skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But when did you leave Toronto? Because the situation is getting exponentially out of control. The housing market in southern Ontario & lower mainland BC is a pyramid scheme. When my wife & I first bought our house in Toronto in 2005 in a "bad" neighbourhood (Oakwood-Vaughan) it was a bit of a squeeze on our dual tech-worker salary, but we were able to do it. Fast forward almost 20 years, we would not be able to afford what that house goes for unless we financed to like, a 35 year mortgage, and my compensation has gone way up from back then.

Meanwhile COVID f'd up the health care system extremely badly and there's no real commitment from the province to getting the funding situation under control.
I don't understand how this can possibly be true. Game devs make nothing, how did it cost more than a million dollars per (peak) employee working on the game? Are there some significant costs other than employee salaries?
See also the Match Group moment for the OkCupid blog, the Oracle moment for Renesys/DynResearch.
So clearly you don't see the usefulness of government being able to spend money on programs that do make a difference, even going as far as to label it wasteful. I'd argue that letting people keep money that makes no significant difference in their life, other than sitting as a number on a bank account, is wasteful. If people can use money to better society, so can government, difference being government can spend money selflessly.

Government spending, in certain cases, can and is wasteful. To claim that all is, is clearly false.

I'd be wary of quoting Thomas Sowell, he's basically the guy to victim blame minorities into saying that being poor is their fault.
I'd be interested to find out how many of these bloated batteries still have any charge. Internal discharge feels like a pretty nice accidental safety feature, albeit at the price of also killing a lot of old devices.

But yeah, preemptively removing batteries for safety is a good move.
> The primary 24 volt electrical system of TRIESTE is powered by 56 twelve-volt, 48 ampere-hour, lead-acid batteries located in four aluminium saddle tanks fastened to the top of the float beneath the superstructure. Each of the four battery tanks or boxes is pressure- compensated through the use of transformer oil and, therefore, during submergence the batteries themselves are subjected to full depth pressure.’ Three of the boxes are allotted for powering the craft's five 3-horsepower electrical propulsion motors and for providing power to the lighting systems.

> The propulsion system consists of five special General Electric 3-hp de motors. These motors are designed to operate in inert fluid (silicone oil) and are subjected to full ambient pressure during diving operations.

> The motors themselves are in five different locations. Two of them provide horizontal motion forward and backward, two provide vertical motion either ascending or descending, and one is installed athwartships for turning. The motors all drive propellers through gear boxes.

It actually does have electric thrusters. Interesting that they were able to make the batteries neutrally pressured.
ZFS doesn't lose your data when the hardware falls over, or silently corrupt your backups. It notices when things are going wrong and optionally fixes them. So the most compelling reason to use ZFS is if you'd like to keep the data you're putting in the filesystem. There's also a bunch of sensible admin tooling on top.
I’d be surprised if it’s not longer. Windows 11 support wasn’t based on age of device like in the macOS world. They did a really good job (IMHO) of communicating the security rationale for having that line in the sand for people that asked that question.
> It's heartening to see this effort has a test suite

A test suite which sudo (here named "ogsudo" although I'm not sure how "gangsta" sudo really is) failed, and as a result sudo's authors had to fix sudo as described in the article we're discussing right ?

> Informally, my experience with software written in Rust is that it is far more likely to crash (panic) on the spot when I attempt to use it than software written in C

Sure, in the C when the author wrote no error handling, it just presses on. Is its internal state now incoherent? Who cares, error handling is for pussies, YOLO. In the Rust it panics. I'd argue that for many cases, including sudo, the panic is much better though still not the ideal outcome of course.

The canonical "Hello, world" program in C and in Rust when given a stdout that claims to be full behaves differently. In C it just exits successfully. Sure, it couldn't actually output the "Hello, world" message, but who checks errors anyway? In Rust it panics, nobody told it how to handle the condition where the output device is full.
Oh yea, I elaborated more in another comment. But the ease of finding documentation related to code, SEVs, anything wrong. Someone pushing something and breaking something else in my env, then me using the amazing tools like diff to see what was pushed recently that affects my realm, I can quickly track down, find, and often times alter to fix my problem with no more than a message to the original author in a comment on the new diff.

Early career this is pretty huge for growth. I was there until 2019 though, so not sure how it is now.

My point was that the cohesion of all these internal tools makes information discovery frictionless. cross-pollination of functional space in a business is like butter because everything is built by Meta and behind their intern tool. The other companies I've worked at just don't have this. They lack the Eng capacity to build it, unfortunately.
>US has awful K-12 education

US has awful public K-12 in most of School Districts. Private schools are very good, but cost just as much as college.

