skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That really is a YMMV outcome, then.

Ie, Nanaimo was once a small town in central Vancouver island, with low rents and cheap housing. It's now one of the fastest growing cities in Canada[0] and has some of the highest rents and fastest growing rents in BC[1].

Really, here in Canada the situation is changing _fast_. What may have seemed a reasonable market a year ago could have collapsed into unaffordability by now.

Also, as a resident of Nanaimo: be prepared not to have access to Health Care. As a new resident you won't get a family doctor, and the _single_ walk-in clinic stops taking patients early in the morning. The ER is your only option, and often it only has one attending doctor.

This is similar throughout BC outside of Victoria and Metro Vancouver. In no small part because of people like yourself, who are avoiding immigrating to the big cities; but also because of people fleeing the cities.

0: https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2022/02/09/nanaimo-population-jum...

1: https://nanaimonewsnow.com/2022/12/14/rent-prices-in-nanaimo...
>> Amazon internal tooling (is that 'industry standard' enough?).

I'm not sure, maybe?

When I say industry-standard tools I mean "Best you can purchase." So I mean a UI as good as github, a platform as good as AWS (meta's doesn't hold a candle to AWS), full-text log searching as good as splunk, chat as fast/searchable as slack (workplace doesn't hold a candle), video chat as fast/clear/clean as Zoom (workplace doesn't hold a candle)

Some problems are harder at scale (feature toggles interactions just get harder with size), but some of them are just a mess of their own making (restarting taking 30m, butterfly rules having >20m+ delays, eden not being optimized to work with buck, which needs to read tons of files out of tons of directories)
Made me stop playing, because I block wordle shares on every social media channel.
Standard 5/180 DIN connectors, yes. The DIN standard specified the number of pins and the angle (arc) between the first and last pin.
It'd be pretty bold to go around making claims about ownership rates across the entire country based on a poll of employees. Not only is that a tiny sample limited to specific areas of the country, people who work for the video game industry are probably a lot more likely to have multiple consoles than your average person.
How do you find the opportunities if you didn't mind me asking?

Also, do you ever meet your colleagues in person?
> Point is - those companies, that process vast amount of transactions, use integers.

Point missed, they use that format _on their client apis_, which tells you nothing about what they do in the code that handles it.
Now it could be the same internally, in which case the reason is "there's crap code everywhere"
The SAT Problem That Everybody Got Wrong
Do you think Apple is working on finding a way to be easier to develop for because of their SOC strategy? Like, hey we are just like a game console, easier than PC!
I think I fundamentally disagree with you. Angles do not have a "base" any more than meters do (being embedded inside some metric space could be considered a base I suppose).

But you seem to be drawing a distinction between meters and angles in your analogy where I assert none exists. The base of a number system only affects representations.

This is not true for divisions of lengths. 1 meter divided by 2 meters is 0.5 as a number. But it is only 0.5 radians under (1ish) specific arrangements of those lengths in a particular metric space
According to wikipedia, The Last of Us Part II took 6 years to make, with over 2,100 unique people working on the product. The 200 employee number clearly isn't including contractors.

Even if we excluded the contractors and only included the employees, that's $183,000/employee/year. That doesn't seem that insane, considering that's the upper-bound cost per employee. One you start to add in any other expenses and the contractors, it would quickly approach reasonable.
They even did fakeouts by the trailers using even further different CG costumes.

Some of the reason they gave for that at the time wasn't just saving on real world costume designers by outsourcing it to "cheap" VFX teams, but also for added "security" to avoid "spoilers" leaking to the press in tabloid photos.

(Spoilers of a sort: My favorite meta-joke on all this was Spider-Man: Far From Home's "primary" Mysterio costume which had tabloids and fans doing all sorts of speculation what the CG composited costume on top of it would look like, given the Avengers situation, only to find out that was actually the outfit for many of Mysterio's scenes because it very well fit the character in that medium.)
This is a great example! I took a look at the trailer and I think the artstyle and gameplay looks really interesting. I took a closer look at it looks like reviewers at the time had a lot of technical issues. I wonder if those issues are now fixed. Did you play it on the PS5?
This dude seems credible.. What if his story exposes the gov using UFOs as a psyop internally? Someone posted about a doc called Mirage Men in which people allege that the gov has used this UFO story to keep people quiet about secret programs. Going to watch it later today. Even if just that is exposed it would be wild.
Mind explaining how to express some simple functions? Im interested
I was working at home on and off for many years before the pandemic. It wasn't that unusual. Which is why so many companies could switch over to it fairly easily when the need arose.
Thanks for the explanation. I thought code signing was supposed to reduce the need for this kind of checks. Still, stuff like this isn't helping with performance and if the new binary is sent somewhere outside the developer machine legal departments would be interested too.
It was relevant but maybe not super-interesting. I thought The Register did a fair job of quoting people involved in the incident and explaining what happened, with less snark than usual.

