skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I always thought it was interesting that the writers named the group after a real historical label for (Western European) foreigners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks#Legacy
Which, coincidentally, is also the advice paired with DRY by most competent people (including in the main book people seem to have learned DRY from, The Pragmatic Programmer). Apply it after repetitions, not before.
It's hardly just businesses. Around where I live it's very common for local government to have an online payment processor that charges a fee. I assume the town gets a no-fee or reduced-fee service in exchange for that service having the right to impose a fee. You can always just send a check instead (or have your bank do so, which I do).
I have to admit, we had everyone in the office one day last week and... it was nice. Felt sociable. I really didn't get much done though.
People in the midst of WW II are not really representative of normal life. Yeah, there's a "trolley problem", but there's also a daily or weekly grind where people are ordered to their death on a treadmill (such as the day/night bombing offensive or the North Atlantic Convoys). Let alone the mental and moral costs of ordering (large) offensives, delaying actions, ... I would imagine the civilian and military leadership was inured to the pain and costs of their decisions, if they even felt such things prior to WW II. After WW I, the British, maybe other European countries, were damaged from the costs of the Trenches. Fortunately, this didn't reoccur too often - but it influenced their actions in WW II.

Don't know enough modern history to know post-WW II effects, but the loss of money constricted their actions and I'm pretty certain British leadership has not adapted their appetite to their serving size. Again, other European countries might be similar.

Perhaps we're seeing the readjustment period from the "winners" of WW II - US and Russia?
The only Trek season 1 that I'll rewatch is Strange New Worlds. Recently introduced it to someone who had no meaningful experience watching Trek because they either kept falling asleep during episodes (TOS, TNG/VOY/DS9, DIS), or the barrages of references all went over their head and they lost interest (PIC, LD). But SNW hooked them immediately.

For all the whiz-bang flaws of Kurtzman-era Trek, they pretty much nailed that show's accessibility from the jump. Even better than Prodigy, which I liked but was more like a distant cousin.
What exactly is it that costs so much money when it comes to space stuff?

Is the materials, exotic and rare stuff?

Do you need custom microchips/fabs or something?

Is it the engineer salaries, thousands of highly paid people times N years?
In the US, usually the law is structured in such a way that the powers of the police are at the state level. A city or park authority isn’t empowered to restrict their actions in pursuit of her duty.

At the end of the day, as a person living their life, it really isn’t your business to know whether an airplane is intruding on park airspace. You should not drive in the park as a private citizen. If you’re a ambulance driver on official business, you should know what applies to you.
I worked for a tech startup, well, quite a long time ago. All of us were in the same office. In case of some HR manager reads it: by "office" I mean "office". A room with doors, windows, a couple of desks each dedicated to one person. No open-plan, cubicles, "modern", "innovative" ... no shite like that. The whole team in the same office. In case of some HR manager reads it: by "whole team" I really mean "all developers and testers". It was also in a country with "strong lunch culture" (Czechia). Not as good as in let's say India but still - we all went to a pub mid-day for a lunch. I still miss those days.

When I moved to bigger companies, teams were larger, not necessarily in the same town. And we had colleagues spread across multiple timezones. And not only across EU (we have 3 but the vast majority of countries are in the same timezone as I am). We had colleagues in USA, Canada, EU, India. No difference whether I was in the office or at home.

You probably don't want to hear that but unless the whole team is in the same office I don't want to "return to office" because there is nothing for me in it. It's not worth the wasted time and fuel for commute.
So structure your code for the testing methodology/mechanism?

Sorry, but that's BS. TDD works to some extent, when it's used as 'specification, then code', but solving the problem is the main thing, not testing that it solves the problem.
Zig does have modular `+%` and saturating `+|` operators, as well as `@addWithOverflow()`, though. You get to choose what happens on overflow; if you don't, the compiler gets to.
Cancel the project. Do it in 15 years when the cost drops dramatically.

