skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wasn't it the Imperial Library of Trantor in Foundation?
We bought a house recently and the racks in the (old) dishwasher are rusted. I thought it would be cheap to replace them. $400 for new top and bottom racks. $425 for a new dishwasher. I am gobsmacked.
Where Imagination Lives in Your Brain
Nice, now please do the same thing about your phone.

Oh you can't? Right because tech is actively trying to make you ditch your old phone. My last phone was great but can't fix the screen and the new model is worse, because they now want you to buy their earphones, and their watch, and soon their goggles.
Usually all of these tax breaks are dependent on actually building facilities, hiring and maintaining staff levels over a period of time. They likely haven’t gotten anything yet. Same goes for things like that Foxconn factory in the midwest (WI?) that never materialized.
Think it is because he is saying the 101 stuff is bunk, so why try to use the bunk to disprove the bunk. Like if a physicist is trying to convince a true religious believer there isn't a god, doing it by quoting the bible is often not very effective.
CS fundamentals like algorithmic complexity. This can also help in interviews where Leetcode-like format seems to be the norm.

Aim to work at places that are flexible on the experience with tools (software, framework, OS, etc.).
Sorry, Yes just US, IN & AU for now due to limited man hours.
Of the visual design of the alternatives I've seen (and including Reddit design itself), I really like how this one looks so clean, so there's that. It actually makes me want to use it.
Its there
My teacher would send everything he wrote on the smart board as a PDF after class. This was effortless for him either the smart board. Now sure, for projecting a presentation, there’s no major difference. But I think it’s trying to combine blackboards and projectors, and in this case, it did (at least for me) make some things easier. Is it 30x better at educating than the overhead? No. But I don’t think it has to be to be worthwhile.
None of the above require Lisp, as none of them are impossible with matrices and the current schemes used.

For most of those, doing it with "lisp list-based data structures" would be a 2-3 orders of magnitude performance hit (and of course the unability to properly use the GPUs).

At the level of data we're discussing, Lisp lists (aside from the performance issue) would be just as opaque as any matrix, and just as difficult for any of the operations suggested. The matrix vs lisp represenation part would be the most trivial part of the whole thing.
Oh man, I was looking for high quality pngs of these combinations earlier. My hacky solution was to post to a private Twitter account from mobile, since Twitter serves these as pngs with alpha channel (and not as "stickers" or jpgs), copy them, and then remove the tweet. Never occured to me that these are just hosted on gstatic.com, insane.
gotta love Brave
Even as a native speaker, “autarchy” is difficult to pronounce in an intelligible manner.

And even if I do sufficiently contort my facial muscles to pronounce that word, it’s esoteric even for the nerdiest of audiences.

It’ll never fly.
There's some interesting data/discussion on this out there. Not sure if we'll get updates through 2023 for some sources.

https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace
https://www.un.org/en/un75/new-era-conflict-and-violence
https://oneearthfuture.org/news/there-really-evidence-declin...
Thanks for the suggestion. I will add it soon
Wait! Is ePassport verification as advanced as to have a challenge-response protocol or similar?
I wish there were more books or studies on how Economics is really a form of Psychology. It seems like the economic theories that delve into why humans do what they do seem more 'real', or uncovering something about human nature that can be applied.
I don't know about the absolute numbers but my general sense is that the market for harder core flying and driving and other simulators has actually declined at least as a proportion of the absolute market in the past 10 to 20 years.
It's not like he doesn't understand it, he refuses to accepte the canonic explanation as true. Sin and salvation are 101-level stuff too.
Until now, the only real demand for an alternative has come from users/communities banned from Reddit or opposed to the censorship/groupthink. Which is not an ideal set of users to start a new community with.
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... or, you could be forced into it, like I was.

You see, I'm a criminal. I've committed the felony of getting old, so I am not supposed to work in tech, anymore (at least, not as an IC).

I probably could have gotten a job as a manager. I was a very good manager.

But I hated it. I just wanted to be a coder (and architect -I'm pretty good at that, as well).

I wasn't given the opportunity. In fact, it seemed as if some folks used the interview process to scratch itches they had, with their own parents.

After a few of these "interviews," I realized that this industry no longer had any room for me, and came to understand that, although I was not rich, I did have the means to walk away.

I spent my life, living humbly, frugally, and modestly. Many folks on this forum would sneer at me, for living the way that I do (but they can no longer sneer from a position of power). I have to be a caregiver to a couple of family members, and being forced to retire, actually coincided with them needing more care, so it has worked out.
> They were eventually found about 3.5 kilometers, or 2.1 miles, from the site of the initial incident, according to the Colombian Air Force.