Maybe a better title is "GMP software library admin accuses GitHub of DDoSing their site".
Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
Is CSS Turing complete yet?
Fully agree with the premise. Most youngish users have never even experienced true performance. Our software stacks are shit and rotten to the core, it's an embarrassment. We'll have the smartest people in the world enabling chip design approaching the atomic level, and then there's us software "engineers" pissing it away with an inefficiency factor of 10 million %.

We are very, very bad at what we do, yet somehow get richly rewarded for it.

We've even invented a new performance problem: intermittent performance. Performance isn't just poor, it's also extremely variable due to distributed computing, lamba, whichever. So users can't even learn the performance pattern.

Where chip designers move heaven and earth the move compute and data as closely together as is physically possible, leave it to us geniuses to tear them apart as far as we can. Also, leave it to us to completely ignore parallel computing so that your 16 cores are doing fuck all.

You may now comment on why our practices are fully justified.
This is so dope! Love seeing the analog rytm used in a coding project like this. Want to see if I can get it to work with my mk-II, should be basically the same.

those are some incredible tones you're working with in the video. are they being generated by the rytm or samples or something else?
In this case what she recognized as the treatment is managed by something other than the medical system. I would assume this is the same in other places, unless doctors in Europe can write prescriptions for apartments.
It has other forms of energy available to it, but as a state, it's industry and political structure as a whole leans towards petro.
This notation maybe makes some things in trigonometry or Fourier analysis easier to do. Then a wild polynomial appears and all of the sudden we have to write

(d bar) x = 1 / 2 pi.
Chrom* browsers just got decent MathML support finally, so I don't think it's on the way out quite yet. Some still like other solutions more though.
Have you recently tried to play any other old FPSes? Quake, Quake II, or even Unreal Tournament 99.

If you manage to find a server, and active players, you can tell those players have been at it since 1999, and it takes all of the fun out of it.
The wordplay in this article is absolute genius
It's not moving as fast as CSS has been, but they have been adding new elements to HTML. <summary> and <details> for accordions, <dialog> for modals, and I've heard murmurs of a <selectmenu> element that does everything <select> does while allowing the developer full control over the look.
Looks like the forecast is for even more consumption tomorrow.

I'd be surprised if the TX grid doesn't break 100GW by next summer... The rate of growth in the region is still absolutely incredible.
Intel and Nvidia Square Off in GPT-3 Time Trials
I also disagree, and they were DDOS, so technically Microsoft broke a law.

>Granlund was not entirely satisfied with Blacker's explanation, nor the implied feebleness of the project's server(s)

So, every project needs to have a multi-million USD server Farm ? GMP is probably pulled by various Linux distros and the BSDs, along with other Misc projects. So no need for a huge server farm.

For people who do not know what it is:

https://gmplib.org/
beats pulling the real stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
https://archive.is/ix9tf
I think you're really overstating it. I know guys that have done the military / fed / contractor shuffle. Getting above gs 12 damned near impossible, and when they figure that out, they go into contracting for ~100k+ positions, but it's not 300k. If you play it right, yeah you can fully retire at 55 with a small pension and (hugely important!) health insurance, but someone who went tech sector from the jump can easily retire at 40 if they really set their minds to it.

For other fields though, it can make sense.
> 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.

git is distributed, we use git as well and it is irreplaceable.
The hosting platform till now has been centralized and prone to censorships due to the jurisdiction it was based in for eg US sanctions.
A decentralized platform that uses a blockchain provides censorship resistance out of the box.

> 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?

The payment providers need KYC or valid jurisdictions to operate under. ETH/BTC could work here(can also work on gitopia in the future). But building just on top of another network restricts us to their limitations. On the other hand having your own network enables us to change along with the requirements of the platform.
The new token contributes to the security of the platform as it is used by validators to secure the network via PoS consensus.
The token also acts as a governance mechanism in voting for governance proposals that shape the future of the platform. This won't be possible by relying on existing tokens.
It is pretty simple, you can't see through a cloud because the visible light gets scattered. This system works with 1550 nm light, which behaves pretty much the same in the context.

Normal ground to satellite communication use wavelengths of 7 mm and up, as those have reasonable cloud penetration.
Switching to 12,000 miles per year and 32 MPG (exactly, not ~30, the MPG system exaggerates differences for small numbers), you get 375 gallons or 3.3 tons per year. That is the driving number I used to get 1.2 tons per year for the Tesla (100 grams per mile).