What I understand is that anything good in America costs $$$$. And all the free stuff is the same quality as a free couch on a sidewalk
I haven't paid any attention to the robotics world in ages and in the last six months I've discovered a bunch of interesting things people have been doing with less instead of more. Particular standouts are tiny maze-running robots, and classifications of fighting robots by weight. There's a guy with a bot named 'cheesecake' that has some interesting videos.

I think we could all do with celebrating the small. ESP32 and STM32 have hit a point where you can do modest computing tasks on them without having to become an embedded hardware expert to do so. I'm at one of those crossroads in my career and I'm trying to decide if I double down on a new web friendly programming language (maybe Elixir) or jump into embedded.

I've done a reasonable amount of programming in the small, several times tricked into it, and while it's as challenging if not moreso in the middle of doing the work, the nostalgia factor after the fact is much higher than most of the other things I've done.
It's not free, it starts with a dollar a month subscription and goes up from there
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Passions that are seen as childish usually tend to lack any sort of practical utility. Action figures and games are ultimately just timewasters.

Please read up on cognitive rest. Doing nothing is important.
Eh, take it for what it is but when I was in QA, my salary was $52,000 CAD for 9 years of experience. That included doing a lot SDET and customer integration work as well. And that was with a Canadian tech company.

You can probably do better but kind of gives you an idea about how big a US vs Canadian gap can get.
Well somehow the glare showed up on the aircraft carrier's instrumentation the pilot launched from as well as the jet itself and the jets of other pilots who can be heard on the video confirming the sighting on their own IR and radar.
This is kind of what I like about Japanese e.g. Comiket culture.

The official Touhou circle table is just a table like every artist in the hall (well, maybe positioned to accommodate the wait line). People will have favorites, but it's an equalizer. Touhou itself is that root - some drunk programmer releases his random game with memes in it and ends up being The Guy.

Western indie gaming... kind of lost that spirit.

I vibe more with the meritous sort of game more than some elements of WIG - there's no profit, it's just some guy that busted out libSDL and other free software and made a game with it. He even released the source GPL'd eventually.
This article talks about how those numbers are manipulated https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/24/senator-durbins-stop-csa...

Snippet--
"I mean, back in March of 2009, the tools to track, find and report CSAM were in their infancy. Facebook didn’t start using PhotoDNA (which was only developed in 2009) until the middle of 2011. It’s unclear when Google started using it as well, but this announcement suggests it was around 2013 — noting that “recently” the company started using “encrypted “fingerprints” of child sexual abuse images into a cross-industry database” (which describes PhotoDNA)."

This is what I'm talking about with paranoid parents. I'm sick of your "save the children" bullshit
> This is a push from Congress to force programs into the open that are secretly capturing Russian/Chinese UAVs right? Folks on the committees are angry that China is trolling US Navy vessels with UAVs and this isn’t being publicized.

Why? They could just say "we have advanced but secret systems that can tell China is up to something".

There was just a balloon, and another round of em over Asia -- no one would be surprised.

This isn't about China, it's about Trump and the hard-right conspiracy types going ape-shit, esp. since those indictments have teeth. The DoD has been doing this since the 90s and Oklahoma City.
Holy shit. Financial reasons should not be a factor in choosing to end one's life. WTF Canada?
Tip: put on headphones :)
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Thanks! Have been using Codeberg and this seems like a self hostable version with the same ideals in mind!
> You don't think someone somewhere has the idea to make an all-rust system eventually?

In progress. Looks good so far. I haven't tried it, though.

https://www.redox-os.org/
I've been doing this kind of thing for years with two notable differences:

1. I don't believe people actually hand type-in these values, so I'm not really concerned about the 'l' vs '1' issue. I do base 32 without `eiou` (vowels) to reduce the likelihood of words (profanity) sneaking in.

2. I add two base-32 characters as a checksum (salted of course). This is prevents having to go look at the datastore when the value is bogus either by accident or malice. I'm unsure why other implementations don't do this.
First the US has to solve the Mineshaft gap, doctor!
This is also my experience. I was ok in rust after using it for 2 weeks, I still had the weird issues here and there, sometimes but after just using it for as little as one month I started feeling confident enough in it where I could develop anything given enough time. Now after almost a year, there is no language i'd rather use than rust
Async Rust is great for embedded! Check out https://embassy.dev as well which is very similar but with support for more hardware.
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Harlan Ellison's old "pay the writer" rant applies to many industries. He was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuLr9HG2ASs
"The float has the shape of a cylinder with tapered ends (sausage)."