It’s crazy how dense and tricky the jungle is. The kids were around 2 miles from the crash and it took a massive search effort 40 days to find them.
http://archive.ph/0hYfO
Wait till you find out that the dollar is also made up.
MUMPS (aka 'M', MUMPS loves brevity to the point of obscurity) was - without anything else coming close - the weirdest language/runtime I've ever had to work with. Fun times, though, especially when someone accidentally deleted the editor. Now, how that could happen requires some insight into how mumps works under the hood: the in system editor (which, on that particular distribution was called 'e') is a string. Just like any other string you can assign a value to it and there weren't that many safeguards in place to protect important strings.

Recovering from that particular 'oopsie' cost me a day and a bit, part of which was to write a rudimentary editor, without an editor. I think I got some apple pie out of that one :) I don't regret having seen the last of 'MUMPS' but it is very persistent and in healthcare and insurance you still come across it every now and then.

Mumps has some interesting aspects though, one of these is that it raises evaluation of expressions to a way of life, and in that sense it is closer to a functional language (but with statements, if that makes any sense) than your typical interpreted language from that era, which had strict barriers between code and data.
Right now, yes. It’s getting better but without significant work they really are not as smooth with crisp tiny details. It’s going to the right direction, so it might change in the future, though.
This is disgusting, Kissinger is absolutely a war criminal.

He played both sides and helped sabotage the 68' peace talks by leaking information to Nixon, just to get a job within either administration. So great, he helped end a war he prolonged for years and was involved with the bombing of neighboring countries.
This is why HFTs pay so much for order flow from retail firms. Large orders on the books at public exchanges are subject to informed traders, while retail orders from Robinhood are random (or worse).
Monroe doctrine has nothing to say about Kalingrad.

The US invaded Grenada so for sure they would invade Mexico.
How?

As an aside, if anyone has any good resources on inspecting cert-pinned traffic using an Android VM and Frida, I’m all ears.
>GPT-4 is much smarter

You mean better trained.
Short, memorable: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the_brillant_paula_bean
Sign on Message in a Bottle's for NASA's Europa Clipper
https://archive.ph/BVAE0
Because they’re great to write the code on, which is what developers do
That's twice so far today. I need more coffee. Thank you for the heads-up.
I'm no expert, but probably because coding on Windows is a PITA, consumer Linux is unreliable (relying almost entirely on open-source - a great thing but doesn't have the same driving force), and Mac runs a Unix operating system.
First in human testing of catheter-free wireless bladder pressure monitor
The answer to that question, taken literally, could fill a novel (so could a description of what’s right with it).

As for Firefox Sync, the protocol is byzantine and poorly documented[1], while using it “properly” requires emailing a human at Mozilla to “document expectations and timelines”[2], which for a hobby or small-scale application I read as “fuck you”. (Using it improperly, like filching the API key from one of the official clients, risks tripping the hostile and deliberately undocumented security heuristics.) For me that’s already enough to reject it for anything I couldn’t bear losing (like my passwords).

[1] https://www.codejam.info/2021/08/scripting-firefox-sync-lock...

[2] https://www.codejam.info/2021/08/scripting-firefox-sync-lock...
NC is Epic and Red Hat HQ. A lot of talent at both.
No, no it doesn't. Not even slightly. If you fed a human child only text from the internet you'd not produce a competent adult (by competent I mean able to feed themselves etc).

That some tech people think that human intelligence can be reduced to such "textural mechanics" betrays a lack of depth of understanding and even appreciation of the deep and complex world within which we find ourselves. Our written corpus is but a particular reflection of this reality - the shadows on the wall in Plato's cave if you will.
The Finnish capital area gov bought the health system from Epic systems made with Mumps for ~500 million € around 5 years ago, despite every software professional saying they shouldn’t.

And just like predicted it’s utter dogpoo now that it’s being deployed, and has already caused a bunch of health hazards and people quitting due to its impossibly bad and confusing interface.

You can guess will it be cheap to fix it now, as it probably was delivered up to the waterfall spec, and there is that one company in the world that owns the code and can change the software.

Worst case of corruption I’ve seen, in a country where its a saying we don’t have corruption.
phone flip cases are great wallets. + less things to worry about
The problem is when those "realpolitik" enthusiast become surrender monkeys.

What should be known as "real" is acknowledging evil, genocidal intent of some dictatorships and working towards undermining them, not strengthening them by trade deals and allowing them to enforce their claims.
Run Open Source AIs for free on your own GPU
Those 2,000 people are influencing what half a billion monthly active users think/believe, which products they'll purchase, and who they'll vote for.
>the kind that actually works

I'm pretty sure computer algebra systems and automatic theorem provers work quite well. The CPU you wrote this comment on was developed using the other kind of AI that supposedly doesn't work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACL2
It is not a conspiracy theory that german foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, assured "NATO will not expand to the east".
The majority of social media content is created by a very small slice of the overall population. I would guess that the tech professionals represent a large portion of that. They probably are a large portion of people interested in FIRE because a tech professionals income in the US is likely to be in the top 10% of all incomes in the country (avg of 173k in 2020).
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Peter Turchin, as another 'pop-sci' author with some speculative theories. It is a counter theory on why civilizations 'Collapse'.