Also note that people who drive longer distances tend to be highway driving. MPG numbers go up even more. So even 39 MPG is realistic. So no, my claims are not wrong.

People ignore hybrids because it is an inconvenient truth. They haven’t realized that cars of the future could easily reach 50-55 MPG with minimal cost. This weakens the argument against BEVs, so they ignore it. Even though this should be the default comparison given how straightforward it is to switch all new cars to hybrids.
Characterizing engagement dynamics across topics on Facebook
>a 35 year mortgage

Is that much longer than normal in Canada? 30 year is the standard in US.
The first battery-powered trains have arrived in Europe
Well, that and you’re optimizing for a small number of console models vs. a large number of PC configurations.

Further, the piracy situation on PC is much worse (from the developer’s POV) than on consoles.

These factors might explain why developers wouldn’t be chomping at the bit to make well-optimized PC games.
It really doesn't though. Sure, it would if the difference is only "16 mega-regions (regional-model) versus 300 mini-regions (edge)". But that's not the difference.

The actual difference, at least how Cloudflare pushes it, is in the software; its a higher layer of abstraction; that customers get to stop thinking about regions and locations. Your software is global; its deployed everywhere; it runs everywhere.

This is ENTIRELY antithetical to everything on AWS except CloudFront, Route53, IAM(ish), maybe a couple other minor services. Every Single Thing Every Single AWS Customer configures beyond those global services forces you into a region. Want to deploy a lambda function? Which region would you like? Pricing and available products is different in every region. Fronting it with an API? Where would you like that API Gateway? We'll put CloudFront in front of it so its a bit faster for ya, its global(ish), don't worry.

In a no-true-scottsman true-edge world, this goes out the window. Cloudflare Workers is like this; D1 is kinda-ish-there-ish; R2 isn't. Here's the code; spider it across the world; automatically route clients to your closest PoP. No regions. No locations.

Its not obvious that AWS will ever make meaningful moves to a world like this, for a ton of reasons, but most meaningfully: it requires customer demand; but AWS's existing customers aren't demanding it, because AWS's customers are old CTOs worried about past quarters too much to think about the next one. The younger, smarter, potential customers who recognize how valuable this is aren't AWS's customers; so AWS never hears from them (which, by the way, should more generally concern Amazon's investors; their "relentless customer driven" approach to their products is great for a few decades, but its absolutely true that most of the time customers just want a faster horse, and you're not hearing from the people who aren't your customers because you've never solved their problems before). So, Amazon has dumped billions upon billions into their couple-dozen giga-regions; you cannot pivot that into hundreds upon hundreds of mini-regions like what Cloudflare (and to a lesser but still awesome degree Fly) has.

Vercel is the best case study on this. They are exploding in popularity. They don't run any of their own infra afaik, to be clear, but they whitelabel products from Cloudflare, Neon, and others; all Edge infra providers. No one on Vercel is cross-shopping AWS, and AWS has nothing that feels competitive to what Vercel offers. They can't compete.

The outcome, in maybe 10-20 years, of this landscape feels really obvious right now, but AWS's size and the insane scale of their investment into "how we did things in 2010" will turn them into the next IBM. Some would say they already are. There's nothing they can do about it. They're not making the right investments. Even if they wanted to, they can't at the necessary scale, because what they're doing is working right now and their existing customers keep forcing them to spend more money building more structures, more racks, more blades, all in Ashburn VA.
Why start at the Holocene? Worldwide, temperatures went up 5C at the end of the Pleistocene. Strangely I never hear people blaming the extinction of neanderthals on their inability to take public transit, but clearly climate change existed back then, too.
Do you think the jet engines being built at Pratt & Whitney to power the F-35 and developed for the NGAD fighter are behind the private sector?

Not like P&W is a government owned company, either - the private sector and the military are closely integrated, that's the military industrial complex.
Sampling an AI output when the distribution you want is human data is incredibly stupid.
> 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 ?

Yup which is table stakes, as the original software didn't have tests (but did have decades of use in production, which is why it has less need for tests than the rewrite).

> 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. I'd argue that for many cases, including sudo, the panic is much better though still not the ideal outcome of course.

My concern there is that because bad things happen the C program has the error handling, while in rust it may be "don't handle that case? who cares? rust is safe(tm)".

It's not necessarily the case that both are yolo. I'm sure you've heard of risk compensation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

The kind of experience I've had with rust code isn't a case where the c-analog is yolo. You just don't expect widely used C code to crash on some command-line argument misuse or when a file is missing, it's not entirely unheard of but it's not common. In my experience it's extremely common in rustlandia. In that sense, rust culturally has really managed to give me a very strong yolo vibe.