SpaceX, AI, robotics, etc will make significant improvements over that time.

“If NASA manages to develop and launch the Sample Retriever Lander by 2028, the samples could be returned to Earth in 2033”

NASA developing these one-off projects is expensive and time consuming. We need most of the technology to develop commercially.
To me, the clearest way to think about signed vs. unsigned integers is that different representatives of the integers modulo n are chosen.

For example, for 8-bit signed integers we choose the representatives -128, -127, ..., 127 of the residue classes -128 + 256Z, -127 + 256Z, ..., 127 + 256Z in the ring of integers modulo 256.

For 8-bit unsigned integers, we instead choose the representatives 0, 1, ..., 255.

Mathematically, I do not see how anything is "breaking" as the article claims.
I am in the same boat as you are. Even though I have the flexibility of being remote, I still commute at least four days a week. It will sound really weird but I like the process/routine and even the commute part.

Meeting people in the office even from differen teams really helps me somehow and when I am in my cubicle I can really get the work done as opposed to working from home.

I think I need that physical divide betwwen my personal and professional life to function properly.
It poses a deliberately vague question to provoke controversy where none exists.

Everyone agrees that the car is forbidden, the police and ambulance are technically forbidden but should be allowed, and all other cases are things that the sign obviously doesn't forbid.

If you argue otherwise you are just trying to come up with arguments for the sake of arguing.
I know nothing about starting a business. Can someone explain why so many companies these days struggle to make a profit? Is it because they spend with wanton disregard of long term financial balances, thanks to huge up-front funding boosts clouding their optics? Or because inflation has so screwed up how customers value things that companies cannot charge what their products are worth? Or maybe that they are all just bad products?

I have no idea, but from an outsider’s perspective, it is starting to get silly hearing about so many companies incorporating shitty manipulative pricing schemes in poor attempts at profitability. It just seems unsustainable.
So let me get this straight, for the (relatively) low cost of only 9 billion they could return materials from Mars?

That’s a steal. The entire US Department of Defence spends 800 billion.

The fact some of that can’t be shared for a one off project is deeply frustrating.
My reasoning was: Yes, an EMT violates the rule, but in an emergency rules don't necessarily apply anymore.
Your comment does not highlight anything which indicates that Australians blindly follow the rules.

I'm Australian, currently live in Sydney and I feel as you do, but none of your examples explain your claim.

No, I don't have time to list the ways Australians follow rules (more so that Germans), it is 1:15am, and I'm going to bed.
Does no one remember Vista?

Or ME come to think of it.
That’s an interesting analysis. I did see that Orville episode and it was really good (in fact, before Strange New Worlds was released, I’d have ranked The Orville as the best “new Trek” since the TNG / DS9 / Voyager era.

Going back to the meat analogy, I’ve already seen people argue against meat substitute because it “preemptively kills cows by not birthing them for meat to begin with”. It’s amazing the mental gymnastics people will take to justify the status quo.
“and only features what he likes” that’s not remotely true
> Also completely garbage unstable and unreliable driver & firmware support from both AMD and Lenovo, but that's another story

as a counterpoint, i'm on a P14s Gen 2 Thinkpad (Ryzen 7 PRO 5850u) and have zero issues on EndeavourOS (Arch, KDE/Plasma). most of my time is in VSCode, SublimeMerge, Chrome, MPV.

i did have to rip out the realtek (or mediatek?) M.2 wifi card and swap in an intel one tho.
> I work primarily in Go, but occasionally have to do frontend stuff

Let's get Socratic. How do you address people on the left side of mount-idiot that is the dunning kruger effect?

> I would instantly kill myself.

Strong opinions for "occasionally have to do frontend stuff".

> At the risk of being downvoted

DAE hate package managers and javascript? Updootz plz!
>There really are no similarities I see between the Ferengi and Jewish people.

