecting them. I'd be ashamed of myself for that.
It's best to think of this as an OS/distro detail; if you can reasonably expect /dev/urandom to give you insecure bits, your distro has a vulnerability.

That said: today you'd just use some variant of getrandom.
WordPress is great for finding site and hosting/config vulnerabilities, which you can fix and then delete WordPress. it's like outsourcing for free a bug bounty.
Microsoft inks deal with CoreWeave to meet OpenAI cloud demand
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Crowd sourced, let the humans vote up and explain the correct answers. Theres too many incorrect answers and unanswered technical questions already.
that would suggest it's an "enduring innovation" as per the question
True, but there was a high barrier to entry to just install it. And for a long time there was little else you could use.

On the other hand, it was free and more important to get people to use it and be more productive then generate revenue.
Or, more likely, ignore it.
Except you first have to encode the problem as a logic expression over (potentially tens of thousands of) Boolean variables. Might be impractical, or might even be impossible for eg robotic planning with an unlimited number of planning steps, and doesn't necessarily extend well to solving with respect to an objective function (eg optimization). What you usually see is a domain-specific problem description/language that then gets compiled into a SAT problem using a custom transformator/generator program. In other words, the problem of a suitable problem description language isn't solved ;)

You can override/customize Prolog's default search strategy as desired, Prolog being Turing-complete. Prolog syntax and resolution in this case just provides a straightforward starting point; which is much needed as you explore the complexities and challenges of your problem domain to kick-off a project (you know, as opposed to prematurely optimizing a program for transforming you DSL into a SAT/SMT formulation). I think Prolog works very well for this.

Note Prolog also has libraries for offloading to SAT solvers and eg. z3 supports a Datalog subset as an alternative to SMTLIB/Lisp-like syntax.
> Statistics alone suggest there will be racist truths

such as?
> for accuracy

Predictive power and accuracy isn't "truth".
> Also, in the context of Lisbon, I doubt that 16,000 salaried workers [0] could influence the market to that extent in a city of 500,000 people, especially given that digital nomads make, on average, $120,000 [1].

16000 out of 500000 people will definitely move the needle quite a bit in housing, given the small % of people who move every year
It'll be interesting to see how it compares to other similarly-priced, tethered experiences like PSVR or Valve Index.
Just in the off-chance that anyone hasn't seen this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5BJVO3PDeQ

it goes over this entire saga from failure at launch to massive success
Fortunately, my college had just created a Computer Engineering major which was all about architecture, languages, databases etc. No math in sight, not any more than High School had prepared me for.
Yeah, that's kinda expected. But what I'm more worried about in sports is when metrics(rules) become engrained in that sports culture and start shaping the sport itself.

Like, if an athletics high-jump champion has to jump over a fence with concrete ground – would s/he be still the best in the world? Probably not, because they're focusing on the Fosberry flop technique which works only in a competition setting with a soft landing mat.

Or in figure skating, where officials think that rules should reward "complex elements" and now everyone is chasing "complex" elements (quadruple jumps), skipping the "easy" elements (actual skating skills).

One of the problem with a metric substituting the original True Goal is also when this True Goal is not defined (or different people defined it differently). This type of Goodhart's law is hard to fix. I'm not sure how many sports really have shared understanding of what's a true goal in their sports.
I like how the original comment gave some thoughtful napkin estimates about how this product may be worth several thousand dollars as a function of time saved, and your counter argument is just "nah it's $30 total" with absolutely no reasoning or logic.

Like it or not, this is the kind of response from an engineer that falls into the category of emotionally cheapo.
> you have the extra step of wiping the headset down between users

You wipe it down? Is that normal?
Maybe ask them to show you how to do what they are talking about.

I know for some people, I fall into the "oversmart" category. (Obviously, with others this is not the case) There are some of my teammates that choose some of the manipulations suggested herein who get no benefit of my ability to see solutions I've never tried before, because they have shut the door.

Other teammates engage me often to their benefit.

The difference IMO, the teammates that come to me, they have no ego about working with someone else to make a solution.

The boss just observes and keeps kicking me raises.

I suggest always being open-minded. Even when the crazy mf is talking again.
Exterminate your desk: How to remove your mouse
China, you can have Elon all for yourselves.
Clearly a case of subconscious trauma.
> I’m a paramotor pilot and my entire flights are under 400 AGL

I was shocked when a couple months ago I flew by a paraglider at the edge of my local D airspace, 1000' above the D and 1000' under the B shelf. You guys get crazy but it looks fun
But the previous post argues that the article is about "lisp features that still make it unique".
There’s very rarely any where you can actually interact with the running program. At best you can usually load in a method and poke it, but that’s not the same.
Yeah I don't know where the pricing is coming from. $30/mo is like Creative Cloud levels and this is not comparable to the utility/functionality you'd get from even one of Adobe's tools.

I'd probably pull the trigger on this for $3-$5/mo.