"It can just panic" is no so good when the code is in a library that called from the motor controller for a forklift holding a pallet over your head. ... and in plenty of other less drastic situations.

I agree for sudo most of the time panicing is probably not directly unsafe (though it might produce an outage that causes harm). For software that deals with more complex external state, panicing can still be pretty bad-- like leaving the system in a vulnerable state, leaving confidential information laying around, etc. There are plenty of examples where a simple DOS attack can be used to compromise a system, e.g. DOS a master system to cause a fall over to a slave.
1 million per employee over 3 years is about 150k-200k net per employee per year (if it was salary only). 3 years is a low estimate and salaries are far from the only thing companies spend money on
Yeah it's more like been confirmed with the recent airspace intrusions? They're almost certainly all some kind of foreign spy drones which exploit the alien stigma by being designed to look as alien as possible. Any sightings would be instantly dismissed as nonsense, which is a real galaxy brain psyops move.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...
It's funny, for my lil startup, "How do you get the data" is now _less_ tech than ever. I pay an hourly wage to a human to generate/transcribe it. This method is both much more cost effective and scalable than tech-enabled alternatives.
If we're criticising a CEO sending an email with no substance do we really begin with Twitter?
Aliens watching the US Congress like... 'Wow, even we didn't think they'd go this far with the cover-ups!'
> they were considered to be of no significant military or economic value

Oops!
The indie game market is far from a niche genre, and expectations remain within reach of the tech available to solo developers. It has never been easier to get into hobby game dev than it is today.
I think the purpose of the standard is so that different software implementations work the same way, so that once you've picked a standard, you can use it everywhere and know that keys are assigned the same way regardless of which software stack is generating a particular key. Its not so that systems can "interpret" it. Obviously they are your bytes to use however you want if you are rolling your own generator.
Oh, yeah. But anything that's only 1% won't have much effect.
There is no honest reading of the first amendment that requires a private party to broadcast someone else's message without violating their first amendment rights. The freedom of association is just as vital as the freedom of speech (THEY ARE IN THE SAME AMENDMENT) and anything that compels the speech of a private individual is a violation in several ways of those rights.

If you don't like that the private company has a strong presence in the market because of normal free market process, maybe we should be talking about that Anti-Monopoly thing we used to do.
2D blitting is just not that exciting, no matter how it's done.

It's trivial.
I hadn't heard of this bot before and honestly this video is fantastic. Battlebots writ small is just as if not more compelling than the original I think.

https://youtu.be/IFbMgoOWIMc
RealNetworks (of RealPlayer fame) sells facial recognition software
> she cites the now-discredited "Gimball Video". (sic)

When/where/by whom was the Gimbal video discredited?

I’m especially curious because I’m somewhat of an “expert” in the area (having worked on those sensor systems and seen tons of footage in a former life) and I think it’s a legitimate object of some sort [1]. Though I don’t believe it’s extraterrestrial.

1. Eg. The footage of a purported object speeding right over the ocean looks just like a cruise missile flying low level.
19% is very high.

like even a 5% false negative rate would be too high
Not to mention it's seen hundreds of times by hundreds of personnel and devices again and again over the years.
From the customer perspective there needs to be an advantage to paying by usage. The reason PAYG phone plans exist is to appeal to those who don't need or want everything a monthly contract provides, particularly for budget conscious users.

Contracts/bundles/etc appear to charge less because they bundle together things on the assumption that consumption will follow a predictable distribution, however they are actually a mechanism for raising average selling price by giving people more than they need/want/use and charging them more for it.

They build in a margin on top of the average, or somewhere above it on that curve. This means the average user is likely paying more than for their share of usage. Sure, from the company's perspective they have to keep the resources around, but that's a scaling and cost-base issue for the company, not the concern of the user, and if the company scales well it shouldn't be much of an issue.

Ultimately with this service, the competition is $5/m for effectively unlimited usage. If this service costs the average user $10/m, then only a small fraction at the bottom end of the usage distribution are going to make a saving, and find it a compelling offering, all things being equal in terms of product quality etc.

This doesn't apply to everything of course, different industries, product categories, etc, are priced in different ways and have different customer expectations, but it's common and I think it applies here.
Daily photo challenges with friends
Every day at mid day (GMT), a new photo challenge emerges and everyone takes one photo.

It is that simple. No like buttons, followers, photoshopped images or addictive algorithms.

Just you, your friends and fun photo challenges.