Correct. But there is a whole lotta similarity between the Ferengi and real life antisemetic caricatures, as is easily seen by any internet search for "antisemitic caricatures".
British Ministry of Defence – Intelligence Update on Ukraine 24 June 2023
If you want a car that does 0-60 in less than 20 seconds (and you do) it will also go >80.

Wearing a motorcycle helmet in a car would instantly make them a lot safer.
https://mitticool.com/product/mitticool-clay-refrigerator50-...

Note: The performance of the Mitti Cool Fridge is totally dependent on external temperature and humidity. It performs well in dry and hot climate. Normally it does not break if used carefully, however, will break on falling from a height as it is made up of baked clay
Midjourney introduces zooming and blows minds yet again
No, I really don’t. I appreciate that it allows me to travel and otherwise do things that I want outside of working hours because I don’t need to worry about commuting to an office daily.

Do what’s right for you.
I'm (mostly?) introverted, and I find remote work very rewarding. I can do what is necessary without most distractions and without spending time in a car/bus/train. Enforced collegiality is bearable in small quantities, but my interests != their interests. I also welcomed the removal of relocation risk.

I don't think developing technically complex software is something that is driven by lots of interaction. The design might be, but its implementation requires patience and concentration. Rands and others talked about maintaining flow or state and interruptions take time to recover from.
Are you using wgpu for the rendering stuff? Heard that WebGPU had to sacrifice some performance in order to make the API safer for the web (like more bounds checking and sanity checks). These kinds of issues are actually plaguing projects like Tensorflow.js (for example see https://github.com/gpuweb/gpuweb/issues/1202).

Other libraries like Vulkan and DirectX 12 are fundamentally unsafe in the API level, so direct usage of it would lead to heaps of unsafe Rust code. Rust people have tried wrapping it in a safe way (like gfx-rs and vulkano) but nowadays most seem to have transitioned to wgpu (since WebGPU API is safe by design so it fits more for the Rust ecosystem).

Rust does sacrifice some performance in general in order to achieve its safety claims, but people are happy with it so far, since the majority of applications using Rust (like CLI apps and web servers) don't have to squeeze out performance that much (for webdev there are too many things that can cause performance issues other than not writing it in Rust). But for 3D graphics people can be more sensitive about these problems. Though maybe if you're not developing a triple-A game with the latest cutting-edge graphics (with new techniques like "hardware ray tracing" and "bindless descriptors", which are both impossible in wgpu), writing in Rust can be a good-enough tradeoff for your needs.
Ongoing discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36452290

[flagged] Wagner coup in Russia? Wagner declared war on the Russian army (worldbulletin.net)
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Other submissions
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457433
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36457433

Dang's post
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36456034
Firefox 114 was just released
Interesting. In his TV interview of a month or so ago Budanov, head of Ukr intelligence was saying the war would end shortly through changes in Russia but was cryptic as to what. Maybe he knew this was in the works.
Bell labs thought something similar about the first answering machine, fearing people would be held to their word resulting in fewer telephone calls.

Now big tech worries that "perfect" trust in their communication platform goes away, but the paradigm shift happens no matter what. Many governments already have the power to post as users on platforms and that should be cause to usher in this new trust calculation faster.
This is absolutely not expected for normal businesses.

Normal businesses provide other businesses a service, charge them a profitable fee for services rendered, and make a few tens to hundreds of millions in profit a year and keep shareholders, employees, customers, etc. happy.

VC funded scam businesses spend billions of dollars in VC funding selling their services at a loss for the single purpose of establishing themselves as a monopsony/monopoly, and then once they've established enough dominance, and destroyed the possibility of a competitive market through VC funding, they turn on the screws and start charging monopoly prices.

Basically, they succeeded in using the "tech startup" and/or "unicorn" branding to somehow bamboozle governments and citizens into believing their entirely monopolistic, anti-free market behavior was not monopolistic and anti-free market.