Since this thread seems so opposed to the 'environmental' causes of collapse that Diamond proposes, the Turchin theories on how societies naturally go through stages that lead to collapse is interesting second train of thought.
Keeping things isn't free, especially at scale. And it's not just about the space, as you've noticed organising and keeping track both of what you have and where to find it is a lot of hassle. Only for 95% of things decreasing in value over time, with no reliable way to identify the 5% worth keeping.

Your income/purchasing power definitely plays a role here too. Hoarding is more worth it if you don't have an efficient way to covert time into money.
Peeking at RAM and literally being able to record your whole screen from an npm package are two quite different levels of threats.

Also, multi-monitor setups with different DPIs are not possible on X.
This man survived 26 years alone in the jungle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole

The kids are indigenous and knew how to find food. Kids from the city would probably not be able to survive this long...
This is comically naive and literal. Have you read any moral philosophy before?

The point of his argument is not that under certain exceptional conditions surgeons should kill people to harvest their organs to save more lives, but precisely that any sort of formal pledge or personal obligation or non-utilitarian moral code can be betrayed if that leads to higher expected utility; and that it is prudent to lie about your true intentions and convictions if you think that is a precondition to achieving greater total utility. It is very much an argument in favor of a fundamentally untrustworthy and conspiratorial mindset, and not just specifically on the issue of saving lives – like the trolley problem, this is only an illustration. This applies to utility in general, and thus to all instrumental preconditions for creating it: to money, power, anything; therefore, any act of a Singerian should be suspected as part of an instrumentally useful scheme to secure a position to achieve more utility. This applies the most to pretenses of having integrity, valuing promises or even some kind of sentimental loyalty.

People who profess to believe in Singerian doctrine can not be trusted to mean what they are saying, because you cannot know what sort of a convoluted scheme to maximize total utility they have imagined that could necessitate deception in a particular case.

Again, his follower Sam Bankman-Fried has demonstrated this very clearly by defrauding his clients and appropriating money for the purposes of Effective Altruism and AI Alignment movements, and then by piling an absurd lie on an absurd lie. Singer defends the teaching by claiming, contrary to his somewhat more sophisticated argument, that "honesty is the best policy"[0]. This is what he, in his article, describes as morality for children – that is, the immature people who cannot be trusted to make consequentialist decisions and should be taught deontology.

> and he believes you could never recommend the action to others

Oh. Okay, so he says that it is the morally correct course of action logically following from moral philosophy he has been advancing and propagandizing all his life, but [generic] you should not recommend it to others. How is that very claim not such a recommendation? What is the meaning of this sophistry?

Perhaps it serves to separate those who can practice the shallowest Straussian reading from those who are effectively children.

0. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/dec/24/giving-goo...
Best advice here. This is literally how I made the transition from infrastructure engineer to programmer.
The fact that russia wishes to make some words into existence does not mean they existed.
So just like Puppet/Ansible/Salt then?

> Nix is so robust that you could even nuke your filesystems on every log out

Comments like these makes it hard to understand what is really going on.

Persistent storage is kind of the point of using a computer instead of an abacus.
This is defeatist and normalizing a situation that is abnormal. People pay for hardware, bandwidth and pretty much all software but somehow a few trinkets must be paid with relinquishing privacy.
I have an external RAID 1 hard drive that I backup everything to every 6 months or so.

Before someone points it out, the individual drives in the array have build dates that differ by at least a year.

In addition; for really critical stuff only (accounting data, deeds, business contracts, access codes, software source code, etc.) I use micro SD cards for more frequent backups as needed.

I have a cheap digital watch with a SD card holder that I 3D printed and built into the strap. The SD drive is encrypted with Bitlocker and it travels with me wherever I go.

Basically, this really critical data is as safe as I am. I always make 2 copies of the SD drive and keep one in a fire proof safe. The key to the safe is revealed in my will which my lawyer has. Inside the safe is the decryt key to the SD card. A trusted relative also has the decrypt key.
It's definitely an important factor! Open world games are at their best when the player navigates the space naturally - without quest markers and the like, but with "oh, that thing on the horizon looks cool, I'll go there!". FNV is amazing at this. The Morrowind devs definitely considered this, but they were of course limited by the hardware of their time. So the game is made to evoke this feeling even at small render distances.

But if you then crank them up, you won't have one or two cool landmarks to see, but way too many! You can see this done well in Elden Ring - you can see very far, and the map is big enough to still space out points of interest.