I love that they aren't afraid to sound "informal." I think there's been a change in technical writing since this period -- technical and academic writers today are more concerned about sounding authoritative and less concerned with communicating clearly.
First off, I think decentralizing off of GitHub is a worthy endeavor, so kudos for working on it! That said, I do have some questions:

First, why blockchain? I know it's a bit of a meme around here to be instantly critical of any blockchain project, but I genuinely am not sure what a blockchain provides here over git itself, which is already a distributed version control system.

Second, why a new token? Transaction fees and maintainer donations can easily be handled with existing payment providers and (if desired) ETH/BTC. What is a new token contributing towards the goal of a decentralized GitHub?
Considering how much money people drop on gaming PCs these days, why is that sorta hardware advantage not available on PC as well? You'd think there would be a market for it, if offers such an advantage.
Are you in the big financial services Equinix data-centres?
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What does the press get them? The Russians/Chinese or whomever are flying these theoretical UAVs know they aren't alien, the US government knows they aren't alien, and now not only us the US exposing its intelligence capabilities (or lack thereof,) they're making themselves look like fools in the process.
Are you looking for a one-stop media platform to manage your personal media collection? Look no further than Jellyfin Review.
Substantially equal in terms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? In equality before the law? In being judged not for the color of their skin, but the content of their character? Yes, and we should strive to make that even more so. Perfectly equal in all respects, including access to resources? Obviously not. If you define equality of opportunity as how many horseback riding lessons and unpaid internships a child is put through, then no, there is no such equality found in America or anywhere else in the world. Even the most egalitarian nations of the world in Scandinavia (the subject of this thread to begin with) have rich people and poor people.

A child of a poor single mother, Barack Obama, made his way to the highest office of the land (not to mention significant personal wealth), whereas a child of a billionaire, John du Pont, died in prison as a convicted murderer. Both had equal opportunities to make something of themselves in a cultural, legal, and economic framework that values the individual.

In this land of equality of opportunity, 93% of people born to parents in the bottom quintile of incomes ended up earning more than their parents, with 57% ending up in a higher quintile; and a full 60% of people born to parents in the top quintile of incomes ended up in a lower quintile[0].

Meanwhile, in Norway, famed for its egalitarian attitudes and highly redistributive policies, a higher percentage were able to climb out of the bottom quintile, but a similar percentage held on to their parents' top-quintile ranking[1]. The country has more billionaires per capita than the US, and still has a legally separate and privileged group of people, the monarchy, who by definition are unequal from the rest of the populace; and it's only a few generations removed from having legal privileges for the aristocracy.

[0]: https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/legacy/uploadedfiles/pcs_a...

[1]: https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...
I love the angles/strategy you gave at the beginning. Of things that we as engineers can have a stronger influence or control over.

I do think we should avoid the assumption that to "save the world" in the long term that we need to make lives more worse in the near term.

I do think there are many cards we can play that will yield a positive effect without inconveniencing our lifestyles. Things like better insulation and less energy and resource waste in general.
I'd love to look at this solar system panopticon that you apparently have access to.

We know vanishingly little about the day to day movements of the largest solar system objects. Anything smaller than a medium city is incredibly difficult to find and track.
as a former employee who has worked both in many other companies over a decade + starting a few startups, Meta tooling is one of the best if not the best, it's so good to a point where Saas companies came out of facebook simply by replicating their internal tooling, like Asana, Scuba, etc
Maybe they aren't counting contractors as employees?
Sure, doesn't mean it's an issue for the vast majority of people.
Isn’t it nice how some traditions do stick around. It’s been a while, Cthon98!
> This is a very clunky deprecation path, and people will* lose precious photos because of this.*

Probably not, since the very small number of people who used it were warned many times, and My Photo Stream was always a temporary destination (photos went away after 30 days).
So many reasons. If you want unlimited funding, if you want people to join, if you want citizens to feel safe… you really want them to feel like the government is powerful. If people think their government is a joke they will treat it as a joke. You don't want people thinking that a dozen people with box cutters can fly planes into buildings. You don't want people thinking that "the greatest superpower in the world" can't defeat literal cave dwellers with ancient soviet era weaponry. You don't want people to know that China's military is much more advanced than the public is aware and they are routinely flying over US airspace undetected.

You want people to feel safe and pay their taxes. You want your citizens to believe that the $2 trillion spend on defense every year goes to good use, creating the kind of military and intelligence apparatus that Hollywood portrays.

We fund these types of propaganda campaigns for the same reasons we have military parades and air shows. We saw how well these kinds of "overwhelmingly powerful" government myths worked for both the Soviets and Axis powers in WW2 and we copied it. Every government chasing power and status wants its citizens to feel like they are the most powerful. China and Russia have similar kinds of myths.