Oh, and I still don't understand why we aren't recognizing the massive contribution this is playing in inflation. I buy a sandwich today from my local sandwich shop and I get the exact same service I did 15 years ago, except now anywhere between 15-45% of the money goes to some other company not integrated in the local economy whose only purpose is to provide a pretty interface and/or steal my data.
My well is 528 feet deep, and freshly drilled - this pollutant was in the first water test set and in every test set since for 15+ years, and there has been zero spills and good maintenance ever since.

I agree that in this situation it seems very difficult and it is surprising that the pollutant would travel not only that far laterally but also that far down. Yet, there it is.

"Water flowing underground ...." - it moves a lot more than we think!
I understand you personally may be opposed to this legislation, but the original claim is that there's broad public opposition to it. Equating your own personal views with those held by the public is all I'm questioning here.

TV & online self-selecting polls on tangentially related topics are not indicative of broad public views on any individual piece of legislation.

> such laws are redundant [...] in practice, even in places like America that are comparatively lax

I will say though that I do find it amazing you acknowledge America (where incitement to violence is a very clear problem) is lax, and also positing that such laws don't work, almost in the same sentence.
Telling someone they're gonna pay $10 + taxes and then giving them a bill for $11 + taxes is obviously fraud and I'm not sure how we got to a point where we seem to accept it. I don't know if we need stricter rules or better enforcement, but whatever we're doing now isn't working.
Part of it is overinflated org charts. Both Instagram and Whatsapp managed with an engineering team of a dozen or two people until acquisition.

Typical SV startups have a dozen or two engineering teams, each with multiple people. I have no idea what they’re all doing, but it probably involves lots of rewrites
It can be both. He might have sensed that he was losing Putin favor and decided to defect.
>it's useful to reflect upon that

Upon how much it sucks
I did this initially, but I believe it didn't work for all applications - some were still registering it as Caps Lock (e.g. VS Code IIRC).
I had already posted a similar reply but I was going to say the exact same thing. I have a comute of 45 mins each way and I dont really despise it either. During my return commute I love to stop at an old shack for coffee and then head home. Its something I look fwd to now at the end of my day.
Ah, get your point and misunderstood. I thought you were talking about comparing the neural network to a lookup table, not modeling the network itself. In that case the proof is only true if you consider the digital implementation of the neural network. Since it's a continuous function this proof would be impossible mathematically, as the domain is not enumerable. But if you consider only every possible float32 for example, then it works.

In any case it's kind of a useless statement that way as it says nothing about neural networks. You can replace "neural network" with "function" and it still works.
it's smaller than most other websites and for me on a 1080p display top level comments don't wrap until ~200 characters at the default zoom level which makes it even worse

edit: also for me the font size is set to 12, not 14
I mean, I get your point that others programmers are not usually were I go for political wisdom. But it's not like mainstream news website have a better alternative for discussion either. Their comment sections tend to be completely saturated with far right incel fanaticism and low brow outrage. HN, at least, is not that.
Yes, I think COVID times have shown us that it's not for everyone. I have colleagues who couldn't wait to get back into the office! Now that it can go either way, I would not want to force someone to work from home. So return the courtesy and don't force me to return to the office. Seems pretty simple.
I’ll note that this is in part enabled by the byzantine tax structure in the US, which basically nobody can be expected to tell offhand how much tax they’d be required to pay in a particular place at a particular moment for a particular product. (On the other hand, I’ve seen EU countries with like—the horror!—two or three different nationwide VAT rates for different classes of products require receipts to detail the rate and amount used for each line item specifically.)