The only way to "fix" this for higher render distances is to rebuild the world with those in mind.
I started using ISDX in ‘96 soon after PTC acquired it and managed to port it and make it work with Pro/E. I’ve worked on a number of products which are still in production using it, but it’s been a while since I was using Pro/E (now Creo). I don’t miss Creo, but I do miss ISDX. There was a while when I was using Solidworks and Pro/E (with ISDX) depending on the project/client, but then I transitioned to Solidworks for many years. Now I’m using Onshape (started by the key people from Solidworks) which recently was acquired by PTC. Both Solidworks and Onshape use the Parasolid kernel which was first developed for Unigraphics. It seems like it’s a small world in CAD tool development.
F sharp is a great language, but his code will need to be maintained by others which is why Python is a better idea.
And that's clear to everyone nowadays. You really see anyone disputing that?
I have a media nas at my parents location that are mirrored over night.
It's not quite the same, but I pay for MDN Plus[1] even though I don't actually need any of the features

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/plus
This is really interesting. I would buy a short book describing and explaining this privacy-related stuff the way you write about it.

But every time I read something like this, I am puzzled how they can have so much information and yet be so dumb. One example (but I could give you many): I like cycling and I subscribe to some cycling-related YouTube channels (Lanterne Rouge, Dylan Johnson - normal stuff, informative, bits of light humor now and then). YouTube keeps recommending me one cycling channel I absolutely hate - it is as if it was designed to piss me off. Sensationalist, negative, clickbaity titles, made up doping allegations every other post, throwing up emoticons in titles, creepy thumbnails with syringes and distorted faces. I never watch those videos, I clicked "do not recommend this channel" multiple times, now I just leave YouTube immediately every time this appears. And somehow, with all the data they have on me and all that sophisticated AI, they still have not figured it out. How? Any explanation?
I read up until this:

> Two grand a year rivals the lease payments on an entry-level car.

So I can lease a very crappy car or own an awesome headset? Easy choice.

> Back at HQ, the iPhone, possibly the most utile product in history, costs $1,000 and is viable for three-plus years.

2 years max if your phone is important to you. Why 3 years for the phone but not the headset?

> Splurging on an 85-inch 4K flat-screen TV will cost you $1,500, but it will last about seven years,

And be incredibly less useful by every single measure. Who even watches TV?

> and your entire family gets to watch at the same time.

Great, I'll have my nonexistent kids invite the grandkids. What a money saver while we consume Netflix instead of doing something interesting.

Anyway, point is it's being deliberately biased.
Debian 12 “Bookworm”
I’m the other hand you could claim a DDoS is just visiting the site a lot of times but that’s illegal, I think this is somewhere in between so it’s not that clear
> I don't see why the randomly selected waitress should be better

More than a few of them may already posses an English degree (:
That you think waiting is a job that doesn't require mental presence tells me you have never done it.

Sure, set up and clear down have plenty of routine zone out time - but service is maintaining multiple concurrent to do lists in your head whilst keeping an eye out on the environment for additional tasks.

I was terrible at the job because I have poor short term memory (my lists dropped items all the damned time). But I sure as hell was too busy to contemplate some higher order problem
> Push conditional compilation far further in the pipeline, such that it is done after all semantic analysis

So much this. I've idea how this would work un practice (like how you're supposed to accomodate antagonistic semantics which depend on the conditionnal compilation), but I hate #[feature(X)] with passion because of how brittle they are.
The only reason people pay for those things is because no one offers them for free yet. If they did they would be really happy to trade their privacy. For example, Chinese smartphones are full of tracking ads, which is why they are so cheap, and they are extremely popular.
OP-1 short demo for those unfamiliar https://youtu.be/ggLoTV97pY4
Isn't that just behavioural economics?
I was hoping to run it on one of my Raspberry Pi. I doubt that x86_64 emulation for the container on RPi would be worth it, if it is even possible to do.
I have never worked at a company with a functional onboarding process; are there any examples/anecdotes of onboarding processes that worked well?
The right thing should be the easiest thing to do.

Yet we live in a world designed in such a way that the easiest thing is to do is giving away your data, throwing away your privacy, and giving a tiny minority of people enormous power over us.
>My grandfather still has his Hickey Freeman suits and sports coats tailored and repaired by a local menswear shop.

Do you think people are getting new suits because they are "worn out", or perhaps because they're no longer in style?

>Their technics AV components still work with their high quality speakers.

I'll bet modern engineered speakers will beat those high quality speakers, at a fraction of the price. That's modernity.
Thanks. This was really un-Google-able.

Edit: ChatGPT was able to answer: https://chat.openai.com/share/7dd3589f-7cf7-4c37-b613-63b57b... .
ok thats cool. Agpl 3.0. extra cool
I think he has a lot of good points on many such issues. I said as much above.