But you don't have to take my word for it. Please, continue to believe that spaceships from other planets have crashed and some elite division within the US government managed to retrieve them and keep it secret for 50+ years. Look past the failing state of our infrastructure and continue to believe that an alien species capable of interstellar travel is interested specifically in Americans, but "they" are keeping you from knowing the truth!
> First, there's more to FB builds than infra C++, most notably iOS and Android, which are all built locally

Again, ios and Android have had the remote artifact caching you mention as so important since many years ago. Android has had remote execution for years (I think even before the infra c++ you mention).

> But a devserver build required a full checkout

This is not true with sapling, which had been used extensively for years.
Ruby sequel (http://sequel.jeremyevans.net/) is the only library where you can combine classic ORM Model bases usage, with a more raw query builder "just get me all the data into plain objects". You'll never need anything again in your career life.
Instead of cage-fighting, how about a tech-bro competition to pay the most tax?
So, IMO what is actually cool about this is it will allow you to detect scroll position without JS, which opens up a whole bunch of very nice posibilities!
You have to have slack to use this app. No thank you
Notepad++ ?

Various language-specific IDEs like Spyder ?
$220 million is not unheard of, particularly for a game that's intended to sell consoles. GTA 5 had a similarly sized budget.

https://www.dualshockers.com/biggest-video-game-budgets/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_video_g...

As for waiting years between installments, we have plenty of great games to play through in the meantime. "We will release it when it's ready" is a mentality that has sadly been forgotten over the past several years.
A long time ago I wrote a program that would pass through stdin but would also inject newlines every N seconds. Useful for log monitoring as a visual & temporal separator.
The Avengers films did exactly that. They filmed characters with random costumes because they hadn't done the designs yet. Then replaced the costumes with CG later.
Even assuming those costs were _only_ employees and don't include licensing costs, contract costs for major voice talent, etc then you're still looking at about 1,000,000 per employee over the course of the games development. If a game takes 5-6 years for development, then you're looking about 200k average total employee cost per year, which once you factor in things like healthcare and other expenses an employer might have to pay doesn't seem too wild to me?
> Kindle $9.99

> Paperback $49.99

what.the.hell.

Also, in order to be constructive: the kindle version was published 21-June and thus is available right now. Sadly the kindle preview does not include the table of contents
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> How many problems in safety critical systems need Turing completeness

Probably all, like the ones outside of critical systems.

But if you concentrate the complex behavior in a single layer, you will probably get a very thin layer, that you can call an OS or something like that, verify it very well, and have almost all the code follow a non-complete idiom.
And you did it on the 50 cc version to boot. That's a huge difference in speed.
I know you're taking a lot of shit from everyone else on this thread, but you should know that your landing page and onboarding experience are absolutely flawless, and that you've just made at least $10.
OpenBSD it's just "sh /etc/netstart if", where if is the network interface once you set /etc/hostname.if

No WPA incantations, the OS handles multiple connections seamlessly.

With that, magicpoint/sent and xrandr you just don't care, it works.
I don't see it any different to films in a franchise or novels by an author. They can work at whatever pace they want to. We aren't entitled to their efforts and we have no claim over how long they choose to spend making something. I'm just glad they do.
Yeah, I would also look askance of what someone saying that they want to retain “American original values” as an anti-immigrant sentiment.
Obvious only if you already know what WebGPU is and how it compares to WebGL.
My understanding is that a lot of work on TLOU2 was performed by contractors.
With a bit of luck he could get an internship on an SRE team supporting ads data pipelines at Google.
> This does not track for me at all. I'm sorry but why would anybody in the DOD have an incentive to "make Americans believe in US military and intelligence superiority"?

Especially when NATO hasn't fired a shot in Ukraine, but is supplying real-time intelligence to the AFU.

US cold war era surplus + EW helped break an entire Russian army, and may yet break a second.
Quest Diagnostics is pretty sketchy. They've been busted for fraud, illegal kickbacks, inaccurate tests, privacy violations, etc. They sell every scrap of data they can get away with to third parties including marketers and it's a lot of data (https://www.questdiagnostics.com/our-company/privacy/privacy...) which includes: Professional/employment-related information, products or services purchased/obtained/considered, consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. driver’s license/national or state ID number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sex life, precise geolocation, information concerning your health, and genetic information.
The main point against hg is that the tooling is dying out as git becomes even more dominant. But I do quite like it.
Outside/Inbox: What’s a wet bulb temperature limit?
Agree, thanks for the input.
How on earth does a game make sixteen BILLION dollars annually off a game? That's an absurd number. And that's on one system.

You'd think with all that money there would be more competitors with much larger budgets.
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