I’m fairly okay with calling this an acceptable trade for having (by modern standards) very independent and well-funded local governments, but I still feel I should point out this’d be more or less impossible in most of the first world.
I've heard that this could be done with current materials science. Same for the moon. The problem is that it's a solution without need for now. It's somewhat like building a cross continental railway before San Francisco was founded. One day hopefully we'll need something like the elevator, because that implies lots of other interesting things would be going on.
There are basically a ton of companies in the business of delivering services that people/businesses want but aren't willing to pay the cost of providing them. This is especially true with personal services that don't really have significant economies of scale but it's a big factor overall.
So Toast make most of their money on hardware and accompanying software

Cost of Goods Sold (COGS): $2,227 million
Non-production costs: $884 million
R&D: $280 million

Non-production and R&D costs don't seem excessive. Toast, Inc make a good product widely used and yet cannot make a profit after ten years, and are unwilling to raise the price of their actual product (hardware) to cover costs.

Their big competitor is Square who also lost $540m last year.

If ZIRP-era tech funding across the industry pushed down restaurant equipment prices such that it's not profitable for Square and Toast, have VCs been indirectly subsidising my dinner?
I am not sure open source licenses would help, because the value of various platform came more from the data that they run with, and not so much the code. Especially with the increase use of AI, where there is a lot of value in the models, and those are not necessarily subject to redistribution clauses of open source licenses.

And if there were a license that says "you must also share all your data", it would imply compliant services can not hold private data, which makes it undesirable to companies and users alike.
Lenovo straight up broke the USB-C ports support for external displays (and other things) in the latest BIOS update for my machine -- for both Windows and Linux -- and there's no way to roll back and there's not a peep from them on any kind of attempt to fix or even acknowledgement of a problem.

Requires a hardware ("pinhole" not power cycle) reset every time I want to switch between external monitor use and laptop only. My bug report/forum post here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-Z-series-Laptops/Exter... -- other people are effected.

Last year they pushed out a BIOS update which caused the fan to run 100% of the time. Then a "fix" which caused it to overheat. And in-between there somewhere something was pushed that caused me to have to reformat the whole thing.

Lid-open-to-awake in Linux used to simply not work 75% of the time, required a hard reset. Now it works, but there's a 5-10 second pause before display turns on (Windows or Linux) vs almost instant on the work issued laptops I've had recently (MBP M1 and some HP Z series thing, running Linux)

Waste of cash. Bought this thing to be my dev workstation when I took a contract job last summer, wish I'd never done that. Software quality / support at Lenovo is a real problem.
The obvious solution for everyone taking the time to comment and complain about how much they don't want to read what they're reading, is for them to just to not read it and move on. That's why the complaints are so tedious.
You know it’s really frustrating? Acting like end to end encryption mean some thing when Apple and Google won’t give us root.

Literally everything about e2e encryption right now is a fantasy without low level access.
I've got very personal reasons for saying no, remote work has saved my life.

Commuted from grade 5 through college and into my early 30s. I have spent 1000s of hours in rush hour traffic and riding public transit. I hated every moment of it.

Things really compounded leading up to the pandemic when I was utterly miserable. I will do everything in my power to never have a commute again.

I also have some fairly severe mental illness so it's incredibly helpful to "flex" on the days where I am just not feeling myself. It can be a double edged sword in that way, but I think I've found balance.
So you only want to hear people echoing your sentiment?

I mean IMHO another advantage of remote work is that you get to see, and appreciate different viewpoints, rather than being enveloped in whatever culture your office exudes.
The solution to having large deposits at banks is not to have the FDIC charge everyone larger amounts to insure it, but for the banks to charge large depositors larger amounts to buy third-party insurance. Maybe that will incentivize large depositors to not keep quite so much at any given bank.
Oh shucks, I should have known you would have tried it. Sorry, I was hoping I had a silver bullet for you.
It has anchor links, unlike PDF.
Yeah.

I think we get this a lot as Americans because we are such a huge cultural power with our movies, music and software. (and pizza). But like, there are definitely enormous cultural differences between Northern and Southern Italians, or N/S Vietnamese, or like, the 500 different cultures in India... we're sort of blind to it until we go somewhere because no matter where you are, you just get the summary of everywhere else.